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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
saint_n	abraham_n	faith_n	work_n	3,738	5	7.4799	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A85492	A cal [sic] and a vvarning, to all priests, professors and people, vvho have and do profess the Scriptures, that they may try their doctrines and practises by it, and may own condemnation in their doctrines and practises, wherein they are contrary to the Scriptures. And a tender visitation to the whole vvorld, that they may own this their visitation, and may be healed and restored to the Lord; and this may serve for a looking glass, wherein people may see what visage they are of, and how they stand related as unto God. / By a sufferer in Hartford goale, for faithful witness-bearing, against this sinful generation; known by the name of John Gould.	Gould, John, prisoner at Hertford.	1657 (1657)	Wing G1416; Thomason E932_1; ESTC R202329	27,259	37

profession of the Saints words fair fig-leaves but underneath a Serpent your coverings rent it will no longer hide you the bed is too short to stretch your selves upon and your covering is grown too narrow to any longer hide you your shame and nakedness appears And how think ye can ye ever come to know the covering of his Spirit who will not own nor believe in that which convinceth of sin but say it 's not sufficient to lead and guide unto salvation Do ye think a profession of their words will do it who did own it and were led and guided by it who witnessed salvation by it will this save you who are not led and guided by it but make slight of it even of that which was their leader and conducter into the New Jerusalem the City of the living God which is come down from God out of Heaven and yet professes their words who did believe and were witnesses of it O ye foolish and slow of heart to believe all that the Prophets have written and that the Apostles witnessed unto and yet think to profess their words will save you who are not in their life Think you my servants of old were saved after this manner by professing my Saints and Servants words who went before them into the land of Rest Think ye Moses who was a faithful servant in my house was saved without Abrahams Faith which justified him by Works who was many hundred years before him Whom think ye was the Patriark Abraham saved by who was many hundreds of years before Moses Writings who saw my day saith Christ and rejoyced was he think ye sav'd by ritings Who shew'd Adam his transgression when he would have hid himself and run away to hide his nakedness knowing that he had sinned was it not he of whom Moses declares saying A Prophet shall the Lord your God raise up unto you of your Brethern like unto me him shall ye hear who though he were dead yet speaketh By whom think ye were the Patriarks told there was Corn in AEgypt who had sold Joseph thither to preserve them alive in Famine Was it not by him of whom Moses declares By whom did Joseph make mention of the Removing of his bones when as he was yet in AEgypt long before their departure By whom did Jacob bless both the sons of Joseph leaning on the top of his staff All these obtained a good report through Faith having not received the Promise who being dead yet speaketh Whom think ye that my servant Joshua called Jesus was sav'd by was it by Moses Writings Or by Faith in him whom Moses declared should come by which he entred the good land What should I speak of Jeptha and David and Sampson and Gideon and many others who through Faith remov'd Mountains stopt the mouths of Lions quench'd the violence of fire fought many battels over-come great Nations slew mighty Giants Ogg King of Bashan and Doeg King of the Amorites and Tidal King of Nations and Tartan Pull and Lud who bent the bow By whom think ye was Abraham strengthned when he rescued the spoils of the men of the East out of the hands of their enemies when Melchisedeck met him who was without beginning of dayes or end of life whose Father and Mother none knew neither had they a name in the earth unto whom the Patriarch Abraham gave the Tenth of the spoyls that he had taken who blessed him who had the Promise and without doubt the lesser was blessed of the greater who was the figure of him who was to come And do ye think O ye Priests People Professors and Inhabitants of the World that a making of Profession of these words will save you who know not him who was to come nor will not believe in the light from whence the words were declared forth who was the Oath and Promise unto Abraham when as he was yet uncircumcised who is the Father of all who believe in the Oath who said Of the fruit of thy Loyns shall he come in whom all the Nations of the Earth shall be blessed even by turning away the Curse for sin and saving his People from their sin in whose Seed all the Nations of the Earth shall be blessed and again in blessing I will bless thee and in multiplying I will multiply thee and thou shalt be the Father of many Nations and as the stars of heaven so shall thy Seed be