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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
heart_n	flesh_n	lord_n	stony_a	2,069	5	11.5738	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A29619	A single and general voice lifted up like a trumpet, sounding forth the Lords controversie concerning London, with her governors, priests, and citizens that walk in the manners, customs, and way of the heathen, that know not the dreadful God who is Light among them, neither like to retain God ... with somewhat directed to the ear of Thomas Atkin, called alderman of the said city : a reproof to his perverse and ungodly proceedings, message, and two letters ... also a letter from a servant of God in the said prison to Thomas Allen, Mayor of the city ... / by Daniel Baker.	D. B. (Daniel Baker), fl. 1650-1660.	1659 (1659)	Wing B485; ESTC R32851	25,174	40

and brought forth this tender plant that 's never to be forgotten but to be had in everlasting remembrance of all that hear the joyful sound and come to see the glory of the brightnesse of thy rising who shall Trumpet forth thy fame to the utmost parts of the Earth and talk of thy mighty power in the Congregation of the righteous O London London How hast thou been visited from on high by the hand of the Almighty in his faithful though despised Messengers that thou might be purged and made clean and healed Lo the multitude of thy polluted Inhabitants have dispised the day of Healing and of small things and the Children of Wisdom that have been wearied and as it were ready to faint from time to time under the weight of the multitude of thy pollutions and crying abominations and have truly bewailed and lamented thy estate but how have they been esteemed in thine Adulterous eyes as sounding Brass as signs and wonders the off scouring of the World or as the Wind thou hast not known whence they come neither whether they go O London Thy defiled Garments thy Heads thy Priests thy Pastors Professors and Prophane in thee thy Judgment Seats thy Courts thy Palaces with them that that handle the Law thy Idols Temples loe even thy streets in these latter dayes are stained with the blood of the Innocent O England England what hast thou done or brought forth how canst thou like an impudent Harlot or murtherer plead before the glorious Throne of the Lord God of Judgement and of the Lamb the Son of the highest and say not guilty or I am innocent O London Remember Jerusalem it s yet but a very little while thy day is passed over thy head some of thy Mourners have already seen and yet behold the Lillies covering the mountains the good watchmen of the City Zion where the Sabbaths which thou hast prophaned and polluted are forgotten waite for the gathering and healing of the remaining little ones that are defiled wounded and polluted even in thee O London Proclaim ye this among the Gentiles prepare War wake up the mighty men all the men of War let them come up beat your Plow shares into Swords and your Pruning-Hooks into Spears Let the Weak say I am strong Assemble your selves and come all ye Heathen assemble your selves-together round about thither cause thy mighty ones to come down O Lord let the Heathen be awaked and come up to the valley of Jehoshaphat for there will I sit to Judge the Heathen round about put ye in the Sickle for the Harvest is ripe Come get ye down for the Press is full the Fat 's over flow for their wickedness is great See Joel the third O ye heads and polluted Inhabitants of London that call the Scripture your rule read and behold your State see Deut. 32. and when the Lord saw it he abhorred them because of the provoking of his Sons and of his Daughters and he said I will hide my face from them I will see what their end shall be for they are a very froward generation children in whom is no faith They have moved me to jealousie with that which is not God they provoked him to jealousie with strange gods they have provoked me to anger with their vanities and I will move them to jealousie with those which are not a people I will provoke them to anger with a foolish Nation for a fire is kindled in mine anger and shall burn unto the lowest hell and shall consume the earth with her increase and set on fire the foundations of the mountains I will heap mischiefs upon them I will spend mine arrows upon them they shall be burnt with hunger and devoured with burning heat and with bitter destruction Now forasmuch as it hath been the manner and antient custome of the Mayors Aldermen Governours Citizens and inhabitants of the City of London the day when their chief Governour is sworn to do justice at such seasons great shews and wicked dark vile inventions is acted and brought forth in and through the open streets and River of the City because of which exceeding great multitudes of people assemble and gather together from divers parts in the vanitie of their vaine minds which are led captive to many and divers hurtful lusts that war against their souls at such seasons by which the Creatures are wasted consumed devoured and destroyed without the fear and wisdom of God by high and low rich and poor young and old bond and free for which end they were not created and the everlasting God hereby is greatly provoked and highly dishonoured though Thomas Atkin attribute it to the honour and respect of the Magistrates But Moses and Joshua the good Magistrates was not found walking in these or such like wayes and the persons of the Creatures hurt and sometime in great jeopardy to the loss of life by land and water and from time to time the Lord God and his spirit hath been grieved oppressed and vexed with these vain filthy abhominations of the heathen and Priests Rulers and people have been and are in a high degree guilty of all the hurt and waste of the Creation so much to the provoking and dishonour of the Almighty Lord and everlasting God of Truth yea and my spirit within me hath been often pressed down and grieved because of the weight of the crying abhominations of Priests Rulers and people that are called Christians but are not profirted at all by them the hired Priests that teach for filthy lucre their own way their gain from their Quarters like greedy dogs that can never have enough and are so plentifully bringing forth the fruits and works of darknesse walking in the manners of the Gentiles and way of the Heathen and pleading for their dumb Idols wherefore I was not onely moved to write to the two Mayors namely John Ireten and Thomas Allen to lay before them and to stop them and their subjects of their folly and wicked vanity but they would not receive warning as may appear by a paper afterwards published and Tituled A certain Warning from a naked Heart But the twenty ninth of the eighth moneth on which their Heathenish Ancient Idolatrous customs and dark inventions was so highly set up and exalted and carried th●●ugh the open streets at which many thousands of people gazed before which time I spake a few words of Truth and sobernesse which the Lord put into my heart to some of the Aldermen as the horses and their Riders passed in at the Mayors gate saying The Lord God will stain the pride and glory of all flesh the Lord God will stain the pride of all glory as in the dayes of old the Lord will smite the great men of the earth with astonishment of heart who forget Justice and Judgement and the Lord God hath a controversie with all that forget the Lord and his work The Lord will be avenged on the great men of the earth

