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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	heart_n	know_v	see_v	7,193	5	3.3932	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A56047	A warning to London in particular wherein the wickedness thereof is reproved, and the people put in mind of some of the sore distresses and great calamities, that God already hath brought upon that formerly florishing and happy city : also the future distress and calamities hinted at, which God will bring upon the inhabitants thereof, that come not in their day to cease to do evil, and by timely repentance, turn to the Lord, while He calls, and His Spirit yet strives with them.	Parke, James, 1636-1696.	1679 (1679)	Wing P376; ESTC R5757	7,480	15

really the Narrow Way that leads to Life nor are Paths of pure Pleasantness and Satisfaction to the Soul but such as keep People in Darkness Error and Unbelief where they have no true Peace nor Satisfaction but remain groaping for the Wall as if they had no Eyes to see the Light and Salvation of God with not finding the Way of it nor are really willing to abide in the Paths thereof Therefore cease from your seeking to find out God or his Way by your corrupt dark Reasoning where long some of you have sought him but what have ye found to stay your Minds upon or believe in that can stay you or save you from your Sin for are ye not still in your sins and not saved So turn to the pure Principle of God that which never consents to sin in you but doth check you as ye come to turn to it for the least Vain Thought that you think or any Idle Word that you speak or Wicked Action that you do in secret this will bring Judgment and Condemnation upon that which is Evil and Displeasing to God which any Man thinks speaks or doth And your Set Days of Humiliation and Fasting wherein ye have not been humbled nor performed to the Lord an Acceptable Fast but your Hearts lifted up within you and not right before the Lord but by his Light and holy Spirit you may see are for Judgment and the Condemnation of the great Day of God who searches the Heart and knows your Hearts and all mens wheresoever and will shortly call you to give an account what ye have entertained and lodged there which is contrary to his Mind and Will And it s the Lord of Hosts that shews to you your Vain Thoughts when you think or lodge them And it s the Lord that shews you the Danger of Unsavoury and Idle words when you speak them And it s the Lord who by his Light and Spirit of Grace convinceth People of their Evil Actions whereby they dishonour his Name and grieve his good Spirit Therefore look to Him alone turn to his Light and Spirit of Grace in your Hearts and that will clearly shew you your Sins convince you of them all and not only so but as you believe therein that will let you see your Way out of all Sin and the Evil of the World which you have been addicted to whether Drunkenness Swearing Lying Whoredoms Envy Pride Vain Glory Love of Money the Deceivableness of Unrighteousness Covetousness Scoffing Cursed Evil speaking or whatsoever And the Light and Spirit of God as ye turn to it will clearly let you see all this to be the Works of the Devil and the Fruits of the Flesh which you ought not to be found in nor to suffer the Enemy of your Souls to work that in you which is so displeasing to God So dread and fear him that comes to destroy the Works of the Devil and Flesh in you and all people every where that not only you may escape and deny these more gross Evils but also your feigned Humiliations and Fastings and Prayers being out of the Faith of God's Elect and Strangers to the holy Name of Jesus which you talk of make a profession of and some of you outwardly bow at the Name of whilst you do not know it nor confide in it but in the Day of your Distress Wo and Misery that already you have met with you have leaned to Man and put your Confidence in the Arm of Flesh that cannot deliver you nor save you in a Day of Trouble but will fail you when ye expect most Help from it and the Mountains Hills which you have fled to at last cease to lock for Salvation or Preservation therefrom But learn to know the Lord and humble your selves under his mighty Hand and learn of Christ Jesus the peaceable Saviour that brings Peace on Earth and not Blood sheddings nor learns men to handle Cain's Weapons nor to fight or to destroy Men's Lives about Faith Worship and Fear towards God for that is all the Work of the Prince of Darkness that comes not but to destroy being altogether contrary to the Nature of Christ Jesus as is manifest by his pressing his Children Servants that are at his Obedience to Envy Wrath Bitterness to the Killing of any High or Low Rich or Poor which they look upon to be Hereticks And you whose Faith is dead cannot believe over the Devil and his dark Designs but are filled with Doubts Fear of Man and Unbelief what will become of those Bodies of yours and your Cities Whereas if you did know the Lord and could trust in him you would not fear what Man could do who cannot reach further then the Body nor that neither but as the Lord permits him and his Instruments I wish in true Love to you all that you had been as ready in your Hearts and Minds to fear and serve the Lord Jesus Christ as you have been to fear Men and serve the Devil whom ye have been obeying and serving and serve divers Lusts How have ye delighted in the Pleasures Honour and Riches of this World the Pleasures of Sin which are but for a season having had little regard to that Recompence and Reward which is Everlasting nor the Honour and Riches that is Durable prepared for them that love and fear God and that walk humbly with God and not for them whose God is their Belley who Glory in their Shame and mind Earthly Things who have not the Fear of God before their Eyes nor know no Fear towards God but what is taught by the Precepts of Men and according to the Laws of corrupt men that are out of the Fear and Wisdom of God such pretend to fear serve and worship God but 't is ignorantly for their Faith stands in Man and in Man's Laws and not in the Power of God nor the Royal Law of Love and Life of Christ Jesus who commands People Not to fear him that only can kill the Body and it not able to reach or kill the Soul but to fear him that can destroy both Body and Soul in Hell All are to fear Him to dread serve and reverence Him that made Heaven and Earth and hath all Power in Heaven and Earth committed to Him who hath Power to save your Souls and preserve your City from all Danger of Wicked Men that possibly have Evil Designs against it and your Bodies But the Creator of all and who hath Power over all can stop and put a limit to them No further shall their Rage and Wickedness take place against your Bodies or City than God permits them And therefore turn you with all your Hearts speedily to the Lord and eye Him not a Sparrow much more any of your Bodies shall fall to the Ground without his Providence And when he suffers Evil to come upon a City or Nation it s for the Wickedness of them that dwell therein O that ye would consider and

