Linguistic DNA - Concept Modelling Demonstrator

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	devil_n	father_n	lie_n	3,415	5	9.0726	5	true

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A05464	[Come out of her my people] or an ansvver to the questions of a gentlevvoman (a professour in the Antichristian Church of England) about hearing the publicke ministers vvhere it is largely discussed and proved to be sinfull and unlavvfull. Also a iust apologie for the way of total separation (commonly but falsely called Brownisme) that it is the truth of God, though lightly esteemed in the eyes of the blinde world. With a challenge to dispute with them publickly before King & Counsell: to prove whatsoever I said at the pillery against them. Viz. that the calling of them all is jure diabolo: even from the divell himselfe. By mee John Lilburne. Close prisoner in the Fleete for the cause of Christ.; Come out of her my people.	Lilburne, John, 1614?-1657.	1639 (1639)	STC 15596; ESTC S107364	35,511	36

use of to defend themselves against their Opposites For saith Paul the Weapons of our warfar are not carnall but mighty through God to the pulling downe of strong holds and casting downe imaginations and every high thing that exalteth it selfe against the knowledge of God bringing into captivity every thought into the obedience of Christ 2 Cor. 10.4.5 These be the Weapons and these alone of the servants of God But on the contrary the servants of the Devill their Weapons are Tyrannie crueltie and shedding of blood Rev. 9. and 11.7.8 and 13.7.15.16.17 where the Holy Ghost saith that the Beast the cheife members of whom the Prelates are should make warre with the Saints should overcome them cause them as many as would not worship the Image of the Beast should be killed and that none might buy or sell save he that had the marke of the Beast or the number of his name And whether the Prelates doe not in every thing make good this portion of Scripture for I know some that are excommunicated by them and that they must neither buy nor sell nor eate nor drinke with any man let their constant cruel unheard of blood-thirstie practises declare witnesse manifest and therfore Oh you Prelats you doe plainly shew whose sonnes servants you are namely the sonnes servants of the Devill himselfe as Christ himself doth prove declare who hath given a lively true description of the childred servants of the Devill saying unto the Iewes who sought to kill him as the the Prelats doe his faithfull people servants who boasted that they were Abrahams sonnes Children But saith he if you were the Children of Abraham you would do the workes of Abraham but yee are of your father the Diuell and the lusts of your father yee will doe Hee was a murtherer from the beginning abode not in the truth because there is no truth in him when he speaketh a lie he speaketh of his owne for he is a lyar and the father of it Iohn 8.39.40 Here Oh you Prelates Christ doth show how his people servants may assuredly know you to be sons servants of the devill for he describes sets you forth by two markes first the Devill is a murderer so are you therfore you are his sonns he is your father for have you not taken away the lives of Gods faithfull people servants Witnesse those that went to Tiburne by your procurment meanes in Queene Elizabeths time who were neither Traitours nor Rebels but faithfull subjects servants to her Majestie but only they were opposit to your Antichristian Babilonian Kingdome and therfore you caused them to be murdred and more you would have murdred but her clemencie mercy was such that she would not to the full satisfy your blood-thirstie murdering desire Also have you not kept others in prison till you have undone them in their outward estats means that you have made them to pine away with hunger want which the Holy Ghost saith is a torment worse then to be put to death by the sword Lament And some have lost their lives by your meanes in prison And also have not ye even ye shed the blood of those three worthies of the Lord only for spirituall things who were neither Traitours nor Rebels but faithfuller subjects then your selvs as they have proved in their crosse-bill against you and did write nor teach neither treason sedition nor rebellion but only opposed themselves against your ungodly wicked Kingdome The memory of that unpareleld act of crueltie is yet fresh both in your eyes eares the like whereof in any Christian state where the gospel hath been professed was never heard of in the world I know others have had too deepe a hand in being your assistants and have condescended too much to your wicked desires But with them I will not nor doe not in the least meddle nor have nothing to say to them but pray and desire God to open their eyes and to give them true repeÌ„tance for their sin if it be his will pleasure so I leave theÌ„ But you you only have been the originall fountaine true cause of all the righteous blood that hath been shed in this land or Kingdom for matters of Religion conscience ever since the dayes of your first predecessour Austin the Monke even unto this present houre who came from the bloody Citty of Rome Rev. 17. with Antichrists Authoritie Law the foundation of his your Kingdome with exceeding much blood as we reade in Francis Godwins Cattalogue of Bishops from the 37. page to the 48. And it hath beene by you your forefathers maintained upheld by Tyrannie blood ever since to this very time as I will justifie it maintaine it before your faces age after age even unto this very day And the foresaid Author in that Booke who was a Bishop one of your owne Creatures for his booke of Meeters doth in part prove it and therefore know assuredly that the Lord will require the righteous blood of all his Saints servants at your hands which you your murdering Predecessours have spilt in abundant manner And to me that am but a poore weake young stripling little above 20. yeares of age who you have cast into prison for a thing I was not guiltie off as I declared before the faces of the Cheif of you yet you have condemned me upon two false oaths in which the partie as I am able to prove hath sworne flatly against himselfe for in his first Oath he sweareth that I Mr. Wharton had printed Doctor Bastwicks Bookes together and then in his second Oath he swore that I did them alone And upon these grounds you have exercised upon me such unheard of acts of crueltie that the like wherof Paul himselfe among all those tyrants strange Beasts Heathens Pagans with whom he had to deale had never exercised inflicted upon him though he was the greatest sufferer 2 Cor. 11. that ever I read off but only Christ who for the sake the salvation of his elect underwent the wrath of God himselfe which no abstracted Creature was able to stand under But first in all Pauls sufferings I never reade that ever his mouth was gaged but you have gaggd me for speaking neither lyes faction nor sedition but only the naked Truth the space of an houre halfe whereas if I had uttered any errours or untruths you being as you say you are spirituall Fathers you ought there publjckly to have confuted me in the presence of the people you cannot say but you heard of it for two of the Cheife of you were in the Starr-Chamber at that time being hard by where I stoode Againe the Heathens and Pagans would not condemne Paul as you may reade Acts 25. till his accusers were brought face to face to justifie prove their accusation but you have

