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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	according_a	believe_v	scripture_n	1,612	5	5.8214	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B06484	Truth's pursuit after falshood, or, Certain untruths made manifest that was lately published in the news-book bearing date April 18. 1664. and those false aspersions cast upon an innocent people (called Quakers) truly testified against, and the truth witnessed unto, for the better information of all people, and the satisfaction of all that are sober-minded. Also, it may serve for a word of caution and good advice to all those of what degree or quality soever they be, that hath or may have any hand in persecuting an innocent people for their conscience sake. By a lover of truth and uprightness, but a hater of lying and falshood, William Warwick.	Warwick, William.	1664 (1664)	Wing W1011; Interim Tract Supplement Guide 4152.f.20[1]; ESTC R13438	8,033	9

Chosen Inheritance and the People in whom he hath placed his Name and made his Power known but the hope of the hippocrite shall perish and the expectation of the ungodly shall utterly fail Further the intelligencer or rather foul informer saith it is past that time of day with us now to discover the danger of schismatical meetings yet concerning their wayes and practices a word perhaps of Information may not be amiss Answer That Information which is contrary to Truth must needs be amiss and he would have come off with more credit if he had told of some news far remote and saved his labour as to this which may so easily be disproved and it is but reasonable and equal that first he should have proved the Quakers meetings to have been schismatical by the Scriptures before he had concluded them so to be or at least wise have procured some of his pious Clergy or dignified Bishops as he calls them to have come to our meetings and openly in the audience of the people by righteous reason and sound Arguments grounded upon the holy Scriptures of Truth convinced us that the way we walk in is error and that the way and practice they walk and are sound in is Apostolical and according to the Scripture then people would have believed them otherwise will not people be ready to say they are lazy and idle shepherds and conclude that they have not Truth on their side notwithstanding their Spiritual Courts Carnal Laws and Carnal Weapons by which they would force and compel people to come to their Church and bow and conform to their worship when as yet they have not con●inced them that it is the way that God would have them worship in and so it being contrary to their saith they would force them to be Hypocrites for Whatsoever is not of faith is sin Therefore consider this all you that would force people to conform to your worship contrary to the perswasion of the Spirit of God in their hearts and consciences and be well advised what you do for the Lord hath opened the eyes of many people and you can never being them into blindness again and though you build your nests on high and say in your hearts you have the strength and power of the three Kingdoms on your side and so trust in the Arm of flesh and so forget the Lord and his dealings with you and your Fathers in the years that are past It may be worth your serious consideration to consider what was the ground or cause of the Lords giving of you into the hands of your enemies then and leaving you as it were without hope of ever enjoying such a day as he hath miraculously given you again and once more entrusted you withal and now search and try your wayes and see whether the same ground and Gause that caused the anger of the Lord to be kindled against you and your Fathers then be not sound amongst you now and if upon diligent search you find it so to be what reason can you produce to your selves that the same effect will not follow For the Lord is just in all his wayes and righteous in all his doings and now count me not your enemy for telling you the truth But hearken unto the witness of God in your own hearts which condemns you in secret for your evil deeds for that will deal plainly with you and testifie to the truth of these things for in Gods holy sear I declare that I write not these things out of any enmity to the Persons or person of any of you but in tender bowels of love that if happily any of you may hearken and consider and turn unto the Lord before your day be turned into night and the patience and long suffering of the Lord come to an end as to you-ward and the houre of your visitation be wholly over surely the time hastens whither you hear or forbear I am clear and remember that you were once more warned And further the Intelligencer saith At the Bull and Mouth in St Martins near Aldersgate a spacious building and the common meeting place of the Quakers there are first 2 schools where the Children are taught by Catechisms express that the Ceremonies of the Church of England are Idolatrous and the Ministers Antichristian there are likewise under the same roof a Book-seller a Book-binder both Quakers whose business it is to provide and fit up seditious Pamphlets to disperse at their meetings medling with no other but what are against the Government as may appear by divers pestilent Libels that have been lately seized in several quarters of the house and from the same place and person Books of that quality have been taken no less then five times in the space of a fortnight Answer As for the Catechism that he seems to be so much offended at the Author thereof hath proved by the Scriptures of Truth the things therein asserted which is more then Roger Lestrange hath done or any of the Bishops or Clergy so call'd as to prove by the holy Scriptures the Quakers meetings to be schismatical their Books to be seditious pamphlets pestilent libels before he had so represented them to the Nation neither he nor the Bishops and Ministers of the Church of England would willingly be so represented themselves without any further proof then a bare affirmation ye● if any one should call them Antichristian they would not be pleased though they are found walking contrary to the cōmand of Christ who said unto the true Christian● as ye would that men should do unto you so do ye unto them did Roger Lestrange do so when he took away my books 5 times in less then the space of 14 dayes as he confesses they were taken away he had as much more cause to be asham'd in the taking of them away as to be ashamed to confess who took them away for he that discovers theft ought also as much as in him lies to discover the theef and do such as persecute for Religion do as they would be done by would they have their goods spoyled would they be separated from their Wises and tender Children and from their honest and lawful imployment by which they provide for their Families and are serviceable in their generation would they be thrust into noysom prisons and stinking Dungeous and there endure a stifling and a languishing Martyrdom as thany hath done whose innocent blood cries for vengeance as righteous Abels did would they be banished out of their native Country would they be proceeded against as felons and to be put to death without mercy and for no other cause but for doing that which they are perswaded by the spirit of God in their hearts and consciences they ought to do and if they should not do it they should sin against the Lord or on the other hand for refusing to do that which by the same holy Spirit of God they are perswaded they ought