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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	life_n	light_n	soul_n	6,880	5	5.1250	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A89839	Foot yet in the snare: though the beast hath healed his wound, and now pretends liberty, but is fallen into the trap of the priests, receiving their testimony to beare it up, who are in the pit themselves, thereby giving them occasion to insult against the truth, as the beast and the false prophet hath alwaies joyned against the lamb. Discovered in an answer to Iohn Toldervy, Matthew Pool, VVilliam Jenkin, John Tombs, John Goodwin, VVilliam Adderley, George Cockain, Thomas Jacomb, and Thomas Brooks, who under a pretence of love to the truth, have gone about to devour it, and cover it with reproach. Wherein their crooked wayes, their confusions and contradictions is traced and laid open, and their spirit tryed to bee the same which joyned Judas and the chief priests, and their false witnesses against the heir at his appearance; so those have joyned testimony to the truth, of a lying book, which by their own confession they never read over. With something of their false testimony is short laid open, lest simple minds should bee led with a lye through the fame of the forgers. / By one who loves the soul, but hates the sin, called, James Naylor.	Naylor, James, 1617?-1660.	1656 (1656)	Wing N281; Thomason E863_1; ESTC R12925	23,636	36

are such as in their hearts are convinced w th the light of Christ of the vvay of truth but finding it straight to their carnal pleasure profits not loving the truth more than the world but taking pleasure in unrighteousness and serving and loving the creature more than the Creator such will be glad of a stumbling block to take occasion thereby to cast off the yoak wholly and so to speak evil of that which they are convinced to be the right waie and would have walked therein had it not been too straight to hold them and their lusts To such I say you have your desire herein and as you waited for a stumbling-block thereat to take offence at the Cross so God in judgement hath sent you one sutable to your desires even from him whose coming is after the working of Satan with signes and lying wonders with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish because you received not the truth in the love of it that you might be saved for this cause God hath sent you strong delusions that you should believe a lie that you all may be damned who take pleasure in 2 Thes 2. unrighteousness more than in the cross of Christ And as the Spirit of Witchcraft in the Magicians did harden Pharoahs carnal proud heart more against Moses and the seed of God so wil the same spirit take advantage upon your lusts to do the like though in a different manner yet to the same end and upon you is the righteous judgements of God in this case who are joyned to that nature which God hath raised up to shew his power upon and in the end you will find that you are of them upon whom this day of the Lord comes as a snare when you are grown up into your measure of hardness and enmitie against the light of Christ opportunities to which you will not want from the Lord in judgement so long as you abide in that nature and the love of it whereof in love to your souls I am moved to warn you There is a third sort for whose sakes I am moved especially to write something in answer to this filthie thing which otherwise being a work of the devill it should have rotted rather than have been raked in or mentioned over again by me and these are such as have a simplicitie in them and a love to the truth and the way thereof and would walk in it did they know it but are yet kept in blindness and darkness by their blind guides who take advantage by these works of the devill lies and slanders to thicken the veil strengthen the bonds whereby to keep them from the light of life and way of peace and so keep them in the way of destruction for their corrupt ends which were they not ensnared in these things through their deceit might possibly be brought forth into the waies of salvation many of them alreadie having been made sensible from the Lord in love to their souls of the barrenness unfruitfnlness and unrighteousness of the worlds waies wherein they have been led and also the deceit pride and covetousness and contrary-walking of their Teachers both in doctrine manners and maintenance to all those whom ever Christ appointed for the work of the Ministery in any age I say for you who are in this case out of the knowledge of God his light and life which is your salvation doth my bowels yearn being sensible of your condition from the Lord and how easie a thing it is for you to be kept in delusion by the false teachers who are not come to the true light especially having such things as these with your lying spirit to work upon whereby to affright you from the truth which many simple hearts are enquiring after in this day of the Lords love as also knowing that any being begun to be unsetled from the deceits by the Light of Christ and then come to be setled again by a spirit of deceit and joyning therewith seeing such deny the tender of love how hard a thing it is for such to be recovered to hearken to any thing from the Lord in spirit to bring them near him I say for your sakes where the simplicity is am I made free to lay open to you some of the deceits of these Spirits that lay wait for your souls that unless you choose your own delusion rather than the simplicity of truth you may not be by them ensnared as the Light of Christ in your consciences will one day witness my tender love to your souls herein And to you John Toldervy Tho. Brooks Tho Iacomb George Cockaine Will. Adderley John Goodwin John Tombs Will. senkin and Matt. Poole who are joyned together that with the light of Christ you might take notice against whom you are joyned and what work it is you are joyned in which is to bear witness unto lyes and confusions and lying wonders which you never saw nor heard as by your own confession who say some of you have but perused a part of the thing to which you are witnesses and have but the things by hear say and that from one possest with a deluded Spirit wherein you shew your envie and rashness and want of discretion and therefore are found falsifying your own words in your book and so have ensnared your selves in your own wickedness and this you call The foot out of the Snare and so your work is begun with a lie and so carried on who in your title-page tell of the manner of his separation from the Quakers which is false for those you call Quakers did separate from him and denie him both in word and writing because of his following a bewitched Spirit and would not be reclaimed by them who oft reproved him and judged him for it with one consent as you afterward confess in your book page 38. and in other places of your book also As in your title-page also you tell of what judgement he was learned in by the Ministrie of those people and so bear witness you know not to what for both you and he are yet unlearned in the judgement and Ministrie of those you call Quakers whose judgement and ministrie is not to be led by vain customes and imaginations out of the truth as you are and are witnesses that he was as in your book is declared In your Epistle you say the subject matter of your discourse relates principallie to the persons who go under the name of Quakers and you confess that many have abused the truth by seeking to defend themselves in that deceit which the Spirit which is of God in those you call Quakers hath witnessed against by which you say the generalitie of men are through their misguided spirits alreadie beyond measure bitterly incensed against them to which I say let your practise judge you as to the work in hand in seeking to defend your selves in that deceit which the spirit of God in us hath witnessed

