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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
glory_n	jesus_n	light_n	shine_v	6,139	5	9.4807	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A65249	Lamentation over England from a true sight, and suffering sense, of the lamentable wickedness of such rulers, priests, and people, that are erred, and strayed from the way of God, and follow too much the devices and desires of their own hearts, offending against his holy laws ... : whereby all persecutors may (in pity to their souls) truly consider what way they are in, and whether it leads, and whose work they are doing, and what the Scripture saith will be the reward of oppression and cruelty / by M.W.	Watkins, Morgan, fl. 1653-1670.	1664 (1664)	Wing W1066; ESTC R38958	45,267	54

hath purchased us unto himself and not to the will of any man in the first nature as in things appertaining to God for there the elder must serve the younger for Jacob had the blessing and we cannot serve two Masters that is to say the Will of God and the Will of man when contrary to God and thus we who keep in the innocency and cannot please men to displease God are grievous sufferers and some even unto death where many thousand hearts are made sad and many thousand spirits Mourn in secret Oh that ever such wickednesse should be upon recod to posterity that the harmlesse innocent people of England should be banished out of their Country for waiting upon the Lord that hath redeemed their souls and praying to their God that made heaven and earth What a people redeemed by the precious blood of the Son of God imprisoned and banished and spoyled by their Neighbours and Countrymen and yet call themselves Christians Christ never yet owned any such that imprison banish and kill their brethren for worshipping their heavenly father And dare any that have any fear of God before their eyes say we are not Christians if so what Christians are you that banish your brethren Christ our elder brother never taught you that practice nor any of his Apostles or Disciples gave you that example but on the contrary said and commanded to love one another for John saith 1 Joh. 3.10 In this the children of God are manifest and the children of the devil whosoever doth not righteousness is not of God neither he that loveth not his brother so it is manifest in whom the envious nature dwelleth that slew his brother because his own works were evil and his brothers righteous and this is the nature of all persecuters and such as banish their brethren for righteousness sake which you see the Scriptures saith are not of God And can any be so blind as not to believe that the Lord will visit for these things and stretch out his hand over the Nation in terrible Judgments that shall overtake all you that put far away the evil day and cause the seat of violence to come near and then how will you be able to stand in Judgment w● Lord shall reward every man according to his works and if you should receive the same things at the hand of the Lord as we receive from you would you not think it a sore judgment then why cannot you in judgment remember mercy and think upon the afflictions of Joseph for though rewas sould by his brethren for a bond-man into Egypt yet the Lord was with him and he became ruler over the whole Land And though his sayings pleased not his brethren for the which they hated him without a cause yet the Lord loved him and blessed him with a double portion And now the Shepherd of Israel is leading Joseph like a flock and doth not his waies and sayings please you what is the matter is it not because the ways of the Shepherd of Israel are not as your ways therefore his sayings are not acceptable nor his testimony believed in the mouths of the people of his flock and the sheep of his pasture And wherefore doth not his ways