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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
mercy_n	father_n	heaven_n	redeemer_n	2,460	5	10.4061	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A60170	A new naked truth, or, The sandy foundation of the Sacramental test shaken, by a warning-piece discharged from heaven against all sorts of persecutors wherein you may hold Christ crucified mystically and sacramentally, upon the cross of the sacramental penal test, with all the rest of the penal laws and tests attending thereon, and contributing thereunto / by Giles Shute ...	Shute, Giles, b. 1650 or 51.	1688 (1688)	Wing S3709; ESTC R11222	67,483	56

is an old trick of the Devil And thirdly and lastly binding over Persons for Worshipping God is a very ancient thing also A Persecutor is one that must abandon all moral Honesty he must do as he would not be done by he must sacrifiee his Conscience and pawn his Soul in the Hands of the Devil for he must persecute Christ Acts 9.4 5. and fight against God Acts 5.38 39. A Persecuter is one that bids Defiance to Heaven and is in open Hostility and Rebellion against the Almighty and he is striking at the Apple of God's Eye Zech. 2.8 For thus saith the Lord of Hosts after the Glory hath he sent me unto the Nations which spoised you do you hear you persecuting Spoilers of the Nation for he that toucheth you toucheth the Apple of his Eye that is of God's Eye Again A Persecuter is worse than the Devil in some Respects for the Devil cannot force a man to sin he can but tempt and suggest to Sin but the Persecutor does both he tempts them to conform to a Religion or Worship that they are convinc'd in their Consciences is not right because it has none of the Sanction of God's Authority upon it and if they refuse then he does what he can to force them by Indictments and Fines and Excommunications and Plundering and Imprisoning them and the like Now this the Devil cannot do himself personally therefore they are worse then the Devil Again Fourthly A Persecutor or one that hath this Cain-like Spirit in him every time he saith the Lord's Prayer he speaks Blasphemy for he does blaspheme the Name of God the Father the first Person in order in the Blessed and Glorious Trinity for he begins it in Blasphemy for he saith Our Father which art in Heaven And the holy Word of God saith That no man can call God Father but by his Spirit for let him that taketh the Name of the Lord in his Mouth Depart from Iniquity and the Apostle saith Know ye not that the Spirit of Christ is in ye except ye be Reprobate And our Lord Jesus Christ told the old Sect of Scribes and Pharisees that were Persecuters as our New-Gospel-Sect of the same Leven are in John 8.44 Ye are of your Father the Devil and the Lusts of your Father ye will do He was a Murtherer from the beginning and abode not in the Truth Why So all his Children departs from the Truth when they turn Persecuters they do not do as they would be done by they depart from that Truth which the very light of Nature doth teach us as well as the Word of God. Now can it ever be possible that a Child of the Devil can call God Father without being guilty of Blasphemy at the same time for he saith Our Father which art in Heaven when as his Father is the Devil so that by his Lye he does tacitly and consequentially pull God out of his Throne of Mercy and place his Father the Devil in his room upon the Mercy Seat in Heaven and puts up his Petition to the Devil instead of Praying unto God his Maker And is not this a dreadful Case Nay further in the fifth place for I have not done with ye yet When a Persecuter doth say the Lord's-Prayer he doth say Thy Kingdom come thy Will be done in Earth as it is in Heaven And no Persons are so great Opposers of Christ's Gospel-Kingdom coming as the Persecuters are and none does oppose the doing of God's Will in Earth as it is in Heaven like them of a persecuting Spirit for in Heaven there God's Will is done uninterruptedly by Angels and all other Glorified Spirits there they Praise God in perfect Peace Love and Union there is no Persecuter there nor none to disturb nor make them afraid for there they are all of one Heart and of one Mind But so it cannot be done in Earth by the Persecuters who cannot sleep unless they do Mischief and they do hinder others from doing the Will of God in Earth as it is done in Heaven therefore a Persecuter cannot be sincere and in good earnest when he saith Thy Kingdom come thy Will be done in Earth as it is in Heaven Therefore all they of