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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
love_n	believe_v	faith_n	heart_n	5,328	5	5.2153	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A85151	A true testimony against the Popes wayes, &c. In a return to that agreement of 42. of those that call themselves ministers of Christ (but are proved to be wrongers of men and of Christ) in the county of Worcester, and some adjacent parts, who subscribe their agreement and catechisme with the names and the places where they are pastors, teachers, and rectors, &c. as they say: or as followeth: Richard Baxter teacher of the church at Kiderminster. John Boraston pastor of Ribsford and Bewdley. Richard Eades pastor of Beckford Glocestershire. ... Joh: Dedicote preacher at Abbotesley.	R. F. (Richard Farnworth), d. 1666.	1656 (1656)	Wing F509; Thomason E870_6; ESTC R202116	86,932	79

the rich fall into and are snared for the love of money is the roote of all evil and whilst you are coveting after that you are in danger of peirceing your soules through with many sorrowes and to fall into perdition as such did that erred from the faith 1 Tim. 6.9.10 therefore beware any one that have set their faces Sion-ward where-ever you are of that and give not way to that which enclines to the Temptation for the enemie both knows what to work upon and how as well as he knoweth what will receive him therefore with the light that lets you see the Temptation let your minds be gi●t up and stand in the crosse to that inclination which would entertaine the Temptation and abide in the measure and proportion of faith Rom. 12.3.6 Rom. 12.3.6 and stand stedfast without wavering in that which supplies the faith as well as discovereth Temptations and there is the gift known and power given to resist the Devil and judge the evil and the encrease both of faith and patience will through the Crosse and Judgment which crucifyeth the lust be at work in your soules and be support to you in time of triall that you may stand and be kept as you in the Counsell of the pure light of Christ waite and abide for he is faithfull who will not suffer you to be Tempted above your measure as you therein stand but doth and will with the Temptation make away to escape 1 Cor. 10.13 who is the deliver for many are the troubles of the righteous but the Lord delivereth him out of them all as he did Paul c 2 Tim. 3.10.11 12. though the unrighteous and persecuters evil men and seducers be ignorant of it yet we know and are sure that as the Lord delivered just Lot vexed with the filthy conversation of the wicked and punished them condemning them with an overthrow makeing them an ensample unto those like you the wicked and persecuters seed of evil doers now and such that after should live ungodly but the Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of Temptations and afflictions and how to reserve persecuters seed of evil doers wrongers of Christ and of men be they Priests and their followers that lives in such miscarriages and all the unjust unto the day of Judgment for to be punished 2 Pet. 2.4 5 6 7 8 9. Therefore all that are not hardened and seared in sin and iniquitie give eare to the cry of the just and depart from the evil of your Preists and your selves and waite to receive the teachings of God that you may profit seare the living dreadfull Lord God stand in awe of him and sin not for the Lord hath set apart him that is godly for himselfe Psa 4.3.4 but the transgressors shall be destroyed together the end of the wicked shall be cut off Psa 37.38 And you that are wrongers of God and men in your miscarriages unpardoned for the same that sets people to get that which you call the Creed you say you beleive in God the Father Almighty in Jesus Christ his Son who suffered under Pontius Pilate c. I say that such as beleives in him loves him and doth not him wrong it was Pilate and the Jews that did him wrong who loved him nor and are not you found in their nature persecuting him in his Saints as Pilate and Herod did that are in the miscarriages as they was wronging Christ and men and therefore it is manifest how little you beleive in him or love him such as are wrongers of him and liers against him are out of the love and faith towards him but you confesse you are wrongers of him and therefore out of the love and the faith he that loves him keeps his sayings but you neglect and keepe them not and therefore you love him not that are as you say neglecters of his work and wrongers of him in the miscarriages growing worse and therefore you are out of his faith and doing the worke of your Father as Pilate and Herod did And thou Richard Baxter art a grevious slanderer of him as before is proved that saith he detested his own doctrine viz. the doctrine of sinlesse perfection Math. 5.48 blush with your deeds of darknesse made manifest who are out of the faith and doctrine of Christ and turned persecuters of his and wrongers of him but it is given to us and them in his faith not to persecute his and wrong him as you and infidels do to suffer for his names-sake as well as beleive in his name as the Saints and faithfull in Christ-Jesus did Phil. 1.29.30 and are nothing terrified by you and our adversaries Phil. 1 28. though we have the same conflict as our brethren had that suffered under Pilate the Jewes and cheife Preists that crucified the just and as the sufferings of Christ abound in us so our consolation aboundeth by Christ 1 Cor. 1.5 knowing also that such as you persecute and cause to suffer for his name-sake whom you confesse you wrong they shall partake of the consolation