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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
ground_n	believe_v	faith_n	sufficient_a	1,462	5	7.5981	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A89842	The light of Christ, and the word of life. Cleared from the deceipts of the Deceiver, and his litterall weapons turned upon his owne head. Also the man of sin found out, who is hiding himselfe in a heape of confusion, pretending Antichrist is not yet come. Occasioned by laying open some deceipts in a booke titled, The deceiv'd and deceiving Quakers discovered; subscribed Mathew Caffin and William Jeffery, brethren in iniquitie, who are joyned to deny God, Christ, the light, and spirit, in his saints, and calls it teaching Christs spirit apart from his body, and an evill spirit, to witnesse the spirit of Christ in the saints. Set forth that the simple may see the wiles the devill hath to keepe them from the word of life, the soules salvation. / By a lover of Israels seede, called James Nayler.	Naylor, James, 1617?-1660.	1656 (1656)	Wing N293; Thomason E877_1; ESTC R206580	19,351	24

it the Word which doth but declare of the Word now is the deceipt of your high notion found out who have pretended so much light and Spirit that now the true light is come and the gift of the Spirit is manifest for every one to profit withall you are found the greatest opposers and set your selves to make the people evill-affected against the light and Spirits teachings though no man can say that Jesus is Lord but by that Spirit which is given to every one to profit withall 1 Cor 12. 3. 7. And all your prayers and worships that are out of this light and before it are blind and abominable And all you prove in this your opposing the light and Word is but your selves Children of darknesse and wholy Ignorant of the Spirits teaching and the least Child of light shall Judge you herein for the least that ever knew any thing from God eyther of Judgement teaching or promise or power they know they have it in Spirit and such know that what the Saints declare of in the letter which they received of God in Spirit will not satisfie their longing soules unlesse they can have it from God in Spirit also so that your opposing the spirituall light and power doth but give occasion to all that have the lest sight of the Spirit and its teaching to see you heart blind and so joyning with the God of this world to blind the minds of others also and the least of the Children of light can you not deceive with this onely you discover your Babel which you have builded without the light and Spirit in your Imaginations from the letter without the light the ground of all the false worships sects opinions and devisions The seate of the hypocrite and Court of Conceites in which you blesse your selves in darknesse without God in the world not having the Father and the Son in you and so are out of the doctrine of Christ 2 Epistle of John 9. 10. And so are shut out of the habitation of the Children of light O blind men how hath your wisdome perverted you and the Devill deceived you Is this the doctrine of Christ that his light is not sufficient to lead without something else joyned with it That the Spirit is false and erroneous that bids take heed to a light within Luke 11. 35 And that Christ did not Commend people to a light within Is this the doctrine of Christ That men are not led into all truth by a light within them John 16. 13. Rom 8. 14 That to suppose that God in men is their teacher is an error John 6. 45. John 14. 26. John 17 23 That to declare the light within is another report and another Spirit That its an error to say that Christ is in the Saints in their sufferings suffering with them Acts 9 5. 2 Cor 1. 5. Colo 1. 24 That its an error to say that is the true light even the light of the world that lighteth every man that comes into the world and that it alone is sufficient Joh 1. 9. John 8. 12. And that the light of the world is the onely way which leads to all other things but no other thing can lead to it but it selfe John 14. 6. John 8. 12. And much more such like doctrine the man of sin is not afraid to preach openly thereby to deny the light of Christ to be sufficient least that light should reveale him all against the doctrine of Christ And that he may not be suspected to be the Antichrist and man of sin who is thus opposing Christ and pleading for sin you would perswade us that the Antichrist will but be one single person when he comes That so while people are looking for him in a single person he may thus oppose the light and spirituall appearance of Christ in his Thousands and ten thousands who are gathered as the sand of the Sea for multitude to oppose the light and plead for sinne And to confound your selves you say againe that even now are there many Antichrists but cannot see your selves to be they who are armeing your selves thus against his light and appearance and as one of his last shifts to set the letter in his stead which doth but declare of his appearance who is the light of the world made manifest to enlighten them that sit in darknesse and destroy the workes of the Devill in all that beleeve and follow him And where this light is received and followed you are therewith Comprehended your worke and the end of it and in all that you doe in thus opposing the light of the world you are but breaking your selves against the Corner Stone foolish women who are pulling downe your own house with your owne hands for the more you resist the light the more it shines and the more you Raile against the light and Spirit the more you are manifest to be out of the doctrine of Christ who is that light and Spirit and you doe but give an opportunity to all that see your worke to see the Innocency of that light you oppose and to see you set against that which is the onely thing testified of in the Scriptures and so shall that in every tender Conscience witnesse against you and for that Spirit you resist So behold your doctrine and compare it with the Apostles and with Christs and the Prophets and let that of God in your conscience g●ve righteous Judgement upon you if this of yours be the doctrine of Christ had John said concerning Christ This is the true light that li●hteth every man that cometh into the world but it is not sufficient without something else had he been a forerunner of Christ or of something else Had Christ said I am the light of the world beleeve in the light and follow it but it is not sufficient without something else with it for it is but a naturall light had not he then taught them a naturall foundation in stead of a spirituall who said beleeve in the light that you may be the Chi●dren of light had the Apostles gone forth to preach Christ the light for every one to beleeve in said this is our message wee have received of God and declare unto you that God is light and whatsoever makes manifest is light and all things that are made manifest are reproved by the light but this light is not sufficient had they then preached Christ all in all a sole ground and authour of faith nay had they not been mad-men that would have beleeved them if 〈◊〉 had thus preached as you doe a light and Spirit but not 〈…〉 Had the Prophets preached a Covenant of light 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to beleeve and when they had done told them that it was not sufficient without the letter had not they destroyed their faith in their generation before the letter was written nay goe through all the Scriptures and find any of the Children of light in your doctrine if you can till then for