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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	brethren_n	know_v	life_n	4,656	5	5.3920	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A93315	The worlds wonder, or the Quakers blazing starr: with an astronomical judgment given upon the same, from 2 Cor. 11.13, 14, 15. Proving them to be altogether deluded by Satan, both in their judgments and walkings: together with a probable conjecture of the end of the world, and the estate of things in the interval. / By Edmund Skipp preacher of the Gospel unto the people at Bodenham in Herefordshire.	Skipp, Edmund.	1655 (1655)	Wing S3949; Thomason E829_4; ESTC R207389	55,821	73

he in v. 12. At that time meaning this time last mentioned ye were without Christ aliens from the Common-wealth of Israel strangers from the Covenant of Promise having no hope and without God in the world O ye poor deluded creatures of the world also your spirits and persons I love and wish well unto and therefore as my brethren in the first creation I desire you all in the bowels and mercies of Christ to weigh well and consider this Scripture for here is your condition exactly and truly characterized and held forth unto you and when any of you shall finde it so give neither the Lord nor your own souls any rest untill you finde your selves in some measure washed and sanctified by the Spirit of Christ from that uncomfortable condition But to return Secondly if these poor beguiled wretches of whom we are speaking all along shall judg them to be the servants of Christ and reckon themselves the servants of Christ also why then they are brethren and if brethren and yet hate their brethren they must needs be under delusion and the words of the Apostle John will render them to be Liars and a deceived people to take the words of the Apostle before us 1 John 3.10 In this the Children of God are manifest and the Children of the Devil whosoever doth not righteousness Look to that O ye unrighteous men is not born of God neither he that loveth not his brother Vers 14. We know that we are passed from Death to Life because we love the brethren he that loveth not his brother abideth in death Vers 15. Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer and ye know no murderer hath eternal life abiding in him Chap. 4. v. 7. Beloved let us love one another for love is of God and every one that loveth is born of God and knoweth God Vers 8. He that loveth not knoweth not God for God is love Vers 12. No man hath seen God at any time if we love one another God dwelleth in us and his love is made perfect in us Vers 16. He that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God and God in him Vers 20. If any man say he loveth God and hateth his brother he is a Lyar. This testimony of John proveth all manner of envy hatred bitterness evil surmisings and the like against the servants of Christ to be none of the work of God because God is love and acteth all in love and as he doth act and as he is so are his servants in this present world 1 John 4.17 But if they shall go about to perswade further and to say that notwithstanding they speak sharp and harsh language yet it is all from a principle of love This will not agree with that operation of divine love which the Apostle Paul mentioneth 1 Cor. 13.4 5 6 7. Charity suffereth long and is kinde it envieth not it vaunteth not it self it doth not behave it self unseemly seeketh not her own is not easily provoked thinketh none evil rejoyceth not in iniquity but rejoyceth in the Truth beareth all things believeth all things hopeth all things endureth all things Now let any judicious man compare the operations of that which they call divine love and these operations which the Apostle doth here mention and see whether they are like to proceed from one author If I had used onely this one Demonstration it might have suffreed to have proved them to be under a most deceitfull power of Antichrist but while here are variety of discoveries with plain and easie Rules for manifestation thereof I suppose he must be wilfully blind that will be lead away with these people and their pernicious Errors when he shall have well weighed and compared one thing with another I do not for the present apprehend any thing more material to have been illustrated in this nature beside what I have done I will therefore proceed to what I finde next to be considered in the Apostles discoverings of them which is that as Satan transforms himself into an Angel of Light so it will be no great thing to see his ministers transformed as ministers of righteousness The second remarkable Truth from the Text is thus That such as are be guiled by Satans angelical transformings of himself in the manner as hath been shewed are likewise transformed themselves as though they were Ministers of Righteousness For if it were not so they would presently discover it themselves to be of Antichrist if such a wonderfull and extraordinary power should appear exercising and terrifying both their bodies and mindes and yet they themselves carried forth as ministers of unrighteousness they would apprehend it not to be of God and all other people for the most part would know it so likewise whereas they now stand amazed not knowing what to think of it for every one can see and say that is not quite blinde that all open profane wicked lewd unconscionable and unrighteous men are deluded of the Devil and by him lead into those wicked ways of sin and uncleanness for God never leadeth men into such courses Note this all you that go astray from the ways of holiness and sin against your own Light and being so in the ways of unrighteousness Satan findeth himself to be open and unmasked he transforms his ministers as well as himself and so maketh them act as though they were Ministers of Righteousness and that they were indeed moved thereunto of the Lord. And this is the reason why this prodigious Comet doth through these its scintillations and sparklings beget such a dreadfulness in the hearts of the beholders and to speak out I am afraid it doth prognosticate a sad destiny unto many people as I shall shew toward the end of my Book onely such who walk in the statutes and ordinances of CHRIST shall be kept by him as Lambs in his bosom but let all other wandring stars and empty clouds such who are mighty in words and expressions little or nothing in a sound experimental and lively knowledg of CHRIST look to themselves and if this cautionary word make any of them wise let them glorifie God on that behalf Did you ever know a people acted through a more glorious shew or appearance of righteousness than they are Their denying and throwing off the world and all the cares and pains thereof for Christs sake as they say and their forsaking father mother wife and children What a fair colour hath this Their enduring so much affliction opposition persecution and disgrace from men Is not this like the Cross of Christ and like the susterings of Christ and his Apostles Their running and travelling so many miles from place to place and speaking so boldly unto great men crying out against their abominations Doth not this blace abroad mightily in the eys of the world Their writing so many Letters and dealing so plainly with men carrieth a fair shew of holiness And there are hardly a people to be found that cry out more against