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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	bear_v	witness_n	witness_v	5,982	5	9.3102	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A28227	A book of warnings, or, The visitation of the Lord's love to the King and his Parliament, the nobility and gentry, the arch-bishops and bishops &c., the presbytery, the Independents and Baptists, the people of these nations thorough [sic] his servant George Bishope.	Bishop, George, d. 1668.	1661 (1661)	Wing B2988; ESTC R18647	27,063	34

would have others do unto its self A Zeale there is in many of you and as to God and something in some of you which is sincere to him but your Zeal is not according to Knowledge for whilest ye go about things in the will of man ye cannot accomplish the Righteousness of God nor doth the sincerity alwayes guide you for then you would not hurt your principle which was once to suffer in making and in a mind that would make others to suffer nor comply to things against your Principle because of suffering For Truth is great and the Righteous is bold as a Lyon and the feeling of a true Witness of God in a Man carries thorough as he abides in it all that he shall meet with because of it and neither death nor life nor Angels nor Principalities nor Powers nor things present nor things to come nor height nor depth nor any other Creature shall be able to seperate between a man and it as he abides therewith and that which turns from it is seperate because in the Testimony of Truth there is the Love of God where the Love of God is it is in Christ Jesus and the Testimony of Jesus is the Spirit of Prophesie and that which witnesses prophesieth teacheth and it beareth witness to God in this World and to his Truth and that there is nothing greater than it or more to be desired yea it is more desirable than life and this is made manifest when life and all is laid down for it and this glorifies God and is a Confession of him before men as Christ himself made a good Confession before Pontius Pilate And he that confesses me before men him shall the Son of Man also confess before the Angels of God saith he and he that denieth me before men shall be denied before the Angels of God And to him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my Throne even as I also overcame and am sate down with my Father in his Throne And he that starts aside never Overcomes and he that doth not overcome cannot sit in the Throne But the fearful and the unbelieving and the abominable and Murderers and Whoremongers and Sorcerers and Idolaters and all Lyars shall have their part in the Lake which burneth with fire and brimstone which is the second death And because thou hast kept the Word of my patience I also will keep thee from the hour of Temptation which shall come upon all the World to try them that dwell upon the Earth Be still therefore and cool and come into consideration and heed that in you which shews ye what ye have done which shews ye all things that ever ye have done as ye heed it Is not this the Christ And let the time past be sufficient wherein ye have walked according to your own minds and the will of the Flesh which lusteth after envy and return to the Lord to the old state which kept ye tender to God and keeps ye still as ye keep unto it and made ye not to dare to do any thing against him and judged ye when ye so did and judges ye still as ye heed it when ye transgress it This this is the Way to God the Reproof of Wisdom is the way of Life and there is no other It 's from Christ Jesus the chief Shepherd and Bishop of your Souls said the Apostle unto whom ye Return when ye are turned from going astray which turns to him those who are turned from going astray which is that which turns from going astray For ye were as sheep going astray but are now returned to the Shepherd and Bishop of your Souls and when the chief Shepherd shall appear ye shall receive a Crown of Glory that fadeth not away said Peter to the strangers scattered throughout Pontus Galatia Cappadocia Asia and Bithina elect according to the fore knowledge of God the Father through sanctification of the Spirit unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus 1 Pet. 2. 25. And to the Elders that were amongst them who fed the Flock of God that was amongst them and took the oversight thereof not by constraint but willingly not for filthy lucre but of a ready mind neither as being Lords over God's Heritage but being Examples to the Flock Chap 5. Ver. 4. This said the holy Man of God Friends the tender Bowels of my Love is to that in you which suffers through all this heat and Lust and the Will and Wrath of Man This Doing that which ye would not be done unto this turning to and for and against this condemning your selves in the things that ye allow this building again the things that ye have destroyed this Violence to your Brother Jacob this rest less spirit any where but where you would your selves this contradictory spirit which is not of God which is meek and gentle and easie to be entreated which doth no wrong which suffers wrong which avengeth not it self whose is Vengeance and who will repay it Which when it suffers threatens not which when it is reviled reviles not again but commits it to him who judgeth righteously and this is the Spirit of Christ The Bowels of the Lord God is the same in me to you I am witness through the shedding abroad of whose Love in my heart to his Seed in you which suffers and in his moving I have written Who am Your Friend who truly desires your welfare in this world and that which is to come Geo. Bishope To the People called Independents and Baptists Friends YOU must come down to that which witnesseth in you which is the Cross of Christ the Power of God to salvation to as many as believe and not live above it and yet think in your hearts that Abraham is your Father for if Abraham were your Father you would do the deeds of Abraham said Christ to the Pharisees but in that ye seek to kill me a man which hath told ye the truth which I have heard of God this did not Abraham Now in that you obey not that which witnesseth in you nor believe in it you do not the deeds of Abraham for Abraham said he saw my day and rejoiced and before Abraham was I am Now in this Day he believed or he could not have seen it and his day he saw or he could not have rejoiced and his Deeds he did whose Day he saw or he could not have believed For I believed therefore I spake And I know Abraham that he will command his Children and his Houshold after him and they shall keep the way of the Lord to do Justice and Judgement that the Lord may bring upon Abraham that which he hath spoken of him and thou meetest him that rejoiceth and worketh righteousness So the Joy is in that which worketh righteousness and that which worketh righteousness is of Abraham and that which doth the deeds of Abraham seeth his day and rejoiceth and that killeth not nor seeks to kill