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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
evil_n	darkness_n	good_a	sweet_a	3,257	5	8.2420	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A41026	An alarum of truth sounded forth to the nations, or, The way of truth from the way of errour, plainly manifested and declared and the true worship of God (which is in the spirit) from the false worships of the world, distinguished, whereby people may come to know which way they are in, and what worship they are in, and what spirit they are of, and led by ... : also an invitation (of love) to all people, and professors of all sorts and sects, to turn in their minds to the light of Christ Jesus in them ... / written by a friend to truth, called Henry Fell.	H. F. (Henry Fell)	1660 (1660)	Wing F603; ESTC R38863	48,671	52

the right hand and the left the Sheep and the Goats him that serveth God and him that serveth him not between the righteous and the wicked between him that sweareth and him that feareth an oath So then ye will not put darknesse for Light and Light for darknesse nor call evil good nor good evil nor put bitter for sweet not sweet for bitter nor call that which is corrupt holy nor the proud happy as they did in former times who wereblind and as they do now who deny the Light of Christ and teach people that it is but a natural light c. These are they now who are blind and without discerning and tasting and savouring of the things of God and their hearts are hardned through the deceitfulnesle of sin and they are without feeling Now the Light of Christ wil let you see what is in your hearts and in your minds and in your thoughts and what ye think and what ye speake For a good man saith Christ out of the treasure of his heart bringeth forth good things and an evill man out of the treasure of his heart bringeth forth evill things Now whose minds are turned to the Light of Christ within it will let you see what treasure you have in your hearts and what ye do bring forth or whether ye be the good men which brings forth good things good words and good deeds good desires good motions good thoughts and good affections or whether ye be the evil men who out of the evil treasure of your hearts brings forth the evil things as evil thoughts evil words and evil deeds c. This will let ye see whether the good things be there or the evil things be there at all times if ye do minde it and shew ye what ye bring forth and what ye keep in secret which ye would not have seen for that is the evil doer who doth not doe truth that would not have his work seen and so doth not love the Light because the Light will reproove him but the good man who doth truth he loves it and brings his deeds to the Light to be proved And the Light will let ye see if there be any deceit or hypocrisie in your hearts or desperate wickednesse there and it will reprove for that and will search your hearts and try your Rains and let you see what rules there and what Reigns there in your hearts and in your minds and desires and affections and whether ye have any Rains to hold in your desires and affections that they should not run into the lusts and vanityes of the world and of the flesh yea or nay And it will let ye see whether ye have the girdle of truth to girt up the loins of your minds to God or whether they are at liberty and loose and tossed to and fro as the raging Sea yea or nay And it will let ye see whether ye have a Bit and Bridle for your tongue which otherwise will be unruly and thereby you will offend if ye use it as your own I say the Light will discover this unto every one whose minds are turned to it and wait in it and who hearken diligently to it and beleeve in it and obey it they shall come to know their souls to live For obedience to it is life and disobedience to it is death And now whilest men who have been in power to govern the Nations have been making laws without to bind mens consciences and to limit them and compell them to this or that worship and have been talking long of Reformation and Church-Government and have gathered-Churches as they have called them and made Leagues and Covenants and Assemblies of Divines so called to make confessions of Faith Catechismes and set-Forms of worships as Directoryes c. to worship God by and to settle Church-Government and have Laws that all that would not worship God in such a way and such a Form as they had set up to fine them imprison them and whip them and stock them and banish them and hang them or cut oft their ears c. These have been the Reformations in the world in the Apostacy among the Apostate Christians since the dayes of the Apostles ' Among the Protestants and Papists with their Laws and Statutes and Customes and Ordinances without and carnal Weapons and Goales and Whips and Houses of correction and Inquisitions and Fires and Faggots and Courts and Pennance and Stools of Repentance so called now all these things have been and are in order to their Reformation and worshipping of God and to bring people to the Kingdom of God But now mind People what hath all this produced For they have all this while begun at the wrong end of the work and their labour hath been in vain hitherto and will be and little Reformation hath been wrought among people all this while for many himdreds of years past but one Generation hath exceeded another in wickednesse pride and covetousnesse drunkennesse uncleannesse deceit and hypocrisie c. I say what hath it brought sorth but to make people hypocrites not Saints false Christians not true Christians and Wolves in Sheeps cloathing to professe God and Christ in words but in works to deny God And professe the Scriptures to be their Rule and yet they are walking as contrary to that which they call their Rule as if they had no Rule at all nor no Scripture at all nor no Law at all to bind them to this or that form of worship These are but Babels builders whose work the Lord is comingto confound throw down their languages is already confounded and they are all on heaps still After all their bustle and stir which the many builders have made for many hundreds of years about Religion and worship and Reformation and they are as far from the true worship as they were And people do not yet know the Truth nor the true worship of God which is in the Spirit And the Lord is seeking such to worship him as worship him in the Spirit and in the Truth for God is a Spirit But all the world Teachers and the Priests and Professors therein do not know the Spirit of God nor know not the truth yet and so were not like to worship God in it or to find him in their outward worships and carnal Ordinances and Doctrines and Commandements or in the outward Observations and Forms which men have prescribed Nay God is a Spirit and they that worship him must worship him in Spirit and in Truth Now all this while people have been erred from the Spirit of God and the Wolf hath been covered with the Sheeps cloathing and the Wolves nature still retain'd and lived in and not the Sheeps nature They have been all inwardly ravening Wolves and not in the true Christians nature which is the Divine Nature Innocent and harmlesse and separated from sinners Now it hath been contrary

