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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	flesh_n	law_n	life_n	8,185	5	5.2684	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A91472	The trumpet of the Lord blowne. Or, a blast against pride and oppression, and the defiled liberty, which stands in the flesh. By a servant and messenger of the Lord, who is called into the work of the Lord, and to blow his trumpet in England; so that all may be forwarned in this day of the Lords calm, and be left without excuse, and in the day of his righteous judgments be found just and true; in love to all imprisoned souls. / By a lover of all souls, who is called, James Parnel.	Parnell, James, 1637?-1656.	1655 (1655)	Wing P539; Thomason E830_5; ESTC R207433	14,610	15

VVill yea thou shalt fynde that all thou dost is contrary to his will and thou shalt fynde him a God of Iudgment for thy Sins hath separated thy Soul from God Isa 59.2 and long in his love and mercy to thy soul hath he forborn thee and hath not cut thee off from off the face of the earth but hath still spared thee and waited to be gracious though thy heart hath been wholly gone from him and never regarded to do that which is pleasing in his sight but instead of serving him thou hast served thy own lusts with his good creatures to which thou hast had no right and he to thee hath been a mercifull God but will not the Lord visite for these things yea he wil not always strive with man and though thou takest thy pleasure now remember thou must come to Iudgment And lo saith the Lord Gen. 6.3 Eccle. ii 9. Rev. 22.12 Gal. 6.8 I come quickly and my reward is with me to give unto every one according to his deeds And they that sow to the flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption And then thou shalt finde that power thou hast had and instead of using it to the Honour and Glory of God thou hast hid thy Talent in the Earth and lived wantonly upon the Earth serving thy own will dishonouring the Holy Lord of Glory and Righteousness and then in the day of thy Iudgment thou shalt confess that the Lord hath visited thee time after time and called thee time after time handing forth his Mercy to thee when thou harkned the Lord was with thee when thou walked in his fear he was not far from thee but thou hast hearkned to the voice of the Serpent and false Prophet which hath drawn thy heart from God into the visible things of the Creation which pass away and hath promised thee Liberty and Peace in the same and it being pleasing to thy lustfull earthly minde thou art become one with the Harlot which lyeth in thy Bosome Mat. 4 8.9 and thus thou hast accepted the gift with which the Old Serpent tempted Christ and so art become a Servant to the Devill of whom thou art brought in bondage of him being evermore and while thou art promising to thy selfe Liberty 2 Pet. 2. i9 20 2i thou thy selfe art a Servant unto corruption and thus thy lusts hath separated betwixt God and thy Soul and art become the Image of the Devill yeilding thy Members servants to uncleanness thus thou sets up a rest in the Devils Kingdom wherin thou sports thy self and art at liberty i Cor. i0 7. i Cor. i5 ●8 9. eating and drinking in merriness so if there were sorrow only in this world thou art of all men most happy then our Fathers that are faln asleep in Christ are perished and we are of all men most miserable if there be joy only in this world but out of the liberty of the children of God thou art found and by them seen to be in the fall wallowing in the myre and lust and so art unredeemed living under the Curse Rom. 8. for this is the redemption from death to life and thou livest after the flesh and art dead the carnall minde ruling which is death and is at enmity with God for it is not subject to the will of God and so long as this hath dominion over thee thou cannot obey God for he that lives in the flesh cannot please God but if through the Spirit thou mortify the deeds of the flesh thou shalt live Rom. 8. i. and here is the liberty of the Children of God VVho walk not after the flesh but after the Spirit but their liberty is not in the flesh but in the Spirit for by the law of the Spirit of life they are set free from the law of Sin and death And from Christ their Redeemer they have received power to become the Sons of God Ioh. i i2 and in the same have dominion over the world flesh self and the Devil death and Hell and this comes through the Cross by which they are crucifyed to the world and the world to them and here is the liberty of the Children of God Galla. 