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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	call_v	father_n	son_n	22,994	5	6.0917	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A40328	The breathings of true love from the immortal seed in the prisoner for the Lord, unto his people.	Fox, George, d. 1661.	1660 (1660)	Wing F1995; ESTC R28019	8,619	10

The breathings of true Love from the Immortal Seed in the Prisoner for the Lord unto his People DEar Friends Brethren and Sisters in the Light called to be a people loved of God the Father in the Lord Iesus Christ Grace Love and Peace be multiplied amongst you through the abundant manifestation of the Spirit of Life proceeding from the Father and the Son My Children and beloved Friends the God of all truth hath appeared unto you in the everlasting Covenant of light and life visiting you in an acceptable day and time making known unto you his eternal Truth by the revelation of his mighty power in your mortal bodies whereby he brought you indeed to feel and know the miserable estate and condition that ye were in and he hath also given you to see him upon whom help is laid and you have received him who is the salvation of God through the drawings of his mighty power and you are brought to know and believe that salvation is not to be had in another yea many of you have received the Covenant of God and do indeed know that your sins are washed away in the blood thereof for you have the witness in your selves and the word of reconciliation is selt and known in your hearts whereby abundance of peace and joy unspeakable is witnessed and the Kingdom is come of which there is no end and some of you are placed together therein in Christ Iesus and many others of you the called of the Lord are travelling thitherwards through the righteous Iudgements of the Lord in the spiritual warsare and in the faith and patience of the Lambe Now my Friends be you stedfast in the truth of God received you have been a suffering people most of the time since the Lord hath brought you in any measure into the obedience of his glorious Truth and Gospel which is the power of God and you who have abode in his fear and singly given up to his will you have mightily been preserved and you have felt the hand of a tender Father upholding you and giving you peace and content when you have lost much of this world and the honour and pleasures thereof for his names sake Oh Friends He hath not been wanting unto you he hath seen your sufferings and hath looked upon your afflictions and hath ministred strength proportionable thereunto that you might not faint nor be weary Oh! let not his mercies and fatherly care and loving kindness be forgotten by any of you but let them for ever be had in remembrance so shall the reward be witnessed Now Friends the Lord hath suffered a Cloud a Mist as it were to spread it self in these Nations whereby an evil favour is gone forth which by fire must be taken away in which he will yet further try his people that they may be as gold separated clearly from the dross and that they may indeed be truly gathered redeemed from the earth and all earthly things and that they may wholly look unto him for deliverance and know that he indeed is the alone refuge hiding place in the day of distress Therfore let all who knows the power of God retire inward and watch in the light of the Lambe that you may seel the movings of the life in your own vessels and be kept in obedience to its drawings and leadings in this day of tryall temptation and darknesse which is spreading it self for a moment mark that least any of you be scattered for the enemies work is and will be to seek to draw you from your strength and true guide which where he attains it great will be the sorrow and loss of such Therefore my dearly beloved friends who have tasted how good the Lord is in the tender bowels of Christ I beseech you be servent in love to God and one towards another and be watchful in the Light and therein watch one over another and strengthen and comfort and encourage and build up one another in the work and service of the Lord And if any through the temptation of the enemy hath at any time spoken or done any wrong to another even as God in Christ forgave you so freely forgive ye one another and be ye plain hearted one to another and be ye reconciled in that which destroys all prejudice and purges out all hard thoughts that so the unity may be witnessed in that love which thinks no evil and the one Head and Master over all submitted unto and let the gathering be unto him alone that so the blessing may be multiplied in and amongst you unto the glory and praise of him that gives the encrease And be diligent in meeting together whilst you may in the name and power of the Lord and be watchful in the measure of the life of God that you may feel your strength renewed and increased in the inward man For Friends this is a day which will try every ones strength therefore dwell in the power in which the true gathering is that ye may not scatter abroad for he that gathers not scatters abroad and he that goes from the drawings of the power gathers not Now Friends as ye keep in the drawings and springings of the invisible life ye will be knit together in one life and there will be no striving who shall be greatest but every one will be serving the Lord in their several places and measures and one another in love and as this is abode in the weak in somethings and at sometimes may help the strong and the stronger in other things may help the weak Oh Friends be as Children of one Father dwelling in innocency and love together helping one another Be ye indeed as members of one body knowing that the nourishment to the several members thereof comes from one head and considering that every member hath not the same office yet of exceeding service as each moves and acts in true love to the body and therefore ought to be born and owned in their respective places and if any member would act any thing that might hurt the body or any part of it either through being out of the sence what is of service to the body or otherwise then if another member or members be made sensible of the same it or they are bound in love to the body to seek to hinder the same and in tender love to restore the erring member that so the body may be kept in true order and every member seeking the good one of another Oh Friends consider how the members even of the true natural body serve one another in love how does one cover another how does one bear and strain and labour for the good of each other to help one another and how much more ought these things to abound in the spirituall body of which Christ is the head And now that which chiefly lies upon me at present to you is this That ye all in the feeling of the pure Life and power of God