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spirit_n	church_n	holy_a	truth_n	6,992	5	5.6746	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A52030	A second epistle, being a tender salutation to the seed of Jacob vvherein is contained an exhortation to the called and chosen people of the Lord, who have kept their first love, to abide therein to the end : also, a hand of dear love held forth to the spiritual travellers, who are travelling from Egypt's land of darkness towards the spiritual land of rest : the counsel and determination of the Lord God Almighty founded in the ears of the unfaithful, disobedient and deceitful, who hold the truth in unrighteousness, and cover themselves with a profession of the precious truth, and yet live in the nature and spirit of those who walk in the broad way, that leadeth to destruction : also, a brief rehearsal and discovery of the enemy of man's soul, his workings from the beginning of his appearance unto this day, age, and generation / Charles Marshall.	Marshall, Charles, 1637-1698.	1673 (1673)	Wing M742; ESTC R7579	15,880	27

Mankind from off the Earth and when Men began to multiply upon the face of the Earth the old Enemy led them to build that which God took no Delight in and therefore he came down and confounded them and scattered them but Abraham he called from his Fathers House beyond the Flood who obey'd the Voice of God and believ'd in him and did cleave to the Lord with all his Heart and Soul and obey'd to whom the Lord promised To multiply his Seed as the Starrs of Heaven and as the Sand on the Sea-shore and covenanted with him in the Circumcision and gave him Isaac in which the Seed was called of whom this Seed was to spring that was to be as the Sand of the Sea and Stars of Heaven then Abraham being required to offer him up reasoned not with the Lord nor disobeyed the Voice of his Maker but took the Lad and the Wood and the Knife and went to the Land of Moriah to the Mount which the Lord had shewed him but the Lord after he had proved him spared Isaac and the Ram was offer'd up of which Isaac came Jacob in whom the Seed was multiplied which Jacob wrestled with the God of his Fathers for a Blessing and prevailed with God and then was named Israel of whom came the Children that went down into Aegypt to Joseph who was hated of his Brethren because of his Dreams afterwards Israel multiplied into a People who were Oppressed by Pharaoh who knew not Joseph and would have destroyed the Seed of Israel and have hindred them from multiplying howbeit God preserv'd Moses that goodly Child who was drawn out of the Waters who when he was keeping his Father-in-Law Jethro's Sheep and drave them to the Backside of the Desart and came to Horeb the Mountain of God then the Lord appeared in the Bush in a Flame of Fire saying I have surely seen the Affliction of my People which are in Fgypt and have heard their Cries by reason of their Task-Masters for I know their Sorrow and the Lord God by the Hand of Moses wrought Wonders in the Land of Egypt and plagued Pharaoh and brought Israel out of Egypt's I and by an Out-stretched Arm and by a Mighty Hand through the Red Sea on the Banks of which they sang the Song of Deliverance but the same Enemy that stirred up Pharoah to oppress them and hinder them from coming out of Egypt moved in their Hearts to disobey the Lord and to-draw them from a Belief in that Power which had so signally delivered them howbeit the Merciful God of Jacob healed the Waters and notwithstanding caused the Manna to come down Morning by Morning to seed them he also smote the Flinty Rock and brought forth Waters after they thus murmured he brought them to Sinai where the Glory of the Lord appeared and there gave them a Law and Precepts but notwithstanding they had seen the Wonderful Hand of the Lord and his signal Deliverances were fed and preserved by him yet they murmured in their Hearts against the Lord and through the Workings of the same subtil Enemy to whom they gave way made Godds of Gold and in their Hearts would have gone back again unto Egypt and Rebelled against the Lord and so the Enemy of Mankind the Devil prevailed that after the Spies had spied the Land they murmured against the Lord and against his Servants so as that the Lord destroyed them and their Carkases sell in the Wilderness to whom the Promise was save Joshua and Caleb Men of another Spirit howbeit Joshua led their Children over Jordan to possess the Land of Canaan unto whom the Lord was good and performed all the good Things promised and they drave forth the Inhabitants of the Land and inhabited it and here the Enemy Satan prevailed again so that Jesurum waxed sat even thick and kicked and then he forsook God that made him and