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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
love_n	heart_n	soul_n	word_n	5,510	5	3.8378	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A91825	The banner of Gods love, and ensign of righteousness spread over his people in these later dayes. Wherein the true light shineth, and the mysterie that hath been hid from ages and generations, is revealed to the saints, which is, Christ in us the hope of glory, as our forefathers witnessed, read Col. I. 26, 27, 28, 29. Also, a testimony against them who formerly hath tasted of the good word of God, and of the power of the world to come, who hath cast the law of God behind their backs, and hath trodden under foot the blood of the covenant. ... most especially, those that are called Anabaptists and Independents. Also, a few words in warning to the priests, professors, and people of the town and county of Southhampton. With a few quæries to the rulers and magistrates of England, to try their fruits whether they be according to the Christian magistrates recorded in the Scripture of truth, ... . Set forth most especially for the sake of the honest-hearted, who are not wholly given up to believe lyes, that they may come to know the way of life and peace. Written by me who are called Ambrose Rigge.	Rigge, Ambrose, 1635?-1705.	1657 (1657)	Wing R1475; Thomason E932_4; ESTC R22061	33,117	47

think may reach to Heaven whereby to get you a Name and exalt your selves in the sight of men and a name you have gotten of Lambs and Sheep but the nature of Dogs and Swine is found ruling in you as is too too evidently your Rev. 3. 1. actions and fruits I know you wil call this railing but it is the Words of sound Doctrine unto you which you can scarce endure you have been so long daubed with untempered Morter and flattered in your iniquity but now will 2 Tim. 4. 3. the Lord rip off all your false covers and your folly shall be made manifest unto all men as theirs was who withstood 2 Tim. 3. 8 9 the truth in former ages I did think to cover your iniquity from the eyes of the World but now I see the Lord will not have it so but your shame and confusion must now be laid open unto all that others may hear and fear and take warning and that you may be left without excuse and your blood be upon your own heads in the day of the Lords fierce indignation which shall come upon you as a thief in the night except you with speed repent and turn to the Lord with all your hearts and with all your souls and put on Sackcloth and sit down in the dust for the jealousie of the Lord is kindled against you and all your prayers are an abomination to him for you regard iniquity and envy in your hearts and works it with your hands Is now the Weapon of your Warfare become a Magistrates Sword Wil not your Ministry stand without imprisoning and persecuting the innocent Had ever the Churches of Christ such a VVeapon as you can read of VVhat will be the end of these things Consider betime if you be not wholly given up to a reprobate mind In true and tender love to your poor souls I speak warn you again as I have often done who have most unjustly suffer'd by you both in false words and unjust actions as I shal make appear to publike view You have cast many false and abominable aspersions upon us who are by you in scorn called Quakers and most especially upon me who am onely known to you by the Name of Ambrose Rigge yea many things have you laid to my charge which I never knew nor acted for which the Lord wil you judge which thing you never made good to this day nor never can And this have you possest ignorant people with That we are Witches and Deluders and doth deny Christ and the Scriptures and many other filthy things which is not fit to be named but to be thrown into the bottomless pit from whence they came And this have you possessed the minds of many with for which the Lord will reward you into your own bosoms but of all your false Accusations are we clear in the presence of the Lord for Christ and the Scriptures we own and witness else we should not see your deceit and hypocrisie which is covered in you with the Name of Religion and if we did not own him in us the hope of glory we needed not suffer by Col. 1. 26 27. you and all the World so much reviling and slandering and be hated with a deadly hatred as we are daylie by you but at this we marvel not for we know it was our Masters portion before of the same generation as we have a cloud of Witnesses recorded in the Scripture of truth was written for our admonition and learning as our forefathers were moved of the Holy Ghost took in hand to set forth in order a declaration of the sufferer of the persecutor that we might have a Witnesse for one and against the other which we prize greatly at this day seeing that both parts is now to be fulfilled as your eyes have seen and our ears have heard And thus hath the third ground appeared worse then both the former wherein you are found who are called Independents for you are weighed in the Ballance of the 1 Sam 2. 3. Sanctuary and are found wanting therefore wo unto you if ye do not repent for the Spirit of the Lord will not alwaies Gen. 6. 3. strive with you nor his Messengers will not alwaies be sent to warn you to turn unto him but the time shall suddenly come upon you that you shall seek the Word of the Lord from Sea to Sea and shall not find it if you still Amos 8 11 12. go on in hard heartedness and rebellion and despise the day of your visitation And now Nathaniel Robbinson I shall lay open some of thy fruits to publike view that all who feare God and keep his commandments may be ashamed of thee And this I shall declare for the simple sake that they may know thee by thy fruits according to the words of Christ Matt. Matt. 7. 15 16. 7. 20. and that all who loves their souls may no longer be deceived by thee nor hold thee up lest they partake with thee of thy plagues Upon the first day of the Week I who am called of the World by the Name of Ambrose Rigge was moved of the Lord to come into the Idols-Temple where thou was speaking a divination of thy own brain where I stood peaceably till thou had made an end as many may witnesse and then I spoke to thee the words of truth in soberness but thou fled out at a back-door as the false hirelings ever did Joh. 10. 13. and then those that was present in hearing thee fell upon me like so many Wolves and Lyons that it was the great love and mercy of the Lord that I saved my blood and they haled me out of thy Synagogue into the Street where I was speaking the Words of truth with boldnesse till one of thy Hearers by name William Pinhorne and Nathaniel Knight one of thy members came and laid violent hands on me and haled me violently along the Streets to the Majors House where they kept me prisoner till the Major came home and then accused me falsly to the Major so they sent me to prison where I did remain till the second daie and then was brought before the said Major and Justices of the Town and Countie of Southampton where did appear none to lay any thing to my charge worthie of bonds Then came in Nathaniel Robbinson as a Judge in his own cause and told the Magistrates he would prove me a Hireling and when I put him to prove it he quoted that place of Scripture in Luk. 10. 3 4 5 6 7. where Christ said unto his Disciples when he sent them forth without bag or scrip or two Coats and commanded them to eat and drink such things as was set before them for the Labourer is worthie of his hire but when I put him to prove by the Scripture where ever Christ commanded his Ministers to go into such a City and there have a set-place and a Steeple-house

