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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
ground_n	faith_n	scripture_n	word_n	6,782	5	5.1236	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A90975	VValwins vviles: or The manifestators manifested viz. Liev. Col. John Lilburn, Mr Will. Walwin, Mr Richard Overton, and Mr Tho. Prince. Discovering themselves to be Englands new chains and Irelands back friends. Or the hunting of the old fox with his cubs and the picture of the picturers of the Councel of State. Declaring the subtle and crafty wiles the athiesticall blasphemous, soul-murthering principles, and practises of Mr William Walwin, in plentifull instances, confirming the same with some advertisements to Liev. Col. John Liburn, and Mr Tho. Prince. / By a lover of the present and eternall interest of man-kinde. April. 23. 1649. Imprimatur, Henry Whalley.	Price, John, Citizen of London.; Kiffin, William, 1616-1701.	1649 (1649)	Wing P3351; Thomason E554_24; ESTC R205778	28,417	40

cunning art and skill being very dexterous that way to be suspected for Self-seekers Juglers and Deceivers of the People Secondly Having by this means crept into the good opinion love and affections of his deceived friends and new acquaintance the result and issue of several meetings and conferences in order thereunto and hereby wounded their respects and abated their zeal towards those that have the management and steerage of publike affairs in their hands that he may make sure work with them with cunning curious art he attempts the undermining of their principles of Religion but with a soft foot and with much slight of hand and Juglar-like as if he had past his Apprenticeship and served Journey-man to the grand deceiver of the world he employs his skill in casting a mist before them and in blinding the eyes of their minds that the great mysteries of Life and Salvation by Jesus Christ and the Doctrines of Justification by his Death and Resurrection Sanctification and Mortification by his Spirit c. may appear but meer fantasms rediculous irrational ayry vain empty notions but thus he attempts very artificially in these gradations First That he may raze the very Foundation and lay his Ax at the very root of Religion he prepares his battery against the credit honor and authority of the holy Scriptures as presuming that to be as indeed it is the very first regal of Religion the credit whereof being once lost in the judgment the conscience will and affections will quickly surrender even upon Satans terms but before he spends his Ammunition viz. his Arguments and Reasons against the same with no small subtilety patlies with them a● in the very same case and to the very same end that envious one to the presence and eternal Interest of mankind did insinuate into a conference with our first parent by way of subtle and crafty questions and hath God indeed sald ye shal not eat of every tree of the garden c. even so this most perficient Schollar doth not use in a down-right manner to deny the authority of the Scriptures but like master-like man he sets upon men quere-wise How can you prove the Scriptures to be the Word of God What security have you concerning the divine authority of the Scriptures and consequently the articles of your belief and the grounds of your faith but from the testimony of men What better grounds have you to beleeve the Scriptures came from God then the Turks have for their Alcharon or the Jews for their Talmud not that he himself would seem to question it but if you will beleeve him it is to understand how men are setled in their faith and to help them therein he writ for the defence of the divine authority of the Scriptures as Satan himself when he did tempt the Lord Christ to destroy the Scriptures in effect by doing contrary to the Tenor thereof did quote the very Scripture saying It is written he shall give his Angels charge c. Secondly If he cannot presently surprize their Judgments by his subtile quries about the Scriptures he waves the business for a season and takes another course then he insinuates the contradictions opinions of men about matters of Religion their various judgments how opposite and cross they are to themselves declining distinctions whereby they may be reconciled leading his disciples upon the Lords Days from one Church to another and staying no longer then while somewhat drops from the mouth of the Minister which he may through his art not minding what went before and what followed render rediculous and weak and so by degrees comes at last to improve all against the validity of Religion preaching and other ordinances this done Thirdly He entertains them with as much excellency and strength of discourse as his capacities have attained in setting forth the famous Governments of such and such Common-wealths the excellent readings of Phylosophers their moral ingenuity pa●s and learning how far short the Government of this Kingdom comes of them What kind of breeding such States and Common-wealths gives their children in the study of martial discipline feats of activity geomitry c. by all which means he endeavors still to take off the minds of his Disciples from Religion and the thoughts thereof if he sees the desired fruits of his labours and that he hath gotten the Venison which his soule doth so sorely long for viz. the betraying of poor men into the same condemnation with himself into low and contemptible thoughts of God of Jesus Christ of the Spirit of the Scriptures of hearing the Word Prayer of Heaven of Hell c. then they become his bosom friends and are friendly received into his house and partake of his more intimate thoughts and familiarity as presuming that having perverted them and strengthened them in his most wretched ways they might be able to go and do likewise viz. pervert and strengthen their brethren and this is his method for the taking the more solid able judicious and intelligent men which are the first sort of men whom he seeks to seduce from their faithfulness and integrity to God and man Before we come to shew his art in drawing aside the other sort of men take some instances of his proceedings in the former kind all which with much more of this nature shall be manifestly proved as occasion is required Having once upon a Fast day as his usual manner was both upon those and the Lords days gone from place to place hearing here a little and there a little what the Ministers said making it the subject matter of his prophane scorning and jeering came at last to his own house with one of his supposed Fast disciples though even at that time his heart did rise against Walwins wickedness but having got within him he did resolve though with much reluctance of spirit to fathom the deep devout hypocrisie of this man for a through detection of him being at home he fetcht out that prophane scurtilous Lucians Dialogue come said he let us go read that which hath something in it Here is more wit in this saith he then in all the Bible And speaking of the book of Psalms and the Proverbs said That there was no heed to be given to them for said he they were pen'd by Kings in order only to their own advantage and the promotion of their own interest as they were Kings And another a presumed sure friend having some familiarity with this worthy Champion for and asserter of the Divine Authority of the Scriptures Mr Walwyn profest that this wretched man Walwyn speaking of the book of the Canticles said That it was nothing else but one of Solomons Epiphonema's or Rhetorical Songs upon one of his Whores At another time speaking and discoursing of Hell said that it was a silly thing to think that there was any hell or condemnation which the Ministers keep such a noyce and prating about and that all the hell that was