lightly esteemed the Rock of his Salvation and went and served other Godds and the Lord delivered them into their Enemies Hands howbeit when they were brought low the Lord heard their Cries and delivered them by the Hands of many Instruments which he raised up as Judges and Kings in Israel even unto the time of David who sound Favour before God and desired to find a Tabernacle for the God of Jacob by whom he delivered Israel who went out in the Strength of the Mighty God and sought their Battels whose Heart loved the Lord whose Name is a Sweet Memorial but Solomon his Son built a House for the God of Jacob and the Temple that was a Figure and the Lord was with him and Israel and his Glotious Presence was amongst them howbeit the Old Subtil Enemy that deceived Adam turned Solomon's Heart from following the Lord to follow other Godds and built a Place for the Godds of the Heathen after which the Enemy fill'd the Heart of Jeroboam to do wickedly and Israel departed from the Lord howbeit the Lord sent his Prophets arising early to whom they did despitefully even to John a Prophet and Fore-runner of the Messiah whom they beheaded and slew the Just One the Anointed of the Lord and believed not on him who was the Heir notwithstanding the Mighty Works which he did who was manifest in due time taking not on himself the Nature of Angels but the Seed of Abraham who sent the Comforter the Spirit of Truth the Holy Ghost which came upon the Disciples and filled them through whom the Power of the Most High God was signally manifest smiteing Thousands at the Heart and in that Day many were added to the Church and great Grace was upon them and there was in that Blessed Day of the great Appearance of the Mighty God daily the Revealings and Manifestings of his Eternal Power so that great Fear came on the Regions round about and the Word of God grew but presently the Roaring Lion that through Ages went about to destroy the Appearance of the Lord God by his Power stirred in the Hearts of the Ungodly to oppose that Appearance over whom the mighty Power of the Lord gave his Servants much Victory yet he ceased not but transformed as an Angel of Light and in his Instruments wrought to draw People from the Power of Godliness into the Form of Godliness and brought in damnable Heresies privily through his Instruments that arose amongst the People of the Lord and in that day he wrought powerfully that notwithstanding the Church was in the Glorious Splendor of the Heavenly Celestial Life as a Woman cloathed with the Sun having the Moon under her Feet and on her Head a Crown of twelve Stars and travelled and brought forth the Man-Child who was to rule the Nations with a Rod of Iron yet he in the Appearance of a Red Dragon who had the seven Heads and ten Horns and seven Crowns on his Heads stood ready to devour the Man-Child but he was caught up to God and to his Throne and the Woman having two Wings as

the Birth-right for a Mess of Pottage ye will run the hazard of opening the Mouthes of the Heathen to Blaspheme the Name of the Lord for little Gain ye are they who have seen a Goodliness in a Babylonish Garment and in a Wedg of Gold and Silver ye are of them who trample under Foot the Blood of the Covenant and do Despite unto the Spirit of Grace Give eare and hearken therefore draw nigh to God that he may draw nigh unto you cleanse your hands ye Sinners purifie your hearts ye Double-minded Ones lest his Fury break forth like Fire and there be no Remedy bow down and kiss the Son lest his Anger be kindled against you and ye Perish out of the Way I am constrained to sound the Controversie of the Mighty God in his dreadful Name Power and Authority with all the Unfaithful afore mentioned and if all concerned herein do not speedily repent and turn to the Lord then shall your plagues be wonderful and the Lord God will appear in the Fire of his Jealousie to consume you and as you have and do through disobedience dishonour the Pure Name of the Lord so will the Lord God dishonour you and your Names shall rot and be as the Dung on the Face of the Earch God's Fury Fire and Plagues will destroy you and ye shall be gathered into the sides of the Pit to be punished with everlasting Destruction from the Presence of the Lord and from the Glory of his Power My Heart is filled with the Indignation of the God of Heaven and my Quiver with the Arrows of the Almighty against the Rebellious and Uncircumcised Tremble Tremble Tremble before the Lord and before the Glorious Arisings of his Power Wo wo wo to the False-hearted and the Deceitful who are as broken Bowes unto all who are covered with a Profession which is not the Covering of the Spirit of the Lord I testifie God's Dreadful Vengeance and Vialls of Wrath are near