let the stone Walls and iron grates convince him for we dare not meete him in the plaine feild in a publick dispute though he be but an unlearned youth And if it be possible keepe him in darknesse and obscuritie And if you can doe it handsomely that the World can take no notice of it starve him for we command you to let nothing be brought unto him Oh! you Satyrs Vultars Owles and Scritch-Owles for so the Holy Ghost calls you Esay 13. two last verses Esay 34.14.15 Rev 18.2 The Roman spirituall State being that Cage of filthinesse that holds you who are as the Holy Ghost there speakes a Company of Dragons Devils and foule Spirits Oh! you Night-Owles and Birds of Darknesse and uncleanes that dare not come to show your crooked faces in the bright Sun-shining light and cleare Crystall glasse of Gods sacred and unspotted Truth It sheweth demonstrateth to all the World that you are a Company of deformed Creatures and Sonnes of Darknesse impiety wickednesse ungodlinesse Or else you would lay aside your Cowardly Clubb-Arguments and come into the face of the open Sunne that there you may be seene whether you be rotten or sound or whether you be true gold or nothing but durt drosse which is good for nothing but the dunghill or whether your Kingdome be the Kingdome of Christ or the Kingdome of the Divell for of necessity it must be one of these for there is no more spirituall Kingdomes in the world but these two Or whether you your selves be servants of Christ or the servants and true subjects of the Divell But your hating of the truth and blaspheaming of it calling it the Refuge of Heritickes as you did in your open Court at the Censure of that worthy Doctour Doctour Iohn Bastwicke And also your hating and bloody persecuting of them that loue it doth vndenyably declare and manifest what you are and of whom your Kingdom doth depend For Christ saith every one that doth evill hates the sight neither cometh to the light least his deedes should be reproved Iohn 3.20 Truely you plainelie shew that you are men of darknesse and workers of wickednes and iniquitie for you cannot endure the light for it is too cleare too bright for you to come nakedlie and openlie and shew your selues before it because you are men of darknesse and evill doers and therefore you hate the light but if you were men that were workers of righteousnesse and walked in the waies of truth you would not be affraide to be tried by the light of it but would desire to be brought vnto it And in the former place Christ saith he that doth truth cometh to the light that his deeds may be made manifest that they are wrought in God and therefore to conclude this point I will say no more then Christ saith you may know the tree by the fruit for a bad tree doth not bring forth good fruit nor a good tree corpupt fruit Math. 7.18 Luke 6.43 But to goe backe againe to Iohn 8. In the second place Christ saith The Divell abode not in the truth because there is no truth in him when he speaketh a ly he speakth it of his owne for he is a lyar and the father of it Here Christ shewes that the Children of the Divell abide not in the truth but haue their soules filled with lyes And whether you the Prelates be not such I appeale even to your owne writings sayings doeings the most of whose writings are stuffed with many vntruths having almost as many lies in them as pages And for the vntruths delivered in your Court Sermons Worthy Doctour Bastwicke in the third part of his Letany hath painted out in there colours yea what damnable Doctrines are there taught saving some few agreeing with the Filthy Whore Strumpet of Rome as that forenamed Doctour doth proue in the second part of his Letany with which he doth most truely paralel you that you are in a manner both of one corruption yea among all the rest he there proues that you hold and maintaine that monstrous and horrable Doctrine of Transubstantiation that is to say That the Body of Christ is reallie corperallie and essentiallie in the Sacrament of his Supper And this also may be proved out of the great Prelats speech made before the honorable Lords at the Censure of the three late worthies Yea whole Vollumes may be made of those damnable Doctrins that you hold are not ashamd to publish them to the view of the whole world Cum Privilegio especialy in your late printed Bookes By all which you proue make good this portion of Scripture that you are of your father the Divell because you do not abide in the truth but speake preach write and maintaine false lies wicked and damnable Doctrines Thus haue I by the streÌ„gth of my God a litle deciphered you in a brief way But it may be you will be