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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	church_n	ground_n	live_a	1,680	5	9.4884	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A77554	Now heare this all yee persecuting rulers, preists [sic], and magistrates throughout the world. Woe, woe, terror, terror, and feirce [sic] indignation from the Lord God, even the true testimony written in this book, / by the servant of the Lord Daniel Baker.	D. B. (Daniel Baker), fl. 1650-1660.; Bache, Humphrey.	1659 (1659)	Wing B482C; ESTC R170425	6,824	8

Now heare this all yee persecuting RULERS PREISTS AND MAGISTRATES Throughout the WORLD The tree is known by it● fruits so sai●● the Scriptur● as may appe●● by what Joh● Waterton ca●●ed a Justice 〈◊〉 peace hath been long bearing and hath brough● forth as may appear by these following lines Woe woe terror terror and feirce indignation from the Lord God even the true Testimony written in this Book by the Servant of the Lord Daniel Baker T … is your just recompence from the righteous hand of the Lord even the equall portion of your Cup which the farther you goe on in persecution the deeper will this Cup be filled with the wrath and sore displeasure of the Lord God of recompence And yee Preists Magi●rates and Rulers of England New-England and Rome who have Lawes made in the corrupt wills of Men that were in the making of them out of Gods feare and not in that spirit and wisedome of God that gave forth Scripture and so unjust grounded Lawes by which the Popes inquisition is persecution to death by fire for the testimony of a good conscience New-Englands Law after banishment to be hanged to death Englands Law Mens wills and imprisonment till death for bearing testimony against corrupt Lawes and corrupt Mens wills Oh ye Magistracy and Ministry of England and New-England call not the Church of Rome Whore any more like ill-bred children all you that persecute seeing you may read your selves and all that runnes may read you like Mother like Daughters in persecution all Sonnes of the Bond-woman seed of the Adulterer and the Whore who must all drink up this Cup of Gods feirce indignation and I say again the farther you goe on the deeper will it he filled to you and it will be for you the more bitter to drinke it and all you Constables Marshall and Servants to him Goale-keepers and Servants to them I warne you all in the feare and dread of the Lord God take heed how any of you or any man obey the command of any Magistrates that doe or shall in their corrupt willes or according to any corrupt Law command you to serve them in persecuting the innocent to hale them without a just Order under their hand and dragge from their presence to Prison without a just mittimus or somewhat to shew the crime to be just for which you are commanded to doe their command and let Goalers consider how they receive any into Prison without a signifying from the Magistrate the crime laid against them which is but reasonable lest blind service be done by them and so they be found Servants to the Devill in doing what the corrupt willes of Men command them which feare not God and so all of you who joyne with them and lend a hand to them in persecution partake with them in what is written in this Booke even the feirce and bitter Cup of Gods just indignation H. B. Now is the time of thy tryall come oh John Waterton who shalt most assuredly give an accompt before the throne of the Lamb the light of the holy Citty for all the deeds of darknesse done in thy body who art weighed in the equall ballance of the true Sanctuary and art found wanting notwithstanding thou art called a member of a Church of Christ who I am certaine never had nor hath at this day such a corrupt fruitless unsavory darke blinde wicked member pertaining to his most pure body which is the Church of the living God the pillar and ground of truth which thou art out of And all sober people may behold where thou art and hast been exercising the power of darknesse of the Beast and of the Whore that hath bewitched thee with her sorceries and made thee drunke that thou hast long time reeled and staggerd and vomited up thine owne shame through the open streetes thy stinke and ill savour behold I tell thee is come up into the nostrils of the most pure Lord God of Sabboth and the eternall eye comprehends thee and all the fruitless and wild trees of the Forrest the land of darknesse and barrennesse the fire is already kindled and woe to the stuble the chaffe the vipers and serpents the deafe venemous Adders which in no wise would heare the voyce of the Charmer and can a fire be kindled among such venemous uncleane creeping things and will they not hisse make a noise and shoote forth their stinges surely it hath and will be so and who can expect to gather Grapes on Thornes or Figges on Thistles I know their expectations shall faile that doe a member of the true Church of Christ or the Man of God of truth meeke and mercifull as a Ruler ought to bee and of sound Judgement to shew forth all long suffering gentlenesse meeknesse sobriety temperance purity moderation brotherly kindness love without dissimulation or respect of Persons and these and such like are the fruites of the pure cleane spirit of the Lord but mine eye hath not yet beheld these fruites proceed from thee but contrarywise bringing forth corrupt and unsavoury fruites by which the poor and needy have been long time eppressed and burthened under which they have deeply sighed and groaned cheifly upon the first dayes of the weeke which thou in thy blind darke zeale hath often called the Sabboth or Lords day whose is every day to the shame of thy darke Teachers who have not yet taught thee to distinguish between the dayes of the weeke and the Sabboth and so art found persecuting with the powers of darknesse them that feare the Lord and keep his Commandments who said six dayes shalt thou labour and the seventh the Sabboth which was given for a signe to Israell in the wildernesse where the Idolaters and Murmerers were destroyed and fell before the Beleevers entred into the good Land of rest and many shall fall after the same example amongst whom thou art who shalt give an accompt for every Loafe of Bread and ounce of Meate Flower and necessary Foode and Rayment which the poore the Widdowes and Fatherlesse have wanted which thou through thy persecuting oppressing blinde wicked zeale on the first dayes of the Weeke hast so frequently taken from them without pitty compassion or mercy which is all out of the way of God whose wayes are equall and if any Man doe the thing that is good just or equall on the first day which is one of the six which the Lord commanded Israell saying six dayes shalt thou labour he doth well and if the Lord command one thing and blinde persecuting Magidrates and great Men of the Earth make Lawes and Decrees to command another thing whether is it better to obey God or man let such as feare and desire to feare the God of truth judge and let every Man search with the light his owne heart and so be fully perswaded in his owne mind see what Daniel in such a matter and the three children did Dan. 3.17.18 and Dan. 6. and I am sure