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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	word_n	work_v	zion_n	79	3	8.8214	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A41065	To the general councel, and officers of the army, and to every member in particular Friends, I am moved of the Lord to write unto you, in the name and power of our Lord Jesus Christ; ...	Fox, Margaret Askew Fell, 1614-1702.	1659 (1659)	Wing F638C; ESTC R218282	6,559	8

for the day is risen and appearing that makes every thing manifest of what sort it is And truly friends it must be a spirituall building that will stand in the presence of Almighty God it is not the pot-sheards of the earth that can strive with him nor Briars and Thornes that can stand before him in Battel who is a consuming fire nor an Image made though of gold and set up in the imaginations of men that will stand in his sight It is the true and living substance that will be accepted of him Therefore dear hearts consider what the Lord is doing and act not without his Counsell nor to please men lest ye act contrary to his will Advance Justice and Righteousness and equity and you can never do amisse Riches and honour is with me saith Solomon yea durable riches and righteousness I lead in the way of righteousness in the midst of the paths of Judgement this is the Saints path though fooles cannot erre therein Here ye will know the key of David of wisdome and knowledge which will open unto you the way of life Truly I am affected with you and I know if ye execute justice and true judgement the Lord will own you and give you to tread on the necks of your enemies But if ye fall flat and grow cold and dead and dull and betray your own principles as some have done that went before you then look for the same as they have had from an unchangeable God who is the same to day and yesterday and the same for ever And you that have ventured life and blood for conscience freedome and liberty now beware that ye be not limiters nor lorders over Gods heritage nor to keep him out of his throne as your predecessors have done your fruits will make you manifest And as ye sow so will ye reap It is not for any end concerning us that I write this unto you the living Record knowes for we know the strait and narrow path and we have trodden the path that leades through sufferings trials and afflictions have been our portion as our Lord and Master that went before us was made perfect through sufferings and therefore it is our joy to follow his steps where ever he goes And it is onely for your good and that ye might be guided so as ye might prosper For it is the grief of our soules to see the destruction of any and therefore in tender bowels have we been moved to give them many warnings whose day was before you which they cast behinde their backs but for the Lord they will stand a witnesse when the day of their calamity comes then will they remember what they have done against the Lord and against his Anointed So that ye may be preserved out of the gulfe of destruction and that ye may partake with us of everlasting peace and rest and safety and joy which is for ever And those that wisheth well to Sion will prosper for she is now arising and shaking of the dust off her feet and putting on her beautifull garments And the mountain of the Lords house is established a top of the Mountaines and shall be exalted above the hills and all Nations shall flow unto it For out of Sion is going forth the Law and the Word of the Lord from Jerusalem And who can stoppe or who can stay this which God alone worketh and judgeth among the Nations And so we wait to see Justice and true Judgement executed by you for the Lord and not for men or to please men For the Law was added because of transgression and so when true justice and true judgement rules then the Law is executed upon the Trangressor but who is led by the Spirit of God against such there is no Law And so to the just and righteous principle of God in you I commit you to be guided and then I know if ye mind it you will not be time-servers nor men-pleasers nor fear man whose breath is in his nostrills but fear the Lord God who when he hath kill'd the body can also cast the soule into hell yea I say unto you fear him so will ye come to know the just principle in every one which will knit and unite your hearts together in the unity and there will be your strength in the one spirit which joynes to the Lord and one to another This is the Standard that stands against all the powers of Hell and Death And truly Friends it is in this which keeps out of respect of persons and out of time-serving and men-pleasing that will knit your hearts together And this will keep you out of strife and contention one with another when the just principle in you all guides and leads then will righteousnesse be exalted And here will be your very strength that ye be knit one to another in that just and righteous measure of the Spirit of God in you that so ye may not be Judges nor Governours for men but for the Lord and for the advancing of his truth and the exalting of his Christ which in this his day he is going to establish upon his throne notwithstanding all gain-sayers Though Gog and Magog should gather together yet the Lord hath anointed his holy One and his King he hath set upon his holy hill of Sion and all that gather together