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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	abomination_n	act_n	act_v	33	3	7.5350	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A77966	Truth defended. Or, Certain accusations answered, cast upon us who are called Quakers; by the teachers of the world, and the people of this generation. With a cleare discovery, who are the false prophets, and when they came in. And who they are that deny Christ, and that preach another gospel. And who deny the scriptures, churches, ministers, and magistrates, whereby the magistrates and people of this nation may see they justifie that which the scripture condemns, and condemne that which the holy men of God justified. / By a servant of the Lord, whose name in the flesh is, Edward Burrough.	Burrough, Edward, 1634-1662.; Howgill, Francis, 1618-1669.	1654 (1654)	Wing B6049; Thomason E808_3; ESTC R207519	16,445	23

then would you not uphold them which act those things which they declared against for that which was abomination to the Lord then is abomination to him now and that spirit which declared against these things then cannot uphold them now And here the Teachers and people are tryed not to have the same spirit which was in the holy Prophets of the Lord but the spirit of the false Prophets acting by it that which they acted which the true Prophets cryed against and thus by upholding that which the Lord sent his servants to declare against you striue against the Lord ye Magistrates and People And you are not ashamed to call such Ministers of Christ which walk in the same steps and act those things that they did which Christ cryed woe against are called of men Masters and have the chiefe places in the Assemblyes and stand Praying in the Synagogues and goe in long Robes and love greetings in the Markets as they did here you justifie such as Christ cryed woe against and deny that Christ spoke the truth what was the minde of his Father for if you did beleeve that he spoke the will of his Father then would ye not uphold these that act the same things which he cryed woe against And he changes not that which he once cryed against the same spirit where it is witnessed cryes against the same things And here againe the Teachers of the world are tryed not to have the spirit of Christ but the spirit of the Scribes and Pharisces who act that which they acted which he cryed woe against And herein Magistrates and people strive against the Lord God by upholding that which Christ cryed woe against And such who are Ministers of Christ and walke in his Doctrine and in the same steps which he and his Apostles walked in witnessing for that which they witnessed for and against that which they witnessed against them you call deceivers and false Prophets and accuse them for vagabonds and wandering Beggars and Idle and carelesse Persons and that they have left their Families and carelessely wander up and downe And herein you Magistrates and people strive against the Lord by persecuting and slandering and falsely accusing and condemning such as the Scripture justifies and the servants of the Lord which spoke forth the Scripture doe witnesse of to be true What would you have called Christ who had no where to lay his head he was no vagabond nor Idle not carelesse Person And what would you have called the Apostles and Ministers of Christ who had lost their Families and Callings and went up and downe and had no certaine dwelling place but went from City to City and cared not for the World not what to eate nor what to drink nor wherewith to be cloathed this they did and yet were no vagabonds nor Idle nor carelesse Persons but abode in the Doctrine of Christ they were hated by your generation as we are now by you And they were called pestilent fellowes and movers of Sedition and Haretiques and men of erronious judgements And they said they were troublers of their Cities as you doe now call us false Prophets and Deceivers I doe declare this generation to be the same which persecuted the Prophets Christ and his Apostles as it doth persecute us for by the same power we stand as they did and by the same power we are commanded and acted as they were And to the power by which we stand and are commanded shall all the powers of men and of the Earth bow and be subject O all you magistrates and people consider of your blindenesse and Ignorance who doe absolutely justifie and uphold such as the Scripture declares and witnesses against and doe condemne and persecute such as the Scripture justifies and witnesses of and doe put them out of your Synagogues and Villages search the Prophets and Christs and the Apostles Writings in them you may reade your example and our example The vengeance of God you cannot fly his fierce wrath will come upon you and weeping and bowling and lamentation and misery will be your portion O tremble to thinke upon your Ignorance to what purpose have you made a profession of the Scriptures who justifie those things and those men which it plainely Declares against and condemne those practises and those men which it plainly witnesseth of Repent and take warning betime before the Decree of the Lord of Hosts be sealed against you for I have cleared my conscience in letting you see your owne Ignorance and blindenesse ye magistrates and people And thus you are left without excuse whether you will heare or forbeare FINIS

