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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	heart_n	lord_n	soul_n	18,529	5	5.0289	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A54050	A salutation of love and tender good-vvill to the commissioners of the peace for the county of Bucks, and such others in that county, and also throughout the nation, as are concerned in the contents hereof.	Penington, Isaac, 1616-1679.	1670 (1670)	Wing P1186; ESTC R213930	2,253	1

A Salutation of Love and tender Good-VVill TO THE COMMISSIONERS OF THE Peace for the County of Bucks and such others in that County and also throughout the Nation as are concerned in the Contents hereof IF I should warn you of the Day of the Lord which is a Day of terrible wrath to the transgressing Nature but of peace love and tender mercy to the righteous innocent suffering Seed If I should tell you that this Day is hastening upon this Nation and upon the whole Earth and if this should affright you and cause you to cry unto the Lord to deliver you from that Nature and from those sinful courses which make you but as fit fuel for his fire in the day of its hot burning I say if by this means ye should be thus prepared for this Day and yet this Day come not so suddenly as ye might expect yet that would be no loss or cause of grief unto you But if this Day should suddenly come and find you in your sins and so the fierce wrath of the Lord break forth upon and afflict your souls and the day of your Mercy and Redemption be wholly passed over by you This would be matter of unutterable grief and sorrow to you and the remembrance of your former ease and pleasures would but encrease the sense and anguish of your misery Certain I am There is a Day of giving account for sinning against God and for oppressing that in your Consciences which discovers to you and checks you for your sins and this will as certainly come as the day of sinning now is And then every man must receive from God according to his works and reap the fruit of the deeds done in the body Then every soul must inherit according to its Nature and every Vessel be filled with what it is fitted to receive that which is fitted for mercy with mercy that which is fitted for wrath and misery with wrath and misery And then the distressed sinner will wish O that I had an hour to escape O that God would once more give me a moment of repentance and of turning from sin O consider Is it a slight thing with you that the infinite God who is little concern'd in you being perfectly blessed and happy for ever without you but as his love mercy and tender nature maketh him concern himself about the salvation of your souls should give you so large a time of Repentance and so many discoveries of the evils of your wayes when at any time ye are retired and serious and so many checks and warnings in your hearts as the vilest of sinners at times have more or less from him Can ye lengthen out the day of mercy Can ye limit God how long he should strive with you O why do ye harden your hearts why do ye hearken to the lusts desires temptations and counsels of the earthly mind which in all Ages hath undone all that have listened thereunto There is no way of avoyding the eternal insupportable wrath of God but by travelling out of that nature spirit and course which it is to Him that sowed to sin and corruption under the Law the Sacrifices would not save then nor him that soweth to sin and corruption under the Gospel the Sacrifice of Christ will not save now But he that is saved by Christ must be sanctified and redeemed from sin and corruption by him which Christ worketh by his principle of life sown in the heart which principle turneth against the contrary principle discovering its nature and evil dark wayes and drawing from and leading out of them O therefore Let me in love entreat you all my dear Country-men indeed I have no end in it but your good to mind that in your hearts which discovers your evils to you that therein ye may feel the power of life drawing you from them and helping you against them Greater is the power in this than the power that is in the contrary principle as those that hearken to it and become subject by experience feel And what if ye lose a few fond pleasures for the present which indeed are beneath the true state of a man ye will lose a great deal of misery too and your gain at last will be exceeding great If ye would know whether I speak truth in these things Come to the true Ballance and wait on the Lord till by him ye be made able to weigh My meaning is Joyn to the good Spirit of the Lord when ye sind it stirring in your own hearts give up unto it let in its strength upon you in its warmth and drawing vertue give up to forsake the evil and pursue the good Fear not the multitude of evils in the heart nor the long accustomedness unto evil the Lord will help the willing soul out of them And in this obedience to the good Spirit of the Lord there will be an understanding received to know the things of God and to try words and sayings whether they be of him or of man And he that tryes in this ballance cannot be deceived the measure being equal and just and proper to the things which are therewith to be measured whereas the wisest of men trusting either to their own Understandings and Judgments or to the Judgments and Understandings of others are liable to be deceived And then ye will acknowledge what love this sprang from and what Light and Life it sprang up in though through a weak and contemptible Vessel Isaac Penington Concerning PEACE GOOD-WILL THe true Peace is in the new Nature which puts an end to the warring and fighting spirit inwardly and turns the whole strength of the Battel against the enemies of the soul In the old Nature there are lusts after Dominion and after Liberty to the flesh and fulfilling the self-will of the earthly mind But these are all brought down in the renewed Spirit by the power love and sweetness of the Gospel of Peace Here is indeed uprightness of heart to the Lord quietness of spirit under whatever the Lord suffers to be and good-will towards all men waiting on the Lord for his seasons of tender Bowels with strong cries and tears even for those who to the eye of man may seem so hardened against God and his Truth as to be out of the reach of mercy