a persecuting Spirit do but dissemble and mock God and tell him a parcel of Lies to his very Face for they do say in Words that God's Will must be done in Earth as it is in Heaven but in Works they do utterly deny it for they Dethrone the Almighty who is King of Kings and Lord of Lords as much as in them lyes And the proud Persecuters do mount God's Throne here on Earth namely the Souls and Consciences of men and say to their Souls Bow down that we may go over They do rob God of his Sovereignty and become spiritual Legislators to make Laws and give Laws unto their Fellow-creatures to Worship God by as they pretend and so do wrest the Government out of God's Hand over the Souls and Consciences of men which is peculiarly belonging to the Great and Dread Sovereign Majesty of Heaven and Earth which is to do their Father the Devil's will on Earth as it is done in Hell And not to do God's Will in Earth as it is in Heaven Again Sixthly A Persecuter as often as he saith the Lord's Prayer does in Effect Pray that God would not forgive him his Sins for he saith Forgive us our Trespasses as we forgive them their Trespasses against us Now a Persecuter cannot say this heartily and sincerely because that instead of praying to God he does imprecate the forest of Judgments upon himself for he saith Forgive us our Trespasses as we forgive them their Trespasses against us and the Persecuter did not nor yet does not forgive the Dissenters though but pretended Trespasses against them when some Persons have fallen into their hands by their Nonconformity in the matter of Worshipping of God when they have desired them to be favourable unto them and have told them if they did proceed to the Rigour of their Law they would ruine them and their Wife and Children they would not hearken unto them unless they would bow down their Soul unto them that they might go over namely to Conform so that they must Trespass against God or else they would not forgive them their pretended Trespasses against them which made the Remedy infinitely worse than the Disease and so they chose rather to lay their Bodies with the Ground and as the Street for them to go over then that they would sin against God by conforming which was passive Obedience of the right kind therefore the Persecuters do Pray that God would not forgive them their Sins for Christ hath said But if ye forgive not men their Trespasset neither will your Father forgive you your Trespasses Mat. 6.15 Now if the Persecuters did run their Hatred and Malice to the very uttermost Extent of the Persecuting Laws and further too and are now contending to keep the

Friend that ever Sinful Man had And they must Pawn or Mortgage their Souls into the Hands of the Devil before they can be admitted thereunto then this Informs us of the Absolute Necessity and the Indispensible Duty for honest good Men of all sorts to come into the Goyernment and to destroy all the Works of the Devil Namely To Abolish for ever all these Sinful Laws and Tests that are against all Mens Consciences in meer Matters of Religion and let us all do as we would be done by is it ever to be imagined that men of such Vicious Profligate Lives and Ungodly Plundering Principles which cannot govern their own Consciences can be fit to govern other Peoples who stick at nothing but will Crucifie their Maker if he stands between them and Worldly Preferment Eleventhly and Lastly Is it so that Persons must Crucifie their Maker the Son of God and Pawn that Precious Jewel their Soul by Eating and Drinking their own Damnation in the Hands of the Devil Then hence we may be Informed that this old Government which is founded upon Penal Laws and Tests in meer Matters of Religion and Conscience lieth in the hands of the Wicked One namely the Prince of Darkness as the old Wicked World before the Flood did and therefore the Destruction of it in some sence will be like unto that for mind Psal 11.6 Vpon the Wicked he shall Rain Snares Fire and Brimstone and an horrible Tempest This shall be the Portion of their Cup. God Rains down a Flood of Snares of their own making upon them they have been making of them off and on about 120 years a little more or less and now God is Raining their own Snares upon them that is upon the old Government and the old Spirit of Persecution as Gods Spirit did strive with the old World and as God provided an Ark by Noah to save all his Family why even so God by his Majesty has provided an Ark for all his Good Subjects For a small moment have I forsaken thee but with great Mercies will I