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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
blood_n	body_n	flesh_n	nature_n	7,259	5	5.9304	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A85807	A brief discovery of that which is called the popish religion with a word to the Inquisition discovering their seat of injustice and cruelty, and also a word to them who are in bondage under this deceit that upholdeth the Beasts worship. And a word to the Pope who calls himself a bishop and is not, his throne of deceit is discovered, by the Spirit of the eternall God. / Given forth by me who am called of the world. A. Gargill.	Gargill, Anne.	1656 (1656)	Wing G258; Thomason E887_2; ESTC R202273	29,419	34

design but to exalt your selves and to be exalted and live like Kings it is but usurpt authoritie by the Devill are you led a deceiver from the beginning was he a subtill Serpent and his seed are you who seek the fleece and starve the flock and call your serves sheapheards Christ Jesu● is the true Shepheard he giveth his life for his sheep he is a redeemer and saveth his people from their sin How do you think to be saved By a carnall bit of Bread that you call the Bodie of Christ Impudent blasphemers who make an Idoll to your selves and eat it and say that it is Christs flesh and the wine that you drink in Bowls is his Bloud he that eateth my flesh saith Christ shall live for ever and you dye and your God with you and this is an end of your dumb Idoll vvhich cannot save you God is a Saviour of his people from sin they that feed on that Spirit which leadeth out of carnall things to be carnall minded is death to be spirituall minded is life and peace no peace to the wicked they shall dye vvithout mercy and judgement shall fall upon them that forget God God is judge of all he is judged of none nor none can know his judgements but by that Spirit which is pure you make your selves Judges and Rulers by an usurpt authoritie you have received from the Devill the Father of lyes and by a lye are you upheld in your inchantments and Conjuration airy minded men by that Climate are you guided airy substance Clouds without water broken Cisterns that cannot hold water exalted Jezabel painting your faces with colours Dives like you be sitting at your table feeding on dainty dishes fitting your selves to the slaughter through your abhomination which is exalted above all that is called God God is pressed under your abhomination the righteous groaneth for redemption but you hear not the Cry of the poor the poor in Spirit shall see God and live for ever and the rich shall be sent emptie away avvay with all your vain bables your im●ges and likenesses of wood and stone and crosses Learn to knovv the Cross of Christ it will teach you to know God desire to know Christ crucified in the flesh your sins subdued by him that suffereth in you The Lamb of life leads to Innocency out of all inventions of man out of all carnall things it will you lead if it you mind which discovers sin it will dissolve your enemies by the brightness of his coming if you desire to know God mind his witness it will lead you out of visible things and your carnall desires shall be dissolved If you mind this witness which leads to truth the lyars mouth shall be stopt the issue of iniquity shall be dryed up by the brightness o● the Sun shall the fountains of the earth be dryed up and the Spring shall be stopped wherein iniquity doth ab●und Abundance of iniquities hath the world gathered into her self yea the men of the world calleth her mother through the abundance of her delicates she hath deceived the Nations and Kingdoms throughout the Earth the mysterie of iniquitie hath been exalted exalted bubbles have borne the sway upon the earth and the innocent hath been forgotten God hath not been known to them they have forgot his ways followed the fruits of darkness and darkness hath possest the heart of man man hath been led from the light of Jesus by the grand enemy of his soul the Devil who from the beginning hath misled man through lust and desire of the flesh which cannot ever be satisfied from one invention to another an invention of the Devill is this which you call your Religion a humane invention mixed with lust filth and deceit is not this deceit to weary the people with your bables and your inventions of Beads Crucifixes and other inchantments which your airy minds have gathered in even plain Sodomites do you shew your selves studying iniquity against the Lord and his anointed the holy one of Israel is he called a name that is unknown by you he is a good Israelite indeed in him there is no guile and they that are guided by that Spirit are like unto him kept in innocency and in that house there is no guile where innocency dwels righteousness doth flourish and plenteous redemption to those that fear the Lord redeemed are they from the earth that mind the light of Jesus by it to be guided it leadeth from all manner of evill to serve the living God of life light and power powerfull is he that redeemeth from death to life This redemption is not of corruptible things that corrupt and die of themselves he cleanseth the body and washeth from dead works to everlasting life world without end An end shall be put to all your bables and inventions made by the works of your hands your Crucifixes say you puts you in mind of Christs death remember he is slain in you in spirituall Sodom and Egypt are the two witnesses flain their Blood shall be required of the children of disobedience disobedient are you that forget God as a blossom shall you wither and all your glory which you have received from the Author the Devill The ground of iniquity is highly exalted among you who know not God neither regard ye his wayes nor bring your deeds to the light your acting is in the dark where light is not seen the fruits of darkness doth appear in all your practises is not the living God known to be your guide he leadeth out of all unrighteousness up to know God in that Heavenly City where God dwels there is no unrighteousness nor no unclean thing can there enter as clear as the Sun at Noon Day is the Lord in his glory his glory exceedeth all flesh it shall wither before the Lord and be cut down even as grass like stubble shall the fire of the Lord consume his enemies and all that is exalted above the innocent own the Lamb of life the life of the righteous is death to the man of sin therefore turn to the Lord that your wickedness may be forgiven and fear him that cleanseth the heart and maketh glad the mind and reneweth the life and turneth from darkness to light to serve the living God the living praise the Lord yea the living praise his name for ever never can you praise God in that nature you stand in Turn to the light of Christ it will lead you to another Kingdom which you know not to know God is life eternall and this life is the light of the world Every man hath a talent given him it is the light of Jesus that discovers good from evill it shews you when you do amiss it is the check of your conscience that tells you you should not lye nor swear nor deal fa●sly bring all your deeds to this it doth not flatter it is your friend it leads to eternall happiness and that is durable riches which the world

