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love_n	apostle_n	faith_n	good_a	2,900	5	3.9902	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A35122	A defence of the true church called Quakers (come and coming out of the wilderness, Babylon, and the dark night of the apostacy of Antichrist into their own land, which is Sion the mountain of holiness, there to worship the Lord in spirit and truth) against the several sects and sorts of people, called Independants, Separatists or Brownists, Baptists, Fift-Monarchy-Men ...	Crook, John, 1617-1699.; J. C. (John Collens), d. 1682.	1659 (1659)	Wing C7202; ESTC R35612	46,726	58

by whom all things were made and in which they all subsist and by which all hearts are bridled Saul was a stout and valiant Warriour and higher than the rest by the head and shoulders and went in and out a notable Chieftain before the People but when Gods witness accused him he was as weak as water yea fell down upon his face to the ground So now we keeping close to this as the Head-stone in the Corner the Weapon we War withal though it be managed with much Meekness and Patience as it ought to be is far stronger than yours that keeps a greater clattering for yours hath yet wrought no deliverance in the earth nor never will but thousands Glory be to the Lord God of Power can witness deliverance from the unjust power and from Injustice and unrighteousness in thought word and deed even by the Armour of light which is Gods faithful witness within them and the Government placed upon his shoulders who by his most powerful and good Spirit will in due time Govern the Nations Righteously upon the earth and in no other way Therefore I advise you to put up your Sword of Steel into his Sheath for ever yea to break him into a Plow-share for so he may be of some good use among mankind and wrestle not so against flesh and blood as to kill the Creature which is Gods Workmanship but come to know the Weapons of the Saints Warfare which are not carnal but spiritual yet mighty through God to the pulling down all the Strong-holds of sin and sinners both within and without for saith Paul They have in readiness to revenge every disobedience when your obedience speaking to the Saints is fulfilled So then if ye will be accounted of the number of the Saints that follow the Lamb in his Holy War wait to feel his living Power in your own Particulars which may fulfil your obedience towards him and then shall the same Power appearing in you be able to revenge all disobedience in others be they Magistrates Priests or People but if ye live in the disobedience your selves against Gods faithful witness which is his true light within you and come not to the Cross of our Lord Jesus Christ which maketh Humble and Meek slayeth the earthly mind and brings out of self and all selfish wayes into the true self-denial which is to Love and give Glory onely to God and to love ones Neighbour as ones self which to do aright the light waited in in truth will discover your out-cries against others wickedness and injustice will be but as the espial of a Mote in anothers eye when as a Beam is still in your own But ye will say That Christ Luke 22.36 a little before his suffering bad the Disciples That he who had not a Sword should sell his Garment and buy one which could not be but for some great and necessary use that the having of it should be preferred before a necessary Garment Can ye say in truth of heart and nothing within you tell you that ye lye that what Christ in this Particular said to the eleven that he in them spake to all Saints who should come after As he did when he exhorted them to Watch saying What I say unto you I say unto all Watch Or was this Sword that he bid them to buy onely for some special use at the time of his apprehension Which was to hold forth that all such fighting with the Sword by the Saints was now to take its farewel in the world Christ was made under the Law which both tolerated and oft times commanded the Jews not onely to defend themselves but to offend their enemies so an eye for an eye a tooth for a tooth and he was not yet offered up which put an end to the Law also observe his reason for his so speaking for saith he I say unto you that this which is written must be accomplished in me And he was reckoned among the transgressours for the things concerning me have an end intimating hereby that the buying of the Sword was for the very forementioned purpose and when the things written concerning his sufferings were finished then the outward Sword must be put up and laid aside as he bid Peter to do when he had once smitten with it least he perished by it Likewise mark his answer to them when they said there were two Swords saith he It is enough although he seemed to say before that every one should sell his Garment that had not a Sword to buy one shewing thereby that this thing was not of Universal use as ye would understand therefore when Judas had betrayed him to the multitude and those about him said unto him Lord shall we smite with the sword And one of them had smitten and cut off the High Priests servants ear Christ answered and said Suffer ye thus far Shewing that now the Sword had done his Office And so he touched his ear healed him Thus exercising his Power of love in requiting good for evil and even making up the breach that the Sword had made in revenge neither was any sign of a Sword seen in the hands of any of the Apostles and Saints after Christs departure but they suffered with all Patience through faith in the Power of God so must do the Lambs true followers in this his day of restoring the desolate Places as John testifies in his Book of Revelation he that killeth with the Sword must be killed by the Sword here is the Patience and Faith of the Saints And as for divers Scriptures that speak of the Lords overturning again again till he come to Reign whose Right it is and of punishing the stout heart of the Oppressour and of wasting utterly those Nations that will not serve the Church and such like they must be understood of the exercising of Christs Power in Peoples hearts and also of justly suffering the false and unrighteous powers of the earth to scourge and destroy each other for their iniquity till they come to serve and fear the Lord in Truth which brings into Peace and Unity for the Devils kingdom is divided against it self but Jerusalem is a City in Unity with it self but that the Saints shall and ought to have a hand in these outward desolations as moved thereto by the Spirit of the Lord I deny for his Kingdom in them stands in righteousness peace and joy in the Holy Spirit which they are to hold forth visibly before all men and not their hands to act contrary to their hearts Now come we to you called Seekers to try what ye seek after stick at and whether ye seek the Lord in a right way that it is a pretious thing to seek the Lord and his Way of Righteousness in truth all the Righteous and upright in heart do experimentally know for seek and ye shall find saith Christ the true light to his and blessed are they that keep his Testimonies and seek him