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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	according_a	heart_n	word_n	1,814	5	3.8480	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A61380	Jacob, the plain man, wrestling with God until the break of the day and prevailing in the light thereof for perfect victory and dominign [sic] over Esau, the rough and cunning man ... / [by] Laurence Steel.	Steel, Laurence, d. 1684.	1677 (1677)	Wing S5378; ESTC R32673	16,540	30

Testimonies and Declarations and was a Witness of the Life and Power that accompanied Mean Illiterate Persons such as the first that I heard was I was the more joyned unto them whose Prayers and Supplications were more prevalent to bring me unto and keep me in the Light then all the Prayers and Fasts of those that deny its Guidance were to keep me from it Thus according to my earnest Desires to the Lord to bring forth the Work which he would establish in the room of that which he had pulled down before I went out of that Family I was for about 2 weeks among them in a testimony to the truth in the Risings of which I felt more and more freedom to be witnessed from my Soul's enemies and a drawing me again into a watchfulness over my own thoughts words and actions that nothing might arise or work in my Heart but what was of God who was now come to judge down every Evil Thought and Inclination in the first Motion and Rise of it so that though there was an Abatement of that Bodily Exercise which profiteth not yet there was an Increase of Inward Exercise to keep a Conscience void of Offence not only in the Sight of Man who lookt at the Outward Appearance but also in the Sight of God that searched the Heart And in that Family I met with much Christian-like Forbearance Tenderness not out of any Respect to the People and Principle which they esteemed too mean and low but out of Respect to that Uprightness which they believed to be in me And now the time of our parting being come in which I must leave them which because of that Love and Endearedness that had been between us it was hard to do but that my Heart was taken up with Christ's being come to receive me to himself and to dwell and walk in me as his house and temple for which End he had separated called me out from all that was defiled And since I could no longer perform the Office of a Chaplain as it was expected of me which if I could they desired no other they were willing to give me Satisfaction according to our Agreement for the time that I had been among them upon a double Account viz. of Tutouring their Children and of Preaching As to the Teaching the Children I was free to take Consideration but as for Preaching notwithstanding the Money was told out and I was urged and pressed to receive it I was forbidden by the Lord to take any and so left it But to clear the Family of all Suspitions Jealousies that might arise in any touching the Ground of my leaving them I consented upon the first Motion thereof to leave a Certificate signifying to all that might be concerned That I left the Family only upon the Account of some higher Discovery of Truth on my part not apprehending it to be the Will of the Lord to be worshipped any otherwise then in Spirit and Truth and that as to Outward Encouragements they rather exceeded then came short of my Expectation And thus in pure Love and Desires of the Spiritual Welfare of every one I left that Family which next to my own Relations were dear to me who had a full Sight and Experience of my Conversation as to the Work and Dealings of the Lord with me in that Day This was about the 7th Moneth of the Year 1673. After which I came forward to my Relations among whom I knew not one that was inclined to the Truth who might stand with me in a Testimony for it but all Opposed it and joyned with their Teachers against it with whom notwithstanding as I stood innocently in the Counsel of God which led me to yield true Submission and Honour to them next to himself I found way made for my Reception and also opened the Hearts of his People unto me to whom I was a Stranger but as the Lord gave them a sense of that Upright Desire of Truth and Righteousness which only brought me among them in whose Meetings I waited as one of the Meanest and Lowest of them for about twelve Moneths sitting under the Droppings and Distillings of that Life and Power which the Lord was pleased to sill others with in the Meeting to grow daily more and more as it is daily my Endeavour in the inward Experience of the Redeeming Purifying and Quickening Virtue of the Truth which in the sense of that Love of God in bringing me among this People to eat of the Bread of Life when so many Wise and Prudent were left behind feeding upon Husks often broke my Heart and caused Desires in me That I might never more appear out of the living Stirrings and movings of the Spirit Life of Christ nor stay behind it when it did move After which it pleased the Lord in his own time according to my own and others Travail and Supplication to cause his Life to break forth in me sometimes in a few words of Prayer sometimes of Exhortation in which the Lord gave me Power and Faithfulness to ease my self and my Words returned not to me again but had entrance and as I kept low and humble giving Honour and Glory to Christ alone in his Appearance so I selt the Increase of that Authority and Life which made way in the Hearts of them to whom I was sent in whose Consciences it is my desire to stand recommended and to be felt of them who are in Life as a Savour of Life unto Life And thus the Lord having raised