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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	worship_n	worship_v	wrought_v	66	3	7.8379	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A70635	A cloud of witnesses, or, The sufferers mirrour made up of the swanlike-songs, and other choice passages of several martyrs and confessors to the sixteenth century, in their treatises, speeches, letters, prayers, &c. in their prisons, or exiles, at the bar, or stake, &c. / collected out of the ecclesiastical histories of Eusebius, Fox, Fuller, Petrie, Scotland, and Mr. Samuel Ward's Life of faith in death, &c. and alphabetically disposed by T.M. ...	Mall, Thomas, b. 1629 or 30.; Mall, Thomas, b. 1629 or 30. Offer of farther help to suffering saints.; Ward, Samuel, 1577-1640.	1665 (1665)	Wing M330; Wing M332; ESTC R232057	171,145	273

before you heavenly Father which loveth you most tenderly shall give them leave they shall go no farther the● he will nor keep you any longer in trouble th●● he will Therefore cast on him all your care fo● he is careful for you Onely study to please him and to keep your consciences clean and your bodies pure from the idolatrous service which now every where is used and God will marvellously and mercifully defend and comfort you In his Letter to Erkinald Rawlins and his wife Pa. 318. First we have cause to rejoyce for these dayes because our Father suffereth us not to lye in Jezabel's bed steeping in our sins and security but as mindful of us doth correct us as his children Secondly because they are dayes of tryal wherein not onely ye your selves but also the world shall know that ye be none of his but the Lords Darlings whom we obey his servants we are Now it is seen whether we obey the world or God But the tryals of these dayes ye are occasioned more to repent more to pray more to contemn this world more to desire life everlasting more to be holy for holy is the end wherefore God doth afflict us and so to come to Gods company In his Letter to Mr. Laurence Saunders Pa. 320. A Friend having moved the Prisoners to subscribe to the Papists Articles with this condition so far as they are not against Gods word Dr. Taylor and Mr. Philp●t think the salt sent by our Friend is unseasonable for my own part I pray God in no case I may seek my self and indeed I thank God I purpose it not In another Letter This will be offensive Pa. 321. therefore let us Vadere plane and so sane I mean let us all confess we are no changlings but re ipsa are the same we were in Religion and therefore cannot subscribe except we will dissemble both with God with our selves and with the world In his Letter to Dr. Cranmer Dr. Ridley and Dr. Latimer Our dear brother Rogers hath broken the Ice valiantly this day I think or to morrow at the uttermost hearty Hooper sincere Saunders and trusty Tailor end their course and receive their Crown The next am I who hourly look for the Porter to open me the Gates after them to enter into the desired Rest God forgive me mine unthankfulness for this exceeding great mercy For though I justly suffer for I have been a great Hypocrite c. The Lord pardon me yea he hath done it he hath done it indeed yet what evil hath he done Christ whom the Prelates persecute his truth which they hate in me hath done no evil nor deserved death O what am I Lord that tho● shouldest thus magnifie me Is this thy wont to send for such a wretched Hypocrite in a fiery chariot as thou didst for Elias In his Letter to the Lord Russel Pa. 322. Faith is reckoned and worthily among the greatest gifts of God by it as we are justified and made Gods children so are we Temples and Possessors of the Holy Spirit yea of Christ also Eph. 4. And of the Father himself John 14. By faith we drive the Devil away 2 Pet. 5. We overcome the world 1 John 5. And are already Citizens of Heaven c. Yet the Apostle doth match even with faith yea as it were prefer suffering Persecution for Christs sake Phil. 1. Though the wisdom of the world think of the Cross according to sense and therefore flyeth from it as from a most great ignominy and shame yet Gods Scholars have learned to think otherwise of the Cross as the Frame-house wherein God frameth his Children like to his Son Christ the Furnace that fineth Gods gold the High-way to Heaven the Suit and Livery of Gods servants the earnest and beginning of all consolation and glory In his Meditation on the Commandements Pag. 93 94. As the first Command teacheth me as well that thou art my God as what God thou art therefore of equity I should have