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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	know_v	lord_n	see_v	7,565	5	3.3975	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A47171	A salutation of dear and tender love to the seed of God arising in Aberdeen in two epistles : directed unto friends of truth in that place whom the Lord hath called ... to bear their testimony for his glorious truth (against an evil, adulterous, and persecuting generation) ... / writ by George Keith.	Keith, George, 1639?-1716.	1665 (1665)	Wing K202; ESTC R24137	7,780	9

Lord and you delivered therefrom for this is only that which stands in the way and lets your entrance into Gods Kingdom even somewhat more or less that is contrary to the holy and pure nature of God and against his will cleaved unto and lived in which till ye be rid of the flaming sword will turn every way against you so that ye cannot get into the Paradice of God though ye should never so earnestly desire it And such of you whom the Lord hath in some measure perswaded to quit many things and ye purpose to quit more as he shall discover them to be evil unto you faint not in your minds though ye cannot get the desires of your minds and souls accomplished and though ye cannot see the good Land nor get so much as a tast of the Wine that grows there I say faint not nor be discouraged for a day of blessed refreshment from the Lord is abiding you wherein ye shall see the King of Glory in his beauty and ye shall be made to drink of the river of his pleasure and to eat of the feast of fat things upon the mountain of the Lord and the Wine well refined from the lees shall be given unto you even the new Wine in the Fathers Kingdom and ye shall eat and drink and praise the name of the Lord which I declare unto you not of my self but of the Lord who hath brought me through the riches of his goodness to know such a state in a measure and hath shed abroad his love in my heart in the which love I have felt the bowels of the Lords compassion flowing forth towards you also and the blessings of Gods heavenly Kingdom ready to be show●ed down upon you which ye shall come to know when that which lets shall be taken out of the way for ye must pass through the judgment of the Lord and be rid of all that cannot dwell with everlasting burnings for our God is a consuming fire and the throne of iniquity can have no fellowship with him and the Lord is to try you with a Wilderness even a dry and barren Land wherein is no water whereby your desires after him may be the more enlivened and enlarged and your faith and patience must be tryed which hath been the Lords dealing with us also for which be endless glory and praise unto his Name and there in the Wilderness he will allure you and speak comfortably unto you and give you Vineyards from thence and the Valley of Achor for a door of hope Therefore think not strange of the fiery trial which shall try you wherein the Lord will plead with all that is of Flesh within you and ye must be brought down to the Valley of Iehoshaphat which is as much as the Valley of decision or off-cuting wherein ye must come to know the Circumcision even the cutting off of that which is but flesh before you enter the promised Land and the Sun must be turned into darkness and the Moon loose her light before the notable day of the Lord come and all that hath been the delight of your eyes must be taken from you and you left stript and naked as in the day ye were born and then will the Lord cast the skirts of his love over you and say unto you live and ye shall live and ye shall become beautiful with his comeliness that he shall put upon you even the robes of his unspoted Righteousness and the garments of his Salvation wherewith ye shall be cloathed and in that day ye shall understand the sence and meaning of these Scriptures that blessed are the poor for their's is the Kingdom of Heaven and blessed are the pure in heart for they shall see God and that God is truly good to Israel even to such as are upright in heart And dear Friends as I have spoke unto you so it is in my heart to put you again by writing in remembrance thereof though ye may know it how that the Lord is making a narrow and deep search in this day even beyond what hath been these many ages ago he is now arisen to take vengeance upon the many inventions with which he hath borne long and hath winked at them so to speak in the dayes of ignorance and hath suffred many even of the faithful in former dayes to keep many things against which the Lord hath pronounced his indignation in this day for now is the day broken up and the Sun arisen and the more refined garments of the Whore which formerly past for upright in the twy-light are now discerned to be but counterfeit and blessed are they and shall be who are made willing to see and seeks not to cover or spare what the Lord requires to be given up and parted with though it be a hard thing for flesh and blood but I can assure you the love of God when ye come to feel it shed abroad in your hearts will a thousand fold recompense all that ye can forsake for his names sake the reproach of Christ shall become unto you more pretious then all the treasures of Egipt And as I have formerly told you so it is with me again to remind you even to exercise all forbearance in all things but in so far as it lies upon you from the Lord according to the manifestation of his light and spirit in your hearts ceasing ceasing forever from every thing but what ye manifestly know to be agreeable with the Lords will not hazarding to be found in any thing whatsoever because ye see it not evil or sinful nay that is not enough the path and way of God is yet narrower though large and broad enough to the children of God even to let things alone but as you see them in the openings and manifestation of the Spirit of life within you to be good innocent profitable suitable to truth so that you savour a good savour in them and others of the Lords children with you this ends all disputations and reasonings and here is peace joy liberty even true Christian liberty and freedom yea victory and Dominion whereas to do things not knowing the Lords will and approbation therein is but at best to do doubtingly and such are condemned and weakness and confusion enters them and the seed of God is burdened yea I say it again blessed are they who are come here even to be afraid to medle with any thing though never so plausible in the eyes of men but as they find and feel in themselves the approbation and allowance of the Lords Spirit therein else to forbear and let alone even to take up the cross to every work and word yea to every desire and thought of the heart which is not manifestly known to be of the Lord the blessed experience whereof I have often found and daily finds waiting and earnestly desiring of the Lord that the mystery of his Cross I may more and more learn that I may become crucified