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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	heart_n	lord_n	sincerity_n	1,662	5	9.7763	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A31658	A seasonable word and call to all those called ranters or libertines through-out the three nations, to come into the true faith and pure fear of the Lord ... written ... by John Chandler ...	Chandler, John, 17th cent.	1659 (1659)	Wing C1928; ESTC R19405	15,876	20

according as ye would have them to be understood whereby Christ the true light and those that were enlightned and enlivened sanctified by him were by some of you accounted even such as your selves who live in divers lusts so far hath the deceit entred into you But ye shall know in the day of the Lord 's righteous Judgment as I have truly known by turning to that which judged aright and made manifest Sin to be exceeding sinfull that Christ and the former Saints and holy men and women were sincere in their thoughts words and deeds haring no mental reservation in what they spake and that they lived according as their words hold forth being wise as Serpents yet not in the Serpent's wisdom and harmlesse as Doves yea fleeing from all sin and wickednesse as from a Serpent And now I will say How are the hidden things of Es au searched out by the light which is the Candle of the Lord even of prophane Esau who for a morsel of meat sold his birth-right And let me in God's wisdom and fear reason with you a little Are not some of you prophane Esaus who for a few momentary pleasures and unsatisfying Lusts have quite parted with and for ever bid Adieu to the sense and feeling of that which ye once counted better then life it self to wit a broken heart and contrite spirit and godly sorrow for sin which things wrought you to some Repentance whereof ye had never just cause to repent As also comfort and peace in your Spirits as your minds were kept in that which was pure open to the Lord and being afraid to offend him Such a step in the truth no doubt some of you have made but now your hearts are as hard as an Adamant so that ye find no more place for Repentance than Esau did nay not going so far as he for he sought the Blessing with tears though he obtained it not being still prophane but ye desire not to returne in any outward shew yea perhaps will laugh and scoff at any that shall exhort you thereunto Had it not been good for such if they had never been born And are you not all prophane ones from the greatest to the least that have left your first love to simplicity and sincerity purity holinesse sobriety temperance and other the good fruits of the Spirit and think your selvs to have attained the higher perfection the more freely ye can act contrary to these without check or controul in your selvs which ye count but the working of the Fancy over which to get victory that it should not at all trouble you ye count your perfection redemption justification sanctification and salvation So ye quench the Light which is God's faithful witnesse within you that in love often pleads with you for a return kill the Just one stop the cry of the innocent trample upon the holy Seed that should bruise the Serpent's head who is head in you call it your perfection redemption would if it were possible set God at variance against himself accounting that to be God's arme and power in you which slayeth his reproving witnesse which is his good Spirit which Spirit know ye shall not alwayes strive with you for good Therefore I charge you by the Lord to bethink your selves ye that are not past feeling of your former estates when ye were conscientious and tender for it was much better then with you than now and commune with your own hearts by turning in to the witnesse of God that calls for purity and holinesse in thought word and deed for sobriety and temperance and chastity and all godlinesse and honesty and that while ye have time lest your consciences be quite seared and the Lord God sware in his wrath Ye shall never enter into his pure and everlasting Rest for this is God's very and true day not an imaginary one which ye have conceited for some years past to your selvs and so no time to dally with the wicked and back slider for Woe saith the Lord God to him that in the land and time of uprightnesse will deal unjustly and will not behold the majesty of the Lord. And if any of you have or shall have stirrings and thoughts raised up in you of waiting upon God's witnesse and any true desires begotten to know by the light within you which makes manifest all things wherein ye have erred and done amisse I charge you flee it not though it begin to bring some terrour and shame upon the carnal part for as ye have made the pure seed to suffer by your sin and deceit so you must expect to suffer by the Seed when he comes to bruise the Serpents head to whom ye have been joyned and accept of the punishment of your iniquity and say It is all far lesse than we have deserved and let your uncircumcised hearts be humbled and wait low and humbly to know the Lord's mind and be willing to forsake all evill and cleave unto and do all good that the Lord by his Light shall lay open before you who will bring Judgment to the line and Equity to the plummet and be willing to come into Unity with the Holy men of God and Christ's words in the Scriptures which testify against all the fruits