lay to heart these things whose Day is not over and gone with whom God's Spirit yet strives O! mind it receive and obey it that you may come to know the Guidance and Conduct of it and you all coming to walk in it you will walk safely and in Humility with God O People Call to mind seriously consider all the heavy Woes and Judgments that have come upon the Inhabitants of LONDON and why the Lord hath smitten you so often O! hear his Rod even the Rod of his fierce Wrath that is kindled against you and Revolt not from Him more and more to the utter hardning of your Hearts against his Reproof and Cheeks of his Spirit in your Consciences that sometimes in secret you have had when no Eye saw you and how unsensible and hard are many of you grown since God visited you by his Judgments and great Calamities of Plague Fire and Sword What! have you quite forgotten how the Hand of the Lord was stretched forth in so great Indignation against that City that he made almost all Faces gather Paleness and thousands were startled and amazed at that time O! have ye forgotten how the Lord visited your City and pleaded with you by a sore grievous destroying Plague wherein so many Thousands perished and Multitudes for fear of their Lives fled as if a Destroying Enemy had pursued them thinking themselves best and most happy that could get from the City And have you forgotten how afterwards the Lord suffered your strong City to be laid in Ashes and Grass to grow in the Streets and how many Thousand Families were forced out of their Habitations to lodge in the Fields and sore put to it to get convenient Lodging or whereon to lay their Heads Also you ought to remember and never to forget how your City was distressed and impoverished by the Disappointments and Losses that you met with in the two Wars that God suffered to be betwixt this Nation and the States of Holland what Pressing and afterwards the lamentable Cryes Scrikes and Groans of Wounded Men such as mine Eyes never desire to see nor Ears to hear in this City or Nation nor else-where any more And truly whatever ye look for from God your Sins and Provocations have not been less since but rather more against Him that smote you formerly Surely it may be said of many of you That the more God hath smitten you the more ye have revolted and the more Forbearance and Tenderness he exercised to you the more ye have set your selves in Opposition and Rebellion to slight and dishonour him and grieve his good Spirit The Lord hath been loath to give the People of this City up to utter Darkness and Destruction that I am a Witness of although the Goodness of many that did taste of the Goodness of God was but as the early Dew that soon was gone then such turned with the Dog to their own Vomit and the Sow that was washed to wallow in the Mire again and instead of going forward towards that Mark of the Price of the high Calling of God in Christ Jesus which they professed and were called to have sliden back and gone back again into the gross Darkness of Aegypt and declaring their Sin as Sodom And many of you that are Inhabitants of London in this Estate and Condition have professed the Name of the Lord and named his Name imagining that you believed in it and that you were saved thereby and that God would save spare and deliver you from your Enemies whereas ye may justly expect the contrary from God if ye do not consider your Ways and Repent of the Evil of your Ways and Doings and turn unto God while its called to day And you have been more apt to look out at Secondary Causes than to smite upon your Thigh and say What have we done as the Cause wherefore God doth bring all this Evil upon this City and Nation that hath come upon us When have your Hearts in a Godly Sorrow cryed to the Lord To turn away his Displeasure from this City and Nation that you have incur'd or brought upon your selves by a Continuance in Sin and adding Sin to Sin What else kindles God's Wrath or causeth his Displeasure to come upon a City or People O! have ye not proceeded from Evil to worse and rushed into Iniquity as the Horse rushes into the Battel as if the Lord did not see or take notice of it but as he hath reproved you for it and brought his heavy Judgments upon many because of it so he will reprove you and judge you more and more and great Woes and Judgments God threatens your City with to bring upon the Inhabitants of it if speedily you repent not of your Wickednesses and turn from them to Him that smiteth you What way or in what manner the Lord will bring his Woes and Judgments upon you I feel not much in me to go about to determine but leave it rather to Him that seeth and is privy to all your Sins whether secret or open O LONDON LONDON thou art a city that many Eyes are upon watching for Evil to come to thee and not for Good But Evil shall come upon them that desire and design thy Ruin Destruction Destruction certainly shall come upon themselves that are such Watchers for Evil and Hellish Contrivers bending their Tongues to speak it and their Hearts to put it in Practice their own Wickedness shall correct them and their Hellish Confidence to pursue and bring about that Evil which they have hatched against thy Peaceable Inhabitants that desire to live a Peaceable and Godly Life both in City and Country shall all turn at last to their Confusion utter Ruin and the Overthrow of their black Intents and Works of Darkness But hereby you who Repent not will be left without Excuse before God who may suffer many of ye utterly to perish in this Calamity because of your Wickedness Such Evil Instruments may be permitted of the Lord as a Rod to smite and be a Scourge to the People of London and others in this Land that are highly guilty of provoking the Lord to Wrath who sometime hath suffer'd Evil Men as the Executioners thereof to execute his Wrath upon People that continue in their Wickedness and Rebellion against him And you in this City who are in that unhappy State not knowing the Lord who is Israel's Keeper to watch over you and your City your Watchings Guards and Double Watchings will be all in vain and to no purpose to preserve or deliver your City from that Evil that assuredly the Lord will bring upon it if you Repent not with all your Hearts and speedily turn unto him Which that you may all do while God gives you a Day is the fervent Desire of him that truly seeks the Peace of the City and the Good of all men every where known unto many by the Name of JAMES PARKE Horslydown the 14th of the 2d Moneth 1679. 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