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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	faith_n	truth_n	word_n	7,274	5	4.1793	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A84383	Pseudochristus: or, A true and faithful relation of the grand impostures, horrid blasphemies, abominable practises gross deceits; lately spread abroad and acted in the county of Southampton, by William Frankelin and Mary Gadbury, and their companions. The one most blasphemously professing and asserting himself to be the Christ, the Messiah, the Son of God who dyed and was crucified at Jerusalem for the sins of the people of God. The other as wickedly professing and asserting her self to be the Spouse of Christ, called, the Lady Mary, the Queen, and Bride, and Lambs Wife. Together with the visions and revelations, to which they did pretend their ways of deceiving, with the names and actions of sundry persons deceived by them. As also their examinations and confessions before the justices of the peace, their imprisonment, and their tryal before the judg of assize, at the last assize holden at Winchester, March 7. 1649. Published for a publique benefit and warning to every one to take heed to himself, that he be not deceived by the errors and deceits of these present times. / By Humphry Ellis, minister of the word in the city of Winton.	Ellis, Humphrey, d. 1676.	1650 (1650)	Wing E579; Thomason E602_12; ESTC R206414	57,353	63

having left this certain light of the Sun of the Word the Ignes Fatui which they follow never leave them till they have plunged them into some pit or other Greater measure of light and spiritual enjoyment these men usually pretend for this but as the Apostle saith of the Gentiles Rom. 1. Pretending to be wise they became foolish so are these very carnal wherein they pretend to be spiritual and are so discovered to be by the light of the Word in their most spiritual notions by every spiritual Christian that so it may be truly said unto them and of them They have rejected the Word of the Lord and what Wisdom is in them If the consideration of these many sad Examples of Divine Justice upon the Contemners of the Word may not suffice to reclaim those that are already plunged in the guilt of this evil yet I hope they may serve to warn those who are yet free from this contagion especially all the people of God that they take heed how they fall into it and thereby into temptation and the snare of the Devil but rather let this of the Divine Authority Perfection Sufficiency of the Scriptures be as well as the first Principle for the Foundation of our Faith that is learned and received by us which the Apostle Peter directs us to 2 Pet. 1.20 Knowing this first of all That holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost and therefore what they spake and is from them recorded in the Scriptures to be of Divine Authority I would put the Emphasis on 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Knowing it first of all as if it were that Principle which is first to be received by us So let this Principle be constantly cleaved to that we receive nothing in matters of Faith and Religion but what we have from it For if once we fall from this we fall from all Look not then after new Revelations but hear what the Spirit speaks in the Scripture to the Churches And by this Word of Truth try all things Try the spirits whether they are of God for now are there many false spirits gone abroad into the world Surely they are but deceitful Merchants and such is the ware they bring unto us which they will not endure to be brought to this light to be tryed Cause we have to be very jealous That that silver is reprobate counterfeit drossie which they would obtrude upon us not suffering it to be tryed by this Touchstone To the Law and to the Testimony they who speak not according to this it is because there is no light in them And be as diligent to enquire after the sence as well as words of Scripture lest by the words contrary to the true sence we be deceived From what hath been held out in this Relation may divers receive some warning to themselves in other things besides what are now mentioned First To the persons themselves the Agents and Instruments in this great evil let them consider whence they have fallen and repent Consider the greatness of their sin by the fearful aggravations which it will admit For one to assert himself to be the Christ and others to declare him so to be are they not both guilty of the highest Treason that can be imaginable against the King of Heaven and while they endevor to perswade others to joyn with them in these their evil ways is it not to draw subjects from their allegiance to destroy their Faith and murther their Souls thereby Surely they have preached another Jesus another Gospel then what Paul preached let them therefore consider whether they come not under that Curse which is by him against such denounced Gal. 1.8 9. Cause they have enough with Peter to weep bitterly for this so great an evil and to look up to that Jesus whom they have pierced by whom alone they must be saved from the guilt of that Treason which against him they have committed Let them also take heed they return no more to this or the like folly lest their latter end be worse then their beginning And though I may be likely to incur some displeasure from them for thus publishing their names and actions yet if there be in them any true sight and detestation of these wickednesses wrought in their hearts they will not be much displeased at the publishing of it for the warning of others by their example but be also provoked hereby to make as publique Declaration of their Repentance as publique notice hath been taken of the sin committed by them Many such there are who walk in that way of profession which amongst us bears the name of Anabaptism to whom also something might here be delivered by way of warning Of all the several ways and sects in the profession of Religion which men separating from the Reformed Churches have faln into since the time the Reformation began I know none so eminently blasted of God that either for the Congregations of them or particular persons have been given up unto and been guilty of such Errors and sinful Practices as those I now speak of not to instance in times past and the practices of those of this profession in Germany left on record by the testimony of those who deserve sufficient credit with us but only to have respect to our own times See we not their Congregations even in all places shattered and broken to pieces and that not by the hand of man by the persecution of any Enemies but by the immediate hand of God and by the divisions which have risen up amongst and within themselves that it is now a rare thing to find a Congregation of that profession some of them there may be yet holding together in London but in all the Countries hereabouts where Churches of them have been in several places erected and where but few years since there hath been much and zealous disputing for that way there is not now that I know of a Church of them to be seen but the members of them living in as scattered a divided way one from another as may be yea refusing to own that very way for which they before so zealously contested as the only way of God even ashamed of it as if but a carnal Administration Have not their Churches been the Nurseries and Seminaries of all these many Errors which have overspread the face of our Nation that from them have mostly proceeded and bin sent forth all these false teachers the Instruments of divulging of them Antitrinitarianism Arminianism Socinianism c. with many other gross Heresies how have they been professed in them where have the Scriptures been so much slighted and Revelations cryed up as among them and for Revelations how much have they pretended to them especially when their deceitful pretence of shaking fits was so much in fashion of late amongst them And so from this slighting the Word of God have faln into all manner of Errors whatsoever From them also