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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	believe_v	faith_n	word_n	14,132	5	4.8692	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A64774	The Roman Catholick converted, or, A testimony against the imagined purgatory with an exhortation to them of the Church of Rome to break off from their idols and images, and to believe in the light of Christ Jesus, who lighteth every man that cometh into the world / by one, who though formerly of them, is now made able through believing in the light of Christ to give testimony against their purgatory, idols, images, and all their dark inventions, John Vaughton.	Vaughton, John, 1644-1712.	1676 (1676)	Wing V159; ESTC R32918	7,344	12

found in which the Spirit of the Lord leads him not unto he will not know Salvation but Condemnation will be his or their Portion forever if they repent not and Forsake not the Evil of their Wayes and it is not the Priest's saying My Soul for thy Soul will excuse any in the Day of Account for the Lord is clear and will be clear of the Blood of all men and Man's Destruction is of himself but his Help is in me saith the Lord God that lives forever And therefore Wo unto you Priests the Blood of many of the People will be required at your Hands because through your dark Working and subtil Inventions you have allured many and drawn many and kept many from the Knowledge of the Lord and spoken Peace unto many when the Lord has spoken Trouble and you being ignorant of the Arm and Power of the Lord that sets the Soul free from Sin have invented or imagined a Purgatory after Death which say you People whose Sins are not done away here must be done away in Purgatory which Purgatory say you is a Place of Fire And O you Priests what is the Reason you have no more Love to People who have so much Confidence in you and who confess unto their Dying Day unto you and as you make them believe you have Power to Absolve all their Sins and yet you are so Cruel and so Hard hearted unto them that you leave a Part of their Sins unpardoned and unremitted to be done away in Purgatory A Cheat indeed Is not one Reason that may be given for it That you may have a Gift given to your Church that you may say Mass for their Souls many years after And how do you know who they are that go to Purgatory But blessed be the Name of the Lord that lives forever who has opened the Eyes of a Remnant to see over and beyond all your dark Inventions and Imaginations and the Lord has and will open the Eyes of Thousands in this Nation and in other Nations who are and shall be gathered from amongst you and shall give Testimony to the Arm and Power of the Lord God of Life and in the Strength thereof shall be able to offer up their Lives if the Lord require it of them in Testimony to his Ancient Way and Holy Path which was before your dark Inventions were and shall be when they are come to an End For behold and take notice they had a time of Rising and the Time of their Rising is seen and the Time of their Down fal● is seen also for all your dark Inventions did rise when the Apostacye t●red when the Devil the old Adversary of Mankind had drawn the Mind of man from the Gift of God from the Appearance of Christ within which is the Saints Hope of Glory and so led men into Imaginations and Inventions of Worships out of the Spirit of God and from the Life of Christ and so men being gone from the Spirit and out of the Life of Jesus imagined a Purgatory after Death and set up Worships and Services contrary to the Worship that Christ Jesus set up and bore Testimony unto whose Worship was and is in the Spirit and in the Truth which the Devil is out of and has no part therein Now they that have set up Worships and Services in their own Wills and in their own Times and have compelled People to bow thereunto and have taken the Lives of those who have been raised to bear Testimony against their Idolatries and Superstitions its manifest these are not of the Church of God but of the Devil who was a Murderer from the Beginning who moved Cain to kill Abel his Brother So you Papists that Murder for Religion see who is your Father and what Stock you are of and if in your Wills you Fast and Pray and at times Afflict your Bodies with your own Doings the Lord will not regard you for none of these things for you are found Workers of Iniquity Therefore be awakened unto Righteousness and turn your Minds inward to the Righteous Principle of God For whatsoever may be known of God is manifested within man for the Appearance of God is within and he that formed the Mountains and he that created the Winds and maketh the Morning Darkness and treadeth upon the High Places of the Earth and sheweth unto Man what his Thoughts are the Lord God of Hosts is his Name Therefore fear ye before him and dread his Holy Name and break off from your Idols and Images and from your own Inventions and hearken unto him in the inward of your Hearts that shews you when you tell a Lye and when you swear an Oath and when you speak Vain Words and when you have been sporting your selves in Pleasures and passing away your Times in Playes that sometimes after all these things meets with you and sometimes in the midst of your Pleasures causes Sadness of Heart yea and when you are from your Company or when you are upon your Beds meets with you and smites you in your Consciences and reproves you for these things Oh! my Cry is unto you Turn you unto him that reproves for if ever you come to know a laying down your Heads in Peace when time in this World shall be no more you must turn and depart from that which he reproves you for for the Reproofs of God's Instruction is the Way to Life and there is not another Way now I know Self has a Life in the Pleasures that are in this World but Self must be denyed by all that will be Disciples of Jesus for Christ Jesus has said He that will be my Disciple must deny himself and take up his daily Cross and follow me This Cross of Christ is not made with Hands but it is the Power of God which separates from the Evil that is in the World and crucifies and mortifies the Lust of the Flesh and leads out of the Pride of Life which is not of the Father but of this World and this World passeth away and the Glory of it Therefore fear man no longer whose Breath is in his Nostrils but fear and dread the Living God who will give unto every man a Reward according to the Deeds done in the Body whether they be Good or whether they be Evil this was the Doctrine of Christ Jesus who preached himself the Light of the World He said to the Jews If you believe not that I am he you shall dye in your Sins and whither I go you cannot come this was Christ's Testimony to the Unbelieving Jews Now Papists what will you do Will you believe Christ Jesus in whose Mouth was never Guile found Or will you believe your lying Priests who tell you of a Purgatory after Death which some of you must go into stay a while there and then go to Heaven afterwards where Christ Jesus is lying Priests Deceivers Murderers of Souls indeed for so I in truth can call

