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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	scripture_n	speak_v	truth_n	7,071	5	5.8060	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A80643	To the priests and people of England, we discharge our consicences, and give them warning.	Cotton, Priscilla.; Cole, Mary, fl. 1655.	1655 (1655)	Wing C6474; Thomason E854_13; ESTC R207482	5,391	8

and Apollo were very learned and eloquent saith the Scriptures yet Paul counted all his learning dung for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ let his second Chapter of his first Epistle to the Corinthians be a full witness of this and Apollo was willing to be instructed of his hearers Aquila and Priscilla that were Tent-makers the learned that studied curious Arts burnt their Books that were of great price when they came to the knowledge of Jesus Christ so you now would you hearken to JESUS CHRIST and obey his light in your consciences you would come down to humility and the fear of the Lord to the true wisdom and understanding that you would not need so many Authors and Books you would not need to rent your heads with studying but you would come to see your Teacher in you which now is removed into a corner you would come to live a preaching life and witness that Faith you talk of to purifie your hearts from envy pride and malice and to get the victory over the worlds glory and honour that is so highly esteem'd by you and coming to see your selves in the light of Jesus Christ you will not Lord it over Gods heritage nor lift your selves up above your Brethren in pride and arrogancy but be a servant to all in love Therefore come now to the light sin no longer against that in your conscience for Antichrist must be destroyed by the brightness of his coming and God is gathering his people out from idol-Shepherds into his own fold to make them one flock and to give them one Sheperd that they may serve him with one consent for he hath fulfilled this Scripture in thousands this day whom he hath gathered out of Antichrists Opinions to worship one God in one way in Spirit and Truth speaking all the same things if you speak with ten thousand of them they all agree having one King one Law giver Now fret not at this you that live at Babylon in confusion in divisions for the little stone cut out of the Mountain without hands shall break Babylons Idols Now consider Friends and people your conditions for what good doth all your preaching and hearing do you break your sleep rent your brains and as it were speak out your lungs and alas who is bettered by it was there ever more pride lightness vanity and wantonness manifested in your Assemblies then now you make it the place where you set forth your pride and vanity to the utmost was there ever the like injustice violence falshood and deceit in any age that scarce can a man tell what men mean by what they say any longer Men say in effect That God hath forsaken the earth by their wicked practises the people cry out upon the Priests and say That their Opinions have made them so wicked and the Priests cry out upon the people and say That the fault is theirs So that the Lord beheld and in stead of righteousness equity and judgement there is a cry So your whole Religion is but a noise the life power and substance is not in it On apostate England what shall the God of mercies do for thee what shall he do unto thee he hath tried thee with mercies and with the sword and then with peace again and yet thou repentest not he hath given thee his witness his just one to reprove thee to convince thee of sin in thy conscience but thou h●st slain the witness murthered and slain the just he will not alwayes strive with man he will now roar from Sion and the children of the West shall tremble those that w●rship their idols he will redeem Sion with judgement and he will tear his flock out of the mouth of the greedy devouring shepherds that have made a prey upon them and the idol-shepherds shall have their arm dried up and their right eye darkned Come down thou therefore that hast built among the stars by thy arts and learning for it 's thy pride and thy wisdom that hath perverted thee thou hast gone in the way of Cain in envy and malice and ran greedily after the reward of Balaam in coverousness and if thou repent not shalt perish in the gain-saying of KORE for if a Son or a Daughter be moved from the Lord to go into the Assembly of the people in a m●ssage from the Lord God thou canst not endure to hear them speak sound Doctrine having a guilty conscience and fearing they would declare against thy wickedness thou incensest the people telling them that they are dangerous people Quakers so making the people afraid of us and incensest the Magistrates telling them that they must lay hold on us as troublers of the people and disturbers of the peace and so makes them thy drudges to act thy malice that thy filthiness may not be discovered and thy shame appear but God will make them in one day to forsake thee and leave and fly from thee though for the present thou Lordest it over Magistrates people meeting house and all as though all were thine and thou sittest as a Queen and Lady over all and wilt have the pre-eminence and haft got into the seat of God the consciences of the people and what thou sayest must not be contradicted if thou bid them fight and war they obey it if thou bid them persecute and imprison they do it so that they venture their Bodies and Souls to fulfil thy lusts of envy and pride and in thy pride thou contemnest all others thou tellest the people Women must not speak in a Church whereas it is not spoke onely of a Female for we are all one both male and female in Christ Jesus but it 's weakness that is the woman by the Scriptures forbidden for else thou puttest the Scriptures at a difference in themselves as still it s thy practice out of thy ignorance for the Scriptures do say that all the Church may prophesie one by one and that women were in the Church as well as men do thou judge and the Scripture saith that a woman may not prophesie with her head uncovered lest she dishonour her head now thou wouldst know the meaning of that Head let the Scripture answer 1 Cor. 11.3 The head of every man is Christ Man in his best estate is altogether vanity weakness a lye If therefore any speak in the Church whether man or woman and nothing appear in it but the wisdom of man and Christ who is the true head be not uncovered do not fully appear Christ the head is then dishonoured Now the woman or weakness that is man which in his best estate or greatest wisdom is altogether vanity that must be covered with the covering of the Spirit a garment of righteousness that its nakedness may not appear and dishonour thereby come Here mayst thou see from the Scriptures that the woman or weakness whether male or female is forbidden to speak in the Church but it s very plain Paul nor Apollo nor the true Church of Christ were not of that proud envious Spirit that thou art of for they owned Christ Jesus in man or woman for Paul bid Timothy to help those women that laboured with him in the Gospel and Apollo hearkened to a woman and was instructed by her and Christ Jesus appeared to the women fi st and sent them to preach the Resurrection to the Apostles and Philip had four Virgins that did prophesie Now thou dost respect persons I know and art partial in all things and so judgest wickedly but there is no respect of persons with God Indeed you your selves are the women that are forbidden to speak in the Church that are become women for two of your Priests came to speak with us and when they could not bear sound reproof and wholesome Doctrine that did concern them they railed on us with filthy speeches as no other they can give to us that deal plainly and singly with them and so ran from us So leaving you to the light in all your consciences to judge of what we have writ we remain Prisoners in Exeter goal for the word of God Priscilla Cotton Mary Cole FINIS Printed at London for Giles Calvert at the Black-spread-Eagle neer the West end of Pauls 1655.