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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	word_n	worship_n	write_a	103	3	10.1854	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A70008	A few words to all who professe themselves to be of the Protestant religion whereby they may understand by what spirit they were led, that persecuted the people of God in former ages, for the exercise of their religion, and their tenderness of conscience in matters relating to the worship of God : with a few words of comfort to the suffering lambes / written by him that would have the greatest of persecutors to repent, and cease to do evil, and learn to do well, that so they might escape the judgments of the Lord, F.E.	F. E. (Francis Ellington)	1665 (1665)	Wing E542; ESTC R15982	13,725	20

A FEW WORDS TO ALL Who Professe Themselves to be OF THE Protestant Religion WHEREBY They may understand by what Spirit they were led that Persecuted the People of God in former Ages for the Exercise of their Religion and their Tenderness of Conscience in matters Relateing to the Worship of God With a few Words of Comfort to the Suffering Lambes Written by him that would have the greatest of Persecutors to Repent and cease to do Evil and learn to do Well that so they might escape the Judgments of the Lord. F. E. We unto them that decree unrighteous decrees and that write grievousness which they have-prescribed To turn aside the needy from judgment and to take away the right from the poor of my people that Widows may be their prey c. Isai 10.1 2. Surely there is no inchantment against Jacob neither is there any 〈◊〉 against Israel nor weapon formed that can prosper 〈◊〉 23.23 Printed in the Year 1665. A few Words to all c. THe people of the Lord who you in scorn call Quakers may in this day truly say as David said that you and other Plowers have plowed a long time upon our backs and made deep Furrowes but now is the time coming that the righteous God will hew your snares asunder therefore fear and dread our God for he is come in ten thousands of his Saints to judge the World of ungodly Men and to rebuke all the ungodly amongst them for all their ungodly deeds and hard speeches against him and for this cause and no other have you in this day as well as those Rulers that our God cast out before you risen up against us in persecuting imprisoning beating with Armed Souldiers stocking stoning fining and shamefully abusing an innocent harmless people who have in patience suffered under you and them ever since the Lord came to raign in us but now you have got to the heighth of your persecution and not much higher our God will suffer you to goe nor he never did any when they grew to that heighth of wickedness and cruelty that now you are come unto for the Lord hath suffered Persecuters to plow long upon his peoples backs that so he might try and exercise his peoples faith and patience as he hath suffered those before you and now hath suffered you but when plowing upon their backs would not satisfie them as beating fining and imprisoning of them but they would get a law or Decree made to root out banish or to kill and destroy the whole Seed of righteous Israel and to boast as Pharaoh and his Hoast did * Exod. 15.9 I will pursue I will overtake them I will divide the spoyle my lust shall be satisfied upon them I will draw my sword my hand shall destroy them or I will banish them out of my Land except they will worship according as I shall command them I say when ever Persecutors came to this stature in wickedness then their time was near an end and deliverance near to the persecuted The first that came to this stature in wickednesse was Cain who was the elder Brother of all Persecuters his punishment for killing his righteous brother about Religion was greater then he was able to bear as himself confessed Genesis the 4. Read the sin of the old World Genesis 6. 11. The Earth also or the old World was corrupt before God for the Earth was filled with violence or cruelty Persecution is cruelty and for this the Lord swept away the World of ungodly and they perished in the Waters but saved righteous Noah the persecuted alive in the Ark with his Family And read Exodus how wicked Pharaoh oppressed Israel a long time Exod. 5.6 7 8 9 10 11 12. but when the Lord sent his servant Moses to be their Conducter and Leader out of his house of bondage then Pharaoh oppressed them more when they desired to goe sacrifice to the Lord their God then he said the peopleare idle let them have no more Straw given them but let then goe and gather it where they can find it yet said he to the Officers let them diminish nothing of their dayes works but let them make their whole Taile of Brick as formetly so the Officers came and beat them and threatned them and they cryed unto the Lord and the Lord heard the cry of the afflicted and he delivered them and sent his plagues upon Pharaoh and upon his Land and People so that at length he let Israel goe but as soon as they were gone out from him Pharaoh came to that stature of wickedness both he and his people as the Persecuters in England are at this day and they consented to pursue and to destroy them at once they would rid the Land of them but the Lord delivered Israel and that which delivered them was the destruction of Pharaoh and all his Host Exodus 14. Now Moses wrote afterwards that the Lord would raise his people up a Prophet like unto him Deut. 18.15 from amongst their brethren and him they should hear in all things and according to his prophesie the Lord hath raised up this Prophet is the midst of us the Light Christ Jesus and he hath enlightned us and the Lord hath sent him to be our guide and Conducter out of spiritual Egipt where formerly he was crucifyed And now we may call to remembrance the dayes that are passed as the Apostle wrote Heb. 10.32 33. that after Christ Jesus the light came unto us and we received the Light how we have indured a great fight in affliction and as it were in Egipe after Moses was sent of the Lord to lead his people forth so it hath been with us ever since we received the Light the Prophet Moses wrote of how have our Persecutors oppressed us and in no wife they will yield that we shall sacrifice to the Lord our God as Christ Jesus the Light in us shall direct us and they have far exceeded Pharaoh and his Task-masters in cruelty towards us though we are free-born and Israel were strangers as instance Pharaohs bondage to Israel was chiefly to the outward man in oppressing of them with hard labour now if our Task-masters would but doe so to us and not oppresse our consciences we should look upon them to be merciful men if they would let us labour for our livelyhood for our Wives and little Infants in the Land of our Nativity but they will not but cast us and some of our Wives and Children into nasty stinking holes and dungeons and there for their pleasure keep us from labouring either for our selves or for to get Bred for our Families and lay great penalties upon the cruel Goalers that we may have no liberty to goe abroad not so much as to breath in the Ayre neither allow any of us one farthing of Allowance to keep us alive within their stone walls and yet as Pharaoh lay heavier Taxes upon us to pay then ever and