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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	holy_a	spirit_n	worship_v	3,077	5	9.0447	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A85151	A true testimony against the Popes wayes, &c. In a return to that agreement of 42. of those that call themselves ministers of Christ (but are proved to be wrongers of men and of Christ) in the county of Worcester, and some adjacent parts, who subscribe their agreement and catechisme with the names and the places where they are pastors, teachers, and rectors, &c. as they say: or as followeth: Richard Baxter teacher of the church at Kiderminster. John Boraston pastor of Ribsford and Bewdley. Richard Eades pastor of Beckford Glocestershire. ... Joh: Dedicote preacher at Abbotesley.	R. F. (Richard Farnworth), d. 1666.	1656 (1656)	Wing F509; Thomason E870_6; ESTC R202116	86,932	79

the wrong c. If you walk in that wrong way wherein you miscarrie and wrong God and Men growing worse and running further therein do not the Papists the same and are not you and they therein one and so walk with them in that way whose actions proceed from one ground and Spirit though in some words and formalities you differ but in the evill and wronging God and Men c. are Joyned together and therefore may stop your mouths of condemning others for that which you are found guilty of your words as well as your actions beare witnesse against you and your bitternesse and persecuting the servants of Jesus as your Prisons and barbarous or cruel usage at Evesham and other places may witnesse for the truth and against your deceit and wrong done to men and God as you say in your agreement therefore you and the Papists goes on in one nature together the Papists you say bring all ●he people to confesse their most secret sins unto their Priests and do not you labour to bring the people to do so unto you the Parish Masters idle Shepherds and hireling Preists and then are not you and the Papists therein both one in nature and property Ez●k 3● ●● ● though differing a little in words and colourable clauses And where you tell of creeping into houses who more then you creeps into the Popes houses which you with and from them call Churches but let me aske you that run so out of them from whence you sprung wherein do you and they differ in worships and practise therein Whether in manner or matter if in manner onely you differ and not in matter then do you not agree in the maine if so then are not you and the Papists in religion and worships as well as nature and property one though differing in some words formalities c. but both in the vaine traditions and observing your fancies and braine imaginations as the Serpents seed did in all ages You resolve in your wills to set on a worke in your imaginations promising salvation upon the performance and damnation upon the refusall page 30. and so would merit Heaven by your actings in the nature from whence ariseth negligence and miscarriages page 3 4. and wrong to men and to Christ page 19. and do not the Papists hold the same thinking to merit Heaven by their own actings in that nature and spirit of deceipt which guides them to neglect the work of God and also into miscarriages and to wrong men and God like you and persecuters and seed of evill doers If so then are not you and the Papists one therein and why do you crie out against that so much in others your selves being guilty of and found in the same and doing their work onely differing here and there in words formalities some colourable glosses c. You say page 23. you have all need to joyne heart and hand to help one another safe to heaven and all little enough you say I answer yea and too little too for in that nature in will not be done which teacheth you to wrong Christ and Men for if in that nature you could do it why might not the Papist in the like nature with you do the same and are not you therein with the Papists one or if any get out of your ignorance and come from under the wrong and out of the miscarriages in obedience to the teachings of Christ the true teacher and Saviour whom you wrong that they get into Heaven before you or sit with Christ Jesus in heavenly places whilst their bodys are on the earth as the Saints at Ephesus did whil'st their bodys were there and such as are saved by grace having their souls purified in obeying the truth through the Spirit where selfe is denyed are not you through ignorance of the way that leads out of error heresie miscarriages Popery and darknesse ready to call such hereticks as are come out of that and into the glorious light and injoyments of the sons of God to worship the Father in Spirit I say are you not ready to call such hereticks who are come out of it viz the darknesse E●he 1.6 Co. 1.13 1 Pet. 1.22.23 24. Reve. 21.3.23.24 Joh. 4.23.24 2 Cor. 3.16.17 Gal. 4.4 5 6 7.8 1 Cor. 4.6.7 and heresie which you live in and would rank them with the Papists under that denomination to cover and shelter your selves thinking to cast that upon them which they are freed from and you and the Papists are found in union with and guilty of being both of you out of the right way and in the wrong that are neglecters of the work of God and wronging God and men and living in the miscarriages and so in the heresies error and disobedience to the truth following your own Spirits and obeying the imagined fancy formed up in your own wills and living in the vaine traditions and customes of the Heathen as you and they do but your mist dazels the eye of none but the willfull blind and such as are in sleepy security and in sin unturned to God who are already deceived and the eye covered or blinded by which they should see both delusion and heresie in which you and they therein agree who grow worse and run yet further from God c. For the Papists believe they shall never be free from sin here in this life and therein they are reprobate concerning the true Gospel soul-saving and purifying faith and you believe the same viz that you shall never be freed from sin here in this life and then must not you with the Papists have a purgatory seeing that nothing which is uncleane shall in any wise enter into the holy City Rev. 21.27 and the unrighteous shall not inherit the Kingdom of God as it is said and by the Ambassadour of Christ declared 1 Cor. 6.9 10. and are not you reprobate concerning the true Gospel Gal. 5.20 21. soul-saving and purifying faith who denieth the property of it in denying purity of heart and abiding in darknesse and the nature opposite to the true light believing or saying you believe you cannot or shall not be free from sin here in this life and therefore are not you and the Papists both one and your faith and theirs in nature and property being dead and corrupt therein agreeth together but I deny the Papists and you the wrongers of Christ and Men and that faith which doth not purifie the heart witnesseth that faith and power which doth Act. 15.89 H●b 2.10.11 and as the Saints did as the Scripture witnesseth and God which searcheth the hearts beareth me witnesse as he did them who giveth the holy Ghost that purifieth the heart by faith and we know that we were not redeemed with corruptible things as silver and gold from that vaine conversation which had been received by tradition from your fore Fathers c. Who received Silver and Gold and did not the work which

