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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	body_n	member_n	soul_n	7,274	5	5.4826	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A88837	The lip of truth opened, against a dawber with untempered morter. A few words against a book, written by Magnus Bine priest, in the county of Sussex, which he calls, The scornful quakers answered, &c. But he himself is found the scorner, and the lyer, charging me with things I never spoke, nor never entered into my heart to speak. / Tho. Lawson.	Lawson, Thomas, 1630-1691.	1656 (1656)	Wing L725; Thomason E889_9; ESTC R206504	49,355	60

Scriptures cries against Thou speaks as if none come to be as they ought to be but thou being in covetous practises judges with evil thoughts he that abides in Christ sins not 1 John 3.6 but this thou cannot believe but wrests it though to thy own destruction if thou should own that which leads out of sin it would divide thee from thy two parish tyth which thorough covetousness and feigned words thou hast got and for sin Satans image thou stands up hast thou not read in the Law that Israel was not to wear a garment of divers sorts as of linnen and wollen together Deut. 22.11 thou art professing Christ the end of the Law but when the Law comes thou shall be reproved for the garment thou wears and pleads for who would have new cloth put into an old garment which must not be being an Aethiopi● an thou pleads for thy black skin which thou would not have plucked off so in this I leave thee who hast the cheif feat in the Assembly a mark to know a Pharisee by Matth. 23.6 Again in as much as it is said every sin that is committed is without the body 1 Cor. 6.10 thou saith by body in that place is meant the outward fabrick of every man in particular I answer Then if the hands be clean then it makes no matter of the heart if the outside of the cup and platter be made clean it matters not how full of filth it be within if onely that be sin which is committed without the outward fabrick of mans body as thou cals it then he that hates his brother is not a murderer or else hatred is not a sin 1 John 3.15 this hatred is within the fabrick as thou cals it so thou art yet to learn what sin is and thou art so far from seeing transgression blotted out as that thou knows not what and where it is and the Lord by his Prophets cried against such as set up Idols in their hearts was this a thing sinful yea or nay though within the fabrick of mans body as thou cals it So in this thing I leave thee giving thee Reader intelligence of an other mark of a Pharisee which thou bears that is to say thou loves greeting in the Markets Matth 23.7 and in other places and reproaches such as deny your heathenish words and compares them to Horses and Mules who abide in the doctrine of Christ Luke 10 4. yet this is not against the salvation of the Saints which we own Again thou sayes I make a rent from Christ and a rent from his members crying out of one member he is a Baptist of another he is a Presbiter of another he is a Priest so I own not every member in its place and look not upon that baptism which is one in all the Sons of God Page 45. Answ Christ hath no such members as thee thou that lives in covetous practises in folly and selfishness as thou confesses thou art a member of the Harlot which is out of the truth which is flesh and so thou brings forth fruits of the flesh according to the nature of that thou art joyned to and from Christ and his members thou art divided by following self which leads into covetous practises and before thou was crying up such to be Saints as live in rage and violence now thou art crying up such to be members of Christ who what one sets up another seeks to throw down and are ready to devour one another about their opinions and though in words thou deny the Ranters yet thou art giving about thee their dregs to make people drunk and every member in its place I own a sitting together in heavenly places in Christ I own Ephes 2.6 the lowest place here keeps out of pollutions and limmits that which leads into division and strife ye are the body of Christ and members in particular 1 Cor. 12 27. said Paul to the Saints in the body is no Schism 1 Cor. 12.25 but this is it thou aims at that though thou bring forth fruits of the flesh which is the Harlot yet thou would have people believe thou art a member of Christ and pleads against his doctrine and the baptism by one spirit into one body we own 1 Cor. 12 13. but in this one spirit the one heart one mind and one soul is witnessed Acts 4.32 Ephes 4.3 in the spirit is no jar strife nor division thy ignorance of the one baptism appears to all that be in the light Thou sayes In the Lord every member is compleat but look upon the member it self there we find it liable to all manner of infirmities yea to fin too Page 46. I answer Who is in the Lord Old things are done away all things become new 2 Cor. 5 17. Such are his members who in him abide and such sin not as saith the Scripture 1 J●hn 3.6 and such grow up to the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ Ephes 4.13 and self is denied and such as are in self are members of the Harlot such live in pride in covetousness which is thy practise such live in sin and plead for it such are members of the evil one who brings forth sin in them as saith the Scriptures he that committeth sin is of the devil 1 John 3.8 so read whose member thou art and how blind art thou to tell of a member it self or a member in self when as such as are members of Christ self is denied Christ and self are the two Masters which no man can serve but thou would do it and would be members of them both in that thou tels of the fruits of the Spirit yet sin must be committed what each one lives in a member of that he is and fruits accordingly are brought forth the wise cannot but see thee Thou sayes thou owns the Lamb in all the Sons of God even in those who cannot own the Lamb in thee Page 50. I answer Thy owning the Sons of God now appears who art pushing with thy horn against them and publishes lies against them to the Nations laying to their charge things they never spoke as Davids enemies did who dragon like would devour them in whom the just birth is brought forth what Lamb is it thou owns who pleads for sin which Christ the Lamb comes to take away who pleads to be called Master which Christ the Lamb of God forbad thy covers cannot hide thee and the Sons of God are in unity without jar or strife are one with that in thy conscience which thou makes merry over and again art pouring out thy ranting stuffe Thou sayes We make Saviours one of another Page 50. I answer The Lord will plead with thee for thy lies who as a running stream pours forth the poyson of asps which is under thy lips our Saviour is but one Jesus a Prince of whom Moses in the Law and the Prophets did write Emanuel by interpretation God with us yet Saviours

