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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	accuser_n	false_a	good_a	58	3	2.1572	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A88815	The Antichristian Presbyter: or, Antichrist transformed; Assuming the nevv shape of a Reformed Presbyter, as his last and subtlest disguise to deceive the nations. / By Richard Laurence, Marshal-Generall.	Lawrence, Richard, d. 1684.	1647 (1647)	Wing L674; Thomason E370_22; ESTC R201297	13,810	23

denyed the resurrection Acts 23.8 1 Cor. 15.12 such as were so farre from calling the Apostles Rabby or Master that they called Christ himselfe Belzebub and the Apostles deceevers and bablers thought them unworthy to live upon the earth Acts 17.18 Acts 22.22 such as had seducing spirits tast doctrines of devills speaking lyes in hypocrisie 1 Tim. 4.2 Boasters proud Blasphemers without naturall affection Truce-breakers false accusers incontinent fierce despisers of all good 2 Tim. 2.3.4 such as held damnable heresies even denying the Lord that bought them 2 Pet. 2.1 And yet no persecution no imprisoning hanging nor burning If thou or any that tells them it is lawfull to destroy men for not believing can but shew me out of the word of God where the time place or person where Christ or the Apostles or any after them we have ground to take example by did endeavour by any outward compulsion to force men to believe or punish any further then excommunication for not walking in the faith receised when they have done if they can procure me letters I will away to Damascus presently But this was never the practise of Christ and his Church But of Antichrist and his tribe it is they that are guilty of all the blood spilt in this kind from Abel to this present day It is not the spouse of Christ that cometh up from the wildernesse leaning upon her beloved Cant. 8.5 But that great Scarlet whore that comes riding upon the beast with whom the Kings of the earth haue committed fornication and the Inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication Rev. 17.12 which is the blood of the Saints and Martyrs of Jesus vers 6. Not the Lamb slaine from the begining of the world But they which have been alwayes slaying the Lamb. Not the Shepard that have thus destroyed the Sheepe But the wolfe whose nature it is to destroy not from that God that so loved the world that he gave his Son but from the Divell which is come downe into the earth with great wrath having but a short time Now reader if there be nothing here discover'd but what you knew before consider it was never intended for thee but to informe the ignorant and conforme the weak to be a light to such as are blinded with the smoke that ascends out of the bottomlesse pit Rev. 9.2 from whence arose this High Priest Antichrist with all his tribe vers 3. compared with the 11. who are scattered up and downe this Kingdom endeavouring to deceive and destroy the people whose way of deceiving you shall finde to be after this manner to perswade the people that the Parliament had no cause to wage warre with the King at the first In answer to which I have pend the first part of my discourse and where that will not take then they transforme themselves into the shape or likenesse of Presbyters and then endeavour to perswade the people the Parliament are most of them Sectaries and that they with the rest of the Sectaries of the Kingdome in whom they conclude all the Parliament friends whether Presbyters or Independents will have no Church-Government but put down all religion as they call it Which baite is not onely taking with the scandalous and ignorant but with many knowing people because Church-Government is not for the present setled In answer to which I have endeavoured to shew the unfitnes of the generality of this Kingdom for Church-Government with some briefe discoveries of their Presbyterian practises and some probabilities of their ends and designes My end in penning of it is onely this to let all Syons friends see that the enemies of their peace have no such way to destroy them as to become some thing like unto them And that however they are now separated one from another by names of opinions Yet if they be Christs then are they Abrahams Seed and heires according to promise And though they be not all baptised into one Church fellowship or way of worship yet they are all baptised into that one body of which Christ is the head by that one eternall spirit and so are Members one of another 1 Cor. 12.13 And are thereby all imbarqu't in one Ship and must all sink or swim together So desiring thee what thou findest to be truth in it it may not fare the worse for the rudenesse of the style I referre it to your consi●eration and shall ever be yours in the Kingdomes Cause R. L. FINIS