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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A55805	The unequal unyoked, and the equal yoked, and light separated from darkness, & darkness and blindness joyn'd together in answer to a paper that would joyn together truth and untruth, the true worship and the false : and here it is discovered, and the author thereof in part rewarded, by joyning him justly to those he unjustly joyned others to / by a lover of justice and equity and hater of the contrary, Peter Price.	Price, Peter, 1600?-1691.	1683 (1683)	Wing P3397; ESTC R9270	17,524	21

and seek your selves more than Christ and the good of the People You run for and after the things of this World and the Kingdom of God you cannot see who do not witness the New-birth as Christ said Except a man be born again he cannot see the Kingdom of God Joh. 3.3 God said of your Fathers who did as you do viz. run and were not sent I have not sent these Prophets yet they run I have not spoken to them yet they prophesie Jer. 23. People let him that wisheth you well desire you to read over this chapter in the fear of God and consider of it and lay it to heart you may plainly see that those were the Fathers of the false Prophets now and it may be now said to these as it was then said to those in this chapter and else-where I say let them be compared in the old and new Testament with the false Prophets and Hirelings then and you may see these where they were doing what they did sowing Chaff instead of Wheat and telling a Dream instead of preaching the living Vord of God that was with God in the beginning John 1. And this living Word came to the Prophets of the Lord saying and what the Word ●f God said and made known to them that was written in the Scriptures ●y several of the Prophets and John did witness the same living Word which Word was Christ and he was clothed with a vesture dipt in Blood and his Name is called the Word of God Rev. 19.13 and those whom God did send did direct the People to the same Word of God and said The Word is nigh thee even in thy heart in thy mouth that is the Word of Faith which we preach Rom. 10.8 Not only what Paul did preach for he said what we preach And they did direct where the People might find the Word in the Mouth in the Heart all that do not direct the People to this living Word have but a dream to tell them Jer. 23.28 Mind what a dream is A man may think to be where he is not and to do what he doth not and to see what he doth not see just so are all these Dreamers who do not direct the People to Christ and where to sind them But if ever these Dreamers will awake out of sin and unrighteousness they will come to see that all that which they have done is but as a Dream and not Truth and as there was in former Ages false Prophets as well as true Prophets of the Lord even so it is now And the Lord God formerly made use of the meanest sort in the account of the World to confound the wise so now as it is written For ye see your calling Brethren how that not many wise men after the flesh not many mighty not many noble are called but God hath chosen the foolish things of the World to confound the things that are mighty and base things of the World and things that that are despised hath God chosen yea and things that are not to bring to nought things that are 1 Cor. 1.26 27 28. As it was then even so it is now and the worldly Wisdom and its learning and all that it can do is too short to bring man into Rest Peace with God it is not the learning bought for Money but the free learning of Christ that doth give People the saving knowledge therefore in vain is it for you to strive in your own strength wisdom and its learning come to Christ that you may see that you are poor that you may receive the Gospel and that the Eye which the god of the World hath blinded may be opened and you out of the Devils Prison may be set at liberty to serve the living God And this will he better for you than to think you are what you are not and deceive your selves and others and better than to obtain high Places and large Riches in the world which are uncertain if lawfully obtained Bishop Priest this is not a time for you to think to hide your selves for the Lord God doth raise his witness in his People and he doth open their understandings and they come to see what they did not see and to love that which is good and to hate the evil and declare against it as faithful Witnesses for our God And most of the People do now see your ungodly covetous selfish Lives and Practices and how little good service you have done in the Country and how troublesom burdensom you have been and how you have exalted your selves in Pride above measure your Coaches Horses and vain Attendance do witness it The People will come more and more to see you as their Understandings will be opened and they enlarged in the knowledge of God And now there are many out of fear of your High-places Threatnings and Courts that do heat and follow you more than out of love to any good they receive from you And as People do come into the true fear of God the slavish fear will wear off from them and you they will not follow for Pride and Self-exaltedness will have a fall and great will the fall of it be And this is our Joy that the Lord will reign whose right it is who is worthy to be exalted honoured magnified glorified praised and forever obey'd He the Lamb of God will have the Victory and it is in vain for you to strive against him who gave you Breath and can take it from you when he will Stand in awe and sin not and strive not against Christ in his Temple in his People as the Scripture saith Know ye not that ye are the Temples of God and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you 1 Cor. 3.16 He that defiles the Temple of God him shall God destroy for the Temple of God is holy which Temple ye are v. 27. What! know you not that your Bodies are the Temples of the holy Ghost ch 6.19 Ye are the Temples of the living God as God hath said 2 Cor. 6.16 You know not what you do in hating those People whom God loveth and dwelleth in You strive to draw from God those that strive to draw you to God You seek to destroy those that seek to save you from destruction You would draw us from good to the evil and we would draw you from the evil to the good You would draw us from the Teachings of the Grace of God to be taught by you 〈◊〉 and we would draw you to the teachings of the Spirit that makes ali●● to God You would draw us from a heavenly Condition to the earthly where you are and we would draw you from the earthly to the heavenly where we are through the mercy of our God And thus you reward us evil for good and we desire to do you good for evil You hate in us what God loves and we hate in you what God hates and what ye ought to