conscious of errors and sins I confess there was a time when Paul said I know that in my flesh dwels no good thing Rom. 7 18. but then he was a wretched man this was in his warfare but there was a time when flesh was crucified with the affections and lusts Gal 5 24. and he was crucified with Christ and Christ lived in him Gal 2 20. he was no wretched man then when the law rose up in him sin and flesh appeared and was strong and led him captive and he was a wretched man condemned by the righteous law written in the heart which shewed him sin and made him cry out who shall deliver Rom 7. now there was a time when he said he hath delivered Col 1.13 then no more who shall who shall but he hath he hath if thou had been of God thou would have seen thorough his several conditions he passed thorough he became dead to the Law Gal 2 19 so to sin for while man sins the Law is added and though there was a time when he cried out of sin and death Rom 7. yet there was a time when sin and death he was freed from Rom 8.2 and he was more than a conquer or and death was abolished 2 Tim 1 10 even that death which before he complained of then who shall lay any thing to the charge of Gods elect death being abolished it is God that justifieth who is he that condemneth Rom. 8.33 34. now thou art charging such with errors and sins and Job was a just and a perfect man and he abhorred self and covetous practises which thou lives in Job 1 1. Job 42.5 6. and David overcome with a temptation he cried for a new heart a clean heart Psal 51.10 he found no peace till a clean heart was restored to him and did not plead for the old heart nor the works thereof as thou dost Again thou sayes Pauls trembling brought such a peircing sight with it that ever afterwards he saw a body of corruption a fleshly part in him sighting and carrying him forth many times to the law of sin Page 69. I answer That of God in all consciences shall witness against thee as it rises that all thy pleading is for deceit sometime for mastership which Christ forbad for tyth which he put an end unto sometime for unnecessary clothing and much for sin and Sow-like thou would have filth and mire to wallow in and thy speech of Pauls is a lie who saith ever after his trembling he saw a body of corruption c. his words is a witness against thee so would make people believe he sowed to the flesh for such reap corruption but he sowed to the spirit and reaped life Gal. 2.10 Christ the life lived in him and Paul witnessed a freeing from death and corruption and death was abolished Ro. 8.2 2 Tim. 1 10. and flesh was crucified and in that thou saies still fighting that 's a lie he came to be more than a Conquerour Rom. 8 in Christ who abolished death thus with evil thoughts thou art judging the Apostle and looking upon him to be as one of thy Saints as thou calls them who live in rage violence and imaginations which are heathen Thou saies Away with fleshly bodily litteral Trembling and quivering terming it to be Belshazzars trembling or a fit of Mahomet when the falling evil fell upon him c. page 70. Or like a man possessed with the Devil I answer Oh that ever people should be so bewitched as to follow thee and such like who gets thy living with trading with the words of the holy men of God which were spoken forth freely and blasphemes and reviles that which they witnessed what if thou had seen David roaring his flesh trembling Psal 119.120 or Ieremiah all his bones shaking he like a drunken man Ier. 23.9 and Iob trembling all his bones shaking Iob 4 14. Habbakkuk trembling and his lips quivering Hab. 3.17 What if thou had seen these would thou have told them or the Nations to make them odious in the eyes thereof that their trembling was like a fit of Mahomet when the falling evil fell upon him or that they were like men possessed with Devils I know thou art seared and past feeling you that are his hearers take heed how you hold up such a one who as a bruit beast speaks evil of the thing he knows not and when thou hast filled up the measure of thine iniquity the Lord will cut the off who speaks evill of his power and them that are witnesses of it Thou bids me prove that the Priests were to maintain the Fatherless Widdows and Strangers page 73. I answer Thou may read that out of the Tyth such were to be maintained Deut. 14.28 29. and that by Commandment from the Lord they had as much property to their share in Tyth as the Levite and your selfishness herein appears in crying up your own property in and to Tyth but as for the fatherless widdow and strangers their property to Tyth I never heard Priest plead for and their property was as absolute to Tyth as the Levites as the Scripture declares so that if from the Commandment under the Law you could prove Tyth your property then were it also the property of the fatherless widdow and strangers then may it be truly said of you there is not a Tything Priest in England that pleads the cause of the fatherless widdow and strangers The first Priesthood took Tyth by a Law Heb. 7. and by a Commandment but the Law is changed and the Commandement dissanulled by Christ Jesus and that he confirmed it by a Law to his Ministry he sent forth this remains for you to prove but thou bids me prove that the Priests was to maintain the fatherless c. thou sot was not Israel a Kingdom of Priests as Gods Covenant they kept Exod. 19.6 and Shelemiah the Priest and others distributed to the brethren Nehe. 13.13 the Scripture mentions a teaching Priest and the several Tythings according to the Scriptures in their places I own Thou saies I that deny Tyth to be the Ministers due am a Robber of God Prov. 3.9 Mall 3.8 I answer thou runs far to plead for the wages of unrighteousness in the time of the Law Tyth was an Ordinance so who denied to pay it robbed God but Christ is come and hath put an end to the Law Priesthood Commandment and the hand-writing of Ordinances he blotted out Heb. 7.12 18. Col. 2.14 and the Ordinance for the Priesthood and for the Tyth was in the hand-writing written with the hand he blotted out and that he ordained Tyth again to the twelve seventy or Apostles this prove else it s not your due but thou tells me I am guilty of Ananias his sin in speaking against your Tyth I answer Ananias his not giving Tyth to the hireling Priest was not his sin nor his not giving Tyth to the Apostles but his lying Acts 5.1 2 3 4 5. for said