you who are professing these words do ye know the Seed here spoken of which shall be as the stars of heaven for multitude unto which the Promise is not unto seeds as many but unto thy seed which is Christ in the Male and in the Female of which Moses in the Spirit testifieth Or how can ye ever come to this knowledg vvho deny the light vvhich lighteth every man that cometh into the World and so the seed of God ye are strangers and enemies to vvho deny the light to be sufficient to lead unto salvation all vvho believe in it and vvalk up to it and yet professe their vvords vvho vvitnessed salvation by it and take their sayings the holy men of Gods Words vvhich they spake vvrote from the Word that dvvelt in them and vvas vvith them and call them the Word of the Lord saying Hearken to the Word of the Lord vvho never knevv his Word nor had seen his shape at any time but are enemies to his Word and to those vvho professes his Word abiding in them and they in it and so are such found to be vvho have not his Word abiding in you who call that his Word which were Writings from his Word which they who knew the Word no where did And so his Word you are ignorant of and his life haters of and despisers of who have his words to make a profession of I wonder how ye should be still thus ignorantly blindfold as not to see this when as his so plainly declared of to you Do ye not wilfully stop your ears and blind your eies O ye priests professors and people that ye will not see this or do ye think or imagine to be saved by a Profession without the life and power or are ye resolv'd on 't that ye will not be saved and say still He 's not sufficient Will ye professe to be lovers of God and Christ and the spirit and yet say He 's not sufficient and be haters of them who are so who are followers of that which is good and do witnesse he 's sufficient Is this to love God and Christ and the Spirit as ye profess who are haters of the Brethren Can such a profession save you Doth the Scriptures ye profess witness forth such a salvation as this Or do ye think there 's another salvation then what they witness to which is the light of the World Christ Jesus And can you think to be saved by him who will not be led and guided by him Or doth he lead any into sin You who

Bushel or under an ignorant blind zeal being brought up at the feet of some great Gamaliel or Doctor or Expounder or Meaning or Conceiving-giver of the Scriptures as Paul then vvas vvho are found in his steps and yet querying Where was the light I pray ye blind Zealots Think ye it 's onely to be found or had from Oxford and Cambridge and from St. Johns Colledge and not in St. John Or was he learn'd it at any such place and not by the revelation of Jesus Christ search the Scriptures and see And what was the end I pray of your Ministers being it sent to your Universities and the design of their Parents in it Was it the same that Christ taught and instructed and designed and set apart this for Or was it not that they might get a livelyhood and good maintenance and preferment as you call it in the World Was this Christ and his Ministers end And after they have been trained up or educated as you call it for some years at the Craft and become proficients in it are they not from thence sent forth having commenc't Mr. of the Science and able to handle their Weapons well in the defence of their Mother Mystery Babylon and afterwards being tryed by some able aged and more experienced Arts-man who had long worn his Philactery and found expert is ordained and sent forth to some certain place or Parish with an Order from man to enter and creep into a Stone-House there to lead silly Women captive laden with their sins and led about with divers lusts ever learning under them but never able to come to the knowledge of the truth and how should they when with a strong Law that none must come there to declare it under penalty of a House of Correction or a Parison as a disturber it 's not their Teachers guide nor end but two three or four or five hundred pounds a year which was in their eye And was it so in the Ministers of Christ search the Scriptures and see Was it so Or doth their Rule as they call it teach them to sprinkle Water on a childs face call it baptism or an Ordinance of Christ or to call Bread Wine a Sacrament do not such make void the Ordinance of Christ through their traditions What pattern have they from Christ or any of his Ministers for these things or for their Pulpit as 't is called their long Robes their walking before the dead their words over the dead their Knells their Bells their money for Buryings and Christenings their selling Funeral Sermons their Chancel-money their Pulpitmoney with many other knacks and toyes and pedlary Wares which they take money for and call their dues besides sweet-Meats and Wines for their Bellies are these Ordinances of Christ too No But these are say they for decency and uniformity Did not your fore-fathers say so who sought under those Names to usher in popery and idolatry And who gave ye orders for these and