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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	lord_n	people_n	sin_n	3,287	5	4.6566	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A89844	The power and glory of the Lord shining out of the north, or The day of the Lord dawning: wherein the true light is holden forth to all who desire to walk in the day. With a warning to the people of England of all sorts, not to oppose Christ in his kingdom. Shewing also the way how all flesh comes to know the Lord and fear him, by his terrible shaking the earthly part in man, witnessed by the holy men of God in Scripture. With a word to the serpents seed, or ministers of Antichrist, or man of sin, wherever he is found. By one whom the Lord hath called out of this dark world, into the true light, whom Ismaels brood calls a Quaker, whose name in the flesh is James Nayler.	Naylor, James, 1617?-1660.	1653 (1653)	Wing N302; Thomason E711_2; ESTC R207117	21,947	29

them up to righteousness holiness and perfection even to the Image of his dear Son in which they were created and so to himself again from whence they were fallen by sin and could no other way be restored but by being made the righteousness of God in Christ 2 Cor. 5. 17 18 19 20 21. which God having begun to effect now you are forced to uncover and shew your selves whose Ministers you are and what Kingdom you stand for with all your power opposing the Kingdom of Christ which is in holiness 2 Thes 2. 4. and perfection And now you are forced least the man of sin should fall to tell the same people to whom you have been all this while talking against sin impurity and imperfection that they must never look while they are here to overcome sin the world and the devil nor ever come to purity and perfection and thus you labour to keep a hold for the man of sin as long as people live and so perswade them to leave the work of redemption and freedom till after death or you know not when and thus encourage people to spend their days in folly and leave the world with torment and horror at their death Now it being that you are ignorant of that pure light of the Spirit that convinceth those who will own it I am moved from the letter for the simple ones sake who have been long deceived by you to give some discoveries to your selves and all who will see whose Ministers you are and for whose Kingdom you Minister And first You that say none can be free from sin while they are here you are Ministers against the truth John 8. 32 34. Secondly You are against that which the Father promised at the coming of Christ Mat. 1. 21. Ioh. 1. 29. Ier. 50. 20. Thirdly You are against the end for which Christ came into the world Joh 8. 34 36. Fourthly You are against the end of Christs sufferings Gal. 1. 4. 1 Pet. 3. 18. Rom. 4. 25. Rom. 6. 10 11. 2 Cor. 5. 21. 1 Pet. 2. 21 22. Fifthly You are against the end of Christ being manifested in the Saints Rom. 8. 3 4. 1 Joh. 3. 8. 1 Ioh. 3. 5. Sixthly You are against that which manifests the children of God from the children of the Devil 1 Ioh. 3. 10. 1 Ioh. 5. 18. Seventhly You are against the commands of God and Christ Isa 52. 11. Joh. 8. 11. 1 Tim 1. 5. Ioh. 5. 14. Eightly You are against that which the Saints did witness wrought in them by Christ Rom. 6. 1 6 7 18 22. Rev. 1. 5. 1 Pet. 2. 24. 1 Joh. 3. 6. 1 Joh. 5. 18. Col. 2. 11. And you that say none can come to holiness and perfection while they are here and to prove this you take the Saints conditions which they declared as they were passing on in growth toward it and hence you go about by your subtilty to make People believe that they never did attain to perfection and all this lest any should press after it as though God did command his People to labour for that which is not to be attained And now judge if you were not blind whom you minister for and whom you are against First You are against the End for which Christ offered up himself Heb. 10. 14. Tit. 2. 14. S●condly You are against the Commands of God Mat. 5. 48. 1 Pet 1. 16. Levit. 11. 44. Deut. 18. 13. Levit. 20. 7. Gen. 17. 1. Thirdly You are against the End for which Christ comes into the Saints Joh. 17. 23. Fourthly You are against the End for which Christ begifted and sent out all his Ministers into the World Ephes 4. 11 12 13. Fifthly You are against the work of the Apostles and Prophets to whom they writ and taught Jam. 1. 4. 2 Cor. 7. 1. 13. 11. 1 Chron. 28. 9. Heb. 6. 1. Sixthly You are against that which the Apostles and Ministers of Christ laboured and prayed for to be wrought in the Saints night and day 1 Thess 3. 10. Col. 1. 28. Heb. 13. 20 21. 1 Pet. 5. 10. Col. 4. 12. Seventhly You are against the End for which the Scriptures are written 2 Tim. 3. 16 17. Eighthly You are against the testimony God himself bears of his own Gen. 6. 9. Job 1. 8. Job 2. 3. Ninthly You are against what the Saints witness to be in themselves and others 2 Kin. 20. 3. Phil. 3. 15. 1 Cor. 2. 6. 2 Cor. 12. 9. Pro. 2. 21. Pro. 11. 5. Psal 37. 37. Psal 64. 4. Psal 101. 2 6. Heb. 12. 23. 1 Ioh. 3. 3. 1 Ioh. 4 17. Tenthly You are against that without which God and man can never be reconciled in one again Heb. 7. 19. Hab. 1 13. Dan. 9. 24. 2 Tim 2. 21. 1 Cor. 3. 17. Mat. 5 8. Psal 15. Prov. 15. 9. 29. Psal 5. 4. And now let them who are wise-hearted judge whose Ministers you are that are thus against God and the recovery of lost man into his first estate and see if it be not the same Spirit that acts you thus in subtilty to keep man in the Fall by which the fall of man was occasioned at the first and let all judge whether you be the Ministers of righteousness or of unrighteousness of Christ the King of purity and peace or of Antichrist the Prince of this World and man of sin and opposition now by your fruits you are known and shall be judged wherefore repent and cease limiting the Lord and measuring the pure Spirit of God in his people whom he hath called out of the world and sanctified thereby un●o fruits of righteousness obedience holiness and perfection And measure not this with that spirit of pride coveteousness self-love and envy and persecution which rules in you who are yet in the world and the love of it which is enmity with God Iam. 4. 4. But see within your selves what is the cause why you are such enemies to righteousness and perfection you are too rich in your selves in your own wisdom by your earthly wisdom to wait for the good and perfect gifts of God from above Iam. 1. 17. You envious ones you want the bond of perfectness which is charity Col. 3. 14. You hypocrites who hear and say and do not that which leads to it how can you come to perfection Iam. 1. 22 23 24 25. You are too much in words but too little in practise to come to perfection for Faith is made perfect through works and not through words Iam. 2 22. 1 Cor. 4. 20. And you fat worldlings who live in pride pleasure and fulness and have your hearts in the earth see Luke 8. 14. and there Christ tells you the plain cause why you bring no fruit to perfection now wo unto you who have set your selves in places to lead people up to God out of the Fall sin and uncleanness but now when the Lord is come none are found such opposers of purity as you are O repent how long