before related by which the simple became exceedidgly deceived Is not this your own confession under your hands and dare you joine to blaspheme and say that this was by compliance with that spirit which is declared to be from the teachings of the spirit of Christ in us when you your selves had cleared it in plain words and laid it upon his Fleshlie-mindedness and deceit whereby he was hastilie carried forth before the true light which if he had followed you say would have led him out of the works of the Flesh into the true worship of God in spirit and truth Are not you in the sight of all who know the spirit of God seen to be led with the same drunken confused blasphemous spirit to slander the teachings of the spirit of Christ with these things wherein your own hands testifie against you And in your 32 33. pages when he was working these wonders pulling off his band gathering sticks and leaves serving the devill and say you in the time of this service by the perswasion of divers of those you call Quakers sometimes he would give over but when giuen ouer he would be commanded by the first fly he saw to that seruice again And afterwards in page 38. do you not confess that when he came to the meeting at the place where the Quakers were shewing the holes he had made in his thumbs and telling of these lying wonders which he had been acting many of the Quakers being there all of them judged him with one consent charged him to be silent and told him that he was in darkness and had slain the witness of God in him And in your 51. page you confess he was restored to a right understanding and his life became a clear light by being guided in that obedience which was professed by those people and all this being your own confession and signed with your own hands for truth you are not ashamed to charge all these things upon a spirit that entred in by the observation of our pract●ses whom you call Quakers Was there ever such a heap of confusion and falshood uttered and signed for truth by a pack of men stark drunk with envie against the truth shall not all who know our practises be witness against you herein that never any of these practises was owned by us and be you witnesses against your selves for ever that you are of that generation who had ever the mouth open against the innocent they being moved to bear testimonie against your filthie practises is the cause of this envie as witness all your generation throughout the Scriptures and all the Histories of the innocent sufferings to reproach persecution or blood When did ever any of this befall the innocent Lambs of God but you were the instruments to set it on foot and carrie it on under the name of heresies or blasphemie sometime possessing the Rulers of the earth and sometimes the people therewith as though you were zealous for God when it is for your own ends to vent your envie against the righteous seed at his appearance Was it not the chief Priests who joined hands against the Prophets who were sent by the Lord to bear witness against their false Doctrine and greediness of hire wherefore they could never be●at rest with any thing short of their blood Was it not the chief Priests who combined against Christ with many plots and temptings and could never be at rest till they prevailed with a Iudas to betray him the case now in hand And how oft they sought the life of the Apostles the Scriptures make manifest yea they would joine with murderers therein under a pretence of performing a vow besides the innocent blood that hath been shed since in everie Generation and is there any in this Citie but they are ashamed to have a hand in so filthie a thing or to cast upon a people that are innocent such a slander anie but your selves So consider your work and the confused thing you have set your hands to wherein you have been forced so often to clear us of the thing you have so often accused us of and to the world declared your selves whereof all the world cannot prove us guiltie of these deceits wrought by him further than to testifie against him and them and that Spirit by which he was acted as we do against that Spirit by which you are now acted in your lies and slanders which is t●e same Spirit for the Sorcerer the Murtherer and the Liar is one Spirit so you who have cast these things upon the persons of the Quakers which your selves do testifie they denied and judged with one consent let all men see by what spirit you are led Was there ever such a thing done amongst the people of God Had you lived in the Apostles times would not you have slandered the ttuth and the persons of the Saints with the Act of Simon Magus though it was much better than you who sel that which is not the gift of God Would not you have charged the Act of the incestuous person upon the Apostles and that of Ananias and Saphyra upon their Doctrine and that of Iudas upon Christ and his Disciples which is the like case And had this been just dealing to accuse the innocent or have you done herein as you would be done unto would you have all the filthiness of your hearers the drunkenness whoring the witchcrafts the murthers the persecutions the swearings the Pride the Covetousness and all abominations in the Land for amongst your hearers you Parish-masters it all is would you have it raked up and cast upon your persons nay though some of it you be guiltie of nay would you who are the false witnesses in this paper against the innocent have the abomination that some of you are guilty of gathered up and cast upon the persons of the rest consider of it If you had any part of the true worship of Cod in your Steeplehouses would you have it slandered by one whom you cannot reclaim and therefore have denyed would you hold them guiltless who should gather up all these things and much such like which is amongst you not denyed as we have done him but pleaded for and printed it in a book and set it out w th many false aggravations say the subject matter doth relate principally to the persons of you subscribe hands to it say they are certified of the contents and circumstances of that discourse and are fully satisfied of the truth of things reported in it and so commend it to all as a piece worthie to be read when you confess some of you have but perused a part thereof and then be forced in the same Paper to clear you of the same things this being the true case betwixt your selves and us whose persons you have slandered take it into consideration and let the light of Christ be Judge in you whether you have kept the royall Law to do as you