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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
soul_n	body_n	fear_v	kill_v	17,966	5	8.7616	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A91075	The prophets Malachy and Isaiah prophecying to the saints and professors of this generation of the great things the Lord will doe in this their day and time. Shewing (amongst other things) the nature and quality of the apostachy. The judgement of the Lord upon the leaders of the apostacy. How the Lord will deale with, and carry himself towards, others guilty of the apostacy. The certainty of deliverance at hand for the true seed. / By a wel-wisher to the kingdome of our Lord Jesus. To which is prefixed two very useful epistles, by Christopher Feak, and John Pendarves, ministers of the Gospel.	Wel-wisher to the kingdome of our Lord Jesus.; Pendarves, John, 1622-1656.; Feake, Christopher, fl. 1645-1660.	1656 (1656)	Wing P3687; Thomason E888_2; ESTC R207362	83,871	109

return to for they are not gone from God but are as neer to him as ever they were although it be the most wicked apostacy that ever this Common-wealth was guilty of yet the most refined of any insomuch as a great part of those guilty of this Apostacy are such as are great pretenders to the love of and delight in the day of the Lords appearance hence it is that the Prophet tels them The Messenger of the Covenant whom ye delight in behold he shall come saith the Lord of hosts O the curious wrought net-works of this apostatising day howneatly are the wicked actions of this day clothed with glorious pretences for the Temple people of the Lord their outside seems so clean and clear in this twy-light day that they will dare any to prove them in an error that they are out of the way of the Lord or to shew them a better way 3. For the Persons apostatising they are of two sorts 1. The leaders and causers of the apostacy those leaders that not content to depart out of the way themselves but cause the people to err that n Ch. 2.8 corrupt the Covenant of Levi and cause many to stumble at the law of God laying stumbling-blocks of hypocrisie before the people to ensnare them even to the causing the worship and service of the Lord to be an abhorring a loathsome contemptible thing upon the head of these men with their proud and stubborn abettors will the Lord the jealous God send down his cursing Judgements he wil be a swift witness against them wounding their hairy scalp saith the Lord of hosts concerning these o Isai 1.24 Ah I will ease me of mine adversaries and avenge me of mine enemier p Amos ● 10 all the sinners of my people shall dye by the sword which say the evil shal not overtake nor prevent us 2. There are another sort of persons that keep not their garments clean from the polutions of this Apostacy though they are not so far engaged as the other they are those that please and delight themselves in the thoughts of the coming of the Lord the Messenger of that Covenant by which the Father hath engaged himself to do great and glorious things for his people these being pur-blind through the glory of their Ceiled houses the convenient accomodations of this life are not able to see the plain characters of a loathsome apostacy written in the forehead of the Times and so run along in that dirty channel with the rest they hear the Prophet cry out amain An Apostacy an Apostacy an Apostacy and ye are cursed undone forever the Lord will raise up another people q Mal. 1.11 My name shal be great among the Heathen and cast you off if ye repent not and they hear those that fear the Lord speaking often one to another of the evil of the Times and the sufferings of the name of God at this day yet through dimness of sight and dulness of heart they know not what to think of these things they are not able to adjust the controversie and pass a right sentence upon the case only they please themselves in the thoughts of the coming of the Lord and that then he wil put an end to these dubious controversies and hearts-feuds between Brethren and right the wronged punishing the oppressor when he comes with the breath of his lips he wil destroy the wicked and wipe away all tears from the face of his people when the Sun of Righteousness arises his bright bcams wil disperse all these clouds and mists of darkness that we shal see the way of the Lord clearly therefore it is good for us to keep our station and abide in the condition we are in til our Lord himself comes and O that he would come how would it joy our hearts to behold him but ah saith the Prophet r Ch. 3. ● Who may abide the day of his coming and who shal stand when he appeareth notwithstanding this curious profession of theirs he gives them to understand they would neither stand in that day nor abide it These have so far bespotted their garments with the apostatising defilements of the Times that they need the Refiners fire and Fullers sope to parge and purifie them the Lord of hosts wil turn his hand upon these after the manner of purifying gold and silver to purge away their dross and take away all their Tin Yet in the midst of this dismal Age there is a handful that fear the Lord they keep their garments clean and pure from the polutions of this their day speaking often one to another about these things Then they that feared the Lord spake often one to another and the Lord hearkned and heard it c. In the words we have 1 A description of some persons that exercise themselves in a work wel-pleasing to the Lord in this provoking day of apostacy they that feared the Lord. 2 The work it self set down in two expressions they spake often one to another and they thought upon his name 3 The Lords acceptation of this work which is held forth 1 By a double Act of the Lord he hearkned and heard it and a Book of remembrance was written before him 2 By several rich and glorious promises made to these sincere hearts and they are of two sorts 1 Such as concern reward for work done which are two 1 They shall be mine saith the Lord of hosts 2 And I will spare them as a man spareth his own Son that serveth him The excellency and worth of which promises are heightned by the aggravation of the time when in that day when I make up my Jewels 2 A promise that is not only a bare reward for work done but contains qualification and fitness for the performance of a succeeding glorious work immediatly to come forth then shal ye return and discern between the righteous and the wicked between him that serveth God and him that serveth him not Would you know the persons that are thus valued and prized by the Lord of Heaven and earth in such a day as this we have three characters of them in the Text. 1 They fear the Lord they worship him and give glory to him and none other they give honor of a Father and the fear of a Master they sanctifie his name giving him those dues which these despisers of his great Name wil not they fear the Lord not man not those great masters of apostacy that dare to speak proud and stout words against the Lord and prophane the name of God nor those workers of wickedness that are set up on high above their fellows who by their Oppressions make their Brethren to howl covering the Altar of the Lord with tears and with weeping and with crying out they fear not nor care not for those that can only kil the body but they fear the Lord who can slay both body and soul the Lord alone is their fear 2