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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	wage_n	4,853	5	11.4614	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A27083	A true and faithful warning unto the people and inhabitants of Bristol and unto the rulers, priests, and people of England ... that they might prepare to meet the Lord ... / ... Charles Baily.	Bayley, Charles.	1663 (1663)	Wing B1473D; ESTC R16496	30,294	42

some of these Papers might come to the hands of those who may in like manner be inflictors of such misery upon others that so if there be but any remorse or place of repentance left in them that they may yet repent of their evill for it is very great for though the man whom I served was approved and received a Member of an Independant Church in those parts yet he was unconverted as to the Lord which shewed their light and discerning but little worth for indeed I never saw any change or alteration in the man at all But I shall return unto the thing intended by me which is to speak of the goodnesse and love of God unto my soul that so all those who might be like-minded with me might not come to despair in any condition whatsoever they may fall into if they do but love and fear the Lord he will bring them out of the sixth trouble and also the seaventh in the end For when I was out or this hard servitude I could not for all that return to or own that dark and devilish worship whatever did become of me for then I was come to a riper understanding and growth both in years and knowledge in which I saw and confessed unto a hand of Divine Justice against that people and also to a hand of Divine providence in bringing me there where I heard and understood both outward and inward that the Sword of the Lord was drawn against the wicked in this Nation of England and also I did observe in that day how that the Parliament party did and would most of all prevail because that there was something raised up in them against the grosse Popery and Idolatry and wickednesse which was then on soot in the Nation which thing was the cause I did indeed mostly affect them then beyond any other people though they were called Puritans in derision But in a short time the chiefest of those people who were amongst us lost their first integrity soon especially when the Lords hand had given their Brethren great rest and victory from their enemies and so soon turned that little liberty they had gotten to a wrong end and made use of it as an occasion to the flesh by which means they became as much in bondage as ever every one seeking his own and not anothers good which thing I did in that day observe though few knew that it was so with me but outwardly I did in that day frequent and indeed loved those most who were the most honest amongst men But it being so in the main that nothing but rioting drinking singing and dancing was amongst the best of men I knew not what to do but to be one of them which I judged better of the two than to return unto the Romish stuff for my very soul did abhor it therefore I did rather choose to labour with my hands and so get my bread with painfulnesse than to return or make my self known unto my nearest relations any way for I said in my heart their sorrow is over concerning me But in the midst of all this my soul in secret did mourn after a holy life of love but could not see it born up in any living amongst whom I did converse or had any thing to do with And as in relation to my own condition I did often lament it in secret and would often say unto the Lord Hast thou created me thus to destroy me for I saw how that I was still ingrievous bondage unto sin and lead thereunto at the Devils will and I felt in my self how that the wages of sin was death because of the terrours of the Lord that came upon my soul by the reason of it and whilest that I was in this state my grief was more than could be uttered or indeed seen by any for I would often seem to do away sorrow with laughter lightnesse and vanity yet still in the very midst of all this I continued seeking in my heart a man of love or a people in whom one might put confidence which thing I was drawn unto by the good which was of God in my own heart and as God did raise it me so in the end he did answer it to me outwardly by sending one of his dear servants into those parts whose name was Elizabeth Harris who soon answered that which was breathing after God in me by which means I came with many more to be informed in the way and truth of God having a seal in my heart and soul of the truth of her message which indeed I had long waited for And then when I had found this beloved life and people I was like a man over-joyed in my heart not onely because that I heard that God had raised up such a people in England but also because I saw the sudden fruits and effects of it both in my own heart and in others insomuch that in a short time we became all to be as one entire family of love and were drawn together in his life which was his light in us to wait upon him in the stillnesse and quietnesse of our spirits like so many people which desired nothing but the pure teachings of Gods Spirit in which we were often refreshed together and one in another And when this I had found and clearly understood how that that which judged me and condemned my soul for sin from my youth up untill that day I say when I came to see that this was the very way to God I was as a man that had found that which his soul loved and then had I had ten thousand Crowns I could have laid them all down at the feet of them who then went forth to declare such good and glad tidings of peace and good-will which was freely extended unto all the Sons of men then happy man was I if that I could but have served or have been any way serviceable unto such of those who went forth to declare who were ministring servants in the hand of the Lord to us whose pure life I loved and honoured in them above all and then I was not onely made willing to have forsaken father or mother and all outward Inheritance and favour of men but also to have laid down my life for the Lords sake such was the love that was raised in me that I had rather have been a Prisoner with the deepest sufferer in the greatest sorrow and counted it more happinesse so to be than with the Princes of this world in their greatest joy and dignity And this was of the Lords own begetting in me though few saw it then And this I can tell thee Reader whoever thou art by true experience that if thou find but such a thing in thee which bringeth a remorse upon thee by reason of sin and draweth thy heart into tendernesse and pitty unto the oppression and captivity which is upon all creatures which they lye under by reason of sin in which and by which