please you because you love darkness more then light and the lusts of the flesh more then the life of righteousness this is that which is natural to the flesh and therefore no new nor strange thing to us for we know that seed can bring forth no better fruit and therefore it inherits not the promise for the promise is to the seed that was and is disalowed of men that is it that is chosen of God and precious for the believing in and obedience of we are disalowed and hated as our brethren were in former ages but mark this ye persecuters of our age the hated of men was and is blessed of God He that was sould and separated from his brethren being try'd was found faithful upon whose head the blessing came Joseph was sould and Jesus was sould Joseph had rule over Egypt and Jesus over the World who is become the head of the corner and shepherd of the soul and leads Joseph like a flock who is the glory of Israel that shines forth for our salvation and blessed are they that walk in his light which is the way that pleaseth not the world that lieth in wickednesse loves their evil deeds but is the way that pleaseth the Lord which he hath blessed with ●m everlasting blessing that it should prosper for ever 〈…〉 ones do walk and the redeemed of the Lord out of a● 〈…〉 For the Lord our God is one and his way is one who hath 〈…〉 be one sold and one shepherd out of whose hand his sheep shall not be 〈…〉 Job 10.16 Into whose Fold we witnesse a gathering blessed 〈…〉 that hath gathered us and by his eternal spirit of life hath quicke 〈…〉 into a blessed hope that nothing shall be able to reanove us wh● 〈…〉 in this faith And therefore what if the Heathen rage 〈…〉 a vain thing and the Kings of the eart●● themselves● 〈…〉 the Lord and his Anointed And what if the 〈…〉 blow and the storms o● the wicked bear and the 〈…〉 the un●odly swel and death and hell combin'd and take counsel together against us yet saith he that lives for ever I have se● my King upon 〈…〉 of Sion and blessed are all those whose souls are subject to his Law that he hath with in their hearts to his spirit in their inward parts for it is the law of the spirit of life that the law of the spirit of strife envy shall never prevail against though it may be formed and new moulded yet it shall no● prosper nor accomplish the end of those that made it And therefore is there not a cause to take up this my limentation over you O ye Rulers and Magistrates of England why will you die O ye people by 〈…〉 the paths that lead to destuction when the Lord stretcheth ●●ch his kind of mercy to receive you into his covenant of life why will 〈◊〉 chuse your own way and despise the path of peace and rest to yo●●●●●ls and why do you disda●● the noble immortal seed that the father or 〈…〉 sown for your salvation that of which except you be born again your souls perish for ever 〈…〉 do you flight the leadings and te●ch 〈…〉 spirit of truth in the inward parts which is the 〈…〉 up teachers to 〈◊〉 selves conformable to your own 〈…〉 ●able to your wills 〈…〉 deceive your souls and one day you shall know that these things 〈…〉 and that you have hated and persecuted your best friends even dear friends to your souls who are 〈◊〉 willing to lay down 〈…〉 a testimony to that truth by which your 〈…〉 to be 〈◊〉 And the Lord is our 〈◊〉 that 〈◊〉 in his truth that we desire 〈◊〉 dest●●●●tion of any neither in 〈…〉 but the good of 〈…〉 our enemies might come 〈…〉 be f●●●ed And 〈…〉 of●●● prayer 〈…〉 for 〈…〉 may not 〈…〉 day of visitation 〈…〉 that belong to their everlasting peace be 〈…〉 to destruction for ever And it is not 〈…〉 that I have 〈…〉 of the 〈…〉 to 〈…〉 of God 〈…〉 for 〈…〉 the soul 〈…〉 on in the 〈…〉 leads 〈…〉 that the spirit of love and life presseth to 〈◊〉 a 〈…〉 and reprove the evil practice and 〈…〉 And 〈…〉 O ye 〈…〉 not 〈…〉 be 〈…〉 are 〈…〉 〈…〉 but a sufferes by your 〈…〉 Christ Je●● M. W.

