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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
book_n	call_v	people_n	quaker_n	2,523	5	9.6997	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A61446	The shame and humiliation of the Quakers in a remarkable judgment of [...]tuation, already begun upon some of [...]stinate ministers of their second days meeting. With a fair warning and kind admonition to the rest, who are sincere, and desire to escape the snare of deceit, to beware of them. 1. A brief account of the beginning and progress of the difference between George Keith and the other Quakers, and of their meeting at Turners-Hall, April 29, 1697.	Stephens, Edward, d. 1706.	1697 (1697)	Wing S5441; ESTC R222026	6,738	9

shuffling contrivance may justly make all who have any care of their Souls or even regard to their Reputation to suspect them to be Deceivers and be ashamed to continue of a Sect which is headed by such silly shuffling dishonest Men who make merchandize of them and cheat them of their Souls to inrich themselves by the trade of their Hearers But especially is their Folly manifest in their Presumption to reflect upon the Civil Authority and all concerned as the Bishop of London is for countenancing or permitting such a Usurped Authority or Pernicious President as they say George Keith hath Assumed and Attempted and thereby provoke them to inquire into a Matter which is not at all practised by George Keith but notoriously by themselves in such manner as neither the Civil nor Ecclesiastical Authority can be excused to connive at after such an awakening Alarm their Second Days Meetings their Monthly Meetings their Quarterly Meetings and their Yearly Meetings being all of them out of the Act of Toleration plainly Seditious and Factious Meetings punishable by other Laws and not justifiable or excusable by any This is a manifest Infatuation upon them For it is very apparent that they must be Men of more Subtilty and Ability who have ordered these things formed such a Body and trained the People to such an intire Subjection than such silly Fellows who drew up these Papers and therefore that the Civil Authority is obliged according to the Judgment which these Men have passed in the Case which is their own and not George Keith's not longer to connive at or permit such a Usurped Authority or Pernicious President As for the rest who are sincere and not willing to be imposed upon and deceived in a matter of such moment but desire to see their way plain before them I have done two things already which may be of no little use to them in this Business 1. I have given as great Evidence and Demonstration of my Sincerity and Good Will to them as can reasonably be desired not only from the whole Course of my Life which is well known to have been all along very plain open and downright but more particularly in my dealings both in Conferences and Letters with the Chief of their Party 2. I have so fully and plainly set out the Case of the Difference between us in certain Letters and so prepared and led the way to a clear Resolution in certain Questions as is sufficient for any serious considerate and thinking Person of a competent Capacity by the Grace of God to satisfie themselves of the Truth in this matter And both these are sufficiently manifest in my Apology for and Invitation to the People call'd Quakers and other Tracts bound up with them And this I shall be ready further to do for them If any serious consciencious Persons who having read and well considered what I have written in the Letter and Questions printed in that Book and what besides is there relating to them remain unsatisfied upon any reasonable grounds and shall in writing under their Hand give me a reasonable account of their Dissatisfaction and the Grounds thereof I shall faithfully endeavour by the Grace of God to give them full Satisfaction either in publick or private as I shall have Opportunity and see there is Occasion and demonstrate That in divers of their peculiar Tenents and Doctrines they are Deceivers either knowingly Deceiving or grossly deceived themselves and if by any Spirit by a Wicked False Lying Seducing Antichristian Spirit disguised under the Appearance of the Spirit of Truth such as have been foretold should come that all might beware of them More particularly both from their Principles and from their Practices or from matter of Fact 1. That it is a Spirit of Error a Lying Seducing Spirit 2. That it is a Spirit of Iniquity acting contrary to Civil and Moral Justice in matters of their Faction 3. That it is a Spirit of Opposition a fallacious undermining Antichristian Spirit and that not only in their other Principles and Practices but in the principal of all their Principles even that great and holy Principle The Guidance of the Spirit of God which this wicked Spirit hath taken upon him to personate and doth deceive them by a most subtile Tentation of Misapplication of that great Truth and that it doth act now in that kind of Injustice Fraud and Deceit but would if it had Humane Strength enough and certainly will if ever it hath act also the other of Force and Violence like the Mahometans and that it is justly permitted by God for Correction of what is amiss in the Church as an Instrument of his Vengeance to make them sensible of their Unfaithfulness and reform All this I intend by the Grace of God to demonstrate in due time and desire all serious People to consider of it in the mean time ADVERTISEMENT TRacts Theological 1. Asceticks or the Heroick Piety and Vertue of the Ancient Christian Anchorets and Coenobites 2. The Life of St. Antony out of the Greek of St. Athanasius 3. The Antiquity and Tradition of Mystical Divinity among the Gentiles 4. Of the Guidance of the Spirit of God upon a Discourse of Sir Matthew Hale's concerning it 5. An Invitation to the Quakers to rectifie some Errors which through the Scandals given they have fallen into Sold by D. Brown at the Black Swan and Bible without Temple-Bar And R. Smith at the Angel without Linco●ns-Inn-Gate near the Fields FINIS