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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	death_n	sin_n	soul_n	10,824	5	5.0379	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A60892	A general testimony to and for the everlasting truth of God partly intended for my relations and neighbours, that have known me from my childhood in Wishaw & Sutton : wherein there is a short relation of my manner of convincement : and also, some few of the sufferings which were inflicted upon me by some of the said inhabitants, for my faithful testimony, which I have born for God and his blessed truth.	Sommerland, Richard, d. 1730.	1678 (1678)	Wing S4661; ESTC R32705	5,632	10

A General TESTIMONY To and For the Everlasting Truth of God Partly intended for my Relations and Neighbours that have known me from my Childhood in Wishaw Sutton Wherein there is a short Relation of my Manner of Convincement And also some few of the Sufferings which were Inflicted upon me by some of the said Inhabitants for my Faithful Testimony which I have born for God and his Blessed Truth FRIENDS and Neighbours it is in my Heart once to put you in mind of that blessed and Everlasting Truth which I bear Testimony unto before you for it is the same that ever it was to all that believe in the Light and faithfully Obey it I cannot but once more Exhort you unto it as knowing that there is Sufficiency in it to preserve out of the Evil which is the Cause of much Sorrow and Trouble both in this World and in the World to come In the Year 1660. when it pleased the Lord to cause his blessed Truth to be preached amongst us by a despised People in Scorn called Quakers it pleased the Lord about that time to raise up a Work in my Heart and much Questionings and Reasonings I was beset withal and a Warfare inwardly I came to know Jacob and Esau striving in the Womb spiritually then hearing of a Meeting of the aforesaid People who by the World did then as they do at this day bear that Scornful Name of Quakers The Meeting then to be at Cardworth I was very much pressed in my Mind thither to go but something to the putting by that Opportunity at that time presented it self inasmuch as I was disappointed of my desire at that time So then Reasonings more seized upon me and my Trouble by reason of Sin and Transgression much disquieted me insomuch that I could not follow my outward Imployment so that Sighs and Groans did daily press me for the Sins of my Youth that I was constrained to make my Abode in many Desolate Places to bewail my Condition in Pits and Ditches to cry unto the Lord notwithstanding my Diligence in imploying my self to run after the best of men for Help Then in the 7th Moneth in the Year 1660. my Wife being reading in a Book of a Faithful Friend was pricked in the Heart and also satisfied that she had been doing that which the Lord did not require of her in the way of Worship when I heard those Expressions I was very much troubled for it was so with me at that time that I had rather have suffered Death than to have been called a Quaker inasmuch as that I durst not look in a Book nor go unto a Meeting but then did the Lord begin to raise up his own Work in me which burned as a Fire insomuch that I my self with many more did expect nothing but Death to have been the effect of the same but I found it to be the Lord's Work to destroy Sin which was and is the Work of the Devil Then on the 30th day of the aforesaid Moneth the Enemy of my Soul seeing that his Kingdom began to be weakened to the end that it might be destroyed then did he begin to Rage and to stir me up to take those Books in which my Wife was formerly reading and I hid them with an intent that I had to burn them if my Wife would not go with me on the next First day unto the World's Worship so great was my Rage against Truth in that day and in this Lyon-like-Spirit of Fury did I intend to go unto our own Parish-Priest to know and to be informed to the utmost what he could acquaint me withal in that Case But inasmuch as the Lord did permit me to go on with mine intent and prosecution of this Work sometimes going and sometimes running in haste for fear it should be too late I was smitten in my Breast and the Word of the Lord arose in me in the Heat of his Jealousie which burned as an Oven and smote as a Hammer saying What hast thou gotten thy self all this while by thy running sometimes Ten and sometimes Twenty Miles in a day after the Hirelings and Time-servers of this Age So then I was made to cry out Lord what wilt thou have me to do Often could I say A Wounded Conscience who can bear So that I was made to return in the Tenderness of my Soul and was constrained to embrace my dear Wife with this tender Salutation Oh! take thy Books again in the Fear of the Living God Ah! that was a Day of Glad-Tidings unto my Soul can I say unto you my near dear Relations unto whom this may come and unto whom these Lines may be presented for as sure as the Lord Christ Jesus did appear unto the Woman of Samaria even so assuredly did he appear unto me yea in me that Day Oh! therefore be you warned and turn unto the God of Life who hath for his Truth 's sake constrained me to visit you with a Testimony in tender Love unto your Souls And now my Dear Relations and Neighbours unto whom these Lines were in the Beginning chiefly directed and at this instant of Time my Soul is in a deep Travel for you before the Lord I my self being a man that hath known the Terrors of the Lord for Sin and Transgression doth once more in these Lines of my Constraint wherein I can say of a truth I am at this time engaged by the Lord in the Bowels of his Love to you-wards and also in regard to the removing of Guilt from my self in the day of the Lords Visitation of you which undoubtedly will come upon you if you turn not unto him I say in his fear a necessity is laid upon me to invite you once more to be reconciled unto the Lord our God who lives for evermore and whose Truth shall yet shine as the Sun in the Firmament and his Name be spread over all the Earth And Friends I being one whom the Lord hath made sensible of a Terrible Day that is at hand and shall try both you as well as my self and every of us and that you shall not be able to escape it it lieth near me this day to lay it before you that it is high time for you and greatly needful that you seek within for a better Guide then yet you are aquainted withal for the day is at hand that will try all Professions that men have invented and the Coverings they have made therefore I say turn unto the Lord God for he alone in that day can save R. S. A Note of an Account of the Sufferings of Richard Sommerland of Wishaw in Warwickshire for Truth 's sake from the Year 1663. unto this Present Year 1678. FIrst in the Year 1663. aforesaid the said Richard Sommerland was Persecuted by one Jacob Kimberly Priest of Cardworth and put into Lichfield Court because for Conscience-sake to God he could not pay him Tythe and Herbage and so deny Christ come in the