I cannot believe this record saith the blind guide and his followers then saith Christ for if ye believe not that I am be what he the true light ye shall dye in your sins then saith Jesus again unto them I go my way and ye shall seek me and shall dye in your sins whither I go ye cannot come Mark that ye despisers and haters of the light ye despise and hate Christ and ye that will not follow him the light here in this world shall not follow him hereafter into the glory of the world to come but shall dye in your sin and perish eternally Consider this ye despisers of truth there is but a breath betwixt you and eternal destruction ye haters of the light the eternal word by which you breath move and have a being who plead for sin and the deeds of darkness to live in them for tearm of life read your portion that live and die in sin and consider what he hath said that cannot lye if you will not live the life of the righteous being manifested unto you in the day of visitation you cannot dye the death of the righteous nor shall your last end be like unto his because he hath called and you refused he hath stretched out his hand of mercy and you will not regard ye have set at naught all his counsel by his messengers he hath sent unto you and would none of his reproof by his light in your consciences the spirit of truth that he hath sent to reprove the world of sin therefore saith he that cannot lye I will laugh at your calamity I will mock when your fear cometh and when distress and anguish cometh upon you then shall you call but I will not answer you shall seek him early but shall not find him Pro. 1.24 25 26 27. therefore because the spirit of truth hath said it you that are in that capacity cannot dye the death of the righteous who shall in Gods peace that he hath laboured after with all men lye down and in his everlasting habitation dwell safely and shall be quiet from fear of evil for the upright shall dwell in the land that the envy of Cains spirit shall not nor cannot banish them out of and the perfect shall remain in it These be a people whose life the blind guides could never yet see in all ages because they dwelt not in their land which is the land of darkness where Cain said he should be hid from the face of God therefore all his generation loves this land of darkness naturally to this day it being the land of their nativity where their fathers City is built out from the presence of the Lord and the blessing of the light of his countenance in that land of the valley of the shadow of death where the sitting down is in darknesse and the Prince of the power of darknesse bears rule there teaching his children and subjects to plead for his kingdome of liberty in the flesh which natural desires and lusts of the flesh being brought forth is the life after the flesh that cannot please God the old mans life in the curse in whom the seed of the serpent the subtilest beast is head and makes war in the old enmity against the seed of the woman of which is the spiritual or the birth after the spirit that the birth after the flesh persecutes and hates as Cain did who was of that wicked one and slew his brother and wherefore slew he him because his own works were evil and his brothers righteous 1 John 3.12 therefore it is no marvel that the children of light are hated of the world that lyeth in wickednesse and pleads for it and hates the light and pleads against it for he that hateth the light abides in darknesse and loveth not his brother and it s written whosoever hateth his brother is a murtherer and ye know that no murtherer hath eternal life abiding in him and where eternal life is not abiding there is Cains nature dwelling and from that nature ariseth the persecutor that doth not well in doing the things he ought not to do and so fin lyeth at his door And woe unto the wicked it shall be ill with him saith the spirit of the Lord for the reward of his hands shall he given him Isaiah 3.11 For the wicked shall be cut off from the earth and the transgressors shall be rooted out of it Proverbs 2.22 Therefore let all that have yet a day prize it and make your calling and election sure in this the day of Gods love and tender visitation to your souls and think not to say in your hearts did not the thief upon the Crosse dye the death of the righteous yes and did he not live the life of the righteous yes he lived by faith though it might be but the last hour he being then called at the last hour to believe in Christ the light of the world he followed him by faith in him and bore a glorious testimony for him when most of his Disciples had forsook him and the blind guides laugh'd him to scorn and wagged their heads at him then he who was faithful reproved his fellow that was as blind as his guides and chief priests so the priests and the thief and the elders were all in one spirit of envy mocking and despising the truth and chose the murtherer and the thief of which spirit they were of before the truth the son of God which spirit he that believed did rebuke and that was a good work in that hour when few durst own him but yet more then all this he confessed him to be a king and that a heavenly one too before the face of his enemies and before the whole world justified the righteous son of God and said he had done nothing amisse which proved his enemies the chief priests murtherers and in such a time when he was in his lowest estate when he said My God my God why hast thou for saken me then did he honour him by his faith which preached God had not forsaken him but had given him an everlasting kingdome and did not doubt but he was able to bring his soul that believed into his kingdome therefore said Lord remember me when thou comest into thy kingdome and so received him before the face of the world as a faithful witnesse to the death who entred into the glorious paradice of God that his precious faith had fitted him for in that short time And if in so short a time faith in the power of God can bring forth such a glorious work what wretched wicked miserable unbelieving sinners are they who say they be in Christ the son of God yet do not expect to be saved from their sin and set free from their iniquity all the dayes of their life these make but a bad confession of the work of faith which is not to the glory of God the Father that hath sent his son to take away the