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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	ghost_n	holy_a	scripture_n	19,615	5	6.1818	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A26118	An account of the travels, sufferings and persecutions of Barbara Blaugdone Given forth as a testimony to the Lord's power, and for the encouragement of Friends.	Blaugdone, Barbara, 1608 or 9-1704.	1691 (1691)	Wing A410; ESTC R222545	10,200	38

it being made known to me I went to the Master and told him what his Men had designed to do and told him that if he did suffer them to do it my Blood would be required at his Hands So he charged them not to meddle with me And afterwards we were in a Storm upon a First Day and I was moved to go upon Deck and speak among them and Pray for them and they were all made very quiet and said They were more beholding to me then they were to their Priest because I did Pray for them and he could not open his Mouth to say any thing amongst them We were six Days and six Nights at Sea and the Master himself did not know where he was nor which way he was going until we were put into the Harbour at Dublin and although we had abundance of very Stormy Weather yet we sustained no manner of loss nor dammage so that the Master said He could never say before that he was in so much foul Weather and received no hurt And we were put into Dublin the very same day that Francis Howgill and Edward Burrough were Banisht from thence And then I saw my Service there and was moved to go to the Deputy and when I came there the People said their was no speaking with him for me for did I not know that he had Banisht two of our Friends out of the Nation but yesterday But in the Faith I went and the Power of the Lord had great weight upon me and I met with the Secretary and I desired him to help me to the Speech of the Deputy And he answered me That he did think he could not And I told him if he would be so civil as to go up and tell the Deputy that there was a Woman below that would speak with him and then if he refused I was answered So he went up and their came a Man to fetch me up into the with-drawing Room and after I had been there a while their came a Man out of the Deputy's Chamber and they all stood bare-headed before him because they knew I never saw the Deputy but I had a sence it was a Priest and there was almost a whole Room full of People and they askt me Why did not I do my Message to their Lord. And I answered When I do see your Lord then I shall do my Message to him So in a little while he came forth and sate down on a Couch and I stood up and spake to him that which the Lord did give me to speak and bid him beware that he was not found fighting against God in opposing the Truth and Persecuting the Innocent but be like Wise Gamaliel To let it alone and if it be of God it will stand but if it be of Man it will fall and the Enmity did not lie so much in himself as he was stirred up to it by Evil Magistrates and bad Priests and that God's People are as dear to him now as ever and they that toucht them toucht the Apple of his Eye But in his Name and by his Power their was much hurt done to the People of God all the Nation over and it would lie heavy upon him at the last and that the Teachers of the People did cause them to Err and he knew the Priests portion and when I toucht upon that he would say There 's for you Mr Harrison to the Priest that stood there And the Power and Presence of the Lord was so with me that it made the Man to be much concerned And when I had done he asked the Priest What he had to say to that which I spake And the Priest said It was all very true and very good and he had nothing to say against it if we did speak as we meant Then I told the Priest that the Spirit of God was true and did speak as it meant and meant as it spoke but men of Corrupt Minds did pervert the Scriptures by putting their own Imaginations and Conceivings and Apprehensions upon it and so did deceive the People but holy men of God spake the Scriptures and gave them forth as they were Inspired by the Holy Ghost and they are of no private Interpretation but none understood them but those that read them by the same Spirit that gave them forth So I returned to my Lodging which was at one Captain Rich his House and he came home and said That the Deputy was so Sad and Melancholly after I had beed with him that he would not come forth to Bowls nor no Pastime at all This my Service for God was great and he made it to prosper And then I went to Corke where my Motion was at first and great were my Sufferings there for I had a Prison almost where-ever I came and I was made to call to my Relations and Acquaintance by the Word of the Lord and was made to follow them into several Steeple-houses and great were my Sufferings amongst them but where-ever the Lord opened my Mouth there were some that received me and would plead my Cause against my Persecutors and I was in Jeopardy of my Life several times but the Lord prevented it And I was made to speak in a Market-place and there was a Butcher swore he would cleave my Head in twain and had his Cleaver up ready to do it but their came a Woman behind him and caught back his Arms and staid them till the Souldiers came and rescued me And those that were my former Acquaintance with whom I had formerly been very conversant and spent much time and lodged at their Houses several times even those now were afraid of me and would not come near me but the dread of God was upon me and it made some of them to Tremble and some said I was a Witch and when I would go to their Houses to reprove them they were so mad that they would run away and then their Servants would come and hale me out and when I would go to sit down they would drag me along upon the Stones and hale me out and shut the Doors So I came to witness that a Prophet is not without Honour save in his own Country So when I found my self pretty clear there I returned home to Bristoll And in a while after I was moved to go for Ireland again and then I was in great Perils by Sea where I saw the Wonders of the Lord in the Deep and there was one man Friend and one woman Friend then in the Ship besides me and the Ship was broken near Dungarvan and it foundred in the Sea something near the Shore and we were all like to be cast away and I was ordered of the Lord to stay in the Ship until they were all gone out of her and the Master and the Passengers got into the Boat all save one Man and one Woman which were cast away and they got to Shore and stood there to see what would become of me who