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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
earth_n	hear_v	heaven_n	oil_n	4,117	5	10.0452	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A27228	Crums of comfort for the mournful babe of hope from one that condoleth the distresse of the daughter of Sion ...	R. B.	1664 (1664)	Wing B165; ESTC R27201	20,626	24

Crums of Comfort for the Mournful Babe of hope from one that condoleth the distresse of the Daughter of Sion that had been healed deceitfully which caused her wound again to break out for which she hath suffered reproach but the root of the matter being throughly searcht into she is now come and invited to the day of a perfect Cure Wherein the ground of all apostasie and backsliding from the Spirit of Truth is discovered and Objections answered concerning the one Offering that for ever hath perfected them that are sanctified how it can be but one Offering or offered once for all and yet he crucified afresh who in that he dyed once dyeth no more death hath no more dominion and also how and when the apostasie came in first OH that my voyce might be hearkned unto that it might rend the Clouds and that my tender compassions might reach the highest thought of him that hath been exalted in the Seat and Throne of dignity in the Heavens and there hath been found accusing the just provoking God against the Inhabitant of the Earth unto whom the woe is come in what hath overtaken him in the way of his sojourning and travelling onward toward the Land of Rest and City of everlasting content and thou poor distressed Babe of hope in a better life and state than this world could afford thee that art ready at all times to cry out What sorrow is like unto my sorrow and what affliction like unto my grief This being a day wherein the Sons of God hath come and appeared before him and Satan also hath come with them that God could no sooner say Hast thou considered these and how they have walked before me with a perfect heart mark that but the Devil that goeth about like a roaring Lyon seeking whom he may devour that saith I come from walking up and down in the earth and compassing about the same is ready to reply Doth these serve God for nought hast thou not done thus and thus for them What shall I say unto thee and for thee thou art distressed and tossed up and down but not forsaken and thou dost not sorrow as one without hope for thou hast yet a little strength remaining and sure thy afflictions are come up before the Lord but what am I that I should comfort thee Only this is my hearts desire that my sorrowful complaints might find a place for its yearnings to rest and that I might condole thy grief in a fellow-feeling of the same yea and that the moan of my pierced grieved wounded soul that I am sure hath entred the highest Heavens and is come up before the Lord of Sabbaths might congratulate thy sence with me as a rebounding Eccho and by the rebellious in heart and stiff-necked in ear might no more be slighted and dis-regarded as such that cannot hear the voyce of the Charmer though he charm never so wisely but like the deaf Adder are closed and shut up against the breathings of the poor and needy that dare not despise the day of small things but hath been thankfull for a crum And then their Heavens shall be no more like Brasse nor their Earth as Iron nor shall an Iron finew be found on the neck the place she is to put on the harnesse but the Heavens will hear the Earth and the Earth will hear the Corn and the Wine and the Oyle and they will hear Jezerel that my words may drop toward the four winds of the Firmaments glory where stars remain fixed to constellate matter of praise to him that di●●●● 〈…〉 ●●cellency of what is lustrous where I seek entertainment only in the meek and lowly heart whereby the worker of glory is endlesse hath his due and right in me and all that wait on the power that keeps and preserves fixed and from wandring out of and above the place and sphere we are serviceable in to the glory of the body shall never dye nor wax old Therefore Consider with me thou unpityed Babe though thou art ready to say None in all the earth like me for I see the wicked flourish on every hand and all things goeth well and are prosperous with them but I am utterly unstript of all earthly glorying and rejoycing in any fleshly and selfish confidence and though I flye from the enemy as one beset with the terrours of the night yet how doth he follow and surround me and layes snares for my seer and a Ginne and Trap to catch me in my way so that my besetments are even more than I am able to bear and my roarings are all the day long as one crying out of the belly of Hell and out of the grave of sorrow my moan ascends as he that the great Leviathan hath made to be his prey and the Net of every Fowler hath been spread in my way and the cunning Hunter hath pursued me with Dogs that as a Partridge on the Mountains of Israel I have been hunted for my life and had no place of safety untill I came into the low valleys though my soul panted after the Lord more than the Hart for the water brooks Alass for thee I know thy day and the night of thy sorrow hath not been hid from mine eyes but as one touched with the feeling of thy infirmity I can condole with thee being satisfied that thou canst never sit down and make an agreement with Hell and the Grave nor is it possible in this feeling any contract should be made with the wicked to strengthen the power and dominion of death or inlarge the mouth of Tophet and borders of destruction yea and though opportunities of returning back to thy wooted course in which was a seeming pleasure and content are dayly presented before thee and instruments are suffered to be stirred up to that purpose yet the very thoughts thereof are a defiance to thy soul neither darest thou look back on the pleasures of Egypt as one longing for the Onions and Garlick thereof and its Flesh-pots as did and doth those that were and are found murmuring and repining and complaining by the way at the leadings of the Prophet whose carkasses fell in the Wildernesse that said Were there not Graves enough there Neither art thou again to be inchanted with the gluttony of Sodom that looking back thou shouldest lose thy shape Oh dear heart Look not out for there is the Fools eye wandring abroad neither look back least thou be an example to savour and tincture the remaining part for concerning all such that draw back Gods Soul hath no pleasure in them because their love grows cold and such are not fit for the Kingdome of God that once had set their hand to the plough and now draws back look not out at the prosperity of the wicked I say either within or without nor at thy besettings and huntings up and down least thy foot almost slide but to God that delivers out of all let be thy eye of respect and what then