against him shall fall for his sake Therefore in pure love to you that ye may not be found fighters against God am I moved to give you this warning and this counsell which ye shall acknowledge to be good one day whether ye now hear or forbear and that ye may not bear the sword in vain Hitherto ye have not born the sword in vain for the Lord hath made you victorious and given you power over your enemies and put into your hands what your hearts could desire And now oh that ye would come to execute justice and true judgement would even be your preservation and your strength And that ye may be the Rulers that are not a terrour to good works but to the evill that the good may not be afraid of your power but the evill and that ye may be the Ministers of God for good and a revenger to execute wrath upon him that doth evill and that your Acts and Ordinances may be for the Lords sake That the people of God may submit unto you and may be subject unto you not for wrath but for conscience sake Forasmuch as you are set and sent by the Lord for the punishment of evill doers and for the praise of them that do well For so is the will of God that with well-doing ye may put to silence the ignorance of the foolish And so this is your place and calling and now the power and the opportunity is put into your hands to do good beware that ye do not abuse the power nor make light of it nor sleight it nor turn the truth of God into a lye as those have done

that have gone before you nor turn the sword against the Just and the Righteous as they have done and caused the just and the innocent to suffer which God hath pleaded the cause of though they were blind and did not see nor would not hear the warning and the exhortation that was ministred unto them yet God hath said they shall see and be ashamed And God will plead the cause of his own just and innocent Seed that hath no helper in the earth which hath long suffered under the hard bondage of Egyptian darknesse But he hath seen the affliction of his seed and he hath heard the cry of it and he is come to relieve it So if ever ye will have the powerfull God to own you and honour you Beware of strengthening the hands of the wicked and the evill doers and of turning your sword against the innocent he is the same and he liveth for ever that hath said It were better that a Mill-stone were hanged about his neck and he cast into the Sea then to offend one of his little ones This word endureth for ever and will be fulfilled every jot and tittle though men make light of it and doe not see the Weight nor the Depth of it But when their day of calamity comes then will they see what is due unto that which hath offended this which God so highly prizeth Therefore as ye love your soules and your eternal peace beware what ye doe now ye are in place and Authority and now ye have power to act for God if ye keep your hearts upright unto him he will direct you And if your faces be towards Sion he will teach you of his wayes that ye may walk in his paths which will be out of the paths of the broad way that leads to destruction which all that went before you have walked in And that ye may be preserved out of the snares of the sowler which the wicked one layes for those that are in place of Authority as you are in is even the desire of my soule And if your hearts be not corrupt ye will be preserved For out of the heart proceeds evill thoughts Murder and Adultery Thefts false witnesse and Blasphemies these are the things which defiles the man That which cometh out of a man defileth him not that which entereth into him Read that neare and consider it seriously for there is a great weight in those words So keep to the just principle of God in you that which keeps you clean out of advantages out of time-serving and men-pleasing so may ye escape the Polutions that they fell into that went before you And the God of all power give you to see and understand that his righteousnesse he will exalt in this his day And oh that ye could believe in your hearts and confesse with your mouthes that Jesus Christ is raised from the dead then should ye be saved from the transgressing against the just For with the heart man believeth unto righteousnesse and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is borne of God and every one that loveth him that ●●●at● loveth him that is begotten of him marke this and read this neare So if ye love God which hath begot love that which is begotten of him in you and this will keep you out of transgression and out of persecution and out of sinne and evill and teach you to be a terrour to the evill doers not a terrour to the good but a praise to them that doth well And to this Word and Power Eternall and Immortall I commit and command you which is able to save your soules who in his time he shall shew who is the blessed and onely Potentate the King of Kings and Lord of Lords who onely hath immortality dwelling in the light which no man can approach who no man hath seen nor can see to whom be Honour and Power everlasting AMEN See 1 Timothy 6.15 16. Written the 13. of the eighth Moneth in the yeare accounted 1659. From a true lover of true Peace and Righteousness which is coming to rule for he hath taken upon him his great power and therefore the Nations are angry MARGRET FELL LONDON Printed for Thomas Simmons at the Bull and Mouth near Aldersgate 1659.