Selected quad for the lemma: love_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
love_n	know_v	love_v	see_v	15,121	5	3.6465	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A60651	A short testimony on the behalf of truths innocency declared in plainesse and simplicity : being done at the command of the Lord God that all out of the truth may see their way and proceed no further : vvith a discovery of the national ministry, whose time now is, and is no more / by one who loves truth and rightousnesse and desires the nations peace, and the good of all people, who amongst many brethren is called a Quaker, but known by the name of William Smith.	Smith, William, d. 1673.	1660 (1660)	Wing S4328; ESTC R15197	12,349	16

your time in your hand so you can run with the times and turn with the times and what the times are you are the same in shew this is your own time and now it is Behold it passeth away and is no more for God is dividing the times and raising his own Seed in his own time which in your time you cannot comprehend How have you limitted the holy One in your observing times you have had your time so much in your own hand that you have forgotten the Lord whose power is unlimited and his time unchangeable and you have brought forth your own Inventions in your own time and have set them up for Doctrine and Worship and you have not regarded Gods time which is in his own hand so he is not to be found amongst you nor in your time but hath left you and departed from you and you are become like a barren Wildernesse and a wilde Forest where Bryars and Thorns grow and if any cannot observe your times then you take hold like briars and tears them and strikes like a thorne into their side and this is the Spirit of Presecution that reigns in you O ye National Ministry there is sufficient witnesses against you who are oppressed by you in the Prisons this day into which you have caused them to be haled and torn with your briars and where you prick them with your thornes and is not this your Work at this day When will you be weary of it you perverse men of Corrupt minds who are after earthly things acting against God and his People for filthy lucre sake And for this end you can be any thing in shew and turne with all times that your Gain from your Quarter may be upheld to you but the Lord is uncovering you to your shame for ever though your Time seem now to be for the Lord is against you and his controversie is with you and all that strive to uphold you and you must all fall together and there shall be none to delivery on out of his hands And thus you have served the times thorow all the Changings and Turnings and now you have it but it is no more You sigh deep and draw your breath from far for that which is out of time is come to reign over you and you are now striving for your life not being willing to die what a time have you and what a life do you live Consider it in the fear of God and let your Envie and Malice cease towards those that cannot uphold the things in which your time and life is What is it you would doe in your time Would you build your Nests so high that the Lord may not see you Or would you inclose your selves with Cedars that he may not find you out Declare what is in your minds to the Nations that People may be satisfied concerning you How do you manifest your selves to be of the wicked One who with a secret breath blows the Coals until they kindle and break out into flames and all this hath been done in your own time which makes you manifest to be of Cains Race and in the Wolves Nature for the day hath declared you and nothing can cover you from the all-seeing Eye of God but your inward parts is opened and an ill savour arises from you and all your Merchandize is become loathsome to the Upright in heart and they cannot buy them any more Therefore behold where you are and what is the place of your Rest for Babylon must be destroyed and all her Merchants must be spoyled and you must not be spared who are found in the midst of her for the Lord God is strong that Judgeth her and he will dash all her Brats against the stones and burne her with fire and you that favour her shall then Mourn for her and you that have taken up your Rest in her Lap and partakes with her of her sins you must partake of her Plagues and destruction will come upon you in one day and a Hiding place you will not find This is from the Lord God unto you that you may come out of Babylon and Trade no longer in her nor drink no more of the Wine of her Fornication nor do not cause others to drink of the Cup of her Abomination But all be still in your minds and wait to know the measure of God in you that the Light of Christ which doth enlighten you may be your Guide that your Eyes may be opened and all your confusion discovered unto you that you may see your way and come to Repentance for you are not fit to be Teachers of others while Envy and malice remains in your hearts and while you are Time-servers and Men-pleasers and loves your pleasures more than God You are not like Christs Ministers who knows the love of God in Christ shed abroad in their hearts and in his love are constrained to serve him and to deny all for him Therefore come out of Babylon and keep not People any longer in her with your Inchantments and Sorceries with which you deceive but come to the light of Christ with which you are enlightened that his power you may know to crucifie the proud Nature in which you live so will you come to a good understanding of the things that belongs to your peace and know the Lords time in his own hand and his own arm that perfects his own work to his own praise and do not strive against God nor fret not your selves when he appears but walk like sober men and let every man stand in his freedom that he hath in God in which he answers a good Conscience unto God and be content with such maintenance as they are free to allow you and give over forcing and compelling suing and imprisoning those that are not of you nor cannot joyn with you for Conscience sake for that is not the practice of Christs Ministers neither is there any Scripture on your side by which you can prove your practise warrantable but it arises from the Beast and the Whore which gives life to the false Prophet who must all be taken alive and cast into the Lake where the worm never dies nor the fire is not quenched and their carkases shall be an abhorring to all flesh and their time shall be no more THE END

