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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
word_n	darkness_n	light_n	shine_v	6,357	5	9.4256	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A30524	A generall epistle, and greeting of the Fathers love, to all the saints called and chosen to faithfulness in Christ Iesus ... : and this is to all such as are found worthy to suffer, and is an exhortation to the strengthning of their faith ... : and this is a true testimony of the Father and of the Son ...	Burrough, Edward, 1634-1662.	1657 (1657)	Wing B6004; ESTC R14763	15,401	16

is in Christ Jesus in which the Father is well pleased and let the Light of the world guide you in all things that your works may be wrought in God never to be condemned nor you to suffer loss knowing this first That none are justified by him but them that are led and guided by him and to whom he is a Saviour he is also a Teacher and he is given to teach in all the wayes of Truth And now let your fellowship be in the power and life of God and know not one another in words onely and in shews and in outward appearance but witness one another in the spirit and in the truth and have communion there in breaking the bread of life that Christ Jesus may be seen to be the head in you and you Members to serve him and one another all receiving wisdom from the head and vertue and vertue from the Vine Christ Jesus that you may abound in love mercy and peace and all the fruits of righteousness unto the Father and dwell in the fear and counsel of God and be subject to his will not despising the cross which is the power of God which slayes the birth that is born of the flesh which is not heir of the Promise but walk in the Cross dayly that your understanding may be kept open to try and discern all spirits whether they be of God and believe not every spirit for lying spirits may arise among your selves and go forth from the light who is not in the truth but in the feignedness and hypocrisie with false visions and lying imaginations handling the word of God deceitfully and corrupting and perverting the pure way of God having the form but not the power having left the power and gone from the light and such utters the words of truth without the life and is but as the chaff to the wheat and they are to be denyed and resisted and not joyned to least innocency and simplicity be betrayed and your faith made void and so you be destroyed from the life of God and death surprize you and darknesse enter into your dwellings and so unbelief and doubtings and murmurings and lustings after evil arise in you and you be perverted from the Worship of the true God and grieve his righteous spirit by bowing to Idols and following of other Lovers and so the true God which hath brought you out of Egypt and made manifest his power in you be forgotten and the faith of his Son made shipwrack of and your later end be worse then the beginning and the Name of the Lord be dishonoured by you and then wo unto you his wrath shall suddenly break out against you wherefore hear and fear and hearken unto the Word of the Lo●d he hath caused his Light to shine forth and his voice to be heard he hath proclaimed his Name amongst you and hath caused his marvelous light to approach when you set in darness in the Land of the shadow of death when you were lost he sought you and when you were driven away and scattered he found you and brought you home when you were in your blood and no eye pittyed you he had mercy upon you and bound you up and healed you when you were dead he said unto you Live and it was so when you were led captive by the devil under the power of death he break the chains and set you free and when there was none to help to save his own arm brought deliverance and salvation and the way of life and peace he set before you And now all this hath his own Arm accomplished that you should be a praise unto him for evermore now if you walk in the way which he hath set before you and keep his Covenant which he hath made with you and fulfil his will and walk in righteousness in love and unity in meekness lowliness humbleness and in soberness and watchfulness and in fear of his Name then shall his presence never forsake you nor his outstretched arm cease to defend and preserve you but he shall go before you and be your reward and he shall be your God and you shall he his people and you shall dwell in him and he shall be your hiding-place and he will be to you a Father and you shall be his children and his blessing and peace shall remain in your habitations for ever and ever but if any of you turn aside for a thing of naught after vanity and deny the way of righteousness and forget the Lord and kick against him and follow the way and counsels of your own hearts and worship other Gods and joyne your selves to strangers and commit adultery with other Lovers and make the cross of Christ of non-effect and turn from the Light of Christ within you and fulfil your own wills and the desire of your own minds and go out of the fear of the Lord into the liberty of the flesh which is not the liberty in Christ Jesus and so seek your selves and strive for mastery to be one above another and so surmize evil one against another and the bond of Peace be broken and vain contention and strife appear then shall the Rod of God smite you and his wrath be suddenly kindled against you and you shall not prosper but his countenance shall be hid and the terrors of the Lord and lamentations shall possess you and peace shall flee far from you and such shall be cast out of the Camp of the Lord and shall have no part in the Inheritance but the blessing shall depart and the curse shall enter till utter destruction yea and if any of you deny the Lord unto whom his way is made manifest he will deny you and you shall have no part in him but vengeance in flames of fire will he render upon the disobedient manifold more then if his love and way of peace had not been made manifest to you and the Light of the world is your condemnation for evermore if you turn from it And in the presence of the living God I warn you all Believe not that Spirit neither follow it which brings any other Message then what hath been declared from the beginning believe not him which cryes Lo here or lo there is Christ without you or that draweth from the measure of Christ within you to hearken to or to be taught by any other thing for that Spirit is not of the Father which preacheth any other Christ then he that is the Light of the world and lighteth every man that cometh into the world and which bringeth any other Message then that God is light in himself and hath given his Son a light into the world and this is the true Testimony of the Father and of the Son and he that testifieth any other Message is to be judged and denyed he is not a worshipper of the true God but out of the truth and in the error and a deceiver and being deceived Again Believe not