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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	effect_n	good_a	work_n	5,591	5	6.3844	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A94719	The snare broken: or light discovering darknesse. Being an answer to a book intituled, Foot yet in the snare; published by James Naylor. Wherein his treachery and back-sliding from the true faith is brought to light, and his untrodden paths discovered. With some of his divided language and deceitful lyes in short laid open, and his spirit proved to be the same which appeared in all the false prophets, who say the Lord saith, when he spake not unto them; plainly to be seen by the impartial eye, in all those whose eyes are in their head, least the wolfe should devoure the lamb, under a shadow of love to the truth. / By a lover of truth and peace, called, John Toldervy.	Toldervy, John.	1656 (1656)	Wing T1770; Thomason E865_7	27,522	30

of what evil thou hast brought upon thy self and that truth which thou professest and also the effects which that Spirit thou hast appeared in might accomplish upon such whom otherwise might have learned wisdome from that plain simple mind which appeared in me in what I have discovered Have I spoken in sobernesse and dealt moderately and have I therein smitten the truth How is it thou would'st have had me to a spoken Can Truth speak but its own Had I appeared a Transgressor of the Law like to thy self with a rebellious provoking spirit then mightest thou have justly reproved me but now for this thy uncleannesse it being a work of thy self know this that Judgment will rest upon thee for that I gave thee divers Causions yet hast thou rebelled against knowledg but now henceforwards learne from this thy weaknesse to cease from rashnesse and not to run before that light of which thou declarest to be thy perfection for thou art no more the Minister of Circumcision for the crucifying of the body and the abolishing of flesh I say no longer then thou abide in the Faith thy self but thou art become the Minister of Circumcision for the service of the outward Law of words But to examine and search thy work the Foundation and the end thereof Thou beginnest with a discourse to we Nine calling us the Heathen raging of which the Spirit of the Lord foretold and that we imagine vain things and so stop the appearance and exaltation of the King of Righteousnesse in this Age and that we are Gog and Magog who battel against the Lamb which Lamb thou sayest is in thee though here thou wilt be found a lyar and instead of a Lamb will appear a Wolfe Then thou callest us Subtilty Sorcerers and Witchcrafts who are of the devil and that we hate Innocency and so thou goest on calling us the Deceived and the bewitched of the Devil with lyes and lying wonders joyning together head and tail root and branch in that nature to trample upon the appearance of Christ and shut up the Kingdome against men and thou goest on calling me the Child of Perdition and after much more such kind of stuff which thou speakest of me thou callest me a Judas and those who put their hands to my book thou sayest they are the Chief Priests and so thou goest on calling us the Dragon and the Beast with the many Heads and Horns with Blasphemy on every Head and that my book is blasphemy and then thou sayest it doth now appear so to be whereas thou hast not witnessed from truth one word of blasphemy in the whole book All these and many more filthy corrupt and deceitfull lyes in respect of that work which is in hand as may be seen by the impartial eye in all those whose eyes are in their head if observing the following discourse being laid as a Foundation for thy bewitched end thou presentest them before three sorts of persons whom thou sayest are much concerned in what we Nine have hatched and brought forth calling it a filthy thing which blasphemous lye thou wast forewarned of before as I have said not only in my book but also justified to thy face when we spake together and for instance thou mayest well remember the first work thou wast guided in when after I was known to thee was in much subtilty to search what thou couldest get forth of me as touching this and also concerning other matters which respected the Ministers which being seen I refused thy spirit for which thou had'st not a word to speak but did rest silent Mayest thou not blush for shame for that thou shouldest dare to appear in slandering of so many persons after so grosse a manner as thou hast here done to the view of all the world O thou Corruption dost thou boast of the Law Through breaking the Law dishonorest thou God for the Name of God is now blasphemed among the Heathen through you for as I have said thy Circumcision profits not while as yet thou art found in the transgression and here is Core who came forth of Aegypt and yet gainsaid thinkest thou it will serve thy turn to say thy thoughts were so and now to say thou wilt do so no more nay it will not but thy reward shall abide shame and dishonor which thou hast brought upon thy selfe and that truth which thou professest Thou goest forwards in thy design and for a better incouragement of thy end towards those three sorts of persons c. and for a further discovery of thy malice towards the Ministers in thy haste thou hast reproved them for witnessing the truth which thou deniest not but thy deceit calleth it the Devils actings true that relation which declares of those effects which a deluded spirit wrought in and upon me under a pretence of light that speaks of the Devils actings and for that cause were they discovered because they were the Devils actings who is a Lyar from the beginning and abode not in the truth neither doth he abide in the truth and those works of the Devil were discovered for that end that the nature and the effects thereof might answer to the good of others yet darest thou say that those who are in the least measure of the light seeth this deed to be a secret smiting against the just but thou art denied and that light by which thou speakest for that by which they were brought to light was Life Having thus made a preparation by thy lying spirit in the using of those words of Scripture which were spoken in knowledge for a true end by those who writ them thinking thereby to darken the understanding thou goest forwards in thy sixth Page directing thy mind to us all giving us to know from thy besotted and self-will mind that we all are joyned to bear witnesse to confusions and lying wonders directing us that we turn to the light of Christ and take notice against whom we are joyned therein which light thou sayest hath appeared in thee and may be seen by us in this thy work of laying open lyes confusions and lying wonders and then thou goest on bearing witnesse against thy self saying that we never saw it or heard it and confirmest what thou so speakest with another lye saying that we also confessed what thou speakest to be true Now if thy saying here were true how is it that I could have written it or any of those Ministers appeared in it but this I shall bear with judging it to be a mistake and if thou had'st judged in righteousnesse and not according to a seeming appearance as thou couldest not otherwise be convinced in thy self concerning those words spoken by the Ministers which are less in a mistake then these here of thine then thou couldest not have been found in this work but with the light of which thou speakest thy corrupt judgment and filthy nature is here seen their words speak of a sad and remarkable providence to which they

