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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	appoint_v	year_n	zion_n	34	3	8.1985	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A47150	Help in time of need from the God of help to the people of the (so called) Church of Scotland, especially the once more zealous and professing, who have so shamefully degenerated and declined from that which their fathers the primitive Protestants attained unto ... / writ by George Keith, prisoner for the truth in Aberdeen in the latter end of the year 1664.	Keith, George, 1639?-1716.; Jaffray, Alexander, 1614-1673.	1665 (1665)	Wing K173; ESTC R36221	73,094	85

thy Inhabitants O Scotland from the Lord who yet remembers the kindness of thy youth and the love of thy espousals in former dayes and the tenderness and simplicity and uprightness of heart that was among many of you then with a pure zeal for his Name And oh what meltings and breathings of soul was after the living God! and nothing could satisfie but his living presence which also no doubt hath been in a measure by some enjoyed but oh how have ye forsaken your first love and turned down-right enemies against that which was once your very life and is the life of those ye are persecuting at this day and blaspheming to wit the revelation of the Light Life Power Love and Spirit of God in our souls which filleth us with heavenly comfort joy unspeakable and full of Glory Oh how have ye forsaken the fountain of living waters and digged to your selves broken Cesterns that can hold no water Return O back-sliding Scotland for this I do declare unto thee in the name of the Lord he hath yet thoughts of loving kindness unto thee and a seed there is in thee which is very dear and precious unto him and he cannot forget it more then the tender-hearted mother the fruit of her womb and though she should forget yet the Lord will not forget thee for thou art set as a seal upon his heart and writ upon the palms of his hands O thou beloved seed and he will give redemption unto thee and raise thee up out of the holes and caves of the earth where thou hast lain so long buried as in the grave and the Lord hath raised and is raising up his seed in some already who are a kind of first fruits unto him and he hath brought us to walk in the light of his countenance and rent the vails and given us to behold his lovely amiable face with joy and made us an entrance into the blessed Land of Promise and we have eat abundantly of the good of the Land and the finest of the wheat and honey out of the Rock hath been given unto us and we have drunk of the wine and tasted the Vine-grapes thereof and the Land is a good Land and though there be Giants and the sons of Amaleck in the way yet it is conquerable and we cannot but report well of it and God hath blessed our testimony and shall bless it to hundreds and thousands who yet are not able to hear us nor will they because of the anguish of soul under the hard yoak of Pharoah in the Land of Egypt and house of bondage but God will break and is breaking the yoak of oppression from off the neck of his seed and will give it victory and dominion over all And now blessed are they who know and hearken unto the joyfull sound of the everlasting Gospel which publisheth peace and bringeth good tydings of salvation and proclaimeth the acceptable year of the Lord and the day of vengeance of our God to comfort all that mourn to appoint unto them that mourn in Sion to give them beauty for ashes the oyle of joy for mourning the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness that they might be called trees of righteousness the planting of the Lord that he might be glorified And now O Scotland prize the day of thy visitation and know the things that belong to thy peace before they be hid from thine eyes and the day of grace sett upon thee and put away thy abominations out of the fight of the holy pure God which are matter of provocation unto him against thee And whereas thou hast often assayed a Reformation unto the Lord but it hath never come to be perfect and thorow and ye have been so far from going forward that ye have shrunk back and turned again with the dog to the vomit wherefore now at last return to the Lord with whom there is yet mercy and plenteous redemption and reform thoroughly unto him who will not receive halfes off your hands And now I will shew you councel from the Lord which I do declare in bowels of dear and tender love unto you what ye shall do in order to a cleanly perfect and through Reformation Above all mind the Light of Christ in your Consciences and heed it diligently in its motion and shinings forth thorough the darkness and as ye give obedience to it in what it reveals unto you for duty and shun what it discovers to be evil it will more and more arise and shine forth in pure transparent brightness from one degree of glory to another and lay hold upon the darkness to the dispelling of it and swallowing it up wholly in the womb of its brightness and the Light will shew you the foundation on which ye shall build Jesus Christ the Wisdom and Power of God and the Word of eternal Life the chief corner stone from which the Light comes and it leads to him and will bring you into acquaintance with him and the leadings and teachings of his Holy Spirit to which yee shall do well to keep Chast else the Serpent by his subtlety will again ensnare you and Mystery Babylon will bewitch you with the cup of her Fornications And oh your not keeping chast to the Lord hath often marred the work in your hands and if ye come not in the future to keep closely and chastly to him ye shall never prosper in any of your attempts and all shall be but lost labour And take up the cross to every thought desire imagination motion and affection of your own hearts and this will steer your course aright and guide your feet in every step and stay and ballance your minds and hold down every thing which would arise out of the wrong ground and the pure Light will shine forth in your minds thus stayed under the cross with glorious beams of brightness and sweetly manifest unto you all whatsoever the Lord requires of you and as ye must not be forward in running on without the leadings of Christ the head in you so be not backward nor slow in following after him nor sit down by the way saying in your selves thus far will we go and no further Oh this hath also been a snare unto you and mind the pure holy living power more then the form and wherever the power and Spirit of life doth not move or appear in the forme disown it and stand against it and whatever form or appearance the living power leads into or moves in be for it and own it and as ye come to live and walk in Gods fear it will beget more and more a discerning in you to know and feel the power and distinguish manifestly the dead dry and life-less form and appearance from the living and be willing to be searched as with Candles thoroughly and hide nothing which the Lord requires to be given up nor keep up any thing whatsoever that his controversie and indignation is against and rid you of

