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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
world_n	deny_v	live_v	ungodliness_n	2,303	5	11.2667	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A27398	A tender and unfeigned salutation of love and good-will to professors, or, A tender invitation and call unto all people in whose hearts there hath been, and still is, some true desiring and breathing after the Lord God ... from one whose tender soul (in spirit) doth travel for the prosperity of Sion ... / a friend to all people, William Bennit.	Bennit, William, d. 1684.	1664 (1664)	Wing B1894; ESTC R5155	19,011	34

is manifest in them and Paul says That the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man to profit withal and the free Grace of God saith he Mark that bringeth Salvation hath appeared to all men teaching us that we denying ungodliness and worldly lusts should live soberly righteously and godly in this present world And the Saints they witnessed their reconciliation and were born again they felt and knew that in themselves of which they were born again even Christ in them the Seed incorruptible 1 Pet. 1. 23 24 25. the Word of God which lives and abides for ever by which they were begotten again unto God and quickened by the Word of life even they who were once as dead stones were raised up as living Children unto Abraham and so they came to taste that the Lord was good and gracious to taste and handle of the Word of Life and to 1 Cor. 12. 13. feed upon the Bread of Life and to drink of the Cup of Blessing and so by one Spirit were baptised into one body and were made to drink into one Spirit wherein they worshipped and served the Lord God and had Unity with the Lord in and through the Eternal Spirit and Unity one with another which united their Souls unto each other and unto the Lord God over all blessed for ever Ah dear people you in whose hearts there is true desires and secret thirstings after the living God where-ever ye are scattered among the many Sects and people towards you doth my soul doth my tender soul yearn and stream with love and good-will and for your sakes dear people doth my Soul travel in the womb of Supplication that you might come to enjoy that which you are seeking after and come to possess that you are thirsting for and for your sakes mostly is this written in tender bowells of unfeigned love and pitty to your souls And dear people you that have true desires in you after the Lord and hath been seeking of him where you cannot find him and hath been running from Mountain to Hill and from Hill to Mountain from one broken Cistern to another from one dead Form to another but still are unsatisfied and are sensible that you still notwithstanding your long profession and confession of God and Christ in words and notwithstanding your practicing somethings that you read of which the Saints once performed in obedience of the Spirit of Truth which led them thereunto want the feeling enjoyment of the Love and sweet Peace of God and go groaning daily under the burden of the bondage of sin and corruption and desires to be set free therefrom Oh dear people retire retire with your minds inward you who hath been seeking a God a far off and hunting after the Lord without retire to within and wait to know the Lord God near you to know his pure Truth in your inward parts his pure Spirit in you to lead and guide you teach and instruct you for God is a Spirit and his teachings are spiritual he must be known in Spirit worshipped in Spirit Joh. 4. 21 22 23 24. and in Truth not at the Mountain neither at Jerusalem not in this set Form nor the other Form As lo here and lo there but in the Spirit is the Lord God known and worshipped aright by them who are born of the Spirit And so the Spiritualized people who are born of the Spirit and lives in the Spirit and are taught and led by the Spirit of Truth these are the peculiar people who Worship the God of Truth who is a Spirit in the Spirit and in the Truth and these are acceptable Worshippers with the Lord who own no Worship but his own which he teacheth his people by his Spirit and they that is ignorant of the Spirit of God they are ignorant of the true Worship of God which is in the Spirit and although such may seem to Worship God yet their Worship is not of God nor accepted with God It is the purified Sons of Levy who hath passed through the fire that are purged even as gold is purged and tryed Mal. 3. 1 2 3 4. and as silver is tryed by him the Light of Israel who is as a Refiners Fire and like Fullers Sope that can offer unto God an Offering in Righteousness and their offerings is pleasant unto the Lord but the polluted Sacrifices the halt the blind and Isa 10 17. the lame is abomination unto the pure God of purity who is Blessed Blessed for evermore And dear People who have desires in your after the Lord towards you doth my bowels yearn whereever you are scattered among the many Sects and heaps this is a tender invitation unto you that hath been spending your money for that which is not bread and your labour for that which hath not yet satisfied your Souls but still you are a thirsty for want of drink and an hungry for want of food Oh dear people retire inward retire inward hunt no longer abroad run no longer from one broken Cistern to another wait no longer at the Wells that men have digged draw no longer at them for still you thirst again But oh retire to within turn your minds inward and wait to find and feel that in you which you so carefully with sorrow hath been seeking without you even to know Jacobs Well in you which hath been dammed up with Earth by the uncircumcised whilest you have been hunting abroad therefore turn your minds inward to feel the gift that Christ gives the Water that he gives saith Christ to the Woman of Samaria The water which I will give thee shall Mark be in the John 4. 14. a Well of water springing up unto Eternal life So the Water that Christ gives it 's within therefore turn inward to his pure Gift in your own Hearts to his pure Light in your own Consciences for that comes from him and leads unto him them that doth it love follow and obey the Fountain of living Water who satisfy the thirst of the thirsty and feedeth the hungry with good things Therefore retire inward in your minds and come unto him and learn of him who is meek and low in the heart to wit Christ in you except ye be Ma● 11. 28. 29 30. Isa 55. 2 3. Reprobates hearken diligently unto him and eat ye that which is good no longer feed upon the husks and let your souls delight themselves in fatness come unto him encline your ear hear and your Soul shall live and enter into Covenant with him who will be your God and you shall be his people And so dear people it is not enough for any to have a profession and a talk of God and Christ in words without the enjoyment and possession of him It is not enough to confess and believe that Christ died at Jerusalem for sinners and he hath done all for you c. for the drunkard and the swearer will say as much as this

