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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	life_n	lord_n	spirit_n	7,959	5	4.8028	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A80643	To the priests and people of England, we discharge our consicences, and give them warning.	Cotton, Priscilla.; Cole, Mary, fl. 1655.	1655 (1655)	Wing C6474; Thomason E854_13; ESTC R207482	5,391	8

To the Priests and People of ENGLAND we discharge our consciences and give them warning FRIENDS WE have no envy nor malice to any Creature Priest or Peple but are to minde you of your conditions without any partiality or hypocrisie and wish your eternal good and what we contend against is your greatest enemy and will be your everlasting woe and torment if it be not destroy'd in you For know there is the seed of the Woman and the seed of the Serpent in the World there is the generation of Cain and righteous Abel Now it lieth upon you all to know what generation you are of for little did the false Prophets and that generation that put to death the true Prophets of the Lord think they were of Cain's race nor did the Scribes and Pharisees that with their Priests put Christ to death think they were of Cain's generation for they garnished the Sepulchres of the righteous and said If they had been in the dayes of their fathers they w uld not have slain them yet Christ Jesus told them That all the blood spilt since righteous Abel should be required of that generation and that they were the children of them that murthered the Prophets Is it not strange that the learned Priests and Scribes and Pilate that had the Hebrew and Greek besides Latine should not finde out by all their high learning the original of the Scriptures of the Prophets concerning Christ Jesus that he was the true M●ssiah but that they that read the Gospel every Sabbath day that spake of Christ should murder and put him to death Now Christ Jesus himself gives the reason and thanks his Father that he had hid it from the wise and prudent and revealed it to babes because it was the Father's good pleasure and the Scriptures declare them to be ignorant that had the Hebrew Greek and Latine For had they known it they would not have crucified the Lord of life and glory Now People this was the same generation of Cain in them after Christs death that persecuted the Apostles and put them to death and it was the same spirit in them that put the Martyrs to death and of that generation were the Bishops that perse●uted and so it continueth still to this day in the World for Cain's generation is now still envying hating and persecuting the righteous Abel Now the persecuting Cainish generation would never acknowledge they were such but in all ages persecuted the just under some false colour as they of old said The true Prophets were troublers of Israel and Amaziel the Priest of Bethel said of Amos That the Land was not able to bear his words and Haman said that the Laws of the people of God were contrary to the Laws and Customes of all Nations of Christ they said He was a Deceiver and had a Devil and of Stephen That he spake against the holy Place and the Law and That Paul was a pestilent fellow and a mover of sedition so that all along it was on a false account the just were persecuted so in the dayes of the Bishops the Martyrs were burnt and butchered under the name of Hereticks so now the seed of the Serpent is subtil and will not persecute the Truth as it is the Truth but under some false pretence or other else all would see their deceit But the Truth is it 's from the first rise because their own works are evil and their brothers good they hated Christ Jesus because he testified that their works were evil So now Cains generation hates the just and pure seed of God because it declares that their works are evil Object But do not the Priests declare against evil works Answ Yes they do so the Scribes and Pharisees spake good words they spake of the Messiah yet they killed the substance of what they spake so the Priests speak true words good words and yet kill and persecute pursue and imprison the substance and life of what they speak for he that departs from evil makes himself a prey to Priest and People and sometimes when the light in their consciences tells them when they are persecuting the just seed That they are innocent yet they wilfully run on against the very light of their own consciences as did Stephens persecutors And is it not so I speak to that in your consciences That though the Priests speak true words yet Priests and people that live in Cains race do pursue and persecute even to the very death the life and power of what they do preach And know you of a truth that all the blood since Abel shall be required of this generation for as it groweth to the end it heightneth and ripeneth its malice and wickedness and so shall its judgement be for double plagues shall be poured out upon her Now to you all I speak sin not against the light in your own consciences be not wilfully blinde but hearken to the light of Jesus Christ in your Consciences that you may come to see what generation you are of whether of Cain or Abel and if you did abide in the light you should come to witness the life and power of what you profess and so come to that life that gave forth the Scriptures and not wrest them to your own Opinions and lusts One saying Loe here in Presbytery another Loe there in Independency and another in Prelacy and another in Baptism but the Scriptures are not divided they agree and hold out one thing but you divide them because you live not in that life that gave them forth yet you boast of your learning that you have the Hebrew and Greek and know the Original but you see Pilate and the Jews had the Hebrew Greek and Latine yet knew not the Original for had they known it they would not have crucified the Lord of life and glory Therefore know you that you may be and are ignorant though you think your selves wise Silly men and women may see more into the mystery of Christ Jesus then you for the Apostles that the Scribes called illiterate and Mary and Susanna silly women as you would be ready to call them if they were here now these know more of the Messiah then all the learned Priests and Rabbies for it is the Spirit that searcheth all things yea the deep things of God you may know and yet murther the just and think you do God good service This I warn you in love for I cannot but think that there are some among you that ponder on this day and if you would hearken to the light of Jesus Christ in your consciences it would lead you from your own wisdom learning and self-con●eitedness into the simplicity of Jesus Christ which is a mystery of Faith hid in a pure conscience for your own wisdom must be denied if ever you will come to witness the life and power of true wisdom which the fear of the Lord is the beginning of for so did they of old Paul