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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	john_n	truth_n	worship_v	7,049	5	9.1128	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A81396	Christ exalted, and alone worthy to open the seals of the book. And the scriptures owned in their place. A true testimony of him, as is manifest, in answer to a book, intituled, The Quakers apostacy, from the perfect rule of scriptures. Given forth by John Timson, of Great Bowden in Leicestershire. And the deceits and blasphemies he charges upon the Quakers, is turned upon his own head, and he found guilty of what he reproaches them with, in what is written for the simples sake, and truth to clear from false accusations and lyes cast upon it. And the ten queries he saith he vindicateth, and would print but foure of them, they are all published, with the answers that he charges to be confused, dark and deceitfull, that the answers may witnesse for themselves against what is charged upon them. He that hath an understanding in the light, read and judge. / William Dewsberry.	Dewsbury, William, 1621-1688.	1656 (1656)	Wing D1258; Thomason E891_6; ESTC R206512	24,367	32

who is the way the truth and the life and no man cometh to the father but by him Jo. 14. 6. So none comes to the knowledge of the father by reading the Scriptures though they think to finde life there they shall not if they come not to Christ of whom they testifie and in whom the life is who saith search the Scriptures for in them ye think to have eternall life and they are they which testifie of me and he reproves all who will not come to him that they may have life So what thou charges us withall thou art the man that denys the authority of Scriptures and found guilty of slandering the Children of light as what is written makes manifest and what as followeth will make thee more manifest to all that have eyes to see the many falshhoods and lyes thou hast begun the booke withall in that thou calls the preface to the reader so out of thy owne mouth thou art condemned 4. The fourth false accusation thou sayst we are so drunk with delusion and impudency that we will rather charge the Scripture with deceit then question our owne deceitfull hearts Reply In the presence of God we witnesse against thee we owne the Scripture to be the Scripture of truth and do not charge the Scripture with deceit but with the light of Christ that gave forth the Scriptures and discovereth the deceit of the heart with which light we judge the deceit of the heart and witnesse against thee in the light which makes known to us the Scripture in the truth as it is in Jesus Christ the light God is our witnesse 5. The fifth false accusation thou sayst we rite and speak the L●nguage of Scripture as if we were for it and is not which is rancke hypocrisy and done of purpose to deceive Reply We in the light speak as moved of the Lord 2 Pet. 1. 21. whose Language is according to Scripture and doing any thing in hypocrisy we deny as to deceive any the Lord is our witnesse who will rebuke the lying spirit and stop thy lying mouth 6. The sixth false accusation thou sayst we boast that we are as perfect as Christ that dyed at Jerusalem Reply Thy charge is false boasting we deny or any perfection that is of self our righteousnesse without Christ is as a filthy ragg and a menstruous cloth Christ our righteousnesse who is the true light that lighteth every one that comes into the world Jo. 1. 9. we witnesse him the same Christ as was in that body that suffered at Jerusalem and every one of the Children of light in the measure of growth in him the same minde is in them that was in Christ Jesus Phil. 2. 5. who is the brightnesse of the fathers glory Heb. 1. 3. 7. The seventh false accusation thou sayst we say that he that trusts in Christ that dyed at Jerusalem for Salvation shall be deceived Reply This charge is false as the other in the presence of God we witnesse against thee no other Christ we bear testimony of to be the salvation of lost man and woman but that Christ according to Scripture testimony who was born of the virgin and bore a good confession before Pilate and suffered at Jerusalem and rose again the third day and ascended into Heaven and sitteth at the right hand of God and this Christ we witnesse the true light who lighteth every one that comes into the world and saith I stand at the door and knock who opens I will come into him and sup with him and he with me Rev. 3. 20. and we witnesse him faithfull and as many as receives him to them he gives power to become the Sons of God and this is the condemnation of all because they beleeve not in him Jo. 1. 12. 8. The eight false accusation thou sayst we reproach Christs institutions and holy ordinances with the odium of mens tradiditions outward observations inconsistent with Gods Kingdome and compares them to Nebuchadnezzars great Idol c. Reply Thy Charge is false Christs institutions and holy ordinances we owne in the dispensation of time they were to be continued and what is now in this dispensation of time known in the administration of his spirit we owne but who upholds any Idolatry in observing any thing by tradition and not guided by the Spirit of Christ and so walke contrary to the perfect Law of God in the Conscience and though their words be never so glorious in outward appearance in crying the Ordinances of Christ while they deny to be guided by Christ they are no Ordinances of Christ but an Image set up in the proud exalted nature which Nebuchad nezzar set up his Image in which with the power of God shall be throwne downe and thou with the rest of the Idol worshipers shall be broken to peices and lyes shall not save thee for the Lord will exalt his name and his Children that observe his holy ordinances shall reigne in his his spirituall power that preserves them therein to observe the moveings of his spirit which doth lead to worship the father in spirit and truth according to testimony of Scripture Joh. 4. 23 24. And when thou John Timson hast presented thy false accusations and lyes to the Reader in the preface of thy Booke that they might receive the falsehoods and lyes that are written therein and these lyes and slanders which are here laid before thee and witnessed against in the answer there to returned will sufficienly prove to thy face and be manifest to that of God in every ones Conscience that thou hast spoken unadvisedly with thy lips when thou sayst thou lies not and all these lies found in thy mouth given forth publiquely for all to read and thou declares to the Reader that the Lord knows what diligence and tendernesse of bowels thou hast had to prepare it for them c. Reply Blush for shame O vain man to appeale to the Lords knowledge of thy d●l●gence and tendernesse of bowels to prepare so many lyes and falshoods for people to read thou shalt certainly know that the Lord takes notice of thee and he wil lay thee open and make thee manifest and lyes shall not cover thee nor be thy refuge Isa 28. 17. when our God will clear his truth and thy tongue and all others that rise up against him shall fall in judgement the day shall declare it Further thou goes on saying as for those persons that have answered me who have charged me with bringing forth many lyes and slanders and have made a noise thereof as if I were some carnall lying wretch that matters not what I write Reply To that of God in every ones conscience I appeale that lyes proceed from a Carnall wretched heart and the Lord is making thee manifest who would make lyes thy refuge which with the light thou art seen and thy lyes turned upon thee that in the light thou mayst be read what thou art and in the light our Books