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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	deed_n	light_n	manifest_a	2,272	5	9.7572	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A28152	A word of reproof and advice to my late fellow-souldiers and officers of the English, Irish, and Scotish army with some inrhoad made upon the hireling and his mass-house, university, orders, degrees, vestments, poperies, heathenism, &c. : with a short catalogue of some of the fighting priests and ... have given them a blow in one of their eyes (pickt out of the whores head) which they call a fountain of religion but is a sink of iniquity ... / by E.B.	Billing, Edward, 1623-1686.	1659 (1659)	Wing B2903; ESTC R23695	86,580	98

beginning before the Scriptures began and Heaven and Earth may passe away with which the Scriptures must passe but the Word lives and abides for ever the Letter killeth but the Word gives Life and is quick and powerful and sharper then any two edged-sword and divides assunder betwixt the joynts and marrow and he that hath the word hath life and Simon Magus could not buy the Word for money but ● man may buy learn and have the Scriptures and be a Judas and quote them as the Devil did to Christ and yet be a devil and the Word became flesh and dwelt amongst us and His Name is the word of God and his vesture is dipped in blood and the Word is the Light the Hope the Way the Gospel the Door the Vine the Shepherd the fairest of Millions the Original the Kin● and Kingdom the way to the Kingdom and this Way this Word this Door this Hope this King and Kingdom this Christ this Original is above a● and all in all and in ye all except ye be reprobates for the Kingdom of Heaven is within ye and that which may be known of God is manifest in ye and these manifestations within doth the Scr●ptures of truth truly declare o● the same is the Original and not the Lat. Gr. and Heb. neither is it so much as a help to know the true and Living God for a man may have the tongues of men and Angels and yet be without God in the World and P●●ate may understand the Latin Greek and Hebrew full well and set it over the Originals head and go to hell with his understanding and those that have the tongues may be mad and at this day do wrest the Scriptures to their own destructions for want of learning as Peter said they did of old calling the book-learnt men an unlearned generation and himself had no letters and it is like Christ spake to none of the meanest letter-men when he said they had at no time seen the shape of God nor heard his voice and I am su●●●● was because they were not good Schollars n●r willing to learn for I am the Lords witness that he is found of all that truly learn to seek him and learnt of all those that fear him for his very secrets are with them that fear him and to know and believe in him and Jesus Christ whom he hath sent is absolute life eternal and he that believes not is condemned already and to day if ye will hear his voice harden not your hearts for it is the same voice within that calls to ye for equity and truth in your inner parts as did to them of old it is not another then what the Scriptures truly declareth of and let him that preaches or brings a Gospel contrary to that which they delare of be an athema maranatha so it is not sufficient to have the Latin Greek and Hebrew and be accounted Orthodox and an able Diviner when the womb is barren and the eye not kept in the head and that which brought the wo-to-man or the wo-man prevail which is not permitted to speak in the Church but is to be silent and ask the husband at home whether they be married or unmarried according to the flesh and happy and onely happy are they who are espoused to the Lamb and can witnesse the eternal mariage the unseparable tye which neither heights nor breadths nor depths nor lengths nor tribulation persecution principalities or powers whatsoever can separate And he that hath the word of God abiding in him which was in the beginning before the Scriptures Prophets holy men and Apostles were by whom the World was made before it was made He deserneth all things judgeth all things Mark all things Orthodox and non Orthodox Pilate and his Original and himself is judged of no man And the grace of God which brings salvation hath appeared to all men and that is the true light that doth enlighten every man that cometh into the World And this is the condemnation that light is come into the World and men love darkness rather then light because their deeds are evil for every one that doth evil hateth the light neither cometh to the light least his deeds should be reproved but he that doth truth cometh to the light that his deeds might be manifest that they are wrought in God John 3. And this is my testimony for the Original the Lord Jesus and is according to the word that Original which was in the beginning before the Scriptures began to and against all Babilonians from whence came and is derived all confusion and diversity of tongues but in the beginning it was not so for God was the Word and the Word is God E. B. THE END A VVORD To those who are called Dukes Marquesses Earles Viscounts Lords Barons Bannerets Baronets Knights of all sorts Esquires Gentlemen and to the women who are called these mens Ladies upon which rabble of appellations depends and hangs most of the bad people of this Nation And who is the deboicher and vitiator of women-kind I leave it to that of God in the Conscience of these who are called Lords and Ladies Gentlemen and Gentlewomen to judge AH Poor men and women repent repent repent for the Lords righteous Judgement is nigh even at the door to be poured forth against many of you who even hate to be reformed but like evil men and deceivers wax worse and worse being as it were rivetted to all manner of sin grown old in iniquity And although you are called Lords Ladies Gentlemen and Women yet for the most part ye are ungentle untame without the yoke your tongues at liberty to blaspheme the Name of the dreadful pure and living God and Ishmael-like scoff and speak evil of dignities and things ye know not cursers swearers fighters and killers one of another fierce despisers of them that are good many of you are and yet calls yourselves Gentlemen c. When as patience and long suffering is the thing ye truly know not and soberness with many of ye makes no long tarrying and with your lusts ye are led captive at the Devils will and amongst many yea very many of ye oppression is your constant in-mate envy cruelty lust exaltation and pride the very beloved of your bosoms and in your own particulars ye hurt the innocent ye grieve that which would be righteous ye slay and make merry over the witness swallowing down the cups of pleasure and iniquity as the Ox drinketh water ye oppress the seed ye put the Lord of Life to open shame ye crucifie him afresh and that continually In spiritual ●●●ne and Egypt all the day long ye are content to dwell and in the night season lye down in your beastialities and in the morning ye rise up early to drink wine take pleasure and commit sin with greediness boiling in your own lusts overwhelmed in gluttony wholly swallowed up in all manner of worldly delight being dead

