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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	law_n	life_n	sin_n	30,658	5	5.5906	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A86652	This is onely to goe amongst friends.	Howgill, Francis, 1618-1669.; Burrough, Edward, 1634-1662. To the camp of the Lord in England.	1656 (1656)	Wing H3182; Thomason E868_8; ESTC R207708	16,096	23

and of the same seed and same birth begotten and brought forth by the immortall word of life which lives for ever doe send greeting and doe embrace you in the arms of our beloved who is and is to come God blessed for ever you who are called Quakers who are so not onely in word nor in shew but in life and in power whom God hath called and chosen to place his name in and to take up his habitation among above all the families of the Earth the Tabernacle of God is with you and his dwelling-place is among you and only among you is God known and his name is great in your Assemblies We who are of the same root and off-spring doth bring in our witnesse and doth set to our seale That God of a truth is with you and among you and he is the God of the living that answers by fire he is I am and there is none besides him the first and the last the beginning and the end of all things Praise him for ever yee redeemed of him lift up your heads your Redeemer is come clap your hands and shout for joy and let the everlasting praises of God be in your mouths for ever and ever Exalt ye his name above all Gods and glorifie him in the sight of all the Heathen and let his marvellous works stand upon Record from Generation to Generation Wonderfull hath his work been among you and that my soule knowes right well You that were scattered in the cloudy and dark day and were a prey for the wild beasts of the Forrest and were driven away as lost sheep in the wildernesse hath God gathered into the fould to lay down by the springs of living water in fat pastures for evermore Your bread is sure and your waters never failes a feast of fat things is made unto you of wines well refined the Lord is become the Lot of your inheritance and the portion of your Cup for ever Your Crowns have you laid down at the feet of the Lamb and your lives and liberties have not been dear unto you and let this never repent you for now the Lord will exalt you and Crown you with immortall glory The everlasting day-star is risen among you which gives light unto the Nations and the light of the Sun is as the light of seven dayes and there is no need of a candle in your dwelling but the Lamb is the light thereof faire as the Sun and clear as the Moon yea it is he which was dead and is alive and behold he lives for evermore Praise him all ye people praise ye him ye holy Host let all that hath breath praise him for ever Who can expresse his Noble acts and who can declare his wondrous works Oh my soule is ravished and my heart is overcome let me speak that I may be refreshed and let me declare his wonders among all people The Lord is our King our Judge and our Law-giver and our Rock of defence just is he in his Judgements who hath avenged us of our Enemies Mercy and Judgement meet righteousnesse and peace doth embrace each other Rejoyce for evermore ye Saints of the most High and tell it to your Children that they may tell it to another Generation what hath the Lord wrought among you and what hath his hand brought to passe Salvation is come and plenteous Redemption and the dead hath heard the voyce of the Son of God and liveth Let sorrow and mourning fly away and be ye comforted ye that have mourned and be ye refreshed ye that have been weary for God hath opened the everlasting fountain and the streams runs pleasantly which refresheth the City of our God He is come and his reward is with him even he for whom we have waited this is he who is our life our peace and our exceeding great reward the light of the world our Saviour but the worlds condemner our peace but the worlds torment glad tidings glad tidings the acceptable year is come Praise ye the Lord ye Sons and daughters of Sion beautifull is your dwelling place and aboundeth with pleasant fruit for you are digged and pruned and enclosed a Garden of lovely branches let the wonders of the Lord never be forgotten nor his works never passe out of your remembrance for he hath wounded and healed killed and made alive raised the dead and slain the living brought out of captivity and bound with chaines gathered and scattered brought low and exalted saved and condemned all this hath your eye seen and your ear heard and the Heavens and the Earth hath been burned as a scroule and the indignation of the Lord you have born But the winter is past and the summer is come and the Turtle Dove and the singing of Birds is heard in our Land O magnifie his name for ever you are made vessels of honour wherein the everlasting Treasure abideth which never waxeth old the voyce of the Bridegroom is heard among you and how can you have any more sorrow instead of weeping rejoycing and instead of heavinesse of heart fullnesse of everlasting joy the Lord hath fulfilled his promise and made good his word and his Law and Covenant is with you and from you doth the Law goe forth and the powerfull word of life and death soundeth out of your dwellings and you are Gods only witnesses to testifie of him in the presence of all Nations some of you by suffering and some by declaring Oh endlesse love and life and riches an eternall Crown is upon your heads and your suffering which hath not been a little is not worthy to be compared with the glory that is and shall be revealed I speak to you who hath an ear to hear my soule and heart is comforted in you in the midst of my burdens and sufferings who is separated from you outwardly yet joyned and united to you by the Spirit which is unlimited which all Nations doth comprehend yea I behold your beauty afar off and my heart is ravished with it and I am sick of love let his works praise him for ever which he hath wrought for his dwelling is with you in the light unto which no mortall eye can approach The new Jerusalem is come down from Heaven and no unclean can enter but you are made white with the blood of the Lamb and purged as silver and purified as gold in the burning and unto you an entrance is given and the way is prepared and the marriage of the Lamb is come and his wife hath made her self ready and the way of the Lord is pleasant to you and his commands are not grievous no unclean thing can passe over ● or no Lyons whelps can tread therein but it is called the way of holinesse where only the ransomed of the Lord doe walk even your mountain is established upon the top of all hills and all Nations shall flow unto it Sing praises for ever for the Kingdome of endlesse peace is come which passeth

