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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	new_a	old_a	testament_n	6,607	5	8.4174	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A37216	A testimony against hypocrites and deceivers in defense of the truth	David, John.	1690 (1690)	Wing D375; ESTC R8994	13,317	15

as they then said unto us have not you received some good among us in those Ordinances so say you he dare not say that he enjoyed not comfort from those Prayers that came through an uncovered Head And although that you cannot with all your wresting and twining in your Serpentine Wisdom shew no ill Fruit brought forth but still cry a dark Spirit a Spirit of Envy and Malice and the like and when we require you to prove your Assertions and Allegations by laying open what fruit of that evil Spirit is brought forth you say we keep on our Hats when you Pray by that means we disturb the Churches Peace and this is all you can alledg against us and for this cause are we called Hat-men and herein you have no matter of Fact to lay to our charge for when we come to the Meeting we come in a peaceable manner with our Hats upon our Heads and as we come so we abide quiet and in that there is no matter of Fact done on our part yet you complain that your Churches Peace is disturbed as those Pastors and Elders in those Days did by us and you thrust us out of your Meeting for declaring Words in a peaceable manner as those Professors did in those days by us and it is true and no baseness in this I will stand to this Testimony when ever you please to call upon me And the Apostle did not command the Corinthians to put off their Hats and observe Times for publick Prayers as you would wrest his Words which are Every Man Praying or Prophesying with his Head covered dishonoureth his Head and moreover he said we have no such custom neither the Churches of God And the Apostles did write unto the Gentiles that believed If they would abstain from Meats offered unto Idols and from Blood and from things strangled and from Fornication they would do well and herein is no injunction laid upon the Consciences of Individuals And here we find you bringing in another Gospel and preaching another Doctrine differing from the Doctrine of the Apostles who preached Christ the Power of God to Salvation in all them that believe and differing from the Doctrine of the People called Quakers at their first coming forth who preached the Light within every particular to be the true Teacher and that in the Light was power sufficient and they did not preach the power that the visible Body of Friends had in it self as you do and therefore we own the Apostles Doctrine and the Doctrine of the People called Quakers which they first preached and which we believed and deny your Doctrine The Apostles Doctrine was That the Wife is bound by the Law as long as her Husband liveth but if her Husband be dead she is at liberty to be married to whom she will only in the Lord and Isaac being gone to meditate in the Field Rebekah coming with her Damosel and Abraham's Servant lighted off the Camel and Isaac brought her to his Mother Sarahs Tent and Rebekah became his Wife here is a record of a Marriage in the old Testament How did Abraham the Father of the Faithful order his Servant to go for a Wife for his Son and how did Isaac of whom the Lord said For in Isaac shall thy Seeed be called take his Wife and here is the Apostles Doctrine concerning Marriage that when the Husband is dead the Woman is at liberty to marry whom she will only let her wait upon the Lord for counsel and not run out to Men for advice and let them see in it and shew it to other Men and that none go together but before a dozen Friends there was no such order prescribed either by Abraham the Father of the Faithful nor by his Son Isaac who was promised unto Abraham nor by the Apostles of the Lord Jesus Christ neither did the People called Quakers bring any such orders among us at their first coming forth as many of you very well know and one of the eminentest of you acquainted me how that a couple that were come out of the North unto West-Chester betook themselves in marriage there If you please to examine me further I will give you further account We do own a true Marriage and the Bed undefiled and those that God joineth together we seek not to put asunder neither do we busie our selves to lay further injunctions upon People than the Holy Men of God of old times laid for we do very well know that all sober-minded Men and Women whose Minds are turned unto the Light in their Consciences will as they abide faithful and obedient to the Light behave themselves toward God and towards one another in sobriety and meekness as becometh honest People so to do and as for others whether they be those that despise the Light or those that pretend to a wrong freedom because they profess the Light and so by their miscarriages bring a scandal upon the Children of the Light we do deny both and have no fellowship with the unfruitful Works of darkness neither do we pretend unto any such outward Authority as to meddle with those Exercises any further than we are concern'd and our admonition unto all is That every one do stand still and wait upon the Lord in that measure given him of God to profit withal for Counsel and not run out unto them that cry Lo here and lo there is Christ and in this we have not fallen from the Principle of Truth nor from the Doctrine of the Holy Men of old Times recorded in the Old and New Testament nor from the true Doctrine first received of the People called Quakers And I can appear and give in my Name and stand unto this my Testimony at noon day And as for those filthy lewd Actions which some of you have been charged with not fit to be mentioned amongst any manner of People that have any civility much less amongst Professors of Religion and above all unfitting that those that profess the Light should have any such things justly charged upon them I do declare and testifie that I am ignorant of any such thing acted amongst those of my Neighbours and Acquaintance although we differ about the aforesaid Orders The Lord forbid that I should in any measure slander you or any People in the World beyond my knowledg nay rather I would be checkt for concealing than that I should over-run my self in such things and in all this I do not flatter I take God's Name for my Witness who will reward every one in Righteousness and true Judgment In this therefore let every Tub stand upon its own bottom And for your charging the said Author to be envious malicious and a wicked Apostate Slanderer in what is declared in his Letter against some Particulars of you I find you therein far differing from the Disciples of the Lord Jesus who when he told them that one of them was a Devil immediately made no more ado but lookt every