6. i4 who walk not after the flesh but after the Spirit which liberty no vulterous eye can see nor venemous beast shall know nor the rebellious disobedient one therefore do not deceive thy felfe in saying thou art a Christian and believes in Christ and art a child of God for they that are Christs have crucifyed the flesh Galla. 5 2● Romans 6. i6 and to whom thou yeilds thy members servants to obey his servant thou art to the light of God in thy conscience I speak which if thou love it and unto it hearken and bring thy deeds unto it to be tryed by it it will witness for God and his Children against thee to be a Child of the Devil and his works thou dost and thy faith to be feigned like the Hypocrite and doth not purifye thy heart and so is no more than the wickedest that is for all say that Christ dyed for them but all cannot witness it For he that believes is born of God Ioh. 3.9 and he that is born of God doth not commit Sin and this light loving it will let thee see how thy heart is turned from God and that thou hast more delight in the things that perish than in the fear of the living God which keeps the heart clean And is the beginning of the pure wisdome and righteousness and if thou honestly commune with it Prov. 9. i0 it will let thee see thy secret actions and all thy hidden deeds done in darkness that thou maist come to judgment and condemnation for all these things and except thou be born again and become as a little Child thou art no child of God neither can enter the Kingdome of God but art without in the worlds nature in the state of condemnation in whom the Son of perdition rules above all that is called God Sitting in the Temple of God as God and saith he is God and here he opposeth God in his Kingdom and saith that is lawfull and for it pleads which God saith is unlawfull and forbids and he tels the Creature and makes it believe it cannot keep Gods Commandments and that it hath not power to do that which God commands it or to depart from evill and that none lives but they Sin and Christ hath satisfyed for all Sin though they Sin dayly that man may use the Creatures as hee pleaseth seeing they were made for mans use and the Spirit of God saith he that saith he knoweth God and keepeth not his commandments i Ioh. 2.4 i Iohn i. i2 Romans 8.2 is a lyar and the truth is not in him And as many as receives him to them he gives power to become the Sons of God And the Law of the Spirit of life makes them free from the Law of

and varieties which hath fed your lusts shall be turned into fyre and brimstone and the spoyle of the creatures shall witness against you and then you shall be stript of of all your Silks and Velvet and Purple and Gold and Silks and all your gay attire wherewith you decked and addorned your Earthly bodies to make your selves seem glorious in the eyes of other for the honor and esteem of the world but then you will be as naked as the beggar then you shall have no waiting men nor waiting maids nor Coaches nor high and lofty horses nor curious building or great houses no more than the beggar then bowing and crouching and all your heathenish breeding shall be laid aside Ezek. 22.28 Ier. 13. i. Mich. 3.5 then all your Priests false Prophets which you extall now so high because they daub you up and cry peace to you healing you in deceit because you put into their mouths shal stand you in no steed but shall be tormented with you hypocrites in the lake and all your covers wil not serve wherewith you hide your Sin and covers over your deceipts in saying your pleasures and vain talk and foolish jesting and tales and stories is pastime and recreation then you would be glad of one hour if you could get to repent in as Dives would but then it will be too late for your portion you enjoy in the earth whose Kingdom is of this world but the Son of man in it had scarce where to lay his head and his servants no certain dwelling place for their Kingdom was not of this world such you call wanderers and vaggabonds who have your great houses and strong towers in the Earth but all cannot hide from the presence of the Lord who will you call in judgment and reward you according to your deeds Luke 9.5.58 i Cor. 4. ii Psalms i45 i3 when his own he doth exalt into the Kingdom which for them he hath prepared which is an everlasting Kingdom from which the earthworms are shut out who saith the earth is mime therefore now before it be too late consider of it and let Dives and Hammon and the rest of the proud ones be a warning to you and now repent while it is called to day now you have been told now you are left without excuse before the just impartial Iudge now prise your time all who desyre mercy at the hand of God and