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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	know_v	receive_v	world_n	7,869	5	5.0949	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A56996	The Remonstrance of the suffering people called Quakers clearing their innocency from the many false aspersions, slanders and suggestions, which are lately come abroad in the nation causlesly [sic] upon them.		1665 (1665)	Wing R1016; ESTC R4321	11,537	18

THE Remonstrance OF THE Suffering-PEOPLE of GOD CALLED QUAKERS Clearing their Innocency from the many false Aspersions Slanders and Suggestions which are lately come abroad in the Nation causlesly upon them For among my People are found wicked men that lie in wait as he that sets snares They set a Trap they catch them As a Cage is full of Birds so are their Houses full of Deceit Therefore they are become Great and waxen Rich. Jer. 5.26 27. London Printed in the Year 1665. The REMONSTRANCE of the Suffering-People of God called QUAKERS clearing their Innocency from the many false Aspersions Slanders and Suggestions which are lately come abroad in the Nation causlesly upon them FOrasmuch as the everlasting God of all Truth hath visited us from on high out of his Everlasting Love unto us and hath revealed Jesus Christ the Light of the world and the Life of men unto us and in us who have waited and longed for his appearance unto our souls that we might be partakers of his Heavenly Power from on high and that we might know his Eternal Power made manifest to us and in us by which the Saints in former ages were led and guided into all Truth and to walk in the same to the honour of God the Everlasting Being from whom Eternal Life is conveyed through Christ Jesus unto all that do believe in the measure of his Eternal Spirit which he hath given to every one a measure of to profit withal even every man that is come into the world to that intent and end that every one who receiveth it and closeth with it in their hearts might be led from darkness unto Light from sin unto Righteousness from Satan's power to the Power of God and from death and him that hath the power of death which is the Devil unto God the Everlasting God of all Truth and to have fellowship with him in the mystery of the Gospel of his Son Jesus Christ by which remission of sin is obtained and an inheritance among the Sanctified Ones who were made meet to be partakers thereof who are gone before and rest in the bosom of the Father unto which high and great Calling God hath called us even to be partakers of the same Faith Hope Inheritance and Calling through the riches of his Love manifest to us in Christ Jesus in the end of the world Now and in the last times that hath yet been in being or ever appeared amongst the sons of men a necessity is laid upon us on the Lord's behalf in whom we have believed to speak the truth as it is in Jesus before God and all his holy Angels and before all men and to the Witness of God in every man in the world who yet doth not believe yet according to this in all Consciences will his Judgment be and unto that everlasting Testimony of God in all English-hearted-men and all men of every Nation Kindred Tongue and People upon the face of the whole Earth and to the Testimony in all Consciences who live and have a being according to Gods everlasting Witness in them we appeal and that shall bear witness to us that either before now or hereafter that we have do and shall speak the truth as it is in Jesus Christ and according to which we must all be judged and to receive Sentence from the hand of the Lord according to what we shall declare unto all in this particular for evermore We are a People who have enquired after the Lord and only desired to know Him and his Worship and that we might worship him in Spirit and in Truth and find acceptance with him and have fellowship with him in that which endures for evermore that our souls might live in his sight and that we might witness his Countenance and Favour manifested to us and the Evidence of his Spirit bearing witness to us and in us that we are accepted of him through Christ Jesus We are not ignorant of all the set and stinted Forms of Worship and Formal profession in our own generation and what it is and what the enjoyments of all are in respect of God and his Worship for we our selves have travelled those paths in diligent circumspection and much vigilancy in the observation of all those outward things which are accounted by some as Divine and Holy Institutions and Ordinances of God which generally the People take upon trust from their Leaders and Elders Tradition of time or Custom of Nations but alas we know how it was with us in that state and how it is with all such who are so busying themselves about bodily exercises which profit little while their hearts are not upright to that of God made manifest in them by which he shews unto man his thoughts and his evil and also that which is good and acceptable in his sight yet notwithstanding all such who are professing God and Christ in words and worship and yet be enemies to him and that which may be known of him in their hearts both in life and works And such were we in times past in ignorance and unbelief and yet had a profession and a zeal according to the times but not according to the true knowledge of God in Christ Jesus But God out of his rich Love and Mercy had compassion on us in this estate and knew the longing and thirsting of our hearts after him that we might obtain him manifested his Eternal Words of Life and Power in our hearts which became a Light unto our feet and a Lanthorn unto our paths by which we came to see our selves and our own estate and that all our righteousness were as filthy rags and that all the inventions traditions and ordinances of men which are repugnant unto the Will and Ordinances of Christ that all these were and are abomination unto the Lord and that he hath no pleasure in them neither in them that draw near unto him pretending honour and worship unto him while they offer up unto him in the darkness and ignorance of their minds with polluted hearts and lips and that which he never required These things are an Abomination we being made sensible thereof by the Spirit of God which discovers both words and works and knowing his Judgment to come upon us not only for sin but also for that which hath been and is by some yet counted for righteousness and worship who are still in the unbelief the Lord made a separation in our hearts betwixt the Precious and the Vile and called us out of the unfruitful works of darkness and out of the World and its wisdom which knows not God and out of the paths of those who are in the Fall and in the Apostacy and are erred from the Life and Power of God and the holy Injunctions of Christ not to have any more fellowship with them in the vain corrupt traditions of men nor them that would set mans threshold by God's threshold and not only so but would even overthrow