of the flesh let them be done under never so fair a pretence of liberty and above all things desire sincerity and uprightnesse of heart for so it was with me at my return and this was the word in me His countenance shall behold the upright and then will the Lord have compassion and by degrees heal your land I mean your poor Souls and ye shall see Faith in the truths of God and a good conscience and the pure fear of the Lord grow and spring up together in you for 't is Faith that purifies the heart But if you flee in Winter and will not bear the Judgment till the indignation be over-past or will be ashamed to be ashamed of your evill wayes and so let deceit prevail over the pure and make up a healing to your selvs by quenching the witnesse ye shall receive the fruit of your own doings even to lye down in perpetuall forrow in the end But I hear some of you asking What is Sin and Evill Do ever any of you find any of the Holy men of God from one end of the Scriptures to the other to have asked such a Question Nay For they believed the Lord's witnesse which he had placed in them without their own reasonings and disputings as finding twins in their womb two Seeds opposite each to other which brought forth contrary fruit and by the Holy Seed which is the true Light they saw the good Tree and the corrupt Tree the good fruit and the corrupt fruit for the Light reproved them for evill and corrupt motions and all words and actions proceeding there-from but it justified them and gave them peace in pure and holy motions and

trouble by justly and wisely letting loose the ungodly to scourge others for their iniquity and to try his Peoples patience but that the Lord who is simply and perfectly Pure and Holy who can behold no iniquity should be the Author or Creator of Spirituall evil or sin in the Root both the Prophet Jeremy and Christ the true Light doth expresly contradict for one saith Lamentations 3. verse 38. Out of the mouth of the most High proceedeth not evil and good Now by the word or mouth of the most High were all things made that were made but out of the Lords mouth or from the Lords word proceedeth not evil and good therefore sin and evil in the Root Ground and motion were never created by him but arose from self which is a swerving from the word by whom all things were made the other saith Every Plant that my Heavenly Father hath not planted shall be plucked up So he plainely affirmeth there are some plants and motions in mans heart which the Heavenly Father never planted and therefore will He by his powerful and good word pluck them up whereas ye plead for their standing because ye say God planted them so do ye directly oppose the true Prophet and give him that called himself the Truth the lye Now indeed the Lord doth make Darknesse his secret place and his pavillion round about because he dwelleth onely in the Light and so no darknesse can come into his habitation and therefore also are darknesse and Light both a like to him for He dwelling wholly in the Light comprehendeth all the darknesse and dark waies of men knowing nothing but Light in himself but in man as he is under a Law which is his Light darkness its wayes are not alike to him for he reproveth the one by the other And therefore ought not man to apprehend them to be both alike in himself but contrary for if he doth he believeth a Lye and so deceiveth his own Soul Therefore cease from your own wisdom reasonings and disputings and in silence and humility come to the Armour of Light which is the true spiritual weapon which casts down all reasonings that exalt themselves against the Knowledge of Christ as Paul witnesseth whose words I do also experimentally witnesse Now a word to you more ignorant Ranters who never tasted of the good word of God some of whom perhaps scarce ever knew what an hours sense of guilt of sin meant in all your lives although ye have not at some time or other been without a Checker and Reprover who have now leightly and inconsiderately leapt into a carnal and fleshly liberty which ye were in before as it were by authority justifying your evill deeds and idle and naughty words and wicked vain and wandring thoughts by taking up words and imitating of others saying All is good and therefore what should we be troubled for Alas for you poor Creatures ye know neither the beginning nor the end of the work of God even his great and strange work in turning the Creature from darknesse unto light and from Satan's power unto God's power for in Satan's power are ye at present held and led Captive at his Will so that unlesse ye turn to the witnesse of God in your consciences and that while 't is called to day ye will dance into the eternal pit of everlasting destruction for to the light must ye all come even to Christ the true light which must shew you what Vessels of wrath ye are as ye stand in the disobedient nature through the Fall that so your hearts being searched by that which makes manifest all Sin and Evill in thought word and deed Judgment may be set up in the earthly part the which as ye shall come humbly and sincerely to lay down under it shall be brought forth to Victory and then ye shall feel Mercy rejoycing over Judgment and so the glad tidings of Salvation will be felt by you which as ye hold fast by Faith which purifieth the heart fruits of righteousnesse purity chastity sobriety temperance