thy reproof with a lye so far as it is known to me saying That we seek to defend our selves in that deceit which the Spirit of God in you have witnessed against and so hath made thy selfe manifest to be one of those who have abused the truth of which thou sayest It is thy Guide And whereas thou goest on saying That the devil had never such a design on foot for the incensing of people against you as my book I say thou art found herein witnessed to be the Liar from thy own words in that thou dost acknowledge in thy 23. and 27. pages and in other places of thy paper that I have oftentimes in my book cleared you from prejudice Again thou reprovest us that we are not ashamed in that we say the subject matter doth relate principally to you which thou sayest was acted amongst us who are joyned on in it against that Spirit of God in the Quakers by which it was denied in the persons of them both root and branch thereof as thou sayest is confessed and witnessed by us To which I say for the Ministers they are not concerned therein and for what I have so spoken I am not ashamed for it doth and may concerne them and also others besides them for hath God made knowne his judgments and shewed his power upon me for that I departed from the truth and gave heed unto lying vanities by which sorrow and miserie did befall me and the seed of the righteous became desolate and did this evill befall me while I was amongst you and have I now plainly as from the Lord discovered the nature thereof he having shewed unto me the cause and the end thereof and have I now shewed unto you and to the world the true cause and the end that so such who are of you unsetled in their minds or unfaithful in their work towards the Lord might thereby learn to feare and to be kept stayed in the love and faith which is professed which end thou makest of what I have writ unto them thy self nay did'st thou ever see any thing that might serve more for causion or reproof to such who are of your selves then this are you here accused then understand wherein and wherein you are accused I say see if you may not therein learn reproof but you are not only accused but you are excused where it is yours and where truth abides there it is seen and also thy deceit hath confessed the same as from what I have spoken in many places of my book though other things in the same deceit thou hast changed into lyes but that is for thy design So in thine own words I say let all now judge who have the spirit of truth if thou art not one of those misguided spirits who stand up in defence of deceit against the Spirit of Truth that thereby thou mightest cast a stumbling block in the plain way of the Lord that so his people might be stayed in the midst thereof and let your work judge you who have taken part with your deceit acted between your selves in despite to the Spirit of God Thou goest further saying that Judas and the Chief Priests might as truly charge what they did in combination together against Christ upon the eleven Disciples as we charge our act and combination upon the persons of you or the Spirit of God in you unto which I say a lye speaks for our act and combination it was not neither have I charged what is spoken upon you or the spirit of God in you but where any thing that I have writ doth gainsay the evil spirit that is in any of you that is yours and good is it that you have seen a visitation thereby Again thou sayest that in our Epistle we tell of expressing tendernesse towards our Brethren yea and I do so say tendernesse towards my Brethren who are misguided in their spirits subjected under Laws and Traditions c. which stands in the invention by which they are covered in deceit and through their weaknesse they are led forth denying themselves what is just and lawful in the sight of God and this they do through fear in flaverie to the Prince of deceit Thou goest on directing thy false mind in a confused manner to us all whereas thy scope by what I can understand reflects upon the Ministers and then in thy 9. page thou sayest as for the denying our selves liberty lawful or unlawful we are little guiltie of that crime sayest thou so then thy accusation is ceased for if we deny not lawful liberty then are we in the Redemption in which Faith our work shall abide but I plead not to justifie the flesh yet for my own part am I free or not free it is far short of thy knowledge But here thou manifestest thy confusion and contradictions for if any part of what the Law requireth be overcome by that which is without Law then is the requirings of Law denied or if any part of what is without Law be subdued by the requiring of the Law then is it that what is without Law is denied but if thou sayest in thy follie that we denie not the requiring of the Law as thy words must speak otherwise they must speak perfectly on the contrarie then I say thy whole book was spoke in and from a lie and there is nothing more but confusions so thou goest forwards in thy own by-way and then thou speakest of changeable fashions and foolish childish toys in our habits which thou sayest we are pleading for whereas there is no such matter in any one word contained in my whole book In thy 10. page thou demandest what libertie you are charged to denie I say that libertie denied by you of which I spake may plainly be seen by what I have alreadie spoken in my former You tell again of what I spake in that I would give an accompt of my separation from you which thou deniest but that lie thou here spokest on is already returned whence it came for I first did separate from you as I have said the manner of which is discovered in my former book Thou goest forwards doting in thy lie speaking to the Ministers saying that in their causion to the Reader they confesse that my errors from what was written in the Scripture and in my self was that by which I deeply suffered and sayest thou that before we have cast it on the persons of the Quakers whereas as before is witnessed there is no such thing but here thou art found with that deceit in thy own mouth which thou castest upon us In thy 14. page thou repeatest my words which speaks that I have been for divers years full of zeal after the things of God seeking after the knowledg of Christ and then for the answering of thy end thou skippest over divers lines leaving the scope and true meaning of what is related contained in those words I was perswaded and so thou bringest my words spoken