pardon for your iniquities for this is the day of your visitation Luke i6 i3● wherein the Lord is handing forth his mercy and if you will not believe this you would not blieve Dives and he should rise from the Dead To the light in all your Consciences I speak which comes from Iesus Christ the light of the world Iohn i. 9. who doth enlighten every one that comes into the world which light is his witness in the conscience against all deceit ungodliness and unrighteousness of men which light in all your consciences is my witness to the which I am made manifest which if you love it and to it hearken it will let you see your selves and the staite and condition wherein you live and the fylthy unclean Image of the Devill which you bear and your Leoperous spotted consciences because of the lust wherein you are drowned and the same light loving it and following it which checks and covinces in the conscience for that which is evil and of the least contrary to the wil of God it wil lead you to repentance and humble your hearts and bring you down to know the fear of the Lord whose power wil rend your habitations wherein you have dwelt secure in your Sins and this light loving it will be your teacher and wil let you see the Creation and the goodness thareof and will teach you how to use it and order it in its place out of the lust to the glory of God and how to do good with it so that there be no want in the creation nor cry of oppreession but the hungry wil be fed and the naked cloathed and the oppressed set free and here is the blessing restored to the Creation but while these things is under and you live in the lusts with your abundance nourishing your hearts as in a day of slaughter the curse is upon you and war abundance and you are the adulterers and adulteresses Titus 2. ii i2 Iames 4. Iames 5. whose hearts are adulterated from God committing fornication with the Creation and the grace of God which should guide you out of the lust and ungodliness of the world you turn into wantonness and your teachers who cause you to erre by their sorcery and inchantments and Iames the Son of thunder uttered forth his voice against such and thus saith the Lord because the Daughters of Sion are haughty and walk with stretched out necks and wanton eyes walking and mincing as they go and making a tinkling with their feet therefore the Lord will smite with the scab the Crown of the head of the Daughters of Sion in that day in that day the Lord wil take away all their bravery of their tinkling ornaments of their feet Isaiah 3. and their cauls and round attire like the Moone and the chains and the bracelets and the head-bands and tablets and the Ear-rings and the nose-Iewels the changeables suits of apparell and the mantles and the wimples and the Crisping-pins and the glasses and the fyne linnen and the hoods and the vails and it shall come to pass that instead of sweet smel there shall be a stinck and instead of well seat here bauldness and idstead of a stomacher a girding with Sackcloath and burning instead of beauty Now all you high and lofty Daughters of England who are sporting your selves in the day time and scorning and disdaining your fellow-creatures read your selves and your portions howle and lament for a day of venegance of rending of burning of famine is coming upon you for the Land mourns because of pride TO THE LIBERTINE whose Liberty stands in the Flesh WOE unto thee who art at ease in the flesh devouring the Creation and spending it upon thy Lusts whose heart is run from God awhoring after other Lovers committing Fornication with the Creation nourishing thy heart as in a day of slaughter Ezek. 23.30 Psal i0 39 Iames 5.5 Rev i8 7 Heb. 10.29 Mal. 2. i7 satisfying thy lusts in whatsoever thy heart runs after and so art at ease in the flesh and feels no sorrow nor griefe but the Harlot is exalted in thy Bosome above all that is called God and thou had cast his Law behind thy back living withoutt the fear of God and walking dispitefully against the Spirit of Grace saying within thy selfe he that doth evill is good in the sight of God and where is the God of Iudgment can we do any thing without God is it not by his power we do all things and can we do any thing contrary to his

