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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
religion_n	worship_n	worship_v	worshipper_n	161	3	11.1629	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A27119	An arrow shot against Babylon out of Josephs bow which grew up from the stem of Jesse ... and this is a visitation and warning (once more) from God unto all such rulers, teachers, and people in England who are, or may be persecutors about religion and worship that they may yet flee out of Babylon ... the great whore (which hath set upon nations and reigned over the kings of the earth) that they may partake no longer of her sins ... and this may serve as a glass for all false Christendom to behold themselves ... / by William Bayly.	Bayly, William, d. 1675.	1663 (1663)	Wing B1518; ESTC R25910	22,002	29

you judge of us we have no other end in all our meetings together but to wait upon our God that we might know his Will and be guided and directed into all truth by his Spirit which he hath sent into our hearts and in it to worship and serve him all the days of our life and here we find the narrow way and strair Gate which leads into the Paradice of God even to the eternal life but broad is the way and wide is the Gate that leads to destruction according to the words of our dear elder Brother Christ Jesus for we having but turned our faces from the Earth toward the Garden of God our true resting-place but immediately our Brethren the first-born of Adam in transgression like Cain do rise up in wrath to smite us by whom we are greatly abused imprisoned and oppressed who will not go in this narrow passage themselves nor suffer them that would and in as much as in them lieth they strive to hide the key of true knowledge from their Brethren and would not have them seek that City which hath foundations whose Builder and Maker is God in which only is the eternal salvation peace and quietness of the souls of the children of men Heb. 11.10 Surely this must needs be of the old Serpent the beguiler oppressor and destroyer of Mankind and of the great Whore the Mother of Harlots even the same which beguiled and deceived tempted and led them out of the Paradice of God's counsel and presence in which is joy and peace for evermore even the Murtherer from the beginning which killed the just and let the mind into the Earth and its delights pleasures and vanities which comes to an end Therefore the Cross must be taken up which the second Adam taught us daily to the earthly affections things of this World in which the Prince of darkness ruleth for it is but a Cross not of Wood Stone Gold or Silver but the pure Power of God by which the World and the things thereof are become dead and crucified unto us and we unto them even such a Cross that the earthly minded are enemies to who can set up and wear the Cross of Wood Silver and Gold which is of the Earth like them that make them and wear them but this crucifies the World and all that is in the World is the lust of the flesh the lust of the eye and the pride of life and the whole World lies in wickedness so this crucifies the wickedness slays the enmity which your Crosses of Wood and Stone never did but you have been in enmity about them and such things and yet are in the lust and pride enmity and wickedness stumbling at the Cross in which the Saints glory is for by this are the Kings bound in Chains and the nobles in fetters of iron even Lord Esau and all the Princes of Ishmael and Dukes of Edom Esau's stock and the Devil is King over all the Children of Pride Read this and tremble all you whose state this is for it is not your talk of God and Christ and of his Cross that will at all avail you while you stick fast in the driven-out-state in which you are separated from the enjoyment of his life and presence and not returning to the Rock from whence we were hewen the tryed everlasting foundation which is laid in Sion by which every mans Works Words Professions and Religions must be tryed and made manifest of vvhat sort it is For by this Line of true Judgement he that says he vvorships God or loves God and yet hates his Brother is found a lyar and vve knovv that all lyars are shut out of his Heavenly Kingdom and must have their portion in the Luke that burneth vvith the heavy displeasure of God Rev. 21 8. Therefore I pray you brethren be you novv vvell advised in vvhat you do act or speak and consider the end of these things your ovvn state as to God-vvard for as for us vve are but strangers in the Earth as our Fathers vvere now vve are avvake the glory of it is but like a dream vvithout substance or satisfaction to the immortal soul vve novv perceive what the captivity of Babylon is and the Whore vvhich hath sate and reigned over all Nations and Kings of the Earth and vvhat that night and sleep vvas in vvhich the Enemy came and sovved tares among the good Seed in the field for vve being returned toward the Land of the living following the Light of Israel the promises of our heavenly Father are fulfilling unto us where he said They shall return and discern between the precious and the vile between him that serveth God and him that serveth him not between him that sweareth and him that feareth an Oath c. and I will return unto them a pure Language and they shall worship me with one consent This the Lord is fulfilling among us whom he hath gathered out of the many unclean Languages and false Worships and vain Religions the Whores Dommions to worship him in the Spirit and in the Truth for such only he seeketh and they are the true Worshippers John 4.23 24. Now I question not but you have heard how Cain offered sacrifie and yet smote and slew his brother Abel whose blood cryed from the ground against him for vengeance may you not read this somewhat near consider it and God had no respect to his offering who slew his brother but unto his offering who was the sufferer God had respect as he hath at this day who saith To this man will I look who is poor and of a contrite Spirit and trembleth at my word These things and the ground of them you might perceive if you were but truly awakened from the deep sleep of sin and death and the pleasures thereof which are but for a season however the Trump of God is sounding which shall ere long awaken you to judgement then shall you see how you have striven against the love and mercies of God and slighted the day of your visitation from on high and have fought against God's Witness and Witnesses to keep them in the perpetual Babylonish captivity and Egyptian bondage and darkness Be not deceived any longer neither flatter with your selves for we are not blind nor mad or in ignorance and error as you have supposed believed and reported through which you have reproached and greatly abused us and strengthened the hands of evil-doers and cruelty against us without cause but we are truly awakened by the voice of the Son of God who hath opened our ears and understandings and that eye which the Serpent the god of the World had blinded and now we see and know that if any man love the World or the things of the World the Love of the Father is not in him let him profess what he will The Scribes and Pharisees could say much could say We have one Father even God and we are Abraham's Seed

