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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
heart_n	bring_v	good_a	treasure_n	13,062	5	10.6433	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A58143	Light sown for the righteous, and gladness for the upright in heart This is to go abroad among all people who are honest-hearted, especially amongst the inhabitants in Fourns Fells, in Lancashire, and among all who have known me after the flesh, that all honest people may see what I was in profession, and also what I now am by the grace of God. From him which hath come through great tribulations, who hath even left all for Christ, and hath not whereon to lay his head, but is forsaken of father and of mother, and of kinred also, even for the testimony of Jesus, and for the Word of God, whom the world calls, Thomas Rawlinson.	Rawlinson, Thomas.	1657 (1657)	Wing R369; ESTC R220567	29,951	42

captivity comes to be led captive and the strong Man shall then be cast out of the House and his Goods too when Christ who is stronger then he comes to be revealed in them all these things shall be before Gods salvation and peace which passeth all understanding be witnessed I say They shall know a day of trouble and of howling and of bitter lamentation such as never was for their Wickedness and Transgressions against God before they come to know the Lord God as he is vvho vvill render Vengeance in flames of fire upon his Enemies and upon the Head of all that do Wickedly for Christ comes to destroy the Works of the Devil So blessed and happy they are that abide faithful even unto the end who are willing to bear the indignation of the Lord because that they have sinned against him until he arise and plead their cause But wo unto the Priests who daub with untempered Morter crying peace peace to the people that stop into their mouths but prepares VVar against us who cannot stop into their mouths so upon them and upon their people shall the day of the Lord come as a thief in the night and no peace shall then be to them though they now cry peace peace even then when they shall say peace and safety shall sudden destruction come upon them as Travel upon a VVoman with child and they shall not escape then shall they know that their Faith was never imputed to them for righteousness from God so what is this to them or to the r people to talk of an imputed righteousness who doth not believe in the light but hates the light and will not come to the light so what is this to them for Abraham unto whom righteousness was imputed believed God and left his own countrey and went out not knowing whither he went and was obedient in following the Lord so his Faith was imputed to him for Righteousness But what is this to the Priests and to their Followers who knows not Abrahams Faith which was made perfect by VVorks For Faith without VVorks is dead if a man say he hath Faith and hath not VVorks can Faith save him VVas not Abraham justified by VVorks vvhen be offered Isaac his son upon the Altar Here all may see how Faith vvrought vvith his VVorks vvho have an eye to see vvithall so by VVorks was Faith made perfect for every Tree is known by his Fruit a good Tree cannot bring forth evil Fruit neither can an evil Tree bring forth good Fruit so we know the Priests by their Fruits who are of that vvicked one vvhich cannot bring forth good Fruit vvho are the evil Trees which cumbers the ground fruitless Trees rendred of all people useless who out of the evil Treasure of their heart brings forth that which is evil so they being evil knows not to give good things unto their Followers not that I in any vvise out of ill wil or malice goes about to accuse the priests or any people else God knows that I speak not in contempt unto any but would take people off putting trust in man and that they might come to know the Lord and in him to trust that all might come to be taught of the Lord that he might teach them himself of his VVayes who teaches his people to profit And this is my end To turn all unto Christ the light who lightneth every man and that people might try their Priests by their fruits for if they were of the good Tree they could not bring forth evil fruit And doth this offend either Priest or people To exhort all to try them by their fruits and to turn from them that brings forth evil fruit unto the light of Christ in them who lightneth every man that cometh into the world that they may come to be engrafted into Christ that in him they may come to bring forth good fruit if they abide in the light and walk in the light as he is in the light they cannot bring forth evil fruit for he that abideth in Christ the light sinneth not but out of the good Treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is good So I say my end is That all both Priests and people might come to repentance and every man come to be ashamed of his own way●s that they have chosen and so every one both Priests and people might return unto Christ the light who lightneth every man and wills not the death of a sinner but would have all men both priests and people to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth who is set for salvation to the ends of the earth that all people might come to the light and to the brightnesse of his rising both priests and people that so all might come to be taught of the Lord who teaches his people to profit that so none might follow after a people which cannot profit The Priests if they were of the good Tree which cannot bring forth evil fruit would not be ashamed to be tryed by their fruits but they being of the evil Tree which cannot bring forth good Fruit are ashamed to have their deeds brought to the light neither will they come to the light to prove their calling and Minister-ship before the people least they should have shame of their doctrine and practice before all the people their practice being contrary to all the holy Prophets and Apostles of Christ So it is plain They being of the evil Tree which brings forth evil Fruit cannot profit the people at all so the people who follow them are ever learning yet never able to come to the knowledge of the truth by them So whilest I followed the Priests though I diligently enquired unto them after the Lord yet I found him not because I sought unto a people which could not profit therefore I did not attain to the thing which I sought for unto them so turned from them finding no profit by them and then within a little while after this the light of the Lord began to rise in obscurity and my eyes was opened and then through the mercy and love of the Lord I was turned from the darkness to the light of Christ in me and then my mind was turned from following the priests from doating on them and my heart was changed for now in the light of the Lord I see light and how I have wandered walking in darkness without light but now my light is come the light springs and the day dawns for the day-star is risen in my heart and the clouds of darkness flies away for the glory of the Lord is revealed and the clear light now shineth out of darkness and Christ is risen so I have found him of whom Moses in the Law and the Porphets did write For God who commands the light to shine out of darkness hath shined into my heart to give me the light of the Knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ

