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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
soul_n	death_n	sin_n	sting_n	4,673	5	12.3740	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A27228	Crums of comfort for the mournful babe of hope from one that condoleth the distresse of the daughter of Sion ...	R. B.	1664 (1664)	Wing B165; ESTC R27201	20,626	24

in the ear preached on the house top but until he appear to be my life I must suffer with him waiting for a further manifestation of his glory and the appearance of the Son of God therein And so for reports alass thou canst not but know more of thy self in the root and ground of things and that to the light and heart-searching spirit art come than men can have to accuse thee and now being come to know nothing by thy self yet thou art not thereby justified what therefore is in this more than to manifest the frame and temper of such spirits that yet have a root of the same hidden that in thee hath broken forth and thou art therefore like to come first to the day of healing for their covering and false healing is the same that was thine and thus have they been daubing and are daubed with untempered morter as thou wert in that the same that hath been upbraiding when it is displeased will flatter when it is pleased and is it that is flattered deceiving and being deceived Therefore whatever they threaten and wait to see concerning thee wish not the same to them no not in thy heart because of him that seeth its secrets but wait on the Lord for preservation and the end of that spirits wo●k thou shalt see manifest before thee and shalt be made able to judge of it And then as to thy state thou wilt see there is no need of a second offering or attonement for the offering is through the eternal Spirit once for all and the atonement for ever perfecting in the sanctified life and in thy going from that Spirit and the sence therein and thereof begotten the life of God hath been brought into a suffering state and to be afresh crucified which thou being again returned to and with the Spirit that manifesteth the cause thereof come into unity feelest the atonement make● and the atonement making to be for ever then what the many offerings under the Law of works where was the blood of Bulls Goats of a year old sprinklings of an Heifer could not do in that they make nothing perfect ●s pertaining to the Conscience thou being come to that which manifesteth the nature that the Bull was a figure of and also the Goat at left hand that being offered up and slain on the Crosse all sufferance to the Lamb that went before for a peace-offering and is the atonement maker ceaseth and so the offering is but one and once for all that being offered to God which his Spirit hath begotten and wrought and the kindling and inflaming being of that nature and so no false fire put into thy Sensure Object 2. All this I confesse very true to my condition concerning the cause and ground of the apostasie and back-sliding and falling away from the truth of God in the prodigality of that mind a part and nature in the creature that could not be content to trust the Father withall and to have the portion in his hands and now I plainly see that the Apostate and Backslider and Prodigal is not so much such a Sect or Opinion and Perswasion and People of such a different Judgement from me though I confesse in these different Perswasions some are more deeply tainted with this apostatizing spirit than other-some as the spirit and nature of a part in all that hath backsliden from the Law and Commandements of God and in the adulteration of that mind hath been caused the breach that is yet standing between God and his Creture untill the spirit of atonement and reconciliation be so received and adhered to that it make up all again And seeing thou art not in Pauls state of unconversion from the ignorance of a blind zeal that persecuted and spoke evil of that he knew not when concerning the Law he could say he was blamelesse yet was one at whose feet was laid the garments of the witnesses neither art crying Lo here or Lo there or I am of Paul or Apollo c. but art found comforting the Babe and partaking with the afflicted in their way and as one that hath passed through the state and condition I am in and that would not have sin and wickedness countenanced under any pretence whatever but the creature of God pityed in every state betrayed under the enemies power and yet the Axe of God layed to the root of the tree and the root of the matter relating to the cause and ground of the apostasie and backsliding from the truth of God seen into that it may be removed and taken out of the way of God utterly the conditions of many being concerned herein I further query how and when it came in and how it may be removed again perfectly seeing it is generally the voyce and cry of the world it came in but just now and that the deceiver entred but as in their dayes and yet excuse themselves of his entring of them that they may lay the burden heavy on others Answ The first Apostate was old Adam that went from the guidance and government of the Spirit of God and as all have taken a nature and part from him who was of the earth earthly and as was the earthly so are they that are earthly though he was made a living soul nevertheless the soul that sinned having dyed in the day he eat of the forbidden fruit and so death having past over all from Adam c. all are to wait again for and in the power of the second Adam a quickning spirit and yet as to the first man as he was and is a natural man he was betrayed under and into this state and is not properly reckoned for the sinner and offender and transgress●r as to the natural part further than creatures in it are so joyned and united to the cause thereof that they neglect the work of that and him who gives the sight of the misery of such state and so in the end comes to sleight and dis-regard the remedy out of it for the mistery of iniquity that hath wrought and yet works in the hearts of many opp●sers of the work of the Spirit of Truth there is spiritual wickednesse in high places so that though death came on the bodyes of all as by one man that sinned they have taken a nature and part from for the souls sake that is immortal whom the tribulation and anguish hath rested on as a death that came by reason and means of sin yet the feeling of a remedy to the one to wit the soul once relapsed and fallen under the power of a second death is through the begettings and working up of a faith in the spirit of him that endured the one for the conquering the dominion and power of both Thus is there a man of sin or man by whom came sin whom God will destroy by the breath of his lips and nostrils and brightnesse of his appearance with an everlasting destruction and yet not properly the first

