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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
enemy_n	arise_v	lord_n	people_n	1,152	5	4.9500	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A86649	The fiery darts of the divel quenched; or, Something in answer to a book called, a second beacon fired, presented to the Lord Protector, and the Parliament, and subscribed by Luke Fawne, John Rothwel, Samuel Gellibrand, Thomas Underhill, Joshua Kirton, Nathaniel Web. Wherin, their lies and slanders are made manifest against the innocent, and those books which have been published by them they call Quakers, owned and vindicated, and all the rest which is in that book disowned, and their deceite laid open; how they have perverted the truth and our words in those books which they cry out of as blasphemy, that the truth may not suffer under the reproach of the heathen. / By one who is a witnesse for the truth against Gog and Magog, called after the flesh, Francis Howgil. Also something in answer to a booke called a voice from the Word of the Lord, by one John Griffith, against us, whom the world calls Quakers, wherein his false accusations is denied, and he proved to be a slanderer, and the truth cleared from his scandals. By one who is a witnesse against the deceits of the world, called Edward Burrough.	Howgill, Francis, 1618-1669.; Burrough, Edward, 1634-1662.	1654 (1654)	Wing H3159; Thomason E817_16; ESTC R207383	23,227	35

name of the Lord the Lord will plead with thee thou unclean lying spirit and that which thou pronounces against us shal come upon thy selfe and thou saiest we through covetousnesse make merchandize of some wee challenge thee and all the City of London to prove this thou lying serpent God shall plead with thee wee are free and cleare in the sight of God of thy false accusations and have desired nor sought after no mans mony nor gold nor apparel God is our witnesse and many in this City knowes the same though thou slanderingly an enemie of God doth accuse us but I challenge thee in thy reply to this make it appear what thou assertest or lay thy hand upon thy mouth and let shame strike thee in the face for ever I charge thee that thou canst make appeare plainly in particular and do not darkly accuse us what those damnable heresies are which we bring in and wherein we deny the Lord and what our pernicious waies are which thou falsly and slanderously accuses us of and wherein wee are fleshly and despise government and are presumptuous and wherein or how wee speake evil of Dignities and wherin we are as natural bruit beasts and what these things are wee speake evil of which wee know not and what our swelling words of vanity are and whom we do allure through the lusts of the flesh and through much wantonness in the presence of the Lord I challenge thee to prove the particulars of thy accusations and not to slander in the darke though such as these there were in the Apostles daies who were turned out from the light and the Apostles which dwelt in the light saw them and such a generation there is now they are seene and known where they are by them who abides in the light but of these thy false slanders upon us we are cleare in the presence of the Lord God and that portion which thou wouldest give unto us must thou have thy self for with what measure thou hast meted it shal be measured to thee againe even the blaknesse of darknesse for ever and the day of the vengeance of God is at hand against thee And wheras thou saist we pretend to tremble it is true we pretend the example of Moses and thou saist O abominable hypocrysie and dissimulation will that justifie your shaking your hands like idiots and your raving like mad men Moses was a man in whom the fear and dread of the Lord was who kept his word but you dispise it who loved the law but you reject it I Answer We doe not only pretend to tremble but oft doe we and have we witnessed it by the mighty power and dread of the Lord upon us and we walke not by the example of the servants of the Lord without us but the same power we witnesse which was in them by which they were made to tremble vvhich thou scornes and derides at and calles it madnesse the holy men of God vvere counted by such as thou art mad men and vvere cast out of their assemblies vvhich trembled at the vvord of the Lord but that vve despise the vvord and lavv of God here thou art a lier againe and the plagues of God hang over thy head for thy lies and slanders against the innocent the same seare of God vvhich vvas in Moses vve vvitness and no other and thou vvho art vvithout it art a Heathen and Moses and Jeremiah and Habbakuk which thou speaks of were our example who walked by the same spirit and served the Lord by the same spirit but that wee served our fleshly lusts which here again thou accusest us of I do challenge thee to prove it but I know thou canst not and therefore art in the nature of the Divel accusing the Brethren and to walk by tradition wee deny which you also would lay to our charge but the same spirit by which they were acted acts us the same way according to its measure and the same light which they walked in is our light and this light is the light of Christ within us and not without us And whereas thou saiest its true if wee served the Lord and kept his word it would make us to tremble as it doth those that fear him but wee have rejected the law of the Lord and the word which hee hath spoken and the Lord when he comes to shake terribly the earth shal give us our portion in the lake that burnes I answer Let all the world here take notice of thy confusion and ignorance which utters forth it selfe through thee thou before was scorning trembling and now thou art approving of it and if it be they that tremble which serve the Lord here be a witnesse against thy selfe thou serves him not who art not yet come to tremble but art in thy high nature above the fear of the Lord and here againe thou art found a false accuser for wee reject not the Law of the Lord nor the word which hee hath spoken but live in it and rejoyces in it daily for in it is our hearts delight and here againe as thou hast measured to us it shall be measured unto thee when the Lord God arises to recompence his enemies thy portion will bee the same as thou hast said in the lake which burnes with fire and brimstone And now a few words in answer to that which thou calls a Caution to all that are called Saints in the Nation which may concerne all people I Answer They who are Saints who dwell in the light and walkes in the light doth discerne thee to be no Saint neither wil receive any caution from thee but will testifie against thee for thy lies and slanders and false accusations which thy booke is filled withall and herein it may concerne all people that thy lies and slanders be reproved and laid open lest they receive lies for thy truth and be deceived by thy subtil speeches who brings the Prophets words and the Apostles words wresting them and f●lsely applying them to make thy lies to be received but all people who love the light wherewith Christ hath enlightened them will see thee and deny thee and turne away from thee as having the forme of Godlinesse without the power And whereas thou saiest ye may rejoyce that you live to see not only the mystery of godlynesse but also the working of the mystery of iniquity in the fleshly corrupt and sensual minded men called Quakers I Answer That name Quakers was cast upon us by the Heathen through their scorne and derision as the name Christians was upon the Disciples though quaking wee own for all the holy men of God witnessed it and the Holy Scriptures declares of it and here againe thou enviously and maliciously hast cast a slander upon us fleshly corrupt and sensual mindednesse and the working of the mystery of iniquity is destroyed in us by the mighty power of God made manifest in Jesus Christ which takes away sin to the praise of the