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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	darkness_n	light_n	world_n	4,608	5	5.1919	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A84841	A word from the Lord, to all the world, and all professors in the vvorld; spoken in parables: wherein all may come to read themselves through the parables, and see where they are; also a word to all professors, who cast the pure law of God behind their backs, and turn the grace of God into wantonness, and despite the day of their visitation; with a dreadful voice to all the children of darkness, who hate and deny the light; that all may come to see themselves, and repent, before the fierce wrath of the Lord, which is kindled in England, sweep you all away: by them who are redeemed out of the curse, to serve the living, called Quakers.	Fox, George, 1624-1691.	1654 (1654)	Wing F1991A; Thomason E809_6; ESTC R207560	15,809	15

the Just whose Sac ifice God doth not accept and thou that art Cain who livest in envy God doth not accept thy Sacrifice all your Preaching all your Praying all your Singing and all your Praysing is not accepted of God whilest you live in envy for it is the pure that he accepts and the heart that he requires and not the murtherers Sacrifice for that is Cains Wo Wo to the world and woe to all you that turn the Grace of God into wantonness Wo wo unto all disobedient children that will not take Council of the Lord Wo wo to you that paint your selves with other mens words that appear beautifull to men outwardly but within are full of poyson whited Walls painted Sepulchres full of Deceit and Hypocrisie outside-Churches outside-Forms outside-Teachers Formal-Prayers Formal-Teachings Formal-Singing Formal-Praises Carnal-Teachers speaking the Carnal-Letter for Carnal-Money to Carnal and Brutish People Away with all this filthy Profession for the Curse of God is upon it and upon all that filthy Nature And the Cursed Nature holds it up Who are Redeemed from the Curse their Church is in God and their Teacher is God and they are brought to obey the Law of God who Teacheth holiness without which none shall see God who Teacheth Pureness and Meekness Tenderness and Righteousness And to lay aside all Envy Wrath Malice Hatred Drunkenness Rayling Theft Murther Fighting Quarrelling and Idle-Jesting Vain-Songs and all Venomousness all Hypocrisie Cozening and Cheating Worldliness and Earthly-mindedness For these are the Works of the Flesh and who act these things shall never inherit the Kingdom of God O all People confider where you are there is a light in you that tells you that all these things are sinful Herein you have learned your Condemnation for you know that you should do no unrighteousness this light is your Teacher and this light is your Condemner and if you love this light you love Christ and if you hate this light you hate Christ for this light shews these things and your Profession is Carnal Heathenish and Brutisn Hearken to the light and it will draw you out of all the Worships Customs and Fashions in the world up to God and to live in Love and Unity one with another gather in your hearts together in one Now you have time prize it O all People beware of the Woe and Misery that is coming upon you the Earth shall be shaken and all Earthly ways And all your Profession shall come to nothing but to be Fewel for the fire Heathenish-Ways Heathenish-Forms Heathenish-Teachers For God is coming to overturn the Kingdoms of the World and to set up his own Son and in Righteousness will he establish it and throw down all Unrighteous Kingdoms all the Heathenish Kingdoms and Synagogues of Satan You which have Professed the Saints words will be found to be of the Devil and out of the Truth Squeaking-Professors Fained-Professors Away with all your Fained-Humilite for God is Power Away with all your Professors that Profess God and Christ being within full of Blood-thirsty-devouring to slay the Righteous And you which Profess truth and live not in it but in Envy and Sin You are of the Devil and his Works ye do and every Tree shews forth its Fruit and ye are Trees A good Tree bringeth sorth good Fruit and an evil Tree bringeth forth evil Fruit. Now all People consider which of these Trees you are every man and woman is likened to a Bottle New Wine is put into New Bottles and Old Wine into Old Bottles And what is within you Pours forth the Old Bottle pours forth the Old Nature Which is Envy Wrath Malice ra●…ing Gods Name in vain Swearing Lying Pride and Oppression and sp●wing forth your Filthiness Corruptness and all Abominations and all ●…ng●…dly-Deeds and Unrighteous-Ways and your Filthy-Profession which is in 〈◊〉 Wisdom of the World by which Wisdom the World knows not God and he that drinks the Old doth not desire to drink the New and he that drinks the New will not in anywise desire to drink the Old Out of the New Bottle proceeds Righteousness or Rivers of Living-Water all People see and consider which Tree and which Bottle you are Whether the good Tree which cannot bring forth evil Fruit or the evil Tree which cannot bring forth good Fruit Whether you be the New Bottle that pours forth Righteousness Holiness and Purity Or the Old Bottle which pours forth Wickedness and all manner of Ungodliness All People see consider what Fountain you are Whether the good Fountain that venteth out Righteousness or the evil Fountain that venteth out evil and Unrighteousness Spewing out the Venomous Nature One Fountain