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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	false_a	know_v	true_a	4,114	5	4.5846	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A59950	A brief testimony for religion shewing that all penal laws, force, and violence against any matters of meer religion and conscience are inconsistant with the doctrines and precepts of Jesus Christ : presented to the consideration of all, but more especially those that may be chosen members of Parliament, that they may see cause to concur with the Kings gracious declaration for liberty of conscience / by a lover of the King and his country, and hater of no man because of his opinion, William Shewen.	Shewen, William, 1631?-1695.	1688 (1688)	Wing S3419; ESTC R10942	11,928	21

to pass through the working of the Mistery of Iniquity Serpent and Antichrist under the Name of God Almighty and Christianity the Nature thereof being wanting in all that have been concerned therein For according to the Testimony and Phrase of Holy Scripture and the experience of Thousands in this Age Men have been are and may be so intoxicated in their Minds and understandings so mistaken and Captivatedunder that Monster falt Opinion so corrupted by Tradition and Superstitious Education c. that they have been and are said to be made bewitched given up to believe strong Delusions made drunk with the VVine of Fornication which by the VVhore the false Church is held forth in a golden Cup to all Nations according to that not able Vision of the Divine Apostle St. John in his Revelation read the 17th Chapter in a Measure of the same Divine Spirit of Revelation or else you will mistake as all Sectarians hath done c. Now seeing People may be Spiritually Drunk mad bewitched deceived mistaken blind and intoxicated so far as to take Truth for Error and Error for Truth good for Evil and Evil for good Light for Darkness and Darkness for Light true Religion for false and false for true c. And proceed in their Conversation and doings accordingly towards their Neighbours and Countrymen when they have power and opportunity in their Hand It s therefore wisdom to know these distemper'd People and what means and medicine is to be used towards such people and how far the Christian Magistrate and Law-maker are concerned about such things 〈◊〉 There are two Infallible Signs that people are in the State above first when they are prone to or put forward in a Blind Zeal to hate or hurt their Neighbours or Country-men because they are not of the same opinion in matters of Religion nor do not Worship after the same manner or in the same form and fashion as they do 2ly When they make it matter of conscience and duty to deal with such as are not of their Church and way as with Weeds and Vermine and think they do God good Service therein These are two infallible Signs that People are Religiously mad and mistaken Paul when a Persecutor tho by the Authority of the wisest men greatest Schollars highest prosessors of Religion chief Priest c. was one of the Religious mad men and they were no better that imployed him and gave him Commission for the same Notwithstanding they thought and believed otherwise saying God was their Father and that they were Abraham's Children tho at that very time they were doing the Works of the Devil and persecuting the Seed and true Children of God and Abraham yet knew not themselves what they did nor what they were while they were breathing out threatnings slaughter and Death punishing in every Synagogue or Parish and compelling to Blaspheme being as Paul said of himself before King Agrippa exceeding mad against the poor Christians persecuting them even unto strange Cities all this in his mad Zeal and Ignorance he with those of his Religion or rather opinion thought was very well done So as hath been said its wisdom to know these distemper'd people which if any lack let them ask it of God for it is his own Gift that makes known persons and things as they are in the Ground and Nature and enables to give them Names according thereto and to judge righteously and not by appearance and without this gift of God no man can know himself nor judge his Brother aright If Education Tradition Academical Learning or a profession and imitation of that Religion which God himself commanded could teach a Man the knowledge of God or himself those Jews Doctors and Rabbies would have had it none in those Ages exceeding them in those things yet all they attained to thereby was just as if we should see a Man believe and declare himself to be the Son of some great Prince or that some mighty Monarch was his Father who had given him Power and Authority as his Vice-gerent to correct order amend and govern in his Kingdom when he is no other than the Son of a Vile Butchery Executioner and is assisting his Father in his filthy Drugery for Christ told them they were of their Father the Devil and his Works they did even at that very instance when they believed and declared themselves to be the Children of God and Abraham c. Now those that are and would be doing the same sort of work let their pretence be what it will they are in the same condition tho they may not be sensible thereof nor see themselves to be such for why is a Man said to be mad Spiritually is it not because the God of this World that lies in wickedness hath blinded the Eye of his mind darkned and vayled his Understanding and Judgment that he cannot see understand nor judge aright of the things of God and yet believes and perswades himself he can and by his will and power would force and compel others to believe the same and to receive his understanding and judgment therein under pains and penalties c. This is the Nature and Property of a blind mad Zealot Most in Christendom are ready to sensure Paul and the Jews for their rage and madness cruelty and violence against Christ and his harmless Disciples and also the Gentiles for their Brutish Inhumanity against the primitive Christians in the Ten Persecutions though they have been and are doing the same work even against those that prosess the same Name together with them and yet justifie themselves therein and think they do God good Service thereby which is an evident Token they are of the same sort for Persecutors were always blind And Persecutions under the Name of Christ and Christianity and under pretence of the Propagating and preserving the Christian Religion are far worse and under a greater degree of madness blindness and ignorance then either Jews or Heathen they are not only blind and mad but Drunk also Infatuated Stupified Intoxicated and less excuseable then all other Persecutors upon the Face of the Earth because they do profess and account themselves to be Disciples of that Imaculate Lamb Christ Jesus who was always loving meek gentle tender and kind to all mankind going up and down doing good never harming any laying down his life for his Enemies and praying for them and gave forth those divine Heavenly Precepts and Commandments before mentioned for all his Disciples and Followers to observe keep and obey Now wherever people are found making profession of Christ Jesus and his Religion and doing those things which are not only Repugnant to it but inconsistent with it certainly such are in a farther degree of blindness and madness and more inexcuseable than either Jew or Heathen for they had no such Heavenly example nor no such divine Precepts and Commandments in their Religion but rather the contrary Therefore a Christian Persecutor if such a