power Christ was called a deceiver and a blasphemer and the Apostles were called Movers of Sedition Heretiques and turners of the World upside downe by them who professed in word what Christ was in substance and what the Apostles witnessed and so it is now We who are scornefully called Quakers doe live in and declare forth no other thing but the substance of what the Priests have Preached upon and the Professors have talked upon in their carnall mindes by their imaginations He is a false Prophet and a deceiver which hath not the Word from the mouth of the Lord but takes that which the Lord spoke to another and calls it his and useth his Tongue and saith The Lord saith it when the Lord never spoke to him And here are the Teachers of the World themselves guilty of that whereof they falsely accuse us for they take the Prophets words Christs and the Apostles Words to talke upon but have not received the Word from the mouth of the Lord and their Prophesie and Preaching would soon be ended if they had not the Scripture which is other mens Words and that which was spoken to others to speake their imaginations from And these are the false Prophets and Deceivers which runne and are not sent which speake to others pretending to be sent of God but walking contrary to all that ever God sent to declare his Name in former generations and so are knowne to us by their fruits having no example from the Prophets Christ nor his Apostles for their practice but doe walke in the example of the false Prophets of Israel of the Scribes and Pharisces and of the false brethren O foolish people which have eyes and see not which have hearts and doe not understand Is the Lord changed from what he was Were they false Prophets and deceivers in Isayahs time which he was sent to cry out against which sought for their gaine from their quarter and are not your Teachers false Prophets now which act the same things Were they false Prophets and deceivers in Ezekiels time which he was sent to cry against that Fed themselves with the Fat and cloathed themselves with the wooll and made a prey upon the people and are not your Teachers false Prophets and deceivers now which act the same thing Were they false Prophets in Michas time which he was sent to cry out against which Preached for hire and devined for money and cryed peace to them that put into their mouthes but prepared war against them that did not and are not your Priests false Priests and Prophets which act the same things Were they deceivers of the people in Christs time which he cryed woe against which were called of men Masters and which had the chiefe place in the Assemblyes and which stood Praying in the Synagogues and which went in long robes and which loved greetings in the Markets and are not your Teachers deceivers of the people now which are found acting the same things Were they false Teachers and false Brethren in the Apostles time which they declared against which through covetousnesse with fained words made merchandise of the people and went in the way of Balaam for gifts and rewards and Preached for filthy lucre and which Paul saw come comming in his dayes which were proud men coveteous men selfe-willed and fierce men heady high minded men having a Forme of godlinesse but denying the power which alwayes taught people but none were able to come to the knowledge of the truth under their teaching and are not your Teachers false Teachers now which are walking in the same steps To the light in all consciences I doe speake which will witnes the truth A sottish and ignorant people which cannot discerne who the false Prophets and deceivers and false Teachers are the Lord is the same as ever he was and his spirit is no whi● changed Was it once an abomination to the Lord in the false Priests and Prophets of Israel to seek for their gaine from their quarter and to Feed themselves with the Fat and cloathe themselves with the wooll and make a prey upon the people and to Preach for hire and to divine for money and are not these things and they that uphold them abomination to him now Did the spirit of the Lord in his servants declare against these things then and against them that upheld them then and must not the same spirit where it is made manifest declare against these things and against them that uphold them now Was it once an abomination in the sight of Christ in them to be called of men Master and to have the chiefe places in the Assemblyes and to stand praying in the Synagogues c. and are not these things an abomination to him now in whom they are upheld Did Christ cry woe against such things and against them that upheld them then and must not the spirit of Christ where it is made manifest cry woe against such things and against them that uphold them now were these markes of false Teachers then to make merchandise of the people and to goe in the way of Balaam for gifts and rewards and for filthy lucre and to be proud coveteous heady high-minded selfe-willed and fierce men and are not they false Teachers now which beare these markes Did the Apostles give warning to beware of such and to turne away from such then and must not the same spirit where it is made manifest give warning to beware of such and to turne away from such now We witnes to have received according to measure the spirit of the Prophets from which they spoke and the spirit of the Apostles from which they spoke which is Christ made manifest in us and happy are all they that receive our testimony For by the same spirit of Christ doe we declare against these abominations now as the holy men of God did then For God and his spirit is the same as ever was and what he once hated he hates for ever and no other Christ doe we declare forth which we witnes to be made manifest within but that Christ which dyed at Jerusalem which suffered by the Chiefe Priests and Elders of the people he was and is the true Christ which said He was the light of the world and was the light which had enlightened every one that comes into the world and which said Except a man would deny the world and take up his dayly Crosse and follow him he could not be his Disciple and which cryed woe against them which were called of men Masters and that had the chiefe places in the Assemblyes and that stood praying in the Synagogues c. and they who denyed him to be the light of the world and which took not up the Crosse and which were called of men Masters and had the chiefest places in the Assemblyes and stood praying in the Synagogues and went in long robes these were Anti-Christs and were acted by a contrary spirit then the true

