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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	apostle_n	scripture_n	tradition_n	1,628	5	9.1929	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A29602	A clear voice of truth sounded forth, and as an ensign lifted up and displayed in answer to the proceedings of the Christians by name in Asia, by way of controversie and expostulation : together with savoury and wholesome admonishments, which may become of good use and profitable to all that read with a single eye, and understand with an upright heart : also the same somewhat tends by way of gentle reproof to their hasty and inequitable proceedings against the innocent servants, messengers and living witnesses of the living and true God : yet with tendernesse of an upright heart and spirit (not onely of a free born English-man, but also of a true Christian) from the same hand its principally directed to the Lord Embassasdor (so called) in Constantinople, and to the English Company of Merchants and Factors in Smyrna, with somewhat to the merchants in Genoa, tendred again by way of visitation, and that from God, for them and others in Italy to consider and not reject to their own hurt.	D. B. (Daniel Baker), fl. 1650-1660.	1662 (1662)	Wing B482; ESTC R22863	27,445	38

Prophets and blessed shall the Man the Family the City the Kingdom the Nation be that doth not wilfully and rebelliously reject but receive and accept of the good day of their Visitation of Salvation of which I am one that giveth a certain sound being saved by the same Grace and Life of God that bringeth Salvation and appeareth to all men to the end that they may be saved by it also and redeemed from Nations Kindreds Tongues and Peoples for all the Earth was of one Language before Babel or Nimrods Generation of Builders was and the Holy scriptures saith That he was a mighty hunter before the Lord who did and will confound their many Languages and Tongues that are out of the Truth and Plainnesse into which the sons of men are to be redeemed from the contrary for which my soul in love to the whole Creation travelleth and my spirit in the same is ready to say Amen to the counsel of the Everlasting light in the truth for the good and well-being of all the sons of men under what name or denomination soever they be called albeit I am as a stranger among them and as an out-cast or vile off-scouring of the world and forsaken but it s not so with me of the Lord Almighty whose servant and living witness I am and his clean pure spirit of Life within my very Heart and Bowels beareth me record to the same in Peace whether the sons of men believe me or not or hear or forbear who scornfully call me a Quaker but in the Power of God do I work out my salvation with Fear and Trembling according to the Holy Apostles sound Doctrine and scriptures of Truth And my name is known to the world and to the saints in light upon the earth Genoa this first month the tenth day and of the year 1662. Daniel Baker This was Rejected and not received by them THe Holy Apostle Paul as the Scripture saith in his life which giveth testimony unto this day on this wise to wit that all Asia had forsaken him and what after there has been in these latter dayes among them called Christians not only in Asia but also in all parts of the World where the joyful sound hath come but many rebell against the visitation of life and salvation so that they have rejected the word of the Lord and its Ambassadours of peace and saving health which the most high hath sent to and among them and as the hard-hearted Jews in unbelief cryed help men of Israel against two poor harmless Lambs in those dayes of the Holy Apostles that were deemed by them to be such as turned the World upside down and contrary to all men on such wise the same voice hath been sounded ●orth and lifted up unwisely by the same Spirit in Asia against two plain naked Messengers and Ministers of Truth But how is it that wise men seem to be so vailed or what 's the matter that their understandings are so darkned from the Wisdom and the clear Spirit of discerning that of the Pure Immortal God that they cannot see what they do many of them whom my heart pitieth Why should ye be so affraid of the harmless and guiltless that sounds the Message of undeniable Truth even the Word of the Lord which is the Sword of the Spirit whose weapons are not carnal or visible as Cain and Judas's were but Spiritual with the same to make war against Spiritual wickednesse and to destroy and cut down that which rules even in high places and in the Power of the Word Eternal to beat down and kill that which is hurtful and destructive to the Creation of God in Nations Kingdoms Thrones and Dominions that the same Power of the gentle Lamb of God may rule in and over all as in the beginning to the End that every man that liveth under the name or denomination of a Christian may clearly and truly say from his very heart without mocking or provoking God Eternal to his Face viz. AS IT WAS IN THE BEGINNING SO IT IS NOW AND EVER SHAL BE And if the Sons of men did but suffer the fear of the Lord to possesse their hearts and thereby honestly consider the weight of these words which so many vainly and unwisely utter they would in the first place fear and tremble and not take the Name of the Lord so in vain nor offer the sacrifice of fools But alas there 's few see as it was in the beginning or how it is now or what shall be in the World which hath no end which is the same which in the beginning was in which is the life which is the light of men which men hate because their deeds are evil which unfruitful works blinds the eye of a good and noble understanding and therefore even a Magestrate being so vailed albeit in the place of Judicature having a sword in his hand lifts it up and beareth it against the just and guiltlesse and so smites and wounds the Innocent which should be a terrour to the evil doer and to them that do well not hurtful but a praise but otherwise it hath sadly hapned in Ages and Generations even unto this our day against the Lamb and his appearance in and through his Members who hath been wounded and slain since the foundation of the World And so it comes to passe through many that are in one and the same nature of transgression Even as a blind man having a sword in his hand being hasty and as it were mad layes it he knows not where and smites he knows not what And so he was a wise man that said on this wise to wit Man being in honour and understandeth it not is like the beast that perish Now having a necessity in equitablenesse to give forth these writings to publick view to a good end for the good of all that hear and discern between the things that are of a good report from what is otherwise condemnable and not justifiable in the sight of God neither of good men and also seeing it is so that plain Truth and its Friends Followers and Messengers among the Nations as it s their portion to passe through the contradictions and manifold sufferings and reproaches of Christ their compleat example are daily beset with the same afflictions and false reports from multitudes that are saying with open mouth as in the dayes of the Prophets Report say they and we will report yet we delight not to Retaliate any more then a good necessity from God Almighty lyeth on us to give testimony for his Truth and Name and peoples sake for on this wise did the holy Prophets and Apostles as the holy Scriptures of Truth largely testifieth as in the Books of Jeremy Psalms and the New Testament and the Acts. This shall they have for their pride because they have reproached and magnified themselves against the People of the Lord of hosts the Lord will be terrible unto them for he will famish all the gods of the earth and men shall worship him every one from his place even all the Isles of the Heathen Zeph. 2.10 11. Daniel Baker THE END