the Bread and Wine outward did figure out which the Manna that God gave the Israel of old in the Wilderness was a pure type of the heavenly Manna the living Bread which the birth that is born of God feed upon and lives thereby and grows up into Eternal life The day of gathering is come wherein the Lord God of everlasting bowels of Compassion is a gathering the dispersed and seeking that which was lost ●ek 34. 12 〈◊〉 14 15 16. and bringing back that which was driven away and healing that which was sick and binding up that which was broken but the strong and the fat he is feeding with Judgement The Lord is a gathering people out of the Forms Shells and Shadows wherein many hath long stuck and is bringing of them to the Substance and life its self out of the many Sects and heaps and divers ways into the one pure path into the one way of Life Light Peace Truth and Righteousness who by the one Spirit hath and is 1 Cor. 1● baptising them who believe in the Light into the one body wherein the unity the ownness and the fellowship is witnessed blessed be his Name The way of the Lord is pure and righteous and unchangable I am the Way the Truth and the Life John 14. Rom. 10. John 12. the 8 ch● saith Christ the immortal Word which saith Paul is nigh in the heart to be obeyed and done This is he the Light the Salvation of God the true Light that lighteth every man that cometh into the world who saith None can come unto the Father but by me I am come a Light into the world saith Christ that whosoever believe in me shall not abide in darkness but shall have the light of life Therefore dear people love the Light and believe in the Light while ye have the Light that so you may become children of the Light and become heirs of an Inheritance incorruptible that will never fade away There is no obtaining the Crown but through the Cross and this you will come to know who come to love the Light Mat. 11. 29. ● 6. 13. th● 10. 38. and to be taught of him and to learn of him who is meek and low in the heart and to follow him in the strait and narrow way that leads to life which few there be that finds it and vvalk therein He that will be my Disciple saith Christ must deny himself and take up his daily Cross and follow me This you will come to feel and witness if you be followers of the Light a daily denying of self you will know a denying of your own wills your own desires your own thoughts your own affections your own words and works your own wisdom and righteousness and a dayly taking up the Cross an hourly living in the Cross through which you must come to be crucified to the ●6 14. World its Vanity its Pomp Pastime and Pleasures Sins and Iniquities vain Words Works Fashions and Customes Inventions and Traditions so coming to be crucified with Christ unto the world and to be Baptised into death with him unto sin you will come to live with him unto God in the life of Righteousness in whom then you will find that Rest Satisfaction Joy Comfort and Peace which no man can give unto you So dear people who are seeking and desiring after the Lord God to find peace and comfort to your souls this I leave with you flie not from that which doth judg you in your own hearts for sin and evil and bring trouble upon you and sorrow upon you and woundeth and peirceth you in secret because of Transgression I say love that flie not from it for oh dear people how many is there that when they have been judged and Gods pure light in their hearts for their sins when trouble and sorrow and distress hath seized on them because of their sins which Gods Witness hath set in order before their eyes then hath they run unto vain helps and run unto men for help even to those that could not speak a word in season to them but hath daubed them up with untempered Morter and hath endeavoured to heal their wound deceitfully and hath Preached peace to that which is for judgment and so thereby they have gotten some kind of satisfaction for a time until the Lord wounded them again with the Sword of his Righteous Judgments and then their seeming rest fled away as smoak before the wind and sorrow and trouble took hold on them again as pain on a Woman in travel and then they have run again unto that which could not remove the very cause of their trouble and sorrow they have run to the Scriptures of Truth and therein hath found a promise and this they have applied to themselves for to get peace and rest thereby when alas poor hearts they have not been in that state and condition which that promise which they applied to themselves was unto and so not for them and then they have read what the Saints once did and performed and they set themselves to do the like and to imitate them and so hereby for a time they have gotten some satisfaction some kind of rest and peace until the Lord God did thunder again with Dread and uttered his Voice with Terror which caused the Earth to tremble and their habitation to fall and then dissolation came upon them again and their Fig-leave garment came to be rent and their wound greater then ever it was before and thus they have run from Mountain to Hill from one Physitian to another for healing but they were unto them as Physitians of no value for none of them could rightly heal their wounds until at last they said in their hearts We will seek no more unto man for vain is the help of man But we will return unto the Lord God who hath wounded us and he will heal us who hath broken us in peices and he will bind us up and so returning to the light of Christ Jesus in their own hearts with which the Lord hath wounded them for their sins and brought trouble and sorrow upon them for their iniquities waiting therein in patience upon the Lord God in the way of his Righteous Judgments which was set up in their hearts they came to feel through their believing in the Light and loving the Light by which they were wounded for sin the cause of their sorrow and trouble and wounds taken away by the Blood of Jesus which is his life which they came to feel in them cleansing of them from their sins and washing of them away and so the very cause of their wound being taken away and the corruption purged out then he the tender pitiful compassionate God of Mercy that in mercy towards them had wounded them healed them with the sweet Oyl of joy peace and gladness and now these that were mourners doth rejoyce and they that were heavy-hearted are made glad and