and sends no man to prison nor keeps any in bonds without signifying the cause and having a just Law from the Lord for his or their detention that 's equal and just which the Lord help yee to know and obey for its the just which suffers in yee and the seed is oppressed and kept in bondage in your own particulars So wait upon the Lord in his fear which is the beginning of wisedom and yee shall hear a voyce behind yee saying this is the way oh walk in it and if ye be obedient ye shall eat the good of the Land and obedience is better then sacrifice and to hearken then the fat of rams although your sins be as scarlet and for number as the sand upon the Sea shore yet if ye believe in the Light and love the Light and bring all your deeds to the Light and see if they are wrought in God I● so it s a good deed do it and that Light is truth and is no lie oh dig deep for it for its within though the Inne be thronged with other guests and a vast quantity of iniquity is above the seed and the whole lump is sowred with the wrong leaven But the grain the seed or lost groat is there therefore seek diligently and ye shall find and having found it sell all and buy the Pearl and follow the L●mb whether soever he goes thorow good report and bad Oh! believe in and love the truth and abide in the truth and the truth shall make ye free and purge away all your drosse and Tynne then are you free indeed and the blood of Jesus shall cleanse ye from all sin and filthiness both of flesh and spirit and if you forsake your sins he is faithful and just to forgive ye your sins and your transgressions he will remember no more And ye who are called Dukes Lords Knights Gentlemen c. for the most part have your Education at the same fountain from whence comes the hireling and there have them for your Tutor Teacher and as yet few or none of ye exceed or are much wiser then your Teachers to salvation Neither indeed are ye like to learn of him who receives the wages of unrighteousness and stands not himself in the councel of the Lord For if they had stood in my Councel saith the Lord they would have turned many from their evil wayes and had they been the Ministers of Christ the World had not been so full of wickedness as at this day it is but indeed their converts are like themselves proud covetous high-minded and guilty of all manner of evil as the best of them will confess themselves to be and that their best doings is sinful and full of sin and if so which indeed they are it is impossible they shall convert one Soul to God for the prayers of the wicked are abomination to the Lord and the very best sacrifice that can be offered by the hands of an unclean persecutor who hurts or envies his Brother or imprisons for his belly is but as the cutting off a dogs neck for he that envies is a murtherer and it is natural for every father to beget a child after his own image and to speak to the very rational part in ye all If a man were to teach another man a science or a trade he cannot neither is it possible for him to teach another to do that which himself cannot do neither thinks possible to be done Mark the best of the Priests prayers and teaching are sinful as themselves confesse and their imperfect prayers may beget imperfection lust and uncleannesse which shall never en●●r the Kingdom nor dwell with the holy true God So if ye exceed not the wisdom of your tutors and Teachers and learn of the light and believe in the Light which was before Pope Colledge or Priest was although every man of yee could preach and pray as well as they can which is not hard to do I say both ye and your prayers are abominable in the sight of the pure God who hath no regard to the preaching and prophecying of sinful Prophets and themselves as well as their hearers may be cast-awayes And this is a great evil among ye who are called lords knights c. who have great estates upon which account poor men oftentimes lends ye great sums of money and those great estates for the most part ye entail or passe away by some private dispossession and by wicked fraudulent wayes and in this the wretched Lawyer befriends ye undoes many poor men and at your deaths your heirs takes the benefit of the wicked Laws and sayes to their fathers creditors he possesseth nothing but what he was born to but the Lords curse is upon that birth and heir-ship so that when ye dye your names stink and generations curse ye and the childe that is unborn is occasioned to speak evil of ye and in defence of this birth-right as they call it to be sure the wretched Lawyer will take your heirs part although he knows the whole matter to be unjust and it may be himself had the greatest hand in the former cheat so they do not help your sons to heir your estates onely but your iniquities also And if I should be accounted a sower of sedition or a subverter of the Laws a turner of the World up-side down a pestilent fellow or a Ring-leader of the sect of the Nazarenes and thought not worthy to live and should be put to death for it Yet I freely declare that I trust in and steadfastly believe and hope in my God that he will asswage the pride allay the malice quite confound for ever entinguish and utterly make rotten blot out the name of Pope at Rome Tithe-monger or Hireling in England with his Mass-houses and all that is Popery whatsoever devouring Lawyer Dukes Lords Knights Courts of honour and the thing that is now called Gentility But a Noble-man or a Gentle-man I truly love who are truly so By a true lover of a True Just Meek Gentle Noble-man who hates nor fears no man and cannot give flattering titles or respects the person of any man E. B. POST-SCRIPT DVkes and Marquesses I deny but the Millitary chief or inferiour Captain or leader I own Earls I deny but when we have a King like David or Moses let that king have his companions but let not an evil doer live in the Court and such companions will need no Esquires neither desire their sons to be lifted up with the title of Lords or Barons where the whole houshold serves the Lord and are believers such seeks no honour one of another Viscounts I deny but let there be many good Governours in every County for they are very much wanting notwithstanding there may be a Vis-count two or three Bannerets Baronets Knights of all sorts I deny but the just Souldier whether he be horse or foot I own in his place a place for whom I find for when the