Selected quad for the lemma: duty_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
duty_n	husband_n	servant_n	wife_n	4,873	5	6.7520	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A85310	Fire from heaven, falling upon the present army and the churches: or, Two words from the Lord to both· Held forth to the understanding of those, that make not flesh their arm, and whose hope the Lord is, that cease from man (a piece of earth) whose breath is in his nostrils. As also to the terror and astonishment of all those, who lean upon the broken staff of Egypt, and trust in horses, and strengthen themselves in the strength of Pharaoh, and joy in the shadow of men; and cry to themselves, the temple of the Lord, the temple of the Lord. / By a man of their councel.	Man of their councel.	1649 (1649)	Wing F954; Thomason E572_12; ESTC R202075	23,108	31

great and high-looked men of the earth You shall see the Day of the Lord upon all flesh upon all might and power you shall see all the pride of the earth stained and defaced and this shall be your joy and rejoycing And it shall then be said Behold the man the woman that gave not the glory to God Behold end see every thing that is not pure God defaced hath lost its life its blood runs to the Rocks and Mountains there to hide themselves O blessed Feast O sweet Supper nothing remaining but the Holy One Iniquity hath here an end and the terrible one is here brought low 2. This Feast is the flesh of the Whore an eating of her and a burning her with fire You know in the burnt-offerings under the Law the flesh and the fat and all was to be burnt and nothing to remain so nothing is to remain in this burnt-offering but the Lord For by Whore I understand to be any thing or person whatever that you love and delight in and go to bed to save the pure and individeble God any of those Lovers that give us our bread and our water our wool and our flax our drink and our oy● whatever it be that refreshes us inwardly or outwardly save God Do you joy and delight in Forms in outward Dispensations and Administrations Nay do you delight in Christ as after the flesh Do you feast your selves with the fleshly presence of Christ This shall be burnt up with fire And do you eat it up and let not ought remain There is a Strumpet within you your wisdom which is your snare your knowledg reason and will which will cause you to fall O let all be burnt up yea this will of yours let it not remain until the morning and it shall be a sweet swelling sacrifice unto the Lord let your will be terminated in God let your reason be the Lords reason and your judgment his let this affect you and the zeal of the Lords house even eat you up Secondly Let me advise that you go and return to your first husband you were first espoused to the Lord well have but one husband stray not from this man of knowledge any longer be not a stranger at home though you have played the harlot yet will your husband receive you Seek the Lord and David your King and fear the Lord and his goodness now in these latter daies Hos 3.5 This is the first thing you must do when you are come out of bondage and out of the Land of Aegypt when delivered out of the strange land ask for the Lord seek him out never leave untill you have found him even him whom your soule loveth You must seek the Lord God and then Zion If you know God perfectly you will know men as they are but this is the reason men and Saints are so much deceived because they first seek the Church and then Lord men and then God But were you fully and prefectly acquainted with God you would know men and things distinctly O you would easily learn to distinguish between the light of God and the darkness of men between the emptiness and vanity of men and things and fulness that is in God God is that blessed key that opens the door to every creature giving a perfect and distinct knowledge of them creatures shall be no more then creatures to you Did you know the Lord by these espousals of his were this the mariage day to you it would work out all strangenes that is in your souls to this God Hos 2.17 For I will take the names of Balaam out of her mouth and they shall no more be remembred by their names They shall no more call God my Lord but my husband vers 16. There is not such a discovery such an intimate understanding of secrets between the master and servant as between the husband and wife The servant knows nothing but as it relates to his dutie and obedience as it relates to the servitude he is under Well saith the Lord I will free you of this bondage you and I will not be strangers but familiar friends It shall be no more I and you but you and I one we will have one table one house one heart one minde and by the effecting this work I will doe it First I will first bring you into the wilderness I will have you alone your lovers shal no more remain before me you shall be where there is no path no way no Church no Temple no company O then saith God you will be glad of company then society with me will be your delight will in that day step in and shew my self and then shall you freely come in worshipping and serving of me Secondly The Lord will in this day reveale and discover himself in a full and glorious manner Your vailes shall then be rent and your coverings removed then shall ye say Lo this is our God we have waited for him This is the invisible One whom no man have seen nor can see whom flesh and blood hath not revealed this consuming fire is he this everlasting burning is our husband O then shall you loath your selves for all your abominations you shall then cease crying up that fleshly knowledge wisdom understanding teaching and hearing which you now so much strive after that it shall be an abhorring to you Isai 66.23 24. And it shall come to pass that from one new Moon to another and from one Sabbath to another shall all flesh come to worship before me saith the Lord. And they shall go forth and look upon carcasses of the men that have transgressed against me for their worm shall not dye neither shall their fire be quenched and they shall be an abhorring to all flesh You shall go forth out of this holy City and you shall look for the Praying Fasting Preaching and Reading men and women for all the carnall worshippers and you shall see nothing but the carcasses of these men remaining and they shall stink in your nostrils and be an abhorring to you For Behold the Lord creates new heavens and a new earth and the former shall be remembred no more THE POST-SCRIPT Reader in the Flesh and Disciple in the Spirit I Was encouraged thus to write to the Army and Churches because Michael the great Prince is standing up and it is a time of trouble such as never was since there was a Nation and yet at this time a people are delivered and they are found written in the Book Would you know them who they are Look among the writings of the Spirit and that book will discover them This Book that I have in weakness written tells you of a time of war desolations and forsakings of hoasts of men of an Army of brave spirited-men zealous professing men an Army that hardly any Army can write after them lifted up to Heaven and yet brought down to Hell Of Churches forsaken and made a desolation yet reformed Churches Candlesticks that hold out more then their Fathers did Yet you hear of a people standing upon the same earth and sea clothed with the Sun and the Moon under their feet that are at rest that are entred into Canaan and passed through the river Jordan dry-shod I have written to you because it is the time that men are running to and fro and knowledg is increased That you the Nations and kindreds of the earth fleshly societies may see the Son of man coming in the Clouds and weep and wail because of him That you that seek great things for your selves glorious structures and buildings of men a City made by hands may know the Son of man the Emmanuel God with and in us hath not in all these where to lay his head As you hear in this a house fallen because built up on the sands of a City whose inhabitants are sick weak dying men that are flesh and not spirit So if the Spirit will permit me to write again you shall hear of a house that like Mount Zion shall never be removed and that because it is founded on a Rock a City the inhabitant whereof shall not say I am sick the people that dwell therein shall be forgiven their iniquity they shall weep no more God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes There shall be no more thence an infant of days nor an old man that hath not filled his days the childe shall dye a hundred years old the full age of a man or more They shall be all from the least to the greatest perfect in knowledg come unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ But the Sinner being an hundred years old the old professor the man that hath known Christ after the flesh for a whole age and more that hath trotted up and down all his life after Eli the old man the man Adam the flesh that is corrupt shall be accursed shall like the barren tree wither and be cut down FINIS