doth not send forth Sweet-Water and Bitter Salt and Fresh And you that send forth the Bitter-Water you may Profess to be of the Sweet-Fountain But God knows your Hypocrisie and the Plagues of God are to be poured forth upon all such Beasts For you are Beasts Doggs Swine and Devils Who do not abide in the Truth Fat Bulls of Bashan Hypocrites and Serpents Antichrists Seducers and Deceivers Dragons Murtherers and Devourers of them that abide in the Truth But they that abide in the Truth the Deceits of all the World are discovered to them TO all the children of darkness that stumble at the light wherewith Christ hath enlig●ted every one that cometh into the world saith Christ I am the light of the world he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness but shall have the light of life And this light you deny to be sufficient to lead to God and here you are unbelievers and cannot believe in the Son of God whom the father hath given for a Covenant of light that whosoever believes in him should not abide in darkness but you that deny this light deny the way to the father the way out of the world the way out of darkness you deny the Prophets and Apostles and all the holy men of God for they all walked in this light and spoke of it and you deny the Scriptures given out from this light and by this light you are condemned and found to be of that sort which all that dwelt in the light bear witness against for of this sort you are who deny the light Such as are blind guides proud and covetous such as are called of men Masters such as bear rule by your means hirelings greedy dumb dogs such as seek for their gain from their quarters seeks for the Fleece lay heavy burdens on the people such as go in the way of Cain and after the error of Balaam for gifts and rewards and such as with feigned words make merchandize of the people which Christ the light and all that vvalked in the light cryed vvoe against and their vvords in the Scripture are left as a vvitness against you all vvho live in such things vvhich vvords you dare not stand to be tryed by they are so plain against your practice but vvrest them by your subtilty giving other meanings and private interpretations on them to make them fit your private ends and filthy practices and thereby they have covered your filthiness and hid your iniquities all these times of dark 〈◊〉 ●nd have gone under the name of the Ministers of Christ by crying out against others for persecuting quarrelling fighting stocking stoning suing covetousness pride and idleness and thus by your fair pretences have ye deceived the simple but novv that the same Christ is manifest vvhich hath alvvays been persecuted by his light are they discovered to be these vvho garnish the Sepulchres of Christ the Prophets and Apostles whom your fathers slew which ye your selves are in the same work are not you now found beating backbiting stocking imprisoning suing false-accusing and perswading the Powers of the earth against the bodies of these where the light of Christ is owned and the brightness of his coming manifest to lay you open so that the Prisons are filled by your means who would have believed within these few years that you had been of them of which Christ spoke by which his messengers should be shamefully intreated beat in the Synagogues halled before Rulers falsly accused and imprisoned who would have thought you had been the men who should have been found beating your fellow servants suing and imprisoning for tythes and hire such who cannot uphold you but sin against the light of Christ in their conscience and these whom a few weeks since you counted the most consciencious of your hearers to whom you cryed peace peace now that they cease putting into your mouths you prepare war against them and here you are found in the steps of the false Prophets who were enemies to the light and were witnessed against by the light as all who walk in the light are now turned away from you and are come out from you and made to declare against you with that light and now by such as are turned from the light are ye upholden and to them ye flye for refuge and now you set up drunkards swearers scorners fighters such as deny the light and bring forth works of darkness to uphold you with clubs stones and stocks fighting and tearing by the hair of the head and shedding of blood of such as are sent to vvitness against you and the most envious and cruel are become your best friends and the Scripture is fulfilled upon you all Like People like Priest and the woe that came upon such is coming upon you all except you repent FINIS

who hath not Jesus Christ who follow such Priests as are called of men Masters As a Garden without thee and dressing it without so is Christ and his Spouse the Saints As there is a weeding without thee so the weeding of the weeds are in the heart Thistles without thee the nature of Thistles within thee Sower Grapes without thee thou that art turned from the Truth hast the nature of sower Grapes in thee As thou seest the wild Grapes without thee which set the childrens teeth an edge without thee so they set their teeth an edge who are growing in the truth and take of that which Acts contrary to the light and the light will let ye see as the night without thee and darkness so there is night within and as Stars without thee so there are Stars within thee as Moon without thee so there is Moon within thee and as Clouds without thee so there are Clouds within thee These are all Earthly Figures