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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
life_n	believe_v	good_a	work_n	4,967	5	5.7579	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A86670	The testimony of the everlasting gospel witnessed through sufferings.	Hubberthorn, Richard, 1628-1662.; Atkinson, Christopher.; Lancaster, James, d. 1699.; Tofte, Thomas.	1654 (1654)	Wing H3237; Thomason E818_23; ESTC R207402	6,326	9

THE TESTIMONY Of the Everlasting GOSPEL Witnessed through Sufferings WE the Prisoners of the Lord who are called and chosen to this Work of the Ministery of the Gospel of Ghrist and to bear Testimony to the Truth which freely we have received and do freely declare and do covet no mans gold nor silver nor meat nor drink nor apparell God is our witnesse whose honour and glory we seek and not our own but do labour in the Lords work being chargeable to no man but this doth the Spirit of God testifie to us dayly that in them that receive our Testimony and in them that persecute us are we a good savour unto God both in them that believe and in them that perish and that we may finish our Testimony and Work of the Ministry committed unto us we love not our lives unto death but are reviled persecuted and shamefully intreated by this perverse Generation who have no Law to act any thing against us by but their own wils for the Law of God doth witnesse us and our Ministery to be of God and for setting up righteousnesse in the earth our Ministery is and they who do act against the servants of the living God do act against God for the Law of God which is perfect we witnesse to be fulfilled in us who are come to the Ministration of the Spirit and through the Law are become dead to the Law and by the Spirit we come to know sin which raigned till the Law came which is perfect which taxes hold upon every transgression and Christ we witnesse the end of the Law who came to finish transgression and make an end of sins and where there is no transgression proved there can be no Law added and we who suffer here in Norwich there is nothing proved against us that comes under the breach of the Law For as I was moved of the Lord I came to Wymondham and in the Meeting house when the Priest had ended and all the people silent I spoke the Word of the Lord to them in love to their souls and for the deliverance of the seed of God out of captivity and for this I was sent to Bridwell and the next day being called before the Magistrate but nothing was proved against me though he accused me of something which I spoke not nor none did prove it against me and he himself confessed that he did not hear me speak that he accused me of though he himself was in the multitude and heard as the rest did Then he asked me if I would promise him not to come in the publick Meeting house again in the like manner and I should have my Liberty to meet in Town or where I would I Answered if I was moved of the Lord to come thither again I should come and when I did transgresse or do any wrong let him add the Law upon me for there is no Law in the Nation that doth binde any from coming to the Publick meeting house who come in the same manner as I did to declare the Word of the Lord freely to the people then in his will he made a mittimus and sent me to prison and the next day by his own warrant discharged me of all that was laid to my charge in the Mittimus and yet I am kept in prison nothing justly being charged against me having suffered imprisonment above ten weeks and since I was committed was called before the Magistrates and the Maior and before the Committees who sit as Ministers of the Law and nothing they could finde worthy of bonds nor that I had broken the Law yet did not set me at liberty but keeps me still in prison and I being shut up in a hole amongst thieves and not suffered to have my Liberty Publickly I am moved of the Lord to declare it publickly that all Rulers Magistrates and people in the Nation may see that in stead of the Law persecution is acted where three of the servants of the Lord is now imprisoned in Norwich one because he would not Promise to come in the Steeple-house again to declare the Word of the Lord and another is committed by a Mittimus and the substance of that charged against him in it is That he said he came to declare the Truth and another because he declared against him and ungodlinesse openly in the streets Oh be ashamed all the powers of the earth who have set your selves against the mighty power of God who is now coming to discover you and lay you naked who by the Light of God are seen and to the children of Light are made manifest though your deceits hath laid hid and covered long both Priests and Magistrates but now are ye discovered by the Light and the Life is come to try you and now you are found to persecute the Saints which you professed your selves to be till you were proved and tryed by the Light as now you are Praises eternall be to the Lord God for evermore Now these things being acted in the name of the Law and the present government and Lord Protector and Rulers and heads of the Nation being ignorant of what tyranny and persecution is acted privately in their Names Therefore I am moved of the Lord to declare it Publictly that the heads and Rulers of the nation may see and consider whether any such tyranny be Protected to be set up in the Nation instead of the Law of justice for the innocent doth cry for equity and justice in their Courts and Sessions but in stead thereof tyranny persecution and cruelty so having discharged my duty in clearing my conscience to you before the Lord The sin lyes at your doores who hath a power put into your hands if you do not improve it in breaking the bondes of wickednesse and setting the oppressed free for the Law of justice and equity we own and have desired to be tryed by but are denyed it by those called Justices of Peace and here to you and all the world we declare the Truth and are not afraid of the faces of men who would devour us for we have no mans person in admiration for advantage nor self ends but in plainnesse and singlenesse of heart declare the truth respecting no mans person but do honour all men in the Lord but not with eye service as men pleasers but in singlenesse of heart do we all things as unto the Lord A servant and a witnesse of Jesus in the bonds of the Gospel of Christ and a prisoner in Norwich Castle RICHARD HUBBERTHORN Norwich THese are to require you to to take into your custody James Lancaster herewith sent who lately came to this City from Northseal in the ●land of Walner in Lancashire and can shew no lawfull cause for his coming hither but onely to declare the Truth as he cals it and did in the publick market place in this City gather together a great company of rude and idle people to the disturbance of the peace of this