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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
heaven_n	call_v	earth_n	lord_n	10,454	5	3.6530	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A89850	Satans design discovered: vvho under a pretence of worshipping Christs person in heaven, would exclude God and Christ, the spirit and light, out of the world: and that he should no more dwell in his people as he hath done, till Doomsday, that so he might rule in the hearts of men and women, unrevealed, while the world endures, onely under the name of God and Christ, talked of at a distance, that he may rule in the creation, exalted above God. Clearly laid open in an answer to Thomas Moor, who calls his book an Antidote against the spreading infections, &c. Wherein is discovered the crooked ways the winding Serpent takes to save his head, and reproach the truth with lies, that by any means he might make people believe that a lying spirit is among the Quakers, but is found within him. With 48. lies, taken out from three times as many, and sent back to be proved by the founder of them, T.M. Also some particulars, what the Quakers holds ... / By a servant to truth, called James Nayler.	Naylor, James, 1617?-1660.	1655 (1655)	Wing N313; Thomason E857_6; ESTC R202989	34,304	48

fright the rest whom he cannot get to joyne with him in this wickednesse seeking to perswade them that to waite for the appearance of Christ in them with his light and Spirit to guide them out of all this confusion is the most dangerous errour in the world and of all other to be avoided when as indeed all that are from that Spirits guiding are in errour and can be no other wise untill to that Spirit they turne therewith to be led out of errour and being more subtile then all the rest brings in Lies and false Accusations against others as though they was out of the truth but he a friend unto it when as all the friendship he intends when truly weighed is to make an eternal separation betwixt the Creature and the Creator and to keep God out of his dwelling place yea and as far distant as the Heaven is from the Earth as thou dost in thy Book who denies the possession of God in his Saints as thou dost in thy 32 page and in many other places in thy Book In thy 25 page confesses the Body to be the Temple of the Lord in which God primely and chiefly dwelleth and manifesteth himself in through the testimony of Jesus there received and thus with confusion saying and unsaying hast thou made up thy Book to the end that thou might keep people from the light of Christ perverting the Scriptures to wrong ends and making them speak quite contrary to the Spirit as that of Amos 2. 13. where God saith I am pressed under you as a cart is pressed that is full of sheaves This thou would have people to believe that God said I will pross you as the cart is pressed with sheaves which is quite contrary and where the Spirit saith Christ in you speaking of the Saints in whom Christ dwelt thou turnedst it to Christ among you as he was among the Pharisees and where Christ saith The kingdom of God is within you that thou pervertest also to among you and this thou printest to all the world with many more such like of thy deceitful workings and pervertings too many to mention which all that read thy Book may see scarce one Scripture thou hast medled with which thou hast not sought to wrest and art not ashamed to accuse me for abusing the Scriptures who have but quoted the plain words without meanings at all nay so shameless is thy work in thy book that were it not for the simplicities sake which in many is deceived by such as thee I should leave it to discover it self as sufficiently it will do in the fight of the wise who compare but one part of it with another and not have written any thing unto it As also thy shameless denying what thou spoke before hundreds of Witnesses before whom thou denyed God to be manifest in the Creature then and that none had immediate call but the Apostles who was called by Christ personally before his Ascention And when I instanced Paul and Ananias Thou said Paul was in Heaven and saw him personally Thou said further that thou had not the same Testimony as the Apostles had which thou now turnedst to Timothy Further thou said also That the Scriptures are the absolute Rule and Medium of Faith and when I asked thee if God could give faith without them thou saidst Yea then I said They was not the absolute Rule and Medium then John Wray said I catcht at Words to which I answered If thou didst confess thy mistake I did not desire to make thee an Offender for a word and upon thy confession thereupon that thing ceased and I spake no more of it at that time which otherwise had not so passed Thou saidst further That Paul saw Christ personally with his bodily eyes after his Ascension Thou al so said I was a false witness in saying that I had seen Christ and said thou had never seen him as Paul did to which I said I believed thou had not Further thou said The benefit the drunkards have by Christ is that they enjoy that drink wherewith they are drunken Thou said also That there is something which is not of God which teacheth the Creature to deny sin with divers other such like things which then I reproved thee for and withstood thee to thy face before the people where thou couldest not deny it and writ to thee of it in faithfulness that thou mightest have considered thereof and have seen thy folly and not have envyed me for speaking the truth which thou could not then deny before the people neither then nor the next day But now the envious one being got up for these things thou art not ashamed to account me a Lyar which thou couldst not do to my face before the people here shewing thy self to be a Backbiter and false Accuser of the truth and the lye returned into thy own bosom where the Lyar dwells seeking to hide himself by accusing others In thy Epistle thou tellest of some abatement of bloody persecution in these times but whosoever sees the emnity of these days and your combining together against the innocent with your actings imprisonings whippings mockings stockings reproachings and false accusings with all the multitude of your invented Envies of which thy Book is not the least they may see such a Generation of persecuters gathered from all Quarters against a poor despised