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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	christian_a	zeal_n	zealous_a	36	3	8.0379	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A42020	A call out of gross darkness and idolatry into the light to wak [sic], which is the way of life ... with a word of advice and information ... / by Richard Greenway.	Greenway, R. (Richard)	1662 (1662)	Wing G1863; ESTC R25470	20,414	17

labour for that which will not satisfie the Lord complained of too evils which his people had committed in days past and the same evils you are guilty of mark J●● 2. 13. They have forsaken me the fountain of living waters and have hewed to themselves broken Cesterns that can hold no water Moses prophesied of the true Prophets and said Deut. 18. 15. The Lord will raise up unto thee a Prophet from the midst of thee of thy brethren like unto me unto him shal you harken mark and farther from the Lord he said And it shall come to pass that whosoever will not heark●n unto my words which he shall speak in my name I will require it of him It is not he shall be cut off that doth not hear man that may come in his own name bu● him ●hat came in the name of him that sent him for as Christ said in his day so it may be said unto you in this day if one came to you in the name dread and power of the Lord him you will not hea● but if one come in his own name or as sent by man him you will hear c●y up and fight for but him that was sent of the Lord you cry down with him away with him he is not fit to live and so fall to halling and rending in your madness and blind zeal smite and beat with the fist of wickedn●ss by which ●t appears you are not spiritual 〈◊〉 neither Priest nor people had not the weapons whicht he Ministers and people of the Church of Christ had who said our weapons are not ca●nal but spiritual and mighty through God for the bringing down of strong holds of sin and Satan and if you or your Priest had been armed with that which the Christians were of old and used to war with resist gainsayers with then you would not have smote me with the fist of wickedness as some of you did lay upon me and though I was beaten thrust and punched by some of you yet from my very heart I do desire it may never be layd to your charge but that you may come to see the evil of it and repent and m●y find mercy and truly I can say concerning them that were most inraged against me Father forgive them for they knew not what spirit they were of and I know it was blind zeal in some of them and it may be they might think I deserved no less looking upon me as their enemy and one that did disturbe them but freinds you that were so disturbed what was that which was disturbed in you was it not an evil nature that was in your selves that was so soon dist●rbed if it had not been a mad hasty rash spirit which rose in you against me and carried you violently to run upon me if you had been but sober reasonable men you would have heard me in what I had to speak and then left me to the Law if in any thing I h●d been a transgressor you ought to have left me to that to have suffered according to Law but amongst the true Christians it was not accounted a disturbance to do as I did for in the Church of true Christians if any thing were revealed to one that stood by the first was to hold his peace the Apostle true Minister of Christ said you may all prophecy one by one that all may be edified and sometimes the Apostle went into the Synagogs and into the Tempels as their manner was to dispute with them and to bare their testimony against Idolatry and som●times they were haled out by the professing Jews Sometimes had before Magistrats and into Prisons and Somtimes beaten and stoned by the vagabond Jews and baser sort of the people and its like they might be called disturbers then too as we are now by you but mark this you may read that the Christians were always persecuted but never were persecutors Paul before he was a Christian he was a persecutor when he was a Zealous professing Pharesee he was exceeding mad in his blind zeal against the Christians but the Lord pricked him in his Conscience and called unto him by his powerful word saying in him Saul Saul why persecute thou me and when he took heed to that which pricked in him and by which the Lord called unto him then with the light he saw what he had done and was going to do and so he repented and found mercy and that is the desire of my soul that those which offered the most violence against me may feel the checking of the witness in their own conscience may repent thereof and may finde mercy as he did and so may come to be witnesses of the grace of God which hath appeared unto all as he was who said it taught to deny all ungodliness c. And that you all may do to others as you would be done unto at all times and then you will not hurt nor wrong any one nor in your hast rage nor madness offer violence unto any because you would not so be done unto and my freinds this is the way for you to fulfil the Royal Law of God the light which if you keep to you will do well And now here is a word to the simple hearted Come you Children in whome there is any hunger and thirst after the righteousness of God both young and old read and consider and I will teach you the fear of the Lord which David and Solomon said was the beginning of the true heavenly wisdome and knowledge and a good understanding have all they that do thereafter in keeping the commandments and observing the statuts of the Lord the fear of the Lord is to hate pride arogancy the evil way which is broad leads to destruction and from a froward mouth and lying tongue which are both abhorred by the Lord. Man woman is fallen from that state in which they were Created in the beginning is now by reason of disobedience erred from that which leads into th● fear and brings back again into that state which was before the fall and that is the light of Jesus Christ the Son of Gods love be is the way back again out of the fall he redeems the heart and minde out of the earth into which it is driven by reason of sin and transgrssieon up again unto the Lord and mankind having 〈◊〉 this way are in their minds alienated from the Lord his true fear which is as a fountaine 〈◊〉 cleanse the heart of the creature from evil and as a defence to keep it cleane it being lost and mankind being strayed from the good way of the Lord therefore before you can come again to finde it and to feel his puere fear you must take heed to the Light in you as aforesaid by which Christ Jesus hath lighted every one of you and as you waite therein you will come to see your ●●il deeds your thoughts words and works which your have wrought