there succeeded a people who saw over these who compiled or rather Englished the Service-book and they disowned it as they did also all other set forms of Prayer and cryed them down as dead lifeless things and they were for a worship in Spirit thus is was but even of very late dayes in Queen Elizabeth and King Iames the sixth and such were nick-named by their enemies Puritans and they affirmed that the Spirit of the Lord was only to teach them to pray and worship and not any Book or Man whatsoever and were not set forms of Prayer cryed down also in Scotland as lifeless barren things and the service-Book denyed and now have ye not again licked up that vomit and through your Cities men set up mostly also scandalous in their conversations at such hours of the day or night to read a set form of Prayer and is there any material difference betwixt this and the Service-book And have not your brethren in England taken it up again and when it 's offered to you to read will ye not also do the like there is no question of it but most of you will and worse also when ye are put to the tryal and oh what a mysterie is it to you praying and singing in the Spirit are ye not become so impudent as to mock this also as I have oft witnessed my self when your Church-members hath been so shameless as to cry in the very streets at us when passing by When came the Spirit last upon you give us a Prayer from the Spirit And do ye not flatly deny praying and worshipping in Spirit who deny Enthusiasm which is to say being interpreted for it 's a Greek word the inspiration of the Spirit of God which is the only flame that kindles up holy 〈◊〉 in the soul after God and you who can prate and talk unto God without a Book in your Pulpits and chief places of the Synagogues and elsewhere in your own wills and times and in the wills and times of others from a rhetorical strain as if ye were complementing some great Prince your prayers are as life ' ess and spiritless as those said of the Mass-book and were ye come truly to the spirit of prayer ye would know a bridle to your tongues without which your Religion is but vain and that the Spirit of God which bloweth as well when and where it listeth is also as far from being limitted to set times as to set forms and we read not in the whole Scripture that the Lord hath appointed any set times of prayer under the Gospel to his people at all whose great and most important work is to wait the movings of the Spirit of Life from God at all times whether to pray or give thanks or to any other spiritual exercise and blessed are they who come hither for they shall know that it is not in vain to wait upon the Lord for we have waited patiently upon him and have witnessed and do witness the pourings forth of the spirit of Prayer and praise supplications and thanksgivings filling our hearts and souls night and day to the God of our life and true prayer is the gift of God which cometh not at all in mans will or time and therefore the season is to be waited for which God hath kept in his own hand and hath the key of the heart to open it when he pleaseth and the key into the house of prayer where is the throne of grace without access to which in the drawings of the Spirit-of life man hath no acceptation with God nor his service or worship all is but idolatry and abomination only such who come to God through the Mediator and Intercessor Christ the Life feeling the living drawings thereof in the particular are accepted of him and made joyful in the house of prayer and hath it not been the regret of some among you and may be yet when ye are in a sober mood that the spirit of prayer is much lost and a dry complementing of God come in the room thereof 3. Were not your fore-fathers the primitive Protestants and Reformers a separated people did not they disown the Popish Assemblies and their preaching and worship as idolatry and forsake it and did not those called Puritans both in England and Scotland separate themselves from the other party who stuck to the Service-book and other superstitions and did not the sober people in Scotland in the former times of Prelacy separate from the Prelatical Assemblies and their Conformists did they not meet apart and talked together of the work of God on their own hearts and worshipped God in Spirit and his blessing and presence was among them while they kept cha●t to him and mixed not with Idolaters Now have ye not apostatized herein also and mixed your selves in with the profane rabble of the world as bad and worse then Papists Turks Pagans which hath provoked the Lord to withdraw from among you and ye can pray and sing and communicate with such Is not this Babylon indeed which is to say Confusion and is not our separation from you also as justifiable as the separation of your fathers from Papists being we have found you to be of the same spirit and mostly of the same principles and practices with them and generally as wicked loose scandalous prophane and covetous and abounding with all manner of iniquity as they and are not all such Idolaters is not thee vetous man an Idolater whereas covetousness is idolatry as saith the Scripture and are not all Idolaters to be denyed as to any fellowship with them in worship and your fathers did not plead such dirty st●ff as you the Professors have learned now to do to shun the Cross for keeping the Popish and Prelatical party their Assemblies Service-book worship alledging That they sit in Moses chair and therefore are to be heard and we may like their good and leave their evil Such reasons prevailed not with your fathers nor ought they for the Christians come not at all to the Scribes and Pharisees who sit in Moses chair but meet apart unless to bear a testimony against them and bad men with all their good words can never edifie a soul in faith or true knowledge which is life eternal all they can do is to edifie in the notion and feed the wrong part and spirit which delights in the notion of truth and is satisfied in the notional knowledge out of the life and the finest truest words out of a bad mans mouth can never reach the seed of God either to the raising of it up or refreshing it but on the contrary burdens and kills as said the Apostle of the false Apostles who had the letter and were Ministers of it out of the Spirit and Power and the letter sayes he kills and so we have found it in our experience but these above-mentioned arguments have prevailed with you so that ye are herein also apostatized from them 4. 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