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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
enemy_n	hand_n	lord_n	zion_n	1,188	5	9.7879	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A84597	The scorned Quakers true and honest account, both why and what he should have spoken (as to the sum and substance thereof) by commission from God, but that he had not permission from men, in the Painted Chamber on the 17th. day of the 7th. month 1656. before the Protector and the Parliament then, and there met together, with many more of no mean account, who were not of them, yet were then crowded in among them.	Fisher, Samuel, 1605-1665.	1656 (1656)	Wing F1057; Thomason E889_10; ESTC R202114	32,531	40

and had no certain dwelling place and yet though counted the very scum of the world as these are now by you were neither rogues nor vagabonds saith the Lord some for onely entring into the Synagogues whose doors stand open for all Men and there either doing nothing or declaring sometimes in deed before but sometimes not till after all is ended even as the movings of the Lord are upon them against the false worships and hireling Priests thereof that Divine for money and the people that love to have it so which both Christ and the Prophets and Apostles of old did even there cry woe against and yet were neither disturbers nor Malefact●rs saith the Lord some for not having the faith of God with respect of persons which who so have are convinced of the Law as transgressors some for not giving flattering titles unto Men not honouring them in their own way of bowing before them not stooping to their wills beyond either sense or reason which the Law of God flatly forbiddeth some for not putting off the Hat to them or standing bare-headed before them which no Law at all of either God or Man commandeth but is onely one of those many customs of the Heathen which are vain and so vain is this especially as the complementall Cringers and foolish fashion-followers of this vain age use it that men may with as much civility put off and require the putting off of their Coats one to another and to as much good purpose saith the Lord some for using the plain English of Thee and Thou to Men though it be the most proper speech to a single person whether you speak to God or the greatest Men witness your own translation of the Scripture into your own English tongue in all which it can't be found from one end thereof to the other where the word you is made use of when no more but one person is spoken to besides what evidence is given in from other tongues to the truth of this save onely that meer pride and respect of persons doth both improperly and impudently plead to have severall sorts of speaking to severall s●rts of people in this brutish Nation and adulterous Generation saith the Lord some for telling lyars in plain terms onely of their lying which to do is held to be such reviling as deserves little less than half hanging among many though there is no more reall hurt but that falshood and foolish custome hath perverted the true being of many things and your true seeing almost of any things as they are in saying to him that lyeth Thou lyest than in saying to him that sweareth Thou swearest saith the Lord some for not paying of tythes even to them that they neither do nor can in Conscience ever own to be their Pastours though they hinder no Men from paying them that have a Mind to it and whose Consciences compell them even that way to maintain their own Ministers which as the Gospell is against the paying of by Christs flock to their own Shepheards that feed them much more to such Shepheards as whether they will or no do fleece but never feed them so no Law in this Land can compell any Man to pay at all in case he be minded whether out of Covetousness or Conscience to refuse it the Ecclesiastical Courts being clear taken away and there being an express Statute extant remaining yet unrepealed that it shall not be lawfull for any to sue for tythes in any Temporall or in any but in Ecclesiasticall Courts nor for any to be summoned before any secular Judge to give in any answer about that Matter and therefore what condition the Judges are in that now meddle with it who are sworn not to do against any Statute Law of the Land let the light in their own Consciences be judge for to that measure of my light in them by which I am coming to be a swift witness against the false swearer as well as every other evill doer do I now speak and appeal saith the Lord some for no more than bare going out of duty to God to visit their imprisoned and afflicted friends have been sent back without the sight of them and some with passes as Rogues Vagabonds and idle wanderers though they have been of sufficient worth as to the outward also and have never either begged or stole and others are taken up by the way to their friends and put by whole heaps together in prison and there kept till they can buckle so low to the wills of Men against all Law and Conscience as to say if the Lord will they will go back without effecting their intended lawfull business of visiting Christ in prison which woe to them that do not much more woe to them that do imprison him or not go on in that their honest undertaking witness that sinfull shamefull business at Exeter where are no less than between ten and twenty at once in prison meerly for going to see friends in prison at another place and there held unless they will find sureties for their good behaviour or pass their words if the Lord will to go which way they would have them as if the Land were not free for Men that are bound by the Law of God to a good behaviour to pass up and down in about none but lawfull occasions without binding themselves thereunto and so giving it for granted that they have misbehaved themselves when they have not upon every malicious Officers unruly will or Magistrates slender and meer groundless suspition b Thus is my people made a prey of saith the Lord for which in speciall as for all other of your evills have I had a controversy with you and my hand hath been against you saith the Lord so that you have not prospered in your undertakings ye have travelled much in your Councells but ye have brought forth little ye have wrought no deliverance in the earth to any perfection neither have your enemies fallen before you of late as in former dayes but ye have fallen even woderfully before them ye have sown iniquity and reaped meer vanity ye have sown wind and reaped a whirlewind even a grievous whirlewind of wrath from the Lord which falls with much pain upon your heads of distractions divisions jealousies one of another and suspitions fractions and factions confusion contention disappointment and vexation upon vexation ye have sown to the flesh and there is come up a crop of corruption that hath made you fit fuell for the fire of mine indignation which is kindled and except ye repent will ere long waxe burning hot against you till it have consumed you into nothing Wherefore now thus saith the Lord God unto you ye stiffe-necked and stout hearted ones who though ye talk of it yet are far from my righteousness yee high and sturdy Oakes of Bashan ye tall and haughty Cedars of Lebanon come down and sit in the dust and humble your selves under my mighty hand which is

