Selected quad for the lemma: heaven_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
heaven_n	bow_v	jesus_n	knee_n	2,266	5	9.3927	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A54906	Bowells of compassion towards the fettered seed. Or a visitation to all, who hath been seeking the resting place, but hath not found it the cause why shewed, and the way to it manifested, wherein is something shewed also, of the emptinesse, and unsoundnesse of all profession, without the light of Christ, to be the guide. Also an information to all the honest-hearted who desires to know the truth in the simplicity of it concerning us, the people of the most high who is by the world called Quakers: ... Written in love to the scattered people in America: and is to be sent to all the islands belonging to it, that all may be warned, and left without excuse. By one who am a witnesse what the Lord hath done for his people, and hath obteined with him among the rest of the faithfull, whom he hath gathered into his fold of rest; where they are throughly satisfied; and lies down in peace and rest. Richard Pinder.	Pinder, Richard, d. 1695.	1659 (1659)	Wing P2261; ESTC R220527	12,556	15

up against us and would have devoured us in a moment had not the Lord appeared for us for the deliverance of his own seed for whose sake he is now risen with full purpose to gather and to make it the praise of the whole Earth and to exalt it in spite of all his enemies and to crown his people with victory and dominion ●ver the heads of all the ungodly whom he hath upholden by his arme and hath led them through great tribulation whereby they came to be acquainted with the Lords dealings with them and saw his arme and power through all preserving of them where they had their garments washed and made white and is redeemed by the blood of the Lamb and hath received the mark of the living God in their foreheads and have found their names written in the Lambes book of life from the foundation of the World and so cannot worship the Beast nor his Image but makes warre against him with the testimony of the Lamb by which we overcome and have victory and rejoyces over the Beast and false Prophet praises be unto the Lord for ever more and worships him that made heaven and earth who was dead and is alive and lives for ever more who hath brought salvation and redemption who hath wrought all our workes for us and in us who hath saved in the time of need who by his own arme hath brought deliverance and hath delivered out of captivity and bondage and hath made us free in the kingdome of his own Son who cannot but extoll his loving kindnesse and infinite mercies towards us whose time hath been a time of love even when none else pittyed then he by his own power wrought our deliverance and saved us whereby we are become the first fruites unto the Lord God and to the Lamb and rejoyces before the Throne of his glory where we come to be filled with his praises who hath purchased us by his own blood and hath redeemed us out of kinred tongues and Nations not to live unto our selves but unto him that dyed for out sins and is risen again for our justification that we should not fashion our selves according to the former lusts in our ignorance nor according to the course of the World neither that we should be conformable unto it but that we should live to his praise and be conformable to his Image who is our Captain and forerunner who for the joy set before him endured the Crosse and despised the shame and so he being our example and Master who suffered the contradiction of sinners therefore we as followers and servants thinkes it no strange thing to be hated and reviled of the World we knowing that our Lord and Master passed the same way and that the servant is not greater then his Lord and that they who will live godly in Christ Jesus must suffer persecution So we rather chuse to suffer with our Lord and Master then to enjoy the pleasures of sin which is but for a season we rather chuse to fill up the measure of his sufferings which is yet behind for we knowing that all who ever reignes with him must first suffer with him for he was made perfect through sufferings and we knowing and having such a cloud of witnesses recorded in the Scriptures of truth that persecution and suffering was the portion which the people of God received from the World Therefore we even so walk as we have them for an example we beleiving that they through patience obtained the promise and is laid down in peace and rest that so none need wonder why we are so hated and persecuted in every place by those that knowes not God and by them also that professeth in words they know him but in works deny him by all such we are hated and falsly slandered but unto us reproches is great riches we knowing that they have no evill justly to accuse us of or lay to our charge as we have a true testimony in all consciences that doth witnesse for us that our lives and conversations is honest and harmlesse towards all men both in word and action and that we walk void of offence towards all Onely this the seed of enmity is offended when we cannot bow to it nor honour it knowing that all honour is to be given unto God and that it is due to him and that he will not give it to another and that all knees is to bow at the name of Jesus both things in heaven and things in earth So no more we can bow to the seed of the Serpent knowing that it is that seed which seekes the honour which is below and not the honour which is from above So we honour all men in the Lord and gives honour unto whom honour is due but bow to Haman's wicked nature we cannot though we suffer for it as Haman would have caused Mordecai to have done Or it may be they are offended at us because we prophesie against all sin and wickednesse and exhorts people to come out of it and to minde the light of Christ in them which checks and reproves for sin that so they might be brought to repentance to witnesse the salvation of their soules now indeed when the seed of the Serpent heares this it begins to rage in them in whom it beares rule for great is the enmity of the old Serpent the Dragon against the Man-child wherever he speakes knowing that it is he that must bruise his head and dash his kingdom to peices with his rod of Iron who must rule all Nations and unto whom all knees must bow and we knowing this that all power is given unto him the Lamb of God which was slain from the foundation of the World we are subject unto him and his power for conscience sake knowing that it i● the higher power unto which all is to be subject And here the honest hearted Reader may see what hath been and is the caus● why we have suffered and do suffer by the hands of unreasonable men seeing ther● is enmity put between the two Seed and that he that is born after the flesh persecutes him that is born after the spirit and that there is no agreement between the temple of God and the temple of Idols nor no communion betwixt light and darknesse and that the bond-Woman and her Son seekes to destroy the free Woman and her Son So if thy eye be but single and thou read without prejudice in thy minde and let not the evill overcome thee thou maist easily see what seed we are of If we were of the World the World would heare us but the World heares its own and he hath chosen us out of the World therefore the World hate us because it hated him who hath called and chosen us before it hated us a●● the Servant is not greater then his Lord. By one who desires the good of all soules R P Barbados the 6th day of the 7th Month. 59 FINIS London Printed for M.W. in the 10th month 59