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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	father_n	holy_a	life_n	7,349	5	4.3274	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A54431	Glorious glimmerings of the life of love, unity, and pure joy vvritten in Rome prison of madmen in the year 1660, but conserved as in obscurity until my arrival at Barbados in the year 1662, from whence it is sent the second time to the Lord's lambs / by J.P.	J. P. (John Perrot), d. 1671?	1663 (1663)	Wing P1618; ESTC R3019	10,406	15

we must be all very low and humble before our Father and honour Him with fear trembling and thanksgiving in all states and conditions and be very single simple and innocent in his pure Eye and exceeding tender to one another in the Pitties wherewith he hath been merciful unto us and covered us with his own Compassions and take occasions in the Life of Love to speak to one another and visit one another in the holy Bowels with the Greeting and Salutation of the holy Kiss where the World reacheth not for in this Spirit we know that we are of God and the whole World lyeth in Wickedness which stand in the enmity to this Love which is the manifest Power of God revealed in us which delivereth us from all evil for in the Love we witness the Strength which takes up and bears the Cross to the crucifying of the Old Man with all his lusts and affections whereby we receive the Testimony of the true Faith and in it do also witness in our own spirits the taking up of a Life in the Heavenly Places of the immortal Joy which nothing is able to bereave us of having by abundant blessed Experiences the assured knowledge That the more our Adversaries wrestle to deprive us of the Blessing and Inheritance for the Revelation of the most exceeding Mercies of our Father to us through the prosperity of the Life and Glory of his Power in us the more are we strengthned in Him that also by it if happily our enemies may come to see the certainty of the Lord on our side and thereby be converted unto the Grace of his Goodness and saved by the incomprehensible Work of his Wisdom in the pitties of the bosome of his Mercies Ah my Beloved This is the Love indeed wherewith you are beloved of the Father and of me his poor needy hungry and thirsty Servant which opens unto you and in you the Doors of the twelve Houses of the Heavens which you know The first is Judgment and Fearfulness the second Humility and Lowliness the third Meekness and Mercifulness the fourth Temperance and Savouriness the fifth Patience and Setledness the sixth Hope and Resolvedness the seventh Faith and Perseverance the eighth Peace and Quietness the ninth Thanksgiving and Remembrance the tenth Prayer and Watchfulness the eleventh Glorification and Praises and the twelfth Content and Fulness Now therefore all ye Lambs of the Flock of the Shepherd's Pasture look well into that house in which you are made inhabitants and by the Virtue of Covenant is yours as a proper possession that you may see the glory of the sign thereof which shews you the perfect Signs of the Times yea and look again and again and lo the Canopy of Gladness together with the Curtains of Joyes and Bed of Pleasures in each of them is an immensity too vast for your aspect to reach the utmost thereof whereby you may perceive something of the incomprehensible Renown Viz. What an honour of honours is it to be one though but as the least in the House of the Lord wherein the World with its fulness stands intirely in subjection to a thought Ah! the Dominion yea the glorious Dominion of Love which is obtained in the Acts of his Championism Surely the sence of his Strength is able to catch you into Raptures and overcome your souls in the Heavens of his Supream Authority and through the constriction and violence of Ravishments to make you cry out with the loudest lift-up voices saying Hail O Jerusalem and Help O ye Inhabitants of her City for the forcibleness of Love is upon me Oh! Oh! Oh! Love is the strongest Love is the powerfulest even of all the Supernal Hosts yet my Beloved you shall all remember in the dayes of the Floods when the Banks of your Rivers are filled up to the brims that then even in them dayes you shall in no wise say How can my Love be greater seeing my Current runs brim-full but rather contain the recordance as the Memorial of a Covenant in you that the streams of your Rivers have the passage of their influences in the Valleys beneath the risings of the Hills and therefore shall thirstily wait for your Floods through the rentings open of the Fountains of the greatest Deeps to surmount until they have covered the Hills above you yea procelsively to ascend as in the highest heaps over the loftiest Mountains of the Earth that the Ark of Salvation may swim on tops of all without danger of shipwrack by bulgings and yet wait without wearisomness in the sensibleness of their Movings until they are mounted from a stream in the Valleys to have reached the Upper Waters which are lockt within the Windows of the Heavens that the Ark of your Rest may safely arrive to anchor in the Haven of Zebulon And so let this cast you into the bosoms of Affection and become a Covenant of Unity in the vertue of an eternal Oath in the bottoms of the bowels of each other And so the everlasting God of Heaven and Earth enrich you with the Treasures of the Love of his own Life which is Incomprehensible and Infinite and seal you in such a nearness of relation and dearness of affinity in the holy Unity in such an inward manner as that always you may stand at the motion of a moment prepared as ready Sacrifices to offer your lives for the Brethren and the Crown of Immortal Glory of the Father be your recompence in his Kingdom of Life Amen Daily are my Prayers encreased for you in all quarters of the Earth and the abundance of my Spirit doth often minister amongst many Finally dear Lambs Wait all to receive the Spirit of Supplication and of Prayer and in that same holy Spirit present me in your living breathings to the pittiful God of all our Mercies for his eternal Eye doth well know that I am weak and poor having no strength but from him nor wisdom without him but in him And therefore again I say in the importunity of a beseeching soul pray without ceasing for your poor bruised and often oppressed Brother And O ye holy Witnesses of the Lord our Righteousness my pure and living Brethren and Sisters the dear sympathized suffering Prisoners my reins are a current and stream running forth with willingness towards you in the tenderest compassions of God's Life of Love which melts my bowels casting mine eye of remembrance upon you Ah! it is your Faithfulness yea it is your Integrity in the Covenant of Righteousness that is the Vertue which reacheth me at this distance renting my soul for your sakes to whom it is not onely given to believe but also to suffer for the Witness of the Power of the most High Verily your Crown must be certain on your head and a Fountain of the Treasures of Life must assuredly compass you as an everlasting Reward of your Service For he is infallibly just and righteous and his Covenant is Faithfulness Amen who hath called and drawn you to glorifie him in the vertuous sanctified Life of your blessed Tryals and Tribulations for no man can suffer for God for naught but his Righteousness will be a Recompence unto him O my dearest Companions I am most inwardly in the nearest feeling with you and am made a true partaker of your conflicts besides the God of our sustentation knoweth with how many tears sighs and groans with numberless prayers and holy fervent requests and spiritual desires I have remembred you and still do supplicate that in the Faithfulness you may all be kept to the end and continually exercised in the spirit of thanksgiving and praise to God for all things and to dwell in the life and power of Contentation which is a Mansion of most infinite latitude where a perfect fulness of strength is partaked of and possessed which gives victory over all the world Summarily The sound of New-England Sufferers and the fame of the Indian Martyrs in the Continent of Virginia hath pierced to my bottoms within me O let it be as a Razor 's edge to our desires and as a Spur like a Spear in our sides pricking us on in the eagerness and swiftness of our race that we who have started and put on at first and ran in the course before them may not in the end fall short of the Glory of their Crown which is great in the Kingdom upon them So all dear Plants of God's Renown in all Quarters of the Earth the most Mighty be alwayes on your side and his Supremacy at your right hand and his eternal Omnipotency save you from all evil Amen THE END