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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	spirit_n	spiritual_a	worship_v	3,308	5	9.3285	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A61380	Jacob, the plain man, wrestling with God until the break of the day and prevailing in the light thereof for perfect victory and dominign [sic] over Esau, the rough and cunning man ... / [by] Laurence Steel.	Steel, Laurence, d. 1684.	1677 (1677)	Wing S5378; ESTC R32673	16,540	30

Testimonies and Declarations and was a Witness of the Life and Power that accompanied Mean Illiterate Persons such as the first that I heard was I was the more joyned unto them whose Prayers and Supplications were more prevalent to bring me unto and keep me in the Light then all the Prayers and Fasts of those that deny its Guidance were to keep me from it Thus according to my earnest Desires to the Lord to bring forth the Work which he would establish in the room of that which he had pulled down before I went out of that Family I was for about 2 weeks among them in a testimony to the truth in the Risings of which I felt more and more freedom to be witnessed from my Soul's enemies and a drawing me again into a watchfulness over my own thoughts words and actions that nothing might arise or work in my Heart but what was of God who was now come to judge down every Evil Thought and Inclination in the first Motion and Rise of it so that though there was an Abatement of that Bodily Exercise which profiteth not yet there was an Increase of Inward Exercise to keep a Conscience void of Offence not only in the Sight of Man who lookt at the Outward Appearance but also in the Sight of God that searched the Heart And in that Family I met with much Christian-like Forbearance Tenderness not out of any Respect to the People and Principle which they esteemed too mean and low but out of Respect to that Uprightness which they believed to be in me And now the time of our parting being come in which I must leave them which because of that Love and Endearedness that had been between us it was hard to do but that my Heart was taken up with Christ's being come to receive me to himself and to dwell and walk in me as his house and temple for which End he had separated called me out from all that was defiled And since I could no longer perform the Office of a Chaplain as it was expected of me which if I could they desired no other they were willing to give me Satisfaction according to our Agreement for the time that I had been among them upon a double Account viz. of Tutouring their Children and of Preaching As to the Teaching the Children I was free to take Consideration but as for Preaching notwithstanding the Money was told out and I was urged and pressed to receive it I was forbidden by the Lord to take any and so left it But to clear the Family of all Suspitions Jealousies that might arise in any touching the Ground of my leaving them I consented upon the first Motion thereof to leave a Certificate signifying to all that might be concerned That I left the Family only upon the Account of some higher Discovery of Truth on my part not apprehending it to be the Will of the Lord to be worshipped any otherwise then in Spirit and Truth and that as to Outward Encouragements they rather exceeded then came short of my Expectation And thus in pure Love and Desires of the Spiritual Welfare of every one I left that Family which next to my own Relations were dear to me who had a full Sight and Experience of my Conversation as to the Work and Dealings of the Lord with me in that Day This was about the 7th Moneth of the Year 1673. After which I came forward to my Relations among whom I knew not one that was inclined to the Truth who might stand with me in a Testimony for it but all Opposed it and joyned with their Teachers against it with whom notwithstanding as I stood innocently in the Counsel of God which led me to yield true Submission and Honour to them next to himself I found way made for my Reception and also opened the Hearts of his People unto me to whom I was a Stranger but as the Lord gave them a sense of that Upright Desire of Truth and Righteousness which only brought me among them in whose Meetings I waited as one of the Meanest and Lowest of them for about twelve Moneths sitting under the Droppings and Distillings of that Life and Power which the Lord was pleased to sill others with in the Meeting to grow daily more and more as it is daily my Endeavour in the inward Experience of the Redeeming Purifying and Quickening Virtue of the Truth which in the sense of that Love of God in bringing me among this People to eat of the Bread of Life when so many Wise and Prudent were left behind feeding upon Husks often broke my Heart and caused Desires in me That I might never more appear out of the living Stirrings and movings of the Spirit Life of Christ nor stay behind it when it did move After which it pleased the Lord in his own time according to my own and others Travail and Supplication to cause his Life to break forth in me sometimes in a few words of Prayer sometimes of Exhortation in which the Lord gave me Power and Faithfulness to ease my self and my Words returned not to me again but had entrance and as I kept low and humble giving Honour and Glory to Christ alone in his Appearance so I selt the Increase of that Authority and Life which made way in the Hearts of them to whom I was sent in whose Consciences it is my desire to stand recommended and to be felt of them who are in Life as a Savour of Life unto Life And thus the Lord having raised me up and spared me through much Weakness and Labour unto this Day to see the Desire of my Soul accomplished in great Measure according to my Faith when I first laid down my Ministry I do still wait in Submission to the Will of the Lord for the Day when that breathing Seed of God which is yet left in the dead and lifeless Professions may become ripe for the Harvest then shall there be no Want of Reapers who shall put in their Sickles and gather them into the House which God hath provided for to receive all that are low and poor in their own Eyes for want of Power and Strength to overcome that which letteth hindereth their perfect Redemption into which House God hath called me as a Fore-Runner of Thousands that are yet ungathered unto which being come up I can't go back or down unto them but can freely serve the lowest of them by living Supplications to the Great Shepherd of the Sheep for the bringing them into that Fold where he makes his Flocks that were wearied and driven from Mountain to Hill to rest at Noon in the Bosome of their Beloved whose Tents they need no longer enquire after or go to the Watch men of the Night for Direction but by the Light of the Lord are they brought up to Bethel the House of the God of Jacob where they desire forever to dwell and offer unto the God of their Redemption Victories

