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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
book_n	know_v	read_v	write_v	3,405	5	5.0561	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A60440	Man driven out of the earth and darkness, by the light, life, and mighty hand of God where in plain and simple truths are brought to light, that so the cause of stumbling may be taken from before the eyes of the rulars ... / written ... from their friend ... called of men Humphery Smith.	Smith, Humphrey, d. 1663.	1658 (1658)	Wing S4068_VARIANT; ESTC R33842	15,846	16

ungodly persons how I was once as wicked as m●ny of them whom I warn all to repent otherwise they cannot escape the damnation of Hell And I utterly deny and declare against that blindness and hypocrisie I was in when I followed the Chief Priest from one Idols Temple to another who were chief in the Serpents wisdom deceiving me and many more and taught me that knowledge which came from the Devil who said Ye shall be as gods knowing Gen. 3.5 And in that knowledge in which every man is bruitish Jer. 10.14 from them hirelings I increased which puffeth up and increased my sorrow as before was mentioned for by that Serpents subtilty which I learned from them without me I fought against and resisted that which was holy in me Therefore I declare in the Name of the Lord God that all the hireling Priests do more harm than good and shall never bring people to receive the power of God but lead them into subtilty and further off from the knowledge of that of God in them Romans 1.19 And as true as the Lord God liveth upon their death-beds shall both Priests and people witnesse this to be true And it s also as true that I write this without any prejudice to any of their persons but in love to all peoples souls do I warn all them hireling Priests in Herefordshire and elsewhere to leave deceiving the people for absolutely the people are deceived by them and forced to maintain them too who may be warned of them by what I have learned by experience from them having tryed them and their wayes to the utmost and have much experience of them more then many countrey people whose souls I truely love and therefore this I write And I declare against that which ruled in me in the time of ignorance and perverseness and acted me in cruelty or oppression towards any person or to wrong defraud or insult over any one in tyranny either by word or action or wherein I abused or smote with envy which is of the Devil Either man or Beast and that whereby I was led into any manner of hypocrisie or double-mindedness or any manner of evil whatsoever which was unjust in the sight of God though not seen by man or any secret evil that then lodged in the dark corners of the stony heart then in me whereby any thing did arise in me or proceed from me which was contrary to the humble meek innocent upright life of the Lamb of God who is now come and hath taken away the sin of the world and is pure humble meek and lowly whose life and power of love constraineth me to declare openly against all that which vvas done or said by me in envy either openly or secretly against any creature for there is nothing done in secret that shall not be made manifest And let all who knew me before vvho are saying I was an honest man be warned of the like evill and leave it considering that if the righteous scarcely be saved where shall the ungodly and sinner appear for many did look upon me to be either a godly or an honest man yet am I made willing to let open shame come upon all that vvhich then vvas in me contrary to the Righteousnesse of God for he alone is to be exalted and the transgressor is to be ashamed Psal 25.3 And every mouth shall be stopt and every one stand guilty before God and the shame and nakednesse of all both Priests and Fathers and People shall appear as much as mine vvhen Gods vvitness in them arise though they cover it for a time by deceitfull flateries promising liberty but are as deeply the servants of corruption as I vvas And I do affirm in the presence of the Lord God that there are a generation of professors who follow Sermons and have gathered themselves into outward Forms vvho are grown up into a profession and knowledge in the Letter vvho are further off the Life of God than the Publicans and Harlots and are grown into pride hypocrisie secret deceit arrogancy and covetousness and some of them for a time denied the Priests and then for their own ends got into their places and so are more abominable than they and the tree of Knowledge they feed upon but the good savour of pure obedience unto God in all self-denial they have cast beh●nde their backs and are become an ill savour among all men and the Lord God vvill visit them for these things and in the Day of his fierce Wrath vvill all such vvant a hiding-place and vvhen the day of howling and astonishment come upon them as it hath passed upon me then shall they know that the sinners in Sion shall be afraid and horrible fearfulness shall surprize the hearts of the hypocrites and then shall they finde that God vvill not be mocked though th●y deceive themselves vvith vain hopes vvhich shall perish vvith all such professors if they repent not and strip themselves bare from all their false coverings vvhich in the day of the Lord vvhich ●hey put afar oft vvill certainly be all too narrovv For because of the greatness of my profession vvithout the povver that overcomes all sin therefore vvas the Wrath of God the more upon me and I never came to receive pardon for sin nor povver over it nor to receive th● life of th● Son of God until his judgements had confounded all that Wisdom vvhich I h●d lea●ned from and among the P●iests and professors And this is absolutely true and may be a warning unto all th●m And all that is herein declared of the Strivings in me and judgements of God which came upon me is very short of what it was Neither indeed can it be ever declared being then confounded both within and without not having any man to be a director unto me nor then to guide me in Go is wisdome neither did any man bring me into that condition nor lead me through it but even the Lord alone in whose judgements I now rejoyce for evermore but this especially would I have all people that then knew me to consider that at that time when I was in distresse I knew not well what I should do or speak among men neither what I should be being become a fool for Christs sake and my wisdome being confounded and my understanding brought to nothing Read 1 Cor. 1.1.9 vers 27. And so that was true which I writ in that book in Answer to Edmond Skip wherein I said that we were but in measure leaving of the world and entering into a little of that which is Eternall at which time before mentioned I was brought to be silent from my publike preaching and waited on the Lord vvith a few foolish contemptible ones in the eyes of the world at which time having lost my earthly wisdome and not received that measure of the pure wisdome of God which since he hath given me whereby to order all my vvords and actions in prudency and moderation