spirit which confelseth him come in the flesh who walke harmlesly innocently and righteously before all men in meeknesse in patience in humillity in lowlinesse in truth and uprightnesse before the Lord in all their dealing and abide in Christs Doctrine to speake the truth in all their communications their yea to be yea and their nay nay who will not swear nor lye nor cozen nor cheat nor defraud their neighbours who are no fighters nor quarellers who resist not evill but doe good for evill and pray for enemies and blesse them that curse them who are not in the envy and hatred and malice and persecution but are persecuted for righteousnesse sake who covets no mans silver nor gold that are willing to deny themselves and their reputations in the world and forsake the worlds friendships to follow Christ and suffer the losse of all for Christs sake and the Gospell Now are not those grievous Wolvs Antichrists that turn against such and rent such c. I say are not these the grievous Wolves that are entered and the Antichrists that are gone out into the world And is there not now very many of them Antichrists and Wolves in Sheeps cloathing among the Professors and the Apostate Christians or Antichristians Who are out of the life of Christ and the true Christians Such are not with Christ but against him and such gathereth not with him but scattereth and rents and tears his Lambs and Sheep and persecutes Christ and his Church the true Christians who are followers of him and are gathered to him by his Spirit in them And if any man have not the Spirit of Christ he is none of his Now the Antichrists who are gone out into the World and the Wolves come in Sheeps cloathing who inwardly are ravening Wolves these have not the Spirit of Christ in them nor are his and so do turne against him and his and they are of another spirit which their fruits doe make manifest whereby they may easily be known The true Christians knew them so merly and did bear their testimony against them so we know them now and have and doe beare our testimony against them for their fruits have appeared more plainly in this then in any age since the Arostles dayes Therefore now come all ye Priests Teachers and Professors in the world who are called Christians try your selves and examine your selves and see what spirit ye are of who act these things before mentioned against the true Christians and Sheep of Christ who by you in scorne are called Quakers who hear his voyce and follow him and yet ye confesse Christ in words to be come in the flesh But what spirit is this in you by which ye are led to act these things wherein ye are now found Is this the Spirit of Christ or the spirit of Antichrist gone out into the world which lyes in the wickednesse where there is many Antichrists and the world hears them for they are of its own but who are true Christians and followers of Christ Jesus who is not of this World and are led by his Spirit these the World will not hear nay the Priests and Professors therein but cry against them and speake all manner of evill against them falsely for Christs sake by whose spirit they are gathered out of the world and say hang them away with them they are not fit to live upon the earth and so would murder and kill and destroy By this we know that this spirit is not of God nor doth confess Christ come in the flesh but denyes him who came not to kill but to save mens lives and to destroy the Devill who was a murderer from the beginning and therefore we cannot beleeve that spirit but deny it and declare against it to be that spirit of Antichrist gone out into the World and the same spirit that was in the Scribes and Pharisees and Jewes who would have Jesus crucified Barrabbas released who was a Robber for he was of their own spirit and therefore they chused him before Jesus who was of another Spirit and bore witness against them for their hypocrisie and therefore they hated him And so now they that are of God in the Spirit of truth have tryed this spirit which the Priests are in now and have found it to be the spirit of errour which neither knoweth God nor loveth him For he that loveth not knoweth not God for God is love And so all who are found persecuting for conscience sake and compelling men to sweare and to worship God in their wayes which they have set up and hating and envying of people and reviling and reproaching for matter of Religion and worship c. are found to be of that spirit which is not of God which loves not nor knows not God who is love but is of the Devill who was a Murtherer from the beginning and a Lyar from the beginning and the father of all lyars and murtherers and Persecutors and envious ones who is out of the Truth from whence all lyes and murther and envy and pride and hatred and persecution and strife and emulations and enmity cometh and all the deeds of darknesse And he is the god of the world who hath blinded the minds of all men of the World that beleeve not lest the Light of the glorious Gospel of Jesus Christ who is the Image of God should shine in them So he it is that makes people darke and blind to worke the works of darknesse and to act as blind men where they are walking in the darknesse and love it and put darknesse for light call good evill and evill good and know not whither they go nor know not the truth nor the way of God but persecute it and call it errour and heresie as it was in all ages past even so it is now for Truth was never persecuted under the name of Truth but of erruor and they who did persecute it were alwayes blind will be for they are out of the Truth and therefore they know it not as the Jewes did not know Christ for if they had known him they would not have crucified the Lord of life saith the Apostle So all the worlds Professors now are blind who doe persecute they are all groaping in the dark as the men of Sodom did who wearied themselves to find Lots doore Gen. 19.11 And so it hath been in the World in all their professions that hath be● since the dayes of the Apostles they have been fighting and ●●●ing and persecuting one another and hating and speaking evill one of another and even wearyed themselves by setting up of this forme and that forme of worship and making Lawes to compell to them which they have called Church Discipline and by running from one way of worship to another and from Mountain to Hill and have been climbing till they are weary and groaping in the dark till they are weary to