verily and certainly we do in the sight of God concerning this our service whether you believe the same or not its even so And again I say we are clear of your guilt and condemnation before the Lord God of Judgement the Judge of all and be it known unto you that he who sent us is true whose witnesses we are Albeit some of you as the same Generation in the daies of old contemptuously and maliciously said to him that he was mad and had a devil and what else yet we have in the Lord held fast our integritie in the Truth in Life and Conversation to confess him before men and bear his reproaches in the fellowship of his Sufferings following his harmless and compleat example as the Sons of God in the midst of a crooked and perverse Generation unto which we are called and are his living witnesses and testifie of his undefiled life manifest in us and that he also is arisen from the dead and liveth for ever in the everlasting Light the which is your condemnation and not salvation whatsoever you profess in words whilst you are found setting your selves against his appearance now in this second coming a quickning spirit who is the Lord from Heaven without sin unto salvation in his Friends and Messengers as who hath drawn so near you with his visitation of Salvation in such clouds of witnesses in and with his mighty pure power of holiness yet with them eyes that are Adulterated from his undefiled life and truth which cannot cease from sin with which you see therewith cannot you behold him who is and is to be glorified in his Saints and also admired in all them that believe who will certainly render vengeance as saith the Holy Scripture not onely on them that know not God but also on them that obey not the Gospel of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ the Light and Life of men who tasted death for every man and as certain he lighteth every man that cometh into the World to the end that all men in him who is the Light might believe and be saved by the Light who is the Author of Eternal Salvation not onely from sin which worketh guilt and condemnation but also from the wrath to come but wo will be to them that not onely withstand his Appearance his Truth and People who are not according but contrary to the World its Wayes Worships Honours and Glory Traditions and Lusts and herein neither enter your selves but also as much as in them is hinder others who are as it were ready to enter from going in but behold Publicant Harlots are and come to be converted and so to enter the Kingdom whilest men of high degree themselves are shut out And will you bear with me if I ask you saying Have you been at all careful and not forgetful to entertain strangers Or have you not wilfully and despitefully shut the same out of your remembrance And how have you obeyed the perfect Doctrine of the Gospel of God But what hath not Christ in his Friends in his Lambs and Messengers been as Strangers and Pilgrims Yea hath not he been as a Prisoner and Captive despised in and among you but how at all have you visited him or entertained him that beareth the iniquity and liveth for ever He right well knoweth and in the day of God so shall you and it may be well if the same will appear to your justification Poor men my heart pitieth you woe and alass for you but the Scripture not to your justification do we witness fulfilled And what if I say your unchristian-like dealing against us the same turns to us for a Testimony albeit we rejoyce not as your reward will be evil unto your selves but mourn over you and if this we did not witnesse in our integrity sure of all men most miserable should we be and as he saith who is the Resurrection and the Life viz If they have persecuted me they also will persecute you if they had kept my sayings they would keep yours also but these things will they do unto you why because they know not him that sent me saith Jesus John 15. And have ye not read these sayings Now I tell you before it come to pass that when it is come to pass you might believe that I am he Verily verily he that receiveth whomsoever I send receiveth me and he that receiveth me receiveth him that sent me John 13. But consider have you received him or do you know what is the thing or whom you have rejected and defied in what you have done to them whom he hath assuredly sent whether you can believe the same or not And do you not know that he saith on this wise He that heareth you heareth me and he that despiseth you despiseth me and he that despiseth me despiseth him that sent me Luke 10.16 And do you think it had not been better your hand had been laid upon your month and to have manifested silence in the fear of the Lord rather then to have proceeded so far as this to your own hurt Woe and alas for you how can you truly say to the contrary in the Day of God and is it not your sins and your iniquities which keeps back good things from you And can you say that the words of our Living Testimony have been at any time against any thing that 's of the nature of God that 's Equitable and Just And what must all your strength and wisdom with what else you have be stirred up to keep up the strong holds of darkness its Works and Fruits even of the man of sin and Satans Kingdom is it not even so Bear with me if I ask you what ye think of such that were to depart from the presence of the King of Eternal life into everlasting fire with the Devil and his Angels who visited no● Christ though sick and in prison and when he was a stranger and naked took him not in neither cloathed him nor nourished him with either meat or drink when hungry and thirsty cold and naked but bowels of compassion was shut up such took him not in nay there is no room for the Babe of Glory in the Inn but a Manger where the beasts feed over him there the Virgins first born must lie Oh that any of you having ears to hear may hear but what think you will be the portion of such that not onely dease not to do such things to him in his Members but also speak all manner of evil against him and are not content therewith but he must be banished as a Rogue or Vagabond out of their Coasts and Borders whose carriage also must be as it is deemed and termed Ridiculous and capable to bring dishonour to a Nation because his Kingdom Honour and Glory is not of this World as some one saith being possessed with fear even as they were who said of him whom the Nations abhoreth viz. If we let him thus alone