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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	day_n	people_n	see_v	12,123	5	3.4423	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A55805	The unequal unyoked, and the equal yoked, and light separated from darkness, & darkness and blindness joyn'd together in answer to a paper that would joyn together truth and untruth, the true worship and the false : and here it is discovered, and the author thereof in part rewarded, by joyning him justly to those he unjustly joyned others to / by a lover of justice and equity and hater of the contrary, Peter Price.	Price, Peter, 1600?-1691.	1683 (1683)	Wing P3397; ESTC R9270	17,524	21

in this thing I shall not compare them with you 26. Bishop and Priest you and your Courts have been more troublesom and burdensom to some of us the People than all other Courts and Taxes that we have paid since your heavy Yoke and cruel Bondage came upon us which makes us to feel the weight and burden of it in our Estates and in our Consciences 27. Pope and Bishop Papist and Priest you are here and may be more at large so yoked together that you cannot be separated while you continue in your Will-worship and compelling Fellowship and carnal Ordinances and dry empty Forms and forcing People to joyn with you whether they will or no and your cruel Dealings with those that cannot for Conscience sake joyn with you in your Self-Worships which do not profit Soul nor Body I say while you do use the same means and live in the same Condition as Pope and Papists do what difference is between you and them And who will joyn in Worship with such a cruel merciless self-ended People as many of you are except it be some in a slavish Condition out of fear or some that make gain from your unchristian Wages or some other by-ends as it appeareth and as we find by the fruit of your corrupt Trees which you have been all this while planting and dressing and while they do feed you you are at peace with them be they never so bad and wicked for if you will tell them of one fault they can tell you of another if not of two so like Priest like People as the Scripture doth declare if you should deny this will not your Parishioners confess it Christ said When thou are converted then strengthen thy Brethren From what is evil and to what is good are you converted except it be from a small Means and Wages to a greater which is no Conversion but Promotion While you live in Covetousness you cannot do the People any good a good Tree cannot bring forth evil Fruit neither can a corrupt Tree bring forth good Fruit Mat. 7.18 and in vers 15. Beware of false Prophets which come to you in Sheeps Clothing but inwardly they are ravening Wolves V. 16. Ye shall know them by their fruits do men gather Grapes of Thorns or Figs of Thistles Here you are plainly seen and known to be the false Prophets your Fruit doth make you manifest to every honest single-hearted man And are not many of you as cruel as Woles and your good fruits a● hard to be had as Grapes of Thorns or Figs of Thistles And is there any in the Nations like you or to be compared to you i● Cruelty and Oppression And 〈◊〉 not they blind and want true Understanding that cannot see that you have the Marks that the false Prophets in all Ages had witness the Scripture from the beginning to the end where it speaks of false Prophets You cannot hide your selves in this the day of the Lords Power made manifest in and to his People for this is the day that the Lord God makes up his jewels and doth separate his People from amongst you the Goats Wolves Thorns and Thistles and we are his People and the Sheep of his Pasture and we know his living voice and the dead voices of you who to him are strangers we will not hear nor follow for you cannot ●ead us but where you are in the dark Kingdom of this World but the Lord who is our living Shepherd he hath and doth lead us to his Kingdom which is not of this World as Christ said and in his Kingdom he doth feed his little flock and there by him they are refreshed nourished and preserved out of your cruel hands and corrupt food that is to perish and cannot feed nor serve your turn in time of need And our food our rest peace joy comfort happiness fellowship and well-beeing is a hidden Mystery to you Priests if not you would not seek us to come to you back again where you have been too long already and are resolved in the Name of our God never to come back Go not to them but let them come to you saith the Scriptures Is there any reason that we should pay you wages while you do us no service and we deny you and your Service yet notwithstanding you would reap where you do not sow and have the wages where another doth the work and feed your greedy Bellies upon other mens Rights and Labours you make many poor in making your selves rich and many do go bare and fare hard to maintain your pride and fullness And thus you persecute Gods heritage and are the greatest Oppressors and Vexers of the People as any this day in this Kingdom And if he that had not the Wedding Garment was cast into utter Darkness where is wailing and gnashing of Teeth what will become of you that are clothed with the Garment of unrighteous Gains If he that was among the People of God and for them and as to outward appearance one of them was thus dealt with what will become of you that are against them and their Meetings and hinder them and break their Meetings And if Christ did say to them that in his Members did not visit him in Prison Depart from me ye cursed into everlasting Fire prepared for the Devil and his Angels what will he say to you that do cast him in his Members into Prison seeing that Christ said so to them that were too short in their Duty towards his People what will he say to you that are cruel and spiteful towards his People read Mat 25.32 to the end and you may see the reward of both the godly and ungodly the portion of the faithful and unfaithful And if the five foolish Virgins came too short the door shut and they kept out that were in company and profession with the wise Virgins what will become of you that do not only hate the company and profession of the godly but also set your selves to strive against them that they may not trim their Lamps and prepare themselves to make read to enter in with the Bridegroom And plainly this is your work to hinde the little slock to meet and follow the Lamb their leader And if th● Righteous scarcely be saved where shall the ungodly sinners appear I Pet 4.18 If those whom God hath separated from the ungodly world and united them to himself to witness for him and against the Sim of the World if they have nothing to spart but scarcely be saved Oh! where shall they appear that live in sin and plead for sin and say they must sin whilst they live in the earthly body No thanks to cease when you can sin no longer in the body If you must live in Sin whilst you are on thi● side the Grave when will you live in Righteousness seeing the Scripture saith Know ye not that to whom ye yield your selves Servants to obey his Servants you are to whom ye