them they have not known the Word of the Lord as a Fire in them to burn up and to consume their Sins and their Iniquities and so being out of the Faith that purifies the Heart on this side the Grave have imagined a Purgatory after Death notwithstanding the Spirit of the Lord through his Faithful Servants in dayes past hath given this Testimony as it s left upon Record in the Holy Scriptures of Truth that As the Tree falls so it lies and there 's no Repentance in the Grave So that it is evident if man dyes in his Sins where Christ is thither he cannot come So the Gulf is fixed so that no unclean thing can enter the Kingdom of God and the Wicked and all those who forget God or neglect to answer God in the Day of their Visitation but sin out the Day of their Visitation shall be turned into Hell and the Lyar shall have his Portion in the Lake that burns with Fire and Brimstone Oh the Redemption of the Soul its very precious but it s not your Bowings to your Altars nor Praying to Saints or Angels that can redeem the Soul that has been in Death or add any thing thereunto if you should offer a Thousand Rams or Ten Thousand Rivers of Oyl nay if any of you should give the Fruit of your Bodies for the Sin of your Souls it will not avail But the New Creature it avails the Life of Christ it will avail and the Life of Christ is the Light of men and the Light appears and shines in all men to discover and to make manifest unto all those things that are reproved and that is the Spirit of Truth in thy own Heart and in thy own Conscience O Man and O Woman which convinces thee of Sin and reproves thee for doing the thing that is Evil Oh! turn ye at his Reproofs why will ye Dye his Spirit will not alwayes strive with Man but it strives at one time or another with every man that every man might be left without Excuse And this Cry has run often through me O Man cease from thy own Inventions and from thy own Imaginations and let the Word of Truth have a Place in thee that thou mayst be sanctified by it and cleansed from Sin by it before thou go hence and see man no more that is the Desire of my Soul for you all that have not sinned out your Day for there is no Repentance in the Grave and if no Repentance in the Grave then there is no Change nor no cleansing from Sin So away with your Imaginations of a Purgatory after Death for the Lord is risen and has manifested and is manifesting his Ancient Power which redeems the Soul out of all Evil on this side the Grave And the Church is come and coming out of the Wilderness leaning upon the Breast of her Beloved and she cryes Draw me and I will run after thee and the Day hastens in which her Glory shall be more and more seen and none shall be able to ecclipse her Glory but it shall dazle the Eyes of many Nations and many of the Sons and Daughters of men whose Region is now in the Darkness and under the Shadow of Death shall behold his Glory and shall fear before him who is our Strength our Rock and our Refuge and the Stay of our Minds and our sure Hiding place in the Time of Storms to whose Power belongs the Glory forever and for evermore and not to the Beast and False Prophet for their Portion is the Lake that burns forever and they that give their Strength to the Beast and False Prophet and receive his Mark in their Right-hand or Forehead shall be punished together with them And you Papists I must deal plainly with you and I must tell you That you are the People that are departed from the Faith that was once delivered to the Saints giving heed unto seducing spirits and doctrines of Devils speaking Lyes in Hypocrisie whereby many of your Consciences come to be seared as with a Hot Iron And you are forbidding Marriage which was God's Ordinance in Paradise before man fell and the Priests of God under the Law were Married and the Apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ were many of them Married and the Apostle Paul allowed of Marriage and said Let a Bishop be the Husband of one Wife and its better to Marry then to Burn And do not many of your Priests burn with Lust Let God's Witness in your Consciences arise and answer And they tell you You must Abstain from Meats on such dayes as they in their own Wills have appointed for Fasting Dayes and the next day after give Liberty to Excess of Eating and Drinking and spending much of the Creatures out of the Fear of God and give Liberty to Sports and Playes whereby Youth comes to be Corrupted and the Name of the Lord Blasphemed and call those dayes Holy Dayes and keep them as they say in Commemoration of the Saints whose Life they crucifie for they that live in Pleasures crucifie the Justs And do not your Sins exceed the Sins of Sodom which God overthrew And notwithstanding these things you would be counted the Church of Christ but you are seen to be of the Whore the False Church and not the Lamb's Wife your Fruits have made you manifest And these things were upon me and in the Love of God sprung in my Soul to you wards and I could not be clear till I was made willing to give them forth unto you And if for my Testimony ye Envy me or seek my Life be it known unto you I am not afraid of you for my Life is in the Hand of the Lord who is able to preserve me all whose Confidence is in him alone to the giving up of their Outward Lives unto the Outward Death and our Inward Life is out of the Reach of all your Envy and Malice it s hid with God in Christ Jesus who said Love your Enemies and if you were his Disciples you would obey his Commands and then you would kill no man about Religion but your Inquisitions would fall and that Murdering spirit in you that set them up From him who is a Lover of all your Souls but a Hater of all your Deceit who by many in Scorn is called a Quaker John Vaughton London written in the 2d Moneth 1676. 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