Linguistic DNA - Concept Modelling Demonstrator

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	believe_v	jesus_n	true_a	1,988	5	5.0090	4	false

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A51567	The spirit of the hat, or, The government of the Quakers among themselves as it hath been exercised of late years by George Fox, and other leading-men, in their Monday, or second-days meeting at Devonshire-House, brought to light : in a bemoaning letter of a by G.I.	Mucklow, William, 1631-1713.	1700 (1700)	Wing M3035_VARIANT; ESTC R32093	22,482	45

Ministry c. and unclean Strumpets and judge so openly the mistake of a person when the Actions were true and in the same House Is not this apparently to discourage persons from discovering these things and encouraging of the other in their filthy and defiled Conversations whom God will judge He that justifieth the wicked and condemneth the Innocent is an abomination to the Lord. Again those that forbore the custom of their Hats in Prayer could not partake of their Rights as a Member until a Renunciation thereof and for no other cause when Zealots for that form tho' guilty of uncleanness and other vile abominations and the persons accused for the same yet allow'd to minister as a Teacher and employed in the Service for the Body Such was the rigidness That persons only suspected to favour the forbearers of the Hat must bear a publick Testimony against them and their Spirit or else be liable to be disown'd If they were not drunk with an Arbitrary Power they might sure find out a medium for the omittance of so small a Ceremony between an Ejection and an Approbation between owning a person and not giving him a liberty to exercise his Conscience If this kind of Judicature had been set up in the Apostles days what Confusions what Disorders what Divisions what Rents and Breaches had there been in the Church there being some that held a necessity of keeping the Ceremonial Law others not some for keeping of Days others every Day alike some for eating of Meats others of Herbs some for Circumcision others not And Paul to preserve the Unity notwithstanding these differences writ not to judge one another in Meats c. but to wait till God reveals it to him And if G. F. and the Body had but this moderation what a Harmony what a Unity would there have been amongst us The Papists had a way to try all suspected Persons by namely that they call the Sacrament of the Altar the Protestants the Oath of Allegiance and Supremacy as also the Renunciation of the Covenant the Presbyter the Covenant it self And this Body tries suspected Persons by this namely Hast thou given Testimony against the Spirit of the Hat I could never get any of them to define what this Hat-Spirit is And as the Papists to render the Protestants odious styled them Hereticks the Protestants Phanaticks Puritans and all Sects call us in scorn Quakers and the same Spirit of reproach hath entered this Body in stiling the forbearance of the Hat Hatters Hat-men If any may have that Appellation it 's rather due unto you who keep it off upon a Religious Account than upon those who keep it neither off nor on upon a Religious Account They of the Circumcision were so called not because they forbore the practice of that Act but because they still continued in it and it 's preposterous to give Nick-names unto persons for not doing of a Thing by the name of the Thing We were called Quakers because we trembled at his Word not because we did it not We displeased Man because we do not uncover our Heads before him we say and say true true Respect doth not lie in the uncovering of our Heads a pitiful low thing to lay honour and respect in a Hat we say it 's the honour below which perisheth We say it 's an honour that may be trampled upon and laid in the Dust as William Baley and others well said and many of these men that have born this faithful Testimony are so far backslidden that they say there is a Respect and Reverence due unto God in it Let the Judicious judge whether the Honour and Reverence which they give God in this thing according to their own words be not the honour below which perisheth They do not deny the giving of this Cap-honour unto Men because there is honour in it but because there is no solidity in it for just and true honour they acknowledge is due unto Superiours and altho ' G. F. and others have trampled upon this Hat-honour as the most vile Excrement yet he and they do say unto us You give no more reverence unto God than unto a Horse Is it not strange that these men shall lay so much stress upon a Hat as a Duty due unto God when they have look't upon it as a poor low thing when Man hath required it and to make us more odious we are called Ranting-Spirits when we do abhor and abominate that monstrous Principle It 's probable many do forbear that practice what then must I therefore be a Ranter Nay surely no more than they are Papists that are in the same Exercise with them in this outward Observation The Ranter gives no honour at all unto God neither inward nor outward but makes a derision at the Name of the Lord. We do not forbear the Hat in this disdain or for want of reverence to the Holy Pure God for if he required it I believe we could not only offer that but our lives also in the Service of the Lord and for his Truth but because he doth not require this of us but rather a