find the dore and to find the true way and yet they have not found it For the Door is Christ who saith I am the Door of the Sheep all that ever went before me are Theeves and Robbers John 10.7 And againe I am the Light of the World c. So Friends and people all know this assuredly that there is none ever comes to the Door to find the Door but who cometh to the Light which Christ Jesus hath enlightned them withall and every one that cometh into the World to waite in it and beleeve in it and be obedient to it For Christ saith While ye have the Light beleeve in the Light that ye may be children of the Light So who are children of the Light they see and are not blind as the Sodomites were and as the Professors now are who beleeve not in the Light of Christ I say they see the Door which is Christ from whence the Light comes and enter in and are his Sheep who know the true Shepheards voyce But all who deny the Light and turn from it and hate it and speake against it they are the children of darknesse who are unbeleevers that are without the Door is shut against them and the Light is their condemnation So they are all walking in darknesse and wearying themselves and groping and cannot find the Door and so never come to enter in by it nor to find rest for their soules but are still without where the Sodomites are shut out of Lots Door and without where the Dogs and Unbeleevers are and where the Whoremongers and Murtherers and Lyars are and the Unclean and Sorcerers and the Idolaters are 22 Rev. 15. And so people do weary themselves there and spend their money for that which is not bread and their labour for that which satisfies not But never comes to hearken diligently to the Light of Christ Jesus in them which reproves them for sin that by it they might be led out of sin and out of Sodome and Egypt that their souls might live and find rest for the Light leads to Christ who gives rest to the soul And till ye come to hearken diligently to the Light ye cannot know your souls to live but still are the people that are dead while ye live and that have eares and hear not eyes and see not and hearts and understand not and so are all as dead men and blind men and deafe men and lame men that cannot walke and say none can keep Christs commands and dumbe men and foolish men without understanding in the things of God which are spiritually discerned and without tasting and feeling and smelling that cannot savour the things of God And here are all the Professions of the World and their Priests and Teachers even the highest of them all who denyes that Christ Jesus hath inlightened every one with his true Light and tell people its a naturall Light and a delusion of Sathan to draw them from it and seduce them and tells them it s not sufficient to lead to salvation c. I say they are all blind leaders who say so And now People Let me tell you who comes to the true Light which Christ Jesus hath enlightned every one with that are come into the world John 1.9 and beleeve in it and wait in it which is true and spiritual it brings people to spiritual seeing and lets them see and discerne the thoughts and intents of their hearts and who comes to believe in this Light and hearken diligently to it they come to hear the voyce of the Son of God and they that hear shall live So these are they that come out of death and come to be made alive unto God then they are not dead men nor deaf men as the Scripture saith You hath he quickned who were dead in your si●ts and trespasses And who comes to have their minds turned into the light of Christ Jesus in them it will let them see the vanity of their minds this will unblind their minds which the god of this world hath blinded see 2 Cor. 4.3 And bring them to see the Light of the knowledg of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ then will they not be blind men who have eyes and see not and ears and hear not as the Scripture saith I will give him for a Covenant for a Light unto the Gentiles to open the blind eyes c. And again saith Christ Buy of me eye salve that ye may see and gold that ye may be rich and white rayment that ye may be cloathed then ye will not be blind men nor naked And who believes in the Light of Christ which is spiritual which Christ hath enlightned them withall it will bring them to understand the things of God and gives to discern them and to know God And this is it which reprooves and judgeth the deceit and pride and hypocrisie and errour in the heart and the desperate wickednesse in the heart and the foolishnesse in the heart and that which is contrary to God in the heart and discerns the thoughts and intents of the heart and so brings people to be of an understanding heart and to discern the spiritual things of God and not allwayes to be of those that have hearts and understand not who are erred in their hearts and know not the way of God and are become vaine in their imaginations and by their foolish hearts are deceived And again who come to the Light and wait in it they come to taste and savor the things of God and come to taste of the Heavenly gist and to tast of the word of God and the power of the world to come see Heb. 6.3.5 And they come to discerne the things of God from the things of the world and come to discern between the Spirit of God and the spirit of the world and come to have Salt in themselves to savour withall that which will season the heart which is not to be trodden under mens feet for it is good to judge out that which hath corrupted the heart and desiled it The Light which shines in the heart which hath no fellowship with darknesse nor with the works of darknesse And so this will season it and keep it cleah from corrupting as every one minds it and keeps to it to love in and beleeve in it and obey it For there is nothing that is corrupt brought forth but first is in the heart for saith Christ Out of the heart proceeds evil thoughts thefts murthers adulter yes uncleannesse for that which goeth into the man doth not defile the man but that which cometh out So every one whose minds be turned into the Light of Christ this will bring you to taste and savour and discern between the good and the evil the Light and the darknesse the precious and the vile the holy and the prophane the clean and the unclean