Selected quad for the lemma: work_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
work_n	create_v	good_a	workmanship_n	4,350	5	11.8942	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A84829	The trumpet of the Lord sounded, and his sword drawn, and the separation made between the precious and the vile; and the vineyard of the Lord dressed by his own husbandmen, and the dead trees cut down, and all the mystery of witchcraft discovered in all professions: by them who have come thorow great tribulation, whose garments have been washed in the blood of the lamb; who are accounted as the off-scowring of all things for Christs sake, scornfully called by the world Quakers.	Fox, George, 1624-1691.	1654 (1654)	Wing F1969; Thomason E732_23; ESTC R206890	12,587	19

fruit be good that you bring forth I mean ye that are professors for if it be not good it will not be accepted for every tree that brings not forth good fruit must be hewn down and cast into the fire Your works must be tried by the fire and if they be unrighteou● they must with the trees be cast into the lake that burneth See if ye obey the Commandments of Christ or of the Devil The carnal heart saith God is an hard Master but he is not it is none but the evil and slothful servant that saith so for he is exceeding good his commandments are not grievous but joyous The carnal heart saith it is hard to keep them But where is thy love towards him when thou dost disobey him When he saith If ye love me keep my commandments the carnal ones say It is hard to keep the commandments of the Lord but the devils commandments are easie they can keep them with ease and go on in joy and delight it is no trouble to keep the devils commandments Saith he You may be proud it is but Decencie he saith you may be covetous it is but a provident care he saith you may be angry it keeps others in subjection to you he saith you may be drunk it is but good-fellowship he saith you may be oppressors it will bring you in gain and he saith you may use deceitful merchandise for if you do not as the world do ye shall lose by them he saith you may swear and lye they will believe you the better he saith you may be envious and hate or else they will not matter for you And so in every unrighteous act he will make a cloak for it to cover it And for to live in unrighteousness it is very easie you may run on the broad way to destruction with joy and delight but to act in righteousness it is very hard And then you say the way is narrow to keep in it it is so therefore if ever you come to Sion you must go on the strait way for it is the strait way that leadeth to life and few there be that finde it but broad is the way that leadeth to destruction and many there be that follow it Let every one that nameth the name of Christ depart from iniquity for no unclean thing shall enter into the kingdom of heaven for he is of purer eyes then to behold iniquity Therefore perfect holiness in the fear of the Lord and live not in words but bring forth fruits meet of amendment of life and cease from evil and turn to the Lord that he may have mercy upon you If you be willing and obedient you shall eat the good of the land but if you be disobedient and stiff-necked then wo and misery will be your portion for the day of the Lord is coming in power and he will gather his elect unto himself See if you can yet witness your election that your names may be written in the book of Life if ye cannot ye are deceived already then what use is all your profession of it will prove hypocrisie and it were better never to have made a profession then to profess and not put in practise what you profess For it is not they that say they love God and Christ but they that make their love manifest by their works that shall be accepted by yielding up obedience to his Commands If you say you love God and Christ in words and your actions be contrary it is but hypocrisie You may profess much in words but if your hearts be not one with your tongues to guide them though they may prophesie in his Name yet if they be workers of iniquity they must depart and Christ will say Depart ye workers of iniquity I know you not Therefore be not sayers but doers and be what you speak in all things and do not speak one thing and do another for God doth love the upright in heart See how you are built up into the truth for the Saints that spake forth the Scriptures were what they spake and they spake what they lived in they were the workmanship of God created in Christ Iesus to good works See if you can witness this yet see what you are wrought out of and what ye are wrought into And live not in words but bring forth fruit that God may be glorified that you may be what you profess in reality For the day of the Lord is coming wherein the deceits shall be laid open and all things made manifest as it is all secrets shall be revealed the secrets of all hearts And all the crowns of men shall be thrown down for how can ye believe which seek honour one of another and seek not the honour which is of God alone All the haughtiness of man shall be brought down and all the loftiness of men laid low all secret pride and secret envie and secret malice and secret revenge and secret subtilty and secret hypocrisie and secret dissimulation shall be laid open and made manifest and they shall all be ashamed of the evil of their doings and the pure naked truth be unveiled and spread abroad that righteousness may flourish and see the Lord set up and honoured and rule and reign for evermore The Lord will plague the Beast and judge the Whore and punish the wicked very sore Sing Hallelujah to the Highest for ever A Separation betwixt the people of God the righteous seed that ever suffered with the seed of evil doers that each may know that witness and see ye have a cloud of witnesses who are the seed of the righteous and you may see you have a cloud of witnesses who are the seed of evil doers persecuting the righteous seed Priests People and Rulers you know the letter speaks and you may read it in Matthew and all along the Scriptures how the Priests People and Rulers were against Christ in which generation you shew your selves to be and clear your selves for the generation of the feed of the righteous Do not you hale out of your Synagogues and hale before Magistrates Do not you here fulfil Scripture which Christ prophesied of Do not you imprison which Christ speaks of Do not you stone with stones shewing your selves to be in the generation that stoned Steven that cryed against the Temple Acts 7. And do not you hale and beat them that come to speak the truth freely in your Temple shewing your selves openly to be in that generation that beat the Apostles and haled them out of the Temple And do not your Teachers go in the way of Balaam for gifts and rewards who had the spirit of errour shewing ye have erred from the truth Do they not go in the way of Cain to envie who would murder And do you not scorn and mock and wonder and despise as they did against David and Paul and the rest of the servants of God Are not your Teachers they that Christ speaks of which said