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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	heart_n	spirit_n	word_n	8,255	5	4.2520	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A94717	The foot out of the snare. Or, A restoration of the inhabitants of Zion into their place, after their bewildered and lost estate by the operation of a violent power, and authority, wrought in the author by the Prince of Darkness, under an appearance of the brightest light. Being a brief declaration of his entrance into that sect, called (by the name of) Quakers. With a short discourse relating what judgment he was learned in, by the ministry of those people. Together with the revelation of a spirit in himself. Also, what desperate delusions he was led into by yielding a subjection to the teachings of a seducing spirit in him under a shadow of the true light; and how this body of deceipt came to be destroyed. With the manner of his separation from them. / By me John Toldervy, then servant to Col. Webb.	Toldervy, John.	1655 (1655)	Wing T1767; Thomason E861_13; ESTC R206654	40,712	60

that it required I could not be redeemed and since that the Truth was made manifest if disobeyed no remedy I should be eternally damned Wherefore as I respected my Salvation this Redeemer was to work me and to dispose of me according to his will and whatever I willed was not to be done but to be crossed by my being subject to this Redeemer Upon which there arose a great Controversie in my Spirit of what stood in the will of man and what did not said one Spirit This is in the will when it was not on the contrary said another Spirit as to the same thing this is not in the will and so through fear I should always yield a subjection unto that Spirit by which I was limited and brought under bondage to do many things in my will against my will whereupon I became a destroyer of the will of God as touching that Liberty which was allowed me in the use of my Members either to speak or to act also in the use of those Creatures made for the service of Man and so as those former weaknesses which reigned in me through the darkness of my understanding came to be destroyed my understanding being not then well enlighened greater weaknesses as to the not enjoyment of my self did arise also as one imaginary being in me came to be overthrown there was begotten the like Being in another shape and by it was I wrought upon to believe many things by me undeniable and also led forth and acted from one thing unto another according to what followeth So believing that what was manifested of God in man was the Light of Life which was one with himself as it is written I and my Father are one by which was given unto Man a savory discerning of what was Good and what was Evil what was darknesse which darknesse was to be expelled by this light there remained therefore nothing for the Man to do but to stand in the Will of that which was pure in him and so by it he became a Judge of what impurity or the Law of Sin would act him in which sin the occasion of Death was to be swallowed up in victory that so only the light of life which is innocent might live there being nothing in Man for Death even as a King over-ruling all in subjection unto himself Whereupon was concluded that Man was the Cause of all this distraction and confusion in himself and so abstracted from this confusion was that being which made an appearance of holinesse in the minds of all professed religious People subjected under divers Forms Ordinances and Ceremonies which is a vapour it self and must die as the Ordinances were shaddows and are ceased but Man having lost the kernel the substance which giveth nourishment and satisfies he feedeth upon the dry husk and being not refreshed with the true Bread and Water of Life he remaineth alwaies seeking and never comes to know what is true alwaies feeding and never satisfied until he comes to understand where the Bread of Life is to be found which is in himself according as it is written I in them and thou in me that they may be made perfect in one and so eternal life living in us there needs no more thirst there needs no more hunger after Knowledge this is eternal life to know God and Jesus Christ whom thou hast sent But since there is much Mysterie recorded in Scripture it is concluded that the knowledge of those Mysteries is to know the Will of Christ and so the way to salvation yea it is believed that the knowledge of the Scriptures is to know God and Christ though it is spoken concerning Christ I am the Way the Truth and the Life And again it is written the Word is nigh you in the mouth and in the heart so that the Way the Truth and the Life is in us that which giveth Salvation But saith * Judas 's love being removed from Christ by the seducements of the Deceiver his understanding became lost and so his minde was driven out from God into the Earth Judas How is it that thou wilt manifest thy self unto us and not unto the World But this Conclusion also proceeds from the evil one transformed in Man he being scattered very confused and darkned in his understanding covered as with a vail and so Satan as an Angel of Light moveth and leadeth forth to divers Duties which are his own for the upholding of his Reign in Man Also feeds Man with Wisdom and variety of pleasant Language called Gifts in performances for the upholding of his Duties by which sin being shaded over he is justified many being called failings but perfection is not to be attained in this life but in another life hereafter though it is written Except Christ be in you ye are Reprobates having rent the garments of righteousness ye are acursed being hipped up above the Truth and trampling the Blood of the Covenant the life of the Innocent in the dust so that if the Author and Finisher of our Faith be living in us there is perfection but if not perfection is not faithfulness being ceased Now the World was understood to be the Garden of Eden in which Man was placed at the first and still is and the Trees of this Garden all living beings proceeding out of the Earth living in and upon the Earth all which having their being of God the life of all things by somwhat of himself that proceedeth forth of the Earth God the Life who created all the Life from whence is received the increase of all It was also understood that Paradise was in Man where his delight should be where his minde should be stayed at unity with God who made choice to take up his Habitation and abode there himself with his increase the Family of Love and beloved Ones who were to be kept nourished and refreshed by Man 's living obedient unto the will of God in the same simplicity of Love and so at unity with this Family of Love the Seed of Israel Then was this understood to be the state in which all men were created and is now also the cause of his fall All men were made of nothing and still are as one Generation passeth away another Generation succeedeth by God the Author of all and so as one increase by him was brought to their end another increase was produced forth of himself according as it is written I kill and I make alive Therefore in the first Creation of Men they were made pure and holy without sin in the likeness of that God who was their Maker perfect for where no sin was there was perfection But Man when he came into a growth in the World he saw the excellency of that Provision of that Fruit prepared of God to be a nourishment or refreshment for him he began of himself by hearkening to the weaker being in him the fleshly minde to be discontented with that allowance which was sufficient