unreasonable men So in faithfulnesse we stand approved to God and is manifest to the measure of God in you all and before the Lord we stand Innocent neither seeking nor striving after any thing but the glory of God and the good of all people and we do not deny any thing in the truth therefore we are hated without cause nor we cannot own any thing out of the Truth therefore our sufferings are not grievous to us though we be kiled all the day long and counted as sheep for the slaughter and the eyes of all are upon us for evil yet we are preserved by an invisible power and our hearts are enlarged and our Tongues are unloosed to magnifie the God of our Salvation Therefore take warning all people and do not withstand Truth any longer nor proceed no further in your enmity against an innocent people for your folly will be made manifest if you go on in your way and still continue the yoke and the burdens upon us and have it in your hearts to spoil and persecute us who cannot for conscience sake submit to your customs nor allow your practises which arises from your own inventions So from high to low consider and what is past let it be sufficient and let it not be in your hearts to proceed any further in your wills against the Innocent that God may divert his judgements which will certainly fall upon your heads if you go on in your wickednesse and there will be no escaping the fiery wrath of the Almighty Let this warning reach unto you and take place in you all people that you may dread before the Lord and he that hath done wickedly do so no more and who doth intend any evil towards us let it not abide within you but cast out your evil thoughts and entertain them no longer and let not your Tongues be so perverse but know the bridle for them that you may not speak unadvisedly as many have done who have called light darknesse and Truth delusion and so have reviled and scorned us who are by the light guided and in the truth walk and let your moderation appear to all men that you may do unto others as you would have others to do unto you for you make such measure as you would not have measured unto you again so you are not come to the Law and the Prophets therefore your way is not good nor to be proceeded in any further but it is to be denied and cast off and departed from So be stayed in time and all mind the things that belong to your places and let him that Rules mind his place rule with diligence and make sweet wholsom Laws for the government of Nations that people therein may be protected from injury violence or any wrong and be ordered in peace and dwell in safty every man in his place and that sin may be cut down which does so much abound and all evil doers restrained from their evil wayes and the well doers encouraged in their holy walking that so true Judgement and Equity may abound in the Nations and Truth and Righteousnesse may Run among the people as a mighty stream and let him that serves serve with carefulnesse and mind his place that he run not beyond his Power and so pervert the issuing forth of wholsome Laws in their right course and turn them into a corrupted chanel Therefore let him that serves be careful that he stretch not himself beyond his line as many in the Servants place do at this day who act both beyond Law and contrary to the Law and so neither regards God nor man Let this be all denied and mind your-places in singlenesse that you may perform them with carefulnesse as unto God that both He that Rules and he that serves may be subject to the Higher Power which is of God and know that to be over all Powers that none may enter into his work or meddle with those things that are too high for you as many have done who have busied themselves and spent much time but never could perfect any thing but have been over turned and over-whelmed and none could be found to uphold them and this is the Work of the Lord and the out-stretched Arm of his Power that does all these things who appears to be the Salvation of a People that trust in him and to over-turn all those that conspire against them How did he deliver Daniel out of the Lions Den and Mordecay and the scattered Jews from the wickednesse intended against them and Shedrack Mesheck and Abednego out of the flames of the furnace and from the wrath of Babylons King And this is our God on whom we wait and whom we serve and worship and our eye is towards him and our expectations from him and his hand is not shortned towards us neither doth he fail us therefore our hearts are filled with joy and our tongues with praises and our spirits rest in hope for God hath made his Tabernacle with us and dwels among us and he is our God and we are his People in Truth and Righteousnesse O ye dear Children of Light whom God hath gathered in this day of his compassion and counts you worthy to suffer for His Name sake rejoyce and be glad for great is your Reward Lift up your heads in the strength of the Lord and walk in the power of his might that you may be preserved by him in faithfulnesse to him that the Crown you may receive which no man can take from you O let your souls rejoyce in him and all that is within you praise his Holy Name for there is none like unto him who is over all Gods and over all Kings sitting upon his Throne and judging right Let all bow before him and be subject to his Power that in peace we may lie down together and in rest be established by the Arm of his Salvation for evermore O thou Holy Righteous Seed thy day is come thy day is come thou Holy One thou art the Lamb thy day is come and victory thou wilt obtain thy Power is known that makes us rejoyce in Thee Thou art the King of Glory over all we are subject unto Thee and with one accord we praise thy Name and our voice we lift up to Thee Thou hast Redemed us and we are thine and in thy love we are overcome to thee Thou art the undefiled One and what we are we are in thee Thou art our life and we live in thee Thou glorious Birth we have been thy star and we worship thee and present unto thee a living sacrifice of holy praises everlasting glory and endlesse dominion for ever and ever O ye Ministers of England and Nations afar off your time now is and is no more you are not upright before God but are seeking your selves and are double-minded men you serve the times and not the Lord and you turn amongst the changeable things every man after his owne way having