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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	faith_n	true_a	work_n	6,989	5	6.0140	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A44838	The Common-wealtsh's [sic] remembrancer for discovery of the disturbers of her peace with a loving reproof to such offendors and a caveat to others to beware of them / by a friend to peace with truth and true liberty, R.H.	Hubberthorn, Richard, 1628-1662.	1659 (1659)	Wing H3222A; ESTC R6707	26,466	36

of the same faith Children of Abraham at this day being led by his spirit and fitted with wisdome and great Power for his spirituall work in this his notable day wherein his Angels appear spirits and his true Ministers a flame of fire in all Lands thereby reproving the world of sin righteousness and judgement gathering the Wheat into his Garner and burning the chaffe with unquenchable fire even his day wherein the armies of heaven follow him crushing down and breaking in pieces every high thought lofty look and deceitfull thing that exalteth it self against the Kingdome of Christ and cannot worship you nor any Idols that you set up be they never so fair or well-favoured but as Christs sheep should greatly rejoice to hear his voice in any of you but your strange voice they may not hear nor can own your Pharisaicall holinesse your mock-fasts for strife and debate your railing accusations cursing those that came in the name of the Lord or other abominable practices which you exercise your selves in without any respect or Reverence to truth because contrary to what is strained through your muddy brains wherewith you have so defiled the Nations that the workers of iniquity have no more knowledge but to run violently at your becks upon the Lords people to devour them as a man would eat bread to condemn and kill the just that resist not even the able Ministers of the new Testament not of the Letter but of the spirit though some otherwise unlearned men whereby they approve themselves to every mans Conscience in the sight of God in Afflictions Tumults Stripes Imprisonments Labours c. Do not your hearts smart within you in thinking on the dolefull and deadly Kne●s you have rung and caused others to ring over this Common-Wealth and yet do ever seeking to put the people upon Acts of violence one against another thereby taking peace from the earth under colour of advising some to take heed of being deceived by others when that of God in your Consciences will tell you that it is by your Inventions they are deceived that you do or say therein being not for very love to God and their souls but for other ends then his Service and how instead of being a sweet savour to God as also in them that believe and to them that perish you are become an evil savour and stinch upon the face of the earth in so much that it is sore burthened with you and can you be so blind as not to see it or not to think it high time for you to live quietly as sober minded men work with your hands and eat your own bread and permit others to do so likewise or the Magistrate to prevent such Acts of violence as many of you have and yet do occasion that those who have not yielded obedience to the light and Law within are to be governed by a Law without and they that observe the Royall Law and live of the Gospel freely in all places to preach the Gospel Would you have all people to believe that as you buy Learning Languages and Arts for money at Schools that so therewith also you receive the Gift of the Holy Ghost and after that having laid your hands one upon another and are placed in Parishes what you have or shall find out invent and compose as from books and so take mony to tell of or teach others is the Word of God to them for salvation of their souls or would you have it believed that you have any rule for what you do and teach save onely your own or other mens meanings and interpretations of the Words and Writings of the Prophets Christ and his Disciples as recorded in the Scriptures which you make use of as the chief instrument of your Trade or Craft to get mony by therewith beguiling unstable Souls that cannot cease from Sinne I pray you consider what else doth it avail you to Read Hear Study Invent Compose and contend about words while you abide in the Enmity against God and Wrathfulnesse of the Earthly Nature Will and Wisdome even of that spirit which led Gain to slay his brother Because his own deeds were evil and his brothers good the Jews to crucifie Christ and stone Stephen and all the bloody persecutors in the Antichristian state to torment slay burn and massacre the bodies of all the Martyrs and that onely for the word of God the testimony of Jesus and those persecutors not being able to resist the wisdome of the Holy Spirit by which they spake it being the very same spirit in you that hath occasioned some of you to cause such and so many vile things to be done as would make a mans ears even tingle to hear tell of which is the cause why you are generally in so great confusion so ignorant of your duties to God and man and of the people that are the Worlds Scorn that bear the vessels and name of the Lord at this day and why you conclude your selves and others are to continue in your sins be of an erroneous and fallible spirit while in these Bodies of flesh c. Must you indeed contiuue in sinne remain sinners of the Gentiles or worse for as it is written He that commits sinne is of the Devil whhile so what ground Rule or Reason have you to suppose people should believe you or hearken to your Talk or Methodicall Forms of words more then unto others can that be good and pleasing to God that is mixt with sin and performed by sinners that take part with the evil one Gods enemy Doth any unclean thing come near his dwelling or did not Christ Jesus come to destroy the works of the Devil and bring in an eversasting Rrighteousnesse Be not alwayes slow of heart to believe what is written these your inventions shall certainly and speedily come to an end Babylon shall fall and never rise again and therefore come out of her make hast tarry not nor say within your selves Shall we confesse our ignorance of what we have so long laboured about preached and contendded for as the Gospel of Christ and for which we have received so great yearly Incomes from the people Shall we bring so great a shame upon our selves our Office and Ministry as to say we have been so long deceived and deluded and deceived so many peoples Souls that trusted to us and ou Doctrine and thereby occasion every one to sleight contemn and despise us Must we lose all part with all or not be Christs Disciples Learn to labour and live like other men This is an hard saying who can bear it c. Now at your perils be it whether you hear or forbear you have been plainly dealt with and if for all this you remain obstinate not willing to become fools for Christs sake that you may become wise unto him not willing to set aside all your ornaments of Learning Arts and naturall part and stand single unto him that he may know what

