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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
life_n	believe_v	eternal_a	scripture_n	4,820	5	6.0088	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A52181	Sions enemy discovered, or the worker of iniquity rebuked and innocency cleared in a reply to seven sheets of paper published by Jonathan Johnson of Lincoln, and by him entituled, The Quaker quashed, and his quarrel queld, &c.	Mason, Martin, fl. 1650-1676.	1659 (1659)	Wing M933A; ESTC R221792	10,986	8

SIONS ENEMY DISCOVERED OR The Worker of iniquity rebuked AND INNOCENCY CLEARED In a Reply to seven sheets of Paper Published by Jonathan Johnson of Lincoln and by him Entituled The Quaker quasht and his quarrel queld c. JONATHAN I shall not here take notice of every polluted stream coming from the Fountain of thy corrupt heart which in thy papers thou hast published Thou runs on at a high rate as if there were not a righteous God that takes notice of and registers all the wrongs done unto his people abide thou no longer in the dark habitation of the Hipocrite for though thou hast told the World thou expectedst my acknowledgment of my evil in writing against thee as if that were the cause thou kept thy papers almost these two years by thee yet thy fig leaves cannot cover thee the light of Israel doth discern thee and thou shalt one day know they were sober lines wch then were sent thee wh●n thou writst last to me and happy hadst thou been if thou wouldst have been warned by me Thou tells me page 1 That I Bragadot●-like said I will not give one inch of ground or turn my back off the uncircumcised Philistine Let the sober Reader peruse my book and he may see that in answer to thy charge of the weaknesse and disarmed condition of those I am encamped with and that our weapon is but a bull rush I told thee It was not th●● nor thy Fathers legion could make one Souldier in the camp of the Lord give one inch of ground or turn his back off the uncircumcised Philistine Judge honest Reader hath not the wicked one wrested my words but when will he learn to speak truth say Jonathan dost thou not see thy bold presumption that wouldst have thy engagement to be compared with David See his book p. 1.2 and my words with Goltan Come down son of ambition David was a man after Gods own heart but thy hearr is not circumcised therefore blush and be ashamed I asked thee this question Hath every one that cometh into the world heard and read the preaching of Christ and his Apostles as they are transcribed in the Bible to which thou didst positively answer They have all heard and yet like a son of impudence in thy book thou deniest it and chargest me that I have dealt falsly with thy answer To which I reply the Lord of heaven and earth be judge betwixt us whether them were thy words or nay And because thou art so confident in thy darknesse I tell thee millions of men and women may witnesse against thee that they never read the preachings of Christ and his Apostles as they are transcribed in the Bible To my other question How is the Gospel preached to every creature under heaven which is the power of God if not by that principle of light in the conscience In thy book thou answerest thus In the preaching of Christ and his Apostles which worketh the principle of light in the conscience and whatsoever is not enlightned from thence t is darknesse and not light Be not these thy own words Art thou an elder Jonathan or head or leader of a separated people and so sottish to make the letter the author of the light of Christ in the conscience which was before the letter was given forth as if a man gave being to his maker Sure if thy Church were in God the Father of lights they would see thy nakednesse and be ashamed Thou multiplyest many words about the sound of accusing or excusing in all consciences I am satisfied that thou diddst confess that the sound of accusing or excusing is in all consciences and knowes it is accusing not excusing thee in thy conscience for several sins thou commits against it And thy dark assertion that it comes only by the hearing of faith preached by the Apostles doth more manifest thy miserable nakedness and thy grosse ignorance of Christ the power of God and of his kingdome where it is and what pag. 5. Thou confesseth there was a principle of light in the people before Moses writ the letter and subtilly speaks of Christs sending the people to Moses and the Prophets to hear them Iob. 5 46. I grant thee he did so and I give thee this reason recorded in scripture Had they believed Moses they would have believed Christ for Moses writ of Christ So now we desire people would wisely read and search the scriptures for they do testifie of the light of Christ in the conscience but many read them foolishly as thou dost and think in them to have eternal life but come not to be guided by the light of Christ in the conscience and so fall short of eternal life Charge me no more with useing this phrase the light of conscience 2 Pet. 1.19 for thou never receivedst it from me Conscience is dark untill it be awaked untill the light of Christ in the conscience arise and shine in the heart nor do the children of the day or true Ministers of the light direct the hearts or consciences of the people to any other thing then that sure word of Prophesie the light of Christ in the conscience who is the seed of the woman the word of God though such as thou believes not in it and that 's the reason you are not saved by it so sin hath dominion over you Rom. 1.16 because you believe not in the light of Christ in the conscience which is the power of God unto salvation to all that believe therein and while thy carnal minde is gazing after a Christ without as the Jewes did thou art not like to find him within thee but as a condemner of thee and know this also I am not ashamed to assirme unto thee that the grace of God which brings salvation hath appeared unto all men though all do not receive salvation by it because they believe not in it no more dost thou while thus thou persecutes it and smites the innocent Lambs with the fist of wickednesse Isa 58.4 Wherefore hast thou dealt thus unworthyly with me in thy ninth p. with thy save only c thus boldly to assirme that I granted to thee that the light in the conscience comes by the hearing of faith preached by the Apostles as if the letter were the author of the light How hast thou polluted thy garment with a lye but no better dealing do I look for from thee while blindnesse of heart thus rests upon thee Eph 4.18 I own that which Paul and Peter preached from to be the spirit of the living God and what they spake from the mouth of the Lord I own to be the winde or words of the Lord Io. 8.12 Rev. 19.13 But still afirming as as I did before that Christ the light of the world is the word of God from whom the words proceeded by whom the world was made and so the letter must give place to the spirit the servant is

