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truth_n	father_n	true_a	worship_v	5,831	5	9.4836	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A60665	The wisdom of the earthly wife confounded, or, A manifestation of the spirits of some envious professors who are ready to prefer the hireling priests works of darkness, whose works are against the revelation and coming of Christ in spirit, as their fore-fathers works of cruelty and murder were against him in the dayes of his flesh, as may be seen at large in the scriptures of truth ... this was chiefly occasioned by some nonconformists promoting the works of darkness of a conformist (or chief priest of Warsick-shire, called, Thomas Willson, in his book, ... who slanderously charges the people called Quakers to be false interpreters of the Holy Scriptures) wherein is something of answer to such as have any true tenderness left in them, and would receive the truth if they knew it, but its like to the hard-hearted, stubborn and rebellious (like those, Matth. 27.25. who said, his blood be upon us and upon our children) it will be foolishness, as is the preaching of the cross to them that perish ... / by William Smith.	Smith, William, d. 1673.	1679 (1679)	Wing S4345; ESTC R9981	10,614	16

Visitation to all mankind and that by his secret Reproofs at times in their Consciences for Self-Righteousness as well as their other Ungodliness that they might turn to his Grace which hath appeared to all men Light or Witness within them and live And all you confused Builders of Babel with your many Lo here 's and Lo there 's you have rejected the Head or chief Corner-Stone and true Foundation and if you will be truly Wise that you may know him you must first become Fools that you may be Wise and then you will throw down and lay waste all your lofty Buildings of Self Righteousness and dig deeper then ever you have done yet to the true Rock and Foundation and whoso Bui'ds truly thereupon shall be safe But all you talkative Letter-wise People and Professors of all sorts that have no other Ru'e to try Spirits and Doctrines but the Scriptures in your Natural Carnal Reasons and fallen Degenerated Wisdoms though you neither know them nor the Power of God but are putting Darkness for Light and Light for Darkness justifying the Wicked and condemning the Righteous as did they whose steps you follow What! did you never read or take notice of the Fruits of trying Spirits and Doctrines by the Scriptures in their Carnal Reasons Degenerate Wisdoms being out of the spirit which gives a right understanding of them Was it not to Condemn the Saviour of the World and his blessed Followers to Death Oh! Outside Literal Professors of this Generation take heed ye be not found spiritually in the same steps The holy Scriptures we more dearly truly own in their places than you do and do esteem them above all other Outward Writings because of the great plenty and variety of sweet sound heavenly Sayings uttered by God in and through Christ Jesus who was filled with the Spirit without measure and anointed with the Oyl of Gladness above his Fellows as it s written of him and also uttered through Moses and the rest of the holy Prophets Apostles but we cannot set them above the Spirit We say they are a Testimony or Declaration of what the Primitive Saints were made Living Witnesses of by the working of the mighty Power of God in them whereby they came to put off the old Man with his Deeds and put no that New Man Christ Iesus which is after God created in Righteousness and true Holiness in whom ONLY was and is the Perfection of Saints And without witnessing of more or less of this Spirit that wrought in them that gave forth the Scriptures there is no saving Benefit nor Comfort to be had from them for they viz. the Scriptures do answer to the Witness of God or Light within People and they are given forth to be read and believed and only can be rightly understood in a measure of the same Spirit that gave them forth and they testifie how where and by what means people may attain to that Infallible Spirit that always was is the Saints chief Rule Guide Leader who leads in the same Path they were in that gave them forth and these only are the truly learned that can read them without wresting and to such they are profitable for Doctrine for Reproof c. but they were not given forth to be set above the Spirit of God they were not given forth to be wrested by Covetous Carnal-minded men to uphold their Carnal Sects Opinions Judgments and Religions to War against the true Spiritual Worshippers whom the Father seeks to Worship him in the Spirit in the Truth And inasmuch as the Invisible Wise God Creator of all things is to be honoured and esteemed above any Visible created thing so is his Holy Invisible Spirit to be honoured and esteemed above the Scriptures are not all holy Declarations made by the holy Spirit of Truth And who dare say That the Maker is not Greater and more to be looked at and esteemed than the Thing made How now Porfessors that in your Natural Reasons set your selves as Judges both of Scriptures and the Spirit that gave them forth and in setting the Scriptures above the Spirit of God your Darkness is largely Manifest And may you not be justly compared to those that built the Tombs of the Prophets and garnished the Sepulchers of the Righteous and were the Children of them that killed them The Scripture saith Believe not every Spirit but try the Spirits whether they be of God because many false Prophets are gone out into the World 1 John 4. 1. I say the Infallible Spirit of God must Try all Spirits and without that none can try them Come Professors what say you have you that Infallible Spirit to try the Fallible with If you say Nay but we have the Scriptures to try them by I never yet heard any of you say otherwise I hope you will not deny but that the Spirit of Christ is Infallible and the Scriptures say He that hath not the Spirit of Christ is none of his Rom. 8. 9. And he that 's spiritual judgeth all things 1 Cor. 2. 15. So you Fallible-spirited Natural men what have you to do with the Scriptures you being the Unlearned men who have not learned of Christ you do but Wrest them to your own Destruction because you have no true Judgment in your goings and make to your selves crooked Paths Lo here Lo there and in your own private Spirits give your corrupt Meanings to the Scriptures oppose the Spirit that gave them forth The Apostle saith He that keepeth his Commandments dwelleth in him and he in him And hereby we know that he dwelled in us by the Spirit which he hath given us 1 Iohn 3. 24. The Lord God said by the true Prophet concerning the false Wo unto the Foolish-Prophets who follow their own Spirit and have seen nothing Ezek. 13. 3. And these are the true Confessors of Christ come in the Flesh and in the Spirit whatever Fallible-spirited men that are rending and wresting the Scriptures may judge of them And whereas some Envious Dark Spirits seeing their glorying in their Literal Knowledge so hard beset may suggest That I Design to possess People against or would beget them into a Low esteem of the Scriptures God knoweth if any such there be they greatly Wrong themselves and me and all those who believe their False Suggestions for my only End is That People might be possessed with the Spirit of Truth that leads into all Truth and teaches the true Knowledge of Scriptures and to set them in their places and not to be ever Learning and never able to come to the Knowledge of the Truth so that you all might come to Christ and learn of him that you may have Life is the Desire of your Friend Written in the 10th Moneth from Market-Harborough 1678. William Smith POSTSCRIPT HAving considered that some Dark Spirits like this Priest's may take Occasion at my so much judging his Works to be Works of Darkness without any