like a nest of Wasps which being stirred will flie about my eares with your Scorpion stings but if you do it will manifest you to be part of those Locusts as you are indeede and in truth that came out of the bottomlesse pitt Revel 9.2.3 of whom the Hoy Ghost saith that they had tailes like Scorpions and there were stings in there tailes and they had power to hurt men verse 10. But be it known vnto you that I am not in the least affraid of you for I neither feare an Axe at Tower hill nor a Stake in Smithfield nor a-Halter at Tyburne nor Whipping at a Carts-arfe nor a Pillary in the Pallice-yard nor Gagging nor Cutting of eares and nose nor Burning in the forehead or cheeks nor yet Banishment with Iohn to Pathmos For I verilie beleeve if you should send me thither I shall there finde Christ which by his spirit will vnfold the Revelation vnto me and then J would write it and send it abroad into the world and it would vex you as ill as Sampson did the Philistims proue as fatall to your decaying tottering spirituall Babilonian Antichristian Kingdome as his Foxes with fire-brands at their tailes were to the Philistims Corne. And therefore as you loue your almost ruinated Kingdome looke to it and knowe that the faster you kicke the harder I will spurre you the more you fling the closer will I sticke cleave fast vnto you for you are plants which I groundedly know the Lord never planted therfore vndoubtedly he will plucke you up Mat. 15.13 And therefore by the might power and strength of my God Psal 118.14 Esa 12.2 who is the worker of all my works in mee and for mee Esa 26.12 For I am resolved come life come death seeing you by force crueltie haue called me to it to shewe my selfe valiant for the truth of God Ier. 9.3 I alreadie made three Challenges to dispute with you but you are so Cowardlie that you dare not to come into the plaine and open field but you fight with tyrant-like weapons namelie with crueltie And therefore to see whether you haue any manhoode in you or noe J make send forth this fourth Challenge to you Bishops Prelates which is this That I will if you please dispute with you all face to face before the King and State for life and libertie vpon these ensueing Propositions First To proue that the Popes Power is from the Divell Secondly That your Calling Power Authoritie Iurisdiction is from the Pope Thirdly That all Gods people are bound vnder paine of eternall damnation to withdraw their spirituall obedience and subjection from your spirituall law and Kingdome Now vnpon these propositions will I dispute with you all and venter life for life before the King and State vpon these tearmes First That you shall lay aside Club-Arguments which is take him Iaylour and lay him in Irons and locke him up close Prisoner and keep him in safe custodie Secondly That the Booke of God which is an infallible truth shall be the sole Iudge of the Controversie Thirdly That J may haue libertie without being Gagged to speake my minde freelie and boldlie Fourthly That J may haue the vse of some books which I shall chuse And if you dare graÌ„t me these 4 things if I be not able to proue all the fore said Positions by demonstrable and vndeniable arguments that you shall not be able in the words of truth to gainsay or deny theÌ„ I wil be willing to lose my head and life therefore take notice of what J haue now the fourth time said and challenged you to your faces for I intend to send you this that in the presence of the King and Nobles you will make it good and therefore if you be not Cowards fitt yourselues to come into the open pitched field face to face Also be it knowne vnto you that I will at Pauls Crosse dispute with all your Priests and Deacons vpon these Propositions First That they are all of them Servants Ministers of Antichrist Secondly That in the place and standing they are now in at this present they haue no authority from God to preach his word nor administer any of his sacred ordinances to the peole nor the people any ground or warrant out of the word of God to heare the word from or pertake with them Thirdly That the Church of England as at this day it stands is Antichristian both in Power in Matter in Ministrie in Forme and in Woshirppe Fourrhly That all Gods people are bound in duty conscience to separate away from it to haue no communion with it All which things if J be not able to proue against them all laying aside as I said before all Club law and letting the word of God be the sole Judge of the controversie I will be bound to preach a Recanting Sermon in every Citty in the Kingdome JOHN LILBURNE FINIS

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