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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	world_n	write_v	wrong_n	20	3	8.4092	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A52181	Sions enemy discovered, or the worker of iniquity rebuked and innocency cleared in a reply to seven sheets of paper published by Jonathan Johnson of Lincoln, and by him entituled, The Quaker quashed, and his quarrel queld, &c.	Mason, Martin, fl. 1650-1676.	1659 (1659)	Wing M933A; ESTC R221792	10,986	8

SIONS ENEMY DISCOVERED OR The Worker of iniquity rebuked AND INNOCENCY CLEARED In a Reply to seven sheets of Paper Published by Jonathan Johnson of Lincoln and by him Entituled The Quaker quasht and his quarrel queld c. JONATHAN I shall not here take notice of every polluted stream coming from the Fountain of thy corrupt heart which in thy papers thou hast published Thou runs on at a high rate as if there were not a righteous God that takes notice of and registers all the wrongs done unto his people abide thou no longer in the dark habitation of the Hipocrite for though thou hast told the World thou expectedst my acknowledgment of my evil in writing against thee as if that were the cause thou kept thy papers almost these two years by thee yet thy fig leaves cannot cover thee the light of Israel doth discern thee and thou shalt one day know they were sober lines wch then were sent thee wh●n thou writst last to me and happy hadst thou been if thou wouldst have been warned by me Thou tells me page 1 That I Bragadot●-like said I will not give one inch of ground or turn my back off the uncircumcised Philistine Let the sober Reader peruse my book and he may see that in answer to thy charge of the weaknesse and disarmed condition of those I am encamped with and that our weapon is but a bull rush I told thee It was not th●● nor thy Fathers legion could make one Souldier in the camp of the Lord give one inch of ground or turn his back off the uncircumcised Philistine Judge honest Reader hath not the wicked one wrested my words but when will he learn to speak truth say Jonathan dost thou not see thy bold presumption that wouldst have thy engagement to be compared with David See his book p. 1.2 and my words with Goltan Come down son of ambition David was a man after Gods own heart but thy hearr is not circumcised therefore blush and be ashamed I asked thee this question Hath every one that cometh into the world heard and read the preaching of Christ and his Apostles as they are transcribed in the Bible to which thou didst positively answer They have all heard and yet like a son of impudence in thy book thou deniest it and chargest me that I have dealt falsly with thy answer To which I reply the Lord of heaven and earth be judge betwixt us whether them were thy words or nay And because thou art so confident in thy darknesse I tell thee millions of men and women may witnesse against thee that they never read the preachings of Christ and his Apostles as they are transcribed in the Bible To my other question How is the Gospel preached to every creature under heaven which is the power of God if not by that principle of light in the conscience In thy book thou answerest thus In the preaching of Christ and his Apostles which worketh the principle of light in the conscience and whatsoever is not enlightned from thence t is darknesse and not light Be not these thy own words Art thou an elder Jonathan or head or leader of a separated people and so sottish to make the letter the author of the light of Christ in the conscience which was before the letter was given forth as if a man gave being to his maker Sure if thy Church were in God the Father of lights they would see thy nakednesse and be ashamed Thou multiplyest many words about the sound of accusing or excusing in all consciences I am satisfied that thou diddst confess that the sound of accusing or excusing is in all consciences and knowes it is accusing not excusing thee in thy conscience for several sins thou commits against it And thy dark assertion that it comes only by the hearing of faith preached by the Apostles doth more manifest thy miserable nakedness and thy grosse ignorance of Christ the power of God and of his kingdome where it is and what pag. 5. Thou confesseth there was a principle of light in the people before Moses writ the letter and subtilly speaks of Christs sending the people to Moses and the Prophets to hear them Iob. 5 46. I grant thee he did so and I give thee this reason recorded in scripture Had they believed Moses they would have believed Christ for Moses writ of Christ So now we desire people would wisely read and search the scriptures for they do testifie of the light of Christ in the conscience but many read them foolishly as thou dost and think in them to have eternal life but come not to be guided by the light of Christ in the conscience and so fall short of eternal life Charge me no more with useing this phrase the light of conscience 2 Pet. 1.19 for thou never receivedst it from me Conscience is dark untill it be awaked untill the light of Christ in the conscience arise and shine in the heart nor do the children of the day or true Ministers of the light direct the hearts or consciences of the people to any other thing then that sure word of Prophesie the light of Christ in the conscience who is the seed of the woman the word of God though such as thou believes not in it and that 's the reason you are not saved by it so sin hath dominion over you Rom. 1.16 because you believe not in the light of Christ in the conscience which is the power of God unto salvation to all that believe therein and while thy carnal minde is gazing after a Christ without as the Jewes did thou art not like to find him within thee but as a condemner of thee and know this also I am not ashamed to assirme unto thee that the grace of God which brings salvation hath appeared unto all men though all do not receive salvation by it because they believe not in it no more dost thou while thus thou persecutes it and smites the innocent Lambs with the fist of wickednesse Isa 58.4 Wherefore hast thou dealt thus unworthyly with me in thy ninth p. with thy save only c thus boldly to assirme that I granted to thee that the light in the conscience comes by the hearing of faith preached by the Apostles as if the letter were the author of the light How hast thou polluted thy garment with a lye but no better dealing do I look for from thee while blindnesse of heart thus rests upon thee Eph 4.18 I own that which Paul and Peter preached from to be the spirit of the living God and what they spake from the mouth of the Lord I own to be the winde or words of the Lord Io. 8.12 Rev. 19.13 But still afirming as as I did before that Christ the light of the world is the word of God from whom the words proceeded by whom the world was made and so the letter must give place to the spirit the servant is