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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	believe_v	faith_n	scripture_n	6,364	5	6.0991	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B04785	A letter to Mr Penn with his answer.	Popple, William, d. 1708.; Penn, William, 1644-1718.	1688 (1688)	Wing P2964A; ESTC R187006	11,830	11

to God as they are to blow them up and set them one against another But indeed those only can have that pure and pious Zeal who are themselves turned to God and have tasted the sweetness of that Conversion which is to Power not Form to Godliness not Gain Such as those do bend their thoughts and pains to appease not increase Heats and Animosities to exhort People to look at home sweep their own Houses and weed their own Gardens And in no Age or Time was there more need to set men to work in their own Heart than this we live in when so busie wandering unruly and licentious a Spirit prevails For whatever some men may think The Disease of this Kingdom is Sin Impiety against God and want of Charity to men And while this Guilt lies at our Door Judgment cannot be far off Now this being the Disease I will briefly offer two things for Cure of it The first is Davids clean Heart and right Spirit which he ask'd and had of God. Without this we must be a Chaos still For the Distemper is within and our Lord said All Evil comes from thence Set the inward Man right and the outward man cannot be wrong That is the Helm that governs the humane Vessel And this nothing can do but an inward Principle the Light and Grace that came by Christ which the Scripture tells us Enlightens every one and has appeared to all men It is preposterous to think that he who made the World should show least care of the best part of it our Souls No he that gave us an outward Luminary for our Bodies hath given us an inward one for our Minds to act by We have it And 't is our Condemnation that we don't love it and bring our Deeds to it 'T is by this we see our Sins are made sensible of them sorry for them and finally forsake them And he that thinks to go to Heaven a nearer way will I fear belate his Soul and be irreparably mistaken There are but Goats and Sheep at last whatever shapes we wear here Let 's not therefore Dear Friend deceive our selves Our Souls are at Stake God won't be mocked What we sow we must expect to reap There is no Repentance in the Grave which shows that if not there then no where else To sum up this Divinity of mine It is the Light of Jesus in our Souls that gives us a true sight of our selves and that Sight that leads us to Repentance which Repentance begets Humility and Humility that true Charity that covers a multitude of Faults which I call God's Expedient against man's Infirmity The second Remedy to our present Distemper is this Since All of all Parties profess to believe in God Christ the Spirit and Scripture that the Soul is Immortal that there are Eternal Rewards and Punishments and that the Vertuous shall receive the one and the Wicked suffer the other I say since this is the common Faith of Christendom let us all resolve in the strength of God to live up to what we agree in before we fall out so miserably about the rest in which we differ I am perswaded the Change and Comfort which that pious course would bring us to would go very far to dispose our Natures to compound easily for all the rest and we might hope yet to see happy days in poor England for there I would have so good a Work begun And how it is possible for the Eminent Men of every religious Perswasion especially the present Ministers of the Parishes of ENGLAND to think of giving an Account to God at the last day without using the utmost of their Endeavours to moderate the members of their respective Communions towards those that differ from them is a Mystery to me But this I know and must lay it at their Doors as I charge also my own Soul with it God requires Moderation and Humility from us For he is at hand who will not spare to judge our Impatiency if we have no Patience for one another The Eternal God rebuke I beseech him the wrath of man and humble All under the sense of the Evil of this day and yet unworthy as we are give us Peace for his holy Name 's sake It is now time to end this Letter and I will do it without saying any more than this Thou seest my Defence against popular Calumny Thou seest what my thoughts are of our Condition and the way to better it and thou seest my hearty and humble Prayer to Almighty God to incline us to be wise if it were but for our own sakes I shall only add that I am extreamly sensible of the Kindness and Justice intended me by my Friends on this Occasion and that I am for that and many more reasons with great Truth and Esteem TEDDINGTON October the 24th 1688. Thy obliged and affectionate Friend W. P. POSTSCRIPT ONe thing in reference to my self I forgot to mention I have been by some people with great art rendred powerful that I might be made guilty at least obnoxious which hath often drawn from me this Expression to my Acquaintance I have all the Inconvenience of a man of Power and Interest but nothing of the reallity or advantage of that Character One thing I will say and end I must do as I would be done by and cannot with fine Distinctions or popular Humor absolve my self from that Duty for I thank God I am what I was and will be what I am with his help let the World say what it will Farewel W. P. FINIS