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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	spirit_n	true_a	worship_v	11,703	5	9.5822	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A91099	A call out of Egypt, (where death and darkness is) into the glorious light and liberty of the sons of God, (where life and peace is.) The Lord fulfilling his promises declared by his holy prophets and Apostles, in these later dayes.	Parker, Alexander, 1628-1689.	1656 (1656)	Wing P378; Thomason E893_3; ESTC R204837	32,992	47

world and the lusts of it and so purifies the heart And this is the true and the living Faith which the Saints of God were in who were of one heart and one soul and it is the same now as it was then and all who are in this Faith by it their hearts are purified and so are led into purity and one-ness of minde and heart to serve and worship one living and true God in one living and pure way which is in spirit and in truth where there is no rent nor division but pure love and union written in one anothers hearts with the Spirit of the living God So in the light which from the Lord Jesus Christ doth come who is the true Light which lighteth every one that cometh into the world which Light is but one in all though thousand times ten thousands this Light is pure and but one and all who love it and believe in it are led into onenesse and Unity of Spirit In it every one wait and walk that you may he led out of death and darknesse and all the untoward wayes of the world into the pure way of Righteousnesse and Peace to follow Christ in the narrow Path which whosoever follows shall not walk in darknesse but shall have the Light of Life And dwell in love and union watching over one another with a pure 〈…〉 and be tender over one another as Members all of one 〈◊〉 and if any be overtaken with a fault you that are spiritual restore such a one in the Spirit of meeknesse that shame and condemnation may come upon the transgressor and the innocent may be set free and let not the cursed thing lodge among you but be ye holy in all manner of conversation because the Lord our God is holy and no unclean thing can dwell with him nor enter into his righteous Kingdom Therefore be ye separate from the ungodly world and touch no unclean thing and the Lord will receive you and will be to you as a Father and you shall be his Sons and Daughters Cast away all filthinesse from amongst you and let no prejudice lodge nor rest within any of you but forgive one another as God in Christ hath forgiven you for if you do not forgive men their trespasses no more will your heavenly Father forgive your trespasses therefore whatsoever ye would that men should do unto you do you likewise unto them for this is the Doctrine of Christ and it is not the sayer but he that both his Will shall know his Doctrine So the Lord in pure Wisdom keep you and preserve you out of all strife and contention that a daylie growth there may be amongst you that you all may be established in the living truth no more to be tossed to and fro with mens Doctrines which be changeable but all wait upon God in the Light which never changes that you may be all taught of God and every particular may feed upon your own food and have sufficient bread in your own houses to feed upon that there be not a beggar in Israel nor no Vagabond but that all of you may have a habitation in God and grow up in him that the Springs of life may be opened and your souls may be fullie refreshed with the bread of life in my Fathers house And all my beloved Friends keep your habitations and stand upon your Watch that you may hear the voice of your beloved when he calls and be obedient to his voice and do his will and after you have done his will take heed of exaltation but wait in patience that you may receive the Promise for the same that is unwilling to obey the will of God when the will of God is obeyed will get up into presumption and that which doth presume in the time of trial will despair Therefore every one be watchful and keep the door of the house of the Lord that the Enemie enter not to defile and pollute his holie Temple Turn not to the right hand nor to the left but keep in the even and plain way When joy and refreshment comes take heed of exaltation And again when trouble and crosses and afflictions comes do not fall into desparation but wait at Wisdoms Gate that you may be seasoned with Grace having salt in your selves to savor withal that you be not drawn away with the errors of the wicked but that all of you may be daylie refreshed and grow up in strength until you come to a perfect man in Christ Jesus the Grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you and establish you in the Truth Written in love to your souls by way of remembrance to stir up your pure mindes by your dear Brother who is a laborer in the Lords vineyard ALEX. PAREER For Friends in the Truth to be read at their meettings when they are met together in the fear of the Lord. Corrnwa●l 31. day of the 5th Month 1656. The Night is far spent and the Day is at hand awake arise from the dead that Christ may give you Light Cease from all the blinde Guides they deceive you try them and by their fruits ye shall know them BEware of false Prophets which come to you in Sheeps clothing but