no other Gods but thee that is I should onely hang on thee trust in thee serve thee call on thee obey thee and be thankful to thee so because thou didst reveal thy self visibly that thou mightest visibly be worshipped The second Commandement is concerning thy Worship that in no point I should follow in worshipping thee the device or intent of any man Saint Angel or Spirit but should take all such as idolatry and image-service be it never so glorious And why forsooth because thou wouldst I should worship thee as thou hast appointed by thy Word for if service be acceptable it must be according to the Will of him to whom it is done and not of him who doth it c. So that the meaning of this Precept is that as in the first I should have none other Gods but thee so I should have no worship of thee Pa. 19● but such as thou appointest And therefore utterly abandon mine own will and reason all the reasons and good intents of man and wholly give my self to serve thee after thy will and word Pag. 98 99. Thou bidst me not to take thy Name in vain as by temerarious or vain swearing c. So by denying thy truth and word or concealing it when occasion is offered to promote thy glory and confirm thy truth By reason whereof I may well see that thou wouldst have me to use my tongue in humble confessing thee and thy word Pa. 113 114. This was his Meditation in Q. Marie's time and truth after my Vocation c. Thy Ministers I pray not for thy Church I am not careful for no not now good Lord when wicked Doctrine most prevaileth Idolatry Superstition and Abomination abound the Sacraments c. blasphemously corrupted c. all which my wickedness brought in my profaning of the fourth Commandement and my not praying Thy Ministers are in Prison dispersed in other Countreys spoiled burnt murthered many fall for fear of goods life name c. from the truth they have received to most manifest idolatry false Preachers abound among the people thy people dearly bought even with thy blood are not fed with the bread of thy Word but with swillings and drink for swine Antichrist wholly prevaileth and yet for all this also I am too careless nothing lamenting my sins which have been the cause of all this Help thy Church cherish it Pa. 115 116. and give it harbour here and elsewhere for Christs sake Purge the Ministry from corruption and false Ministers Send out Preachers to feed thy people Destroy Antichrist and all his Kingdom Give to such as be fallen from thy truth repentance Keep others from falling and by their falling do thou the more confirm us Confirm thy Ministers and poor people in Prison and Exile Strengthen them in thy truth Deliver them if it be thy good will Give them that with conscience they may so answer their Adversaries that thy servants may rejoyce

Word plainly manifested unto thee by Reading Disputing and Preaching publickly and privately but now to make thee altogether excuseless and as it were almost to sin against the Holy Ghost if thou put to thy helping hand with the Romish Rout to suppress the Verity and set out the contrary thou hast my life and blood as a Seal to confirm thee if thou wilt be confirmed or else to confound thee if thou wilt take part with the Prelates and Clergy which now fill up the measure of their Fathers which flew the Prophets and Apostles that all the righteous blood from Abel to Bradford may be required at their hands For the tender mercy of Christ in his bowels and blood I beseech you to take Christs eye-salve to anoint your eyes that you may see what you do and have done in admitting the Romish rotten Rags which once you utterly expelled O be not the Dog returned to his vomit be not the Sow that was washed returning to her wallowing in the mire Beware least Satan enter in with seven worse Spirits c. It had been better you had never known the truth than after knowledge to have run from it Ah! woe to this world and the things therein which hath now so wrought with you Oh that ever this Dirt of the Devil should daub up the eye of the Realm What is man whose breath is in his nostrils that thou shouldst thus be afraid of him Dost not thou know Rome to be Babylon Dost not thou know that as the old Babylon had the children of Judah in captivity so hath Rome the true Judah i.e. the Confessors of Christ Dost not thou know that as destruction happened unto it so shall it do unto this Dost not thou know that God will deliver his people now when the time is come as he did then Hath not God commanded his people to come out of her and wilt thou give example to the whole Realm to run unto