and seek your selves more than Christ and the good of the People You run for and after the things of this World and the Kingdom of God you cannot see who do not witness the New-birth as Christ said Except a man be born again he cannot see the Kingdom of God Joh. 3.3 God said of your Fathers who did as you do viz. run and were not sent I have not sent these Prophets yet they run I have not spoken to them yet they prophesie Jer. 23. People let him that wisheth you well desire you to read over this chapter in the fear of God and consider of it and lay it to heart you may plainly see that those were the Fathers of the false Prophets now and it may be now said to these as it was then said to those in this chapter and else-where I say let them be compared in the old and new Testament with the false Prophets and Hirelings then and you may see these where they were doing what they did sowing Chaff instead of Wheat and telling a Dream instead of preaching the living Vord of God that was with God in the beginning John 1. And this living Word came to the Prophets of the Lord saying and what the Word ●f God said and made known to them that was written in the Scriptures ●y several of the Prophets and John did witness the same living Word which Word was Christ and he was clothed with a vesture dipt in Blood and his Name is called the Word of God Rev. 19.13 and those whom God did send did direct the People to the same Word of God and said The Word is nigh thee even in thy heart in thy mouth that is the Word of Faith which we preach Rom. 10.8 Not only what Paul did preach for he said what we preach And they did direct where the People might find the Word in the Mouth in the Heart all that do not direct the People to this living Word have but a dream to tell them Jer. 23.28 Mind what a dream is A man may think to be where he is not and to do what he doth not and to see what he doth not see just so are all these Dreamers who do not direct the People to Christ and where to sind them But if ever these Dreamers will awake out of sin and unrighteousness they will come to see that all that which they have done is but as a Dream and not Truth and as there was in former Ages false Prophets as well as true Prophets of the Lord even so it is now And the Lord God formerly made use of the meanest sort in the account of the World to confound the wise so now as it is written For ye see your calling Brethren how that not many wise men after the flesh not many mighty not many noble are called but God hath chosen the foolish things of the World to confound the things that are mighty and base things of the World and things that that are despised hath God chosen yea and things that are not to bring to nought things that are 1 Cor. 1.26 27 28. As it was then even so it is now and the worldly Wisdom and its learning and all that it can do is too short to bring man into Rest Peace with God it is not the learning bought for Money but the free learning of Christ that doth give People the saving knowledge therefore in vain is it for you to strive in your own strength wisdom and its learning come to Christ that you may see that you are poor that you may receive the Gospel and that the Eye which the god of the World hath blinded may be opened and you out of the Devils Prison may be set at liberty to serve the living God And this will he better for you than to think you are what you are not and deceive your selves and others and better than to obtain high Places and large Riches in the world which are uncertain if lawfully obtained Bishop Priest this is not a time for you to think to hide your selves for the Lord God doth raise his witness in his People and he doth open their understandings and they come to see what they did not see and to love that which is good and to hate the evil and declare against it as faithful Witnesses for our God And most of the People do now see your ungodly covetous selfish Lives and Practices and how little good service you have done in the Country and how troublesom burdensom you have been and how you have exalted your selves in Pride above measure your Coaches Horses and vain Attendance do witness it The People will come more and more to see you as their Understandings will be opened and they enlarged in the knowledge of God And now there are many out of fear of your High-places Threatnings and Courts that do heat and follow you more than out of love to any good they receive from you And as People do come into the true fear of God the slavish fear will wear off from them and you they will not follow for Pride and Self-exaltedness will have a fall and great will the fall of it be And this is our Joy that the Lord will reign whose right it is who is worthy to be exalted honoured magnified glorified praised and forever obey'd He the Lamb of God will have the Victory and it is in vain for you to strive against him who gave you Breath and can take it from you when he will Stand in awe and sin not and strive not against Christ in his Temple in his People as the Scripture saith Know ye not that ye are the Temples of God and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you 1 Cor. 3.16 He that defiles the Temple of God him shall God destroy for the Temple of God is holy which Temple ye are v. 27. What! know you not that your Bodies are the Temples of the holy Ghost ch 6.19 Ye are the Temples of the living God as God hath said 2 Cor. 6.16 You know not what you do in hating those People whom God loveth and dwelleth in You strive to draw from God those that strive to draw you to God You seek to destroy those that seek to save you from destruction You would draw us from good to the evil and we would draw you from the evil to the good You would draw us from the Teachings of the Grace of God to be taught by you 〈◊〉 and we would draw you to the teachings of the Spirit that makes ali●● to God You would draw us from a heavenly Condition to the earthly where you are and we would draw you from the earthly to the heavenly where we are through the mercy of our God And thus you reward us evil for good and we desire to do you good for evil You hate in us what God loves and we hate in you what God hates and what ye ought to