inwardlie they are ravening Wolves ye shall know them by their fruits Mat. 7.15 to the 21. c. Do men gather Grapes of Thorns or Figs of Thistles even so everie good Tree bringeth forth good fruit but a corrupt Tree bringeth forth evil Fruit A good Tree cannot bring forth evil Fruit neither can a corrupt Tree bring forth good Fruit Everie Tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down and cast into the fire wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them Now all people everie where who have long been led by blind guides and have been deceived by the false Prophets who have got the Sheeps clothing and decked and painted themselves with the Saints words but where is the fruit that is brought forth it is their fruits that makes them manifest the Lord looks for fruit but here is nothing but leafs here is fine Trees with flourishing leafs but no fruit appears much talk and profession of God and of Christ there hath been in this Nation of England fair outsides glorious words but the life is wanting there is no fruits but all manner of unrighteousnesse doth abound in the Nation Doth not pride abound and covetousnesse drunkennesse swearing lying and all manner of unrighteousnesse the Land is full of fruitlesse Trees the boughs even sway and are readie to break down they are so full of the evil fruit pride is come to such a height that thepeople do scarce know how to walk nor what to put on it would even grieve a sober Spirit to see the vanitie of the times both men and women painting themselves in their gorgeous attire fashioning themselves according to the custom and course of this wicked vain world the inventing mind which is estranged from God

Prophets and all you who bear his Mark must be cast into the Lake of Fire there to be tormented for ever and ever from the presence of the Lord and all his holy Angels and Saints this will be your Sentence from the righteous God Depart from me all ye workers of Iniquity Consider of this in your life time you that are so full of rage and malice scoffing and scorning and reproaching the Servants and Messengers of the Lord who are sent of God to give you warning and to open your blind eyes and to turn you from your sins and from darknesse unto Light and from the power of Satan unto God that you might receive forgivenesse of sins and an Inheritance amongst the Saints in Light and this freely as they are moved of the Lord from the bowels of tender love to your lost souls without any self-end not seeking for a gift or any reward from any of you not seeking yours but you yet notwithstanding all their care labour and travel see how you do reward them mocking and scoffing and envying of them haling them out of your Synagogues and beating them sending many to the Stocks and haling others before Magistrates and so to Prison and there the innocent suffers under the hands of cruel men many being beaten and cruelly used in the PRISONS by the cruel GOALERS Witnesse the GOALER at LANCESTON where many of the deare Servants of the LORD have been cast into PRISONS among THIEVES and MURDERERS and have been numbred amongst TRANSGRESSORS as our LORD and MASTER was and many of them have been cruelly beaten and most basely abused by the GOALER and his COMPANIONS And all this and much more is done against the innocent whom you cannot justly accuse of any evil nor wrong done to any man but freely declaring against sin in Markets Cities and Villages and in your Idols-temple where the Worship of the Beast is upheld to call you from your false wayes and false Worships into the true and living way and pure and Spiritual Worship to worship God in Spirit and in Truth and to call you from off all your hireling-Priests and Parish-Teachers who have long time led you in blindnesse and ignorance and have not profited you but made a prey upon your souls for dishonest gain that so you may all be taught of God in Spirit according to the Fathers Promise and all this is done unto you freely without seeking any gain or reward from you and yet notwithstanding all this love and tender care for your souls you envy and hate them and so manifest your selves to be of Cains Generation and your Sacrifices are abomination to God and not accepted of him for our God is pure and there is nothing accepted of him but that which is offered up from a pure heart for the pure in heart are blessed and shall see God as it is written in the Scripture but woe is the portion of the wicked they are of the cursed Generation and all your Sacrifices reading singing praying preaching and expounding and whatever you call a Worship and all your profession and talking of God Christ it is all abomination while sin and iniquity lodgeth and is regarded in your hearts it is no more but your own self-righteousnesse acted in your own wills which is as filthy rags and as menstruous clothes and it will not abide the fire nor stand in the day of trial you are but patching a piece of new cloth in the old Garment and the Rent will be worse your gilded outside and fair pretences your talking of the Scriptures and painting your selves over with the Saints words it is but sowing of fig-leafs together to cover your nakednesse and it will not hide you from the wrath of the Lamb neither will it stand you in any stead where the life and