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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
world_n	false_a	spirit_n	try_v	3,332	5	9.2261	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B05871	The voyce of the just uttered: his passing out of Ægypt through the Red Sea, through the wildernesse to the promised land, where rest and peace is enjoyed. / By him who is known to the world by the name of Thomas Symonds.	Simonds, Thomas, d. 1666.	1656 (1656)	Wing S3804; ESTC R184170	9,406	8

THE VOYCE of the JUST Uttered His passing out of Aegypt through the Red Sea through the Wildernesse to the Promised Land where rest and peace is enjoyed By him who is known to the World by the Name of THOMAS SYMONDS Many false Spirits are entred into the World who are seen tryed and found out with the light of Christ although it they oppose and seek to darken with all their dark powers Yet Christs Voyce a torment is to the unclean Spirits known of them but not followed his sheep hear his voyce and they follow him in the strait and narrow way through tribulations trialls and persecutions which is embraced of all those that dwell in the light and so come to the inheritance the Crown of life I Being quiet and still in my habitation feeding upon the bread of life knowne and enjoyed in the light of life the former dealings of the Lord was brought to my remembrance and in love to the souls of men and women I am made to publish and make knowne these things which follow which cannot be hid for the command to me is what is revealed to thee in secret that preach thou on the house tops and what is made knowne unto thee in thy closet that publish abroad and let my secrets to thee be no longer hid the candle of the Lord being lighted in me searching me from the beginning and shewing me the sins of my you h and now knowing that when I had committed sinne in my youth the light of Christ in my conscience discovered it and reproved me ever since the time of my being a child but I not knowing where to wait ran from place to place from one man to another who had the greatest name in godliness and profession of holinesse but Phisitians they were of no value sometimes I found them daubing as it were with untempered morter and would have healed that which was to be cut and wounded and bruised the head of the serpent while it stood acted I was in wickednesse and so from day to day I went under a wounded spirit which made me cry day and night by prayer to the Lord as I thought to be at a distance from me and Christ that had enlightned me with his light which was then prsent with me to let me see my condition and wounded Estate that I would not own for my guide this condition I continued in till about eighteene years of age and then much calling and crying out there was of the priests of those times whom I delighted to hear to goe forth into the war hearkning to their cry I entred into the war without me thinking thereby to be beloved of God for my forwardnesse in that work and the war within me did somwhat cease but not wholly for I sound the searcher of all hearts the light of Christ in me condemning reproving me in secret and often when I have been to engage with my enemies without me my sins have been set in order before me which hath made me even to faint before them but the resolvednesse in me and the justnesse of my cause as I thought carried me on to encounter but this brought not my enemies within me to the slaughter but strength they got by it I reasoning thus with my selfe I had fought the Lords battell and henceforth there was layd up a sure reward for me and this sometimes did quiet me till the Lord uttered his voice in his habitation then came I to see with the light of Christ that my iniquities were not yet blotted out then sorrow would sease upon me and sadnesse palenesse of face so that I was long kept to the admiring of many and when at any time I had been drawne out to receive the creature to the abusing of my body which I see overtooke me I not being kept dilligent and watchfull the severe Judgments of God would follow me and rest depart from me then mourning and lamenting was my portion and sorrowing and sighing with much heavinesse of spirit from the oppressed in me did proceed then such perswasion there was in me that I should joyne with those people called Annabaptists and did contend much when I came with those that did oppose me for water baptisme taking Scriptures to prove the necessity of it but in a short time I came to see the emptinesse and huskinesse of it and so became dead to it and the witnesse of God the light arising in me though the power of it I little knew my condition in measure I was brought to know and to see my selfe naked and wretched then to reading of Scriptures and praying I did much give my selfe and at times much tears and weeping I was brought into then looking upon them as tears of repentance there would be some quietnesse in my spirit and a calme for sometime but that remaining in me strong and uncrucified the Lust from whence warres did proceed peace would not long continue the light of Christ in my conscience being sinned against for the vertue and strength of it I was then ignorant of but in this my time of ignorance the Lords working power in me his light was not put out though often quenched and sinned against and this was the Lords love to my soule to waken and quicken me morning by morning and in the night season call me to an account with his light of life and power with it I now see he hath enlightned every one that cometh into the world and that with his light Christ Jesus hath and doth and shall leave all men without excuse eternally before the pure God who is light and in him is no darknesse at all but all who have and doth and shall abide in his light have and doth and shall know that in it is life and power and it is able to cleanse and purifie the heart and abiding in it the heart Soule and body is kept cleane in the sight of the pure God and so the peace of God come to be knowne of all those that abide in his light which shines in all consciences though darknesse comprehend it not yet light comprehend and discover it in man allthough man by his strange inventions seeke to darken the glorious light as when I was afflicted and tossed too and fro with the slight and cunning of mens inventions for when many conditions I had passed through as before mentioned and stil the Lord in his love was searching me with his light and with it I did see sinne standing which caused trouble and restlessnesse then the docctine of free grace so called was preached to me that Christ had suffered for sinners and his suffering was free his mercy free his love his grace free so there was nothing for me to doe but to believe these things which Doctrine was soone received by me for it was pleasing to the fleshly minde as it was then held forth and declared by the blinde guides of the world and now I know that his