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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	afraid_a	lord_n	zion_n	20	3	9.6931	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A86489	The skirts of the whore discovered, and the mingled people in the midst of her. In a letter sent by Denys Hollister to the independent baptiz'd people, who call themselves a Church of Christ in Bristol, but are found to be a synagogue of Satan, in answer to a charge brought to him from them by some of their members, and by him ... published. Together with another letter written by him to Thomas Ewens, a teacher among them, ... referring to his speaking among his people of having Sarah Latchet a servant of Jesus, once a member among the Baptists, sent to Bridewell, and whipt for testifying to them in the name of the Lord in their meeting the second day of the ninth moneth. 1655. And likewise an answer to 16 antiqueries directed to the people called Quakers, which answer was sent to Thomas Ewens, from whom the antiqueries were received, though Iohn Pendarviss a long time after published the antiqueries by the name of Queries, without the answer to them, or taking the least notice of it in a book entituled Arrows against Babylon which hath occasiond the presenting of the one, and the other, now to the view of those who read, and understand, to judge of the whole, and of their unfaire and deceitfull dealing.	Hollister, Dennis, d. 1676?	1656 (1656)	Wing H2508; Thomason E896_3; ESTC R202571	35,627	37

of whoredomes acted therein All which with much more not being believed nor received but entertained with offence and prejudice What could I doe but shake off the dust of my feet and stand as a Witness against your deceit and so betake my self into the Wilderness as before I had said in which the Lord speaks comfortably And give me leave without offence to tel you that in all this I understood and knew what I spake Yea when I profess'd among you my ignorance of Christ I wel knew what I did for mine eies began to be opened by him that was given for a covenant to open blind eies And therefore do bear testimony that that knowledg also which you had then of Christ shall profit you nothing and that your habitation is in the midst of deceit and through deceit ye refuse to know the Lord but are feeding on ashes not on bread and so are a people robbed and spoiled yea all of you snared in holes and hid in Prison-houses and are for a prey and for a spoil And this shall ye know and witness eternally when happily no place for repentance may be found but the things belonging to your peace be hid from your eyes But who among you will give ear to this who will hearken and hear for the time to come But when I consider both your danger and your confidence and see but little probability of escape How am I wounded at the heart and made as it were to cry out My bowels my bowels I am pained at the heart I have labored in vain and spent my strength for nought for the treacherous dealers have dealt very treacherously and so you proceed from evil to evil as appeareth this day though the God of this world hath so blinded your eyes that you cannot see it I told you also whiles I was with you that as many desired and seemed to delight in the day of Christs first appearance in flesh could not stand when he appeared but became his Betrayers and Murderers so in his second appearance in Spirit Power and Life many of those that expected him seemed to desire and earnestly pray for that day of Christ would be found the greatest Enemies to him and told you some of you would betray him and how sadly it is already fulfilled in you and made good by you Let all to whom God hath given any measure of true discerning judge and see if in envy wrath and rage some of you exceed not the Heathen yea all your Fathers who in envy wrath and rage persecuted the Prophets and holy men of God that witnessed the truth in their generations But my Friends Against whom do ye sport your selves against whom make ye a wide mouth and draw out the tongue yea and the hand also Are you not children of transgression a seed of falshood Are your actions the actions of Isaac the true seed to whom the promise is made or of Ishmael that scoffed or mocked and must be cast out of righteous Abel or wrathful Cain by your fruits are ye known and the Harvest is come in which the wheat is gathering and the tares and chaff is scattering and burning and your saying Lord Lord will not serve turn Your saying and imagining you have Faith will not save you when your works are contrary and proceed not from above but from beneath Why do ye rage and imagine vain things why do ye set your selves and take counsel together against the anointed one why will ye break all his bonds and cast his cords from you by which he would draw and gather you to himself in this day of his mighty power The Lord hath set his King upon his holy Hill of Sion Who from thence declares the decrees the Law is gone forth of Sion and the word of the Lord from Ierusalem thousands are witnesses thereof although it be your lot to be of that number that despise and wonder and must perish according to the Scripture except ye repent And therefore be wise and kiss the Son lest he be angry c. For truly you may associate your selves and take counsel of the enemies of the Lord you may strike in confederacy with the enemies of our God but you must be broken to pieces for the Lord of Hosts is with us and the shout of a King is among us though we are as signs and wonders in Israel But to be plain from whence comes Wars and Fightings that are among you why do ye beat in your meetings likewise Enemies of Christ in their Synagogues as some of you did the tenth day of the seventh moneth at Richard Moons if you had there met to call on the Father who without respect of persons judgeth righteously why had you not past your time in fear but if you have bitter envyings and strife in your hearts as it is evident you then and at other times had glory not and lie not against the truth for this comes not from above but is carnal sensual and devilish and where strife and envy is there is confusion and every evil work Therefore cleanse your hands ye sinners and purifie your hearts ye double-minded be afflicted and mourn and weep let your laughter be turned into mourning and your joy into heaviness for God accepts not your sacrifice but his wrath and fury is to be revealed against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who hold the truth in unrighteousness as you do this day And therefore the sinners in Sion are afraid great fear hath surprized the Hypocrites I beseech you read uprightly without prejudice or deceit the 83. Psalm from end to end and see if it contains not both your practice and portion I advise you to stand still if you will see the salvation the Lord of a truth is working for his people But if you will stand on the other side reioycing over the children of Iudah in the day of their calamity and speak proudly in the day of her distress and be like one of her enemies Know that the day of the Lord is near upon all the Heathen her enemies and as you have done it shall be done unto you as the Prophet witnesses Obadiah 11.12 13 14 15. And if you will be one with the enemies of the Lord in sin must ye not be one in plagues And if you although ignorantly will be lifting at the burthen some stone and fighting against Ierusalem must ye not be broken and receive the plague from the Lord God that must be poured out upon all that fight against it Zach. 14.12 Can any pretence whatsoever cover you Consider this all ye that put faraway the evil day and cause the seat of violence to come near who beat and abuse the servants of the living God which in his Name he sends among you for your good so that they bear your marks in their bodies as of old they did from your Fathers and whether it be not an evident token of your perdition