c. will appear visibly in you and so the good Tree will be known by its fruit Whereas now ye are fruitlesse Trees that cumber God's earth yea burden and eorrupt it exceedingly and so while the Saints who sollow Christ in the Crosse to their own Wills and in his regeneration feel the sweet effects of righteousnesse in themselvs which is peace and assurance for ever ye are as a barren heath in the wildernesse and know not when any true good cometh therefore repent and turn to the Lord with fasting weeping and mourning fasting from the leaven of deceit and Hypocrisy weeping for your sins and loosnesse whereby God is dishonoured and his good Spirit grieved within you and mourning for your killing of the just crucifying the Lord of life afresh that so the pure Oyl of joy and gladnesse ye may come to feel the least drop whereof farr exceeds all your carnal pleasnres and delights which will quickly have an end and be as if they had never been and then will the remembrance thereof be bitter unto you for Are not all such things bitternesse in the latter end Hear what Wisdom saith Prov. 5. Hear me now therefore Oh ye Children and depart not from the words of my mouth Remove thy way far from her to wit the deceitfull harlot within or without with all her inticements and come not nigh the door of her House lest thou give thine honour unto others and thy years unto the cruell lest strangers be filled with thy wealth and thy labours be in the house of a stranger And thou mourn at the last when thy flesh and body are consumed and say How have I hated Instruction and my heart despised reproof and have not obeyed the voice of my Teachers nor inclined mine ear to them that instructed me I was almost in all evill in the midst of the Congregation and Assembly And as for you Ranters in practise and principles who are turned National Priests in outward shew for a livelihoods sake though ye scarce or not at all regard any truth of God or the Scriptures which ye dissemble by or the People's good to whom ye speak Know that this is the word of the Lord God unto you that by such deceit and dissimulation which ye count your liberty ye treasure up wrath to your selves against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous Judgment of God who think you what ye will will reward every man according to his works even the Lord God who is most perfectly pure who hath his pure witnesse in every one of you though at present ye stifle it for self-ends which hateth and abhorreth all dissembling falsehood which is for a man under any pretence whatsoever to appear to be that outwardly to others and especially in a Priestly garbe which bears a shew of external holinesse more then ordinary which he is not in his mind and heart for it is Hypocrisy against which Christ the true Light hath pronounced the greater damnation For the body is to be presented an acceptable Sacrifice to the Lord which is but ones reasonable service for it is but reason that it should be so but your bodies and Spirits are by this means divided and seperated which should go both together in all actions For sometimes when ye are at your hypocriticall devotions or in the Pulpit in a Steeple-house or preaching elsewhere your hearts are far off it may be to go into some Ale-house or ranting and loose Company or to commit some uncleannesse or the like and when ye come into such company it may be be ready to laugh at your own Prayers and Preachings and how ye gull the People who know not of what spirit and conversation ye are Oh ye deceitfull ones I testify against you in the name of the Lord That ye are the worst of all men living in the Nations worse than the multitude of Priests who do much that they do from a deceived Understanding and Vail that is over them but ye transgress against the Light which I believe sometimes pleads with you though ye put it from you and would esteem it but an imagination Assure your selves that all you get from the People in this way of deceit be it lesse or more will prove bitter morsels to you in the end when God's witnesse shall arise Wherefore repent ye also and turn to his witness which will lead you out of all the snares of sin deceit if you will hearken to it obey it into the pure liberty of the Sons of God whose freedom stands not in doing what Self listeth but in that which crosseth the carnal and leads into the paths of all Righteousnesse out of which paths I testify ye are at present and are in the way of Balaam who loved the wages of Unrighteousnesse and his reward shall ye receive except ye repent And as for all you that have run out into the loosnesse and carnall Liberty whom God hath been pleased to recollect so that some are brought and some bringing into the fold of Righteousnesse Innocency and Peace by believing and following the true Light I in the love and fear of the Lord God exhort you to listen continually to the voice of the good Shepherd whose rod and staff hath reproved and comforted and is reproving and comforting you that so neither ye nor I my self may ever any more turn aside to folly on suffer a deceived Understanding to turn us aside from his living truth and witnesse whereby we should again let go the Anchor of the Soul which is Christ the hope and eternal reward to all those that obey and love him and his pure appearance more and more lest the latter end be worse then the beginning FINIS