more Spiritual Reverence It is therefore an abuse to be stiled Ranting-Spirits It is a true Saying and worthy our Observation That they conspire together to destroy the Child Jesus in us These ill Ministers conjoyn together to subvert our Laws and Liberties given by the Great Jehovah by obstructing or denying of Justice if they apprehend it sutes not to their Interest which is as the Life and Blood to the Body and doth give warmth and motion to every Member which is nourished and enlivened by it but being once stopped and seared up as the particular must of necessity faint and languish so must the whole frame be dissolved and assuredly tho' they are lifted up as it were unto Heaven in their proud imaginations the Righteous God will blast all their exalted expectations and they shall die and perish in the general dissolution because they have not regarded the Fatherless nor pitied the poor in Spirit nor compassionated the tender Conscience which feared to sin against the Lord but crushed spoyled and oppressed without bowels of mercy those that had little strengh to help themselves invaded their Rights violated their Liberties endeavoured to take the Meat from the Children and give it unto Dogs Heretofore before they were high and mighty they were the Balm of Gilead which healed our Wounds restored our Spirits and shewed us the way of Salvation but of late years like the Fig-tree mentioned in Luke without efficacy without Fruit only destructive to the particular Members who discharge their Duties and Consciences whereas they should be like the good Old-man who dieth in a full age after he hath fought a good Fight and overcome the Evil one they should be like the Shock of Wheat which cometh in in due season to uphold our lives with the staff of Bread and not unjust Judges to overthrow our Liberties nor proud

Lord without fear and be found in the Exercise of nothing in the Worship of God but what his pure Spirit leads unto and out of that Truth may spring up in the hearts of thousands by enjoying of this holy Liberty and that God may be exalted in the Earth that the Horn of all Oppressions may be broken and dasht to pieces to the praise of the Name of the Lord that the Light of his Glory may shine in our Temples in its strength and lustre not wanting a proud Lordly Body to rule over us nor a proud wanton lazy Ministry to monopolize his precious Truth from us but that every one may sit under his own Vine without fear and eat his Bread at his own Table And God bears me this Testimony That his Truth as it hath been declared is dear unto me and the Principles delivered my Soul doth own and therefore according to my Measure ought to have a place in the Body but from the Body of Christ and the Unity of his Spirit they cannot exclude me and therefore my Soul is abundantly satisfied and refreshed in my solitary Retirements and desires not to join hands to oppress any nor yet to give up my neck unto the Yoke of Bondage nor my Back to the Oppression nor my Judgment and Eyes to the Body Though I can give my Back to the Smiter and my Cheeks to the pulling off of the Hair yet it is through a patient suffering and not a fordid slavish subjection And altho' they daily exercise the Oppressions before-mentioned yet by their deceitful flatteries they make people believe That they are a harmless innocent and peaceable People suffering and hearing wrong but not doing any or if any persons Write or Speak their Grief that the Publick take notice of they will represent them under such terms as may render them odious and the more effectually to weaken their Testimonies they will fix upon them scurrilous and contemptible Appellation as Scotch-men Welch-men Tinker Taylor c. some of them utterly untrue and to prevent an inquisition into the truth of the matter they would make people believe that they are envious malicious and discomposed Spirits bad dirty factious and ranting Spirits who are gone from Truth and are out of Truth Such is the portion of those that appear in the least against their imperious tyrannical and lascivious Actions and what-ever Man detected the fallacies and destructive Cheats of imperious disdainful men but was thus reproached Must it be justice in them to complain of their Oppressions and Envy and Malice c. in us to complain of ours their years are but few yet verily they have been exceeding expert in learning of the Papists subtilties If I have any interest in a Burial-place and displease the Body by discharging of a good Conscience I shall be deprived thereof and be necessitated to seek a place for my dead else-where albeit the Truth as it hath been declared is dear unto and precious with me for say they Thou opposest Friends who are in the Truth Let the Spiritual Man judge whether this is not a setting up themselves yea let the reasonable Man judge whether this is not to dispose of my Right and Propriety by Will and Pleasure they are like the Pharisees of old who were more zealous to keep up their Traditions than the Law given from the Lord for they are more zealous to keep up their power as a Body than the Truth it self It appears plainly unto the Just and Righteous Man that G. F. and the rest of his Councel have endeavoured to subvert the Royal Law of Liberty and to introduce an Arbitrary and Tyrannical Government over the Conscience over the Flock of God These are the ravening Wolves