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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	church_n	day_n	holy_a	18,897	5	5.6068	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A48938	A salutation to the church of God the spouse of Christ coming out of the wilderness leaning upon her beloved And more particularly to the young and tender members of her body. By one who travels in spirit for the preservation of peace and love, and unity among the children of God, William Loddington.	Loddington, William, 1626?-1711.	1682 (1682)	Wing L2806; ESTC R216896	9,178	27

A SALUTATION TO THE CHURCH OF GOD The Spouse of CHRIST Coming out of the Wilderness leaning upon Her BELOVED And more particularly to the Young and Tender Members of Her Body By one who travels in Spirit for the Preservation of Peace and Love and Unity among the Children of God William Loddington LONDON Printed for Tho. Cooke MDCLXXXII A Salutation to the Church of God the Spouse of Christ coming out of the Wilderness leaning upon Her Beloved Righteous Houshold of God built upon the foundation of the Apostles and Prophets Jesus Christ himself being the chief Corner stone The Lord thy God which hath gathered thee from the barren Mountains and fitly framed thee into an holy Building hath in free Love and mercy been pleased Blessed be his name to let me see in my latter dayes a glimps of thy Beauty and to tast of thy Heavenly bread and living Water sealed up from impure Hearts and inclosed as a Garden from the wild Beasts of the Forrests THis Morning being the 4 of the 2 Mo. in the year 1682. even by break of day The sence of my Mercies and thy Sorrows and Exercises O Woman cloathed with the Sun came so powerfully within me that they kindled a Desire to salute thee and thy tender Children on this wise before I put off this my Earthly Tabernacle which in course of nature cannot be long But as I write an inward kind of shame and dejectedness arises from the thought of my former unkindness to thee and would as it were cloud the Light and stop my Spirit from this manifestation of my Love Not that I ever openly persecuted thee in railing Words or violent Actions No I may rather say I was as many now are among the Number of thy more subtil and dangerous opposers who under pretence of Gospel Ordinances Christs Commands and Scripture Examples do the more hurt and grieve thy Spirit more than a profane Enemy I verily thought in my young Zeal for God thirty years ago that I might have done some things against thee for I feared then thy chief and Principal Members were Deceivers I could not relish their Doctrine of beating swords into Plow shares and Pikes into pruning Hooks in that day But I obtained mercy because I disputed and argued Ignorantly against thee being covered with that vail which is this day over the Hearts of many in reading the Writings of Christ and his Apostles as it was over the Hearts of many of old in reading Moses and the Prophets But the Lord thy God glory to his name hath rent much of the vail and in mercy given mea sence of another kind of war-fare and other Weapons which would the Beast-like Nature and carnal Spirit incurably Now I feel thy Wisdom and my own Weakness thy Wisdom or rather the Wisdom given thee from aboye is first pure and can by no means defend or contend for any unjust or unholy thing for profit Honour or affections sake It is also peacable loving and kind even to its Enemies not rendring Evil for Evil but Blessing for railings O little flock Thou art easy to be entreated Some of thy own professed Friends know it to be true How tender have I seen thee in admonishing intreating and reproving when an airy conceited unruly Spirit has entred them O thou beloved of the Lord Thou art beautiful within And thy order is comly wrought by the heavenly Wisdom and not of Fragments and shreads of mans Invention How do thy envious and subtile Adversaries fret and chafe to see thee travelling in good order even as an Army with Banners Yea there is a fear seizeth them to see thee walk wisely 1 Sam. 18.15 Hence arise so many endeavours so many devises to disorder thy Camp and so to weaken thy Hands in thy Spiritual Warfare Sometimes profane high Spirits assault and carry away thy outward Substance abuse thy Friends and Imprison them often unto Death But when this roaring Lyon sees he cannot hurt thee then he craftily transforms himself into an Angel of Light And here I feel my Heart and Life concern'd for thy young and tender Babes whose years in this World as well as in Truth have been but few These are in greater danger than those of full Age who by reason of use have their sences exercised to discern both good and evil Heb. 5.14 These are soonest allured with fine Words especially when spoken by such as call themselves the Christian Friends and can be as bold as Hannaniah Jer. 28.3 saying Thus saith the Lord God of Israel when he saies no such matter and under pretence of breaking the Yoke of Babilon in a heat endeavour to break off the Yoke of Christ thy Husband Dear young Sons and Daughters of New Jerusalem now coming down from God out of Heaven having no need of Sun or Moon for the Lord God is the Light thereof keep to this Light and it will keep you within the walls of this holy City I know there is a deceitful voice abroad calling you out while it bids you look within promising Liberty it self being a Servant of corruption crying out against you Elder Brethren and Sisters sometimes as Babel Builders it self being in my understanding but a Painted Virgin Daughter of Babilon Isa 47.1 And sometimes as Apostates while it self is introducing an Apostacy from the first Principles of Truth seeking to limit the holy one of Israel under colour of keeping to that which first convinced you It may not be unservicable to tell you my own experiences of Gods Love in this very particular I had fell into the Snare if the Lord had not stay'd me Let high Spirits esteem it a reproach to acknowledge any weakness There is great peace in doing it Psal 32.3 Provided it be not done for any fear or favour of Man but in a true sence of mercy in the deliverance When I first heard Some among us of no mean gifts as I thought and for whom I had more than common affection cry out against Impositions Innovations and formalities I confess it made a great impression upon me having an old fixed Zeal in me against all Persecution for Conscience sake So the Testimonies against Forms Persecution generally springing from dead Forms was so taking and pleasant that I did not in the least mistrust any such Snake as Anarchy lay hid under these flowers of Truth wherefore in true affection to a true Christian Liberty I writ to some Friends among whom I observed some things that I mistrusted had a tendency to Imposition and I worded it high with them to prevent all Appearances of that Evil. And though I can truly say this was the utmost of my Intention yet some began to fear I was running into Separation and Confusion But I was in peace mistrusting Nothing till I felt a wrong Spirit catching at it and about to make a further use of it yea and applying in Print unknown to me some things against Friends which I had writ