out of the light and fear of the Lord and Judgemen and Condemnation will be against the workes and workers as you keep in the light the measure of the spirit of the Lord which is given you to convince you of your sins to lead you to profit in well doing that was it which Ioseph of old was preserved by when it was tempted and so will you be kept by it if you take heed to it it will cause you to say as he did how shall I do this thing that is evil and sin against the Lord who hath lighted me and let me see the evil of my doings and freinds this is my testimony for the Lord and for his everlasting truth if I should never be sent among you more or if I should never be seen of you again that this is the way of life and Salvation and there is not another way nor name by which any can be saved but by Christ Jesus the light he that is the way hath said no man can come to the Father but by me he hath also said he that follows me shall not abide in darkness nor the works thereof but shall have the light of life drunckweness is a work of darkness Whoredome is a worke of darkness Lying Stealing Cursing Cheating are works of darkness so are fighting mocking s●●ssing and Envying all these works are wrought out of the Light Christ said without are Dogs 〈◊〉 Whore-mongers Murtherers Idollaters And whosoever loveth maketh a lye thay 〈◊〉 without who are gone out from the Light which leads into the fear and so that nature in man which is beastly and brutish bares rule while man is straying from the Covenant of light and life that which brings forth the works of righteousness is the light and spirit of Jesus even that which conv●nceth of si● and evil deeds and as all joyne to tbat love it obey and follow it then you wil● come to see the uglin●ss of sin and evil deeds and you will come to loath them as I have done wh●● once was my self in the broad way walking which leads to d●struction even as you are now with many others and in that time I had a profession and the name of a Christian as y●u ha●e but I wa●● out of and far from the power nature of Christ which is the only thing which mak●s men o● women Christians that is like him and followers of him And when I was f●r off from the Lord in the same way in which you have been visi●ed the Lord in his kindness sought me out when I was in a high place like unto that into which he sent me unto you and then ●e 〈…〉 of his servants to call me and oth●rs from that which did not satisfie my soul unto tha● way in which I have been restored from a lost miserable condition in which I was and am turn●d in my m●asure from th●● which kept me from injoying peace with the Lord and so now having taken ●eed to and prised the visitation and warning of the Lord I am now turned to and do walk in his everlasti●g good way in which I have found rest peace and satisfaction for my soul and my hearts 〈◊〉 is that you may every one in whom there is any simplicity or sincerity find the same and this my f●i●nds is the way to the fear of the Lord and tbe way to the salvation of your souls turning into the light by it to be guided this is the name in which salvation is and it is in no other name or thing und●r heaven and as unto this name Jesus Christ the light the spirit and power of the Father you ●ll ●urn thereby to be lead out of the world and way●s and works thereof that are evil and worships that are Idolatrous so will you come to know and feel his name and nature that saves his people that obey him from there sin unto this name every one that ever will be saved there 〈◊〉 mast how and their tongues confess or else salvation they cannot come to witness therefore whil● you have time 〈◊〉 it every one and take heed to your true guide which is the light in you as I have said and th●n you will come to know your true teacher that will never be removed from you as you ke●p ●o 〈◊〉 either for more gain or greater honour and as your minds are k●pt thereto of it to lea●n you will hear a voic● behind you saying this is the way which leads to holin●ss● and ●ighteous●●ss● walk ye therein when ye are turning to the right hand or to the l●ft to do the things that are no● right O all people therfore now give eare hear regard consider of that which conc●rn● your 〈◊〉 lasting peace now turn in seek ●fter the Lord while he may be found c●ll 〈◊〉 him while he is neer unto you while he is striving with you turne at his reproof be it known un●o you that if you d●sregard his call tend r●visitation he will not alw●y●s striv● with y●u th● when he ceaseth to strive with you by his spirit within to check and reprove or by his servants without to warn you then will you be everlastingly miserable and this know also the Lord by his witness and good spirit hath striven with you long day by day and many times in the night season and you have little regarded it and the most of you do not know that it is the striving of th● Lord and th●rfore your state is miserable and your condition to ●● the more lamented and the bow●ls of the Lords love hath been and is mov●d in m● towards you and his holy power constrained me to come amongst you to warn you and to turn you from darkness to light and from the broad way whi●h leads to the Chambers of death grose darkness ignorance and Idolatry so that in the light you might come to finde the way of truth li●e peace rest and salvation Therefore I say be you warned and take heed that you slight not the tender love of the Lord in sending one amongst you which 〈◊〉 raised from the dead that once was dead in si●s and trespasses buried underneath iniquity even as you are at this day And so now you are warned in your life time by one that is raised from the dead and friends this I testifie unto you in the fear of the Lord I came not amongst you in my own will but contrary thereto in obedience to the requ●ring of the Lord and that y●u may know it more fully I have written this for you and that I may be clear of your blood and the Lord also may be clear of it and that your blood may lye upon your own heads for ever except you believe and repent while you have time and space and herein I am your friend called The End Richard Greenway