bears witness against them that they are of their Father the Devil whose Works they do yet with their mouth and with their lips and tongue will profess that they love God who have the high swelling Words of hypocrisie so have a zeal without knowledge holding a profession of God in hypocrisie until the day of sudden destruction from God fall upon them for their Wickedness to sweep them all into the pit of blackness for ever who are Workers of iniquity both Priests and people All-along while I followed the Priests there was something in me of God I see though I knew it not which did witness against all unrighteousness did reprove me if I did but swear or tell a lye which did not speak peace to me in those things but I was judged by that of God in me when I did any unrighteous thing so stood condemned in my self when I had but an evil thought of doing Wrong which was sufficient to have preserved me from all evil if I had but been obedient but being ignorant of it what it was gave no heed unto it but went on in a Way that is not good so did not believe in the light though I had the light neither was obedient to the light though the light did convince me So I had no peace from God though in the World I had peace and with the VVorld was at peace yet in Christ I had no peace while I was of the VVorld for that of God in me cryed against me Desolation VVo and Misery for God seeth not as man neither canst thou hide thy self in secret and he not see thee So I came to see that notwithstanding all the shew in the flesh I had profest of knowing the Lord I was but a hypocrite when I came in deed and in truth to search try my ways honestly and to prove my self in truth and in plainness then I did see that I was out of the VVay of truth knew not the truth though I had the Words of truth in my mouth so was ignorant of God so the peace which I had did then flye away it was as it were but for a moment the Worlds peace which the greedy Priests speak unto the people that stop into their mouths they cry peace peace when there is no peace from God where the Lord hath not spoken peace so would heal the hurt of the daughter of my people saith the Lord sleightly who daub with untempered morter for from the Prophet even unto the Priest every one dealeth falsly and deceitfully and all are given to covetousness both Priests and people So whilest I followed the Priests I see that I was but a fair sayer made clean the outside of the Cup and the Platter and appeared righteous outwardly unto man as Neighbors and Friends ye know who knew me after the flesh That I was as touching the righteousness of the Law blameless and had a zeal for God though not according to knowledge by fair Words professing the Substance but had not the Evidence the Seal of the Spirit of God to my Spirit so being ignorant of Gods righteousness as I said before which is by the Faith of the Son of God knowing this That without righteousness no man can enter into the Kingdom of God so I went about to establish my own righteousness looking for a righteousness without me that I might appear righteous unto man being ignorant of the righteousness of faith which saith on this wise as it is written Say not in thy heart Who shall ascend into Heaven That is to bring Christ down from above or who shall descend into the deepe That is to bring Christ again from the dead But what saith it The Word is nigh thee even in thy mouth and in thy heart that thou mayest do it that is the Word of Faith which we preach said the Apostle who was a Minister of God But unto this Word I was not obedient while I followed the Priests neither knew I it though it was near for none of the Priests from the least even unto the chiefest did ever direct my mind unto the Word of Faith which is nigh in the mouth and in the heart to take heed unto as unto a light that shineth in a dark place until the day dawn and the day star arise in my heart So they are the false Prophets and Deceivers who is come in sheeps clothing making merchandise of souls for dishonest gain And these are they vvhich Christ said should come in the last dayes vvhich John saw was come in his dayes vvhich all the World vvondered after and that all the World is gone after them so they run yet never was sent of God to turn people from darkness to the light vvho divine for money and speak a Divination of their ovvn brain and not from the mouth of the Lord. So I sought to find the living among the dead vvhile I sought unto the Priests so followed a people which cannot profit and wandered from Mountain to Hill to find the living even from one sort of Priests and people unto another that had the greatest shew of godliness one sort said Lo here is Christ and another sort of professors said Lo here and glad would I with all my heart to have found him among them that I might come to find a rest for my weary soul but Christ I found not among any of them though I did find that some sort of professors could talk much more of Christ with their lips then others could do and had his Name in their mouth oftener then others having many good Words vvhereby they do beguile souls even with the enticing Words of mens Wisdom pretending much towards Christ but are as vain and wanton as they vvho have not so great a shew in Words towards Christ and though in Words they profess that they know him yet in Works they do deny him so are the greatest Deceivers of all vvho have the greatest shew of godliness when their Works are as bad and their lives too as them who have no shew of godlinesse at all for Christ said Ye shall know them by their fruits so vvhen I came to prove them and to try them by their fruits I did find them to be as bad as others vvho have not so great a shew of righteousness so it is not every one that saith Lord Lord nor proud boasters in another mans line of things made ready to their hand vvho steal their Words from their Neighbor that shall enter into life but he that doth the Will of God for they make themselves manifest that they are without God and without Christ as by their Fruits I knew them then to be deceitful Workers though vvith fair speeches and good Words they deceive the simple and so blinds the minds of them that believe not in the light And though I did like the chief Priests and the chief Professors Words then vvell so far as they was according to