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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	work_n	world_n	worth_a	76	3	8.2483	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A94717	The foot out of the snare. Or, A restoration of the inhabitants of Zion into their place, after their bewildered and lost estate by the operation of a violent power, and authority, wrought in the author by the Prince of Darkness, under an appearance of the brightest light. Being a brief declaration of his entrance into that sect, called (by the name of) Quakers. With a short discourse relating what judgment he was learned in, by the ministry of those people. Together with the revelation of a spirit in himself. Also, what desperate delusions he was led into by yielding a subjection to the teachings of a seducing spirit in him under a shadow of the true light; and how this body of deceipt came to be destroyed. With the manner of his separation from them. / By me John Toldervy, then servant to Col. Webb.	Toldervy, John.	1655 (1655)	Wing T1767; Thomason E861_13; ESTC R206654	40,712	60

a Fire should be kindled now being confident I should effect the vvork yea had I been Master of the vvhole world I should have ventured all vvith a value of no vvorth upon the performance of this Deed having laid all things in their order as directed by that Spirit which moved me to the work I was moved to blow with my mouth but in short blow I did try one way then another way and blowed as strong that possible I could expecting still that from my Life the Lord there should heat proceed with my breath to the lightning of the fire but in the end not being able to effect the thing I was extreamly troubled that I the Christ of God should fail in the performance of the first miracle since so many miracles were wrought by him that was a figure of me Then went I private into the Cellar and there hearkned to within my self for a command from the Spirit in me to desire the apparitions which being given they were desired and so came Then was made known unto them how imperfect my performance was in that Service required of me Upon which was answered That I was not yet perfect but however it was the purpose of God that I should be serviceable in the healing of the lame the sick the blinde c. souls as Christ did heal the imperfect parts of the visible body and that all the visible miracles wrought by him did signifie what was to be effected miraculous in the invisible part of every man that should be saved by my Doctrine and so they departed Seldom a night after this for about a week but I staid up most part of all the night and divers strange things effected by me or those apparitions every night so that having destroyed the course of nature so much in not taking of rest that for a time following when I came to have liberty to rest I could not though never so desired Once when striving strugling mounting flinging and throwing in a contest against sleep I was immediately taken by the power of that Spirit in me and cast up against the wall and when setled upright and closed to the wall there was infused in me such a fresh supply of life like unto a mighty startle that all drowziness was destroyed and I was a fresh as could be The day following this night was the first day of the week so betimes in the morning I was moved to go to the place of our Meeting and there wait until the time of meeting and as it was usual not purposing to come home till the evening and also much necessitated I was moved to eat before I went so having cut a piece of Bread about a fourth part of a peny-loaf I began to eat but when having eaten about half I was commanded to eat no more but lay the rest by till the next day so it being undeniable by me I did obey and it was my food the following day Then did I make to the Meeting where I spent my time while the people were gathered together in which time as I was walking in the Garden a Fly flew in my face which thing being observed I was moved to examine what it should mean so by the counsel of this Spirit in me I was confidently perswaded that it was a Messenger from God the Life in him being believed to be of God and from that life was he moved to flie in my face by which was meant a giving me to understand something that was required of me by God From that time was I guided by Flyes in many things being very certain that they were moved by God in them to make known what was his will to me Then vvhen the Company came I vvas commanded to shevv a humility in me beyond any of theirs as Christ did shevv a humility in him beyond any of his Apostles Whereupon I vvas commanded to pull off my Band and then vvas I moved to make knovvn unto the people the order that God required in the Creation vvhich vvas to gatheir up the small sticks that vvere scattered in the Garden and lay them by themselves and the dry leaves that vvere under the Trees by themselves and the small stones that vvere scattered in the Walks by themselves and the pieces of Brick as I remember if not some such-like by themselves Now in the time of this service I gave over sometimes by the perswasion of divers Friends but when given over I should be commanded by the first Fly that I saw to the service again Afterwards being observed by one who was a Chief of us he came to me and took me by the hand perswading me to give over and go along with him and hear what was spoken by him that was speaking to the people so I gave over Then when the time of our being there was ended it was also required by him that I should go with him where he intended to spend his time till the Afternoon which I did but in the way as we were going I was mov'd to gather up stones as before and as I was gathering I saw two white round stones lie one by the other at which sight I was possessed with a confident belief by the information of this Spirit in me that those stones came from Heaven and it was given unto me to finde them then was my minde informed by that in me that the one signified Esau and the other Jacob so I was moved to throw the greatest of them away and onely preserve the lesser it was also given me to understand that this lesser did not onely signifie Iacob but the white Stone spoken of in the Revelations which was sent as a token from Christ in Heaven to me and so long as I kept that stone I had unity with God but if lost I should be dis-united So when we came to that place we intended to go which was a Garden-house we sate down in the Garden but after a time I was moved to do the former work again where I gathered up stones and coles sticks and broken corkes or what I saw scattered on the ground So by and by comes into the Garden one whom I much loved that was of us and looking him in the face I was confident in my self I saw death in him upon which as I remember I told him that he was accursed from God seeing of him much changed I was really perswaded by this Spirit in me that he had slain the Witness and there was no remedy he must die eternally the plagues of God would be poured forth upon him in this life and in the life to come A short time after this as I was at rest about mid-night in a slumber between sleep and wake I saw a vision of Spirits in the room by which I was startled exceedingly and sate up being strongly moved to rise but being much drowsie and desirous of more sleep I lay down again and fell asleep presently and then into a