of God to guide their minds and that wisdom leadeth to an heavenly kingdom where there is no end an end shall be put unto all under the Sun when the Son of righteousness doth arise with healing under his wings then shall all flesh be saved he saveth his people from their sin they who minde this innocent guide which shews them sin it will lead them to another kingdom out of subtlety and deceit by subtlety was Eve beguiled The Serpent was more subtle than any beast of the field promised knowledge of good and evill ye shall be as Gods knowing good and evill was not his a lye to deprive man of his eternall happiness leading out of pure obedience promising that which could not be he that doth evill knows not good and he that doth good knows not evill Gods ways is a stranger to mans ways and mans ways is a stranger to the Lord in that nature which stands in disobedience through Adams fall Adam disobeyed God in eating the forbidden fruit and in that nature hath the Generations of the earth been lead in disobedience continually do men act by tradition one of another and the righteous Law of God is forgotten The unrighteous p●ant the seed of the evill hath flourished long upon the earth long hath the Lord suffered under your abhominations now will the Lord call you to an account you must give an account to the Lord for all your evill deeds done in the flesh without the Spirit of God you have acted and worshipt you know not what what hath your worships been hath it brought you to an holy life yea or nay God is holy and his worship is holy and out of God is nothing accepted he that dwells in God dwells in love and love is the fulfilling of the Law This Commandement I leave among you saith Christ Jesus that ye love one another where is all your love do ye not murther one another and Cozen one another and cheat one another doth not the Pope your Author do these things he which you call your grand Bishop and your holy Father you call him Christs Vicar you say he is but you are lyers and the true riches not in you you are strangers to the Lord and the Pope whom you call your head he is your head you know no other a wicked man he is like your selves and a blasphemer and a lyer and usurper The hand of the Lord is against that seat of pride that is upholden by him his glory shall be shaken and that root shall be removed and his end shall become desolate who is a deceiver a deceiver is he who seeks self his glory is advanced by the children of darkness Search and try these fruits by the light of Jesus whether or no they be wrought in God pride and covetousness selfly mindedness an advanced Bubble is he whom you you call your head Christ is the head of all them who trust in him he is a head and a well spring of life he is a living fountain to them that believe Belief maketh perfect through pure obedience is God known to them that put their trust in him and stay their minds upon the Lord of life he is life and light in him there is no darkness at all all are fallen from God who acts in the dark and without the light In the beginning was light and this light is the life of men he breathed into Adam the breath of life and he became a living soul and this soul was perfect untill the transgression this transgression leadeth man out of God for God is light and man is darkned by the Prince of darkness who leadeth out of God now consider who is your leader or by whom are your minds guided are you not busied in your minds about many things yea or nay while Adam lived in the state of innocencie he was perfect even as God had him made there is an estate of innocencie which leadeth unto life and this life is hid in God the world sees it not because of the enmity the Serpents seed it is the seed of sedition who hath betrayed man of his eternall happiness and his well being A being hath man in the fall through disobedience he lyeth in Blood even a murtherer from the beginning was Cain Cains nature dwelleth in the children of disobedience the nature of man is enmity against God God is a redeemer from that nature If man turn unto that which is pure the light of Jesus that discovers sin sin is an enemy to man in the beginning it was not so God made man upright man sought out many inventions By the Devill hath he been led to the destruction of his soul he is an enemy to all mankinde and a lyer from the beginning and by a lye hath his kingdom been upheld all your invention is of man a humane invention is your practise of that which you call your Religion he that seems to be Religious and bridles not his tongue he is a lyer and the truth abideth not in him your to●gues are at liberty who swear and lye and blaspheme the name of God blasphemy is your practice your Religion as you call it it is blasphemy against God and the Author is the Devill and by a lye you uphold your authority as to say your Pope is a Vicar what is a Vicar can you tell or by what authority doth he sit with a triple Crown upon his head and a Shepheards Crook in his hand who is his Author or where had he this example did not Christ and his Disciples wander up and down and had no certain abiding upon the earth they labourd and went up and down and preached the glad tydings of the Gospel to them that would repent and turn from their evill ways you live as Sodomites and your Shepheard like unto you your Pope it is I mean so called of you a name devised of the Devill an invention of Babylon was any such name given of old in the times of the Apostles or Prophets did any man that feared God receive authority to sell pardons for money Christ saith come all you that are heavy laden and I will give you ●ase he is a redeemer out of corruptible things he is a good Shepheard he giveth his life for his Sheep without money and without price may you come and drink of the water of life freely he forbiddeth none the fountain of living water is set open for the Lambs therein to feed but no Wolves no ravenous Beasts no Popish Prelats in that nature wherein they now stand The workers of iniquity are shut out of the Counsell of God their Counsell is abhomination who are devourers of the Creation the Creation is given to man to be used in the wisdome of God but men have abused and wronged that which was given and gathered to themselves swift destruction your example and your Author leads your minds against the truth he that exalteth himself shall be abased Is not this