body and every member of his Creature Man from Commanding or his Creature male or female from subjecting to their Lords Command in or by their body without respect of the outward adorning Life mens persons time place or dayes that the Will of the Almighty Lord of Heaven and Earth might be done in it as it is in the new Heaven and in the new Earth that the Inhabitants of the world might cease to do evil and learn to do Righteousness even as he is Holy and Righteous that calleth his people out of Babel the Land of Darkness and Confusion lest while they partake of her sins they partake of her plagues and judgements Lo the same voice cryes now in these latter dayes He that hath an Ear to hear let him hear and come forth and turn to the Light that 's low in the heart freely from the Lord given to thee drawing Tumults about you to the disturbance of our Peace You and your Companions prophane the Lords Day some opening their Shops on that day which we can no wayes allow of you make a great Complaint of the Jaylor and his Vnder Officers I doubt not but there is great Fault in all of them there is no Good to be learned in such places and I believe it is a Grief to all good People to see and hear such Sins daily committed in such places and if it lieth upon your Spirit as you Write it doth ●his is false I Writ not so but I was burthened with the crying Abominations of the City and Prison Lo in that fear and wisdom of my Lord and Master Christ the Light I have cleared my Conscience whether thou and them who are the Cause of it hear or forbear I marvel you will stay so long in that place If your Vnder Keeper bring you to my House that I may talk with you I may perhaps see Cause that you shall Return thither no more when you are weary of your Company you may take my Advice and so I leave you Resting Your well-wishing Friend THOMAS ATKIN London the 24 of Novemb. After I had Written an Answer to the late Letter the 25 of the 9th Month in the Morning from the Lord had I freedom to pass forth to Thomas Atkin with the Letter and with the words of my Mouth to lay his wicked lyes and false and unjust Accusations and Proceedings upon his own Head and to warn him on the Lords behalf who with his Servants are and will be clear of his Blood if he die in his Sins with many more that reject the Truth and persecute the life of it as its appearance is brought forth in and by the Friends of Christ Jesus the light of the World that lighteth every man that cometh into the World FRIEND DId thou never read Christs words in the Scriptures of Truth which saith For every idle word that men shall speak they shall give Account in the day o● Judgement and all Lyars shall have their part in the Lake that burns with Fire and Brimstone And how is it thou do not fear and tremble before the living God that hath given thee breath but in the hardnesse of thy heart and impenitency instead of laying thy sad wretched and miserable estate to heart when it s so plainly laid before thee had not the god of the World altogether blinded thine eye thou might see so much O man who yet fear not to heap up false Accusations against the Innocent which thou and many more are truly guilty of as I have sufficiently proved to thee who most wickedly and prophanely said to my Friend the Messenger this morning That I had gathered all the Pick-pockets and Whores and Rogues in London about me a wicked Lye so I turn it back upon thy head O man what will be thy end Art thou fit to bear the Name of a Ruler a Christian a Magistrate a Justice of Peace which should be a terror to the Liar the false Accuser the Evil-doer and not fear the God of Truth thy self but speak such most wicked Lyes and false Accusations to the shame of thy greedy dark Teachers the Lord's witness in thy Conscience when the Lord visits for all the Deeds done in thy body will bring them into remembrance and judge and condemne thee for the evil and behold I yet call for thee to Repent and hearken to the witness in thee opprest and cease from thy wickednesse left thou die in thy sins who writ to me in thy late Letter after thou have undeservedly spoke contemptiously and vilely of me and of what I writ in love to thy Soul Thou say I vilifie your Ministers and Ministry Thou err in saying so for I do not vilifie them in speaking the Truth of or concerning them as thou may read and understand by what I have written to thee but can I speak more vilely of them then thou in thy Letter to me saying There is no good to be learned in such places and thou dost believe its a grief to all good people to see and hear such sins daily committed in such places viz. Prisons to thy own shame thou have written this better a milstone were hanged about the neck of such as offend Christs little ones by casting them into such places and much more to the vilifying as thou call it of the hired Priests that take so much Quarterly gain or yearly gain from their Quarter to deceive the poor Prisoners who can learn no good here though they preach for Hire so often so that thou have confirmed what I have truly written and is it not time for them to be silent that are in deceit in an evil way how can they teach the good old way who are out of it themselves consider of this and Repent Another Charge thou layst to me is for calling the Churches made with hands Mass-houses Did not the Popes adherents build them to say Masse in and give them their Monks and Saints Names as St. Gregory St. Dunston St. Sepulcher St. Katherin St. Antlin St. Rood St. Giles St. Clement c. And how is it thou art so blind and dark and called a Magistrate and yet know not the Church of the living God which is the pillar and ground of Truth from an old Popish Masse-house made up of Lime and Stone with mens hands where God dwels not and dost not thou blaspheme to call that a Church which is not but I may say a figure of thy hard heart who art yet a member of such a Church which is not the body of Christ See Col. 1.24 The true Church is the Body of Christ but I deny with my life a stony Idols Temple Steeple house or Masse-house that it is the Church or Body of Christ or the pillar and ground of Truth which is the Church of the living God behold thy blasphemy and the damnable error of thy dark Teachers And why dost thou continue heaping false Accusations upon me and my dear friends the Lords Servants