Christ And here againe I charge all the Teachers and people in the presence of the Lord God who doe deny Christ to be the light in every one which reproves for sin and who are called of men Masters and stand Praying in the Synagogues and goe in long robes and who uphold such things and who take not up the dayly Crosse of Christ but live at liberty in their wills and desires that they are Anti-Christs and that their spirit is not the spirit of the true Christ which dyed at Jerusalem but the spirit of a false Christ and so they are guilty of that themselves whereof they falsely accuse us and the same Christ doe we witnes which the saints of old witnessed whose blood cleansed them from all sin and in whose power they had power over sin death and hell And here again I charge the Teachers and people who say that the saints must not be cleansed from sin nor cease to commit sin while they are on the Earth that the Christ which they possesse is not the Christ which dyed at Jerusalem but a spirit contrary and not the Christ which the saints witnessed and all the people are blinde which cannot see these things Did the true Christ once say He was the light of the World of every man that comes into the World and is that his spirit in the Teachers and Professors now which saith Every man hath not the light of Christ in them Was that the true Christ which said Except you take up my Crosse dayly you cannot be my Disciple and is that his spirit in the Teachers and people that hath its liberty and live in pride in lust and in vanity and their own vvills Was that the true Christ which cryed woe against them that were called of men Master and that had the chiefe place in the Assemblyes and stood praying in the Synagogues c. and is that his spirit in the Teachers and people which act and uphold those things Was that the true Christ which the saints witnessed by whose blood they were cleansed from sin and had power over sin and is that his spirit in the Teachers and people which saith the saints must not be cleansed from sin nor cease to commit sin while they are on Earth Oh blinde and ignorant people who cannot discerne between the true Christ and Anti-christ which is contrary to Christ and which leades now to act and speak contrary to what the true Christ once acted and spoake And no other Gospel do we Preach but that which the Apostle Preached which they received not from nor by man but by the revelation of Jesus Christ which was contrary to man and which suffered by man for the Preaching of it who Preached to the spirit in prison to redeeme the captives and by which the fleshly man was judged in the flesh that man might live according to God in spirit And this Gospel we witnes to have received not from man but by the revelation of Iesus Christ which is contrary to man for which we are persecuted and suffer by man neither doe we speake to the wisedome and reason but we preach to the spirits in prison that the fleshly man may be judged in the flesh that man may live according to God in the spirit this will many witnes with us that by the preaching of our Gospel liberty is brought to the captives and the fleshly man is judged and the spirit which was in prison is set free And here again I charge the teachers of this generation that their Gospel which they Preach is not the Gospel which the saints preached but another Gospel and they are guilty of that themselves whereof they falsely accuse us for they have received their Gospel from man and by man from the Printers and Stationers and are made Ministers of it by the will of man at Schooles and Vniversities and their Preaching is in the will of man a limited time and place neither doe they suffer by man but are set up with man and seed the wisedome and reason of man and the fleshly man is not judged nor the captives redeemed by their Gospel which they Preach here they are accursed which Preach another Gospel according to the Scripture And ye are a blinde and ignorant people which cannot see these things Did they that Preached the true Gospel receive it contrary to the will of man and can it now be received by the will of man Did they which Preached it suffer for it by man and can they now who Preach it be set up by man who lives in the same persecuting nature Did the true Gospel once judge the fleshly man and leade to live according to God in the spirit and do●h it now give liberty to the fleshly man to live after the Flesh in the lusts of it as the Teachers and professors of this generation doe who profes the Gospel but are discovered not to be come to the Law And the Scriptures we own to be a true Declaration of the life which they lived in which spoke them forth and by the same spirit from which they were spoken which we have received doe we set to our Seales that they are true and the Scripture is ours who walke in the life of it proud men spoke it not forth nor they that sought for their gaine from their quarter nor they that Preached for hire nor they that were called of men Master but persecuted them that spoke it forth and denyed it And here againe I charge it upon the Teachers and professors of this generation that they deny the Scripture and are guilty of that themselves whereof they falsely accuse us For they say None must be perfect upon the Earth when as the Scripture declares of such as were perfect And they say None must be free from sinne when as the Scripture declares of such as were free from sinne and were the servants of righteousnesse They say Christ hath not enlightened every one The Scripture saith He is the light of the World and hath lightened every one c. Can they now who live in the same persecuting nature and walke in the same steps as they did which persecuted them who spoke forth the Scripture as the Teachers and people doe owne the Scriptures in truth Their professing of the Scripture is as theirs was which made a great profession of it in the outward appearance but put him to death who had the life and was the substance of it They then as the Teachers of the world doe now denyed the spirit and life which gave forth the Scriptures And the Ordinances of Jesus Christ we owne and witnesse Preaching Praying Baptisme Communion Singing and whatsoever was ordained for his Saints to practice in life and power we witnesse these things in the Eternall substance having passed through the Earthly figures which was but to stand for its time by the Eternall have we been led by the command of it within us and not by