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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
enemy_n	evil_a	good_a	overcome_v	2,148	5	9.0851	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A77072	The spirit of prelacie, yet working. Or, Truth from under a cloud, in a relation, of that great, and publike contestation had in Glocester, July, 1644. Written then, and now published, as it were of necessity. Together, with a postscript, containing some generall and perticular observations, upon Master Edwards his Gangræna. / By Robert Bacon, M.A. minister of the Gospel.	Bacon, Robert, M.A.	1646 (1646)	Wing B370; Thomason E334_5; ESTC R9476	30,348	42

thee warme with as many cloaths of the Amendment of life as God shall strengthen and enable thee to beare that 16 thou mayst sweat out all the poyson of Covetousnesse Pride Whoredome Idolatry Usury Swearing Lying with such like 17 and when thou feelest thy self altered from the forenamed vices Take 18 the Powder of Say-well and put it upon thy tongue 19 but drinke thrice as much ☞ do well daily 20 Then take the Oile of good works and anoint therewith thine eyes eares heart and hands that they may be ready and nimble to minister to the poore members of Christ when this is done then in Gods name 21 rise from sin willingly 22 reade in the Bible daily take up the Crosse of Christ boldly 24 and stand to it manfully 25 bear all visitations patiently 26 Pray continually 27 Rest thankefully and thou shalt live everlastingly and come to the hill of joy quickly to to which place hasten us good Lord speedily A POSTCRIPT Containing some generall and perticular Observations upon M. Edwards his Gangraena 1 Generall MAster Edwards with the helpe of others that load to his mill seeks to fasten reproach upon the persons of those whose faces he never saw and the errours he chargeth on them hee cannot prove yet his ayme and perhaps the issue of his calumnies may prove to this Nation or to many in it of as dangerous and as dreadfull consequence as was the insinuation of the High-Priests and Pharisees against Christ his person Doctrine conversation followers to the Jewish Nation and many in it for to this day that people judge as these men reported that Christ was an Imposter his Doctrine blasphemous his conversation loose his followers accursed Christ his entertainment at his comming in the Spirit is foretold to hold proportion with that of his comming in the flesh and therefore as little to be discerned in the one as in the other because he is to suffer over again in the Spirit in the Gospel in some way of proportion in the Saints as he did then in the flesh in his own person for the Saints here is wisdom and 't is that which is onely from above to discerne the day of his comming for he is in the world now as then under disguises as a signe to be spoken against to be judged in his members a blasphemer a deceiver a man gluttenous a friend of Publicans and Sinners a wine-bibber yea to be crucified and put to open shame and of this he will upbraid the world at his appearing and comming I was among you but as hungry and thirsty and naked and sick and imprisoned wherefore you own'd me not in my meannesse and low estate therefore depart from me I know you not I owne you not you shall not you cannot share with me and mine in glory Men build the Sepulchers of the Prophets seem to honour the memory of Christ glory in the story of the Martyrs cal themselvs after their names and yet persecute blaspheme and speake all manner of evill of that Spirit by which they spake thus it was from the beginning and it is so unto this present houre thus the Pharisces stood they thought in the truth the Prophets dyed for and yet were in their generation open and professed enemies unto it and thus to this day many contend in bitternesse and wrath to their own and others trouble yea the trouble of the Land they live in for the truth they thinke and yet remain without it yea revile it where it is in truth having the forme and not the power the pretence and not the thing itselfe as they whom they pretend to be imitators of had which wheresoever it is is blasphemed of them that have it not though they pretend never so much to have it But this in somesort may be discerned for by their fruits yee may know them they that have it in pretence onely are as others of the world are excepting this pretence onely proud boasters blasphemers false accusers make-bates fierce unquiet despisers of them that are good 2 Tim. 3. but where it is in truth it is like it selfe even like Christ himselfe Overcomming evill with good in all meeknesse love patience long-suffering being reviled they revile not again gentle towards all men and by this means and no otherwise they heap coales of fire on the heads of those that are enemies unto them and so mightily still and succesfully but so as by suffering they overcome M. Edwards more then seems in his Epistle to endeavour to get himselfe a name to be in his as some in the ages past were in theirs famous for opposing Schisme Heresie this might come to passe if the time to come should exceed the present time in darknesse but the light that now shines manifests his folly very much and that to very many already how then will his works abide the fire when the day shall reveale it to all this therefore befalls M. Edwards in his Treatise which accompanies all that doe things in the darke he mis-represents the truth he stumbles at which he must needs doe because he sees it not in the light in which alone it shines in so much that that is now from M. Edwards mouth mistaken pen and judgement undoubted blasphemie might be at the first speaking everlasting Truth and Gospel Christs Doctrine which was truth flowing from the glorious fountain of it was yet when represented by the Pharisees such as they took it to be very false vile and absurd witnesse the stories the Jews have of Christ and his Doctrine to this day like the stories the Papists have of Luther and the Protestants so that as the Pharisees did Christs and as the Papists doe Luthers so doth M. Edwards mis-shape and disguise the glorious truth and doctrine of some into a lie this time the truths friend will make appear but I undertake not to justifie either Schisme or Heresie there is too much of either found in the Land and that even there and amongst them that most cry out against it i Which is true according to M. Edwards his friends owne maxime the greatest Cutpurse crys Cutpurse most by the same rule let all judge whether M. Edwards be not the greatest Heretick the greatest Schismatick I pray God it prove not true occasioned by the long time of darknesse we have been in and now truth comes abroad errour goes forth with it and in a mantle like unto it yet this I can be bold in because of this likenesse truth receives more blame then that which indeed deserves it 2 Particular M. Edwards pretending more eminently then others to conscience hath in that Court of his hearing onely the witnesses of one side past a threefold sentence on me and would have all men approve of the judgement he pronounceth which is that at Glocester I was first erroneous then incorrigible and for both cast out of town Here he thought to strike at two at once and one of