THIS IS ONELY TO GOE amongst FRIENDS TO all the seed of Abraham who are Jewes indeed and Israelites in whom is no guile who are of the true Circumcission made without hands Who are of the off-spring of David and of the Church of the first born who are the first fruits unto God yee Royall off-spring of the Rocke of Ages who have come out of the everlasting washing my deare Brethren called Quakers who have eaten your bread with feare and trembling whom your brethren hath cast out Oh how I love you my soule is knitt unto you my heart and life breathes after you I am one with you in suffering and in joy ye are the choycest of the flock yee are the fairest of all the children which is brought forth Oh my beloved ones though I be among the Tents of Kedar as without where the Voyce of the Lord hath neither been heard nor known it you I forgett not if I doe let the tongue cleave to the Roofe of my mouth and lett me never speake more in the name of the Lord who is my life and the portion of my Cup for ever Oh what shall I say unto you none knows your beauty nor innocency nor glory but them who are redeemed out of Kindreds and Nations and tongues and People and Countries Who follow the Lambe whithersoever he goes For the name of my God and your God who is liing and lives for evermore is in your foreheads you are his off-spring and the fruit that came out of the eternall womb begotten by the eternal word of life which lives for ever and are norished at the eternall table in the everlasting mansion-house of my father which is in heaven none so faire none so beautifull none so glorious none so Rich you are Crowned with love for ever you are cloathed with righteousnesse for ever you eat of the tree of life which heales the Nations and of the bread of life that nourishes you up for ever and drinks of the living waters which runs fresh beautifull and coole in it you are bathed and suppled and made white you are builded upon a Rock storms cannot move you tempests cannot make you afraid in this you have been and are like to be tryed your Armour is righteousnesse on the right hand and on the left your City is free the Gates stand open day and night and a Wolf nor Lyon nor any Beast can enter no not so much as a flying Fowle Oh how goodly is thy Tents O thou seed of Jacob the Elect whom he hath chosen O how pleasant is your scituation the Tower of David Mount Sion stands sure and cannot be moved Oh who is a people like unto you saved by our God that lives for ever His love is large he is kind he is long-suffering he is faithfull and keeps Covenant and his Promises are Yea Yea He is the Amen the first and the last Come forth my dear brethren set forth his praise declare his name among the Heathen publish his name among the Congregations let the Earth be filled with his love and power that his Judgements may be declared and his Statutes that they sound in the eares of Generations to come O yee that are convinced of the truth of our God wait in that which doth convince and keep your minds to it and love it and follow it whether it leads you and it will lead you to know the gift of God which leads to repentance from dead works to serve the living God who dwells in the immortall light and take heed of looking back at the pleasures of sin you have formerly lived in but wait upon the pure light of Christ Jesus in patience that so you may see the enmity which is against God and it slain in you daily that so you may see him that is the Saviour of the soule and take heed of rebelling against the Lord who hath given you a measure of his true light to lead you from sin if you love it unto righteousnesse from whence it comes even from the righteous Judge of all the world who judgeeth every man out of the Book of his conscience and so prize the everlasting love of God to your soules that you may see him who lives for ever And all Babes who are born again who have suffered the pangs of death and know the indignation of the Lord against sin and the terrour of the Lord against the man of sin who have roared for the disquietnesse of your hearts who have born the indignation of the Lord and are come to the giving forth of the Law where there is thundring and earthquakes and terrour and great haile and fire and smoke even such as was not since the beginning in so much that you could not hear his voyce and live nor see his face and live Stand still in patience and let it have its perfect work in you and bear the indignation ye that are in it if you endure the tribulation with patience hope you will see and a time of refreshment will come endure the Crosse that the mortall and earthly and carnall may be judged and the ground shaken and taken away and that you may see the living hope to stay your minds upon And yee who are enlivened and doth witnesse the Law of righteousnesse set up in you which is a Schoolmaster and keeps in the fear stand in it and keep in the fear low in sobernesse and calmnesse and then you will see your hearts purified daily and the cursed nature judged which is out of its course and it bridled and subjected and the Law which is pure and holy and eternall which stands for ever in power and force against the transgressour to judge all unrighteousnesse and so wait that you may see the Lyon tamed and the wild Heifer yoked and the yoke of Christ born and the wild Colt tamed by him upon which never man sate before then and not till then is Hosanna sung And all wait in your measures dear Babes that the milk of the word you may see and be nourished by it and grow up as living branches about the Table of the Lord And all you Young men and Virgins that know virginity keep your virgin-you in whom the Prince of this world is judged and cast out and the righteous Law of God revealed and given forth in which you stand and walk and hath peace from him who is the Law-giver and Judge who hath saved you from your iniquities and blotted out your sins for his owne name sake You who knowes the living water and Spirit of which you are born again and witnesses the birth which enters into the Kingdome of God where no mortall or unclean Beast can come Keep in the life and power of God which limits all and chaines all under that the life of the Son of God may live and speak in you and be bould in the dread of God stand and that which leads into slavery keep out And now being made