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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	call_v	good_a	reason_n	1,534	5	4.5930	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A57308	The serpent's subtilty discovered in a plain answer to a lying scandalous paper, lately came from Leonard Letchford, who calls himself rector of Hurst-Pierpoint in the county of Sussex.	Rigge, Ambrose, 1635?-1705.	1663 (1663)	Wing R1490; ESTC R217999	16,680	19

have ●un and the Lord hath never sent you so that you have not profited this people at all as the Lord by the Prophet foretold of you Jer. 23. 21 22. who hath not turned them out of covetousnesse which is idolatry Col. 3. 5. It seems God hath given little increase to your planting wa●●ing this many hundred yeares that at the last you must force wages out of their hands it is a signal token that God hath opened their eyes to see how long they have spent their money for that which is not bread and how you have made merchandise of them through covetousnesse as the Apostle foretold of you 2 Pet. 1. 2 3. And now they will buy your trafficks no m●re which day is hastning upon you will overtake you as a thief in the night and if you were not Atheistical Ministe●s indeed you would make them satisfaction fourfold whom you have thus wronged And where did Christs Ministers exact or desire wages of them who did not hear them ●nd receive of their spiritual nay where do any Shop-keepers through this Nation force his commodities upon any who do not like it though his shop-doors stand open daily to sell yet if any man do not like it he may go to the next and please himself that Shop-keeper do not sue him at the Law as the Priests do for money who do not affect his wares and goes to another nay it were against reason for him so to do yet at such things the Priests cannot blush whose unreasonn●ble exaction far exceeds all other Merchants beside themselves Pr. 10. and last Affirmation That we may not deny the Quakers their Tenths though they grudge us ours He is in the Quaker a discontented blundering Devil not knowing how to draw up his Charge against a thing called Priest so as to make both ends hang together if among these he meet with ●ny who are blame worthy and I could wish he meet with fewer whom he might justly blame though he seem to be troubled at any kind of transgression yet what pleasure doth he take in the treading awry of the foot of any such servant of the Lord if there be any thing of trouble in him it is not because he finds such as do amiss but because he finds no more iniquity in them to open his black mouth against them if among these he meets with whose conversation seems in the eye of the world to be as unblameable as the most arrogant Pharisee among them then they cry out of them for their well doing for what the Law of God and the light within them their own rule guides them to such as the obeying the just commands of Superior powers this they must forbear to do for fear of being clamoured against for those that stir up the Rulers of the people against them when we know nothing better or more becomming us then to stir up such to be zealous in the cause of God and in the maintaining of his true worship and service how shall we ever credit that discontented contradictory spirit that rules in the Quakers who sends us to be guided by the light within us rails against us for doing what this tells us we are bound to do Answ By this it seems L. L. hath reserved nine of the Devils to himself aforementioned and hath sent that to the Quakers which he calls a discontentented blundertng Devil which had been as fit for him to have reserved to himself as the other nine not knowing how to draw up his Charge against them which he cannot do without man festing the blundering Devil which rules in him which leads him to give forth such a loathsome dish that the very sight thereof were able to turn the stomacks of all honest men both against it the maker of it but to draw up a charge against a Priest is the easiest thing of a thousand to make the ends meet together is no hard thing the scrole will be so long For by the time their covetousness pride drunkenness thievery whoredom rebellion be measured with their luxury murther cruelty which is so manifest to all men that there is scarce a County throughout this Nation in which there is not hundreds which can draw up volumes against them their actions are grown so foul odious that the ends will so meet together that he that is half blind may fasten them together But as for the Quakers taking pleasure in the Priests iniquity that is a very lye for their iniquity hath made many of their hearts sad whom the Lord hath not made sad and hath grieved the Spirit of the Lord till the earth is ready to spue them up therefore let all people take heed of partaking with them in their sins least they partake of their plagues But L. L. when didst thou hear of any of the Quakers cry out against any one for their well doing but if thou call the stirring up the Rulers to persecute and imprison the innocent well doing that is cried against by the Spirit of God throughout the Scripture for it was always the practise of the bloud thirsty Priests so to do which Christ and his Apostles cried many woes against And I charge thee to mention where ever the cause of God or his worship was defended by such weapons in all the time of the Gospel though all power in heaven and earth was committed to the Son yet he never gave such authority to any of his Ministers to inflict any corporal punishment upon any for not receiving his doctrine or whereby to defend the cause of God which he and his Ministers pleads with the losse of their lives if thou canst produce any bring it forth if not for shame give over calling it the cause of God lest the blundering Devil in thee appear unto all men not to be able to make the ends meet either by Scripture or by good reason what he hath led thee to give forth under thy hand and so put all people out of credit of that spirit that cannot defendit self without sending men to prison and when that will not serve to aggravate the Rulers against them to adde afflictions to their bonds when all that will not do to threaten to cut their throats as L. L. hath done to his own confusion and as for the Quaker sending men to a light within them and railing against them for doing that which it tells them they are bound to do what now Leonard didst not thou say in the second page of thy Pamphlet that the voice within was Saul's delusion which led him to persecute and doth thou confesse it tells thee thou art bound to stir up the Rulers c. is not Saul's spirit by thy own confession thy leader to this and not the true light of Christ Jesus and dost thou so confesse and affirm that the voice within was Saul's delusion and yet confesseth at last thou harkens to this voice and doth