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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
judgement_n	wrong_a	wrong_n	wrong_v	17	3	8.5172	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A62897	An epistle to the flock professing the true light which lighteth every one that cometh into the world : wherein the opposers and villifiers of the true light are (by the way) expostulated with, and they that own it are exhorted to answer the light in the consciences of others by an unblamable light, and to grow up therein, both in general and in their particular relations : given forth chiefly for the service of some in the flock and may be serviceable also to others / from W.T.	Tomlinson, William.	1674 (1674)	Wing T1847; ESTC R26323	20,917	27

of Truth can hide from the common Light Therefore the Light that common Light is precious even as the common Salvation is precious to the Profession of which you are called and under the acknowledgment of which you have been gathered And therefore abide therein and so walk as to answer that Light in every mans Conscience And think it not sufficient that you are gathered out of several Societies and out of the World under the Profession hereof except you walk therein He that walketh therein he is blameless before men they have no evil thing to say of him justly For it s by the Life and Conversation among men that a man is accounted an Innocent man or an evil doer and it s by the Light that he is seen to be so He therefore that doth not in his Life and Conversation answer the common Light that is in all men he is not therein right before the Lord who hath set up that Light in every Man to discern by Obj. It may be thou wilt say But we find by experience that many good men are evil spoken of by the World and Reproached and not reputed good men though they be so the judgment therefore of the World is false concerning many Righteous and Godly persons Answ I Answer First mind that thou thy self dost not judge wrong of men and count those Godly persons who are not Consider whether their Godliness lye only or chiefly in an outward Profession and Zeal of their way of Worship and for that Society that they are of If so then their judgment who judge by the Life and Conversation may be right and thine wrong as Christs was right concerning the Pharisees and others wrong who only lookt at their high Profession and strickt observation of pious observances as they were reputed Secondly But if the persons Reproached be Innocent in Life just and merciful men then those that know them well will scarcely speak evil of them except in the matters of their God unless the common light in them be obstructed and darkened by some means as by some private concern or through malice and enmity in their hearts or by prejudice judging by the hearing of the ear which is often unrighteous judgment or through some particular traditional Light which is darkness These and such like things pervert true judgment even as the Light of the Sun shining thorow glass gives the colour of the glass upon the opposite Object So they that judge through these things give judgment according to those false mediums they judge thorow But these stand not in so doing in the common Light but in a perverting light which is darkness and this their judgment is judged to be false by those that stand unbyassed in the common Light with them and the very ground of that their false judging is often seen by them So that the unbyassed common Light is still a true judge in the common actions of mens Conversation Object It may be thou wilt further Object That this Light is but a natural Light and a natural Light is not a true judge no more than the natural Man which cannot perceive the things of the Spirit of God Answ Where the Apostle uses those words 1 Cor. 2. He is there speaking of the things which God hath prepared for them that love him such as Eye hath not seen nor Ear heard but not of the things that appertain to the common life of man and are visible before all men and such things indeed are not known but by a farther Revelation in the Light and Spirit of God which searcheth all things even the deep things of God However the common open Life of men is seen and judged by the common Light as thou calls it that God hath planted in every man And if thou wilt call that Light Natural yet will that nothing at all advantage thee whosoever thou art that walks contrary to it but it doth the more aggravate thy fault that thou lives contrary to a Light which God hath made so natural to thee and so planted in thee that thou canst do no evil but it discovers it in thee yea and records it in thy Conscience as in a Book And there 's the Book that is to be opened when the judgment is set and thou comes to be judged And the things written in that Book are the things done in the body whether good or bad and according to them thou shalt be judged And then this Light which thou calls Natural and was privy to all thy actions yea and to the intents and thoughts of thy heart will be a Witness against thee and shew thee thy evil deeds written in thy own Conscience and so God will be cleared when he comes to Judge and all the world shall be convinced thereby that they are guilty If thou callest that Light Common or Natural in an evil signification as if it were no true Light but a deceitful delusive unclean Light and a Product of the falne Nature then I shall not admit of those terms at all for then must it incline thee to evil of its own Nature as false Lights do and not stand as a discoverer of evil in thee and a faithful and true Witness against it Then also should it be a thing to be repented of that is to have the mind turned away from it and the actions of the life carryed contrary to it if it be evil and delusive And so when it checks thee secretly in thy heart for Swearing or Lying or wrong dealing or any other evil action or purpose of thy heart thou should'st then the rather do them because they are contrary to this deceitful and delusive Light as it s accounted by thee and so more likely to be true and good than it Or at least Wise thou shouldst not at all thereby be moved to avoid those evils because it s but a sinful evil delusive light that would stop thy carreer in them Again if that light be evil then its from the falne Nature and so from Satan that works therein And then is Satans Kingdom divided and he by that light seeks to bring to nought his own Kingdom For that Light works against his Kingdom in men It works to throw down Hypocrisie and Deceit and Lying and Swearing and Drunkenness and Uncleanness and Wrath and Envy and Murther and all such evil dispositions and actions wherein Satans Kingdom stands by discovering these things to the Conscience to be evil and witnessing against them and so Satan is divided against himself if this Light be evil and from him See what Consequences thy opposing of thy self to the Scripture of truth puts thee upon Had'st thou not better submit to the Testimony of the Servant of the Lord who said That was the true Light which lighteth every man that cometh into the World Be ashamed to say the Scripture is thy rule when thou fights against it and says contrary to it It saith That was the true Light