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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	call_v	heart_n	lord_n	6,578	5	3.5923	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A78632	Cains off-spring demonstrated, as by their works they are discovered in a bitter persecution against the Lords people at Newark Upon Trent, in the county of Nottingham: being here truly related as it was suffered and executed at two several meetings. / Published for the truths sake, by those whom the proud in heart calls Quakers.		1659 (1659)	Wing C209; ESTC R229339	6,498	8

Cains Off-spring DEMONSTRATED As by their Works they are Discovered in a bitter Persecution against the Lords People AT NEWARK Upon TRENT in the County of NOTTINGHAM Being here truly Related as it was Suffered and Executed at Two several Meetings Published for the Truths sake by those whom the proud in Heart calls QVAKERS IT being so Ordered by the Lord that a clear way was opened and a place obtained for the Lords People to meet in at Newark freedom was given from the Lord to appoint a time to meet together and upon the 7th day of the 9th Month 1659. being the second day of the Week a Meeting was ordered in Gods wisdom and the Lords People came up to it at whose appearance in the Town the rude multitude gathered in the streets and stood filled with envy and made a great noise with shouting for a long time until most Friends were come together And being met in the Name of the Lord and waiting in his fear the Word of Life was declared by William Dewsbery the Servant of the Lord in which time the rude people gathered into the Meeting and the wicked one appeared in them and much rudeness was committed by them for a long time together yet through all was the Word of Life preached and supplication made unto the Lord in Prayer by his servant in which time some bloud was spilt by the hands of the wicked and then an envious man got behind him and ran violently upon him to throw him down from the Table where he stood and others stood ready to lay hands upon him to pull him away and got hold of his garment and rent it but the Lord delivered him out of their hands and in all this time none in Government appeared to order the people in peace only one Christopher Wilson an Alderman in the Town came into the Meeting and at his first coming in he did a little rebuke some of them but after he departed which was in a little time they were heightned in their wickedness and did abide in much rudeness for a long time together and then the Lord appeared and brought them down that they stood in a pretty stillness until the Lords Servant had born forth his Testimony in the power of his spirit and the Meeting broke up in pretty order so after a season of time the bowels of Compassion opened towards the people again and another Meeting was appointed at the same place the Keeper of the House whose Name is Thomas Ailsby being free thereunto and it was ordered upon the 11th day of the 10th Month 1659. being the first day of the Week at which time the Lord brought many of his People together who in his fear waiting a ministration was given in his power and the Truth of God was declared for a season of time but the Enmity grew so strong in the wicked who then was gathered together that the flame kindled in their brest and suddenly brake forth into flames without that such things were thrown amongst us by them which in the mischief of their hearts they had invented as brake forth into violent burnings and one Thomas Heaps an Apothecary in the Town was chief in the Invention of this desparate wickedness and then the Lord moved and his Name was called upon in Prayer in the power of his spirit in which time one of those things was cast at the Friend who was Praying unto the Lord and it brake near unto his face with much violence that the Garments of Friends was much burned with the flames thereof but the Lord preserved their bodies that the flames had not power of them And after all this done and we still kept together in the fear of the Lord then they began to pull us down from our standings with much violence and such a Tumult was then made by them for a long time together as cannot be expressed some pulling us down and pushing us about others got upon the heads of Women and sate upon them others throwing Forms and Stools about to do mischief and others pulling off our Hats and casting them away so as some were lost After this came William Hobman called Mayor William Martin and Benjamine Wilson called Aldermen and when they came amongst the rude multitude the Mayor enquired of them where those were that made such a disturbance and asked what we did there and why we did not get us gone and why the man received us to his House And said to some Friends That if we would not be gone if they knockt us on the head we might take the mends on our own hands and then he and the Aldermen with him came to the door where we were in peace together and his eyes beheld us so Then at the door a Friend met him and told him That if he had the Government of that Place he was to order the people in peace To which the Mayor Replyed There was such a disturbance made and the Town was of such an Vproar that it was unpossible for any Magistrate in England to quiet them but he was come to protect us from them if then we would depart out of the Town So Answer was given him by a Friend That we were ordered thither by the Lord and as we had freedom in the Lord we should depart and it was the Lord that protected us whereupon the Mayor Replied We were a people that justified our selves It was Answered him That we denyed our selves and were justified by the Lord and if we were of the world the world would love its own The Mayor Replied He did not understand that but if we would then go He was there ready to protect us but if we would not we might take what followed How unlike was this man to the Ruler of the Synagogue who when Paul and others with him were ordered into the Synagogue they sent unto them saying Ye men and brethren if ye have any word of Exhortation for the people say on Acts. 13.15 They went into the Synagogue and this liberty was given them by the Rulers but the Ruler of Newark came unto us where we were in peace together and enquired what we did there and why we did not get us gone saying If they knockt us in the head we might take the mends on our own hands if we would not be gone Here was not liberty given for a word of Exhortation to be spoken unto the people nor liberty to abide but in danger to be knockt in the head This is a shame for a Ruler to be so void of understanding as to know his place no better So this Ruler departed and the Aldermen with him and left the rude Multitude in the height of their fury and strengthned them in it and as it was affirmed by many of them commanded to drive us out of the Town which they stood ready to perform and so came and broke in upon us as the Truth was declaring amongst us and got to the far