not greater then his master the light was the life and being of all the true Prophets and Apostles who spake and writ the scriptures and they preached the word to be nigh even in the heart and laboured to turn men from darkenesse unto light and from the power of Satan unto God Deu. 30.14 Ro. 10.8 1 Io. 10. Io. 13.16 Act. 17.28 That which gave forth the leaves said I. I own and thou casts this upon me The printer gave forth the leaves but I tell thee now as I did before it was the spirit of God that gave the scriptures and its that I own and not the Printer as the author of them does the printer give or sell them But Pro. 27.22 bray a fool in a morter yet his folly will not leave him Thy scornfull upbrayding me with a mistake in the title page of my former book 1 Cor. 15.10 as if I had published my selfe a Minister of the Gospel does not become thee nor things well weighed do I deserve it from thee By the Grace of God I am What I am though no Minister in that sence thy envious mind receives it yet a servant in my measure not of the letter but of the everlasting Gospel And I want not witness within nor without that I did neither then nor doeth now so appropriate that title to my self but intended it to one who then did well deserve it And had not the printer begun a new line where he should not thou hadst wanted this stone to have flung at the innocent Thou busiest thy selfe with babling of the baptism of repentance and spends many words to no purpose about it were it lesse in thy tongue and better witnessed in thy heart it were better for thee The Rev. 7.14 light of conscience as thou calls it thou hast again in thy mouth happy were it for thee if thy conscience were made clean with the blood of the lamb and purified with the light that is in it which light once under thy own hand thou didst own to be the in-let to the spirit of promise though n●w with impudence thou denyes it And if ever thou own the truth as it is in Jesus this thou wilt see and confesse with sorrow many things which are now denyed by thee till thou silence thou child of ignorance and boast not above thy measure and lean no longer on a reed of Egypt while the baptism of repentance from dead works is not witnessed by thee And tel the world no longer 1 Tim. 6.13 that we are denyers of that Christ Jesus who suffered at Jerusalem for his sufferings we own who witnessed a good confession before Pontius Pilate but what 's his sufferings unto thee whilst thou art an enemy to that Righteou● Seed within thee which is a continual remembrancer unto thee and reprover of thee As for thy aspersions unworthily cast upon me as if I had denyed his sufferings without the gues at Jerusalem who ever reads my book with a single eye may see thee slandring of the innocent and that 's not the worke of a servant of Jesus Christ as thou hast published thy selfe to be Thy shunting and rayling terms to my queries mentioned in thy 17. page is no good answer it may be if thou livest two yeares longer thou maist more wisely consider of them In the meane time let the honest reader observe tha● although thou thus unworthily They who live in sin are servants to sin and so out of the faith which purifies the heart and givs victory over sin and therefore such while they are servants to sin are not saved or redeemed from their sins reproaches me as if I denyed the sufferings of Christ noe ground for this thou hast I know of t is true I said thou and they who feed your selves with the meer frothy verbal faith in the sufferings of the man Christ Jesus at Jerusalem and yet wallow in your wickednesse are not saved or redeemed from your sins Now whether this be a denyal of Christs sufferings or not let the righteous witnesse in all consciences judge between us Besides I told thee then no other Jesus did I own but that lamb of God who was slain from the beginning of the world and that the fulnesse of the Godhead dwels bodily in him he was apointed above his fellowes and yet the son of impudence tels people I deny him but my witnesse within me doth herein justifie me and he is greater then my false accuser without me To what end is all thy loud outcries against the harmlesse children of the light ranking them among the worst of men and rendring them as odious to the world with thy reproachful pen as thy wrathful heart could invent if not to sharpen the edge of authority against them but the persecuting spirit is felt and fathomed and its reward will not be wanting I do not deny but the Apostles preacht all one Christ and affirme that there is a witnesse for God in all though all receive him not no more dost thou he came to his own and his own received him not he that hath eares to hear let him hear and it was Christ who preached in Paul and the rest of the Apostles and I tell thee Jonathan there are millions of men and women now on earth who never heard of the sufferings of Christ without the gates at Jerusalem and yet the witnesse of God is within them and is calling them to come unto the Lord that they may have life 3 Col. 11. and that is his voyce which reproves for sin in the gate though thou and thy generation trample on him and reject him there is no room for him in the Inne the manger must contain him and so the pearle of great price is set at nought by the wise and prudent of the world Luke 2.7 Thou spendest much paper in pleading for thy idol to wit outward water and no other baptism I am bold to say knows thou but that which never washed thee from thy sins thou art not come to the bridling of the tongue so all thy religion is vain Iohns Baptism I answer thee was from God it had its root and rife from him and in its time and place was serviceable but it shal have its end he must increase saith Iohn but I must decrease spake he this of his person or of his ministration let the voice of truth give answer to me not do I deny but that the Apostles in honour to Iohns ministry made use of Iohns Baptism by permission I say and therein I do not judg them prove thou if thou canst that it was by precept or command from Christ But all thy twisting and twining cannot do it I tell thee once more the light of Christ was in the Ephesians and shined in their hearts before their conversion to the Son of God Paul preached the light unto them or directed them to the same principle of light within them