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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	letter_n	scripture_n	word_n	8,209	5	5.0930	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A30554	The true Christian religion again discovered after the long and dark night of apostacy, which hath overshadowed the whole world for many ages ... by a friend to all people, especially them that feares God, and loves righteousness.	Burrough, Edward, 1634-1662.	1658 (1658)	Wing B6044; ESTC R213868	19,745	24

justly own to be protected and maintained because the Protectors oath reaches not to uphold maintain any such practices in Religion which is not according to the Scriptures likewise all ye that meets together to exercise your Religion and to worship God in Temples made with hands set apart by you for that practice professing them to be Churches of Christ this is not according but contrary to the Scriptures which saith God dwells not in Temples made with hands neither did the Saints of old constantly practice any such thing but it was the persecutors that met in Temples made with hands who cast out and hailed the Apostles out of such Temples so that in this practice you cannot justly own to be protected as not being a practice in Religion according to Scriptures Likewise all ye whose Ministers preacheth for hire and have hire for preaching so much a year and so much a Sermon at a Town or a Parish in a setled place and who takes Tythes and compells people to pay tythes by a Law such are not the Ministers of Christ and ye that uphold such for Ministers of Christ are false in judgement and blind in understanding and are not of that Christian Religion which is according to Scriptures in the purity thereof neither Ministers nor people for the Ministers of Christ never acted any such thing it was the false Prophets and false Apostles that preached for hire and for gifts and rewards neither did the Saints and Churches of Christ look upon them that acted those things to be Ministers of Christ but on the contrary declared against them to be deceivers so that all you people and you professed Ministers that acts those things that the false Prophets acted and all you people that loves to have it so and gives hire to your Ministers for preaching and consenteth unto it none of you are of the christian Religion as it is held forth in the Scriptures because this part of your practice in Religion is not according but contrary to Scriptures Now substracting all these in these Nations from the whole which practiseth and professeth these things mentioned for Ordinances of God and for his Worship none of you are of the true christian religion as it is held forth in the Scriptures because these things which you practise for Religion is not held forth in all the Scriptures by any example or command likewise you are of the greatest number of people in all these Nations and that practice and profession in Religion which the greatest number follow and exercise themselves in cannot be the true christian Religion because the Scripture saith Few are in the straight way that leads to life to wit in the pure and true Religion but many are in the broad way that leads to destruction and such that are the greatest number who are in the broad way are not in the Religion in the purity thereof as it is held forth in the Scriptures likewise many of ye who practise those things mentioned for Religion are yet unconverted to God but lives in wickedness in the pride and vanities and in all the evil of this World in double-dealing in drunkenness in Whoredom in the Works of darkness therefore you are not of the true christian Religion neither do you walk with God in purity and holiness neither are you changed by Christ into his Image nor are guided by his spirit neither do you live to God in any thing but to this world in all things and your Religion is manifest not to be according to the Scriptures but contrary and so let all people consider whether or no you must be maintained in your Religion Come forth and plead your cause all ye that are called Presbyterians and Independents and all others stand up and prove if you can your practice in religion to be according to Scriptures but seing no man is able to prove these things mentioned which is practised by you for Religion to wit Sprinkling of Infants and singing Davids experiences in rime and meeter and worshipping God in set-places as Idol-Temples and preaching for and giving great s●ms of money for preaching with other things practised by you for Religion neither were these things ever commanded in Scriptures neither is there any example for the practise of these things in Scripture by any of the Lords people therefore you cannot justly own a title in the Protectors oath to be maintained and upheld by vertue thereof in these your practises of Religion for it appears he is but bound onely to uphold and maintain that Religion which is according to Scriptures and not them who practiseth those things for Religion which are not according but contrary to the Scriptures Likewise all ye that are called gathered churches who holds forth for Doctrine that the Scriptures are the word by which the world was made and that the Scriptures are the foundation and that the Scriptures are the way to salvation that the Letter and the Spirit are unseparable and that the Scriptures are both the writings and the thing signified and that except a man be baptized with water he cannot be saved with such like Doctrines which have been held forth by some professing themselves to be of the church of Christ all you are manifest not to be of the christian religion because those doctrines are not according but rather contrary to the Scriptures Likewise all ye whose practise in the exercise of Religion is but by imitation from the Scriptures and you are not led by the spirit of the Father in what you speak practise you are not of the true christian religion wch the Scripture speaks of for the sons of God who are of the true Religion are led by the spirit of God not by their own thoughts imaginations the traditions of men and all that are not led by the spirit of the Father are not of the true christian Religion as it is held forth in the Scriptures and not any that are such can justly own to be protected in their Religion because it is not according to the Scriptures likewise all ye that doth profess the things of God and Christ and that you are members of the church of Christ and professes righteousness and truth in words and yet lives in pride and the vanities of this world and in unrighteousness and the customs of the heathen which are vain are not clensed from unrighteousnes nor freed from the body of sin death neither doth answer your profession wth a conversation shewing that you are not guided with that spirit whose words you do profess all you are hypocrites lives in hypocrisie none of you are of the true Christian Religion as it is held forth in the Scriptures for the exercise in true Religion sheweth forth in life what is professed in words come try your selves and prove your selves all sorts of people for now your Religion is to be tryed what Name soever you go under