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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	work_n	world_n	worship_n	410	3	6.5175	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A29131	The Quakers vvhitest divell unvailed, and their sheeps cloathing pulled off, that their woolvish inside may be easily discerned in answer to a letter subscribed Iames Naylor, a professed Quaker / written by Ellis Bradshavv.	Bradshaw, Ellis.	1654 (1654)	Wing B4148; ESTC R20539	7,101	12

NAYLOR THE ANSVVER To IT To all the faithfull Generation as so they professe themselves of the people called Quakers who desire to know in what faith and hope we now live that are called Christians In direct opposition by way of counterpoyse to a Leetter subscribed James Naylor one of the professed Quakers whom they call the Messenger of the living God THat Faith which we own and witness too is that which worketh by love and is in Christ Jesus our dear Lord and alone Saviour who is that true light who lighteneth every one that cometh into the world and in this Light we believe and desire to follow that we might be led out of all the wayes yea works and worships of the darknesse of this world and all the effects and fruits of this Light we own and witness too in the sight of God by believing and acknowledging both by word and deed in love and meekness and by means also of this Faith and love which this essentiall light hath wrought in us by his Word and Spirit We are seriously engaged utterly to deny their wayes and doctrines who go about to exclude and disparage all helps and means and teachings of men and of such especially whom the Lord of the harvest hath thrust forth as faithfull labourers into his harvest for the leading into and for the guiding in all the wayes of God and of Christ our Saviour whose voice we know and resolve to follow and not such strange doctrines and devices of men whom as Christ hath promised we can know by their fruits that though they come unto us and would onely appear all in sheeps cloathing yet inwardly they are ravening wolves and speak lyes through hypocrisie having their consciences seared as with an hot iron pretending to believe in Christ as their life and salvations and to deny all them and their Faith and wayes who say they have faith but their life is not the life of Christ but they live in sin and worldly pleasures and say they cannot be saved from their sins in this world but in part implying that they for their parts live the life of Christ in fulness of perfection here in this life when it is evident to the contrary and easily demonstrable that they are led away with a spirit of defusion to believe lyes 1. For first the Spirit of God teacheth us to honour all men But their Spirit of delusion teacheth and leadeth them not to honour or reverence any man at all though in never so high or honourable a place or condition of life 2. The Spirit of God teacheth us to be courteous and tender hearted towards all men but their Spirit teacheth and leadeth to be courteous and tender hearted towards no man but teacheth them meer incivility like the bruit beasts that are led with sensuality as utterly void of rationality 3. The Spirit of God teacheth us to judge nothing before the time yea even Christ himself biddeth us Judge not that we be not judged but their Spirit teacheth them both to judge and condemn and with a most austere countenance call men damned and carnall and hirelings and deceivers and proud when they can demonstrate no such thing but in the judgement of charity might judge the contrary if they had that spirit and faith which worketh by love 4. The Spirit of God teacheth us to let other men praise us and not our own mouth strangers and not our own lips and to let our works praise us in the gates like the verteons woman But their fruits teacheth them to praise themselves as if they were perfect already even as Christ himself intimating as if Christ already had impowered them to do the will of God 5. The Spirit of God teacheth us to speak the truth in love and meeknesse and not to trust in our selves that we are righteous and despise others like the proud Pharisee but their spirit teacheth them both to falsifie and belie our doctrine and Profession intimating to the people by their false suggestions that we should teach such doctrin as are quite contradictious to the word of God to wit That Christ is not able to save to the uttermost those that come unto God by him or that we should not account him the great power of God to salvation of them that believe All which we utterly deny to be our doctrine or faith 6. But we have learned from that Spirit which teacheth us not to exalt our selves but to think soberly and to speak modestly of our selves in respect of our present attainments as not accounting our selves already perfect nor to speak of our selves above that which may be seen in us or heard of us though yet for ought they know we utterly forget that which is behinde and presse forward to that which is before even the mark and the price of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus If possible that we might attain to the Resurrection of the dead A mark which they know not as yet what it meaneth though they prefesse themselves perfect and to have Christ within them and that so many as have Christ have this power and what have they not by their own Profession if we can believe them already within them But I hope we may know the tree by its fruits better than their own testimony 7. The Spirit of God teacheth us not to own any perfection that is in Christ as properly ours but acknowledge it his though we have Christ in us For though the life we now live is by Faith in the Son of God who hath loved us and hath given himself for us yet it is not we that live but Christ that liveth in us But their Spirit teacheth them to own every perfection that is in Christ as properly theirs affirming that they that have Christ have power and they that believe have power to do the will of God and they deny all those that say they have Faith in Christ and yet their righteousnesse is not perfect because the righteousnesse of Christ is perfect which yet is not properly theirs but onely through faith and that by imputation and they also deny all those and their Faith and hope who say they hope to be saved and yet live in sin making a profession for say they he that hath this hope in him purifieth himself even as he is pure so that if he be not purified in perfection like Christ they say it is but the hope of the hypocrite which shall perish And they also deny all who say they have Faith and Christ and yet their word and light is without them for he that hath Christ or faith hath this Word and Light which is Christ as if a man could not have Christ by Faith but he must of necessity have the fulnesse of Christ the essentiall Word and Light wholely within them whom the heavens of heavens are not able to contain conceived as God nor are all creatures able to comprehend Again they affirm that he