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conscience_n	spirit_n	witness_n	witness_v	2,517	5	10.2077	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A65842	A brief discovery of the dangerous principles of John Horne (a priest in Lin) and Thomas Moore junior both teachers of the people called Mooreians or Manifestarians, (and called by some free-willers or independants.) In answer to their book called A brief discovery of the people called Quakers, and a warning to all people to beware of them and of their dangerous principles, &c. Which book is a false narrative of two disputes, the one which they had with John Whitehead at Gedney in Lincoln-shire, and the other with Geo. Whitehead and Geo. Fox the younger, at Lin in Norfolke, both in the seventh moneth, 1659. Also priest Horns testimony against his brethren the priests. This is to go amonst the professors in England in discovery of the truth; ... By the truth which is in George Whitehead. John Whitehead. George Fox the younger.	Whitehead, George, 1636?-1723.; Whitehead, John, 1630-1696. aut; Fox, George, d. 1661. aut	1659 (1659)	Wing W1896; ESTC R220960	30,510	44

in one Nature and it is not safer for the Sheep as ye have falsely said to abide with the one then the other for neither of them cares for the Sheep no further then to make a prey upon them and all such we bear a Testimony against being redeemed out of their Nature and it is the will of Christ that his sheep should leave the hirelings for they care not for the Sheep and that they should follow him and hear his voice and Christs sheep do so they hear Christs voice who have called them from the Hirelings and Strangers and their voices they will not regard And such as Christ sends to feed his Sheep in the Pastors of Israel they are no Hirelings as ye foolishly imagine but they have freely received and they freely give and such are not greedy of filthy lucre neither do they rèceive Tithes by a corrupt unjust Law made by Apostates as thou John Horn dost but they do what they do of a willing and a ready mind and are not hired to it for a certain sum but such if they have not of their own may and do receive Food and Rayment of such as receive them and their Testimony and this is according to the Apostles Doctrine and is owned and practised amongst us the Servants of the Lord called Quakers whom ye in your rayling lying accusations liken unto Foxes and Wolves but your words shall become your own burthen and with the Spirit of the Lord we see you in the devouring beastly Nature which the Lord is against and will rent J. Horn T. Moor the people are too generally guilty too and lay themselves open to these delusions and deluders because too generally they neglect Christ and his Truth take no pleasure therein but rather in slothfulnesse formality covetousnesse pride and vanity in apparel and in many other things by which means they are in danger to perish whether they keep out of these mens snares or falls into them howbeit they are exposed to their snares thereby because they afford the deceivers matter to work upon can find many faults in them many things to accuse them of though some things that God never charged them with before these men came set themselves Masters but in many things really evil they have too great advantage and mens consciences by the effect of the law in them which is not Christ bearing witnesse that they say true in those things that they fault them in Answ. Here it is manifest by your own words that ye are the false Prophets that have not profited the people that notwithstanding all your Preachings the people still neglect Christ and his Truth and take no pleasure therein but rather in slothfulness formality covetousnesse pride and vanity in apparel and in many other things and are in danger to perish whether they come after us or not as ye confess so it is clear to all that have any understanding that ye have not stood in the Counsel of God for if you had then you should have turned the people that had received your Doctrine from the evil of their way and from the evil of their doings Ier. 23. but People have long received you and your Doctrine and yet live in their evil wayes Therefore be ashamed and stop your mouths ye Hypocrites who also speaks against covetousnesse pride and vanitie in apparel in the People and of their neglect of Christ and his Truth when many of you their Teachers are found in covetousnesse Pride and vanity in apparel wearing your Cuffs and Ribbands and White Boot-hose-tops and Teaching for Tithes and Gifts and Rewards and most of these in particular thou Iohn Horn art guilty of and in the twentieth page of your Book ye confesse your selves to be guilty of the neglect of Christ the salvation of God and the abuse of his truth so here it is plain that wherein ye have judged others ye have condemned your selves Rom. 2. 1. and made it appear that you are like Priests like People Hos. 4. 9. and we whom the Lord have redeemed out of the vanity and wickednesse of this world do judge you for your wickednesse and bear our Testimony against it in that which hath redeemed us from it and although we are counted by you to be deceivers when we judge you for your wickednesse yet the Lord owns our judging of you because it is in that which answereth the effect of his Righteous Law in mens consciences which beareth witnesse that we speak true as you our enemies are made to confesse And it was the Ministers of Christ that were manifested to Peoples consciences in the sight of God and not the deceivers for the effect of the Law in people where it was witnessed or was did not nor do not cause their consciences to bear witness to the deceivers Doctrine but against it so it is manifest that you judge contrary to the effect of the Law who have judged them to be deceivers whom mens consciences by the effect of the Law in them beareth witnesse unto And the Law in men which witnesseth unto the truth and against sin is light and it is the Law of the Spirit of Life which is in Christ Jesus which freeth those that believe and walk in it from the power of sin and death but those that believe not in it but hate it it beareth witness against them and their evil deeds and remains their condemnation and it is you that have set your selves masters and not we who exercise Lordship one over another and have mens persons in admiration and respect mens persons and calls and are called of men Masters contrary to Christs Doctrine but we although we be the Lords free men yet we are become servants unto many in the truth Ministring and labouring for the gathering of the scattered Seed John Horn Thomas Moore They to get a partie as the Jesuits do exposing themselves to some abuses and sufferings from the rude people make themselves more like Chri●is Ministers to the simple people Answ. We indeed suffer much for righteousness sake and for bearing our testimony against unrighteousness and you who are Teachers oft causeth our sufferings to be the greater by your lying and railing against us thereby stirring up the rude people to abuse us even as your forefathers the Priests and Pharisees did who stirred up the rude people against our Master Christ and his servants in former dayes for which the Lord will assuredly reward you in righteousness But we will in all things approve our selves as the Ministers of God in much patience in affliction in necessitie in distresses in stripes in imprisonments in tumults c. 2 Cor. 6 and our lives are not dear unto us but are freely given up to serve the living God in spreading his living truth and it is for no other end God is our witness though ye wickedly judge otherwise And then John Horn and Thomas Moore goes about to shew the cause why and how the