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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	know_v	spirit_n	world_n	6,961	5	5.3573	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A35004	A word of reproof to the teachers of the world vvhich may be of use for the tryal of t[h]eir wayes ... : with an invitation and warning to them and all people to turn from iniquity ... / written by Stephen Crisp.	Crisp, Stephen, 1628-1692.	1658 (1658)	Wing C6946; ESTC R28578	4,929	10

in persecuting in violence in tumults and such like which power is your defence who say ye are Ministers of Christ and are not but are Ministers of Antichrist and so proved lyars and condemned and witnessed against both in the light and by the Scriptures 2ly You say you preach the Gospel Nay that is not the Gospel of Christ you preach but another which he that bringeth is accursed For the Gospell of Christ is the power of God unto salvation to them that believe but what you preach is not so no not to them that believes it who preach that they cannot be saved So if they believe what you declare they must believe they cannot be saved while in this life And so it is not the power nor Gospel of Christ which you preach but the power of darkness to keep all in death out of the faith which gives victory and through which the creature comes to know the Gospel and the power which saves and redeems up to God Again the Gospel is everlasting and none can preach it but they who have received it but you whose knowledge stands in carnall Arts and Sciences and Inventions which came in time and must perish in time your knowledge cannot receive the everlasting Gospel when it is preached unto you much lesse preach it unto others and in that knowledg do you corrupt your selves and others and are like to perish in your corruption together except ye turn to the light which was before corruption that it may shew you corruption and lead you out of corruption that ye perish not for to such as are in the perishing way which is corrupt the Gospel everlasting is hid Again that which you preach is not free nor without charge but the Gospel was so and is so as long as the force and violence and pride and covetousnesse is found amongst you which makes that which you preach burthensome and chargeable to the people cease calling it the Gospel of Christ for if you do call it so the light in all consciences condemns you and the practice of Christs Apostles condemns you and the Scripture declares against you and your condemnation is just and shall abide for ever 3ly You say you preach the Truth Nay that is not the Truth you preach for it sets none free for many have abode in your doctrine and worship a long time some 20. some 40. and some 60. years and yet are not set free but you have brought them to believe that they cannot be freed and so have caused them to erre from the right path and such may dye in their iniquities but their blood will be required at your hands who have beguiled and deceived them But Christ Jesus the light of the world who lighteth every man that cometh into the world that all men through him might beleve He said If ye abide in the truth the truth shall set you free He is the light the true light and the truth that sets free and you who deny the light that lighteth every man that cometh into the world and yet say you preach the truth you are lyars and the lake is your portion except you repent Again what you preach you sell and so are declared against expresly in Scripture seeing you say you preach the truth For what saith it buy the truth and sell it not Read your condemnation all you who make bargains for that which you call truth and let the light in your own consciences judge whether you doe not deny Scripture yea or nay 4ly You say he that preacheth the Gospel ought to live of the Gospel I answer He unto whom the Gospel of Christ is committed to preach none can hinder him of living of it for it is his life and he needeth not an outward law to hold up his livelyhood Neither did any that ever preached the Gospel make use of any such power but their power they had and they have alone from Christ Jesus both from the inward and outward support Have we not power to eat have we not power to drink saith the Apostle who was a Minister of Christ but he had not power to make bargains with any people for a certain establishment of a sum of money and then to seek for an Augmentation besides as some of you do and then to sue at law for default of payment and if it were payd then to spend it in voluptuosness upon his lust as you do Some in the lust of drunkennesse and gluttony and some in pride in satisfying your lusts in cloaths and in building and some in covetousnesse making a god of money So you have chosen to your selves gods which shall perish with you and they shall not save you but your nakednesse and your shame the light hath discovered who have refused to be covered by it and while ye live in pride and gluttony in envy and covetousness in strife and contention this is not to live of the Gospel but this is the fruit of the corrupt tree which is for the fire 5ly You say the Labourer is worthy of his hire Yea but he must have it of him that sets him to work and hath profit by his work Now he that worketh for one man and would have hire of another who set him not on work this is unreasonable and so is it for a man to exact wages for his work when none hath profit by his work as is seen at this day among you Priests who are out of the reasonablenesse and good order which most men besides your selves are in this respect Therefore be ashamed and amend your ways and labour with your hands the thing that is good that you may come to eate of the fruit of your labour and be satisfied and be not always like the greedy dumb dogs that can never have enough For now is the day come which hath declared your work and you are comprehended and fathomed and measured with an equall line and your coverings are too narrow and the feet of your image is smitten and the stone is increasing to fill the whole earth and then shall not your place be found and the recompence of your labor will be destruction wo and misery which ye shall receive of the hands of the righteous God the Judge of Heaven and Earth who will judge every one of you according to your doing And then shall all your hard speeches which ye have uttered against the innocent be returned into your own bosomes and ye shall know that ye were warned and the light in your consciences shall in that day testifie unto Gods righteousnesse in your destruction This is given forth from the spirit of Truth for the manifesting and rebuking of the spirit of error and written in obedience to the commandement of the Lord in the yeare accounted 1657. S. C. THE END