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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	know_v	worship_n	worship_v	2,126	5	8.8291	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A89679	Some returns to a letter which came from a general meeting of officers of the Army of England, Scotland, and Ireland, sitting at Jame's Westminster. Also A blast from the Lord, or a vvarning to England, by way of exhortation to take heed, and not run upon their own destruction; which will be speedily, without true repentance. By a lover of the truth, and a prisoner for declaring truth abroad Ben: Nicholson.	Nicholson, Benjamin.	1653 (1653)	Wing N1106; Thomason E689_18; ESTC R203013	13,591	19

authority it cannot be but burthens vexations and grievances will be upheld for he that cannot rule his own house well or rather is not ruled by the Lord and all his passions subdued can never be fit to rule for the Lord. 3. That Liberty and protection may be given by a Law to all the truely Godly though of different iudgements to worship God peaceably without imposing upon or molesting one another but no encouragement be given to such as are Popish or prophane in the exercise of their superstitious forms and licentious practises Know that the worship of God is spiritual for he is a spirit and will be worshipped in spirit and truth And where there is a Government by the spirit of God living and ruling in those that Govern there will be unity with the worshippers and Governors in that one spirit where they both live and there will need no outward Law to protect the worshippers from being persecuted by the Governors for none ever hated their own flesh and surely the spirit of the Lord ruling in the Rulers cannot hate or persecute the spiritual worshippers neither was it ever known to persecute any but overcame all things with goodness nor since the coming of Jesus Christ in the flesh it was never read nor known that any of the Saints or servants of God did impose any corporal punishment in any manner upon any one but by exhortation reproof and correction with spiritual weapons beating down all the strong holds of sin and bringing into subjection every evil thought and imagination of the carnal heart 2 Cor. 10.4 5. which stands up in opposition against the truth of God which is the sire the Scripture speaketh of which shall burn up all the old earth and heavens the carnal parts of man it is that love that shall overcome all things and place it self only But we look for new heavens and earth wherein shall dwell righteousness 2 Pet. 3.10 11 12 13. ver Behold therefore what manner of persons ought we to be in all godlyness and holyness of conversation of life 4. That The Gospel of Iesus Christ you say may be dispenced to all the people in this Land and that all those that labour faithfully in that work may receive all due countenance and encouragement Those who are faithfull labourers in the Gospel of Christ dare trust Christ for maintenance though they be sent out without bag or scrip shoes or two coats Luk. 22.35 For God that clothes the lillies of the field and feeds the ravens when they cry unto him will not let those that trust in him want any good thing Mat. 6.26 For he cares for all those which cast their care upon him and if he spared not his only Son Iesus Christ but delivered him up to death for us will he not with him freely give us all things richly to enjoy Rom. 8.32 And all the Scriptures beareth witness with these things and I am sure that those who are the Ministers of Jesus Christ have faith to believe that their Master will provide for them in all things and so takes care for nothing but how to advance the Gospel of Jesus Christ wholly doing his will and can tell how to abase and how to abound Phil. 4.12 13. and are content with imprisonment as wel as liberty with wants as well as fullness and in all things shew themselves approved as the Ministers of God and Messengers of the everlasting Covenant 2 Cor. 6.4 to 10. As there is many now adays and not a few tryed ever praised be the Lord for it Further you say What the Lord shall set upon your spirits by way of Conviction either as to sin or duty if you communicate the same to us we shall take the same as a signe of your acceptance of this our brotherly freedom towards you But whether you mean to all or to the Souldiery onely I know not I as one who have obtained mercy from the love of God living in me and love all men without respect of persons see the Lord stepping towards Sion and he will speedily be in his Temple and I see the walls of Babylon falling and they will speedily be all thrown down at which the Inhabitants of the earth shall mourn but the Saints shall be exceeding glad and rejoyce But to the words as convicted as to sin or duty you mean what sin is to be punished and how and what duty is to be used and how I answer And guides my light forth or sets it upon the top of the Candlestick that if the Lord will all that read may see white from black light from darkness love from cruelty and saith thus All sin is to be punished with fire for Tophet is prepared of old for high and low the pile thereof is fire and much wood the breath of the Lord like a river of brimstone doth kindle it Isa 30.33 and the man of sin or all sin in man shall Jesus Christ destroy with the breath of his mouth and the brightness of his coming as experience doth plainly declare when God doth manifest himself to the creature then is the time of Christs coming and the time of the destruction of sin in every man yea he is that happy one that shall dash in pieces all the brats of Babylon every sin is a brat of Babylon and every Saint of God is a living stone with the which Jesus Christ shall dash in pieces all the children of Babylon and those living stones ere long shall be so common in every street that a brat of Babylon shall not look out but by them be dasht in pieces Thus the stream of righteousness shall run down our streets like mighty rivers and cleanse every corner from filthiness and the glorious Lord God shall be unto his people a place of broad rivers and streams wherein shall go no gally with oars nor gallant ship shall pass there thus shall the presence of the mighty God of Iacob cause the earth to fly away and the mountains to remove out of their place all the earthly powers and buildings of men the great men and Rulers of the earth are the mountains which shall be removed and the pillars that shall be shaken and all carnal actings of man is the earth that shall fly away when God appears as he hath already begun whose appearance is as the morning and there need no borrowed lights there this is new Ierusalem that the lamb shall be the glory of and there shall be no need of any outward Law to direct to walk but the inward Law of righteousness which the Lord will place and write in the tables of every mans heart and the Lord alone shall be the teacher and sole ruler of his people for I am God Almighty saith the Lord all in all all over all and will presently dispose of all things to his own praise and glory he will cause to walk uprightly to speak righteously to despise the gain of oppression and