he spoke the truth and you lye Psal i31 1 and thus you deceive your souls and loves to have it so your leaders cause you to erre Isa 9.16 and Iob a Servant of the Lord quaked who by the same generation was laughed to scorn Iob 4. i4 Iob i2 i4 and Ieremiah a Prophet of the Lord quaked who was then persecuted by the same generation Ier. 23.9 and Daniel a Prophet of the Lord trembled who was cast into the Lyons Den because he would not deny his God Dan. i0 ii Dan. 6.16 but by his power he was preserved as we are now from those Lyons whelps who would us devour and Habbkkauk a Prophet of the Lord his belly trembled and his lips quivered Hab. 3. i6 and Paul an Apostle of Iesus Christ fell down and trembled Act. 9.4.5.6 who was reviled reproached and persecuted even to death who was one that hazarded his life for the name of Iesus Act. 6.26 and said all the day long was they killed and accounted as sheep to the slaughter Rom. 8.36 now these was all quakers who then suffered with patience by the same generation now read what generation you are of for they that were after the flesh allways persecuted them that were after the Spirit Gal. 4.29 there was always a generation by which the righteous ever suffered since Cain the fyrst born upon earth in whose way you are found who envy who are in the wrath Iude 10. you kill the just and he lyes slain in the streets Iam. 5.5 6. at whose hands his blood shal be requited Mat. 23.35 and the Son of man was to eat his bread with quaking and drink his water with trembling Ezek. i2 i0 out of which life you are found who are at ease in the flesh feeding without the fear of God spending the Creatures upon your lusts i Cor. i0 7 Iam. 5 scoffing and scorning them who are not one with you in the same liberty but fears before the Throne of God i Pet. 4.4 Rom. i3 i4 i Cor. i0.3i. and thus you erre not knowing the Scriptures nor the power of God Mat. 22.29 therefore behold ye despisers and wonderers and perish I will work a work in your days which though you see it you shall not believe it Act. i3 ●i is it not apparent before your eyes the wicked man returns from his wickedness and the ungodly from his ungodliness and the drunkard from his drunkenness and the prophane one from his prophainness and now seeks after God and feare his powerfull name and this you see and cannot believe but despises scoffs scorns the power by which this work is done for it is no new thing but the same which was and are you are in the same adulterous generation which cannot see the Signes which follow the truth Mat. i6 3 4. from whom the Gospel is hid whose eye is darkned with the God of the world 2 Cor. 4.3 4. and so speaks evil of the things you know not Iude ii putting darkness for light and light for darkness evill for good and good for evill Isa 5.20 you are the scoffers that the Apostle fore-told of to be in the last times Iude i8 who are despisers of those that are good incontinent fierce Traitor heady high minded lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God having a form of godliness but deny the life and powers 2 Tim. 3.3 4 5. and here you are both Priests people and professors who are scoffing and scorning slandring reproach reviling and persecuting the righteous innocent servants and messengers of the most high God who is uttering forth his voyce through them in power against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who will you call to judgment and convince you of all your ungodly deeds and all your hard speeches which you have wrongfully spoken against him and his power and will reward you accordingly Iude i4 i5 Rev. 22 2i Therefore to that which is of God in all your consciences I speak which is my witness against your ungodly lives which turning your minds to it and unto it taking heed will let you see you speak evill of the things you know not loving darkness rather than light because your deeds are evill Iob. 3. i9 therefore fear the Lord God and repent and take heed of mocking least your bonds be made strong Isa 28.22 for God will not be mocked such as you sowe such must you reap Gal. 6.7 therefore fear before the Lord and try all things and hold fast that which is good i Thes 5 2i and despise nothing before you know it least you speak evill of Gods elect for it is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God Heb. i0.3i. therefore take this for a warning as from the mouth of the Lord for no ignorance is to be pleaded before the throne of God This was given forth in vindication of the power of God which is now manifesting in his Sons and Daughters least the simple who are not yet acquainted with it should stumble at the name By a friend of the truth and a lover of these people which you who are out of the truth scornfully call quakers but the scorners God will judge and the righteous God will bless who work out their salvation with fear and trembling for saith the Lord to such a one wil I look that is of a humble and contrite spirit and trembleth at my words Pro. i9 29 Phil. 2. i2 Isa 66. i 2. IAMES PARNEL