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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	jerusalem_n	spirit_n	worship_v	3,034	5	9.5572	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A86647	An ansvver to a paper; called, A petition of one Thomas Ellyson, late shepherd of Easington in the county of Durham, to his Highness the Lord Protector of England, Scotland and Ireland, and to all emperors, kings and princes through the world.	Howgill, Francis, 1618-1669.	1654 (1654)	Wing H3154; Thomason E814_10; ESTC R207351	12,201	16

seen that thou and they are turned from the light of Christ and so are gone into sects and opinions and imaginations and all the powers without in the world cannot suppress the root from whence these flow none can overcome the root from whence heresies and opinions come And therefore vain Shepherd and blind cease thy divining Those that thou woulst have supprest are those that break bread from house to house and meet together in the name of the Lord as the Saints ever did and this thou callest Dan and Bethel because they will not come to an Idols temple where all the deceived in the Nation worship an unknown God I say unto thee thy Steeple-house thy Idols temple which God never commanded where all lyars and fighters and swearers and night-birds and Scriech-owls meet and call it the house of God and where they speak nought but the imaginations of their own hearts and call them the ordinances of God and it the Church that 's Dan and Bethel And as for the Magistrates which thou tellest they ought to suppress the false Prophets thou mightst have declared who they had been But for the honest-hearted Magistracie and people I shall declare a little when they came in and who they are Christ sayes many false Prophets shall arise and Paul Peter John and and the rest they saw them come already then many Antichrists deceivers and then they came in as the Scriptures witness and they have deceived the Nations since and Christ saith by their fruits you shall know them and they are such as he cryed wo against which laid heavy burthens upon the people and such as were got into Moses seat and were called of men master stood praying in the Assemblies and had the chiefest place in the synagogue and Peter saith they followed after covetous practises and Jude saith they went after the error of Balaam for gifts and rewards and Isaiah says they sought for their gain for their quarter and Ezekiel saith they were such as fed of the fat and Zachary saith they were as evening wolves and Paul saith they were covetous men heady highminded and lovers of pleasure and fierce despisers of those that are good aad had a form of godliness and they were witches that turned them back to circumcision and false Prophets when the substance was come And are they not so now who sue for Tythes maintain the first Priesthood and bewitch people and deny Christ come in the flesh Now let all judge where these are many in the North taking away the peoples Cows their pots and kettles and b●dding and one Priest sued one for two pence and two in York-shire sued one for one penny and another for a penny halfpenny and these are they that call themselves Ministers of the Gospel Shame shame blush houl you Caterpillars the hand of the Lord is against you And yet I would not have their lives taken away as thou wouldst have theirs that thou callst Sectaries but to that in thy conscience I speak which will let thee see that thou hast a busie mind and abidest not in the doctrine of Christ but art amongst the false Prophers And thou and the rest of them which are Merchants and tradest with other mens words which must have your Gospel and your Worship defended with swords and Staves and the power of the earth you are they that spread nets at Mispeh and Tabor for it s neither in Jerusalem nor this Mount but they that worship the Father worship in spirit and truth and thou that woulst confine God to a place to a day to a time and have him bound by a Law and the Saints how they shall worship him thou art carnall and thy petition carnall and all who have any honesty in them or light will see thee to be in the generation of the Pharisees that said they had a Law and by that law he ought to die And whereas thou art comparing thy self and the Priests of Newcastle and Durham to Sarah the Mistreis and them who oppose you to Hagar Answ Sarah never brought forth sons of Bondage as you are but you are truly Hagar the Egiptian who g●nders unto bondage for you and all the children that ever you have begotten or brought forth are in bondage till now and the Lord hath raised up a people out of the Dust to confound you and your wisdom and to declare against your profssi●on in laying heavie burdens upon the people and taking their money for that which is not bread and be ye all ashamed ye high Okes ye fat Bulls ye Diviners that cannot maintain y●u Gospel with all your parts and wisdom that you boast of against those contemptible things in your eyes but you must run to a carnall Sword or to a Justice of Peace or Constable to preserve you or to have them imprisoned stocks mockings and reproaches this is all we have or expect from the Powers of the earth because we speak the truth Be ye ashamed and lay your hands upon your mouths what Gospel is this they have preached what Worship is this you give unto God that must be defended with clubs and Staves and Stocks and whips stoning and haling before Magistrates and yet thou wouldst have them accounted Ministers of the Gospel they who were Ministers of the Gospel their weapons were not carnall but spiritual and they were mighty through God but the mightiness of this generation lies in the Magistrates sword to defend them and drive the people to pay them mony for nought And therefore let all Magistrates consider in this Nation and elswhere that you be warned how you make any laws against the innocent and how you uphold those that Christ cried woe against and such as the Lord sent his Prophets to declare against lest that come upon them which the Prophet spoke that they that help and them that are helped shall fall tog●ther And whereas thou further flatte●s them and tells them that they are in the room of Abraham for ordering the house of God to see that the seed of Isaac be inheritors which is like to be deprived by the Egyptian brood Rep. My defire is that they may be guided by the spirit of Abraham who denied his country and if they walk in the light they will be like him and will see that things be ordered in the Nation in righteousness But if they will take take thy word who is the Isaac that thou wouldst should inherit thou wilt present them Ismael But is it not the Inheritance of Tythes and Augmentations and to have people to fall down to worship the Image that they have set up that is it thou wouldst have ordered For who are of Abraham are of the seed which the promise is to and such you stir up the Magistrates by your slatteries and lyes and the people to have a law to keep them in bondage and so to them that dwell in the light he sees it is the Egyptian that thou wouldst