discerned Thus in plainness the Scriptures beareth witness with me and offer in figures as that of Lazarus and of the grains of corn cast into the earth and of the prodigal Son c. and before ever any can know perfecty that they are found they must know themselves lost and dead before they can know themselves alive This my son was dead but is now alive c. but none knows the things of God but the spirit of God Oh that you all tasted with me that you might feell how good the Lord is For to be carnally minded is death but to be spiritually minded is life and peace and except a man be born again of water and of the spirit he cannot enter in no wise into the Kingdom of heaven which is within in the power and demonstration of the Holy Ghost Dear friends the time is come that many that were dead have heard the voice of the Son of God and are made alive and the time is still going on that all that are in the graves shall hear and come forth some to life and some to death Sin shall arise and be condemned but Christ which lay dead the seed shal live every natural man is a grave where Jesus Christ lyeth dead a new Sepulchre where never dead came but he So Christ called the Scribes and Pharises painted Sepulchres whited Tombes and graves that men goe over and cannot tell filthiness did bear all sway in them and smothered the good seed yet their outsides were so fair that none knew it but the spirit Nor doth any Naturall man know that he is a Grave and that Christ lyeth dead in him yet know that the seed is sown in all grounds and that the Light is come into all the world though it he did in the earth and darkness cover the Waters the light is put under a Bushell c. Lord open your eyes and consider what good will it doe you to believe in a Christ come to take away the sinns of the world and yet you live in sin for know assuredly that he came not to take away part of our sins and leave the other untaken away here you count the blood of the Covenant an unholy thing wherewith you were sanctified Heb. 10.29 for I am sure he perfecteth for ever all that come unto him and the blood of Christ cleanseth from all sinn and he will save to the utmost them that believe in him therefore where sin is lived in there is but a dead faith and a false light which is the Egyptian Seas that must be dryed up False light put forth and dead faith made alive before the true faith true light and clear Christall waters flow into the soul to purifie enlighten ●nd cleanse it of all corruption for faith purifies the hear and true light guideth into the paths of righteousness and true Righteousness will like mighty streams runn down our streets all hath gates and goings and cleans them from all filthiness c. As for duty they that worship the Lord must worship him in Spirit and Truth for he seeketh such to worship him John 4 23 24. And they that Judge for the Lord must judg righteous Judgment as it is written He hath shewed th●e O man what is thy duty and what the Lord requireth of thee for to doe Justice to love Mercy and to walk humbly with thy God Micah 6.8 And this is the whole duty of man Fear God and keep his Commandments all which is to love God above all and our Ne●ghbour as our selves This Love is the Tree whereon groweth leaves that will Cure all Nations and whose Pruit will be meat for all People the Shatamits two Armies Love to God and love to Neighbours which overcometh all things both within and without this is the F●re of the Lord that will consume and bu●n up the whole World of Sinn and Corruption this is the destruction of the world that now is which is reserved for Fire untill the destruction and day of ungodly men this exceeding great Love of God shall overcome and burn up all the Heavens and Earth which now is all false rests whereon the the World doth center and they shall be swallowed up in this Love which is Heaven it self He that liveth in Love liveth in God God is Love and the Center of all Joy and Happiness whosoever shall abide therein shall have all hatred taken away and all things become new unto him New Love that shall last for ever New God and all the old Gods of the earth shall be famished the God of this World shall be served by him no longer Money New Christ newly risen from the dead or newly made manifest which had been often talked on New Life and the name written in the book of Life Righteous and true holiness the Lives thereof New Heavens and new Earth wherein dwelleth Righteousness and then shall Judgment be established in Truth in the Earth untill which time hee that Judgeth his Brother is a transgressor of the Law for they that judge their Brethren of any thing and are guilty of the same are vain men and have nothing to doe to judge any they are inexcusable As the Lord liveth that searcheth the hearts and tryes the reines if any Ruler or Judge of this Nation live in any of the seven Abominations spoken of Prov. 6.17 18 19 ver Or if any of them be set up in their hearts they can be no fit Judges to judge of Abomination in others and the Naturall man judging the Saints is but Esau warring against Jacob and untill the Lord shall throw down all Esaus forth of places of Authority there shall be no true judging of the Brethren nor true Judgement set up But least I should seem to you wholly to obstruct your proceedings or to set difference amongst you I shall come home to you in particulars Then know that after the Lord brought the Children out of Egypt they had a great way to pass before they came into the good Land which thing was a true and perfect figure of the spirituall Israels deliverance from the Egiptian bondage of sinn and corruption and all bondages of services whatsoever at whose deliverance they shall finde no less troubles in the spirit then the naturall seed of Israel did in the flesh which condition you are now in and shall find the Sea before the Egyptians behinde and great Mountaines on each hand The Red sea of persecutions before the Egyptian bondage of Sinn and corruption behinde ready to devour you and on each hand great Mountains on the right hand Carnall Worships and on the left hand Carnall Laws that incloseth you in that you cannot goe either backward or forward nor to each hand therefore take heed that like the Israelites you doe not murmure against the true Moses nor tempt God but know that as their strength were to stand still and see the salvation of the Lord so is yours now and then he will divide