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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	accusation_n	accuse_v	accuser_n	18	3	10.3597	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A85134	A confession and profession of faith in God: by his people who are inscorn [sic] called Quakers. Also shewing that the people of God are no vagabonds, nor idle, dissolute persons, nor Jesuites, though they wander up and down, and pass from one country to another, and from one nation to another, as they are moved of the Lord in his service. And this is to clear the truth from all false aspersions. By R. Farnsvvorth.	R. F. (Richard Farnworth), d. 1666.	1659 (1659)	Wing F478; Thomason E935_1; ESTC R202127	17,443	18

God and want discerning he may turn his sword against that which it is to defend and preserve where it is not born in vain and for want of discerning and being gone astray as aforesaid may nourish vice and profanenes so be a discourager of them that do well and an encourager of them that do evil if he know not the power of God or be erred from the same and have not his soul in subjection to it That he may know them that in the power of God have their souls subjected thereunto and are doing good by vertue of the same and abstaining also from evil in all its appearances Therefore whosoever resisteth the power of God by which his ministers of justice are ordained to rule for him they resist the ordinance of God and shall receive to themselves damnation Rom 13.1 2 3 4. And to that power and ordinance of God are we subject for conscience sake Rom 13.5 And the Law is good if a man use it lawfully Knowing this that the Law is not made for the punishment of a righteous man but for the lawless and disobedient for the ungodly and for sinners for unholy and profane for murderers for manslayers for whoremongers for them that defile themselves with mankind for men-stealers for lyars for perjured persons and such like being the fruits of the flesh and as you may read 1 Tim 1.8 9 10. Galat 5.18 19 20 21. But the fruit of the spirit is love peace long-suffering gentleness goodness faith meekness and temperance against which there is no Law as you may read Gal 5.22 Gal 5.24 25 26. 23. And they that are Christs have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts and are neither desirous of vain glory nor of provoking and envying one another ver 24 26. Written the 3. day of the 10. month commonly called Decemb 1657. Who are no Idle Wandering Dissolute Persons nor Jesuites and who are no Vagabonds c. SVch as are moved and directed and commanded by the Lord God and his Spirit to go and declare his mind and will by the Assistance and according to the appointment thereof though they goe from one Nation and Country to another accordingly as aforesaid yet notwithstanding they are neither Idle Wandering Dissolute persons nor Iesuites nor Vagabonds Abraham was called out of his Fathers house Gen 12.4 Read Ge. 12. ch Gen 13. c. and native place to go abroad according to the directions of the Lord and did so and were as a stranger and sojourner in a strange Land yet he were neither an Idle wandering dissolute person nor Jesuite nor Vagabond no more are his seed now though falsely they are accused to be so Moses went down into Egypt from Midian Exod 3.1 Exo 38.9 c. where he had been a keeper of Jethro 's sheep to do the will of the Lord yet he were neither an idle wandering person nor a Jesuite or Vagabond though Pharaoh the king then of Egypt falsly accused the servants of the Lord to be idle fellows or to take the people off from their work And Pharaoh the king regarded not the words of the Lords messengers but accounted them vain and as the false accusing spirit did then so doth it now though the persons guided thereby profess more then Pharaoh did and accuseth them to be idle wandring dissolute persons or Jesuites and Vagabonds that are not no more then Moses the servant of the Lord was then Elijah the servant of the Lord was not an idle wandring dissolute person nor a Jesuit nor Vagabond Exod 5 4.5 6 7 8 9 vers c. though he passed much up and down the country in obedience to the Lord and went to beg or ask som relief of the widow of Sarepta And if any of the Lords messengers should do so now would not this generation of men accuse them for running wandring abroad a begging so accuse them to be idle wandring dissolute persons and vagabonds and troublers of the Nation Did not king Ahab then king of Israel accuse the said Elijah the servant of the Lord falsly and say he was his enemy a troubler of Israel but it was not so viz. That he was a troubler of Israel but of the wicked Therefore the servant of the Lord 1 King 19. ch 1 King 17.10 11. to cast off the false accusation charged upon him by the king and to clear his own innocency said to the king that it was he viz. the king and his Fathers house that was so even the troublers of Israel the people of the Lord And so the false accusing spirit in this generation is apt to charge the Servants of the Lord falsly to seek to lay upon them that which the accusers themselves are guilty of as Ahab and his fathers house was when the innocency of the innocent though falsly accused is clear and stands justified in the sight and account of the Lord. The Disciples of Christ sent forth by his own power when he were personally amongst them was commanded to go abroad in the Countreys to the lost sheep of the house of Israel Mat. 10.5 6. Mat. 10.9 10. and forbidden taking thought what to eat drink or put on and commanded to take neither silver nor gold nor brass in their purses yet they was no idle wandring dissolute persons nor Iesuites nor Vagabonds But if any be sent of the Lord now and forbidden to take any silver or gold in their purses This generation would be ready to accuse them to be idle wandering dissolute persons mad men Vagabonds might not the Disciples that Christ so sent have objected and said Lord how shall we do to be provided for when we come amongst Strangers and in other Countries if we must not take any Silver nor Gold nor Brasse in our Purses had we not better take Silver and Gold Brasse in our Purses that we may make provision thereby for ourselves when we come amongst Strangers so stop their mouthes rather then to rely upon them will not they be ready to say These are idle loose fellowes mad men and Vagabonds that wanders about to live upon other mens labours and cannot otherwise tell how to get a living They neither have Silver nor Gold nor Brasse in their Purses do any that have meanes to live on go out thus when they are to go into farr Contries and amongst Strangers except they be idle wandering dissolute persons and Vagabonds such as have no Silver nor Gold to take in their Purses yet notwithstanding the Disciples of Christ that were so sent as aforesaid were neiher idle wandering dissolute persons nor Jesuits nor Vagabonds No more are the Servants of Chrst though they may so go now in obedience to the command and councell of Christ yet this generation of men are ready to accuse them to be idle wandering dissolute persons or Jesuits or Vagabonds as that generation of men accused the said servants of