her Hast thou forgotten the woe that Christ threatneth to offence-givers Wilt not thou remember that it were better that a Milstone were hanged about thy neck and thou thrown into the Sea than that thou shouldst offend the little ones Dear Mother Receive some admonition of one of thy poor children now going to be burned for the testimony of Jesus Come again to Gods truth come out of Babylon confess Christ and his true Doctrine repent that which is past c. Remember the readings c. of Gods Prophet Bucer Call to mind the threatnings of God now somewhat seen by thy children Leaver and others Let the exile of Leaver Pilkinton Grindal Haddon Horn Scory Ponet c. something awake thee Consider the martyrdom of thy Chickens Rogers Saunders Tailor And now cast not away the poor admonition of me going to be burned also and to receive the like Crown of Glory with my fellows Even now the Axe is layd to the Root In his Letter to Lancashire and Cheshire Pa. 313. c. Indeed if I should simply consider my life with that which it ought to have been and as God in his Law requireth then could I not but cry as I do Righteous art thou O Lord c. But when I consider the cause of my condemnation I cannot but lament that I do no more rejoyce for it is Gods truth So that the condemnation is not a condemnation of Bradford simply but rather a condemnation of Christ and his Truth Bradford is nothing else but an instrument in whom Christ and his Doctrine is condemned And therefore my dearly beloved rejoyce rejoyce and give thanks with me and for me that ever God did vouchsafe ●o great a benefit to our Countrey as to choose the most unworthy I mean my self to be one in whom it pleaseth him to suffer Forget not how that the Lord hath shewed himself true and me his true Preacher by bringing to pass these plagues which at my mouth you oft heard before My blood will cry for vengeance as against the Papists Gods enemies c. so against you if ●e repent not amend not and turn not unto the ●ord In his Letter to the Town of Walden Pa. 316. What ●an you desire more to assure your Consciences of the Verity taught by your Preachers than their ●wn lives Waver not therefore in Christs Reli●ion truly taught you Never shall the enemies be ●ble to burn it and imprison it and keep it in ●onds though they may imprison and burn us I humbly beseech you and pray you in the ●owels and blood of Jesus now I am going to ●eath for the testimony of Jesus love the Lords ●ruth love I say to love it and to frame your ●ves thereafter Alas you know the cause of all these plagues fallen upon us and of the success which Gods adversaries have daily is for our not ●ving Gods Word You know how that we were ●ut Gospellers in lips and not in life Remember that before ye learned A.B.C. your Lesson was Christs Cross Forget not that Christ will have no ●isciples but such as will promise to deny themselves and to take up their Cross mark that take 〈◊〉 up and follow him and not the multitude cu●ome c. Loth would I be a witness against ●ou at the last day as of truth I must be if ye repent not if ye love not Christs Gospel In his Letter to B. C. The world seems to have the upper hand Pa. 317. the Truth seems to be oppressed and they which take part therewith are unjustly entreated The cause of all this is Gods anger and mercy His anger because we have grievously sinned against him we have been unthankful for his Word c. we have been so carnal covetous licentious c. that of his Justice h● could no longer forbear but make us feel his anger c. His mercy is seen in this that God doth vouchsafe to punish us in this present life If he should not have punished us Do not you think we should have continued in the evils we were in 〈◊〉 Yes verily we should have been worse The way to Heaven is not the wide way of the world 〈◊〉 but it is a strait way which few walk in for few live Godly in Christ few regard the Life to come few remember the day of Judgment few remember how Christ will deny them before his Father that do deny him here few consider that Chris● will be ashamed of them in the last day which are ashamed of his Truth and true Service few ca●● up their accounts what will be laid to their charge in the day of vengeance few regard the condemnation of their own consciences in doing that which they inwardly disallow few love God better that their goods Of this I would that ye were all certain that all the hairs of your heads are numberless so that not one of them shall perish neither shall man or Devil be able to attempt any thing much less do any thing to you