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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
world_n	hate_v	light_n	reprove_v	2,039	5	9.9714	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A60206	To all the inhabitiants of the town of Youghal who are under the teaching of James Wood ...	Sicklemore, James.	1657 (1657)	Wing S3750; ESTC R24541	13,617	9

and this spirit sees and makes manifest all other spirits and tryes them Here let all the simple-hearted judge by what spirit J.W. is ruled and guided which leaves him in such an ignorant state and condition that if any one come and ask or send so him questions he is forced to confesse he knows not their rule for so doing and thinks that this is excuse enough to get rid of them but the subtilty deceives him for hereby he shuts himself out from having the infallible spirit which sees and discerns and knowes all things and makes manifest the hidden things of Esau and reveals and shews yea and is the good rule and discovers all other rules that is contrary to it and judges them But seeing J. W knows not his rule for Answering my Queries I would desire some of you to enquire of him for if I thould ask him he would not tell me What was his rule for Answering John Browns Queries and sending more to him Did he well or ill in that if well Why may not I send Queries to him expecting an Answer as well as he send Queries to John Brown which were Answered this is not to do as he would be done to But I.W. makes his excuse in framing a false thing which he would have pass currant for truth that is exprest in his next words of his Letter They savoring so much of Contention and Contradiction Answ Surely I.W. hath lost his savour if ever he was well seasoned but it is not to be expected that he which is wanting of that which doth discern and try truly can never be a p … essor of that which savors aright for that which cannot discern cannot savor And there was a generation that did call evil good and good evil and did put darknesse for light and light for darknesse and there is some such now and this is because they cannot truly discern Yet admit this were true as I.W. sayes it is no excuse for his not answering them would he not more have shewed himself a Servant of the Lord and his people in laying them open and making manifest this Spirit of contention and contradiction then in holding his peace for it was the work of the Ministers of the Gospel to labour to beat down that Spirit where-ever they found it and to lay open the deceit of it that the simple may beware of it But though J.W. hath so judged of them it doth not make them so they stand upon record to be examined and tryed by the light in every mans conscience to which I leave them to be judged and with it I desire you all to read them over and see if this be true or false that J.W. accuses them of And although I.W. wil not answer my queries he finding them tending to the enquiring out of the call of the Ministers of the Gospel to the preaching of it and he professing to be in that work himself knows that his mustneeds come to an examination and tryal whether it be according to the Scriptures even by the answering of these Queries if according to the Scriptures therefore he must needs say something which is indeedas good as nothing in vindication of his own Call as you may perceive in the next words of his Letter though neither in my Letter or queries did I inquire of J.W. any thing concerning his own call to the Ministry in particular so that he might have spared these lines Yet he need not boasts for can he have sufficiently proved his Call to the Ministry of God when as yet he is not in that Ministry The Ministers of God had the Seals of their Ministry and they reaped the fruits of their labours And Timothy was Pauls Son and so was Onisimus and he had babes which were begotten by him and little children of whom he travelled till Christ was formed in them Now I would ask of you who have been a long time and are yet under his Ministry How many of you yea is there anie one of you can witnesse a begetting into God by him and can any of you by his labour say Christ is formed in you can you witnesse such a state This is a high state friends and is not a talk and a profession but a possession and must be witnessed in deed and truth Again The Ministry of God was for the perfecting of the Saints and if J.W. hath not by his Ministry brought any thus far he never yet saw the end of his Ministrie neither shall he ever be able to bring anie of you into that state who cannot witnesse such a state himself neither can believe that such a state can be attained to in this life then may not he as good hold his peace as preach But friends be not deceived the Ministrie of God was and is sent to turn people from darknesse to light and he that is a Minister of God is a Minister of light and must minister from the light that so souls may be brought out of darknesse wherein lies imperfection unto the light which is perfect that they may be children of light bringing forth the fruits of the light which none can that hate the light and will not bring their deeds to the light that they may be made manifest And friends when I speak of the light I speak of the true light which lighteth every man that cometh into the world which John bare witnesse of Christ Jesus which Paul preached and was a Minister of which whosoever follows comes to have the light of life and he that hates it goes into condemnation And this is in every ones conscience checking and reproving him for and convincing him of evil and if they would follow it it will lead from fin and iniquitie which it condemns in all into righteousnesse and holinesse and though this be in every one yet every one doth not love it and follow it for they who are in sin and living in it and in the world and are not redeemed from it but are in the lusts and pleasures of it and customs and fashions of it which are vain are such who act contrary to the light in them which checks them for it And all who are in pride and covetousnesse and in many words which are vain and unnecessarie these are all from the light turned which condemns in the conscience for it whom God will not justifie and none but those who love the light and follow it comes to know redemption and salvation by Christ Jesus who is the light who saves his people from their sins and as many as believe in the light of the world receives power to become the Sons of God and none else But this light J. W. is so far from being a Minister of that he cannot own it to bee of God or from Christ but hath called it natural even that light which is in every mans conscience and so he hath made himself manifest to be an opposer of that which checks and