Spirits by vvhom I vvas accompanied as though I had been a Spirit my self It may be observed That about this time it was so with me That what I looked upon I should be searching after knowledge in relation to it making enquiry the cause of its Being the way by which it came to have a Being c. For I was perswaded That the Knowledge of all things was to be Discovered and made known to me so that a while after my prying so much after Knowledge did infuse so much Spirit in me that I could not look upon any thing but I was tormented in my Spirit at the sight thereof and many times had such burnings in my Body as may be likened to the heat of live Coals by which for many nights I could not have the least rest Having refrained from Food about a day and a half I was moved though limited by the Spirit in me for a longer time to go and eare So having made a search for the like Food that usually I did eat and finding none but in the stead thereof a great Roast of Beef I was at a loss upon which there arose a great Contest in my Spirit what I should do said that Spirit which respected me for the satisfying of Nature Eate of the Beef said the other Spirit by which I was limited No I am the Lord said the former Nay but eate since there is no other there is a sufficient justification Whereupon the Case being well examined after a time Judgement was determined upon that Spirit by which I was limited So I did take and eat while satisfied with much moderation All which time being much disquieted and strongly moved to give over This Deed being now finished I went into the Hall where after two or three turns I sate down and casting my Eyes upwards I was taken with a strong Fancy that I saw Heaven open from whence proceeded a great blast of Fire somwhat like unto Lightning at which sight being really perswaded it was a discovery of those Plagues which were to be poured forth upon me because of the former Disobedience I was struck down by that power in me as though a dead thing had fallen upon which immediately there was an extream burning within me like unto the heat of a fiery hot Furnace which remained a little more than about half a quarter of an hour About three hours following this there was a private Meeting of our People whither I was moved to go though much contrary to my Will but being in a great fear I durst not deny but went so after I had been there about half an hour I was moved by the power of that Spirit in me to shake which manner of shaking I had long waited for believing they were Effects in order to the rooting out and perfect destroying of that Being in me which was of the Devil So it being observed that I was moved to shake the Command was Give way which signified that I should not limit the Work of the Lord in me upon that which was for Condemnation so I gave way upon which the strength of that Spirit by which I was moved to shake grew so that what strength I had in me of my self was not in the least sufficient to subdue the workings of the other Spirit in and upon me whose power wrought so in me being spread like unto an infused substance into all Parts and Joynts of my Body that my whole Man was so shaken torn and rent that had I not by a great strength been enabled I could not have contained Also it did work in me as though I had taken a strong Purge by which I was clensed exceedingly in working forth of me an extream Foam So having fulfilled its Will it ceased of it self Now as the Air is rent by the fierceness of the Spirit by which is caused a hideous and ratling noise called Thunder and so the whole Heavens become clensed of all filthy vapours or corrupted substance naturally destructive to all Beings so was it believed that the corrupted Spirit in me was rent and torn by that Spirit which is my Life by which the Heavens in me was clensed Then was I possessed with these perswasions That this was one of those two Plagues which was to be poured forth upon me and that the occasion of this Plague was because of the denial of my Lord and Master in the presence of the Jewish Spirits in me out of respect to my own Liberty the satisfying of Nature with that Food which was disallowed After this as I remember the following night I was Commanded to stay up all that night and wait for Revelations but having refrained from sleep divers nights before I could not wait according to the requirings of the Spirit because of extream drouziness whereupon I made intercession to those Apparitions to take rest for that night so upon Promise of attending there the next night I had liberty but going up stairs a voyce spake in me and willed me to go down but then I supposed it to be from one of the Spirits which I left behind me in the Room so out of great fear I was enjoyned to stay up all that night and durst not sleep but wait for Revelations and having waited a short time I could not possibly refrain longer from rest then was I perswaded to go against the Will of the Spirit in me but in going it spake again and Commanded me to go in the Shop which I did and having waited there about half an hour wrestling strongly against sleep I moved of my self to go up again into the Chamber but going up stairs another voyce spake behind me and Commanded me to return back again then was I Commanded by that in me to lie down and humble my self for I had Blasphemed which I did wallowing and tumbling upon the ground Then heard I another voyce saying Nicodemus is in thee the betrayer of Christ in the night Then sorrow struck me to the very heart and I was extreamly troubled so after I had layen about an hours time upon the ground I was moved by that Being in me to rise but as I was rising I was commanded to lie down again Anon after I was moved to rise as before but when rising I was commanded to lie still and so by contradictions of this Spirit in me was I thus acted divers times in the end it was pleased to raise me on my Feet it self moving and guiding of my Body by its own power like as before So this night being spent I was in the morning commanded to light a Fire with dead Coals and Sticks that a Miracle might be made known to be wrought by me being really perswaded that like as Fire did proceed from the Lord upon the Altar in the sight of Moses Aaron and the Children of Israel So from the Lord in me should there proceed that Vertue vvhich should infuse a heat into those Coals and Sticks by vvhich