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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	know_v	scripture_n	truth_n	7,532	5	5.8743	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A91924	The righteousnes of God to man, wherein he was created; with a discovery of the fall, by the strength and subtilty of the serpent: and of the recovery of man, by the seed of the woman, which bruises the serpents head. Also, a declaration against the beast and his followers, who act by his power; and a warning to the people not to joyn with the beast, nor to uphold the harlot, least you be taken with the beast and the false prophet, and cast into the lake together alive, and there be none to deliver you. A few words to O. C. and to the officiers and souldiers of the army in general. With, a true declaration how I lived before I knew the truth, and how I came to know the truth, and overcame deceit. Given forth for the simples sake, that they may learn righteousness; ... / By a sufferer for the righteous seed sake, in the common goal of Edmonds Bury in Suffolk, who is called George Rofe.	Rofe, George, d. 1664.	1656 (1656)	Wing R1788; Thomason E885_3; ESTC R200681	15,447	19

on them you live and know not the Altar and your preaching is not the Gospel if it were then you would live of the Gspel and not of the world But the ground and effect of your preaching stands in the love of mony and to tell that people cannot be freed from sin in this life and so preach that which the Apostles preached not and sow that which is accursed and the love of mony is the root of all evill and you live of the world and not of the Gospel and you are chargeable to the world and oppress the people who are not of the Gospel and are out of the life of the Ministers that the Gospel sent forth who freely received and freely gave But your preaching is not free but for gifts and rewards the wages of unrighteousness as the false Prophets ever was and herein you are to perish as they did who are out of the life of the seed as you are who are their off-spring which is accursed for ever And all people that desire to know the truth of God and that your souls should be redeemed from under the power of the Divel return to the light of Christ which shews the seed of the Serpent and the works of the Divell and the wickedness that is acted by his power in you that with the light you may be brought to know a difference between the seed of the Serpent and the seed of the Woman which is promised to bruise the Serpents head and search and examine with the light of Christ in you with it to see were you are and how fat you are redemed out of the curse and out of that nature wherein the evill doer lodges over which the curse hath power the fruits that is brought forth by the seed of the Serpent are cursed fruits and proceed from a cursed ground and are brought forth in the curse and the actors of them are to perish under the curse and wrath of God the lust of the flesh the lust of the eye and pride and covetousness and swearing and drunkenness and all manner of uncleanness and sporting and gaming and fighting and quarrelling and mocking and scoffing and scorning and all manner of prophaness are the fruits of the Serpent and are brought forth by his seed which is in the curse alienated from God in the kingdome of darkness over which the seed of the woman hath power it to destroy And this seed is known by them who are guided by the light of truth which leads into all truth and to deny the Serpent who is deceit and the leader of the wicked in deceit and the children of light doe by the power of Christ the light follow the seed of the woman and doe receive the light of life and know the enmity put between the seed of the serpent and the seed of the woman and know the living God and obey him in his light and by his power deny the Divell the Prince of death and differ from him and his fruits and are acquainted with his wiles and know his motions to evill and deny them and know a difference with God from him who is Gods enemy and know the worship of God in spirit and truth and differ from them who pretend to worship him in their wills by traditions of men and imaginations from the Scriptures and not in spirit and truth which worship God doth not accept A Declaration against the Beast and his followers who are by his power and a warning to the people not to joyn with the Beast nor to uphold the Harlot lest you be taken with the Beast and the false Prophet and cast all into the lake together alive and there be none to deliver you VVO unto them that are carried upon the Beast and decree unrighteous Decrees and by his power accomplish them such hasten down to the pit in the way of perdition by the strength of the Dragon the Divell and Satan that old Serpent who goeth about as a roaring Lion and deceiveth the Nations who by his strength and subtilty deceiveth the whole earth and all that worship him they receive his mark in their foreheads or in their right hands and by his power make war with the remnant of the seed of the woman who cannot worship nor bow down to the Beast nor his image and seekes their lives to swallow them up quick if by their power it might be and to the uttermost of their power they proceed against the Lamb and his chosen who follow him whithersoever he goeth and by the power of the Beast who hath received his power and seat from the Dragon doe they who worship the Beast persecute the Saints the tribe of the Lamb and overcome them and cast them into prisons and dungeons and holes till they die and some they scourge and stock and stone and beat and buffet and spit upon and hale out of the Synagogues to before Rulers who have imprisoned them till their lives have been a ransome to have set them at liberty with the Lamb and this Beast reignes over the whole earth and gives power to the inhabitants of the earth for to accomplish his will to the utmost that he might reign over all and that the Lamb should not take away their sins but that they should take and drink of the cup of abomination and filthinesse of his fornication to the bottome But the Lamb will arise as a fierce Lion and rule over the Nations with a rod of Iron and dash all the inhabitants of the earth to pieces who worship the Beast and give them the cup of the fiercenesse of his wrath to drink without mixture and will reward the Harlot double according to her abominations and fornications wherewith she makes all nations of the earth drunk for her pleasure and they fared delitiously with her but her kingdom shall become a desolation for ever The Lamb of God which takes away the sins of the world he is the light of the world and lightneth every man that cometh into the world by which light all nations and tongues and people may see the Beast which makes war against the Lamb the light of the Lamb Christ Jesus shews every one that they should not live in wickedness and reproves every one that do commit evill and the Beast lodges in man and leads in evill and warres in man against the light of the Lamb and they who joyn with the Beast they joyn with the father of all mischief who leads in the way that is broad which leadeth to destruction wherein all the world walks and wonders after the Beast and worships him and know not whither they goe who if they goe on in wickedness are to have their reward with the Beast and the false Prophet who are to be cast into the lake alive and there to be tormented day and night for ever and ever And all people as you tender the good of your souls return to the light of Christ in you that

