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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	law_n	life_n	sin_n	22,698	5	5.7840	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A90820	A vision: wherein is manifested the disease and cure of the kingdome. Being the summe of what was delivered to the Generall Councel of the Army, Decemb. 29.1648. Together with a true copie of what was delivered in writing (the fifth of this present January) to the said Generall Conncel [sic], of divine pleasure concerning the King in reference to his being brought to triall, what they are therein to do, and what not, both concerning his office and person. / By E. Pool herein a servant to the most high God.	Poole, Elizabeth.; England and Wales. Army. Council.	1649 (1649)	Wing P2810; Thomason E537_24; ESTC R205543	5,484	8

I am in divine pleasure made sensible of the might of the affaires which lye upon you and the Spirit of sympathe abiding in me constraineth me to groane with you in your paines you may remember I told you the Kingly power is undoubtedly fallen into your hands which power is to punish evill doers and to praise them that doe well Now therefore my humble advice to you is that you stand as in the awfull presence of the most high Father acting your parts before God and man you stand in the place of interpreters for many hard sayings present themselves to you and will doe looke for it wherefore see That you give unto men the things that are theirs and upon God the things that are his it is true indeed as unto men I know I appeale by the gift of God upon me the King is your Father and husband which you were and are to obey in the Lord no other way for when he forgot his Subordination to divine Faith hood and headship thinking he had begotten you a generation to his own pleasure and taking you a wife for his own lusts thereby is the yoake taken from your necks I meane the neck of the spirit and Law which is the bond of your union that the holy life in it might not be prophaned it being free and can not be bound For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath freed us from the law of sinne and of death for the letter of the law which speaketh to the flesh kileth therefore you must suffer of men in the flesh for the Lords sake that so dying to your own bodies that is to al selfe interest in divine will you might also receive your resurrection for you must dye before you can rise you must loose your lives Interests Liberties and all before you can save them casting your Crowne at the feet of the Lamb who only is worthy yet still pleading for them with men for they are your due with them a share they may not deny you Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord for they rest from their labours and their workes doe follow them From your own labours I wish you rest in the Lord that the fruit of your labours which is the life of your faith may follow you to prison to death know this that true liberty either is not bound to any thing nor from any thing for it is subject to this or that neither this nor that in divine will neverthelesse as from the Lord you have al that you have and are so to the Lord you owe althat you have and are for his own name sake So from the King in Subordination You have all that you have and are and also in Subordination you owe him all that you have and ate and although he would not be your Father and husband Subordinate but absolute yet know that you are for the Lords sake to honour his person For he is the Father and husband of your bodyes as unto men and therefore your right cannot be without him as unto men I know and am very seusible that no small straight lyeth upon you in respect of secureing his person for the manifold conceived inconveniences following and necessities of evill event in respect of raising more wars and also other things well known to you which will present themselves unpossible for you to avoid neverthelesse this is my humble and hearty prayer to the everlasting Father which I present to you in words that you may be edified thereby Remember I said everlasting Father for so we shall best know him for our consolation that it might please him of his infinite eternal life and goodnesse to grant you a sure and certaine knowledge of this that all things which are impossible with men at the utmost extent of impossibility are possible with him who onely saith it and it cometh to passe the Lord of hoasts the God of the whole earth who commandeth all hoasts of men Angels and Devils whose eies run to and fro throughout the face of the whole earth To shew himselfe strong in the behalfe of all those that trust in him Wherefore put your swords into his hands for your defence and feare not to act the part of Abigail seeing Nabal hath refused it by Appropriating his goods to himselfe in relieving David and his men in their distresse it was to her praise it shall be to yours feare it not Onely consider that as she lifted not her hand against her husband to take his life no more doe yee against yours For as the Lord revenged his owne cause on him he shall doe on yours For vengeance is mine I will repay it saith the Lord who made him the Saviour of your body though he hath profaned his Saviour-ship Stretch not forth the hand against him For know this the Conquest was not without divine displeasure whereby Kings came to reigne though through lust they tyranized which God excuseth not but judgeth and his judgements are fallen heavy as you see upon Charles your Lord Forget not your pity towards him for you were given him an helper in the body of the people Which people are they that agreed with him to subject unto the punishment of evill doers and the praise of them that doe well Which law is the spirit of your Union And although this bond be broken on his part You never heard that a wife might put away her husband as he is the head of her body but for the Lords sake suffereth his terror to her flesh though she be free in the spirit to the Lord and he being uncapable to act as her husband she acteth in his stead and having the spirit of Union abiding in her she considereth him in his temptations as tempted with him And if he will usurpe over her she appealeth to the Father-hood for her offence which is the spirit of justice and is in you For I know no power in England to whom it is committed save yourselves and the present Parliament which are to act in the Church of Christ as she by the gift of faith upon her shall be your guide for the cure of her body that you might therefore commit an unsound member to Satan though the head as it is flesh that the spirit might be saved in the day of the Lord I believe And accordingly you may hold the hands of your husband that he pierce not your bowels with a knife or sword to take your life Neither may you take his I speake unto you as Men Fathers and Brethren in the Lord who are to walke by this rule Whatsoever you would that men should doe unto you doe yee the same unto them I know it would affright you to be cut off in your iniquity but O how faine would you have your iniquity taken away Consider also others in their amazement I know you have said it and I believe that if you could see sutable sorrow for so great offence you should embrace it I beseech you in the bowels of love for there it is I pleade with you looke upon the patience of God towards you and see if it will not constraine you to forbearance for his sake I know the spirit of sanctity is in you and I know as wel the spirit of bondage holdeth you oft-times that you cannot but groane for deliverance Wherfore I beseech you for the Lords sake whose I am and whom I serve in the spirit that you let not goe the Vision which I shewed you concerning the cure of England as it was presented to me Wherein the party acting being first required to stand as in the awfull presence of God and to act for her cure according to the direction which he should receive from the Church by the gift of faith upon her Act he must but not after any former rule by men prescribed for cure but after the rule of the gift of faith which I humbly beseech the Almighty Lord to establish in you I rest Your servant in the Church and Kingdome of Christ Elizabeth Poole After the delivery of this she was asked whether she spake against the bringing of him to triall or against their taking of his 〈◊〉 She answered Bring him to his triall that he may be convicted in his conscience but touch not his person FINIS