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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
book_n	call_v	speak_v	word_n	3,198	5	3.8376	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A89855	Spirituall wickednesse, in heavenly places, proclayming freedome to the forme, but persecuting the power: or an answer to a booke intituled, Freedom of religious worship: or, the jubilee of ordinances set forth without a name.	Naylor, James, 1617?-1660.	1654 (1654)	Wing N319; Thomason E808_16; ESTC R207529	10,645	12

Spirituall wickednesse in Heavenly places proclayming Freedome to the Forme but persecuting the Power Or an Answer to a Booke intituled Freedom of Religious Worship Or The Jubilee of Ordinances set forth without a Name A Booke being brought to my hand intituled Freedom of Religious Worship or The Jubilee of Ordinances no Name I finde at it yet the spirit I know and from whence it hath its rise who seems to have hornes like a Lambe but hath the mouth of a Dragon speaking great swelling words as though he would make fire come down from Heaven in the sight of men telling of great things that shall be an appearance of Christ to come he knows not when but like the Jews is become an open persecuter of him where he is made manifest yet would he cover over his poyson under a pretence of not persecuting for conscience yet by lyes and slanders seeks to make him odious because of the plainnesse of them in whom he is and what they doe in true obedience he calls pretences And out of a busie mind sits as judge upon many things he knows nothing of but what he knows naturally having not the spirit that was in the Apostles as he himselfe confesseth and though he have not that spirit wich is infallible yet judge he will and by his judgement all shall escape who are of his mind or will own him for a leader but if any doe out-strip him in obedience to Christ in things that are against his Kingdom and beyond his wisedom and carnall reason such shall be punished with whips fines and prisons now though all the children of light may easily judge from whence this partiall spirit is yet least his faire words should beguile the simple to take a wolfe for a lambe I shall for the truths sake uncover his deceits in some few things that by these he who will see may judge of the rest for he who is found with a lye in his mouth cannot be of the truth and such are not to be beleeved in matters of Faith And thou begins thy Book with telling what great things God hath done for this Nation and how many houses of state and honour and palaces of delight Christ hath in it I answer the first is true great things hath God done for this Nation which being forgotten shall rise up in judgement against it But for the second it is but thy swelling words for in those thou calls his houses of state and honour and palaces of delight they who see with the light of Christ sees every one hunting after his own honour and state worshipping and seeking worship one of another and treading under foot humility which is the honour of Christ and Christ takes no delight to dwell in such palaces and were thou not blinde thou should see more cause herein to mourn then to boast Thou tells of the work of Christ in this Nation then compares it to a Picture with a double face on the one side with the face of a beautifull Virgin of the other side the face of an ugly Owle But this is thy double eye which shall never see into the work of Christ who sayes it seems ugly but this is thy confusion who art blinde for who sees into his works witnes them holy perfect Thou sayes godly men in all ages have put to their shoulders to uphold some peece of Anti-Christ I answer That is thy work who would punish with whips fines and prisons such as are sent to discover Anti-Christ and to declare the word of the Lord in your Synagogues and calls it disturbance and here thou would not hold up part but all Anti-Christs Kingdom who would not have any to discover him where he is and thou who would give the title of godly to men while they are upholding Anti-Christ would put a faire colour on a wicked worke and here thou appears to be of the serpent painting the out-side who would be counted God-like but acts for the Kingdom of Satan but such godly men shall have their reward according to their work Thou tells of the Scribes and Pharisces who seemed to long after the comming of the Messias in the Flesh of whom they were the greatest opposers but cannot see thy selfe that Pharisee who while thou art talking of his personall appearance in another age thou knowest not when art for whipping fining and imprisoning the bodies of them in whom Christ is made manifest in spirit and here thou art Anti-christ who denyes Christ at present to be come in the flesh and would put him a far off to another day telling of glorious dayes to come but at present art an enemy to him and an open persecuter of him and knows not him who is the same Christ to day yesterday and for ever to all who will receive him Thou saist for a wicked man to impose upon a godly man is tyrannicall and yet thou would have some whipt fined and imprisoned for obeying the commands of Christ which thou calls disturbance and here thou art that wicked tyrant that would impose upon the righteous Thou sayest all Governments are alike lawfull by Gods word I answer Gods word ownes no Government but that which is according to it just and righteous and though his saints may suffer under unrighteous governments yet are not such governments lawfull by Gods word but God hath sent and doth send his word by his servants to declare against such governments and here thou belyest the word of God which is pure and just and condemnes all that is unjust and unholy and by the word shall all Governours be judged which word is but one and doth comply with no mans will though such as thou may wrest the letter to your own destruction yet the word stands a witnes against you for ever And thou sayest some blasphemously question whother the Scripture be the word of God I answer The Scripture it selfe saith God is the word and the word was in the beginning before the letter was but it doth not say the letter is the word which hath been and may be altered which had a beginning and shall have an end and this thou sayest is eternall and here all that knows any thing of the word shall witnes thee a lyar and I charge thee to prove if thou canst that any of the holy men of God to whom the word came had it from the letter or out of a Book but they who were the false prophets which God never spoke to stole what was spoken to others their neighbours and called that the word as you doe but saith the Lord I am against such and such are false Prophets now and theeves and knows not the word nor the doore and God is against you and you shall not escape Thou sayest The weapons of the Gospel are wooings and beseechings and yet thou would have some whipt fin'd and imprisoned and here thou art Babylon and it is not to be heeded what thou sayest Thou sayest none but