which prey upon the little Ones in a Lordly Spirit This is that envenomed spirit which hath tainted their Judgments poysoned their Hearts and blinded their Eyes how hainous it is in the Nature how mischievous in the Effects of it which will best appear if it be examined by that infallible Law To do as we would be done unto This is the Foundation of all Laws out of which they are derived this is the Supream Law and the Health of the People and end of all Laws to which they are designed And how far this Spirit in them stands in opposition to this Law I shall further manifest They pretend and claim an Infallibility in Judgment c. not that I am against Infallibility but that it is in a special manner peculiar to them as they are a Body this I am against yet who more fallible in Judgment than they who more partial in Justice And what can be more dangerous and destructive to the well-being of a People than such a claim without it If they were in it assuredly they would boast less be more humble and chast more self-denying and mortified in their Conversations I shall be liable to transgress by breaking a Law hidden in their Breasts that must be a Crime which they are pleased to say is so all must be error which they please to call so What say they dost thou see dost thou feel that which the Body doth not thou art in an exalted Spirit the Body hath not unity with it if it had been a true motion the Body would have a sence thereof behold the Touch-stone and certainly in their degenerated Natures as many great enormities have been so greater will be produc'd Lust will become a Law Envy will become a Law Ambition and Covetousness will become Laws What Dictates what Divisions such Laws will produce may easily be discerned by the â—ate Vicissitudes to dispose of all to the maintenance of it self The bounds of the Royal Law they have removed and broken and this mischief must needs ensue in the stead thereof Tyranny establishâ—d and yet they will tell us It 's for the honour of Truth and its service from the Spirit of Truth What greater dishonour can there be to the Lord God of Heaven and Earth than to pretend â—is Holy Pure Spirit in the practice of Injustice â—nd Oppression and to make use of his great Name and Power to patronize their pride and exâ—lted Spirits Such arbitrary courses have an ill Operation upon â—he Spirits of Men it weakens their Hearts and â—ools their Courage and begets in them a slavish Temper and Disposition and where this arbitraâ—y and unlimited Power is set up a way is open not â—nly for the security but for the Advancement and â—ncouragement of Evil and a means to Increase â—latterers Such Men are aptest to cry up the â—ody in all respects and are the only good Friends â—ut others though exemplary in their Conversations who cannot yield and comply against the light in their Consciences to some of their proceedings are subject to their Jealousie Censure if not an Ejection In days past the Lord raised up a Moses to be a Ruler and Leader to his People Israel who were then under Types Figures and

Shadows and the Lord spake to his People by his Servant Moses But another Administration more glorious is established to wit The Dispensation of the Son of God whom Moses prophesied of who speaketh from Heaven who is the end of all Figures Types and Shadows he who is the substance of all Types c. is now the Great Captain and Leader of his People make use of and lays by what Instruments he pleaseth reveals his Mind sometimes to one sometimes to another without respect to Persons or Bodies as he pleaseth That there may be no glorying but in the Lord He abaseth the proud and exalteth the humble hides his mind from the High and Mighty from the Wise and Prudent and reveals himself unto Babes and therefore he needeth not a Fox nor a Body to conveigh his Will unto his People he being himself their Teacher and hath planted his Laws in their Hearts and given them an holy Anointing to know the Spirit of Truth from the Spirit of Error And albeit the Kings of the Earth exercise Lordship and Authority over their People yet it ought not to be so among the Disciples of Christ being all Brethren But for the greatest to be well contented to serve in the meanest employment if the Lord requires it as to be served to hearken and submit to the Voice of his Spirit in the least Babe as in the greatest or as in the Body And I affirm the Lord did not raise them up to bring us off from the barren Mountains to feed upon them who are now become a Desart nor from under our Oppressors to turn Oppressors themselves Let them remember the Army it is their Figure and if the Lord's anger waxed hot against them for their Unfaithfulness what will be the Portion of these who have so deeply Apostatized fram clearer Manifestations Many of the most Eminent have had potent Impulses to give forth solid and sound Arguments for Liberty of Conscience and have pleaded strongly for the same yet George Fox was heard to say in a selected great Assembly thus Though many Friends have writ for Liberty of Conscience I never lik'd the Word it is not a good Word no Liberty to the Presbyterians no Liberty to the Papists no Liberty to the Independants no Liberty to the Baptists c. Liberty is to be only in the Truth and saith he no Liberty out of the Power In Answer unto this Truth gives Liberty unto the weak yet no weakness in the