Selected quad for the lemma: ground_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
ground_n	fruit_n	good_a	seed_n	4,166	5	8.2531	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A52030	A second epistle, being a tender salutation to the seed of Jacob vvherein is contained an exhortation to the called and chosen people of the Lord, who have kept their first love, to abide therein to the end : also, a hand of dear love held forth to the spiritual travellers, who are travelling from Egypt's land of darkness towards the spiritual land of rest : the counsel and determination of the Lord God Almighty founded in the ears of the unfaithful, disobedient and deceitful, who hold the truth in unrighteousness, and cover themselves with a profession of the precious truth, and yet live in the nature and spirit of those who walk in the broad way, that leadeth to destruction : also, a brief rehearsal and discovery of the enemy of man's soul, his workings from the beginning of his appearance unto this day, age, and generation / Charles Marshall.	Marshall, Charles, 1637-1698.	1673 (1673)	Wing M742; ESTC R7579	15,880	27

Death of your own Thoughts Reasonings and Imaginations Conceivings Gatherings and Fetchings in neither ascend nor descend nor fly beyond the Sea but sink down into the Word of Life in the Heart and there in pure Stilness wait patiently upon God until he arise your Enemies to scatter and destroy and your Souls to deliver and believe in the Word the Light the Gift the Sufficient Grace and cast all your Care upon the Lord who careth for you do you nothing but submit to the Saving Grace of God and here you will see and have an Understanding how you have in your own Strength and Wills toiled all Night and thereby caught nothing and in the Morning see your Saviour who will direct you so that by following his Directions you will see more effected in a Moment of Time then by your own Willing Running and Toiling all Night for by his own Strength shall no Man prevail its God that worketh both the Will and the Deed hear this give ear and be instructed you afflicted and tossed with Tempest and not comforted let the Scales fall off from your Eyes then will you see all things possible and your Faith will increase that removes Mountains Arise you Afflicted Ones who sit as in the Dust of the Earth Arise arise in the Might of the Power of the Eternal Strength of Israel shake your selves from the Dust of your own Thoughts Conceivings Contrivings and Imaginations come into the Innocent Way where the Wayfaring Man although a Fool shall not err And be no more discouraged you bowed down in Soul and Spirit li●t up your Heads in the Light of Righteousness and you shall see your Redeemer draw nigh yea very nigh And so dear Mourners in Zion who mourn as a Dove without a Mate be ye Comforted be ye Comforted behold I declare unto you in the Word of the Lord That if you look up unto him and believe in his Name and obey the Requirings of his Power your Warfare will be accomplished your Hearts and desolate Souls will be inhabited with Life Love and the Ancient Pathes will the Lord restore to you for now the Fruitful Field shall become like a Wilderness and you who have seen your selves like a Wilderness shall blossom as a Rose and you who have seen your selves as a standing Pool shall now become as Springs of Water Night shall pass over with you and the Day shall dawn Winter shall passover and Summer draw nigh and the Day hasteneth you Mourners in Zion after the Enjoyment of your God wherein the Voice of the Turtle shall be heard the Voice of the Innocent One and the Singing of Birds in your Land therefore be you comforted ye solitary Ones the Arm of the Lord is awakened for your Deliverance break forth thou Barren that didst not bear for more in the Name of Israel's God shall be the Children of the Barren and of the Desolate then of the merried Wife And so dear Exercised Ones sink down in the Stayedness and pure Content in the Light and I charge you strive not to stir up nor awake your Beloved until he please so will the Work prosper in his Hands and you shall the Spoil divide that tarry at home in your Habitation and then you will see your Beloved come leaping over the Mountains and skipping over the Hills ye will see him as the Apple-Tree among the Trees of the Wood and sit down under his Shaddow and find his Fruit brought forth by his Working and your Passiveness pleasant to the Taste so neither will nor run for the Battel is not to the Strong nor the Race to the Swift and here you will learn the Mystery of your Resting from all your Labours that he may work and you not let and as you are brought to be truly passive as the Clay in the Hand of the Potter let but him even the Lord Strong and Mighty arise and in his Arisings your Enemies will be scattered So the Lord God Almighty open your Understandings clearly in these things which are indeed of Eternal Concernment and lead you and guide you to the Fountain of Living Waters where you may be abundantly refreshed consolated and strengthned to grow strong in the Lord and in the Power of his Might And unto you whom the Love of God hath reached in making manifest the Way of Truth in which you should walk and who have received the Truth and made Profession and Confession thereof but have not nor do not obey from the Heart and all you who have tasted of the good Word of God and of the Power of the World to come and have and do turn aside and backslide from the Way of the Lord following the Lusts of your own Hearts and Desires of your own Eyes professing the Truth and in some Measure are in Outward Conformity unto it who profess to love God but love the World and the things thereof who are Double-minded and Unstable in your Wayes who would serve two Masters and be Heirs of two Kingdoms who from day to day come amongst the People of the Lord who are Children of the Light and of the Day but still stand in that Nature that is Corrupt and although in the Assemblies of the Lord's People such may be often smitten and the Way in which they should walk is manifest and their By-Ways and Crooked Ways discovered yet notwithstanding the many Reproofs of Instruction continue in the same Nature and Spirit and all Foolish Virgins who have a Lamp but have no Oyl all who have only receiv'd the Seed in the High-Way Stony and Thorny Grounds who therein brings forth no Fruit to Perfection but Dishonour the Name of him who hath sowed the good Seed being one thing in Name and another in Nature and all you who have lost your First Love and all you who have a Name to live but are dead and all you who are Luke-warm Ones neither Hot nor Cold who account your selves Rich and increased in Goods but are indeed inwardly Wretched Miserable Poor Blind and Naked hear the Counsel of the Mighty God concerning you Ye are the People with whom the Spirit of the Lord will not alwayes strive ye are the People who are the Sloathful Servants not improving the Talent given and communicated unto you ye are the People that turn from the Grace of God into Wantonness ye are the Backsliding Generation ye are those who make an Image and a Likeness and are content therewith without S●bstance it self ye are the People who profefs God his Light Life Grace and Holy Way of Truth in Words but deny him in Works and are not Possessors of him ye are those who dishonour the Worthy Name of the Lord amongst the Heathen laying Stumbling-blocks in the Way of those who might come into the Way of Truth ye are Lovers of the Unrighteous Mammon and your Minds Hearts Understandings and Capacities are therefore set on work to compass it ye are in Esau's Nature selling