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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
book_n	world_n	worship_v	write_v	512	4	5.3361	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A60643	The morning-watch, or, A spiritual glass opened wherin a clear discovery is made of that which lies in darknesse, from whence wars, contentions, and destructions do arise concerning a professed religion, with a few words of tender counsel unto the Pope, prelate, presbyter, independent & baptist, &c. ... / by ... William Smith.	Smith, William, d. 1673.	1660 (1660)	Wing S4317; ESTC R132	51,570	64

they did not like to retain God in their knowledge then they went into the Visibles and grew wise in the Letter and read of the Saints Practice and of their Worship and laboured to form up some thing like it and what they made and formed in that they worshipped and it seemed to be right in their own eyes So they kept the Words and with them stood cloathed but were from the Life and from the Spirit inwardly ravened And this is Babylon the Mother of Harlots where the Seed of God is in Captivity where people are distracted and confused all tossed like waves of the Sea and all unstable as VVaters and out of this the Beast rises and his Heads and Horns appeares and he opens his mouth in Blasphemy against God and blasphemes his Name and his Tabernacle and them that dwell in Heaven And this John in his time saw in the spirit and when the Beast had got up his Heads and his Horns he began to make war and to force and compel subjection to his Power that all might bow unto him and receive his Mark then did the world worship the Beast and wondered after him whose Names were not written in the Lambs Book of Life and they that would not worship the Image of the Beast was to be killed And none was to buy or sell but those that had the Mark or the Name of the Beast or the Number of his Name Rev. 13. so came People under the Beasts Power in the Darkness when they were ravened from the Spirit in which they should have worshipped the Father then they worshipped the Image of the Beast and received his Mark so turned against the Lamb and his Followers and made War with them that when any thing of God appeared which was made manifest in people then the Beast rose up and made War against that and reached unto it with his Horns and pushed it down so the true Church hath been driven into the Wilderness where she hath been through time and times and dividing of times and now is coming forth in the purity and glory of her Beloved upon whose Breast she leans and thus people have erred and gone astray from the Way of God and have not known their part in that Life into which the Saints were gathered who gave forth the Scriptures neither hath their Ears bin open to hear the teachings of God's spirit which is manifest within them so they have heapt up Teachers without them after their own ungodly lusts and their ears have been itching after them and they have built Houses for them and called them Churches and they have crept into them and there have they led the silly Women captive who have been laden with sins and divers lusts and have been ever learning but never able to come to the knowledge of the Truth so hath the false Church and false Teachers spread over the Earth in the Night of Apostacy and the people they have loved to have it so there was liberty for the flesh they could sit down in that Way and eat and drink and rise up to play and that pleased the carnal m●nd and satisfied the affection and lust of the Flesh and so hath all the vain Worships and Customs which people are this day worshipping in who yet abides in Forms and Traditio●s they are all come up since the dayes of the Apostles and are after mens Traditions and not after Christ and the Conception of all hath been in man's Imagination and hath been brought forth in his own Will and Wisdom and so is a fleshly Birth which hath ever persecuted the Birth of God for man's heart adulterating from that of God in him he goes into the Flesh and unto the Flesh he joins and commits VVhoredom and brings forth a Child of VVhoredom and so have all Conceptions and bringings forth since the Dayes of the Apostles been Bastards and not Sons then the Father that Begets and the Mother that Bears would have their Son to be set up and they clothe him and adorns him with fair coverings that he may appear beautiful and be beloved then would have all be subject to him bow down and worship him and though all these Bastards differ much in their Likenesse and cannot joyne nor own one another yet is their Conception all in one womb and they all partake of one Nature and that which makes the difference is the Garment which they are dressed withall in which they appear outwardly to the eyes of the beholders and when the true Birth appears they all take a part and joins together and conspires to kill him and to cast him out of their Countrey So doth all the Harlots Children stand this day every one for themselves and one against another but all against Christ the Son and Heir and not one of them by what Name soever known that would have him to reign but strives with him and makes War against him as hath been experienced in this present Age So every one likes and loves their own best and labours to cherish and to strengthen that and would have it to have a Name and Power in the Earth and this is the great Contention amongst all the Apostates who Wars and Fights and Destroys one another about their Religion they would all set up their own Birth and would have that Adored and Worshipped and if there be but a bowing unto the Appearance of it they are satisfied with it though the heart be in the Hypocrisie but if any deny to Worship that which they set up and cannot bow unto it for Conscience sake then they are offended and provoked and so Wars and Fights and Destroys one another because their Image is not adored nor their Birth worshipped and all runs to the Scriptures for shelter and from the Scriptures would prove their Birth to be lawfully begotten and from that ground would have their Son Worshipped or would have such as cannot to be persecuted And thus do all lye in Darkness and in Confusion in the Night of Apostacy and understands not one another nor knows not what they would have done for they being from the Life that gave forth Scriptures their understandings are darkened and they erre and knows not the Scriptures nor the Power of God the Light not shining out of Darkness nor the Morning having not appeared in them they be still in the Earth where Darkness covers and are all Wanderers and Vagabonds in the Earth and hath no part nor union with Moses's Life the Prophets Life and the Apostles Life who had unity together in the one Spirit and all walked in the manifestation of it and so declared the things they heard and saw and tasted and handled of the Word of Life and they knew the Son of God to be come the same that was in the beginning and their Understandings were opened by him and then they knew him that was true and was in him that is true even in his Son JESUS CHRIST