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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	jew_n	spirit_n	worship_v	2,654	5	9.6923	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A27132	A message sent forth from the risen seed of God being a faithful expostulation and testimony concerning the unjust and hard dealings of the rulers and people in England who have a hand in the cruel oppressions and sufferings of the people of God called Quakers.	Bayly, William, d. 1675.	1662 (1662)	Wing B1533; ESTC R25913	8,299	11

A MESSAGE Sent forth from the RISEN SEED OF GOD BEING A faithful expostulation and Testimony concerning the unjust and hard dealings of the Rulers and people in ENGLAND WHO Have a hand in the cruel oppressions and sufferings of the people of God called QUAKERS HArken and give ear ye Sons of men and consider what ye are doing in making snares traps and Gods 〈◊〉 Innocent people what have we done against the Righteous holy God or against any of his Laws or against any righteous just Laws of men since we were a people called and chosen of God out of the ways and vanities of this worlds that you should thus oppress abuse and persecute us as if we were not worthy to ●●●e upon the face of the earth Why do ye thus built us as a 〈◊〉 upon the Mountains as sheep for the slaughter What evil have we done or what is our offence that you like Saul persue us If you pretend and say we are breaker of the Kings Laws or Queens Laws or Acts of Parliaments or the like of this be the only cause then let me query or reason with you in Gods behalf What are those Laws or Acts of Parliament and the ground of them by which a harmless and Innocent people are thus caused to suffer who breaks not the Law of Christ and of God but worship him in the Spirit and truth with our heart and understanding minde and strength and loves our neighbour as our selves as God is witness and even prayeth that God would open the eyes of them that hate us and despitfully use us had not them in Daniels time and in the Jews time and in Shedreck Mesheck and Abednegos time Laws and Decrees sealed with Kings seals which was against God and his dear children which worshipped him in spirit and truth as we do now who suffered such things for the tryal of their faith and patience for a season yea he suffered Cain to kill his brother Abel about sacrifice and worship he suffered Judas to betray Christ our elder brother and the Rulers and Preists to crucifie and murder him by a Law but what Law was it by which the Son of God was out to death judge ye was it not made in mans will by that spirit that protect the good words and had the sheeps Cloathing that did say and not do and were not the Scribes and Pharisees and Rulers and Chief Preists Hipocrits that did so and had not they their portion in the Lake that burns And did not he say to them if you have done these things to the green tree what will they do to the dry And was not he had from Prison to Judgment and 〈…〉 amongst ●●ngressors and is it not so now between you and us as it was then the enmity between the two Seeds and Births read and let Gods witness which reproves you in secret answer And did not he suffer the Prophets to be stoned by the great professing City and is 〈◊〉 and Prist Pas●ir to smite Ieremiah on the mouth and to 〈◊〉 put in the 〈…〉 Dungeon for speaking the truth and sufferd Zachariah 〈◊〉 be slain between the Porch and the Alter and Stephen to be stoned for witnessing against Temples made with hands any many such things God did suffer that evil and a 〈…〉 upon his servants and tender Children who saith to their oppressors in this age as he did then fill ye up the measures of your Fathers that upon you may come the vengeance for all the righteous bloodshed from Zachariah to this day Are not you in the way of Cain are not you in the way of the Jews are not you in the way of the Heathen that did rage and the people that did imagin vain things who took Counsel together against the Lord and his anointed ones saying let us break their bands asunder and cast away their Cords from us and are not you now saying within your selves and among your selves let us break their meetings and cast away or banish their strength from us that their name may be bloted out and their remembrance from amongst us but he that sits in Heaven hath you in derision who will laugh at your callamnity and mock when your fear and destruction cometh as a whirlwind Are you not like Herod that subtil Fox who sought the young Childs life as soon as it was born was not he prevented though he slew all the Males in that Region about two years old or under and are you nor like Pharoah and those dark Egyptians Enchanters Magicians and Wise men who said let us deal wisely with them least they multiply and become great in number and so injoyned the Midwives to kill all the Males of the Hebrews but was not Moses then born and hid from them in an Ark of Bulrushes whom God had appointed to be the leader deliverer of his people out of Egypt even thus are you deceived and God will prevent you and your intents as he did them and theirs whose Decrees were frustrated and Laws and Counsels of none effect for God hath sworn by himself and he will performe it that no weapon formed against Iacob or his seed shall prosper nor any Inchantment or divination against his Israel shall prevaile for he hath determined to exalt Truth and Righteousness in the earth and to throw down wickedness oppression Idolatry and ungodliness and he will take the wise in their own craftiness and lay low even to the dust all the powers of the earth who exalt themselves against him and his heritage he respects not the persons of men but will trample the ungodly as in a Wine-press in his fury for his seed sake who hath said to us his babes and children concerning our oppressions fear ye not the face of man nor the revilings and threatnings of the sons of men whose breath is in their nostriles that shall be made as grass the moth shall eat them up like wool and I 'le plead my cause with them in their Consciences by my own witness which seeth in secret and beholds all their hard speeches and ungodly deeds which they have proudly spoken against me and my people for vengeance is mine and I will repay it saith the Lord Therefore hear now ye Rulers Priests Souldiers and people this day in England who are brewing your hands in the blood of the Innocent and let me reason with you concerning these things What was Cain and his way to which the woe belongs to this day was he not of the wicked one who slew his brother about worship and sacrifice and are not they of the wicked one the murderer from the beginning so now let Gods witness in you answer and what was Balaam and his way who loved the wages of unrighteousness whose madness and folly the dumb Asse with mans voice reproved if you have ears to hear hear for many that hath been as dumb rod upon by you and your predesessors begins now to speak with