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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
heart_n	according_a	life_n	lord_n	2,012	5	3.3854	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A43753	To all the inhabitants of the earth this is sent as a warning from the Lord, vvho hath been long grieved with a sinful and an adulterous generation; but against the fulness of transgression hath prepared vialls full of wrath to cast upon the head of wicked and ungodly men. Here is also the vain traditional worship of both priest and people (in short) plainly made menifest to all those that art not willing to remain in ignorance, which for many years hath overspread the whole world; but now is the son of righteousness arising, which discovereth all deceivers and deceivableness, and causeth the lowly, meek and innocent to understand wisdom. Written by a servant of the Lord, who is known to you by the name of John Higgins.	Higgins, John, 1633-1667.	1658 (1658)	Wing H1952C; ESTC R215938	6,721	10

To all the Inhabitants of the Earth this is sent as a Warning from the Lord vvho hath been long grieved with a sinful and an adulterous generation but against the fulness of transgression hath prepared vialls full of wrath to cast upon the head of wicked and ungodly men Here is also the vain traditional Worship of both priest and people in short plainly made manifest to all those that are not willing to remain in ignorance which for many years hath overspread the whole world but now is the son of righteousness arising which discovereth all deceivers and deceivableness and causeth the lowly meek and innocent to understand wisdom Written by a servant of the Lord who is known to you by the name of John Higgins I Whom the Lord hath called out amongst you and redeemed me from the abominations that is committed amongst you and hath set me as a sign and a wonder and my name is become a reproach in the mouthes of fools and children and am looked upon as one unto whom some strange thing had happened and am despised and rejected by those that were my companions in wickedness and mischief in the daies wherein I walked according to the course of this world But before the strength of sin was perfected in me the Lord in the riches of his love called me and pluckt me as a brand out of the fire yea the goodness of God was so that oftentimes though young in yeers when I was in the wayes of sin and evil the witness of God in my own conscience accused and let me see the evil of my wayes and then my own heart condemned me in secret which caused me many times to mourn and walk sadly in the sensible feeling of the Lords just judgement in my heart and conscience against the evil of my waies though not so wicked and common in all grosse sins as manie of my familiers were yet was I not free from fear and torment in my own heart And in this estate I went often to the place called the Church thinking thereby to get peace in my own heart and by the knowledg of God I thought there to finde but from thence I came mourning and troubled in spirit because in that which is called good duties I found no peace nor satisfaction to the oppressed in me and here I witnessed truly that sin was to me a burden so that manie times I went apart into the fields to pray and mourn in secret desiring nothing more then the knowledge of the onlie true God which saves from sin for the want of which was my sorrow so after a time in this condition the Lord heard the true desires and raised a swift witness in me that the waies of man were evill continually and that self must be denied and a cross to it must be borne and so the life of Christ Jesus was manifest unto me which being known and received redemption from sin and salvation from condemnation was witnessed according to the measure of Faith in Christ the Light by which sin is made manifest so the knowledge of the pure God was revealed even contrary to the imaginations of man in the sensuall wisdom and he being known and his judgements received the hard heart is broken and the darkness expelled and his fear which is a shield against sin is witnessed whereby the heart is kept pure and clean in his sight and here to stand a witnesse for God against all that talk of his name and fear but know not the life and strength thereof And now hath the Lord opened my mouth to declare in faithfullness and truth the things which I have seen and am a witness against even the great abominations that is committed amongst you Inhabitants of England the sound of which rings into other Countries and your lewdness doth exceed many other places and your sins are more in number then the sins of Sodom or many other places which the Lord hath overthrown for their wickedness because they repented not but refused to know the Lord Therefore harken and consider for assuredly the Lord hath a controversie against you because there is no knowledge of God amongst you but altogether walking in vanity and in uncleannesse for your young men are wild and wanton whose minds runs after women and strong drink and the aged men and women are living and delighting themselves in vanity and lewdness even the lust of the flesh the lust of the eye and the pride of life so that the knowledge of God is even rejected and oppression covetousness and deceitfull dealing is received and exalted amongst you and much of the Creatures of the Lord is destroyed amongst you through the lust and excess and that abominable sin of drunkenness you are highly guilty of and lyeing and swearing and pride and greivous exaction in your buying and selling is found amongst you especially in a time of quick tradeing and through the abundance of this unrighteous gain and ease in the flesh you are grown gross and fat that you are even as the Beasts that is fitted for the slaughter And this is not the number of thy transgressions but you are set against the Lord and being heart-blind you know it not neither desire the knowledge of his waies but despitefully use them that are sent amongst you for severall times hath the Lord brought me amongst you to bear witness against you sin and idolatrous worship and once was I hailed out of your Synagogue and once beaten in your streets and often stoned and mocked with my friends and brethren with me yea all this is done and few there be that lay it to heart and because judgement is not executed upon you spedilie therefore your hearts are bent to do wickedlie but assuredlie the day of the Lord is at hand wherein all these things will be brought to your remembrance and your own hearts and consciences shall condemne you in that day when he brings his judgement near unto you for he hath long born your sinns and given you rest and fruitfull seasons and his goodness hath not been restrained from you but in all this you have not known him but his grace and mercy herein hath been turned into wantonness and to the lust and libertie of the flesh Woe Woe to all drunkards for the day will come wherein the Wine and the strong drink shall be restrained then shall they weep and houle for thirst and not be satisfied and woe unto all you whose delight and life is in any creature for the Lord hath determined to make the earth empty and desolate and all the glorie of man to deface for verilie I have heard from the Lord a voice of terrible judgement which will make all the Inhabitants of the earth to fear and tremble for the Lord in his judgement will be known because in his mercie man knows him not therefore repent repent whilest his mercie is before the day of desolation and miserie come Then woe unto you

