Selected quad for the lemma: evil_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
evil_n	bitter_a	good_a	light_n	2,289	5	8.2364	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A90976	The sun out-shining the moon, or, Righteousness excelling rottennness in answer to a lying scandalous paper, published by John Moone, entituled, The true light hath made manifest darknesse, &c. : but it is darkness put forth for light, as it will appear by that which followeth / and is published by John Price.	Price, John, Welsh clergyman.; Bownd, William. Brief discovery of the the erroneous tenets of those who are distinguished from other men by the name of Quakers.	1658 (1658)	Wing P3353; ESTC R43721	30,935	58

their poisoned Cups notwithstanding you have soon learned that same Lesson of opposing railing cursing and condemning of all those that tread not in your foot-steps because they are not taken with those fancies that you have fixed in your own braines although thousands of them are more Heavenly and Spiritual then you your selves Also you use your uttermost endeavours to make the Saints names odious in the sight of others By these and other meanes you have caused the blind to go out of the way and the seeking Souls to look back have you not also quit and sold all your reading your meditating and your earnest seeking of God for railing and frivolous contending about you know not what yea about a false Doctrine that was never found in the Rowles of God's Divine Court and never owned nor confirmed by his dear and onely Son nor published by his Holy Spirit which is to say That all mens Souls are either God or one with God and cannot be defiled with sin nor condemned for sin and that all the Plagues and woes that are pronounced are but against the external or outward part of man the which shall be done away Here I have briefly out of love and not in opposition unto any but onely unto the man of sin given you a discovery of the snare that is secretly layed before your Souls but if you will shut your eyes and stop your eares and so wilfully remain blind your blood shall be upon your own heads and I shall here wash my hands from the guilt of your erronious revolt Now unto you the Cainish Cathedral Stone-church Priests and Tithe-mongers and new upstart Hirelings you are all for what you can hear said against any that in any measure do oppose you in your function Although I have put my hand to the publish of the discovery of some men's Errors think not that I shal put my least finger to the maintaining of yours you are all for the back and belly and for your own glory if you had but wherewith to attain it some of you have been for these many years daunted with the fear of your own ruine yet you usually rejoyce to hear that any are cryed down besides your selves Let the sight and feeling of your own covetous carnal corrupt mindes stop your mouths Let your proud and haughty hearts become meek and lowly Let your confounded Languages become silent And let your Babel-building cease Let your own eloquence and Scholasticke wisedom become foolishnesse So that you may be wise Let those that stole steal no more Let shame cover your faces and let your glory fall to the dust Let God arise and let all flesh be silent before the Lord. Your dumb Ministry is fruitlesse and your words are empty vain and pithlesse and shall not profit the people saith the Lord. Your Spirits are benummed by your unlawful gain and you and your Souls are become Servants and Slaves unto the unrighteous Mammon Your calling is by a mortal and inferiour Power and your places have you purchased with your corrupt Silver Your strength is in the Arm of flesh Your Authority is of mortal men And they that authorize you are like unto you The Lord God hath a controversy against you and you are all abuilding of a confounded tottering Tower that shall shortly fall upon your own heads Now unto you blind-folded worldlings and prodigal proud stone-Kirke Members the Devil hath found you a Toy to play withall in these dayes those seldom times that you come under the means of grace true Preaching of the word whereby you in being attentive diligent to hear might have a right and true salve applied unto your wounded and corrupted Souls But instead of so doing your wanton scoffing minds are then by your Driver fitted for another design you slight all that is said concerning your own dangerous sinful slavish condition and you also are all for what you can hear is said in opposition against others And thus you idlely and vainly wear out your few dear-bought dayes and spend them in fulfilling of your own false wills The minor Party you scoffe and jear at and all that they maintain be it true or false The Major party and their sayings you brag and boast be it right or wrong Your opposing of the one Party is more out of the bitternesse of your Spirits against the truths they sometimes speak of then out of any sensible knowledge that you have of the Errors they maintain And the other Party that you sometimes vainly prate for it is out of your partiality and outward respect you have to their persons or