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world_n	false_a	spirit_n	try_v	3,332	5	9.2261	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A34857	The English hermite, or, Wonder of this age being a relation of the life of Roger Crab, living near Uxbridg, taken from his own mouth, shewing his strange, reserved, and unparallel'd kind of life, who counteth it a sin against his body and soule to eate any sort of flesh...or to drink any wine...he left the army and kept a shop at Chesham, and hath now left off that, and sold a considerable estate to give to the poore, shewing his reasons from the Scripture...	Crab, Roger, 1621?-1680.	1655 (1655)	Wing C6736; ESTC R25357	16,785	22

man that useth it against his Neighbor according to the Scripture Jam. 3. and this cometh for want of mortifying the old man in the flesh Rom. 8. 13. These and many other helps there are in the Scriptures if we will believe it to overcome the flesh for Christ saith Mat. 7. 8. Whosoever asketh receiveth and he that seeketh findeth and to him that knocketh it shall be opened This Sccripure seems to reach further then the Disciples in some cases for some that did not believe made use of his name to cast out Devils and it seems the power of God assisted them therein for they could not doe it by the power of the Devill for then they would not have made use of Christs name Again Christ himself saith If Satan cast out Satan his Kingdome cannot stand Mat. 12. 26. And it 's contrary to any reason that God should cast out God or the Devill cast out the Devill So we find according to the whole tenour of Scripture that God answereth all sorts of people according to that dispensation they are under if their desires are fervent whether it be for their good or their hurt as have proved sufficiently in my discourse concerning the flesh given to the children of Israel 1 Sam. 8. 7. where God saith to Samuel Hear the voyce of the people in all that they shall say unto thee So God condiscended to the desires of the people for the hurt of their bodies in granting them a King but if any out of zeale towards God in the Spirit will pray unto him and yet would uphold the righteousnesse of God in the fl●sh God answering them with such spirits as may dishonour them in this world by lying or false prophecying to destroy the honour of the old man in them that they may be brought forth as tryed in the fire more pure in the spirit of Light but if any shall enquire after God at the mouth of his Prophets only to uphold the honour and ambition of the old man in this world God will send them false spirits to preach lyes of purpose to destroy them and this will come upon those that are for their own ambitious ends as you may see in 1 King 22. where the false spirits wait● on God for their messuage and God sends them forth and bids them prosper to please Ahab in his request Thus wee see for the love of this world people are destroyed Then let us conclude that it is high time to cast off the old man with his rudiments with his malice and envy and entertain light love and peace and joy in the holy Ghost That this may be our treasure leading us up to that throne of grace full of unspeakable joyes where Christ sitteth in the Councell of his Father with all his Angels entertaining all with fulness of joy that entereth in at this narrow gate wiping away all teares and all desires shall cease and sorrow shall never more come neare them and instead thereof such joy that neither tongue of men or Angels can expresse If men and Angels do prove silent than Why should not I an inferiour man Now am I silent and indite no more Pray use no violence then against the poor O Mortall forme what dost thou mean To make such long delay Keeping thy soule so poore and leane Against the dreadfull day To whom we all must once appeare To receive our sentence deep The sorrowing hearts and terrible feares Making our soules to weep Two things there are to us propos'd Whilst we on earth do dwell In choosing one the other 's lost Let it be heaven or hell Then must our choise be circumspect Without a worldly mind Lest God one day do us reject And we no mercy finde If heaven we choose then hell is lost we cannot it embrace But to the glory of joy we must Swallow'd be in endlesse grace If hell we choose the world is gain'd Which is that flesh desires Then need we nothing to refrain That pride and lust requires Such is our lusts and covetousnesse The belly and backe to please With selling and buying dissembling and lying Yet we cannot live at ease But still in discontent abide Desiring after more Our envy would that all had dyed That loved not the whore Her Merchants they do howle and weep Their traffique none will buy They wishing now to sow or reape One yeare before they dye In Revelation Chap. nineteen In truth there you may read Who 't is shall beare the Scepter When the old whore is dead Thus to the wise in their conceit As I my selfe have been They now shall know that once they might Have left the greatest sinne O England then repent For the misery thou art in Which have all by consent Liv'd on each others sinne If pride should banish'd be away Then Tradesmen out would cry Come let us kill eate and slay Or else for want we dye Then would the Gentry mourn Without pride they cannot live And staves to get them Corn Whilst they themselves deceive Thus pride becomes our god And deare to us as life Whose absence makes us sad And cannot please our Wife If the poor labouring men Live of their owne encrease Where are your Gentry then But gone among the Beasts If any would know who is the Author Or aske whose lines are these I answer one that drinketh water And now a liver at ease In drinking cannot be drunk Nor am I moved to sweare And from wenching am I sunk My bones are kept so bare For it is the grossnesse of the flesh That makes the soule to smart And is the cause of his owne lust That commits adultery in his heart FINIS