understand That he did not witness a Command for the using of those Ceremonies though formerly in his own Will out of imitation they were practised by him but when he witnessed a Command then he should Obey Now being disquieted in regard of his perfect Separation from the Unity of Spirit which formerly he owned with us we parted at variance but after his departure being dissetled as touching them by what was spoken from him I went privately and examined with my self how I came to take them up and what it was that upheld their reign in me so finding that my will was the first cause I went to divers that were of us and contrary to my mind I held an Argument as though I owned those things which formerly with them I denied that I might learn from them what Reason or Ground they could declare to the destroying of my pretended Judgement so after examining the Scriptures much discourse I found not only some inclination of their Belief in respect of them but a real convincement in my self And so after a short time through the Mercy of God I came to see not onely a death of that extraordinary imaginary and devilish Spirit by which I was so extreamly deluded but also the weakness of that in me which through a Cloak of Righteousness debarred me of my living and conversing with men as I had done formerly in the way of my livelihood and now I affirm from the Truth of God manifested in me that through a slavish Fear that I was in bondage unto I was as others are kept in those Delusions and that there is no more sin in the not using of these Ceremonies than in the using of them provided that wisdom guides MUch time hath bin spent seriously in the Examination of every particular herein declared but the strangeness thereof might occasion many serious Minds to question the Truth of it but I solemnly affirm in the presence of the Eternal God before whom all things are manifest that with a clear Understanding in the sence of my Distress while under those Temptations and powers of Deceit I have endeavoured to make known the Truth in sincerity of Minde And the God of Truth beareth me witness That to my knowledge I lye not in any thing spoken also much of this might be justified by many Eye-Witnesses True it is matter of Admiration and also greatly might it be admired that the goodness of God should so far exceed the depths of Satan and the powers of Darkness as that the deceitful workings of this evil One should be made manifest and that by the discovery of his Grace through his abundant Love which alwayes rejoyceth in Mercy after so great an Apostacie from himself he should restore his own Heritage to the place of their abode and settle the Understanding the Minde and Affections of his lost Creature upon the Foundation-Rock which will abide when all things else must perish Praises to his Name for ever and all whose Mindes are united to the upright and faithful Obedience and staid therein let them say with me Amen Now since the Lord hath appeared so mightily towards me in restoring from the Death and in raising out from the Grave the Light of himself by which my Understanding is better established than before it may be judged acceptable and desirous to know what the Foundation of my Faith is now I say The Scriptures they do discover the Minde and Will of God and they are profitable to the edifying of all under what estare or condition soever but the Will of God is in part made manifest in all not only by what hath been learned from that Discovery of Truth in the Scriptures but where the Scriptures is not And by this invisible Law written in the Hearts of all Men are Men convinced of every secret Temptation which lusteth in them to evil if giving heed unto it and as this Law-giver in us is spiritual so that Ministration of Righteousness in us is spiritual and that Obedience which it requireth is in Spirit and in Truth by which those that give heed unto it are and may be guided out of all the Works of the Flesh above the Law into a possession of that Covenant which giveth Life and so witness a new Birth born of the Spirit without which there is no entrance into the Kingdom as saith the Scripture Except a Man be born again of Water and of the Spirit he cannot see the Kingdom of God and then will those Covenants be made manifest and fulfilled which saith Unto such who fear my Name shall the son of righteousness arise with healing in his wings and he shall turn the heart of the children to their fathers and the heart of the fathers to their children And ye shall be all taught of God from the greatest unto the least so that you need not say one to another Know the Lord. And I will write my law in their hearts and place my fear in their inward parts that they shall not depart from me c. Now where the righteousness of the Law is fulfilled there is God made manifest and so far as that Obedience which it requireth rules in man so far have they Unity with God But yet I do not say That the Scriptures are in the least to be disesteemed but great is the advantage of these who have them to assist in the wayes of God which guide to God For much was the profit of the Jews before the Gentiles in that the Oracles of God were committed unto them the Law the Prophets being made known to and amongst them which the Gentiles had not but now far greater is the benefit or if disobeyed the just Condemnation of those who have the Scriptures more plain to the edifying of them in the Way in the Truth in the Life which is of Christ and leads to himself than ever the Jews had before Christ was manifested in the world But surely greater deceit was never made manifest than is now the unclean thing having bewitched and darkned the Understandings of Men so mightily True it hath been his business alwayes to remove the Obedience required by God of Man and so disquiet their peaceable enjoyment that he might ingraft a rebellious Nature in or upon that Tree which God hath made on purpose to bring forth the Fruits of himself to make known his name in but now the subtilty of his workings are far more admired by them in whom he hath taken place than ever before for when before the will of God was so plainly discovered in the Scriptures to the view of the world as it hath been since Christ and the Apostles dayes much of that hold for his deceit which he hath now was not Those who lived by the Faith of the Son of God whose Habitation was with Christ in God who were exalted in heavenly places in Christ Jesus who witnessed Revelations in whom was established the Life of Righteousness that