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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
world_n	jesus_n	light_n	light_v	2,353	5	9.9954	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A89826	An ansvver to some queries put out by one John Pendarves, in a book, called, Arrowes against Babylon, &c. For the people called, Quakers to answer.	Naylor, James, 1617?-1660.	1656 (1656)	Wing N260; Thomason E865_4; ESTC R207620	10,619	16

ungodly without works freely and to make void the sufferings of Christ Rom. 3.24 the 4. chap. 5. Gal. 3.1 Ans That faith was spiritual and the gift of God which when they had forsaken and made shipwrack of their consciences became seared yet could they profess the Letter of the scriptures with great zeal as hath appeared ever since that departure there spoken of and the seducing spirits are such as are gone out from within into the world whither thou art leading who art reproaching the Light within as though it was not the Gospel preached by Christ and his Apostles when Christ saith I am the Light of the world and the kingdome of God is within you and the Apostle saith By the Light that shined in their hearts did they come to the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus and Christ in you the hope of glory and this alone is the good news to all people which the seducing spirits that are gone into carnal things would lead from and therefore Christ saith to his go not forth and who hath Christ the Light in them with his works and they in him here is justification by Christ alone which they that do works and not from Christ within and his Light within are in the deeds of darkness and self-righteousness wherein the mystery of iniquity worketh to darken the grace of God and to make void the sufferings of Christ and the Kingdome of God and the righteousness thereof within the obedience thereof makes free from sin and so obtains the blessing and this of faith and not of works though the blind seeth it not who are in their own works and litteral performances such know little of the power of faith or the work of righteousness whereby man is created new in the good works to walk which are fore-ordained and to such the everlasting righteousness is brought in by which the transgression is finished Qu. 12. VVhether the Light that is in every man doth reveal Jesus Christ as crucifified for sin and risen again if so How came it to pass that so many strict men amongst the philosophers and Paul himself walking according to his conscience before conversion were ignorant of him Answ Though the Light of Christ that lighteth every man that cometh into the world yet it revealeth Christ only in such as believe and follow it out of the world in which Christ is not revealed neither can be for the world by wisdome knows him not And the reason why Christ crucified for sin and risen again was not revealed to the Philosophers and to Saul is the same in your selves in this age who some of you run from a blind zeal in the Letter others in wild notions all from your imaginations without the Light of Christ so none in that state knoweth Christ as you ought to do who have him not revealed within for the testimonie of Jesus is the spirit of Prophecie and it is the spirit of truth that guideth into all truth and that which testifieth of Jesus as the truth is in him which all that have not that knowledge from the spirit are ignorant of him and so taketh that for the Light of the conscience which is but your own thoughts and imaginations and so far unlike to reveal Jesus And Saul was as learned in the Letter and as zealous for that which he imagined to be the meaning of it as you are and yet blinde as to the light in the conscience his mad zeal leading him against the pricks as many of you now are and might see a taste thereof did you minde the light you are opposing Qu. 13 Whether you have not amongst you many who presume to be Masters or masterly Teachers contrary to that word of Christ Mat. 23.10 in the true intent of it Do they not usurp authority over the judgment and conscience of their followers requiring them to believe and obey what they say without asking their meaning and examining their sayings by the scriptures whereas Christ expounded his sayings as occasion were offered and need required to his Disciples and the Bereans are commended for searching the Scriptures daylie whether the things spoke by the Apostles were so Mat. 13.18 19.36 37 c. Ans This Quaerie is utterly made up of a ly therefore I return it back into the slanderous bottle from whence it came for against the whole Quaerie we are witnesses and the practise of Christ is owned who is the Lord of the conscience the one Teacher whereby Masterly Teachers are denied Qu. 14. Whether it be not high presumption and spirituall pride for some amongst you to break Christs Commands and teach men so and to judge as many do the secrets of mens hearts and rashly without knowledg of mens conversations to affirm that they have not the spirit If the spirit of God witness with their Spirits as I doubt not but it doth with divers of them you so judge that they have the Spirit of God and the work of regeneration witnessing thereunto may they not by your bold judgment to the contrary know how to judg of you Ans The Spirit of Christ where it is knoweth it own neither doth it judge by outward appearance nor yet without knowledge by which the Saints have judged the hearts of others which they knew not themselves and that spirit is witnessed but what spirit is that in thee which accuseth some amongst us to break Christs commands and teach men so not making it appear who they are and under that pretence would limit the Spirit of the Lord not to judge where it is This sheweth little of the work of regeneration or the Spirits witness but as one afraid that deceit should be discovered and so would exclude all judging where shal Christ judge if not in his Saints which judgment the blinde generation could never own and yet would be judging others of that whereof thy self art guilty as thy book doth manifest by which all may know how to judge of thee Qu. 15. Whether do you not esteem the sayings of some amongst you of equal authority with the sayings of God in Scripture and as readily or more to be believed and obeyed without any enquiry whether they agree with Scripture or no even although they plainly contradict the written word Is it not an usual things with many of you to travel up and down to and fro far and near to the wearying of your flesh and neglecting your relations in obedience to such voyces or sayings not warranted by Scripture but contrary thereunto yet in many things of this kinde wherein some of you seem to glory the Papists themselves out-strip you onely they are more modest then to go naked and who hath required these things of any of you Query 16. Whether Satan that old Deceiver who often changes his shapes being discover'd in many of his old devices may not now be expected to come in his best dress as an Angell of Light and being