such like practises Received ye them from Christ or from your Rule search and see Or not from your fore-fathers the Bishops who taught you to pray and preach by the hour and to call upon those for money who will buy none of your Merchandize Are not these covetous practises And must you not have your Clark and Sexstone and Dog-Whipper too to attend for decencie and uniformitie Who taught you it VVere there ever such helpers in the Ministrie of the Gospel Yet these must have their pay too from such as require none of their labour for uniformitie sake Doth your Rule you pretend to teach you such practises search and see or doth it not rather condemn your burthensomness Do you think calling your great Stone-houses by the Saints Names is any honor to them or that ye shall have their benediction for it who are Enemies to their Doctrine practise manner of life and conversation who were called and chosen to the VVork of their Ministrie not by the will of man nor sent forth into the VVorld in mans will and time but by the revelation of Jesus Christ contrarie to mans VVill whose revelation ye denie and cannot own nor receive but say that 's ceas'd and so are deniers of Scriptures and yet would be accounted Christs Ministers Gospel-Ministers Gospel-professors VVhat Gospel is 't you Minister and professe who denie Revelation and the Letter also which witnesseth to it and professes that and preach that which the Scriptures no where speaks namely That Revelation is ceas'd Who revealed that to you you that denie Christs revelation Must it not needs be his enemie Antichrist vvhose Ministers then are ye who say that none must expect or wait for revelation now and that such who do are a sort of giddie-brain'd fellows and Apostates and such as these upstart Quakers who professe this new-found light who are contrarie to all mens opinions and judgements of the Scriptures but their own and was not truth ever so ye blind leaders of the blind Is truth to be accounted of according to mens judgements or opinions of it or as it is in it self infallible which word I know you cannot indure to hear who are in that which is fallible and so measuring truth by a lie and calling Jesus Beelzebub and God the Devil and Christ a Seducer and his Ministers Deluders and Deceivers and giddie-brain'd fellows and upstarts bringers in of damnable errors such like rak't up out of the pit of your fathers habitations the Prince of darknesse who is ever was a hater of the light in his children in all ages search the Scripture else and see do ye not see your selves in their steps yet let the light in you be judge and will the words think ye cover you nay nay the words are the words of truth and shall joine with the light a witnesse against you even to your eternal condemnation who are found in life conversation doctrine and practise contrary to them and this shall you witnesse eternallie who disowns the light to be guided by it which leads into the life of the Scriptures from which they were spoken forth which was before the Scriptures were spoken even before Babel and her Builders into the one Language and this according to my measure am I a VVitnesse of as ever he was who am hated persecuted and despitefullie used by your generation who came to fulfil the Scriptures for he came not to destroy them but to fulfil them and what do ye witnesse of them fulfilled in you who professe and say he is come yet are deniers of his light which waie is he come unto you seeing you denie that he enlighteneth every one that cometh into the VVorld and he saith he doth enlighten every one and ye say he doth not VVho taught ye to say so doth he or the god of the World and what is it lets you see this and your other confusion who say ye are enlightned but not all and that there 's

a common and a special light a natural and a spiritual light in man distinguish them asunder that we may know them one from another seeing the Scriptures ye professe speaks but of one true light which lighteth every one that cometh into the World which is uncreated if by your natural light you mean the Sun Moon and Stars and other borrowed Lights and created we agree in that but are they in man but if there be two Lights in man separate them one from another that we may know them or else we may freely conclude according to the Scripture That the light which is in you is darkness and how great is that darkness which hath overspread the whole World since the Apostles dayes which is got so high even into the Seat of God exalting himself above God and boasts himself as if he were God by making two Lights in man when God made but one and the Scriptures witnesse to but one true light and yet he 'le have two but knows not how to separate them one from another but he who dwells in the light doth and knows his to be darknesse and to ascend out of the pit of darknesse and confusion unto which he must be sent again even by him who is the Father of Light even of our Lord Jesus Christ God blessed for ever the God of truth in whom there is no lye but bears witnesse against the