me up and spared me through much Weakness and Labour unto this Day to see the Desire of my Soul accomplished in great Measure according to my Faith when I first laid down my Ministry I do still wait in Submission to the Will of the Lord for the Day when that breathing Seed of God which is yet left in the dead and lifeless Professions may become ripe for the Harvest then shall there be no Want of Reapers who shall put in their Sickles and gather them into the House which God hath provided for to receive all that are low and poor in their own Eyes for want of Power and Strength to overcome that which letteth hindereth their perfect Redemption into which House God hath called me as a Fore-Runner of Thousands that are yet ungathered unto which being come up I can't go back or down unto them but can freely serve the lowest of them by living Supplications to the Great Shepherd of the Sheep for the bringing them into that Fold where he makes his Flocks that were wearied and driven from Mountain to Hill to rest at Noon in the Bosome of their Beloved whose Tents they need no longer enquire after or go to the Watch men of the Night for Direction but by the Light of the Lord are they brought up to Bethel the House of the God of Jacob where they desire forever to dwell and offer unto the God of their Redemption Victories

and Deliverance as I do the Sacrifice of Praise and of Thanksgiving for evermore And now I shall shut up all with the Testimony of the Pastor of that Independant Congregation of which I was a Member and walkt with for several years who best among them knew the bent of my Heart who in his Letter to my Mother soon after my Convincement of the Truth gives this Testimony of the Grounds of my leaving them to come to this People in which he hath confirmed what I have before-mentioned his words are these The great Stumbling-block to him hath been our Loose Low and Earthly Conversation And is not Loosness Lowness and Earthliness Stumbling block enough especially in them that profess to be Members of Christ Jesus and look for Salvation by him and to be gathered out of the World He may well call it Great What can lay a greater Stumbling-block in the Way of the Upright then to make so high a Profession a Cloak and Covering for so much Sin and Iniquity Would it not be far better and more Honour to Christ to cease professing of him which doth but make them the greater Stumbling-blocks until they have departed from these Iniquities And is not this enough to acquit me from separating from such Assemblies and Congregations that are thus poluted Further he saith He is earnest to get up to More Spiritualness then he sees among us And must I be represented in so many places as a deluded deceived Person and one that is fallen from the Faith and apostatized to Error and a Saddener of the Hearts of the Upright and prayed and fasted for as such and all for leaving of such People as are Loose Low and Earthly to get up to more Spiritualness Or can I look upon such as true Friends to my Soul as would hinder me from so good an Exchange Further he saith Which he apprehends is to be found among this People Yea I do more then apprehend it for I have felt and experienced for some years that Spiritualness to be among them which keeps them that walk in it from Loosness Lowness and Earthliness so that I have no Desire to return to them whose Conversations are so loose c. as he confesseth Further he saith I am perswaded this is that which hath carried him among them more then any Respect that he hath to their odd Opinions Here he hath bound all with his Perswasion from that certain Knowledge he had of me for many years in which he knew my Bent was after Spiritualness and Heavenly-mindedness and herein he hath spoken the Truth of me viz. That it was Loosness Lowness and Earthliness that stumbled and drew me off from them and that it was with desire of more Spiritualness that I came among this People and my Desire hath been therein largely answered to the Joy and Satisfaction of my Soul Further he continueth to say If we gain this by his Fall to be provoked to more Heavenliness and Spiritualness and to savour less of this Earth we shall be Gainers by his Loss Here he should have minded his former Expression and Perswasion and have considered whether the Lord doth suffer such to fall whose great Stumbling is at Loosness Lowness and Earthliness and who are earnest to get up to more Spiritualness which is more according to the Will of God Or are they not fallen and lost who according to his Confession are still where they were many years ago after all his Preaching and Praying are not got up above their Looseness Lowness Earthliness whom he presseth and indeed it is high time for them all to manifest better Fruits of their profiting and to savour less of this Earth which hath been the Cause of my leaving of them and to get up to that Spiritualness and Heavenliness where they will find me and so in this Spiritualness we shall be united again But has not the cause of this unprofitableness or standing at a stay bin for want of coming to that Grace which is sufficient to teach all that learn of it to deny All mark All Ungodliness and All worldly Lusts which makes them Stumbling-blocks in the Way of others that so through the denying of these they might come to live soberly righteously and godly not only hereafter but in this present Evil World and so not stumble but gain others by their Conversation without which all Verbal Confession and Acknowledgments are vain and fruitless and leaves them no better then they were before THE END