power of Christ is wanting you are stil out of the way of God for though you professe much in words and draw neer unto God with your lips and mouths yet it is not saying Lord Lord that will avail but he that doth the will of my Father shall enter into the Kingdom for it is the heart which he requires and as long as the devil and sin lodgeth in your hearts in vain is all your talking and going to hear Sermons It is not your going one day in seven or more to hear a man speak a company of words and then all the week after to follow your own lusts and pleasures without yoke and bridle no crosse nor limit to the carnal minde but all is at liberty you can speak your own words and think your own thoughts and do your own works and sport your selves in your vanities your tongues at liberty to speak vain words this is not the worship of God but a false worship and a vain Religion and wo is the end of it as it was to the Scribes and Pharisee● who were high in notion and professed much in words yet notwithstanding all their outside cleansing and Scripture knowledge they were strangers to the life of truth and crucified the Son of God and their profession was but hypocrisie and Christ cried wo unto them calling them Whited wall painted Sepulchres who m●●e c●ea● the outside of the Cup and Platter but the inside was not made clean So all you now that talk of the Scriptures and do not live in that pure life that they lived in that gave forth the Scriptures you are hypocrites and your profession outside cleansing is but Pharisaical and except your righteousness exceed the righteousness of the Scribes and Phar●sees you cannot enter into t●e Kingdom of God Now search and try your selves and see if your righteousnesse go any further then theirs did nay doth it go so far they made clean the outside but are not you unclean both within and without To that of God in all your Conferenc● I speak and appeal that with it you may try and examine and see what you can witnesse of your return unto the Lord your God whar is cut down in you or what change is wrought in your hearts for there must the work of God be known if ever you know the truth in its purity for with the whole heart will the Lord be served for he calls for it as it is written My Son give me thy heart and as long as sin lodgeth in the heart the devil lodgeth for all sin is of the devil as it is declared He that commits sin is of the devil and as long as the devils works are standing within you your profession of Christ without you will not avail until his life and power be witnessed within you to destroy the devils works for for this end purpose was the Son of God made manifest that he might destroy the works of the Devil and all sin is a work of the devil And sin is conceived in the heart which is deceitful and there lodgeth in the heart and defiles and pollutes the heart as Envy

will testifie against you and be your condemnation and your faith is vain who are yet in your sins Therefore repent and turn from your wickedness cease to do evil and learn to do well draw near unto God and he will draw near unto you put away lying and swearing and all prophaneness let no corrupt speeches proceed out of your mouthes and hearken to the voice of Christ that your souls may live spend not your money for that which is not bread nor your labor for that which doth not satisfie But hearken with diligence to hear the voice of the beloved Son of God who saith Learn of me I am meek and lowly in Spirit and you shall finde rest to your souls and that is it in you all which reproves for sin and checks you when you do amiss when no mortal eye sees you minde this well and wait to be guided by it and it will lead you out of sin and evil up to God the Father to have Unity with him and with his Son and so to bring forth fruits of the Spirit love joy peace gentleness meekness soberness brotherly kindness forbearing and forgiving one another And this will be a present guid unto you if you love it and bring your deeds to it to be tryed by it at all times and in all companies to lead you to God if sinners entice you consent not to them but fear the Lord and stand in awe and sin not But if you hate this Light and live in your sins and your old vain ungodly conversation this Light will be your condemnation Now while you have time prize it and work while it is day lest the dreadful night of darkness come upon you when none can work Awake awake and arise from the dead prepare your selves and make ready for the Kingdom of God is at hand Come out of Babylon partake not of her sins lest ye partake of her plagues and wait upon the Lord that you may eat of the Bread of Life which satisfies the Soul ALl you that are breathing after God who are Hungring and Thirsting after righteousness which have long been wandring upon the mountains as sheep without a shepherd who have long been seeking after God but have not sound him and have many years been hearers and learners and have spent much money and labor and much precious time but have sound no satisfaction nor refreshment to your hungry thirsting souls but still there is a cry within for want of a Savior something in your consciences cries and is not satisfied notwithstanding your many years professing and talking of God and Christ and your running after