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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	world_n	year_n	youth_n	62	3	7.5594	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A91924	The righteousnes of God to man, wherein he was created; with a discovery of the fall, by the strength and subtilty of the serpent: and of the recovery of man, by the seed of the woman, which bruises the serpents head. Also, a declaration against the beast and his followers, who act by his power; and a warning to the people not to joyn with the beast, nor to uphold the harlot, least you be taken with the beast and the false prophet, and cast into the lake together alive, and there be none to deliver you. A few words to O. C. and to the officiers and souldiers of the army in general. With, a true declaration how I lived before I knew the truth, and how I came to know the truth, and overcame deceit. Given forth for the simples sake, that they may learn righteousness; ... / By a sufferer for the righteous seed sake, in the common goal of Edmonds Bury in Suffolk, who is called George Rofe.	Rofe, George, d. 1664.	1656 (1656)	Wing R1788; Thomason E885_3; ESTC R200681	15,447	19

my people by my own power and thou shalt know that I have spoken to thee when I visit for those sufferings of my people then thou shalt not be able to plead ignorance but shalt know that thou hast been warned of them and that I gave thee a time to repent ANd all you Officers of the Army from the highest to the lowest and all Souldiers know that God drove out his enemies before you not for your sakes but for his own name sake which long hath been polluted by the heathen and them that God overthrew in his wrath it was for his own seeds sake that they might have their liberty and not for your sakes who are turned against the Lord and his seed and are exalted in the pride of life and in the same glory wherein the enemies of God were who are drove out and made a curse and reproach for ever Remember how God wrought in the dayes of old for his seeds sake and how he delivered his people Israel out of the land of Egypt not by the strength of flesh and blood but by his own power wherewith he hath overthrown the multitudes of Horses and their Riders and delivered his people and them who were delivered out of Egypt who in the wilderness turned from the Lord he there cut off and you are turned into the same Idolatry for which they were cut off Your hearts run a whoring after other lovers then God you eate and drink and rise up and play you are exalted in pride and glory in your own strength and do not give God the glory for what he hath done for you but follow the example of the Kings of Babylon to whom God gave power that they should destroy his enemies And remember what God did to Nebuchadnezzar who had greater power than you for his power reached over the whole earth and whom he would he let live and whom he would he slew And after that he was exalted gloried in the strength pride of himself Dan. 4 gave not God the glory and God drove him out from amongst men and changed his heart from mans and gave to him a beasts heart and wetted him with the dew of heaven and he was fed with grasse till seven times passed over him and till he knew that the Lord god reigned And hence you may see how God resisteth the proud and here you may see that neither the strength of flesh of men nor horses can deliver the proud out of the hand of the Almighty God who will reign over all And remember Belshazzar how he made a feast and drank wine in abundance and how God cut him off and gave his kingdome to Darius the Midian because he was weighed and found too light Dan. 5. And here you may see your figure and know that you are in the same nature and are too light And remember how the Kings of Assyria spoyled the Nations and beat down their idols and to do this God gave them power that they should execute his wrath upon the heads of his enemies though for doing it they had not a reward with the righteous Isai 1.37 But the Assyrians gloried in their own strength and in blasphemy did Rabshakeh come up against the Lords anointed and gloried for the King of Assyria in the multitude of his Chariots and they trusted in their own strength and in the pride of their hearts came up against the seed of the living God and God delivered his own seed and sent his Angel who smot the Assyrians cut off an hundred fourscore and five thousand and thus God delivered his people by his own power and not by the strength of man And thus God slew and cut off his enemies and avenged his quarrell against his adversaries whom he had made instruments in times before to cut down his enemies and when they were lifted up in pride then God abased them when they gloried in their own strength then God cut them down And all you while you have time spend it not in vanity and glory not in pride nor trust in your own strength for if you do surely God wil abase you cut you off for you are not greater than them whom God hath cut off for so doing And every one fear the living God and dread his name and live not in pride and vanity and use not violence to any man but be content with your wages for God will reward you according to your works and will surely punish you if you oppresse his people and all that you take by fraud God wil judge you for and while there is yet a day given you to repent in take heed how you despise it lest God cut you off in your iniquities and your perish and know this that God will deliver his own seed out of the hands of tyrants though his people for a time doe now suffer in innocency by you and your power and the powers of the earth yet a time of deliverance will come and woe to them that are their oppressors or that joyn with them that doe oppress them for they shall receive a reward according to their works and God will deliver his people himselfe and they shall reign over all their enemies for ever and ever And in the assurance of this hope and confidence I rest where man cannot make me afraid Here followeth a true Declaration how I lived before I knew the truth how I came to know the truth and overcame deceit FOr many years together in my youth I lived after the manner of the Heathen in pride and vanity and sporting and gaming and propanesse and much wantonnesse as the common prophane ones in the world now doe whereby the Just the light of Christ in me was slaine and the Covenant of God trode under foot by the power of the Beast which guided me in wickedness and oftentimes by that time I was twelve years of age the witnesse of God the light of Christ in me did arise and judge and codemne me for my wickednesse And oftentimes I was smot by the witness of God so that terror came upon me that I have not known what to doe but have been smot by the hand of the Lord into many fears of what should become of me hereafter and have often wept exceedingly in secret and in my bed so that I have wetted much clothes with teares But when I was among my kindred after the flesh or among other heathenish company the Beast acted so strongly and led me so much that I was ashamed to tell any what I ailed but rather submitted to the power of the Beast to joyn with the Heathen in wickedness than to tell them that I had been in torment for my wickednesse And thus I went on in rebellion against the light of my conscience from time to time though I knew by it I did not that which was right and was condemned in my conscience for what I did daily contrary to the light