People and persecuting for such things as never was since the World was created as witness all the Goals in the Nation and this mischievous lying Book of thine whereby thou would adde affliction unto those Bonds accusing us of denying Christ and preaching another Christ and another Gospel and another Spirit and many such blasphemous things from which we are clcar hast thou added unto the envy that is against us for all which thou must give an account amongst the rest when thou hast filled up thy measure And thou that callest it a Spirit of Antichrist to witness Christ bearing sin now in the body art one of those who never saw him whom thou hast pierced But did not he bear sin in thee though thou know him not thou had been in hell ere now and that thou shall know when his spirit leaves striving and his long-suffering is turned into Judgement which should lead thee to repentance And Christ appearing without sin to salvation is witnessed with all who have seen his appearance and that is the spirit of Antichrist which cannot confess him who goeth on in blindness and confusion as thou dost who faist there is not in man any light knowledge or understanding to make them sensible of their Idolatry and wickedness And in the next page faist Although the word be nigh them in their hearts What is not the word light and understanding where it is if it be minded it was so to the people of God who knew it in their hearts and by it was kept out of sin But thy testimony is contrary whose eyes are abroad

upon pain of imprisonment and that without any limit of time yea many for but looking at you and not speaking a word such is the strength of your weapons which in the Ministers of his spirit was mighty through Christ and needed not Clubs and Prisons to defend it so look upon your work and weigh it with truth and the Saints practice and see how they agree for no further are you his Ministers then you can own the Saints life though you can change their words to your wills yet their lives you cannot and by that you must be tryed And seeing it is the great work in these dayes to separate Christ and his light word and spirit as far as the Heavens and the Earth never to come neerer till the end of the world and thou scofs at infallibility calls perfection a Doctrine of Devils and pleads for sin while men lives and much such like Doctrine against Christ I shall lay down these particulars following as I have received them from the Lord which through the strength of God I shall stand by against thee and all thy Generation that shall oppose your selves 1. That the light of Christ is the first principle that shews a man his condition and leads to Christ the Saviour and without it the Gospel is hid from every Creature living and without it none can read with profit 2. That though Christ Jesus in himself hath suffered and satisfied the whole will of God for all the world yet none but who by faith in this comes to receive a measure of the same Christ in the same spirit and power and life in them can have redemption by him from sin and death 3. That the word of God is spiritual and who hath it hath it in their heart and that none who hath it not in their hearts hath eternal life though they may have the letter as the Devil hath to pervert to wrong ends to plead for sin and tempt the sons of God 4. That none can understand the Scriptures nor know the voice of Christ in them but who have that spirit and light in them that gave them forth to open their understanding to know the mystery and life of them 5. That no man knowes his own heart but who first owns the light of Christ to search it and the same light that searches the heart gives light to know God and his glory 6. That the least measure of living faith that is not a fancy but stands in Christ Jesus is present power against all sin and the greatest power of Satan if the Creature abide faithful in it and run to no other helps but minde obedience in it 7. That no man can be a Minister of Christ nor preach him truly but who preacheth perfection and that is the end of his Ministry which thou calls a Doctrine of Devills 8. That there is not one particular of the worship you perform in your high places but it is added or altered from what it was when Christ appointed it and established it 9. That God and his word is now manifest in the bodies of his Saints in the same manner and as freely as formerly he hath been and that there he is a sufficient Teacher and shield against sin without any other help to all according to the measure of their knowledge of him present 10. That no man can receive the things of Gods spirit but who minde somewhat of God in them to receive it withall 11. That the least measure of Gods spirit is an infallible guide and without it no man knowes Christ nor can judge of any thing of God or his truth his Kingdom or the way to it or the Devil and his subtleties but lies open to be deceived in all things and to be led by men of corrupt mindes in whom the Devil is 12. That the ground of all Errors Sects and Opinions Heresies and blasphemies that are in the world is in being led from the guidance of this spirit and all live in error but who are guided by it but none ever errs who was guided by it alone nor ever shall These being the main things for which thou accuses us in thy Book having wrested them contrary to our judgement and practice thereby to darken the way of truth more dear to me then life to the end that all may finde it and rest to their souls I have laid them down as plain as I can as they are in Iesus in me revealed without any adding or diminishing as in the fight of God so when thou writes to oppose again let it be plain to the people whether thou owns of denies so the difference may be judged with the truly wise in heart and the ground of it and do not cast a mist over the truth as in thy book and yet dare neither own nor deny but secretly bite and devoure Also prove these lying slanders cast upon us or blame me not for calling them lies and discovering the father thereof Thou hast plowed wickedness and reaped iniquity and hast eaten the fruit of lies THE END ERRATA Page 3. line 13. for sties read stirs p. 21. l. 31. for our mouthes read your mouths p. 26. l. 5. for he acknowledgeth read be a Knowledge Page 52 line 3 for sent read silence and line 9 of the same Page for buglary read burglary