AN ARROVV SHOT AGAINST BABYLON OUT OF Josephs Bow Which grew up from the stem of Jesse the Root and Off-spring of David and was bent by the Archer of Israel which hath struck at Cains mark from Paradice into the Land of Nod and hath lighted in the skirts of the great Whore to the discovering the Mother or original of Harlots and all Abominations of the Earth tracing her in her footsteps with all her Companions and Merchants the Beast Dragon and false Prophet by the blood of the Prophets and Saints and of all that were slain upon the Earth And also pursuing her from her birth or the Serpents hole out of which she came to her latter end which is the bottomless pit or Lake of Fire into which she must return And this is a Visitation and Warning once more from God unto all such Rulers Teachers and people in England who are or may be persecutors about Religion and VVorship that they may yet flee out of Babylon mystery Babylon the great VVhore which hath set upon Nations and reigned over the King of the earth that they may partake no longer of her sins lest they partake of her perpetual plagues which cometh swiftly upon her in one day With a few questions concerning the Devil and Cain and the Whore and the Dragon and the Beast and false Prophet whence they came and where they are and how they may be known and whither they must all go together in the end And this may serve as a Glass for all false Christendom to behold themselves and try their ways and see what Spirit and Church they are of and whose children they are if ye were Abrahams children ye would do the works of Abraham By WILLIAM BAYLY Put your selves in array against Babylon round about all ye that bend the Bow shoot at her spare no arrows for she hath sinned against the Lord Jer 50.14 For thy Merchants were the great men of the earth for by thy sorceries were all Nations deceived in her was found the blood of the Prophets of saints and of all that were slain upon the earth Rev. 18.23 24. LONDON Printed in the Year 1663. An Arrow shot against Babylon c. IN the beginning before transgression man was in Paradice the Garden of God made in his own image and likeness and was in unity and peace with him in the innocent meek tender holy upright life in which he was formed in which state he stood with God as a Child with a Father or as a Wife with a Husband without variance distance or enmity between them and God's blessings was upon them in this their innocent lowly obedient state till at length another spirit got an entrance by desiring or letting the desire go out after the eye to be more knowing and wise in the mysteries of the outward Creation and visible things c. which soon captivated the tender simple upright mind and beguiled it from its own proper life and being in which it was made a living soul for they did not only taste but eat and that brought the death over them as it is written Gen. 2.17 for they entred into a secret false joy of what they had attained to and a satisfaction they got in the sensual wisdom and knowledge of things and so grew conceited that they were as Gods knowing good and evil c. And so through this aspiring spirit or motion which began to spring up in their minds a secret strife or enmity began to arise between the innocent life and it for there was a contrariety between them but they eat of the Tree of Knowledge which beguil'd them from the Tree of Life in the midst of the Paradice of God This was Adam's fall going outward with his mind from the guidance rule and dominion of the innocent upright Life by which he was made a living soul feeding in the aspectings and viewings of the visible things the mysterie and secrets of which was hid from him in that Life from which he was departed and he only could retain but strong imaginations of them which pust him up so now he became a griever and an oppressor of God's good Spirit and it became a reprover and troubler of him by reason of his disobedience against it and departure from it and he was now afraid of God's voice having done that which was contrary to him and then to get peace he sewed fig-leaves to make themselves coverings but all would not do while the Tree of knowledge is fed upon which was good in its place but forbidden to feed upon because it beguiled from the Tree of Life being pleasant to the eye and desirable to make one wise c. and the World by Wisdom knows not God so by it they lost the knowledge and unity and peace of God and were driven into the Earth and shut out of the Paradice of God and became vailed in the enmity pride and pleasures of the Earthly or sensual part which followed that aspiring motion of the subtil Serpent or Adulterer that led out from God like the Harlot Solomon speaks of that was subtil of heart whom the young man followed as an Ox to the slaughter and as a fool to the correction of the Stocks and knew not that it was for his life and that her paths led to the Chambers of death and her steps take hold of Hell this is the thing Adam was very young and the Harlot subtil so was deceived for the one enticed and the other consented and followed not knowing it was for his life though God had said he should surely dye but this Tempter led out the mind from the sence of the good man of the House with her Bed of pleasures and delights and with enticing vvords she forced him but the end was bitter as Wormwood as hath been known by woful experience for here was the first carrying away captive into Babylon the Mysterie of which the outward vvas but a figure and the first draught of the Whores Cup of Fornication was novv drunk by vvhich the just innocent life suffered as one might say even in the Womb and in Cain and Abel the tvvo Seeds or Spirits were clearly manifest the one in pride fury enmity murther drinking his brothers blood and the other the sufferer by him in the patience vvhose blood had a voice that cryed unto God from the ground and yet it 's said of Babylon that in her is found the blood of the Martyrs and Prophets and of all the Saints that have been slain upon the Earth then Cain was in Babylon which is now called the Great Whore and the controversie between Cain and Abel was about Sacrifice and Worship this hath spread even the Spirit of Whoredoms Enmity and Wickedness over the World and Cains Mark hath been apparent among multitudes peoples tongues and languages killing and persecuting about Religion and Worship This is the great Whore which hath sate upon many Waters reigned over the