to be poured forth upon you ye shall drink of the Cup of his Fury even the Dregs thereof with the Heathen be ye bowed down and dreadfully smitten at this Rebuk of the Lord all ye Unfaithful Ones the Lord is offended with you and in the Day of Trial ye shall be consumed ye Reprobate Silver ye Uncircumcised in Heart and Eares you Prophane Esaus who sell your Birthright for a Mess of Pottage tremble ye Sinners in Zion let fearfulness surprize all Hypocrites God Eternal is arisen whose Spirit is upon me and Power fills my Heart at this time moving thereby to prophesie against you and to proclaim his Controversie with your the Day of Fanning and Winnowing hasteneth in which you will be winnowed from the Wheat the Day of the Lord which burneth as an Oven cometh and he will sit as a Refiner's Fire and Purifier of Silver in which Day you will be separated from the Gold in the purifying Fire and thereby be consumed Vengeance Vengeance Plagues Plagues Fury Fury Calamity Calamity Amazement Amazement Astonishment Astonishment is coming over you the full Cup of the Indignation of the Mighty God will be given you I am filled I am filled with the Fury of the Lord God of Hosts and am constrained thus to pour it forth which as sure as the Lord Lives that made Heaven and Earth will be performed on you who shall abide in these states aforementioned and not speedily repent and bow under the mighty Hand of the Lord. Let this go through the family and through the hearts of all the unfaithful amongst the people of the Lord through the Land and enter ye when you hear these Words and understand the Wrath determined into the House of Mourning and Chamber of Lamentation rend your Hearts and not your Garments sit in Dust before the Lord Repent Repent Repent and as any are thus bowed down wait that the Testimony of the Lord may arise in that Power which breaketh the hard Hearts in those States and Conditions asorementioned that all may hear and sear before the dread●…l God who will now be reverenced from the rising of the Sun to the setting of the same and all that do not repent and bow before the Lord ye shall be winnowed and separated from the Assemblies of the Lord's people and gathered to your place and there reserved under Chains of Darkness unto the Judgment of the great I ay Oh in the fence of what hasteneth to come on the unsaithful Ones have I often been bowed down and my Soul hath in remembrance the Wormwood and the Gall in my Travels through this the Land of my Nativity through which my God commanded me to pass swittly saying Run through this Nation and visit my Breathing Panting Bruised Birth which I begat among my People in the Day of their first Tender Visitation Proclaim my Acceptable Year my Day of Perfect Deliverance to my Breathing Panting Earning Tender Birth and my Day of Vengeance to come upon that which bruiseth it either amongst my People or in the World But Oh! saith my Soul that now all the unfaithful who have trampled under Foot the Blood of the Covenant and done Despite unto the Spirit of Grace and have hitherto neglected the Day of their Visitation Oh that before the Eye-lids of the Morning be to them as the Shaddow of Death they might return to seek the Lord while he is to be found and to call upon him while he is yet near before the Everlasting Night comes in which no man can work Postscript DEar Friends great hath been the work and many have been the Devices of the old Crooked Serpent even of him who kept not his first Habitation to draw the Sons and Daughters of Men from their God through Ages and Generations and after every Appearance of the Lord God wherein his eminent Hand hath appeared and Arm hath been signally manifest the Enemy hath endeavoured by divers wayes to destroy the Work of God sometimes by filling Instruments with Enmity to oppose the Appearance of Truth by Persecution and things of that nature and when that could not prevail the Power and Arm of God Almighty getting Victory over it then he hath transformed in Appearance like unto an Angel of Light approving and leading into the Practice of that outwardly which before in his Instruments he had withstood but still hath separated from the Truth and hath so deceiv'd the minds of the Sons of Men as that their co●formity and obedience should not be really in Spirit and in Truth but in the Name and Profession only and on this wise he began his appearance with the first man Adam thereby drawing him from the Tree of Life and out of the Image of God and brought him into that State in which he could no longer dwell in the Garden of the Lord and after corrupted the Sons of men that they grieved their God so as that of all upon the Earth he found Noah Upright and saved him and his House and destroyed all