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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	holy_a	teach_v	word_n	7,479	5	4.2082	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A30837	A general epistle to the flock of God, but more particularly in Cumberland	Banks, John, 1637-1710.	1698 (1698)	Wing B655; ESTC R28345	6,418	9

A GENERAL EPISTLE TO THE Flock of God But more particularly in CUMBERLAND In the Openings of Love and Fresh spring of Life am I drawn forth to visit you with this Epistle Dear Friends and Brethren LOok to the Rock from whence ye were hewen and to the hole of the Pit from whence ye were digged that is to say never forget from whence you came no more than to what length and degree you are attained what you were when the Lord first visited you and what you still are of your selves without the help assistance and abillity of his Power hold this fast in your Remembrance and it will greatly tend to humble you and keep you little and low in your own Eyes in a true Self-Denial So shall the Lord alone be exalted and his Glorious Power extolled over all It was the Lord that visited with the day-spring of his Love from on high by the shining forth of his Glorious Light out of Darkness where your Region was in a Land of Darkness a Country where there was a Famine not of Bread nor Water but of the preaching of the Gospel and brought us to a Land and Country where Light and Life is and that slows with Milk and Honey Forget not the way of your Souls Travel and you that have not known it yet must tread the same Path before you can come to be sharers with those that have so done who have known what it was when they entered their Journey or beginning of the Work to Drink a bitter Cup and also of a sweet One and do extolled be the Right Arm of the Lord the great and mighty Power of God the bitter Cup was Judgment set up to bring Down Judge out and Burn up all that which was contrary and as a Sword to slay the Enmity and of twain to make one new Man Then was the Weeping then was the Mourning then was the Quaking and Trembling then was the time of Travel with our hands upon our Loyns then did the Earth Tremble at the presence of the Lord the way of Sion's Redemption being through Judgment love it still and dwell in a sense of it to the End and the Enemy shall never prevail against you dwelling in him to whom all Judgment is committed both in Heaven and in Earth in Christ and so in the Light in the Life in the quickening Spirit Has this been the way of your Soul's Travel from the beginning that have known the True and Right beginning in and through many Afflictions various Tryals and deep Temptations Straits Hardships and great Besetments both within and without Dear Friends in a sense of the tendering Life and Love of God let me aske who delivered who saved who hath kept and preserved until now in and through this Refining Furnace surely you can say with my Soul the Lord alone by his own Hand and Arm of Power and mighty Strength by which he hath never failed nor never will fail those that trust thereto and relie thereupon Therefore Dear and Tender Children of the Light and of the Day trust therein and keep thereto unto the End and then you shall be Eternally happy For Dear Friends although on this wise you have known the Travel of your Souls in passing from Death to Life and out of Darkness into the Light which is the Path that the Younger Generations that is coming up must Tread and Travel in you can tell them by learned Experience for their Encouragement the Lord by his Power will never leave them nor forsake them if they follow him in the way of his Judgments which he mixeth with Mercy that must be owned and loved to bring down Self and the Man's part and whatever would exalt it self above the pure you can tell them that when your hands did hang down and your knees smote one another so that sometimes your Hearts were fearful whether they should be lifted up or strengthened again yet having Faith and being taught by the Grace of God to have Patience also to wait the Lord's time he by his Power appeared to lift up the hands and strengthen the knees and make the fearful Heart strong by the Might of his Power Yea the Lord having so often wrought your Deliverance and done wonderful Things for you beyond expectation or what you then could see so that you have been ready to say Oh! I hope I shall never meet with such Exercises Tryals and Temptations as heretofore I have met with and especially if any thing of self was set up to glory above what was meet because of what the Lord had done for you hath not the only Wise God seen it good after all this to try and prove you again Both without and within that you might be kept truly humble and low before him always depending upon his Power and nothing of your own yea to try your Faith and Patience and for a time hath hid his Face from you and that you have had but little if any either Bread or Water in so much because of your weakness and faintness the Enemy hath been very busie to Tempt you to despair of the sufficiency of the Power Love and Mercy of the Lord or to turn you aside from the way of Truth useing all his subtilty to keep out of your Remembrance and from calling to mind how and in what way and manner the Lord heretofore brought you over great Mountains and high Hills and levelled them all And through great Depths and sore Pangs of Soul yea your Hopes sometimes have been so little that some of you have been ready to say with one in the Days of Old Lord hast thou forgotten to be Gracious And yet has not the Lord after all this and much more renewed your Hope and Strength again and by the Glorious Appearance of the Pure Light of his heavenly Son hath again and again time after time broken forth and Gloriously shined in your Hearts and inward Parts to the manifesting and clearly discovering unto you the Enemies Wiles and Working with all the Mists Foggs and Darkness he brings in with him to the expelling and driving away the same through the strength and ability of the Power that is received in the Light even the Light of Life that thereby you might see and find out what hath been the cause of your being so exercised so long after your Convincement and not only so but after you have known many Deliverances and have travelled through much and have known watering Showers and fruitful Seasons for that end when found out and discovered to be brought to the Judgment and Sentence of Condemnation that all that is of that old cursed Self in which the Enemy works to the hurt of the Soul may be slain with the Sword of the Spirit which is the Word of God and consumed with the Fire of the Lord. Thus hath the only Wise God taught you by his Light Grace and holy Spirit and thereby you have learned experience and