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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
woman_n	spirit_n	worship_n	worship_v	1,464	5	9.7877	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A54026	Concerning persecution: which is, the afflicting or punishing that which is good, under the pretence of its being evil. Which practice is contrary to the very nature of mankind (so far as it is drawn out of the corruption and depravation) which would be good and do good, and have good cherished, and evil suppressed, both in it self and others. ... Yet this unhappy error will always be committed in nations and governments, until the proper right and just liberty of men's consciences be discerned, acknowledged and allowed. Likewise, there are some answers given to that common objection, against affording conscience in its due liberty, because evil persons may pretend conscience to escape the just punishment of their evil deeds. With a brief account of that supposed stubbornes, which by man is objected against the people called Quakers. ... By Isaac Penington the younger.	Penington, Isaac, 1616-1679.	1661 (1661)	Wing P1156; ESTC R214723	23,798	32

forgive them for they know not what they do and afterward to Saul Saul Saul why Persecutest thou me Therefore in love to those who are at unawares running into this great Error that they may find the good Hand of God stopping them therein for their own good are these things following concerning Persecution Written wherein are manifested First What it is that is Persecuted 2. Who it is that Persecutes or is the Persecutor 3. The Nature of Persecution 4. The Grounds or Causes of Persecution 5. The Ways and Meanes of Persecution 6. The Ends of Persecuting what men aim at therein or rather what that Spirit in men which puts them upon Persecuting of others aims at thereby 7. The Colour or false Pretence of the Persecuting Spirit 8. The Blessedness of the Persecuted 9. The Misery of the Persecutors 10. The Way and Meanes whereby men may come to avoid this great evil of Persecuting others Whereunto in the Last Place are added Some sad Effects of Persecution to kindle in men a Desire of avoiding so great an Evil in its self and so Pernitious an Enemy to all that is good in General and Particularly to the Peace and Welfare of Mankind as the Persecuting Spirit is 1. What or Who it is that is Persecuted The Persecuted in all Ages is that which is born after God's Spirit Gal. 4. 29. He that is new-created in Christ Jesus who is formed in the Image and by the Spirit of God which is contrary to the Image and Spirit of the World and who followes Christ in the leadings and teachings of his Spirit which is out of and contrary to the course fashions ways customs of the world This is the man that is Persecuted in all ages He that is of another Spirit Principle than the World so cannot be as the World is being made otherwise by God nor walk as the World walks nor worship as the World worships being taught and required of God to do otherwise This is the man who is afflicted reproached hated hunted persecuted And so the Apostle laies it down not only as a thing to be in his Age but in after Ages also 2 Tim. 3. 12. Yea and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer Persecution Men may talk of Christ profess Christ worship Christ according to the way that is set up in Nations and avoid Persecution but come under the new Principle come into his life live Godly in Him become really subject unto the Power and direction of his Spirit then there is no longer avoiding of Persecution That which comes into the Life of Christ comes presently into a proportion of Suffering from that which is contrary to His Life 2. What or Who it is that persecuteth or is the Persecutor The Persecutor in all Ages is that which is after the flesh That Spirit and Principle in man which is from beneath puts the men in whom it is upon Persecuting the other Principle and the persons in whom it appears Or more plainly thus That which is of the world that which Loves the world and present state thereof that which lies in the darkness is in unity with it loveth it and the corrupt wayes thereof that hates the Light and Persecuteth the children of the Light who are witnesses against and reprovers of the darkness John 3. 20. He that was born after the flesh persecuted him that was after the Spirit So it was formerly so it is also now saith the Apostle Gal. 4. 29. Now there are several sorts and ranks of these as some in the way of open prophaness and wickedness some more civilised and of a more gentle noble and considerate spirit and temper some more religions and devout in worships though not rightly principled and guided but turned aside to some inventions or other of the earthly spirit all which are pleasing to the earthly spirit But all these though they are different one from another and agree not well among themselves but are full of dislikes one toward another yet they all agree in this to wit in a willingness to have that persecuted and subjected which is of a contrary spirit and nature to them all They are all against this more or less though not all against it in the same degree of heat and vehemency 3. The Nature of Persecution or What it is to Persecute Persecution is the opposition of the flesh against the spirit The fretting or dashing of the earthly spirit or spirit of man corrupted against that which is born of God The fighting of the unregenerate and unrenewed spirit in man against the spirit of man renewed by the regenerating power of the Spirit of God The fighting the opposing of this spirit against the other is Persecution What ever any man does in his own will according to his own wisdom and after the inclination of his own heart against another who desires to fear the Lord who waits on Him for the counsel and guidance of His Spirit that he might Obey and Worship Him aright is Persecution The Principle of God teaches to fear the Lord not according to the fear which is taught by the precepts of men but according to the fear which God puts into the heart it teaches likewise to worship the Lord not according as man invents and thinks good to prescribe but as the Lord instructs and requires it teacheth likewise not to conform to the world but to deny it and come out of it Now the hating opposing and punishing of that which is thus taught because of these teachings and its obedience thereto this is Persecution The rising of the heart against such is Persecution in the heart The reproaching scoffing at or speaking evil of such is Persecution with the tongue So Ishmael's mocking of Isaac Gen. 21. 9 10. is called Persecuting of him Gal. 4. 29. 30. The smiting fining imprisoning of such c. in relation to any thing that they do from this Principle is Persecution with the hand or lifting up of the power either of a particular Person or of a Magistrate against such 4. The Grounds of Persecution or what are the things that cause the one Spirit and Principle to Persecute and the other to be Persecuted The Grounds and Causes which expose the one to Persecution and kindle the heat of Persecuting in the other are chiefly these three ensuing 1. The enmity of the birth of the Flesh against the birth of the Spirit There is enmity in the Serpent against the Woman and in the seed of the Serpent against the seed of the Woman That which is born of the corrupt Principle cannot endure that which is born of the pure Principle That which walks and worships in the will and according to the inventions of man's wisdom and in shadows and fleshly Forms pleasing to the flesh cannot endure that which worships in Spirit and Truth 2. The contrariety of that which is born of God and drawn out of the world to that which