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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
woman_n	bruise_v	heel_n	serpent_n	2,564	5	9.8176	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A34998	The second volume of the sermons or declarations of Mr. Stephen Crisp, late of Colchester in Essex, deceased. Exactly taken in characters or short-hand, as they were delivered by him at the publick meeting-houses of the people called Quakers· In Grace-Church-street, and Devon-shire-House, London. And now faithfully transcribed and published. With some of his prayers after sermon.	Crisp, Stephen, 1628-1692.	1693 (1693)	Wing C6939; ESTC R213012	90,303	201

towards Relations they do what they do as to God many Lads and Lasses Men-Servants and Women Servants they do their Work and Service not barely to please their Master and Mistriss but to please God the life they live is by the Faith of the Son of God they live as becomes the Members of his Body Husbands love their Wives not simply because they are their Wives as the Men of the World do but they do it upon the account of inward Religion and of the Divine Fellowship and Communion they have in Christ Jesus Husbands should love their Wives as Christ loved his Church and laid down his Life for it so a Man should love his Wife and be tender over her and Minister to her The Life of Christianity hath taught us to behave our selves so as God may have Glory and Christianity be restored to its antient Lustre and Beauty that it had in former days But some will say do as well as you can Men will never love you if you have the Soul of Christianity you shall be reviled and scandalized Men will make works against you and strow Papers against you and set the Magistrates against you live as well as you can they will follow you and disturb you That is more than you know if a Man once come to feel the life of Christianity working in him and the power of it keeping him from doing evil and wishing evil to his Enemies and disposing his mind to a frame of praying for them inclining him to pity them if a Man come to this state he is at peace in himself and enjoys tranquility of mind he looks up to the Mediatour Christ Jesus and feels an answer of peace in his own Soul and is come to rest in himself Now concerning Persecution Hatred and Enmity between the Womans Seed and the Serpentine Seed and how long it will last God whom we serve did say to the Devil in Paradice I will put enmity between thee and the Woman and between thy seed and her seed it shall bruise thy head and thou shalt bruise his heel So that it is not to be expected that the Seed of the Serpent that those that are born of that seed can love those that are born of the Womans Seed it is possible that those that are born of the Seed of the Serpent should be translated and brought out of that corrupt state but it is impossible that those that are born of the Flesh should love those that are born of the Spirit while they continue in their unregenerate State but will persecute them it is like a natural instinct as for water to run downward and fire to fly upward were not all Men and Women born Children of wrath and naturally Enemies in their minds to Christ Jesus And did he die and suffer for them all so that the very nature of the thing is the very reason why Christ died to Redeem those that were his Enemies to be his Friends Suppose I or any other to be a Member of Christ and Men do persecute me and revile me and hate me should I not love them and do good unto them when I see one infinitely better than either you or I do it for us when we were Enemies Christ hath sent his Spirit into our Hearts that we might become Friends of him and of him that sent him this is the effect of the Righteousness of Christ and of his innocence that Enemies may become Friends thus have many been brought to a Friendship of Truth that were Enemies of it if we could not suffer for the Testimony we have received of God what were it worth but seeing God hath not only given us to believe but to suffer for his Name many have been turned by this means from darkness to light and many more will the light breaks forth apace notwithstanding there hath been so much ado to stop it It hath been the design of many Learned Men of this Nation how shall we stop these mens mouths that preach the Doctrine of Truth in the inward parts the Light within and Christ within them I will not repeat the many Laws that have been made against them that will not Preach Lies but the power of Christ and his truth now what will you do You cannot lay hands on them as you used to do no but we will reproach them with the tongue we will render them odious to the Government as persons that will over-turn Church and State and that preach false Doctrine and when all is done and they have said their worst People will still believe that Sin and Wickedness is hateful to God that God takes no delight in Sin and that the Devil will lead us to Sin he that keeps most from Sin keeps most out of the Devils Clutches and he that lives most Holy is most like to God These things we will Preach and we will go on in this Testimony that the best way that men can take is to break off their Sins by Repentance and turn to God their Maker with their whole hearts and that they will look to their ways and search and try and examine their hearts and if they see evil to keep out of it this is such a thing as there is no withstanding of it it will go through this Nation and all the Nations of the Earth What if a Company of People should combine together and say we will not have the Sun to shine upon the City of London what course must we take when the Sun is down we will build a Bank or high Wall to intercept its Light but notwithstanding all their endeavours when the Sun riseth it will get over all their high Banks and Walls so all the Designs and all the Contrivances against the Light of the Gospel and against Christ the Sun of Righteousness and against the Spirit of Christ the Light will ascend and get over the heads of them all and it will confound them and break through all opposition I Exhort you all my Friends that laying aside all Doctrines and Tenents and Controversies among Christians to come to this simple Thesis and Position it is no matter what I profess of Religion if my Life be not answerable to it if there be not a love to God and my Neighbour and to mine own Soul there is no Life nor Power in my profession of Religion I will rest satisfied in the measure of Knowledge that God hath given me I must not do to my Neighbour what I would not have my Neighbour do to me I must be upright and sincere towards God God will not accept of any Worship from me when I am unclean in Body and in Mind too we must see that we be Purified for God will not accept of an Offering from an unclean heart you cannot bring a clean thing out of an unclean saith our Lord Jesus Christ the great Preacher of Truth and Righteousness I must first make the Tree good before the Fruit will be