whom I will lead thither with many supplications and tears and tremblings as blind ones by a way they know not in a strait way wherein yet their feet shall not stumble for I am a God unto them saith the Lord by the way of the wilderness wherein yet they shall not be weary nor in want nor in fear nor miscarry nor lose their way that wait on me for I will be with them to refresh them saith the Lord with Bread from Heaven and water out of the Rock and to overshadow them with a Cloud and go before them in the likeness of a flaming fire so that they shall eat the same spirituall meat and drink the same spirituall drink as the Fathers of old who drank of the same Rock that followed them which Rock was Christ and shall pass to their rest under the same protection providence and illumination as my people that were the Type of them by which light wherewith I enlighten them will I puzzle and dazle and blind all your Egyptians which pursue them saith the Lord till you have brought your selves into inextricable perplexities into the very Javvs even of inevitable destruction see therefore that ye touch them not they are the sheep of my pasture saith the Lord whom I am gathering from under the conduct of those careless false Shepheards that have fed and serv'd themselves of them and not fed but starved them and stenched the pure pasture and trodden it down and fouled the pure water they should drink of and forced t●em to drink of their ovvn pudled vvaters vvhich they have fovvled vvith their feet see that ye stand not in the cross vvays as Esau did of old to cut off saith the Lord the Remnant of Jacob that are novv escaping and returning to their own home and Country saith the Lord out of all places and Countries forraign forms fellovvships Churches Companies and strange lands and ways of vvorshipping of me saith the Lord vvhereinto they have been scattered and shattered up and dovvn in the dark and gloomy day and though they are a people scattered up and dovvn in all parts and Provinces of these Dominions and every vvhere complain'd on and accused by proud Hamans Generation that ever hated them because they could not honour them vvho vvere accursed of God and bow according to their haughty expectations as a certain odde people that keep not the Lavvs and live not as other men do but are every vvhere and every vvay cross because so to the carnall vvills of men and disturbers of the peace so that it cannot be for the Common-vvealth nor profit of the Nations nor of the povvers thereof to suffer them and are sold as sheep to the slaughter in the vvicked vvishes of their malevolent and blood-thirsty Adversaries that they vvould not care vvhat they paid almost into the Common treasury to have them hanged or banished or any way however spoiled saith the Lord yet take good heed to your selves ye powers and people of medling too much at the wills of such as suggest evill to you of them and if at their suggestion ye vvill do any thing against those that oppose me and are my enemies yet take heed that under pretence of that ye sight not unawares against me and be opposers your selves of those that are my friends and speak to you both for and from me saith the Lord for if they be of the seed of the Jews before whom Haman and his seed begin to fall they will never recover themselves till they have brought the very mischief they have hatched for my beloved ones upon their ovvn Pate saith the Lord yea though my people are low and weake and few in number and silly and contemptible in your eyes yea afflicted and ready to dye from their youth up yet I live saith the Lord who am a protector and redeemer to them vvho neither slumber nor sleep but vvatch and am Almighty to avenge them on all their enemies and I will do it saith the Lord yea let the Heathen rage and the people imagine and the Kings of the earth set themselves and the Rulers take Counsell together against me and mine anointed saith the Lord yet will I set my King upon the holy hill of Sion and give him the Heathen for his inheritance and the utmost parts of the earth for his possession yea and all in whom he reigns shall raign as they have suffered with him In an inumerable multitude of which he is coming to judge the earth in righteousness and the people with equity to pass a judgement upon all and to convince all that are ungodly of all the ungodly deeds they have committed and of all the hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against him and he in them and they in him shall rule the Nations with a Rod of Iron and breake them to pieces as a Potters vessell even as they have received of me their Father saith the Lord and though they are now laughed to scorn and had in dayly derision by high and low saith the Lord and condemned by all and made the very strife of all tongues and made ashamed in all places where ever they are and all people make a noyse and roare against them like the roarings of the Sea and as the noyse of many waters yet will I get them praise and same in every Land wherein they have been put to shame and every tongue that riseth up in judgement against them shall they condemn and I that sit in Heaven will laugh at the calamity of those that hate them and mock when their fear cometh yea I will have them all in derision and they shall be as my people have been among them a very proverb of reproach and I will Roar upon them out of Sion and utter my voice from Jerusalem against them as a Lyon and the Heaven and the earth shall shake and I will overthrow the thrones of Kingdoms and destroy the strength of all the Kingdoms of the Heathen and be my self a wall of fire about my people for their defence and the hope and strength of my chosen ones in the day wherein I do this saith the Lord God yea I will never rest till I have made all their foes their footstool and howbeit the powers of the earth are of me and for conscience sake to me-ward are to be obeyed and not resisted and have been obeyed and not resisted in things not contrary to my own commands by my holy ones that have ever suffered as evill doers under them of whom they ought to have had praise yet if that which was once mine own outward Ordinance for the punishment of evill doers and to be a terrour to evill works as Rulers are ever away when they are as they ought to be continue to be so abhominably perverted as in the pride and stoutness of their hearts making their own lusts and not my light their Law to be a terr our unto works and ways