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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	aaron_n	according_a	place_n	96	3	3.8300	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A63474	An epistle of caution to Friends to take heed of that treacherous spirit that is entred into W.R. and his abettors (as appears in his malicious book, falsly called The Christian-Quaker, &c.) ... : with wholsome advice and counsel, by way of information, that the simple-minded may not be ensnared by the crafts and wiles of Satan through faith fallen antichristian instruments is W.R. and such as are encred into the same malicious spirit with him / C.T.	Taylor, Christopher, ca. 1615-1686.	1681 (1681)	Wing T262; ESTC R20258	17,842	24

Famous in the Congregation men of Renown their Conspiracy was strong against Moses and Aaron and the reason was because they departed from the Faith and Fear of God and so loft the sense of his Love and Presence which in some measure no doubt they had known through the Word of Faith that was in their Hearts and might have retained if they had stood in God's Fear and then they would not have rebelled and so lost the Sense of that Accepted State with God which Moses and Aaron were kept in nor have Apostatized to have contradicted the good Conduct of Moses and Aaron according to God just Appointments nor have been Innovators under that Dispensation to have endeavoured the Alteration of the Government established by the Lord nor would they have endeavoured to have set up themselves over the People above their true Conditions and Places nor to have thrust out Moses and Aaron that so they might have done according to their own Wills and Lusts and so have been Arbitrary and Tyrannical in their Government without the Power of God in opposition to it for did not they profess Holyness and that all the Congregation was Holy and that Moses and Aaron took too much upon them and lift up themselves above the Congregation of the Lord Had they not these plausible Pretences which were it seems much taking with the Congregation into which by cunning Deceit and false Flattery they had insinuated and so the Cursed Presumption of these false Pretenders was punished with a Dreadful End The Earth opened her Mouth and swallowed them up und their Houses and all the men that appertained unto Korah all their Goods they and all that appertained to them went down alive into the Pit c. A Dreadful End and just from the hand of the Lord. So now let W.R. and his Adherents dread and fear the living God who have attempted such manifest Rebellion against Gods pure Power in his blessed People and holy Servants by rendring them Apostates and Innovators for what have they done to deserve the Name of Apostates and Innovators more than what the Lord has laid upon them and given them Power to do in his eternal Counsel What have they brought into the Church of God or been Instrumental in then to establish it in Peace and Unity And if God hath made use of G. F. more especially to bring good things from him to his Church or as his Messenger to be faithful in his Message to give in that blessed Gospel Order and holy Government of Christ God hath shewn unto him in his holy Spirit and so hath Contributed largely in this Work even beyond many others why should he or others found in such a blessed Service be Envyed and spoke Evil against and be accounted Apostates and Innovators and to take too much upon them Remember Korah and his company how they fell and were swallowed up forever with divine Vengeance and no question but Moses and Aaron were tender towards them to have reclaimed them from their great Presumption Pride and Arrogancy but they would not hear them but became desperate in their Encounter against God's Power and true Authority and therefore God would not spare them from Destruction but he was at that time entreated for the poor deluded Congregation and it is said they got up from the Tabernacle of Korah Dathan and Abiram c. and the two Hundred and Fifty Princes who fell into desperate Presumption and endeavoured to run down Aaron and his Seed from the Priesthood these were consumed with Fire for their Presumption in offering Incense in opposition to Gods appointment under that Dispensation who had established that Service in Aaron and his Seed only So it is a most dangerous thing to oppose God's divine Power and holy Authority and run against and despise his anointed Ones whom he has anointed with his holy spiritual Oyl to minister unto and serve his Church and People in whatsoever he commands them who are Ministers of the Spirit and not of the Letter They that go from the Power of the Lord are Apostates and Innovators and it is they only that would Innovate or alter the holy Appointment of the Power of God and the Order and Government thereof because they themselves are gone from it in their own Particulars how can they love the Order Government and Discipline of the Power of God who love not the Government of it and to be guided by it in their own Particulars Thus came in the Apostacy thus came in Innovations and divers Alterations into the Church of God and a contending for them that was the ground of setting up divers Forms and Meetings out of the Power in which Forms and Meetings Gods Power and Presence was awanting these the Apostle bids turn away from who had retained the Form of Godliness but denyed the Power But the Antient Apostles and Elders of the Church of God kept the Faith which stood in the Power of God and unto them was the continuance of his Oracles and heavenly Openings Visions and Revelations that in the holy Spirit and Power of the Living God they might serve obey and worship him these when they met together and had Councils and Meetings for the Service and Benefit of the holy Church of God did wait in the Spirit of Life to receive from God his Mind and Authoriy which they might lay upon the Churches or signifie to them what was to be done suitable or agreeable to every State and Time the Church was in according to her growth and encreate in the spiritual Light and Grace and therein the Spiritual-minded and Simple-hearted waiting upon the Lord come to be satisfied with the divine Will of God opened and communicated to them by the Lord through his Servants and Gospel Ministers And the Simple-hearted Christians did not cry out against Paul and others of those his Primitive Fellow-Labourers and call them Innovators and Apostates or such as were fallen from the Faith or to take too much upon them but with Love and good Will in the Faith observed the Decrees of the Apostles and Elders and all was sweet and lovely amongst them in so doing and the false Apostles false Brotherhood false Ministers and Antichrists had no place there so long as they kept blessedly together in the Fellowship of Gods Eternal Spirit and Power for then did they shine together in the Lustre and Brightness of Gods Wisdom and Image of Jesus Christ mutually serving one another in the Love of God and edifying one another in the most holy Faith and in that state a greater than Solomon was known amongst them Christ Jesus and the Primitive pure Love of God to possess their Hearts so that those who kept their Habitations together in the fear of God and Faith that stands in its Eternal Power were the true Church and Body of the Lord Jesus in which was the true Harmony and spreading of the heavenly Table for every Child to receive