Selected quad for the lemma: ground_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
ground_n	authority_n	church_n	truth_n	2,214	5	6.2511	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A84841	A word from the Lord, to all the world, and all professors in the vvorld; spoken in parables: wherein all may come to read themselves through the parables, and see where they are; also a word to all professors, who cast the pure law of God behind their backs, and turn the grace of God into wantonness, and despite the day of their visitation; with a dreadful voice to all the children of darkness, who hate and deny the light; that all may come to see themselves, and repent, before the fierce wrath of the Lord, which is kindled in England, sweep you all away: by them who are redeemed out of the curse, to serve the living, called Quakers.	Fox, George, 1624-1691.	1654 (1654)	Wing F1991A; Thomason E809_6; ESTC R207560	15,809	15

brings forth his own works but hath ceased from his own works as God did from his and is entred into his Rest and is come into the Eternal Sabbath and is comprehended into the word which is Christ and is no more his own For now Christ speaks in him acts in him and works in him both the Will and the Deed Now Christ and he is one is married to him and Christ is his Head and Husband And now the head speaks Prays and Praises and Prophesies and is uncovered and here is the Church of the First born the Pillar and ground of Truth where the woman must be covered and kepe silent and is not to speak in the Church is not to Usurp Authority but is to be in subjection and if she would know any thing she is to ask her husband at home and he is to her a covering of the eyes for ever Now all you Priests and People that talk of these things without you from the Letter this is a Parable to you and you read the outside in the Letter and from that you Imagine and so set up a Form or Likeness or Image of these things and here you Worship and for this you contend and would compell all to Worship your Image you have set up and you go about to persecute and destroy all that will not bow to it with you But it is but the Form you have and not the Substance And you put the Dead Letter for the Living Word and your own meanings of it arising from the brain and first Wisdom and natural Learning This you declare and call it professing and put off your hats which is Carnal but the head you know not and it is the woman that speaks and the head is covered and you dishonor your head and honor your selves Neither are you subject to your head but your own wills rule in you and you live in the pleasures of the world and are become wanton and have set your eyes upon many lovers and you are adulterated from your husband and live not with him nor is he a covering to you neither can you witness him in you and you in him and the pure seed is not brought forth in you but your seed is accursed Neither is the pure language brought forth in you but as to God you are smitten with barrenness and bring forth nothing but Words Wind Shews and Shadows Imitations Inventions Imaginations and false Conceptions and you never look to bring forth better fruits Never to come to Holiness and Perfection and to come to your first Fruits and that Estate in which you were Created and you will not know that you are departed from your first fruitfulness and have lost him in whom your life stands and in whom your Fruit is found and are become widdows and desolate as to your first husband and have been running after other lovers and have committed Adultery under every green Tree and the holy flesh is departed from you and you have been doting upon the Egyptian and Assyrian for wisdom and strength whose flesh is as the flesh of Horses and have been as fed Horses living in the lusts of the flesh as it is at this day Now all People stand still a while and see where you are and the cause of your unfruitfulness Look back from whence you are fallen and return to your first husband that you may bring forth your first fruits For till then all you do is abomination to the Lord and he cannot accept it For what you bring forth is the seed of the Adulterer and the Whore a Generation of evil doers And yet you make a Profession and outside appearance as to Righteousness and Holiness But the Power to Act Righteousness you have not but in your Actions bring forth the Image of the Devil for all sin bears his Image and he is the father of it Let no man deceive you through fair words He that sins is of the Devil and is doing his work and upon this Image where it is Is the wrath of God revealed from heaven in flames of fire here is your Portion you workers of Iniquity D. N. O All you who have cast the Law of God behind you and walk despitefully against the Spirit of Grace give over your Profession for shame and never profess you love God and have cast his Law behind you and walk in uncleanness fighting wrangling quarrelling in Drunkenness and maliciousness and brawling ralling and backbiting cursed speakers inventers of evil and doers of mischief Plotting together to devour the Truth living in Wantonness and Pleasures Feasting and Ryoting and Gluttony In misnaming and miscalling the People of God who live in the Truth and Covetous Cheaters incontinent without natural affection unholy unjust and unrighteous brutish given over unto all unrighteousness People and Priests are gone out of the way fierce despisers of them that are good Now all people and friends where is your Profession and love towards God Awake ye Drunkards awake ye Scorners and give over your Drunkenness and Scorning God scorns the scornfull and Drunkards shall rot Isa 5.24 Therefore as the flame of fire devours the Stubble and as the Chaffe is consumed of the flame so their Root shall be rotteness and their Blossom shall go up as dust because ye have cast off the Law of God and contemned the word of the holy one of Israel Awake ye proud ones for ye are as the Stubble as the fire burneth the Stubble so shall ye be barned Awake ye wicked ones for ye are as the Chaffe that the wind drives to and fro Wo unto you lyers for you are without God Awake and blush for shame and turn to the Lord Awake ye doggs which bite and devour one anothe● For ye are without God and cross your lusts and learn meekness and tenderness for that is of God and the other is of the Devil Awake ye Idolaters who trust in the earth trusting in your Riches and in your Horses and in your beauty delighting in your Corn and Wine Your Woe and misery is coming for all the Gods of the earth must be famished O trust in the Lord and forsake your Idols Come down thou proud one and lay thine honor in the dust cast down thy Crown of Pride who art Exalted that the Lord alone may be exalted Who att thou that art Exalted and lifted up in Pride who art thou that sets thy nest on high and oppressest thy Fellow-Creatures and Taxeth them Remember Remember that there is a God and remember what he did to Pharoah that was a Taxer Oppressor and was proud O consider thou shalt not escape the Judgement of God thou hard-hearted Pharoah thou wild Ishmael whose hands are against every man Thou Prophane Esau which despisest thy Birth-right for the Earth thou art a place for the Dragons to dwell in greedy devourers thou that enviest thy Fellow-Creagures art Old Cain He that envies his brother is a murtherer of the Righteous and