And one time I was smot with terror down to the earth so that I cryed out exceedingly for a long time together and lay with my face towards the earth and could not for a time be comforted terror was so great upon me And yet for all this the Beast got up in me and strongly acted me in the like wickedness for which the judgements of God had often been upon me and I could not see any way how to escape the wickednesse which the Divell daily led me into but gave my selfe to reading much in the Scriptures and yet the power of the wicked one prevailed against me so that I received no strength against him by the knowledge of the Scriptures though the Scriptures shewed me in part what I should doe yet the power against sin was not there to be found but sinne got the upper hand and ruled over me and therein I was led captive and made a prey upon by the Divell who deceived me through subtilty And when I had read and studied what I could in my own will for many yeares together I could not find out a way to know God nor satisfaction to my soul but judgement followed me and my thoughts accused me and the light witnessed against me so peace I had not found in all that ever I did seek out but fear pursued me and often in the night time teares run from my eyes and terror laid hold on me so that I have been made to pray exceedingly but I knew not to whom but according as I had heard or read but no answer I saw though I called out often yet I knew not that God whom I called to nor that Christ in whose name I thought I asked but into a profession of God and Christ and godliness I was led by the will of the flesh though I was a stranger to the life of God and godliness And in this profession not knowing the power of God I walked neer three yeares and wandred about therein to professors of the world like my self and went to Priests where they preached and heard them two or three times a week commonly and long together and yet fear pursued me and peace I could not find though I sought it with tears often yet the way of peace I knew not but dissention and misery was in my paths and the feare of God I lived out of though then I lived in a profession and was covered with much subtilty so that the world could not see but that I lived orderly and I was kept from many common pollutions of the world though the Beast acted me and often would have led me into greater abominations than he did had not the witness of God often brought judgement terror upon me and iudged deceit before it was acted And in this profession of words I was at times exalted and therein lived in pride and vainglory and was lifted up in that knowledge by which the witnesse of God was slain and I led in great darkness and when I was exalted most then greatest darkness entred in upon me in which profession I found no peace neither could I for wickedness was lined in and the profession was not of God though it was like what the Saints had professed and lived the life of as all the worlds profession is who follows the Beast who leads them in imitations of that which the Saints and servants of God did by command from God And when I was about the age of twenty years old when I was at the height of my profession in which my soul found no rest it happened that according to the will of God there came some of his messengers who were called Quakers to the town where I lived in my empty profession Halsteed in Essex wherein I was not satisfied but went into the Market to hear the people called Quakers speak who spoke there some few words which I did not then understand though I had heard something of them in writing and many slanderous reports yet I was convinced in my conscience that they were the people of God and the Scriptures witnessed that the people of God should be hated and persecuted and all manner of evill spoken of them So yet I was not at rest in my spirit but desired to know the truth and the life of it And soon after that time the Lord sent another of his Messengers who had a meeting in that town where I lived and in the forepart of the day came to the steeple-house where I was hearing one of the worlds Ministers who is cal'd William Sparrow who had long deceived me with good words and fair speeches and when he had ended his speaking the Messenger of God spoke and reached the witness of God in me so I was drawn in love towards him and the later part of the day went to hear him speak and his words reached the witness of God in me so that I was more exceedingly drawn out in love towards him and heard more to my souls satisfaction that day than ever before and that of God in me which often had iudged me and brought feares upon me owned his words and owned him to be of God and the seed of God in me was refreshed and grew and shewed me how I had spent my time and brought all the evil that ever I remember I acted and laid it before me and condemned me for it which condemnation I was made willing to own and therein did wait for the mercies of God the seed of God in me grew in strength and shewed me what I should doe and what I should leave undone and was my guide to guide me out of the former ignorance and wickedness I had lived in and was a Judge for God to condemn the ground of the most secret deceit in me and shewed me the most secret deceit of the Serpent and gave me power to withstand all wickedness which before I owned the light of Christ I had not power to withstand the strength of the enemy had such power over me And after that God had shewed me the way of truth and gave me power to withstand all evill the Divel was exceeding wroth against me and wrought exceeding subtilly to have destroyed that which was begotten of God in me but the gift of God was plenteous and grew and shaked terribly the earth and removed mountains ' and rewarded the transgressor with judgement and cast out the Prince of this world and reigneth for God going on conquering and to conquer and treads down all Gods enemies under his feet And this is the free mercy and love of God that he hath revealed himself to me by the light of his own Son and hath made known his everlasting Covenant of peace to me and hath redeemed my soul out of hell and from under the power of the Divell into the glory of his own Son to praise him in the beauty of holiness in mount Sion for ever who hath called me by his own Spirit and power to bear witness for his own name in righteousness and hath given me his word to declare to the inhabitants of the earth and his power to stop the mouthes of truths gain-sayers and to confound the false Prophets and make the Deviners mad and to judge all hirelings and false teachers out from amongst the Saints This is the work which the Lor hath done for his seeds sake which dwells in me which he hath raised to eternall life to live and reign with him for ever And it was his free love that he left a seed in me else I had been to him as the Cities of Sodom and as the inhabitants of Gomorrah The world calls me George Rofe but my name is written in heaven and therein do I rejoyce From the common Goal of Emonds Bury in Suffolk wherein I have suffered more than 40 weeks for the truth this last day of the 4th moneth 1656. FINIS