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cause_n	bring_v	evil_a	sin_n	1,775	5	5.0455	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A35804	The Devil turned Quaker, or, The damnable, divellish, and accursed doctrines and designes of these desperate, deluded, and deluding people called Quakers their damnable opinions and horrid blasphemies touching the person and deity of our blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ : especially the divelish practices and accursed blasphemies and opinions of one James Neyler ... who blasphemously declared himself to be God and was publikely worshipped as God by his wicked disciples at Bristol, who now lye in prison ...		1656 (1656)	Wing D1222; ESTC R12502	6,699	16

same who I hope will give him the reward of his iniquity Oh! that wretched sinfull men should dare thus to blaspheme the living God! Children of the Devil they are and Enemies of all Righteousness who have forsaken the right way and are turned after vanities By the Law of Moses Blasphemers ought to be stoned to death as it is recorded in the 24 of Leviticus vers 16. He that blasphemeth the Name of the Lord shall surely be put to death and all the Congregation shall stone him This is the Law of God delivered by Moses God will not have such wicked wretches that shall dare to blaspheme his holy Name to go unpunished and truly men ought not to pass it over unpunished hee is accounted a very bad servant that shall hear his master abused and take no notice of it the Name of God is abused and his Honour and Majesty is abused by these wicked wreches and shall they not be punished for this shall one man be punished for speaking ill of another and shall not wicked men be punished for blaspheming the great God of heaven and earth O I tremble to thinke what will become of these accursed wretches when they shall come to appear before the Lord to answer for all their wicked blasphemies Certainly this is an iniquity as Iob saith Iob 31 10 to be punished by the Judge And if as St. Paul sairh Rom. 13. 4 the Magistrate beareth not the sword in vain but is the Minister of God to execute wrath upon him that doth evil then certainly if he let such blasphemies as these go unpunished he beareth his sword in vain and is in stead of being a terrour unto the evil doers an incouragement of them in their sins and thereby bring upon themselves the guilt of other mens sins Now then Christians I hope these things will affright you from these ways and cause in you an abhorring both of the opinions and practises of these wicked ones O that you would tremble to think of the sad condition of these men what will become of them if they repent not Hell fire and brimstone shall be their portion for ever O Christians I beseech you for the Lords sake read the Epistle of St. Iude and likewise the second Chapter of the second Epistle of St. Peter and consider what is there said compare what is there written with our times see how the opinions and practises of men in our days agree with these the Apostles there speak of There were false Prophets saith the Apostle even as there shall be false Teachers who shall bring in damnable Heresies denying the Lord that bought them and bringing upon themselves swift destruction If ever there was a time when these things were certainly it is now O how do false Prophets and Teachers abound and increase O what horrid blasphemies and accursed opinions are there broached and practised among us The Lord cast out from among us that foul spirit of errour and blasphemy that so much abounds give a check O Lord to Satan and stop the current of blasphemy for thy own Names sake O Lord arise and beat down the power of Satan and let him no longer reign in the hearts of disobedient and gain saying people O do thou turn them O Lord from sin and Satan unto thee our God and establish righteousness and truth and increase the Kingdome of thy dear son all the world over O all ye Quakers Shakers and Ranters what ever you are that blaspheme the Name of God and despise his Word repent of your blasphemies and turn to the Lord who will have mercy upon you lest if you persist the wrath of God be poured forth upon you to destroy you Now then consider all of you and every one of you and every one that reads or hears this Consider I say and see the dreadful judgements of God against such sinners as you are and repent of your wickedness and abhorre it break off your sins by repentance and look upon Jesus Christ whom you have pe●rced and whose bloud you have trampled upon and despised by your blasphemies Which that you may unfeignedly do the Lord in mercy send out his light and truth and scatter all these mists and fogs of errour heresie and blasphemy that now so much abounds and bring down the power of Satan and set up the Kingdome of Christ and settle and establish righteousness and truth in the midst of us and make us a praise and the glory of the whole world Even so come Lord Jesus Come quickly FINIS Courteous Reader There are five other very good Christian Books printed which will by Gods assistance direct thee in the way to Heaven and preserve and establish thee in the truth One is called The Plain mans path to Heaven a second Dooms day at hand a third The charitable Christian a fourth The Devils Disease a fifth The Black Book of Conscience All very necessary and seasonable for these times and but of two pence price Sold by John Andrews at the white Lion in the Old Baily