gather thee in a little Wrath I hid my Face from thee for a moment but with everlasting Kindness will I have Mercy on thee saith the Lord thy Redeemer for this is as the Waters of Noah unto me for as I have sworn that the Waters of Noah should no more go over the Earth so have I sworn that I would not be wroth with thee nor Rebuke thee that is for the Preservation of Gods People And here is the Destruction of the Snare-makers aluding to Noah's Flood also Isa 24.17 18 19. Fear and the Pit and the Snare are upon thee O Inhabitant of the Earth And it shall come to pass that he who fleeth from the noise of the fear shall fall into the Pit and he that cometh up out of the midst of the Pit shall be taken in the Snare for the Windows from on high are open and the Foundations of the Earth do shake the Earth is utterly broken down the Earth is clean dissolved the Earth is moved exceedingly Now in the 7 Gen. 11.12 there you have this 11 Psal 6. and this 24 Isa 18. taken by way of Allusion 2 Pet. 3.10 This is Metaphorically and not Literally and Properly meant nor of the End of the World for the 13 Verse may convince any man of that but this old way of Governing will pass away with a very great Noise and this Element wherein the Spirit of Persecution does live and breathe will be melted and the Generation of Persecuters must pass away this old corrupt Leven both in Church and State must be Purged out All Old things must be done away and all things must become New Psal 102.25 26. Yea all of them shall wax Old like a Garment as a Vesture shalt thou change them and they shall be changed Thus you see this old way of Government so far as it consisteth in Sinful Penal Laws and Tests lieth in the Hands of Satars and these poor deluded Souls that are contending for it for Persecutions sake are his Bond-slaves they are taken Captive at his Will and the Dissenters are in Captivity to them and these Laws also So that in Effect we are all in Captivity and them that are for this Sacramental Test by which they must Eat and Drink Damnation to themselves are in the greatest Captivity of all So that it will be a greater Mercy to them for to have all these Yokes and Snares of the Devil broken than to any other Persons whatsoever though indeed it will be a very great Mercy to the whole Nation But Secondly and Lastly I am come to an Vse of Exhortation which shall be unto two sorts of Persons The first shall be unto all them that were Sacramental Test-Makers and Test-Givers and Test-Takers The second sort of Persons that I shall direct my Exhortation and Counsel unto shall be unto all them that are for the continuing of these Penal Laws and Tests for fear of Popery prevailing upon us And these are such as are not of a persecuting Spirit You see I have searched into this desperate Wound or Plague of Leprosie and I find it to be very dangerous and contagious It is gotten into the Plaister and Stones and into the very Timber of the House and therefore under God I will prescribe a Healing Plaister and a Sovereign Antidote for the making it a perfect Cure I would not leave your Wounds open and a bleeding Now they are searched into I will not leave the worst of you without Hopes of obtaining Pardoning Mercy in the Blood of Christ First of all In the first place I Exhort you all in the Name of my Great Lord and Master By whom Kings Reign and Princes Decree Justice especially you that have been Sacramental Test-Makers and Test-Givers and also Test-Takers that are guilty of Crucifying the Son of God afresh and putting him to an open Shame and Eating and Drinking your own Damnation or Condemnation to repent from the bottom of your Hearts Look upon him whom you have Crucified and Mourn over him and be in bitterness of Soul as one is in bitterness for his First-born O Sirs Be perswaded to expel the deadly Spiritual Poyson which you have swallowed down namely the Sacramental Test by Vnfained Repentance or it will kindle a Fire in you that will burn to the lowest Hell for there is a Death and Damnation too in that Cup for all the impenitent Partakers of it for as it is a Cup of Consolation and Salvation to the People of God so it is a Cup of Spiritual Poyson and Damnation to Carnal Prophane Hypocrites which are but Spiritual Vermine Secondly I Exhort you to Repent of all your ill-gotten plundered Goods and vomit them up again also by restoring it again unto them from whom you took it I mean in that way that His Majesty hath appointed under God and God hath said Ye shall do it Job 20.15 18. He hath swallowed down