this man and that man to hear Sermons as they are called yet still you are in your sins and your own old vain ungodly conversation and crooked and perverse rebellious and disobedient nature upon which the wrath of God abides and so there is no true peace joy nor rest to your souls I say unto all such simple hearts who have been tossed to and fro many years with the windy doctrines of men but have not found peace return home to your Fathers house seed no longer amongst the swine upon the husks you cannot fill your belly there but come into my Fathers house for there is bread enough Seek not the living among the dead but awake awake all you that sleep and arise from the dead that Christ may give you light turn your mindes inward and seek the last groat in your own house for the Lord is near yea doubtless Friends the Lord is very nigh for in him we live and move and have our being For it is he that gives to all life and breath and all things and out of his love to fallen man-kinde hath given his onely begotten Son for a Covenant of Light into the World who doth enlighten every one that cometh into the World that all men through him might believe There is that light in every one of your consciences which if you love it will teach you continually and lead you out of sin and unrighteousness into purity and holiness to worship the living God in spirit and in truth and so to be taught of him in spirit according to his promise I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh and my sons and my daughters shall Prophesie and I will make a new Covenant with them I will write my law in their hearts and put my spirit into their into their inward parts and they shall no more teach every one his Neighbor and Brother saying Know the Lord for all shall know me from the least to the greatest and I will be merciful to their unrighteousness and their sins and their iniquities will I remember ●o more and this is the Lord fulfilling in our day praises to his Name for evermore he is gathering his scattered sheep together where they have been scat cred abroad in this cloudy dark day and is bringing them into the Fold and there shall be one Sheepsold and one Shepheard this is the promise of the Father which he is now bringing to pass establishing his own Kingdom in Righteousness and uniting and joyning his people together that they may all be of one heart and mind that they may with one voice and one consent glorifie and praise him in the Covenant of his Son which he is now leading his people into where no sin enters but is all shut out of the Kingdom and Covenant of the righteous God Therefore all people every where prize this precious time which the Lord doth give unto you and trifle it not away in vanity and vain delights but hearken to that which is pure which convinces and reproves for sin in your consciences and makes manifest the evil of your hearts that is The pure light of Christ which did never consent unto sin but stood against you witnessing for God against sin though never so secretly committed This is the eye which a long time hath been vailed and blinded by the God of the World but now is the Lord unvailing and uncovering and stripping of all the stollen garments which the Serpent hath painted and decked himself withal and the Devil can no longer hide himself but by the light of Jesus Christ shining in the conscience he is found out in all his Wiles and Temptations whereby he goes about to ensnare and deceive the innocent For as long as the Devil can keep people from owning this light he can lodge in the heart and work his works in the heart but when ever they come to own and walk in the light he cannot work but by the light his works is seen and by the power and life of Christ within the Devils works are destroyed and the heart purifyed and the conscience purged from dead works and so the body is made a Temple of God which Temple is holy and if any man defile the Temple of God him shall God destroy Therefore all people who love your souls come out of your sins which doth defile you and separate you from God and breaks your peace with God and love and walk in the light of Christ and bring your deeds to it For every one that doth truth he loves the light and bringeth his deeds to the light that they may be proved and tryed whether or no they be wrought in God and in the light you will have union and fellowship one with another and the Blood of Christ will cleanse you from all sin walking in the light for this light is pure and but one and leads to purity and oneness out of all Divisions Strife and Contention and from all the changeable Priests and changeable Doctrines and changeable Worships and changeable Laws that stands in the will of Man in the fallen Wisdom and will lead you unto Jesus Christ the unchangeable Priest the alone Teacher of his People who teacheth all his freely by his free spirit and leads them out of Death and dead Works into the pure way and path of life that they may bring forth fruit unto God and blessed are all they that fear the Lord and walk in his way But the wicked must be turned into Hell and all the Nations that forget God therefore let every one that nameth the Name of JESUS CHRIST depart from iniquity From a lover of your Souls but a witness against all Sin A. P. THE END