And one time I was smot with terror down to the earth so that I cryed out exceedingly for a long time together and lay with my face towards the earth and could not for a time be comforted terror was so great upon me And yet for all this the Beast got up in me and strongly acted me in the like wickedness for which the judgements of God had often been upon me and I could not see any way how to escape the wickednesse which the Divell daily led me into but gave my selfe to reading much in the Scriptures and yet the power of the wicked one prevailed against me so that I received no strength against him by the knowledge of the Scriptures though the Scriptures shewed me in part what I should doe yet the power against sin was not there to be found but sinne got the upper hand and ruled over me and therein I was led captive and made a prey upon by the Divell who deceived me through subtilty And when I had read and studied what I could in my own will for many yeares together I could not find out a way to know God nor satisfaction to my soul but judgement followed me and my thoughts accused me and the light witnessed against me so peace I had not found in all that ever I did seek out but fear pursued me and often in the night time teares run from my eyes and terror laid hold on me so that I have been made to pray exceedingly but I knew not to whom but according as I had heard or read but no answer I saw though I called out often yet I knew not that God whom I called to nor that Christ in whose name I thought I asked but into a profession of God and Christ and godliness I was led by the will of the flesh though I was a stranger to the life of God and godliness And in this profession not knowing the power of God I walked neer three yeares and wandred about therein to professors of the world like my self and went to Priests where they preached and heard them two or three times a week commonly and long together and yet fear pursued me and peace I could not find though I sought it with tears often yet the way of peace I knew not but dissention and misery was in my paths and the feare of God I lived out of though then I lived in a profession and was covered with much subtilty so that the world could not see but that I lived orderly and I was kept from many common pollutions of the world though the Beast acted me and often would have led me into greater abominations than he did had not the witness of God often brought judgement terror upon me and iudged deceit before it was acted And in this profession of words I was at times exalted and therein lived in pride and vainglory and was lifted up in that knowledge by which the witnesse of God was slain and I led in great darkness and when I was exalted most then greatest darkness entred in upon me in which profession I found no peace neither could I for wickedness was lined in and the profession was not of God though it was like what the Saints had professed and lived the life of as all the worlds profession is who follows the Beast who leads them in imitations of that which the Saints and servants of God did by command from God And when I was about the age of twenty years old when I was at the height of my profession in which my soul found no rest it happened that according to the will of God there came some of his messengers who were called Quakers to the town where I lived in my empty profession Halsteed in Essex wherein I was not satisfied but went into the Market to hear the people called Quakers speak who spoke there some few words which I did not then understand though I had heard something of them in writing and many slanderous reports yet I was convinced in my conscience that they were the people of God and the Scriptures witnessed that the people of God should be hated and persecuted and all manner of evill spoken of them So yet I was not at rest in my spirit but desired to know the truth and the life of it And soon after that time the Lord sent another of his Messengers who had a meeting in that town where I lived and in the forepart of the day came to the steeple-house where I was hearing one of the worlds Ministers who is cal'd William Sparrow who had long deceived me with good words and fair speeches and when he had ended his speaking the Messenger of God spoke and reached the witness of God in me so I was drawn in love towards him and the later part of the day went to hear him speak and his words reached the witness of God in me so that I was more exceedingly drawn out in love towards him and heard more to my souls satisfaction that day than ever before and that of God in me which often had iudged me and brought feares upon me owned his words and owned him to be of God and the seed of God in me was refreshed and grew and shewed me how I had spent my time and brought all the evil that ever I remember I acted and laid it before me and condemned me for it which condemnation I was made willing to own and therein did wait for the mercies of God the seed of God in me grew in strength and shewed me what I should doe and what I should leave undone and was my guide to guide me out of the former ignorance and wickedness I had lived in and was a Judge for God to condemn the ground of the most secret deceit in me and shewed me the most secret deceit of the Serpent and gave me power to withstand all wickedness which before I owned the light of Christ I had not power to withstand the strength of the enemy had such power over me And after that God had shewed me the way of truth and gave me power to withstand all evill the Divel was exceeding wroth against me and wrought exceeding subtilly to have destroyed that which was begotten of God in me but the gift of God was plenteous and grew and shaked terribly the earth and removed mountains ' and rewarded the transgressor with judgement and cast out the Prince of this world and reigneth for God going on conquering and to conquer and treads down all Gods enemies under his feet And this is the free mercy and love of God that he hath revealed himself to me by the light of his own Son and hath made known his everlasting Covenant of peace to me and hath redeemed my soul out of hell and from under the power of the Divell into the glory of his own Son to praise him in the beauty of holiness in mount Sion for ever who hath called me by his own Spirit and power to bear witness for his own name in righteousness and hath given me his word to declare to the inhabitants of the earth and his power to stop the mouthes of truths gain-sayers and to confound the false Prophets and make the Deviners mad and to judge all hirelings and false teachers out from amongst the Saints This is the work which the Lor hath done for his seeds sake which dwells in me which he hath raised to eternall life to live and reign with him for ever And it was his free love that he left a seed in me else I had been to him as the Cities of Sodom and as the inhabitants of Gomorrah The world calls me George Rofe but my name is written in heaven and therein do I rejoyce From the common Goal of Emonds Bury in Suffolk wherein I have suffered more than 40 weeks for the truth this last day of the 4th moneth 1656. FINIS