Hills up to the House of God where the God of Jacob teacheth and giveth forth his Word and Law which is not the Light of man's Dictates or Examples but the Light of the God of Jacob by which Jacob walked and was taught to supplant overcome so that as this Mountain came to be established on the Top of all the Mountains and Hills so the Light also should be established and exalted on the Top of all the Foundations Rules and Principles of the Mountains that walked by Tradition The Sufficiency of which Light should not be only manifested by the Benefit of them that walk therein but by the Forsaking of those that should reject and despise it the Cause of which should be their being filled and replenisht with something else Read ver 6. to the end so that there should be no more room to receive Christ in his spiritual Appearance as a Light then there was room in the Inn which was filled and replenisht with other Guests to receive him in his outward Appearance because of which God would cause his Judgments and Rebukes to pass upon the Treasures and Idols and Glory of the Mountains which had replenisht and filled up their hearts so as to stain their Glory until he had left them not a Staff or a Stay to lean upon had caused the Mark of his Displeasure to pass upon the Mighty Man the Man of War the Captain of fifty the Judge the Prophet the Prudent the Counsellor the Cunning Artificer and Eloquent Orator so that no Rank or Degree of men that had despised this Mountain or Light should be able by all their Power Prudence Art or Cunning to escape the Stroke of the God of Jacob who is come forth in his spiritual Host Army to Supplant and overturn until the Lofty Looks of Man that looks scornfully upon this People and Light as Esau did upon Jacob be brought low and his Haughtiness be abased and he made of no account that so the God of Jacob may alone be Reverenced and exalted in his own House and People and there be no Mountain House or Principle left to stand in Competition with him Thus being the second time ransomed through Judgment and the Way of the Lord so plainly opened unto me I could no longer delay seeking out some of the People here described whom I was convinced were come but I knew not where to find but as the Lord put it into my Heart to go to such a Professor's House and desire him to send for one of the People called Quakers which I did and when I came to him and enquired of him concerning that People he told me There were in that Village but Three or Four Families of Poor Inconsiderable People that were mean in Ability and that the Men were at Harvest but their Wives were at Home So I sent for one of them whom when she came I took strict notice of her Carriage and Words and when I had discoursed with her about the Light of Christ which they professed in them and what Benefit they reaped by walking in it to overcome their Spiritual Enemies and to work Salvation for them her Testimony so suited to what the Lord had before shew'd unto me and the Gravity and Saviour of her Language and Deportment was such counselling me To mind the Truth in me which would bring me further as I kept low and obedient to the Cross of Christ Jesus for that the Lord had a further Work in his due time to do in me and by me which Advice was of God so that I could not but confess to the Wisdom she was guided by which I esteemed the more for her outward Meanness and Plainness and afterwards as I discoursed with her Husband a plain Man in his Return from Labour I found that their whole Stay and Support was in the Spirit of the Lord whose Teachings and Leadings they waited for at all times to guide them out of all Evil Thoughts Words and Works into all Truth in which God alone is worshipped which Testimony best reached my Conscience and answered the Spirit of Truth in my own Heart the manner of whose stirring movings from a Child and of its being quenched and coming to be raised again I have before declared of concerning which I never met with any that testified so feelingly and experimentally of the inward Work of Redemption and Regeneration by Christ Jesus in the Sense of which my Heart was upon the first Meeting firmly united to them so as from that time not to look back any more unto any thing the Lord had called me out of but resolved to take up my Lot with them which I signified to my Relations And when I returned in the Evening from this plain people and came in before the Counsellor and his Wife with my usual Language and Deportment which was out of the Cross of Christ which I knew was unlike to the plain Language of the Scriptures and Behaviour of Christ and his Apostles I was soon reproved for Respect of Persons and lost my Peace and Life that was raised in me and so went to my Bed under Judgment crying unto the Lord Not to withhold his Peace and Comfort from me nor to let this put any stop to what he intented further to make known unto me promising to obey him if he would spare me to the Morning which when I was risen and had seated my self the Counsellour's Wife whom I well esteemed and respected came into the Chamber unto whom because of the Fear of the Lord I used that plain Language and Department which I was convinced of in which though it may seem as a small thing I had great Joy and Peace and when I was asked the Occasion of that Change and Alteration that was in me I told her to this effect That I was now confirmed by Converse that the People which I preached of to be the House of Jacob the Plain Man were come the Way of whose Supplanting should be by that which seemed Foelishness and Simplicity unto the Nations After which it went forth into the Family and Country That I was become a Quaker And the next First Day being alone at Home I was required To go to the Place where I first spake with the Woman and to seek out their Meeting which I did and when I came I found a few People met together in a serious manner waiting upon the Lord among whom though few if any words were utter'd I felt that Presence and Power of God in which I had more Satisfaction then in my own Preaching and Praying and such a room and place this People had with me as still they have that I thought no time too long which I spent with them or Pains too much to go to their Meetings which was far distant from that Place and the more I was acquainted with them the more I was united to them especially after that I had heard their