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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
love_n	friend_n	glorious_a	great_a	250	4	2.1119	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A54225	Tender counsel and advice by way of epistle to all those who are sensible of their day of visitation and who have received the call of the Lord by the light and spirit of His Son in their hearts to partake of the great salvation, wherever scattered throughout the world : faith, hope and charity which overcome the world be multiplied among you / by William Penn.	Penn, William, 1644-1718.	1695 (1695)	Wing P1377; ESTC R28424	17,575	47

TENDER Counsel and Advice By Way of EPISTLE To all those who are Sensible of their DAY of VISITATION And who have Received the Call of the Lord By the Light and Spirit of his SON in their Hearts to partake of the Great Salvation wherever scattered throughout the World Faith Hope and Charity which overcome the World be multiplied among you By William Penn. The Second Edition LONDON Printed and Sold by T. Sowle near the Meeting-house in White-Hart-Court in Gracious-Street 1695. TENDER Counsel and Advice By Way of EPISTLE To all those who are sensible of the DAY of their Visitation c. My Dearly Beloved Friends WHO are sensible of the Day of your Visitation by the Light of the Lord Jesus in your Hearts and who have gladly received the holy Testimony thereof by which you have beheld the great Apostasy that is in the World from the Life Power and Spirit of God and the gross Degeneracy that is amongst those called Christians from the Purity Self-denial and holy Example of Christ Jesus and his Primitive Followers and how Pride Lust and Vanity reign and how Christendom is become a Cage of Vnclean Birds Who have mourned under the sence thereof and have cried in your Souls How long how long how long O Lord God holy and true will it be ere thou takest to thy self thy great power and reignest To whom the World is become a burden and the Vanities and Glory of it but vexation of Spirit Who despise the things that are seen which are Temporal for the sake of the things that are not seen which are Eternal Whose Eyes look through and beyond Time and Mortality to that Eternal City whose Builder and Maker is God Whose daily Cries and Travails are to follow Jesus in the way of Regeneration to live as Pilgrims in this World for the sake of that Glory which shall hereafter be revealed that can never fade away that you may attain unto the Eternal Rest of God To you my dear Friends to you it is that the God and Father of him that was dead and is alive and liveth for evermore Christ Jesus the faithful and true Witness who hath loved and visited my Soul hath now moved upon my Spirit to write and visit you with this Epistle Receive it then and with it the endeared Salutation of that Love and Life which are not of this World but overcome the World Great and frequent are my Travails for you that you may persevere and not faint but endure to the end that you may obtain that glorious Salvation and Redemption that is in Christ Jesus Yea for this are my Knees bended before the God of the Spirits of all Flesh that you may be entirely kept that you may so run as you may obtain and so fight as you may overcome that an Immortal Crown and Kingdom may be your Portion when all Sins and Sorrows shall be done away And that this you may do hear my Exhortation to you in the Spirit of Truth Dwell in the sense that God hath begotten in your Hearts by the Light and Spirit of his Son who is now in his Son in you reconciling you unto himself Watch that this blessed sense be preserved in you and it will preserve you For where the holy sense is lost Profession even of the highest Truths cannot preserve against the Enemies Assaults but the Gates of Hell will prevail against them and the Enemy's Darts will wound them and they will be carried again Captive by the Power of his Temptations Wherefore I say again live and abide in that Light and Life which hath visited you and begotten an holy sense in your Hearts and which hath made Sin exceeding sinful to you and you weary and heavy-laden under the burden of it And hath raised in you a Spiritual Travail Hunger and Thirst after your Saviour that he might deliver you that ye might be filled with the Righteousness of his Kingdom that is without end Dear Friends God hath breathed the Breath of Life in you and in measure you live for dead Men and Women do not Hear or Hunger or Thirst neither do they feel Weights and Burdens as you do The Day of the Lord is dawned upon you and it burneth as an Oven you know it and all Works of Iniquity are as Stubble before it You feel it so they cannot stand before the Lord His Judgments take hold of them and consume them O love his Judgments that with those of Old you may say In the way of thy Judgments O Lord have we waited for thee the desire of our Soul is to thy Name and to the remembrance of thee With our Souls have we desired thee in the Night yea with our Spirits within us will we seek thee early For when thy Judgments are in the Earth the Inhabitants of the World will learn righteousness Part part with all My dear Friends that is for Judgment let him arise in your Hearts that his and your Enemys may be scattered That you may witness Him to be stronger in you then he that is in the World If the desire of your Soul be to his Name and the remembrance of him you will love his Judgments and abide there the days he alloweth for your purification Behold his blessed Visitation is upon you His Angel hath Saluted you and his holy Spirit hath overshadowed you he hath begotten holy desires in you I pray that they may never be extinguisht and that you may never faint Wherefore look to Jesus that is the Author that he may be the Finisher I Testify for God he has appeared to you yea he hath said to you as to Andrew Philip c. follow me And I say unto you follow him Come and see where he dwelleth do not lose Sight of him let him be lifted up in you and your Eye be to him Who whereever he is lifted up draweth all such after him And this is the reason why People are not now drawn after Christ because he is not lifted up in their Hearts he is not exalted in their Souls he is Rejected Opprest Crucified and Buried yea they have Rowled a Stone upon him and set Guards that he should not rise in them to Judge them But blessed are you whose Eyes have seen one of the days of the Son of Man Blessed are you at whose Doors he hath knocked to whose Heart he hath appeared who have received his holy Visitation who believe it is he and not another and therefore have said in your Hearts with Nathaniel of old thou art the Son of God thou art the King of Israel and with Thomas my Lord and my God O what have you my dear Friends to do but to keep with him for ever For whither should you go the words of Eternal Life dwell with him He is full of Grace and full of Truth and of his Fulness ye have received Grace for Grace And this is that Grace which bringeth Salvation to all that receive it

