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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	pillar_n	16,417	5	10.6783	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B09140	A few lines more for thee o England and for thy lofty ones in thee, and for all others of thine inhabitants ...		1662 (1662)	Wing F834; ESTC R177031	25,917	32

and bloody intents and so he will do againe and though you in England and the potentates of the world should yet make farther confedracies and decrees against the People and children of God untill Gods decree be accomplished which you will do yet know that God will in spite of you and all the powers and Priests of the Earth execute his judgements written which are herein declared And as for you the People and Povvers in England c. You have made strange idols and acted contrary to your oaths vows promises protestations declarations Letters and proclamations and thus have you hitherto dayly provoked God by your neglecting to heare his voyce and in contemning the word of God which commeth out of the mouths of his sons and daughters Now thus have many of you in England already discovered your selves in making Ship rack of faith and of a good conscience which is a shame for that will not in the least help to save you in the day of Gods vengance nor will your making havock of the people and flock of God do you the least good in the world as to your preservation and deliverance when God shall make inquisition for true Royall and innocent blood Though many of you may be yet suffered to go on in your Road plotting and designing and others of you persecuting killing and imlprisoning the children of light a while longer yet know that God is and will be just who will call every one to an account for all his or their deeds done in the flesh whither they be good or evill and for you that oppress the seed of God in your own particulars also in others take heed of so doing for in so doing you have grieved persecuted and smitten the just one for which Gods controversie hath been and still is with you that so do for such things have been and are grievous in Gods sight And while you thus misuse your selves and abuse others you your selves defile the Temples of God within you for which the Lord God Almighty if you so continue will you destroy for it was written by the Prophets of old as well as now Them will God destroy that defileth the Temples of God Woe woe woe therefore will be unto such as so doe and now I am assured that Heaven and earth shal pass avvay before one Iot or tittle of Gods vvord thus revealed and spoken in and to mee shall fail and as sure as the Lord liveth there vvill that come upon many of you in poore England c. of a sudden that repent not and turn not unto the living God that vvill amaze you and Astonish and confound many elswhere and doe you all the world over what you can deliverance must and shall come unto the remnant of Iacob and this the Eternall God hath sealed unto me with much of the manner way and method Thereof Therefore is this sent forth amongst you the sonnes and daughters of men as another invitation and warning Believing and knowing that some thing els will Ere long follow wherein the wickedness of the wicked in England c. will be further discovered and laid open with a farther demonstration of the mystery of things and for what the judgements of God have been executed and are executing upon the inhabitants of the whole Earth And in the mean time be still all ye children of light and mourners in Sion for God seeth beholdeth your conditions will deliver you And now rejoyce in God all you that can and in the Lord Jehovah make melody in your hearts when you see this I say againe in the strength of the Lord God rejoyce for the Lord Jehovah is nigh at hand to judgment and for it he is worthy of all prayse glory and honour now hence forth and for evermore Amen let our conditions be what they will out of sin Feare not therefore little flock for it is our fathers good will and pleasure to give unto us the Kingdome that fadeth not away That Kingdome which cannot be removed it s as mount Sion And as for the mockers scorners scoffers persecuters plotters blood suckers c. a sad and lack day is come and coming upon you as well as a day of redemption and deliverance in God for Gods poore dispised and innocent people the fight whereof from God hath often times made me to rejoyce with joy unspeakable and full of glory And to water my pillow many a time with tears of joy also the lamentation and mourning from God that I have been made to take up for thee and for thine inhabitants O poor England c. have been more then I shall at present perticulerly express for some of your destructions will be little inferiour unto that off Sodom Gomoroah and Jerusalem Friends you in England not long ago were a field of blood since that your mercies have been great ye as great as ever any peoples nations Kings or Kingdomes was and you in England may be said to be a people and land flowing with milk and hony Though many of you now there have viz spent Gods creatures upon your lusts c. O how evilly and unjustly have you requited the Lord God for all his mercies to you wards and how evilly have you in England Ireland and Scotland and else where intreated Gods poor and innocent people let the God of heaven and earth and all sober people unto whom I do Appeal be judg yea and the witness of God in your selves and in the consciences of all men yea in the wickedest and vildest men that are for that if not seared will speak And now take heed of lusting revenge lying hardnes of heart and unbeliefe for that will carry you the children of men into confusion c. and make you that yield thereunto to run farther and farther from the living God into sinne untill you are seared and wholy given over unto destruction Mark that Againe take heed all you professors as well as prophane for there is yee a great fault amongst you all your yee is not yee nor is your nay nay therfore is God angry with you and displeased at your doings ye at the evill of your doings and practices Friends this is plain dealings with the Children of men and Counsell for a King as well as for a Bagger much of it being from the Lord God through a poor Earthen vessel and one that is a servant of Jehovah who is Redeemed from death to life by the power and Spirit of God in the blood of Jesus who subscribes himselfe your Friend Emmanuel Israelite Which by Interpretation is God vvith me God vvith us in vvhom there is no guile 1662. A letter of Comfort and consolation unto the whole flock of Christ wheresoever they be Dearely beloved A By de stedfast in mount Sion for they that so do shall never be removed for the Church in God is the ground and piller of truth from whence I am moved of the Lord God everlasting to