Truth Since the Spirit is withdrawn they do greatly boast the Power is as much and as fresh as ever if so they would be more refreshed with it and less with Sleep in their Assemblies and their Unity as entire as ever Yet verily sharper Contentions are seldom sound amongst any People To prove this I will set down two notable Examples it is between four famous and eminent Elders First Tho. Salthouse and John Bolton T. S. beâ—ng a man of some Moderation and Tenderness used his endeavours to beget a Reconcilement between the Practicers and Forbearers of the Hat in Prayer and to receive each other as Brethren though they differ in that particular thing but that high and hot-spirited Elder J. B. called him false Prophet reputed him worse than the Forbearers and opposed his Ministry untill with much ado a Reconcilement was made by a condescention on both parts The other is between G. Fox and Sam. Newton who being a man of some Honesty and Cleanness in his Spirit was against having of a Person to Act in their behalf as in relation to Sufferings whose Conversation Preached not Righteousness but G. F. opposed him with so much wrath and violence that some there present thought he would have strucken him he being a person so rightly qualified and accomplished for George's Interest Such is the swelling Pride of this Luciferian that he gave forth a Paper That his Marrirge witâ— Margaret Fell was a Figure of the Marriage between Christ and the Church I may more justly believâ— it to be a Figure of the great Apostacy from thâ— Truth and barrenness in the Truth He likewise declared That his Marriage was â—bove the state of Adam in his Innocency in the statâ— of the second Adam who never fell This Papeâ— was so ill Resented and so much dislik'd that iâ— was called in again and a rare thing it was to geâ— a sight there of albeit through an accident I haâ— a View of it The abovesaid Samuel Newton and John Bolton to give them their due have not taken a littlâ— Pains Labour and Travel to bring to Light anâ— to Judgement such unheard of Practises of beastly wantonness and filthy uncleanness that it is hard to believe the excess thereof But John Bolton hath or had a Confession in Writing from one or two of the Female Persons concern'd of the Debauched Actions to declare the truth thereof yet notwithstanding they met with such great Obstructions and Opposition that they cannot accomplish a thorow Examination of it because it toucheth many Eminent Ones in the Ministry who from day to day resorted unto them and giving them these Appellations Innocent Lasses and Daughters of Sion Sometimes it comes to pass that two approved of in the Ministry will oppose and Judge each other in publick Assemblies in the Name of the Lord but to prevent the evil effects therof the next day Persons shall be appointed to declare the Greatness of their Unity and the Oneness in their Spirits But least there should be a misapplication of what I have Written when I express the Body I do declare my meaning is The Second Days Meeting at Devonshire-house with some other Principals in other Countries who are their Abettors and not the whole Body of the People called Quakers for I am assured and well know that very many have not bowed to this Golden Image with whom my Soul hath Unity and with whom I am Refreshed And moreover I meet with many who will freely open their Hearts to me with grieved and sorrowful Spirits to behold what Domineering and what partial Judgment is practised what Severity and Tyrany is Exercised at this Meeting but especially against Dissenters But say they it is out of our Power to Redress it until God doth Change their Hearts or give us more Power reckoning themselves at present too weak to grapple with these Goliah's unless the little Stone be given them to smite them on their Foreheads or Words to this purpose Let us trust in the Lord and wait upon him with patience in Faith which overcomes the World that he will thresh the Mountains and rebuke the High and Mighty who are Exalted above their Measures and exalt his Truth over all that Justice and Righteousness may flow as a River to the rejoycing of his Oppressed People and to the Praise and Glory of his Name for ever From a deep Mourner in Israel to behold how the Earth is filled with Violence and the Righteous Seed Oppressed Dear Friend It hath pleased the Lord to raise thee up to bear a Testimony against an Adulterous Tyrannical and an Hypocritical Generation let the Word of the Lord therefore have a free passage in and through thee and Consult not with Flesh and Blood Watch against the Enemy left he darken thy Understanding that thou canst not distinguish between the Precious and the Vile Mix not thy own Thoughts with the Motions of the Spirit keep in the Fear and in the Humility that an exalted Spirit may be kept out Build thy House upon the Rock of Ages and stand in the unchangeable without wavering that thy Conversation may be without Blemish thy Judgment withot Error and thy Love unto the Truth without Dissimulation Be Faithful unto the Lord's Requirings that Disobedience may not enter Rember the Root bearâ— the Tree and the Tree the Branches if the natural Branches were cut off through unbelief and thou with thousands grafted in be not high-minded but fear From a Little hidden One of the Flock of Jesus

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