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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	common_a	deal_n	great_a	143	3	2.1542	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A88247	The resurrection of John Lilburne, now a prisoner in Dover-Castle, declared and manifested in these following lines penned by himself, and now at his desire published in print in these words.	Lilburne, John, 1614?-1657.	1656 (1656)	Wing L2175; Thomason E880_2; ESTC R501	16,915	16

Ransomed ones contemptibly and scornfully called quakers I say unto thee the real and close applyed home unto my soul by the spirit and power of life from God that now aloud again speaks within me consideration of the premises or that which is foregoing and that people afar off yea ignorant ideots fools and prophane * * As is clearly proved by the printed speeches of severall of the prisoners in Northhampton and Eversham Goals ones in comparison of my being so nigh at hand so many years ago to the clear and full possession of the spiritual Land of Canaan should enter into the glorious Kingdom of God or that clearness of Rest Peace and Union in and with him that now clearly to my spiritual understanding they injoy and there bring forth the ripe fruits of spiritual old age in comparison of me of Praises Honor and Glory to the Lamb and to the ancient of Dayes that clearly sits upon the Throne in their hearts as having judged down conquered and overcome within them all their sinns or spiritual enemies and caused them to triumph over them as in his strength divine and heavenly power reigning and ruling as King and Lord over them O I say unto thee again the real sight in its measure and degree and spiritual consideration of these things since I last see thee for divers hours in several nights one after another when my God denyed sleep unto my outward eyes and caused my soul to be awake with himselfe and to be really exercised in an interchange of Divine conference contemplation or parley with him hath even caused my soul to weep sigh and mourn within me before him and in his strength and almighty power to indent with him and now in good earnest to ingage in my soul or spiritual man to be obedient to his heavenly and divine voyce speaking clearly in me and to follow him least I should now by any longer resistance totally quench his divine drawings through the denyall of my own or naturall reason will wit wisdom desires and affections with a real weanedness from worldly or fleshly honor applause glory riches or creature-fulness yea even to a final denyal of father kindred friends my sweet and dearly beloved by me babes or thy own self who viz. thy self for many yeers by past I must avow it before the Almighty in sincerity and truth hath been to me the greatest and dearest of all earthly delights and joyes And now therefore look about thee in good earnest and see what thou hast got to thy self as to the flesh by thy eager desires and strong indeavours to bring me back again into England for the day of thy real strong and full temptation and triall never came upon thee till now if God give thee not by degrees the fulness and compleatness of spiritual and heavenly strength and ability to bear it and go through it For my part I am now in reallity and truth in the clearly lively or evident seeing of the wisdom and loving hand of a tender and indeared eternal Father in stripping me naked of all earthly and created excellencies and taking my outward estate and profitable imployments and all my worldly glory from me and graciously and supportingly leading me through the valley of Baca Psal 84 6. or Tears outward Dangers and Death for now almost four yeers together and separating from me for a long time that wonted delight that used to be betwixt thee my old and real Idoll and me and at my coming to this place clearly unto being me of all and every one of my old Friends and familiar Acquaintance that were any way fit or able to do any thing for me and therby hedging up my way that I must whether I wil or no in spite of my teeth once again give ear to the serious and plain voice call or counsel of the Most High speaking in and unto my soul And so in much mercy and indeared loving kindness as he did in my great straits in the Bishops time provided and sent unto me a poor disspised yet understanding Priscilla to instruct me in or expound unto m●●h way of God more fully or perfectly whom I am compell'd now to tell thee I shall love and respect therefore the longest day I live upon the earth let her continue by whomsoever to be judged never so rigid or contemptible so here at this place he hath also provided for me an 〈◊〉 being a contemp●ible yet understanding spiritually knowing single hearted Shoomaker to do the same now to my spiritual no small advantage refreshment benefit by means of all which I am a present becom dead to my former busling actings in the world now stand ready with the devout C●n●u●ion or Captain spoken of Act. 10. to hear and obey all things that the lively voice of God speaking in my soul shal r●quire of me upon the further manifestation of whose glorius presence my heart with a watching fear and care desires to wait to walk faithfully and tenderly and humbly in that measure of Light already received and out of the strength of indearedness of love and tenderness of affection that hath long in times by-past dwelt in me towards thee and of late in much sincerity is renewed unto thee again I have with the same eternal wel-wishing of thy spiritual happiness as I do my own-ordered Giles Calvert to send unto thee several of those printed pieces of the quakers that in the serious reading of which have been most convincingly instructive unto my soul amongst which I have judged in the first place Iames Naylor that strong or tall man in Christ his Something in answer unto thy and my indeared friend John Jackson that tall Cedar in great profession of Religion his book called Strength in weakness which book the last Post I received from thee in the reading of which piece of Iames Naylors I must set my seal to it that there goes along in the breathings out of it a great deal of the quickning life power of the spirit of God unto it are annexed several pieces of that precious and divine soul VVilliam Deusbury the Lords now or late glorious prisoner in Northampton common goal to whose precious and heavenly spirit although I never see his face mine indearedness of love is glued unto whose book is called The discovery of the great enmity of the Serpent against the Seed of the woman and his discovery of mans return have been pieces in my reading of them seriously that by the power of the Almighty hath spoken home to my soul I have ordered to be annexed unto them as I remember as many as makes them ten in number and then twelve more in another volume principally for answering Objections I have ordered to be sent unto thee which I hope thou wilt receive before this come to thee bound up in that method that J have directed And now my dear love for whom my soul travells with God