Selected quad for the lemma: soul_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
soul_n	better_a	body_n	life_n	4,922	5	4.8579	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A65443	A vindication of Anne Wentworth tending to the better preparing of all people for her larger testimony, which is making ready for publick view. Published according to the will of God, and direction of charity. By Anne Wentworth. To which is annexed a letter written by an eminent Christian, concerning the said Anne Wentworth, and directed to the several congregations of the Anabaptists, and their respective pastors. As also a song of tryumph by the said Anne Wentworth, a daughter of Sion, newly delivered from the captivity of Babylon, &c.	Wentworth, Anne.	1677 (1677)	Wing W1356; ESTC R219445	15,970	25

shall be dispised by the wise and prudent of this world yet Wisdome is justified of her Children and that God who has commanded me to go forth in his Name will by a Divine power go before me making way for me and subduing the Spirits before me which I am to deal with and will also by a Divine presence support me in the midst of all those sufferings his work can bring me into Out of the mouth of Babes and Sucklings God has ordained strength because of his Enemies that he might quell the Enemy and the avenger Psal 8. 2. And I declare I have no wrath discontent or revenge in my Spirit against the person of my Husband or of any of his abettets but am taught by the forgiveness of God freely to forgive all the Injuries he has done me and my hearts desire and prayer to God who can alone change the heart is that he may be converted and saved and I bow my Soul to the Father of lights that the Eyes of all my persecutors may be opened some of which I judge to be the Lords People however acted in this matter by a Zeal without knowledg God is love and he that dwells in love dwells in God and God in him And however I am censured and reproached by persons who judge onely according to outward appearance but not Righteous judgment that I have unduly left my Husband I do for the satisfaction of all plain hearted ones that may be offended at their reports herein Declare first That it would be very easie for me from the great Law of self-preservation to justifie my present absence from my Earthly Husband to all persons who have learn't to judg of Good and Evil not onely according to the outward Act but the inward Spirit and Principle and who have tenderness enough duly to weigh the various Tempers of minds and the different circumstances of Bodies Forasmuch as the Natural constitution of my mind and Body being both considered He has in his barbarous actions towards me a many times over-done such things as not only in the Spirit of them will be one day judged a murdering of but had long since really proved so if God had not wonderfully supported and preserved me But my natural life through the springing up of a better not being otherwise considerable then as it is my duty to preserve it in a subserviency to the will and service of that God whose I am in Spirit Soul and Body I will not urge any thing of this nature as my defence upon this occasion having learnt through the mercy of God not to be affraid of him who can only kill the Body but can do no more I do therefore secondly in the fear of him who can kill both Soul and Body further declare That I was forced to fly to preserve a life more pretious than this natural one and that it was necessary to the peace of my Soul to absent my self from my earthly Husband in obedience to my Heavenly Bridegroom who call'd and commanded me in a way too terrible too powerful to be denyed to undertake and finish a work which my earthly husband in a most cruel manner hindered me from performing seizing and running away with my Writings And however man judges me in this action yet I am satisfied that I have been obedient to the Heavenly Vision herein not consulting with flesh and blood All the clouds of afflictions troubles sorrows and deaths upon the outward man are nothing compared with those of the inward man when the life of our Souls is angry and withdraws himself cutting off the sweet beams of a spiritual communion between himself and us This was my case and I am not affraid or ashamed to say my Soul 's beloved has abundantly owned me in this matter and whilst men have done all they can to break my heart he has bound up my Soul in the bundle of Life and Love and he pleads my cause and takes my part and has spoken by his Word with power and authority from Heaven saying I shall abide w●th him and he will abide with me and come and Supp with me and never leave me nor forsake me And he bids me take no thought what I shall eat what I shall drink or wherewith I shall be cloathed but cast all my care upon him for he careth for me And I am enabled in his power to role my self upon him and my heart is fixed trusting in him and comforted with his word in which he has caused me to hope having no confidence in the Arm of Flesh knowing that the Earth is the Lords and the fulness thereof and that he knows all my weaknesses and wants and my willingness to work so far as he inables me that my own hands may administer to my necessity that I may not be burdensome to any And he has assured me that the man of the earth shall oppress no more no more shall I return to be under the hands of the hard-hearted Persecutors unless he become a new-man a changed man a man sensible of the wrong he has done me with his fierce looks bitter words sharp tongue and cruel usage And I do further declare That in the true reason of the case I have not left my Husband but he me That I do own every Law and Command of God in the letter of his word to be right and true and do submit to every rule given forth by the Spirit of God to govern the relation of Man and Wife in the Lord. And that I always stand ready to return to my Husband or to welcome him to me and have signified so much to him by several Christian friends provided I may have my just and necessary liberty to attend a more then ordinary call and command of God to publish the things which concern the peace of my own Soul and of the whole Nation In which work I stand not in my own will but in the will of him who has sent and sealed me as the day will very quickly declare and decide this matter between me and my Husband and all his abettors To which day I do here appeal for my justification not doubting but that God to whom I have committed my cause will speedily arise and cause my Innocency to break forth as the Noon day For I do hereby declare in the presence of the most holy God that I have no revengful worldly or sinister end in this matter but am against my own natural will obeying God herein And I do in all tenderness admonish and caution all my Enemies and all persons whatsoever to whom these Papers shall come that they take heed least they hurt themselves in reproaching me and that they do not set themselves to justifie by the letter that Spirit that is to be condemned or to condemn that Spirit which it ownes and allows And that they take heed least they urge the letter of any command against the Spirit of it and so