And as the Sun without thee so the Sun of Righteousness arising with healing in his wings within thee All who mind the measure which God hath given you it will open unto you these earthly Figures unto that nature in you which God spake and will teach you as you go up and down you shall read your Figures as covering without you so there is covering within Woe to him that is covered and not with the Spirit of the Lord and as a Fire and an Oven without thee and as Stubble without thee All you Proud and all you Wicked are as stubble to be consumed in the fire as fire doth the stubble Now this light will shew you these Figures Here you may read Scriptures thou that lovest the light thou that hatest this light canst not see these Figures But it is the invisible that opens these that gave them forth And here thou that art unlearned in the Letter maist read the Scripture and as the secret Chambers without thee hearken to the light within thee and it will let thee see the secret places where the retired place the secret Chambers are and as a Prison without thee so there is a Prison within where the seed of God lyes And as there is Threshing without thee it will let thee see Threshing within thee Chaffe without thee the Chaffe within Wheat without thee so there is Wheat within This light of God which gave forth the Scripture this light of God according to its measure will open the Scripture to thee For man being drove into the earth and the earth being above the seed So as the earth without thee so the earth within thee The Lord speaking low things Comparisons like to that nature in man that man may look upon the Creation with that which is Invisible and there read himself there thou maist see where-ever thou goest And to all you the word of the Lord that hath learned the Letter of the Scripture your Hebrew Greek and Latine Who hate the light within you and say every one hath not the light To you shall I open my mouth in some Parables Ye are the painted walls as ye see the painted walls without you so your painted walls there is your Figure and as you see men stumble without you which are blind So do you which say that every one hath not the light and that every one is not enlightned For ye stumble at the eye which should let you see and your mouth is the mouth of the false Prophet which the Scripture speaks of The true Prophet saith he enlightned every one that comes into the world and there was but two and there is but two and them that saith he doth not enlighten every one that cometh into the world and he saith he doth enlighten every one that cometh into the world thou art the false Prophet and goest about to make Christ a lyar who is the true Prophet Ye are the hypocrites who are hipt above the truth and your fair faces and ye are the thieves which steal your neighbours words and ye are filthy dreamers Which saith Christ hath not enlightned every one that cominto the world they speak a lye the definition of their own brain and sell the Prophets words and Christs words for money which was spoken forth freely Ye tell people ye Preach the Gospel who Minister the Letter and know not the Gospel and ye tell them that the Letter is the Word And the Letter saith God is the Word and ye tell them the Letter is the Light The Letter saith Christ is the Light The Lord is coming in flames of fire flames of fire without you as you see with a natural eye see flames of fire who have the light come upon you You ungodly ones as a sword without which hews down So shall ye that are wicked find the sword of the Lord which is the word of the Lord hew you down and as you see fire burning without you so ye that hate the Light wels without water say every one hath not the Light and as a Cloud without you so are the Clouds without water and all your knowledge Hebrew Greek and Latine is natural and the natural man knoweth not the things of God Therefore to all people everywhere to that light in you I speak which shews you Sin and Evil to be Works of Darkness and Deeds of the flesh O the Old man there is your Teacher and there is your Condemnation hating that light And ye are they that get the Saints Words in the old Bottles and ye give meanings to them ye who are of the Generation that murthered ever the Righteous seed as Bottles without you so are you Bottles New Wine put into New Bottles the Old Wine put into Old Bottles and that is a Figure And as Trees with leaves without that bears no Fruit so are they that have oppression and no life nor no fruit As Suns and Daughters without born by the will of man so there are Sons and Daughters of God born by the will of God Heirs of another World as these are born in this World and as there is the world without you so there is the World in the heart as there is the field without so there is the field in the heart As there is the Merchant-man without that seeks for Pearls without so there is the Merchant-man that seeks for Pearls within and as there is the Kingdom without sothere is the Kingdom of heaven within and the Axe is laid to the Tree Root without to hew down the Tree without so the Axe is laid to the Tree within that brings not forth good Fruit And as Trees cumber the ground without upon the earth so do men cumber the ground fruitless Trees And as there are Rocks without there are Rocks within as there is cleaving of Rocks without so is there cleaving of Rocks within As there are heavy burdens without so there are heavy burdens within the pure are burthened And as the rain falls upon