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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
world_n	darkness_n	light_n	shine_v	11,650	5	9.6082	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A27261	A loving salutation to all people who have any desires after the living God but especially to the free-will-Anabaptists / from ... I. Beevan.	Beevan, J. (John)	1660 (1660)	Wing B1696; ESTC R10285	8,133	8

A LOVING SALUTATION To all People who have any desires after the Living GOD But especially to the Free-Will-ANABAPTISTS From one that desires the Eternal good of all Souls I. BEEVAN FRIENDS AS I was meditating on the wayes and works of the Lord I can truly say my meditation of him was sweet for now I have found him whom my Soul long thirsted after in Egypt Land I say as I was meditating there was brought by the power of the Lord a perfect remembrance of my sore Travel in that dark Land of Bondage now praises praises to his great Name for ever who hath sent Redemption to Israel and set the oppressed free and broken that heavy yoak and laid on his yoak that is easie and his burthen which is light Now in bowels of tender love to those that know me by face and name in the outward who hath been with me in many Trials and yet are resting there still in that which will not stand in the day of the Lords power when no covering will serve but the Spirit of the Lord Now if you will but sink down to that which is pure of God and see and feel your selves and me also and let that of God judge of my Travels in Egypt and the way from thence as the Lord God by his mighty power shall give me to relate That the Truth of God may flourish is the earnest desire of my Soul that he may be exalted above all Therefore I shall relate a little of the long suffering of the Lord and how unwilling he is that sinners should perish and also to make known to you that it is the same God I now own that brought me out of my mothers womb and gave me life and all things Near about the time that I was seven years of age being bred up by my Parents very exactly for refraining of gross evils as Swearing and Cursing and the like I can truly say that there was a greater Power restrained me then their words and many desires were raised up in me to know that God they talked of so much and so often prayed to and when I often asked where he was and how he must be served they said he was in Heaven above the Skies but I felt him near me reproving me for my playing and wantonness as Children do practice in that nature and many a vow I made not to do so again but my vows I did not keep until I came near to fourteen years of age then was the Lord pleased to shew his power yet more in reproving me for sports and pleasure to which I hearkned a little did refrain it yet there was something in me lusted to see those things acted which I could not do my self then I was judged for that also then did I quite separate my self from my Companions which reproach't me but I matter'd them not and I went along with a little flock in Leominster called Puretans and many a fast day I kept very exactly and with the sufferer I took part then began my Parents to hate me when I was got above them I denyed their formal prayers and then they grew worse and many a blow I received upon that account which I bore patiently and I can truly say I never repented my going nor refrained until Wars came in England Then was the Flock of God scattered abroad as sheep without a Shepherd and hunted about like a Partridge on the Mountains and many were killed with the Sword and often put to the flight which made me and others question whether God had not forsaken his own People because he did not deliver them out of their enemies hands then the enemies of the Lord did rejoice both within and without as if all had been their own then the Seed of God suffered in Sodom and Egypt and the two Witnesses were slain and were made merry over and then the Seed suffered and the seed of the Serpent got on the top and led me captive at his will Now take notice the same Light I now own not another did let me see my state that I was run into darkness and departed from the Lord and was in the broad way which leadeth to destruction but sometimes did many strong cryes run through me saying O that I could but see the day I once saw yea when I have been setting up my self in pride or otherwise I have wished O that I were in such a condition I was once in if I had not raggs to cover my nakedness thus I passed on wilde and wanton until the wars were something abated and Lectors were set up and I heard many men and they held many Opinions I thought I was the worst amongst all for I was ashamed of my present estate however I left my Companions and then I posted up and down after the most eminent men in those parts for I soon saw the deceit of the Tithe Priests and denied them all yet still I saw in my self I was condemned because I did not walk up to what I knew though many branches were broken off yet the root still remained thus was I tossed from Mountain to Hill and hurried here and there but none spake to my present estate until I met with one whose Name was known unto us by the Name of James Brown who as I understand died an open enemy to the same Truth that he once declared and to the same Light which he once bore Testimony though this is a hard saying but hearken a little and consider you that were with me at the first in that discory of Water-Baptism and feel what I say this man was very low and tender and had denied himself of all his honour and profit in the world insomuch that he came to a low estate yet I could not see but that he was contented while he was in that condition could I see such an image born up amongst you as was once in him I should own it as dear as my life but feigned humility I deny mark that and for his Doctrine it was the very same words which the Messengers of the Lord are gone forth with and I in my measure do set my seal to though at the first I did much oppose him but my foundation could not stand though got very high as concerning the Light he spoke often of it that it was the Light and Life of men and that it shined in darkness and that it was the true Light that lighteth every one that cometh into the World and that the Word was within the Mouth and in the Heart and that Christ was within and he often prest it to me that if Christ was not within me I was a Reprobate the which I did believe it was the truth and that my greatest enemies were within I knew it was so then the Serpent raged and then were Wars and rumours of Wars such as never was before the Sword of the Lord was drawn to cut down all his enemies