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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	seek_v	spirit_n	worshipper_n	2,020	5	12.2044	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B20877	A declaration of the people of God in scorn called Quakers, to all magistrates and people.	Crook, John, 1617-1699.	1659 (1659)	Wing C7201; Interim Tract Supplement Guide 855.f.3[43]; ESTC R202165	5,420	8

which the Judges and Justices and others call the Rule for Christians to walk by to put off the hat in a Court or before a Magistrate And if it should yet be stood upon The putting off the hat as a thing indifferent It is answered He that is offended when the hat is not put off when he expects it or requires it to him and in his account it is not a thing indifferent For then is a thing truly indifferent to a man when a man regardeth not whether be have the thing done to him or not And others of us have been imprisoned for speaking that which was to us revealed and required of us by the Lord God the highest power unto a man called a Minister or to a people in a Steeple-house or Temple made with hands wherein God dwelleth not but in his people whose bodies are his Temple God doth dwell and is known in his Sanctuary where his voice is heard and his will and word obeyed rather then men who would limit the Spirit of God to times places and persons but their neither was nor is any such custom amongst the Churches of Christ where If any thing was or is revealed to him that sits by the 〈…〉 to hold his peace and so all may prophesie one by one for the 〈◊〉 of the Prophets is subject to the Prophets Again many of us have suffered many wayes for no other cause then meeting together in the fear of the Lord to wait upon him and to worship him upon the first dayes of the week Others of us have been turned forth of our imployments in the Nation both civil and military and rendred uncapable of such 〈…〉 imployment in a Common-wealth upon no other account but because we were Quakers so called or could not deny the people called Quakers although we had in faithfulness served this present Parliament our Countrey in our several imployments whilst we were permitted to continue in them And of late in the great Assembly and Counsels of this Nation we have been represented by some to be a people not onely to have unchristian'd but also unman'd our selves as if we had made our selves uncapable of any imployment wherein we might be serviceable in the Nation thereby endeavouring to render us not onely odious but also useless in a Common-wealth But for the clearing of the truth of God as it is in Jesus and for the manifesting of the secret deceits of our enemies and pretended friends in humility and meekness of mind we do declare unto all That by the receiving the gift of God the Light 〈…〉 Jesus it obeying in our hearts which giveth knowledge and understanding to the simple we are not thereby made uncapable nor unwilling to serve our Country and Country-men in the lowest employments and places that are any ways tending to the thing that is just and to the suppression of that which is evil or to the procuring good unto our Countrey Countrey-men and Neighbours amongst whom we sojourn Neither do we deny but bear our witness too and of the Scriptures of truth and the Church of God and the Worship of God which is in the Spirit and in the Truth and the Ministers of Christ we own and their maintenance which is free and the Ordinances of Christ they are established amongst us all which are known by the Light of Christ that shineth in the heart and the higher powers we are subject unto for Conscience sake and Magistrates and Rulers who are not a terrour to good works but to the evil are by us owned and honoured in the Lord which honour stands not in flattering titles or bowing the knee and putting off the hat but in due and ready subjection to all just Commands according to the Apostles Doctrine Honour all men in the Lord and submit your selves to every Ordinance of man for the Lord sake Now that which stands in the Lord and is done for the Lords sake must be in that which is good and not in that which is evil for evil is not in the Lord for he that doth evil he hates the Light which is good and he that hates that which is good doth nothing for Christs sake and by the Light of Christ which shineth in our hearts we are taught of God to love as Brethren to obey our Parents after the flesh husbands are taught to dwell with their wives according to knowledge and wives to submit themselves unto their husbands as unto the Lord servants to be obedient to them that are their Masters and all to submit themselves one unto another in the fear of God Neither do we desire that to our selves which we do not freely give and allow unto others to wit Liberty of Conscience knowing that every man must give an accompt unto God for himself yet we desire the good of all men which we know cannot be enjoyed by any man whilst he lives in sin and wickedness Neither dare we practise nor allow that in our selves which we witness to be evil in others Neither do we with-draw our shoulders from the yoke or lay burthens upon others to ease our selves but are made free in the Lord and in our spirits to serve our Countrey and Countrey-men in all things that are Just in the things that are honest in the things that are equal and in the things that are of good report amongst those that truly fear God so we are not straitned in our selves by the Spirit of the Lord nor limited by the truth from being serviceable in our generations but we are straitned by unreasonable men and limited by that spirit that rules by unrighteous lawes popish customs and mens own wills which stands upon oaths hats cringings and against plainness of speech and will not suffer the servants of God to exercise their gifts and reprove sin in the gate So it is not we that have either lost our reason unman'd or unchristian'd our selves being known in our Countreys to be men having reason and understanding though we have laid aside childish things living and walking in a good conversation as men and Christians by whose example many have been turned unto God and have blessed God for us in the day of their visitation Therefore let all tongues be silent before the Lord and his people who are no oppressors nor imposers upon mens Consciences nor devourers of Gods creatures upon our lusts nor time servers nor men pleasers neither for advantage do we admire mens persons nor after earthly honours or preferment do we covet which whil'st some have coveted alter they have made shipwrack of Faith and of a good conscience But the good of all people do we seek after and truth and justice and sincerity and a holy conversation and a pure Religion and Worship of God which is in the Spirit and in the Truth which the Devil and will-will-worshippers are out of and in that we are to glorifie God and serve our generation And all in justice and oppression and oppressours unrighteousness and ungodliness of men and all false wayes and false worships and false ministers false maintenance false churches false tongues we utterly deny and bear our Testimony against with one accord mouth and spirit and all persecutors who abuse the power of God which is for the praise of them that do well and turns the sword backward strengthening the hands of the evil-doers such were alwayes blind and were suddenly ouerthrown by the hand of God which comes upon them when they are high and proud and in their ambition forgets God the Lord by his hand suddenly overturns such and layes them low with the valleys and sets the valleys above them Read this in this Nation and do not forget the hand for who doth by that hand will be laid low again But they that rule and stand in the power of God they answer the just principle of God in every man Subscribed in the behalf of our selves and the rest of our friends who are of one heart and mind with us John Crook Edward Byllynge Dennys Hollister Will. Gandy Rich. Ward Antho. Pearson John Hodson Robert Duncon Amor Stoddart Tho. Moor. Richard Hodden Geo. Benson Geo. Watkinson Tho. Aldam John Pennyman John Fry THE END LONDON Printed for Thomas Simmons at the Bull and Mouth near Aldersgate 1659.