are Satanical for all their colourable glosses being in the miscarriages charging God with an Imperfect work page 18.19 of their Agreement wrongers of him of men and of Christ his Son but they are seen and made manifest and wo will be your portion that knowingly in their deceits joynes with them doth uphold them and did not the cheif Priests or the Devill in them and in the Scribes and Pharisees preach the letter of the Scriptures Isa 9.15 16. Isa 3.11 Hos 6.9 Joh. 5.39 40. Isa 2.12 Luke 20.12.19 20 21 23 27 28 45 46 47. verses but wanted the life of them as your Priests do who are wrongers of Christ and of you as they say and made use of it to tempt Christ withall but they and such like were and are for the greater condemnation as Christ hath said Marke 12.38 39 40. And doth not the Devill now in the chief Priests Persecuters Proud Covetous Envious ones and their disciples preach the letter of the Scripture and are out of the life of them seeking honour one of another as the enemies of Christ did that had the letter but wanted the life Joh. 5.39 40 41 42 43 44 And do not they make use of the letter that are out of the life make use of it to oppose the naked truth withall Do not Proude ones preach the letter of the Scripture yet live in Pride and Coveteousnesse or in union with the life of the Devill who is the King of Pride and enemy of all unrighteousnesse c. And doth not the Devill in Proud and Covetous ones as well as Envious and persecuters c. teach them to wrest the Scriptures for their own ends and to plead for pride c under such covers which are not with the spirit of the Lord though the woe from God be against them denounced Isa 3.11 Isa 20 Isa 30. 2 Pet. 3.16 Isa 30.1 c. And doth not the Devill in Covetous ones teach them to break the command of God which forbids covetousnesse And doth not the Devill in Covetous ones and self-seekers c. 2 Tim. 3.1 2. c. now in these latter dayes teach them for their own ends to make use of and preach the letter of the Scripture when they are transgressors of the commands of God and persecuting and killing the Innocent for he that persecutes and Envies the righteous seed he is a murtherer and is out of the life of the Spirit of God as faith the Scriptures 1 Joh. 3.22 15 And so in the lust of the Devill Joh. 8.44 And in union with the Image of Pride in proud flesh and bowing to it with capp and knee as well as worship an Imaginary and false worship and transgresseth the commands of God and therefore must drink deep of his wrath Rev. 14.9 10 11. And if covetousnesse is Idolatry then both Covetous Priests and People are Idolaters and therefore are they and all false worshippers and bowers to the Image of Pride one in another who are persecuters of the righteous seed both transgressors of the commands of God and out of the new bath new nature and out of the new Covenant and life of God and in old envy Wrath Lust Self-Love pride vain glory and then are they not still in union with the life of the Devill which evill fruits floweth there from and doth not the Devil in Pope Papist as well as in prelates persecuting self-seeking Priests Pastors Vicars Rectors and Proud painted Antichristian Ministers make use of and preach the Letter of the Scripture being without the life of truth and in the nature of the Devill and are not you that are wrongers of Christ and in Miscarriages c. and they guided by an evil spirit Joh. 8.39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48.52 verses and in union with that evil nature as the Jews and cheif Priests and such was that persecuted Christ Jesus yet they preached the letter and spake of Moses and the prophets for their own ends by the Spirit of the Devill Joh. 8.39 and would not receive the truth nor forsake their Sins Pride Will-worship Self-love Covetousnesse Self-righteousnesse vain glory and honour of the world but refused to deny self take up the daily crosse and come unto the life and power of truth so that Christ complained against them Joh. 5.40 and letting their visitation slip he wept over them Joh. 5.40 41 42 43 44. and therefore that you may come to understand the truth learn to pray and preach aright minde to be obedient to the Light of Christ in your consciences which reproves in secret for evil and doth convince you of sin self righteousnesse unbeliefe Pride Covetousnesse Persecution the love and honour of the world unrighteousnesse and your Miscarriages and of the wrong you do to Christ and men and as your duty is to depart from iniquity so you are to yield unto the light and follow the same that you may come out of your miscarriages and cease doing wrong to Christ men forsake the evil of your wayes by the light discovered cease to do evil and learn of that which is good for to do well which reproves you for the evil that you may come out of the wrong way unto the right and know the power of truth manifested and Christ at work in your hearts and soules destroying the Pride Lust Covetousnesse Self-love vain glory unbeliefe and so all unrighteousnesse as it is discovered to you and also beget you obeying and following the light into righteousnesse pure unfained love and out of the Hypocrisie into the faith unfained and true patience perfecting his work that it may posses● your soules and dispossess impatience and distrust that your soules may come into joy and peace through the working of the power of God killing sin and quickening you by his spirit begetting and bringing forth that which is pure holy just and good to be your rule and guide as in such it is where the birth is known that is of the spirit of Gods then might you call him Father by divine right and so in truth and righteousnesse with the spirit and true spirituall understanding might you pray with such a right as of Christ are taught and are guided by the Spirit of God c. to say Our Father which art in Heaven Hallowed be thy name and then would you hallow and so Sanctify the name of the Lord God in your hearts and be ready thereby without your Miscarrying priests to give an answer to every man that shall aske you a reason of the hope that is in you with meeknes and fear 1 Pet. 3.15 having a good conscience as the Saints and Children of God the Father hath and aforetime had 1 Pet. 3.16 in which the mystery of faith is held 1 Tim. 3.9 and not in your Miscarrying nature or a piece of paper from your untaught teachers that know not God nor his eternall Living word but are wrongers