who have been the teachers of this people who for filthy lucre have deceived their souls teaching for doctrine the traditions of men daubing the people with fair words because they put into your mouthes but he that doth not you even prepare war against him and peace you say to the rich and judgement to the poor in spirit and so the word is not divided aright but truth is turned backward for the waies of unrighteousness and you through your learning and arts have been idolized manie dayes but now your flatterie is seen and your learning is come to naught and your unrighteousness will be made manifest to the eyes of al people that have been deceived therevvith and all your righteousness and unrighteousness is sin in the sight of God and your revvard shall be accordinglie Therefore all both priest and people consider of your waies and amend your lives for verily the Lord will not be mocked although for a time he may be silent for all your assemblies and pretended worship is abominable in the sight of God whilest you continue in the abominations of the heathen and all your performances is but the tradition of men perfomed in a customary way in ignorance of the knowledge of the living God whom you say you serve but the wild scornfull nature knoweth not the Lord of glory and how can you serve him whom you know not yet are you nourishing your hearts in that which the blind guides teaches you to observe thinking thereby to find acceptance with the Lord but it is all polluted And novv as concerning that vvhich you call the ordinances of God and the order in your Church novv see from vvhom you have your exampel for it is altogether contrarie to the practise of the Servants of the Lord in all generations the Scripture of truth bearing testimonie to vvhat I say and thereby let your doctrines be tried and first vvhat command or example do you think you have for sprinkling little childern calling that baptisme or an entrance into the christian Church c. And if you vvould go to the vvritings of the Apostles for proof for this practise it is not there to be found neither vvas it ever their practise but it is that which by the Pope and the Popish affected Priests was ordained and by such it is upheld to this day through the ignorance that is yet remaining in the earth but this is known and confessed that water baptisme was once the administration of Iohn who bare witness to the true Christ and said that is the true Christ which enlightneth every man that cometh into the world who by his death and resurrection put an end to all that stood in the outward Covenant he being the substance of all types and shadows who said henceforth is the Father worshiped in spirit and in truth but you are so far from the power and life of that administration that you are not in the true form and manner of it though you falsly say the Scripture is your rule and the Apostles practise your example but sprinking of children was never the practise of the Apostles but the inventions of the erronious spirit And as concerning your practise singing in of Davids Psalms prayers and Prophesies in rime and meeter saying let us sing to the praise and glory of God such a Psalme then doth all the multitude sing after the Priest when paradventure there is many drunkards and swearers and adulterers and fighters and proud persons singing all with a voice they are not puft in mind but as harmless as a weaned child and such like words is uttered in the blasphemous spirit without an understanding in the Anti-christian ignorance so that this is abomination to the Lord and not to his praise but David being as a weaned child even harmless and innocent he could sing to the praise of the Lord with an understanding according as the spirit gave him utterance and that is owned by the children of the Lord and approved of in the light of our Lord Jesus Christ And now what example is there for Priests to require or people to give them so much a yeare even the tenth part or near of the encrease of the fields and of the labour of themselves and the labour of their cattel for preaching the traditions of men upon the first day of the week through which unrighteous gain they are at ease in the lust and liberty of the flesh being thereby mantained with their wives and children in all superfluity and gorgeous apparell without labouring in the creation bearing rule by their m●●ns as it was in the dayes of Jeremah Chap. 5. and the two last verses so that this practise is also contrary to the Apostles it being that which the Prophets of the Lord alwaies cryed against as you may read Isa. the 56.11 Micah 3.11 so that for this example there is the practise of the false Prophets and not the practice of the true Prophets and Apostle but by them such was ever cryed out against· And now I exhort all in the fear of the Lord God to mind the light of Christ Jesus in your consciences making manifect all unrighteousnesse condemning you in your own hearts for all the evil that you are exercis'd in turn aside from following of blind guides even such as go in the error of Balam for gifts and rewards and in the steps of the false Prophets of Israel who studyed and divined for money seeking their gain from their quarter c. And although they may tel you there is salvation in Christ that dyed at Jerusalem with many other fair words spoken from an ayry spirit but this I say that their words and your belief so long as sin regius will be little worth in the day of judgement for he that is not led by the same spirit as he was is none of his and all drunkards and swearers and proud and lustful ones are excluded and for ever condemned by him and the manifestation of his spirit in the heart and conscience will accuse eternally therefore silence all vain talkers and hirelings and deceivers who feed your selves and not the flock against whom the Lord hath a great controversie and he will plead with you in Judgement Then shall all the earth know that the Lord sends not his message by the learned wise and prudent men of this generation who would ●●clude all others from the ministery and these be they that follow the error of Balaam who erred in going after gifts and rewards and this is the error of the Priests and false Prophets in these dayes who for love of the reward speaks peace where the judgement of the Lord is to rest so that this is not the Gospel of Christ which they declare for that is the same now as ever it was not of man nor by the will of man but by the will of God even so are the ministers thereof called and chosen according to his will and not