Lye and the Frogs and the Locusts and the Caterpillars which are ascended out of the bottomlesse pit and have overspread the Nations of the whole earth even all Egypt but they must be all whipt away with the Rod of Moses and sent into the pit out of which they ascended never to infect the Nations any longer for he is come and coming whose Fan is in his hand who will throughlie purge his Flour and gather his Wheat into his Garner but the Chaff will he consume and burn up with fire unquenchable for his fire is kindled in the earth which shall consume and none shall be able to hinder it till he hath consumed the wicked from off the face of the whole Earth King and Peasant who will not that he should reign Tophet is prepared for them of old and the glory of all earthly Diadems shall enter into it for thus hath the Lord decreed and who shall be able to hinder him or say Why dost thou so Wherefore O all ye Kindreds of the Earth high and low rich or poor Kings Nobles Priests Professors and Peasants tremble at the Word of the Lord for it 's gone forth and shall not return empty but shall accomplish the end unto which he hath sent it a fire is gone before him and it shal be very tempestuous round about him which shall consume all his Enemies till they have left unto them neither root nor branch in the earth til the wicked be no more nor the place therof know them no more O ye Priests Professors of the Scriptures and People are you not glorying and boasting after the flesh in Names and things without in saying ye are Christians and to you is committed the Scriptures and the Ordinances the Baptism dipping and sprinkling and Sacraments which the Scriptures no where calls so and yet are naming your dayes and Months after the customs of the Heathens that knows not me saith the Lord Search the Scriptures and see Did ever any true Christians my Saints and Servants so do Did Paul or Peter or James or John or Matthew or Mark or Luke whose Words ye professe do so VVhat do ye excel the Pope of Rome in these things Doth not he think ye glory in the same and in many more Names and Saints daies and carnal things then ye profess And were not the Iews your forefathers glorying in such like things Are not we Abrahams Seed And to us is committed the Oracles of God and yet were Enemies to me and persecutors and despisers of my life in my Saints for all this And do not ye excel and outstrip them in this also Did they make Laws that I should not speak publikelie amongst them Or did they not fasten their eyes on the Saints and say Brethren if any one have a Word of Exhortation for the people let them speak on Do ye do so O ye Professors of these words Or do ye not exceed many of them in crueltie in this particular For if I send any unto you in my Name do ye not laie violent hands on them and thrust them forth and hale them before Magistrates and to Stocks and to Prison with them we have a Law though ye have and professe my Words which say He that receiveth you and heareth your words receiveth me and he that receiveth me receiveth him that sent me And can ye think ever to receive me or my Father who wil not hear their testimonie who come in my Name but if any come to you or are sent to you by others in his own Name him ye are readie to hear and receive though he tell you Revelation is ceas'd and so neither knows me nor my Father which sent me as my Words in the Scripture testifie O ye professors and people And do ye not crie out An Orthodox man a learned man a great Schollar a man of excellent parts and gifts preaches sound Doctrine a gallant Gentleman Mr. such a one a man of great gifts certainly he prayes and preaches by the spirit yet says revelation is ceast What spirit is it think ye he preaches and prays by who knows not the Son For none knows the Father save the Son and he to whom the Son reveals him Do ye think its the spirit of my Father that prayes and preacheth in him that knows not the Son nor the Father but sayes Revelation is ceast it 's ceast to him indeed because he 's a hater of the light and loves the darknesse rather then the light because his deeds are evil And do ye think his works are not in the darknesse whom it 's even a torment to to hear of the light and he had rather see or speak with the Devil then to see or speak with one who owns the light and walks in the light and so hath fellowship with God but whom think ye his fellowship 's with who loves not the light but is a hater of the light Must not his fellowship needs be with the devil who is the Prince and Ruler of the Darknesse of this World even the spiritual VVickednesse got into high places sitting as God in the Temple of God exalting himself even above all that is called God and would be worshipped as God And think ye this spirit is no where to be found but at Rome O ye Priests Professors and People Is it not to be found amongst your selves To the Light in all your consciences I speak VVhat means the Fines and close imprisonments of such who dare not swear and so break my commands for conscience sake and who dare not bow