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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	good_a	speak_v	word_n	3,147	5	4.0147	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A60661	The true light shining in England, to give unto all her inhabitants the knowledge of their ways wherein they may behold things past, and things that are, and thereby come to repentance, and escape that which is to come : also, something demonstrated concerning the people of God (called Quakers) as to their principle and practice ... / William Smith.	Smith, William, d. 1673.	1660 (1660)	Wing S4339; ESTC R10265	15,081	24

who hath changed both that Priesthood and Law and is become the End of the Law for Righteousness unto us that do believe and we are also convinced of the Unjustness of it upon what account soever it is claimed whether unto a Minister as given unto him by a Law or an Impropriator as a Purchase and assured unto him by a Law We cannot own that LAW to be just or equal which compels us to give or set out contrary to our freedom unto another man any part of that which the Lord freely gives unto us or else gives him power to sue and Imprison us and to keep in prison until death as some of late have been or else give triple dammage and power to distrain for it and drive away Goods and sell them and make spoil and havock of them to the impoverishing and weakening the outward Estates of many tender People in this Nation of England within these late years in which time there hath been many fair promises made for LIBERTY of CONSCIENCE but Persecution was never stayed nor Cruelty stopped but unreasonable men executed their own Wills upon many tender Consciences and made a prey upon them notwithstanding all fair promises And these things we cannot own or conform unto being found contrary to the Scriptures and to the Saints Life and Practice though long they were pleaded for to be right according to the Scriptures But the DAY is sprung and the LIGHT now shines in ENGLAND that hath declared them and their Root and they are of the POPES Invention and by his power settled in ENGLAND in the midnight of Apostacy and now they cannot be proved a lawful thing by the Scripture either to Priest or Impropriator They plead them right by the Nations Law and so takes us to be Transgressors of the Law when we never resisted the Law but alwayes submitted to it by a patient Suffering under it for a Testimony against it with all such as Exercise Cruelty by it We cannot own that which they call SERMONS neither can we joyn in that Practice because they make SERMONS by their natural Arts and humane Inventions which they have studied at Schools and Colledges and then by their Art they divide a portion of Scripture which they call their TEXT and raise DOCTRINES and make Vses and Arguments in such like things as by their Art they make and so their Preaching stands in the Wisdom of man and not in the power of God We cannot own their SINGING Davids Words in Metre nor joyn in that practice because it stands amongst the many Inventions in which people satisfie their vain minds in Singing Davids Words out of Davids Condition which is to Sing Lies in Hypocrisie when David roared all the day and at night watered his Couch with his tears and they neither roar nor weep but are Singing they do not Sing with an Understanding We cannot own their SPRINKLING INFANTS with Water and calling it Baptism nor joyn in that practice because it stands in the many Inventions to bring a little Child into their Congregation and have certain People come up with it where they have a little Water and call those People GOD-FATHERS and GOD-MOTHERS and put it upon them to confess a Faith on the Child's behalf and to promise for the Child That it shall forsake the Devil and all his Works and keep Gods holy Will and Commandments with such like things and then sprinkle a little Water in its face and say they baptize it into the Congregation of Christ's Church and when the Child grows up it runs in the Vanity and the Pomp of the World which is the Devil's Work and so neither keeps God's holy Will nor Commandments which they promised on its behalf that it should keep And we cannot own this practice knowing that the living God is without beginning of dayes or end of time and hath neither Father or Mother and they blaspheme the Lord and his Name who give such names unto the Creature And there is none that can forsake the Devil and all his Works but as they come to the Light of Christ manifest in them that doth discover what the Devils Works are and gives power over them and leads out of them all that in it do believe We cannot own Made PRAYERS and Reading them over in a Book or any other formal way we cannot joyn with that practice or those that pray after that manner because it stands amongst the Inventions and is not performed in the Spirit of Truth that only hath access to God and makes Request according to his Will We cannot RESPECT PERSONS of what quality soever they may be reputed because they that respect persons commit sin We cannot put off our Hats as in honour to the Person of any man or give him any flattering Titles for our Subjection is to the Power of GOD and all Men in that we honour not with putting off the Hat and bowing the Knee which is the honour below but in Uprightness of our hearts before the Lord we truly honour all Men in his Power We cannot speak any other language but THOU to any single person which is the language of Truth unto him and according to the Scriptures of Truth and that which cannot receive it is proud flesh which we cannot satisfie but speak Truth to every man without any respect to his person We cannot own the WORLDS CUSTOMS which they run into and answer one another in when they meet one with another or passing by one another saying Good Morrow or Good Even or Good Day or Good Night and this they have got in the Custom not understanding what they speak but if the Custom of it be but observed and the words be spoken they are pleased and satisfied when they know not that which made the Evening and the Morning good So unto them neither Morning nor Evening nor Day nor Night is good not dwelling in God's Power that made all things good So it is but words in Custom which fallen man that abides in the Evil uses one to another which Custom we cannot own neither dare we observe to do it unto any People upon the Earth And this is the great cause why we bear so many Reproaches from Ignorant People who are in darkness and know nothing beyond their Customs because we dare not speak but in the Wisdom of God which gives us words to speak in due season These things here mentioned with much more that is observed in the Customs and Worship of the World We cannot own nor joyn withall for no other cause but only for Conscience sake being convinced of the Evil of them and being redeemed by the Power of God from amongst them we cannot return again to observe them or to come under the power of them for we have weighed them and finde them to be out of the Truth and contrary to the Scriptures of Truth and who will search the Scriptures and wait in the Light to understand them may certainly know that our Testimony agrees with them and what we are led to witness for or testifie against we finde the Answer of a good Conscience in it and Peace with God which is our Joy and Crown of Rejoycing And if any sober People desire any further satisfaction concerning us we are ready in the Power of God to give a Reason unto any that asks us a Question of the Hope that is in us in meekness and fear THE END