and people lived in they had a zeal for God and his glory and a tenderness of affection arose in their hearts one to another to exhort one another to love and to good Works and the Seed of the Kingdom of God was sown in them but it falling by the way-side the Fowles of the air picked it a-away so that it came not to take root downward nor Mar. 4 4. bring forth fruit upward to him that sowed it So these fell back again and lost their zeal and tenderness which they had and got the words of truth in the airy mind but in the life was one with the World after a little time and then was the Lord grieved that his Heritage was wholly Jer. 12. 8. left desolate for the Fowls of the Air to tread under their feet and make a prey upon and it pittyed him to see his own seed so oppressed and his Vinyard so wholly laid waste to the Beasts of the field Isa 3. 14. And then did he arise for his own Name sake and opened the eyes of many and appeared in a large measure into a People that was called Anabaptists and shewed them in a large measure the Witchcraft of the great Whore who Rev. 17. 1 2. had made all Nations drunk with the Wine of her Fornication and then did he lead them from the mouths of the Idol dumb shepherds which had made a prey upon them and had taken their money for that which they saw was not bread nor had not in the least satisfied their hungry Isa 55. 2. souls even then did God raise his living Witness in them and shed his eternal love abroad in their hearts and gathered them together in several quarters of the world and his Name was witnessed among them and his Power did appear in them and a great zeal and tenderness for a while was among them so that they met with part of the rage of the Devil and indured it for a time with joy and while they was near unto the Lord he was known to be near unto them and gave them the necks of their Enemies to tread upon and a great sight of the good Land they had and the Seed of the Kingdom of God was abundantly sown amongst them but it falling upon the stony ground in them Mar. 4. 5. when the Sun arose vvith his burning heat it vvas scorched and became unfruitful so that after a time the povver of God ceased and vvas not seen amongst them but coldness and barrenness got up and pride and exaltation and self-conceitedness crept in by little and little and then they begun to build again those things vvhich they had in a measure destroyed and he that got the most in his brain-knovvledge vvas set up to be a Teacher and a Ruler and so gloryed in the gift more then in the Giver and this Ministry became one in nature vvith the Priests and did not profit the people at all vvhich may be vvitnessed at this day And novv are they set dovvn at ease in a dead form of that vvhich the Saints vvitnessed the life of nay they have so far departed from the povver of God vvhich the Saints did doth vvitness to lead guide them that they have lost the very form and are become one in nature vvith the World and differ nothing but in vvords and in outward shews and pretences The true Proverb is fulfilled upon them The Dog is turned to his own Vomit again and the 2 Pet. 2. 22. Prov. 26. 11. Sow that was washed to her wallowing in he Myre so that the Lord is weary with their sacrifices and their solemn Assemblies he cannot away with because they have cast his righteous Law Isa 11. to 16. Heb. 10. to 29. behind their backs and hath trodden under foot the blood of the Covenant and now hath sitten down in a rest which is polluted and are become enemies to the Crosse of Christ therefore is the same hand of the Lord that vvas turned against his Enemies before the same is lifted up against them novv vvhereby they are torn and rent as an old Garment and as a tottering VVall that is daubed vvith untempered Morter And thus have they rendred unto the Lord evil for all his kindness and hath turned his grace into lasciviousness vvhich vvould have led them to salvation if they had been taught vvith it vvhereby the vvorks of the Devil Tit. 2. 11. 12. vvould have been destroyed in them vvhich they are so strongly pleading for and concluding all to be deceived and seduced that shall vvithstand or oppose it and if any vvill not bovv dovvn to their Image vvhich they have set up from the Scripture Letter presently he is judged and censured not vvorthy to have communion vvith though he have the povver of God for his defence and be led and guided by the Spirit of the living God and have fellovvship vvith him and be brought into his Covenant of light and life And this is that now which they call their Fundamentals Baptism of Water and taking of material Bread and Wine which there is no command for throughout the Scripture but Judgement Mercy and Faith is omitted Luk. 11. 49. which is the weighty matters of the Law and so the Wo that was unto their forefathers is to the same generation still And thus hath the Lord been mocked with a voluntary humility and a Will-Worship after the traditions of men after the Rudiments of the World and not after Christ the Light of the World who hath lighted every man that cometh into the World And so now are they Joh. 1. 9. crying up the Ordinances of God the Ordinances of God as the Jews did the Temple but are as ignorant of Christ Jesus the Substance as the Jews was that stoned him Though there was a time that he was known in such things and in the flesh yet he that came through it desired to know him so no more but these deny all that comes to know him ony otherwise as the Jews did them that testified against the outward Temple which was a time commanded of God when their Bodies was made the Temples of God and they came to witness the Substance 1 Cor. 6. 19. of the Figure Now this is the reason of so much confusion now among several sorts of men and forms That the Life and Substance of all Types Shadows and Figures is denyed and only the Husk fed upon and this hath been the ruine and down-fall of these people that are called Anabaptists Then in another dispensation of the Lords love did he appear to a People called Independents brought many of them to se the emptiness of all sorms of profession they thought only to depend upon the Lord was the safest way and there was a love begot in them to God and his Way and truth and tenderness of spirit one towards another and they were a little brought low in