rather would be respected by them more then out of any love you have to any truth that they hold forth for you know not truth from falshood neither can you discern between Errors and found Doctrine because you have forsaken the God that created you and ye know not your Redeemer your hearts are made fat your eyes are shut and your ears are stopped you see but discern not you hear but do not understand Isai 6.20 You sleight the meanes of grace and you know not the day of your Visitation Your terriblenesse and the pride of your hearts hath deceived you O you that dwell in the clefts of the Rocks and proudly walk upon the high Hills and make your nests as high as the Eagle or amongst the Stars yet I will bring you down saith the Lord. Jer. 49 20. Obad. 4. You forsake the Paths of uprightnesse to walk in the wayes of darknesse you rejoyce to do evil and delight in the frowardnesse of the wicked Woe be unto you that call good evil and evil good that put darknesse for light and light for darknesse that put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes prudent in their own sight Woe unto them that are mighty to drink Wine and men of strength to mingle strong drink which justifie the wicked for reward and take away the righteousnesse of the Righteous from him therefore as the fire devoureth the stubble and the flame consumeth the chaffe so their Root shall be rottennesse and their Blossome shall go up as dust because they have cast away the Law of the Lord of Hosts and despised the word of the Holy one of Israel Isai 5.20 21 22 23 24. O Poor wretched and miserable men let this be told you that your temporal joy is the producing of your Eternal woe and sorrow and that the time draweth near when your laughter shall be turned into weeping and your joy into heavinesse and you shall be deprived of all your temporal enjoyments and the object of your foolish mirth and youthfull rejoycing shall be done away and then sorrow and grief will approach unto you and horror and anguish will seize upon you and you will be found naked and void of the Wedding-Garment and be bound hand and foot and cast into utter darknesse there shall be weeping and gnashing of Teeth Now unto you carnal Professors and meer lip-labourers that draw near unto God with your mouths and honour him with your lips but your hearts are far from him You have learned to talk of a God and Godlinesse but the onely true God and the Power of Godlinesse you know not your chiefest Treasure is transitory and the object of your joy is but for a moment your Webs shall not become Garments neither shall you cover your selves with your works your works are the works of Iniquity and the Act of violence is in your hands the way of peace you know not and there is no Judgement in your goings you have made unto you crooked Paths whosoever goeth therein shall not know Peace Woe be unto you that are at ease in Zion yea you that have put your hands to the Plow and are looking back therefore you are not fit for the Kingdom of God Amos 6.1 Luk. 9 62. You sow the wind and reap the whirl-wind you conceive chaffe and bring forth stubble your words are empty your Wombs are barren and your brests are dry Your building is founded upon the Sands you are a fruitlesse Vineyard Isai 5.2 Bearing sowre Grapes you are Clouds without Water carried about with winds dry Branches Trees whose Fruit withereth without Fruit twice dead pluckt up by the Roots Jude 12. O blind naked and miserable men let this be told you that the work of regeneration and the new birth is an earnest work and that it requireth very much careful watching and continual striving Luk. 13 24. Marke 13.33 35. And earnest pressing to be brought forth out of the corrupt something into the pure nothing which is all in all Now unto the despised seeking Souls who earnestly seek the Lord in truth in sailing over this Ocean of misery your Ship hath been grievously toffed by many a raging Wave and by side-winds have been cast near many dangerous Gulfs yet during the time of these storms and tempests by great providence and unspeakable mercies you cast forth your Anchors upon a sure Rock and when the calm cometh so that you take a view of those dangers that you have escaped and rejoyce yet you ascribe not the glory of your deliverance unto your selves but earnestly make toward the promised Land notwithstanding you mourn over those that are over-turned yet your mourning shall be turned into joy your building is founded upon the Rock your Treasure is not corrupt You have a building of God an house not made with hands Eternal in the Heavens No Lion shall be there nor any Ravenous Beasts shall go up thereon it shall not be found there but the Redeemed shall walk there And the Ransomed of the Lord shall return and come to Zion with Songs and everlasting joy upon their heads and they shall obtain joy and gladnesse and sorrow and sighing shall flee away With whom I desire to commune and associate continually who am your Friend and Fellow-traveller WILLIAM BOWND FINIS Printed at LONDON And are to be sold by Daniel White at the seven Stars in Pauls-Church-Yard 1658.