though his begrutchings and grumblings at me are alwayes with this exclamation Thou knowest I never went out of the house as hath this prodigall and played such pranks as he but have abode alwayes at home and now must the best robe be fetched down for him and must there be the musick for him and the fatted calf killed when didst thou ever thus for me Thus is the repiner at the Fathers will and good pleasure a dayly burden to my soul for it came into my heart to return to my father and to say Father I have sinned against heaven and against thee and am no more worthy to be called thy son make me as one of thy hired servants considering that in my fathers hous● was many servants and they had bread enough and I a son did want and finding his love and forgiveness beyond compare as much was forgiven me so I cannot but love much and therefore the father being found falling on my neck and kissing me and crying out This my son was lost and he is found he was dead and he is alive the whole earth is disquieted at the matter And he that was a Jew outwardly and was broken off for the reconciling of the world whose receiving in again should be as life from the dead hath been found nothing at all differing from the Gentile that had the outward Court given into his hands to trample on and now hath been found exercising authority and Lordship over the flock and heritage of God that would boast it self against the branches as though he bare the roote and not the roote him for the Lyon being come forth of the thickets and the destroyer of the Gentile on his way one is found that hath again perswaded Japhet to dwell in the Tents of Shem though once it was sayd Who shall And this hath broken down the wall and here is neither Jew nor Greek c. but the Lyon lyes down with the Lamb and gives up the day to him as he hath had his day so that while the wrath is kindled but a little there is a trusting in him and a kissing the Son least he be angry and the Sun go down in wrath and because of this blessed the whole earth is amazed as such that call to the rocks and mountains to fall on them and hide and cover them from the wrath of the Lamb in that flying from a Lyon that was in their way a Bare hath met them and laying their hands and leaning on a wall a Cockatrice hath bitten them and that which might have been killed and trampled on in the Egg is now become a fiery flying Serpent And what now shall I sing but oh the Lambs day here is no need of Sun by day nor Moon by night but the Lamb is the light of the glorious City which is as the light of seven dayes and is Lord of Lords and King of Kings and the Government is on his shoulders that hath brought on a mountain where none can hurt and destroy so that greater is the glory of the latter house then the glory of the first in which the grumbler is found as that which 〈◊〉 never went out of but is the outward Court only the Gentile hath troden under foot And how doth my soul sing to see this day in that greater is he that is in us than he that is in the world that doth hate and persecute us and hath spoken all manner of evil against us for the name-sake of God though once we were our own and went whither we would but now we are bought with a price and another girds us and carries us where we would not and all the wayes of sin and wickedness we hate with a perfect hatred and count it worse than poyson to the body whatever we have been and fly from it more than from a Lyon And this is my living testimony before a heart-searching God that I would rather presently and immediately dye and be stricken with the wound of a bitter enemy than in my self or any one else wittingly and willingly countenance any thing a known sin against the Spirit of God it being my burden to look back on what I have offended him in Therefore now will I sing a song of my well beloved of the salvation of my God from his own work that doth praise him in my heart who is to me my all my King that in a time of need to me deliverance did bring that from all hurt my soul redeemed and from the sting of death of grave of hell of bitter pangs when enemies without and within did hunt to catch my feet in snares and sought to wound the precious life of what in love rebounds to God in thanks above all mortals reach Oh he doth still support that keeps me fresh to live to love and love to praise his name that doth surround while I abound and still it s he is my enough that fills my cup that sweetens all he is my Physitian my stay my staff of bread of water my rock my song that empties that fills that makes poor that makes rich that kills that makes alive that is to me a Garden enclosed a watered bank a fountain sealed from the robbers reach I am lost and again am found in him I mourn and then I sing because I am full and yet cannot have too much of him and this I seal with life with blood with cross that hath a Crown because my crown is lost it is cast down in that which frontils high did never deny could never withstand for it 's in breast and not in tongue nor yet a hand an empty hand oh no! it 's that which can command and yet I chuse that I may refuse what love would abuse and make that grow cold which makes me so bold in what doth with-hold in boasting above the measure of love that purely doth move to kiss and imbrace the lips of that face whose heart doth grace the virgins eye that can espy who is so nigh to bless a Troop that now can stoop to hear my voyce that doth rejoyce The Babe Postscript IF curious eyes or subtill wits would judge what here I write They first must lose what I have done and that will give them sight Into the order I behold that is not grac'd with art But doth be fool and then make wise to learn another part Then that which leaves a roade for fools to taunt in verse or rhime As though to voyce they se et would make that he may go betime That coming forth so soon is lamed and then its hard to find The minds right way to be received in what it s made thus blind First crost then lost till up in view all 's brought That blinds the minde that seeks to finde out such a work is wrought Which shews the cause why peace is lost with God and then with man And while its loved can't be removed let wit do what it can For who can say that this I was but I can yet say more That once was courted for my wit which each Sects did adore Both high and low both poor and rich the small and eke the great In many cases made me Judge when I refus'd the seat But I seek now a servants place and yet am oft controul'd Because through love I chuse a life that durst not self imbold As sure do those that once I thought possest a better place Than I can see them keep or hold to make their name a grace And therefore since I this have los● what more have I to lose That once was clipt about in armes of such that me did chuse Before the Nobles of the earth that sure were left behinde To chuse what I had chosen first which they could never finde Yea in the lap of favour was a knee where I was dandled How ever roughly I am us'd and coursely I am handled But now cast down I hath my Crown and count it all but dross That once seem'd gold for to behold though dung it s made my cross Crossed crowned renowned and all in one and in that one is all That keeps me safe on ground to walk while climbers take a fall Ah blessed God! be thou my guide and keep me to thy praise And thou shalt have both heart and minde given up to thee alwayes R. B. THE END