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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	call_v	see_v	sin_n	1,548	5	4.5386	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A60206	To all the inhabitiants of the town of Youghal who are under the teaching of James Wood ...	Sicklemore, James.	1657 (1657)	Wing S3750; ESTC R24541	13,617	9

seemingly endeavoured to take off people from and his now declaring it his judgement that by the right of Magna Charta Ministers may receive tythes which once he did believe was not according to the practice of the Ministers of the Gospel he might be traced in much more of which some of you cannot be ignorant as his once pleading against persecution of any for conscience sake of which he himself would not be counted guilty yet if you will examine strickly what made him so earnest against Edward Erbery who was a prisoner for the witness of a good conscience when he was called before the Rulers did he there plead against that persecution or was he not very zealous in agrivating the crime so accused to be which did not so much concern him in particular as it did Edward Eyres And again that day wherein J. W. thinks he hath sufficiently proved his call to the Ministry you may remember that after he had taken up much time in declaring his inward and outward qualifications and inward and outward call which is not according to the Scriptures there was some questions asked concerning his practice which was compared with the practices of the Ministers of Christ in the Scriptures whether he proved his present practice so to be I 'le leave to all the honest hearted there to judge as concerning his maintenance which he could not deny but was above 100 l. and salary which he confessed he went once a quarter to demand and receive at Cork though he was confident to affirm that he took not thought what he should eat or drink did he not then contradict himself and could he find such an example among all the Ministers of Christ Friends there is none for all his Ministers obeyed his commands for their maintenance freely ye have received freely give and into whatsoever house ye enter and they receive you there abide till you depart but it is in no place said go to ask for meat for they were not to take thought concerning it but to trust their Master Christ which thing when it was asked of J. W. if he could not do it he most impudently breaks out and asked John Perrot If he would have him to hold up his mouth and look for God to drop bread from heaven into it one of the vainest expressions that ever I heard come out of a mans mouth professing a separation from the world as he doth and being charged with his feasting which he was particularly exercised in that day he affirmed that half of the Creation needed not have been if men might not eat more then would satisfie nature would not this man be wiser then God or would he not make God the Author of gluttony and excess and make this a cloak for it or doth he not measure the wisdom of God by his own lust which because he hath allowed him out of the common treasury neer 200 l. per annum cannot be satisfied without the spending of it all of which he might be ashamed to boast is he not an evil example to you in this beastly practice and yet he would cloak it with the Saints love-feasts which were never made for the rich I know you that are simple and honest in any measure cannot own his practice in that thing nor his vanity in his pictures which is all odious in the sight of God and stinks in his nostrils and what think you of his bowling and kettle-pin playing which he that day pleaced for was that according to the Scriptures Friends seriously consider of all these things and then see whether J. W. his first sending or his last were according to that of … s and judge what cause this man had to boast of that dayes work wherein he thinks he did sufficiently prove his call to the Ministry More of his Letter I sorrow to see your zeal if so it be so blind This expression is plainly in hypocrisie for his joy and sorrow stands in one nature he calls it my zeal in writing the Letter and Queries and he sayes it is blind and yet he questions whether it be my zeal or no is not this confusion but why should this be cause of sorrow to him or any Minister of the Gospel to meet with such a Letter and Queries verily I am not ashamed that any honest heart should see them yet this man is sorry when my zeal was hot and furious in acting sin and running into vanity then he was not at all sorry or he never expressed it to me but rather was joyful as I could perceive because he was one with me therein witness the time we spent together in bowling and kettle-pin playing and in needless discourse wherein our fellowship then stood and my zeal was great yet he never then told me it was blind or that he sorrowed for it But now I being by the power of God redeemed from those vain practices and brought to stand as a witness against them and am now entring into another state and condition and seeking a better Kingdom and its righteousness now he is sorry and herein he is not unlike all the rest of his brethren that are of that profession for take a man that will run with them all the week long to feasting and sporting and playing which he calls recreation of the body for its health and let him be never so zealous herein and be never so much exercised in vain and idle discourse so it be witty and pleasant as all sin is and yet go to hear them preach one or two dayes in the week and confess all is true that they say and own them to be sent of God and so honour them and cry them up for good men these men may live securely without any reproof from them inparticular so long as their mouths be fild they crypeace and such a one shall be daubed with untempered morter his state is counted good enough tho he die to morrow he shal be sav'd by Christ so the poor soul is deceived dies in his sins But if this person comes ever to be sensible of its sad state that it is in by reason of sin which daily oppresses the soul and carries it captive and by the light of Christ comes to have his eyes opened whereby he sees that he hath been deceived by such who have cryed peace to him when he was daily overcome with sin and now comes to see that there is no peace to the wicked and so begins to make enquiry after a way to get out of that State and to be redeemed from it and to take heed to the Light which all along checked him in his former vanity and to love it and follow it which leads from sin unto righteousness and works a change and brings him to be a witness against his sins and against all his former life which he lived in under the teachings of such blind guides this man is called by them an Apostate they