your victorious Leader All these things are for your good that proud Flesh may be debased and that the Soul may be redeemed Wherefore bear the hand of the Lord whom he loveth he Chastneth his Anger lasteth not for ever but his Mercys endure for ever Shrink not from the pure operations of his holy word let it divide asunder betwen the Soul and Spirit the Joynts and Marrow in you suffer your right Hands to be Cut off and your right Eyes to be pluck'd out that do offend let not the pain scare you O bear the pure searchings of this Heavenly word Yea if your minds be stay'd in it you will find it to be a word of Patience which will keep you for all Virtue is in it Keep it and be still It is good said one of Old that a Man should both hope and quietly wait for the Salvation of God Yea it it is good for a Man that he bear the Yoak in his youth this is your youth and such an one sitteth alone and keepeth Silence because he hath born it upon him Ah blessed are they that bear this holy Yoak who are come to this Silence who Dye daily that not they but Christ may Live and Rule in them therefore hear him and take up his Cross and follow him Follow him keep him Company he hath beaten the Path and trode the Way start not aside at his Cup neither shun his Baptism Go with him to Caiaphas to Pilate and to the Cross dye with him to the World and you shall rise with him unto Life Eternal Honour Glory and Immortality are at the end of this Holy Race O that you may run it with Chearfulness and Perseverance But this is not the utmost Strategem of the Enemy he hath yet a more plausible and a more dangerous Device wherewith to destroy the holy Sense that God hath quickened where he seeth these Temptations resisted and that he cannot hinder a Religious Work in the Soul by any of his Baits taken from the things that are seen and that is his drawing you into Imaginations of God and Christ and Religion and into Religious Duties not in God's way or time nor with Christ's Spirit Here he is transformed into the Appearance of an Angel of Light and would seem Religious now a Saint yea a Leader into Religion so that he may but keep him out of his Office whose right it is to teach prepare enable and lead his Children with his holy Power and Spirit Yea if he can but keep the Creature 's Will alive he knoweth there is a ground for him to work upon a place that he can enter and in which his Seed will grow If this Will of Man standing he knoweth that the Will of God cannot be done on Earth as it is done in Heaven O this Will is God's Enemy yea the Soul's Enemy and all Will-worship ariseth hence Yea it is the Off-spring of the Serpent and of the Will of Man and it can never please God Let all beware of this God is a Spirit and he will be Worshipped in his own Spirit in his own Life The Worship of God standeth in the Will of God and is not brought forth of the Will of the Flesh or of the Will of Man Remember that the Word came not to Esau the First-birth the Hunter that stayed not at Home but to Jacob the plain Man he that dwelt in Tents to him came the Word of the Lord that dwelt in a still and quiet Habitation For in the true silence is God's Word heard into which the Hunting Nature of Esau the First-birth can never come It can never stand still and therefore it can never see the Salvation of God Against this Nature watch and know Jacob that inherits the Birth-right the Election of God though now a Worm to wrestle and prevail Then Worm Jacob is Israel a Prince to whom belongs the Statutes and the Ordinances The Word came to Jacob and the Statutes to Israel Here is Dominion Government Exaltation This is the Lot of Worm Jacob. Wait therefore till the Angel move upon the Waters before you step one step Are ye Followers of the Lamb that hath visited you the Captain of your Salvation Run not in your own Wills wait for his Word of Command do nothing of thy own Head and Contriving yet do all with diligence that he requireth Remember what became of them of Old that offered false Fire O stay till a Coal from his Holy Altar touch your Hearts and your Lips Jesus told his Mother at the Marriage in Cana in Galilee his time was not come He rejected the Will in her and staid till his time was come that is his Father's time in whose Hands are the Times and Seasons Whose Will he came to do and not his own Leaving us therein a Blessed Example that we should also follow his steps that is not to attempt to perform even things of God in our own Wills nor out of God's Season and Time which is the best For in his Seasons he is with us but in our own Seasons and Wills he withdraweth himself from us And this is the Cause that the Nations Worshippers have little sense of God in their Hearts and that their Priests cry out against inward Sense Lest the People should go alone and come to a more acceptible Worship My dear Friends as you would enjoy God's Presence Love and Life and be acceptable with him wait in his holy Light and Spirit that hath visited you against these strategems of Satan and Wake not your Beloved before his time Watch against the will that Instrument of Satan and Enemy of God's Glory and your own Comfort Let it be Bridled Subjected and kept under Christ's Yoak yea subdued that the will of God may be done in you and by you which bringeth glory to the Lord and Eternal peace to the Soul One Sigh rightly begotten out-weigheth a whole Volume of self-made Prayers For that which is born of Flesh is Flesh and reacheth not God's Kingdom he regardeth it not and all that is not born of the Spirit is Flesh But a Sigh or a Groan arising from a living Sense of God's work in the Heart it Pearceth the Clouds it entereth the Heavens yea the Living God heareth it his regard is to it and his Spirit helpeth the Infirmity He loveth that which is of himself and hath care over it though as Poor as worm Jacob. For the Crys of the Poor and the Sighings of the Needy will I arise saith the Lord The Poor in Spirit that hath parted with all that they may win Christ that need him only and Seek him above all Who have no helper in the Earth but have denied all earthly helps that he might bring and work their Salvation for them And as you are not to run in your own wills nor to offer up Sacrifices of your own preparing so have a care how you touch with those that do how you bow to their wills