Selected quad for the lemma: hand_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
hand_n	bring_v	day_n	lord_n	5,567	5	3.7846	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A54444	To all simple, honest-intending, and innocent people without respect to sects, opinions, or distinguishing names, who desire to walk with God in the pure spirit of life and true understanding : I send greeting in the harmless love of God.	J. P. (John Perrot), d. 1671?	1664 (1664)	Wing P1632; ESTC R28431	6,598	9

sees but in part and he that sees least also sees a part but he that sees most sees more then he that sees least so he that sees most sees not as much as he that hath given to the least his little part and for this cause let all flesh be abased before the Lord God for ever and let the wisest know his duty to wait and also his end of waiting which is to know more of Gods wisdom and righteousness to fill him then yet he is so compleated in whilst I notwithstanding say that the least proportion is altogether sufficient for the profoundest knowing person yea passing his comprehension either as it is in himself or as it is in the lowest of the Lords babes and little Lambs Ah let flesh therefore put no limit to God His spirit which in it self is perfect unity is also perfect and everlasting amity and as I hold no other unity so I esteem of no other amity which neither unites nor gives liberty to any part of flesh or spirit but what is of its own nature of purity separation is of the inward spirits in a mans self even the true separation of the just from the vile and him which fears the Lord from him which fears him not the right separation consists not of any thing which God simply created or instituted in man that one man should be intentionally separated or divided from another wherefore I say I have love to every mans person to every mans soul and to the seed of God in every mans soul and hold not enmity with any thing except that in my own soul and all souls which often seeks to sink it in the deep Sea of sin and transgression Man that boasts over man the Lord will humble for all flesh is grass and the best of men is as a Bryer and all men are lyers and God only is true This I have experienced as for as I have had knowledge of poor changeable man and therefore in the spirit that made man I find and feel pity for him and not passion and extream persecution pursuing him I have seen a great evil in the earth which the Lord hath shewed unto me which is this there are many people speaking of one spirit which deem themselves even each people of themselves to be wiser and holier then other people in respect of method and form which is the ground of separations divisions and prejudices and the like enormities which produce the effects of cruelty and persecution By Paper Expression and real Action which the Spirit of God I am sure allows not of in any man but the day cometh that every mans just intending shall be most gloriously transformed into true knowledge the which will produce the most heavenly fruits of holiness and this will be seen when every man shall see himself a fool and altogether imperfect in holiness before the Lord when no man shall say I have been wise in all things and thou a fool I have been righteous and thou wicked but I have been implacably wicked as well as you and in my implacability have been unrighteous as well as you when every mans soul shall be bowed down in mourning when no hand shall be lifted up to wipe its lips saying to another I am holier then thee stand therfore aloof from me this day will bring forth righteousness and the glory of the Lord in the earth In this knowledge I am taught to stay my hand from giving way to warring with any for I have seen a glimpse of the Lambs life who in love through suffering overcomes all things and therefore if for this love sake I am or must become an outcast by all a forsaken of all a persecuted by all and a killed crucified and slain of all yet let the Lord bear me up to bear and suffer all that hereby in the Kingdom of the Lambs tribulation I may lastly overcome in by and with the same love and bowels of mercy that overcame me Notwithstanding I am willing that all men should be so prudent and wise that wherein according to their method forms or perswasions of Law or Gospel they have killed or crucified any that when that which they have slain is cast into the grave and rotten that they dig not up the earth again to bring the dry bones or ashes of the creature to life again that they may kill it and slay it afresh For such actions preach implacableness and an unsatiated thirst for blood whilst the Lord works not this way yet I have experimented the truth of this yea I finde it certain that it is better to be in a little of the innocent life whilst a man is accounted dead then to be dead from the life whilst a man is accounted living and all that live in the least measure of vertue walking with God truly know it One great cause of distances and contention is a mans own affection wedded to his own perswasion but when the byas is taken out of his heart and the Lord found the swayer of every affection The common distances will soon determine Man shall be spoken unto and conversed with as a vessel which God hath formed and then if an enemy shall be seen to be risen in any vessel love to the vessel to the soul to the seed in the vessel will wrestle in its heavenly nature to overcome the enemy and this makes no separation through thee to common and unrighteous enmity but ingages a pure unity through the exercise of life in its own pure amity Remember this amity and unity shall out-live all cruelty and enmity for the one in its being and nature is God the other the Devil the one brings peace the other trouble the one good will to all men the other ill will to all men I esteem of every labourer for the Lord and masters sake I hold none such in contempt but my self the most contemptable of all yet the Lord in me more worthy of audience and obedience then the voyce of any messenger to me and therefore till I hear the voice of God in me though I have heard the voice of a trumpet without me I am to stand still and wait for a certain knowledge of the ecchoings through the valley of my soul as sound answering sound of Gods minde in me for the Lord alone must be exalted in Israel in a greater glory then he was among Israel in the Thunderings Lightnings and very dreadful Earthquakes and we must all cease from man and be all taught of God from the greatest to the least The teacher is not the signe nor the figure nay neither is it visible appearance the ordinance nor mans performance but the teacher sent the signes and instituted the rest which man cannot see but as he stands in the life of the teacher where all the signes are understood and the end of all figures and all other institution known that nothing at last may stand but God in man and man