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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
book_n	authority_n	church_n	great_a	2,263	5	3.1125	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A77780	Antichrists transformations within, discovered by the light within.	Bullock, Jeffery, of Sudbury.; Manning, Thomas, The Baptist.	1678 (1678)	Wing B5424A; ESTC R170865	29,654	36

for her place is to be obedient and in subjection to her Husband for the first visible man God formed of the dust of the ground and God created and made the first invisible man Adam a living Soul and he was under the dominion of the heavenly power and spirit and then he was a heavenly man but he lending an ear to the Serpent when he spake in the woman and by his receiving of his counsel the Serpent beguiled him as he had done the woman and so he lost the enjoyment of the heavenly power and so he became like the woman he being brought under the dominion of the earthly spirit and power and so he lost his habitation in God and was brought under the power of death Friends I do not own the judgement and opinion of those Ministers nor yet their superiority who saith he that is not justified by the witness of God in friends is condemned by it in himself now Justification is by Christ alone who is the head in every member and the only rule for them to walk by and if they sin against him then he is their reprover and also their condemner and chastiser And again you say in your paper that none are to minister but those who are reconciled to the Church and have the approbation of the Elders Now the Scripture saith that God was in Christ reconciling the world unto himself and not to the Church I do remember no such Scripture Now Christ the Light within he will not give his power and authority out of his own hand to any man or men for unto him alone is all Judgement in Heaven and Earth committed in matters of conscience but you say it is abominable pride in any who will not admit of any Judgment to take place against them whom you do look upon as an offender but I say all power both to judge and to condemn and also to justifie and to reconcile it properly belongs to the Light who is the head in every member Wherefore this is my testimony that you never received your authority from God who is the Light within neither will the Scriptures justifie your authority Wherefore I would have you in Gods witness seriously to consider what you have done in putting that writing of yours upon record for that may prove as great a snare to the generation of the Quakers in ages to come as the authority of the Church of Rome hath been to the Papists in ages and generations past and is to this day And Friends this I have further to bear my testimony against that is your imposing such Books upon Friends as you shall think good to put to print When these Books came first into the Country among the Churches called Quakers then every member was left free either to buy them or to let them alone and if Friends did not buy them nor they could not be sold to others then they were to be returned to the quarterly meeting again and then the thing was well but now it is not so for now the Churches must take them off and that which is almost as bad is this that the money which is gathered as collection amongst us for the relief of the poor out of that money the books must be paid for and so the old English Proverb is fulfilled the poor must pay for all Friends this is a thing I do believe was scarce ever heard of that some should print packets of several books and injoyn others to buy them Friends in these things you do not only put a yoak of Bondage upon your Brethren but you also rob God of his honour whose right it is alone both to rule and raign in the Churches and to have the dominion over them because that he by his invisible spirit and power at first did gather them for there is so much of his spirit and power both manifested and given to man and woman that if they hear the spirit and own Christ the Light within and believe in him and obey his voice that then he will manifest his power in the redeeming their Souls from death to life for it is not Christ the Light in me which can redeem neither man nor woman neither is it Christ the Light in any man or men neither Churches nor Bodies which can redeem my Soul from death to life wherefore your dictates and impositions is no rule for me to walk by except that Christ the Light in you can do these things following for me which Christ the Light in me is able to do for me and also for all that hears his voice and obeys him For Christ the Light within me is able to bruise the Serpents head and he is able to break down the partition Wall that separates between God and my Soul and he is able to open my understanding and to open the book of the Scriptures and also rend the vail of my understanding and he is able to make me wiser then all my teachers he is able to cleanse my Soul from sin and to give me true rest and peace and he is able to sanctifie both Soul and Body he is able to redeem my Soul to himself and to keep me in the greatest hour of temptation that can come upon me and the Light within is able to reconcile both man and woman to God again and Christ the Light within is able to lead him into captivity who hath captivated my Soul and he is able to give life to my Soul and to raise it from under the power of death and darkness and to translate it into the Kingdom of Light and Life he is also able to break and he is also able to bind up that which he hath broken and to heal that which he hath wounded and to convince the whole world of sin and he is able to Justifie both man and woman If either Men Ministers or Elders Bodies or Churches are able to do any of these foregoing things for me then shall their dictates and impositions be a rule for me to walk by Now I do believe that God who is Light and shews unto man his thoughts that he is infallible and that there is no fallibility attends him but there is a fallibility attends all those who are regenerated and born of the Spirit of God who is Light and that it is possible for them to err from the Light again the enemy which is the power of darkness presenting to them the fruit of the tree of knowledge whilst they are in Eden their minds taking delight in it and they feeding upon it the enemy hath power to draw their minds out of Eden again Wherefore I do believe that I ought not to subject my self to what the Church imposeth for then I must believe that it is God in them which doth impose those Yoakes of bondage upon their Brethren and also that the Church is infallible and cannot erre which thing I do not believe for then I must believe these several