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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
enemy_n	good_a	seed_n	tare_n	1,657	5	12.7414	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A33371	The right devil discovered in his descent, form, education, qualification, place and nature of torment : with many other divine secrets, never as yet extant : published for confutation of the learned, instructing the wise, and undeceiving of the simple / written by Laur. Claxton.	Claxton, Laurence, 1615-1667.	1659 (1659)	Wing C4583; ESTC R32623	54,824	149

Calling by which thou wert capable of by which fleshly wisdom of thine thou art possest in thy riches Ans 〈…〉 from my seed-spring give●… 〈…〉 result of my thoughts as touch●…●…ee and as sure as God is God thou shalt finde what I write is truth 1. For the first Suppose in my condition as I am kindered or friend should unexpected by me give me a thousand pound a year more or less now it is just in me to receive it and possibly as justly I improve it onely here consists the danger that if by these riches my soul is drawn from God and more delighted in the pleasure of my riches then God so that I think my self a great man and now am grown lofty hard-hearted and such like corruption attends me in so much that not onely my self but likewise my neighbors takes notice that I am not like the man I was before So that now thou that hath thy greatness successively is not by Scripture condemned provided it prove not a snare or a thorn to choak thy soul by having such a deep impression in thy heart that the infallible truth cannot take root in thee onely here is the haz●…●…id if thou use it as though th●…●…not which is no easie thing yet if th●… canst make use of it to the glory of our God by feeding the hungry and clothing the naked in the name of a Prophet or a righteous man so said and so done thou shalt have a Prophets or righteous mans reward which is eternal life in the world to come I say if these things in the enjoyment of thy riches are performed by them then it may be thou art one of those few of the rich and noble that shall be saved But 2. Thou that hast got thy riches by thy subtile wit is much different from the other in that the first was freely given so that he came justly by it but as for thee thou best knows how thou camest to thy greatness for thou hast heard as aforesaid it is a wonder for a man to do just and upright things and yet grow rich therefore the Scripture calls thee to account and that the more thou mayest remember not many years ago thou wast but a poor Journy-man of thy Trade not worth a groat but in debt and now in these few years thou art worth thousands O friend deal plainly with thy soul though thou may hide it from man thou canst not hide it from God for thy ways are naked to his glorious piercing eye that although thou may blind man with thy fair carriage and sugared pretences seemingly gilt over with holiness and purity of life yet for all this our glorious personal God doth know and in thy conscience will read how many thou hast cheated and murthered to make thy self great by undoing of others In this thing are not most of your Doctors over shoes and boots in this crying sin in taking a crown for that which cost but six pence and not onely so but for want of judgement and mercy destroys the poor creature to the utter ruin of his family so that thou art of that number that treadest in the broad way that at last will lead thee to the destruction of thy soul eternally yea world without end and therefore take notice that God is not afraid to call thee to account or that he will be more merciful to thee then a beggar because of thy greatness or that thy white hand or fair face adorned with Silk Gold or Silver shall cause an eye of compassion more to thee because of that then to a black deformed creature No no our God thou shalt finde seeth not as man seeth neither is his thoughts as mans if he were then had the fair neat rich proud daughters of Sion been respected but in stead of a blessing he blasted all their glory and their bravery as you may read at large Isaiah 3. from the 16 to the end first repeating how they walked with stretched-out necks and wanton eyes walking and mincing as you go and making a tinkling with your feet therefore the Lord in stead of shewing mercy did smit with a scab the crowns of the heads of the daughters of Sion yea the Lord did discover their secret parts and took away all their bravery of tinkling ornaments about their feet their cauls and round tires like the Moon the chains bracelets mufflers the bonnets tablets ear-rings and nose-jewels wimples and crisping pins the glasses and fine linen the vails with the changeable suits of apparel O if God were a respecter of persons here was invitations plenty but you may read that in stead of a sweet smell he gave them a stink and in stead of a girdle a rent in stead of well-set hair baldness in stead of beauty burning yea and that with eternal burnings shall all proud despisers of this infallible truth undergo at the great and terrible day of our Saviors appearance concerning which I shall open at large in the last Chapter Thus much in answer to your Pleas now I shall prove from Scripture the seed of Cain to be of the devil The devil or Seed of Cain infallibly proved from experience in Scripture II. BEcause of the great opposition that may arise up against this glorious Truth through the exceeding pride and unbelief in the hearts of most men give me leave to cite a few Scriptures in confirmation of this work in hand In the first Epistle of John the third Chapter you shall find it thus written Not as Cain which was of that wicked one and slew his brother Also in the 13th chapter of Matthew it is thus written He that soweth the good seed is the Son of man and the field is the world the good seed are the children of the kingdom and the tares are the children of the wicked one and the enemy that soweth them is the devil Moreover in the 8th chapter of S. John Christ Jesus the God of Truth speaketh thus Ye are of your father the devil and the lusts of your father ye will do he hath been a murtherer from the beginning and abode not in the truth because there was no truth in him when he speaketh a lie then he speaketh of his own for he is a liar and the father thereof My spiritual and rational friends which are sober was not Cain the first murthering lying man that ever was born of a woman seeing no true Christian can gainsay it was not that cursed Cain from the beginning that murthering devil and father of lies spoken of by Christ aforesaid in answer to those carnal Jews which boasted themselves to be of Abrahams seed and were not those lustful murthering-minded Jews or Gentiles which our Lord branded with titles of serpents vipers children of the devil and such like filthy Canaanites which proceeded out of the spirit of cursed Cain that old serpent dragon-devil and father of all the damned in this world and not from the spirit of Abraham