into Tophet where the breath of his nostrils shall for ever kindle up the unquenchable fire of your endlesse torments except ye repent with speed the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it and it shall surely and shortly come to passe in a time and hour when you shall not be aware of it for as the lightning comes from the East and swiftly passeth unto the West so shall the day of your destruction be except you amend Amend therefore and cease preaching unto others until you come your selves to be converted and changed from that corrupt cursed nature of wickednesse which lodgeth within you O ye hypocrites are you not or at least may you not be asham'd to get into a high place amongst people and speak against sin and iniquity seeing you your selves are not purged from it May not that saying be justly turned upon you which the Apostle Paul spake saying Vnexcusable art thou O man whosoever thou art that judgeth seeing that no man was to judg another whilst he himself was guilty of the same thing O ye deceitful workers first pluck out the beam out of your own eyes and then may you come for to see the clearer in others conditions Until then this is a sure and certain warning unto you all to cease from the evil of your wayes and repent for as sure as God lives if you go on in your stiff-neckednesse and hard-heartednesse against him his righteous Judgments will assuredly overtake you And this I have written as one that feareth the Lord and trembleth at his word in which I cannot respect the persons of any but must reprove the sins of all whether in Kings Princes Rulers or Judges Priests or people of what sort or condition soever that thereby they may take warning and repent O England England many have been thy Warnings and precious have been thy Visitations to those who have prized them and glorious hath been the day of Gods love unto those Who have believed our report and to whom the Arm of the Lord hath been revealed which hath led them out of darknesse into his marvelous light therein to live and to walk safe out of the snare of the crafty Fowler hireling Priest and deceivers which thou O England hast embraced as it were anew after thy long day of blood sorrow and anguish O consider this O ye Heads of the Nation to what end and purpose did the Lord empty the power of this Nation from vessel to vessel and from man to man was it think ye that it should settle again in this bogg and reliques of confused Popery nay surely nay this was not the end of the Lord concerning thee but his end and purpose concerning thee was and is that the Son of his own bosome should be raised over all in thee to Reign as he hath appointed and decreed which decree is impossible to be altered or changed but shall and must be accomplished not only in this Nation but over all Nations and in all Nations and people of the earth shall this his glorious work be compleatly finished for he hath sworn by himself saying it shall be so that he shall reign over all the Kingdomes of the world forasmuch as I have appointed him to be heir of all things both in Heaven and Earth They that have an ear let them hear and blessed will be that eye which seeth and that heart which understandeth the things which belong to their everlasting peace before they be hid from their eyes and there be no place found for their Repentance And this I shall further say in the Spirit of the Lord concerning thee O England what the Lord intended should be thy lot 't was that thou shouldest be the first fruit unto God in this latter day that so thou mightst become a glorious example unto other Nations giving light unto them who yet sat in darknesse and in the Region and shadow of death that such I say might have received light from the glorious Sun of righteousnesse which the Lord raised in the midst of thee in thousands and this the Lord hath already in measure done Glory be to him for ever O! might not my soul take up a Lamentation over a foolish people saying O how are your hearts becom blind O inhabitants of England in whom the voyce of the Turtle is plentifully heard as in the Spring time after this dry long Winter which hath been in thee amongst whom it is on every hand said and confessed that the Lord liveth who hath brought his Seed out of the North and caused the beauty of its life to appear surpassing the glory and beauty of this present world And plentifully hath the word of his own life been declared and is still spoken forth in thee and yet for all this like an inchanted people ye turn your backs upon it and fly unto your hireling Priests whereas thou mightst have received the word of the Lord plentifully and freely at the hands of his precious Servants then wouldst thou have no need of the teachings of men nor to have gone into the Idol Masse-houses there to have taken the words of David and others to have sung but in the Spirit of the Lord ye would have all been gathered by it through which ye would have been ever praising the Lord in the land of the living Neither would you have needed to have gone to your Priests to have taken bread and wine at their polluted hands which feedeth but the natural and will corrupt but you would have been come to the High-Priest and Shepherd of your souls and have received living bread at his hands as your daily food and nourishment O England might not well my soul say that thou hast changed beauty for ashes and hast chosen chaff instead of wheat so that instead of well set hair thou hast baldnesse for if it were not so thou neededst not to have gone to the Idol-houses now for to hear a compounded parcel of words called Common Prayer read by a wicked man but instead thereof thou hadst been filled with the Spirit of Prayer and Supplication which the Lord would have showred down upon thee without measure which thing some few who are despised in thee do witnesse to the everlasting comfort of their immortal souls And also thou mightst have had a free Ministry instead of hirelings even you who might have fed on living bread at the Table of the Lord instead of taking it at your Communion-Tables which the Popes ordained for you who might have been baptised with the Holy Ghost and with fire by which ye would have been cleansed who might have walked in the light of the Lord instead of walking in the dim sparks of your own kindling who might have been satisfied with Gods presence instead of being enquiring in your minds where and what God is who might have been purged washed and made clean from sin by the blood of the Lamb instead of a vain hope as you are in now that