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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
earth_n	appear_v	day_n	heaven_n	2,805	5	5.2906	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A60632	A general summons from the authority of truth, unto all ecclesiastical courts and officers wherein they may see what truth objecteth against their practice and proceedings in cases of conscience / by William Smith.	Smith, William, d. 1673.	1668 (1668)	Wing S4304; ESTC R38258	21,636	28

own perswasion concerning your proceedings you would seemingly clear your selves from persecution But this Covering will not hide you though it be the largest that can be spread over you and if you would clear your selves by it as not being the constituto●s of such Laws then you must needs make the Magistrates guilty and you have no cause at all to do so seeing you reap the Profit and if you would lay it upon them to excuse your selves you requite their pains for you after the worst manner for they are your principal Upholders and Supporters and that breath you live by as to such things you draw it from them and that strength you stand by you receive it from them And have not you or some before you propounded and prescribed such wayes unto them before they have enacted Laws for such purposes And doth not that make you stand originally guilty of the matter And doth not your prosecuting such Laws draw the guilt more upon you though as to what the Magistrates do for you in such cases they are not clear and in time they may come to see it and be weary of it And would you wholly lay your proceedings upon the Magistrates Power and so make them bear the burden of all your work And will that power stand by you in all things you practice or do you not act in many things without their power and do you not thereby plainly do them wrong Now concerning your Steeple-house which you call a Church and bring People into your Courts that cannot pay money towards Repairing it What Law have you in that case And is your Church of that Nature as it must be Repaired with money Will it decay and fall and come to nothing if it be not repaired and upheld with money If that be the nature of your Church as by your proceedings seemeth then People have good cause to absent from it and you have no cause at all to compel any to come unto it for the Church is the Pillar and ground of Truth and it needeth not to be repaired with money because it standeth in the eternal Power and Life which decayeth not and Christ Jesus is the Head and Ruleth over it and is a Husband to it And this is not like an old House that will fall if it be not kept up with money And that is the Church and Church-Government which the Quakers own and submit unto and there needs no outward Law to compel them for the day of his Power hath made them willing and his Love constrains them and so you can neither compel nor restrain them by your Laws for they cannot be compelled to observe that which they know is not true nor restrained from that which they know to be true and whether you proceed against them according to your Law or without Law in such cases it is all one unto them For they do not so much take notice of the outward Law in cases of Conscience as they mind to keep their Consciences void of offence towards God and men So that your proceedings are little unto them whether you render them guilty by a Law or without Law For as their Consciences are void of offence towards God and men so no man can charge an offence to make them g●ilty And that wipeth off all your sentences and censures as fast as you give them forth And what Law have you to proceed against people ●or not repairing the fence about the Steeplehouse-Yard and for following honest labour upon those dayes you call Holy-dayes have you not heaped up devices like a Mountain and do not every device bring you some gain and profit and is not that the princip●l ground why you proceed in them and might their not be a good and sound plea held and maintained against you according to the Scriptures of Truth and might not all your devices be overturned if such a plea could be admitted yea surely your mountain might s●on be thrown down if Justice and Equity could but enter therefore you have no cause so highly to lift up your horn seeing you stand upon a slippery place But some may say What is there in all these things which is of concernment as to Life and Salvation for Life and Salvation standeth not in such things but by believing in Christ Ye● There is great concernment in these things as to Life and Salvation and they that would come into the true Faith and be a believer in Christ they must deny these things and come out from among them For they that believe in Christ for Life and Salvation they do not yield their obedience to another Power because all Believers obey his commands and not another so here is something of concernment as to Life and Salvation for who are observing such things as Christ doth not command they have not Life and Salvation in him as Believers therefore people are to mind what they obey because they become servants unto that thing and who are obeying any of these things they are certainly in bondage by them and doth not that separate from Life and Salvation in Christ Jesus And unto what do you bring people by your compulsion do you bring them unto Christ or into your own observation And if they cannot bow to your observation then you excomm●nicate them and cast them into Prison And what command have you for such things according to Scriptures Let us see your Scriptures if you be spiritual men and do not presum● above what is written but keep to that which you say is your Rule for the Quakers are noble and search the Scriptures and they find that those things you practice are not so according to Scripture And have not people good cause to be separated from you who erre from the Scriptures and the Power of God And how will you stand by these things in the day when you must give account of all your deeds Will not these deeds appear as evil deeds and will not you appear as evil-doers and what Law will then appear to justifie you before the Judge of Heaven and Earth for you will find him to be a Judge more righteous than your selves and you will not have a plea to hold against him but must bear his Judgement because you have sinned therefore repent whilst you have time and learn to do well And why do you act so furiously against others by the power of the Law and take no notice of your selves by the same Law Is there not a Law for you as well as others Is there not something which the Law taketh notice of as to your selves which properly falleth under the sentence of Excommunication Doth not the Law take notice of Incontenency Usury Simony and Perjury in the Ecclesiastical Courts or Idolatry And doth it not properly relate unto you and brings such things under Excommunication See 5 Eliz. 23. But you here stand silent or rather dead as to any motion and if you say that no such