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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	require_v	spirit_n	worship_v	1,990	5	8.9686	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A26136	An exhortation to all people	Atkinson, Thomas.	1684 (1684)	Wing A4132; ESTC R37294	7,024	10

● Spirit marvel not that I said unto you ye must be born again c. Joh. 3.3 to 8. This persecuting Spirit was always blind it was blind in the great professing Jews who pretended a Law whereby to put Christ to Death in that time it was blind in the great professing Presbyterians who pretended a Law against us to persecute us thereby but the Lord had no hand in those Laws further then permission and it is well if the Rulers in this Age proceed not to Blood against a Harmless and Innocent People for Professing Christ Jesus and Worshipping him in the way of his Spirit who was sent from the Bosome of his Father Not to destroy mens lives but to save them Luk. 9.56 And doth not Englands Rulers pretend a Law now and is it not contrary to Christs Law not only for spoyling of Goods but also casting into Prison by which many have suffered to Death which comes near to Blood and is not this a mark of Satan the Destroyer Rev. 2.10 for Christ Jesus nor his Servants never cast any into Prison Let the Spirit and Scriptures of Truth be judge in those things for to them I shall appeal and methinks these times answer much and ●● parallel with the Apostles times in matter of Persecution and it is the desire of my heart if it were the will of God that the Understandings of Englands Rulers might come to be opened with Divine Wisdom that thereby they might come to see and discern betwixt those that serve God acceptably and those that serve him not and so put a difference betwixt the Precious and the Vile for is not Antichrists Kingdom of Sin and Unrighteousness grown to a great height and doth not Wickedness abound and is not Christs Kingdom of Righteousness too too little regarded so that he that departs from Evil is become a Prey and this the Lo●d sees and in his own time will put an end to Sin and finish Transgression and bring in Everlasting Righteousness and this will be the joy of the Upright in Heart whose Confidence is in the Lord alone And I say again the true Worship of Christ is Spiritual which he set up above 1600 Years since and never changed it read John 4. from 20 to 25. And where two or three many or few meet together and worship together in the Spiritual Worship there is Christ in the midst of them and no other Worship will the Righteous God accept of but that which is performed in Spirit and Truth all other Worships in his sight will be found Idolatry For God that made the World and all things therein dwells not in Temples made with Hands read Act 7.48 49 50. And Christ said I in you and you in me so the Spirit of God is not to be limitted to time or place and to day if ye will hear his Voice harden not your Hearts c. This is not to hear the voice of a Mortal Man but the voice of the Immortal God within all are to hear this is the true Everlasting Prophet which Moses the Man of God spoke of and he that will not hear this Prophet Christ Jesus and receive his Teaching shall be cut off c. the Apostle saith because they do not receive him and his Spiritual Teachings But to as many as receive him to them ● power to become the Sons of God born again of the Immortal word of Life ● lives and abides forever but this was a mystery to old Nichodemus In his ● and it is a mystery to all Natural Carnal Wisdom at this time For the N● Man by all his Wisdom receives not the things of the Spirit of God neither ● because they are spiritually discerned 1 Cor. 2.11 14. Here is living word● a dying Man yea dead as to the World and the Vanities and Rudiments ● of yet living unto God by Jesus Christ who is my Life and the length o● Dayes who am a lover of the Souls of all People one who is and has ● Traveller towards the Heavenly and Spiritual Canaan who by Christ Je● redeemed and brought out of the Broad way which leads to Destruction ● the narrow way which leads to Life and out of the Worlds Customes ● passess away into the Saints practice which will never decay and from ● the Covetous Hi●elings and Worlds Teachers to the teachings of Christ Je● in Spirit and Truth and for these Mercys my Soul shall Bless and Praise the Lo● and that for evermore Writ in the 8th month in the Year of Christ 1684. And in the 80th Year of my Age T. Atkinson POSTSCRIPT EDward Wilson who art a Justice of Peace within Westmorland neither thee ● formers as thou stiles them have proved Friends Meetings whom thee in sco●● ●kers to be Seditious Conventicles or any way tending to the breach of the Peace of ● But on the contrary they are quiet and peaceable and tend to Peace in the God of Peace ● they meet to serve and worship him in Spirit and Truth as he requires of them Read Jo● 21 22 23 24. So that all that thou and thy Informers has done against a harmless People ● the Envy of your Hearts against the Lord his Truth and People in spoyling their goods ● into Prison Is it not a Work of Satan the Devil Rev. 2. and 10. Who is the A● Destroyer Rev. 4.11 There read your selves and consider if you are not comprehend●●● Light of Jesus And therefore now a warning to you from the Lord of Life and Glory who will re●●cording to your deeds Cease from your unrighteous and unchristian like Actions 〈◊〉 ●pentance before the Door of Mercy be shut against you for an Account you must give to 〈◊〉 ●ous Judge of Heaven and Earth These are true and living Words from a dying Ma● to the World and the vanities thereof But living unto God by Jesus Christ who is my 〈◊〉 length of my Dayes Tho. Atkinson THE END