Gospel of Peace when they stirred up strife and prepared for War and in stead of assisting in Government been the disquieters of mens minds disturbers of publick Peace hinderers of Rulers in the making and due execution of Righteous Laws have not this sort of men been the causers of Sects Schismes Heresies and Divisions and the means whereby Governours and Governments have been changed with great hazard charge and trouble to you when not suitable to their dispositions and intentions and is not this their compliance with and pretending to assist Magistrates and do good to peoples Souls their great Engine of Deceit whereby they invent and contrive your Troubles and carry on their subtil and crafty Designs under specious pretences solemn formalities and ceremonies without spirit or life Now let the wise in heart judge who in Authority or otherwise have received any good by them or their Counsels and whence else should your troubles have had their Rise the King have so raised his Army or came by his Fall as he did and others in somewhat a different manner before and since and contrarily what peace and concord was in the Parliaments faithfull and unanimous Army in scorn called New Noddle when this sort of men had least to do therein most imployed themselves in railings thereat Doth the Lord God change or do changes in Governours or Governments alter his mind or the way of his Worship and Service or is his fear truly taught by the Precepts of men or are his Ministers subject to changes as Governments change from Popery to Prelacy from Prelacy again to Popery to Protestanisme Presbytery Independency c. hurrying people as it were headlong sometimes one way and sometimes another thereby driving all as into confusion and causing such to become sad sufferers that follow them not therein Consider whether these will be sufficient Arguments to justifie before the Lord Jesus Christ at his appearing in his glory and pure power to render to every man according to his Deeds it is most manifest that Christs Ministers would have rather suffered and do willingly suffer at this day the spoiling of their goods imprisonments and bodily death rather then yield to any such vile affections in themselves or others Consider also who enforced any of this sort of men or what necessitated them to become such violent persecutors of consciencious men by the names of Puritans Precisians Separatists non-Conformists Brownists Anabaptists Seekers Quakers c. to commence and prosecute such and so many vexatious suits against their Patrons Parishioners and others to hast so earnestly into each others livings and turning Wives and children forth of doors to get augmentations unto their former Benefices to run from a lesse to a greater Benefice to seek and take Pluralities to intrap men by Oaths and Covenants to revile and speak evil of persons in Authority to force mens goods from them without consideration or such contract made with them or such mens owning them in their deceitfull practices to cause such and so many disturbances in the Nations or to become so Nabal-like that a man may not speak to them what Rules or directions are to be found in Scriptures which they say is their Rule for these things c The restraining of this sort of men from making disturbances by medling with State matters or otherwise from a forcible taking of mens goods that for Conscience sake disapprove of their practises and leaving the said men in equal condition with others to prove their Doctrines by their deeds according-to the Scriptures as also clearly ascertaining your other Rights and Liberties and securing you therein might be a safe speedy and honourable way of proceeding in the cure of the yet unhealed wounds Ruptures and distempers of this Common-Wealth And now to your Omen herein about others concerned consider soberly of your respective wayes and workings to accomplish your own ends what your aims are and how evilly you have required the Lord God and this people of these Nations for all the good things done for you your Wives and Children for I deal plainly with you in love to your souls and bodies and desire to manifest that I have no hatred to any mans person nor can be free to let sin lie upon your souls but put you and others in mind of your former miscarriages and reprove you soberly as the onely Lord God the righteous Judge of all the earth hath commanded me who is now shaking not the earth onely but the heavens also that the things which cannot be shaken may remain wherefore deal plainly truly and faithfully with him and your souls be willing at last to hearken to the voice of Christ in his true light in your Consciences bring all your deeds to that light which never did doth or can deceive you in any thing but as diligent heed is taken thereto will shew you plainly all your deeds done in your mortall bodies of what sort they have been and are with all your most secret thoughts thereupon and intentions therein with what you should do and what you ought not to do for that would bring you to true Repentance not to be repented of teach you to walk honestly as in the day to put on the Lord Jesus Christ and make no provision for the Flesh to fulfill the lusts thereof c. Hearken to that voice of the wel-beloved Son and wait for his appearance that he may hearken unto you and receive you graciously before the doore of Mercy be shut against you sorrow shame and sadnesse overtake you and so seise upon you that you find no place for repentance though you may seek it diligently with tears for there is such a day of black and thick darknesse hasting upon many evil doers that harden their hearts against Christ and would not he should reign over them though that of him in all Consciences shews how to come to him and learn of him who was lowly and meek holy and harmlesse which is your duties in an especiall manner lest after so many his warnings he leaves you to your hardnesse and hearts lusts and say why should they be smitten any more they are turned to Idols let them alone and then you justifie your selves and Act yet greater and greater abomination in fighting against God stirring up strife amongst the people and belying the Lords Servants his truth and true Church that is without spot blemish wrinckle or any such thing and what will you do in the end thereof There hath been a time of ignorance which the Lord God hath seemed to wink at but now calls upon all men every where to repent and believe in his onely begotten Sonne whose Gospel never came in word onely but in plain demonstration of his spirit and of power nor doth the faith of Gods Elect stand at all in the Wisdome of man but in the pure power of God as Abraham believed God and followed him not knowing whither he went so do they that are