as of the sufferings they have done 2 Cor. 1.7 that are stedfast unto him but woe unto the wicked and you painted Tombes and all the false worshippers as well as persecuters of his and wrongers of him it shall goe ill with you and them Isa 3.11 and all your guilding and painting flatteries and Colourable glosses will not save you and such from the wrath of the Lambe the cup is prepared as you may read for all such Reve. 14.9 10.11 and great will be their torment as well as yours who are out of his faith in the old birth and miscarriages growing worse as you say who are persecuters of his and wrongers of him but you are seen and your designe is known and are left naked and bare that to the single eyed you may appeare and that others may see your deceipts and of them and you be aware least they with you come under the same condemnation they are warned and I am cleared though by your generation falsely accused to be Popishly affected but have left my Testimony against the Pope and his brood and stands to witnesse against that and all other deceipt and hath not the least affection to it but stands a witnesse through the strength of my God against it and therefore that accusation is proved false and left co returne from whence it came till it returne into the Popes brest or where it first had its rise And though the author being in outward bonds have outward helps taken from him and kept from him yet truth is not bound but stands free and leaves against the deceipt from a servant of the Lord this same testimony and returnes praise to the Lord for the riches of his love and remaines therein A faithfull witnesse against Pope and Papists and all deceivers but a lover of all the honest hearted such as are not wrongers but lovers of the Lord Jesus The 8th

was they not both wrongers of men and of Christ and cut off or turned out for their Miscarriages c And by the late Parliment they were dis-annulled and rendered uselesse and they are cryed down and their mouthes stopt viz. the Arch-Bishops and Bishops c. who cryed themselves up with as wide a mouth as you can do saying they was the Ministers of Christ and Jure divino c. and were ready to call all hereticks and the like that dissented from them and witnessed against their deceits and how did they punish afflict them for the same And have not you learned to walk in their steps And did not the Episcopals and Prelates those that were branches of the Bishops as you are ●o as you do and cryed up themselves by the name of the Ministers of Christ and counted others Hereticks and were ready to rank them with Papists as you do But was not the Prelates and Episcopals sound to be in the Miscarriages and wrongers of God and Men as you are and was not they cut off and turned out for their Miscarriages c And are not they silent and their mouths stopt and cryed down though they were forward to cry up themselves as you do and to call others Sectaries and Hereticks that are not so as you are but though you now open your mouthes wide to cry up your selves as your fore-fathers did being a bough or branch from them yet with the Light you are now seen and if they was cut off or turned out for their miscarriages and wrong done to Christ and to men do you deserve to stand who are found in and confessing the same But when you have filled up your measures and comes by all to be seen in the same must not you then descend and turn back from whence you came and be as you are men in miscarriages and neglecters of the great work of God wronging men and Christ as you say and your fruirs with your Agreement stands witnesse against you but in patience let all that see your deceits possese their soules and praise God for the riches of his love that hath led them out of your miscarriages and from under your mist or popish darknesse into the pure and glorious light and teaching of Christ wherein they are growing in grace Col. 2.3 4 5 6. Eph. 3.17.18 19 Col 2.7 8 9. Col 3.12 13 14 15. Ephe. 5.11 Rev. 3.9 being rooted and grounded in the true Gospel soul-saving purifying faith in which their soules are purifyed whose loves runs out unto the bretheren from a pure heart being of the new birth 1 Pet. 22.23 and denying your deceits and dead doctrin who witnesse against the works of darknesse and all that which proceeds from your Miscarrying nature and from the popish root and that spirit of deceit by which you wrong men and Christ and are neglecters of his work and without pardon for the same c. Rev. 14.9 10 11. Growing worse and runing yet further from God as you also say And you say page 19 It astonished you many times when you have occasion to talke with your hearers page 19. to perceive that they know very little of the doctrin which you say you have been preaching to them so many yeares there The people may take notice of the unprofitablenesse of your preaching and ministry and that they have spent their money upon you for that which is no bread and doth not after long time hearing and living under little or not at all profit them Luke 16 15. but how should it profit Them when it hath not taught You to come out of your miscarriages and that cursed nature from which your wrong to Christ and men doth proceed in which wrongfull and miscarrying nature your ministry stands and therefore is not like to profit the people But you speak in your own behalf as self justifyers Pharisies false Prophets and Hypocrits use to do and you say you know that they must understand it or perish yet though they have made use of you and spend their time and money upon you you have not nor doth not bring them to understand it and then with you their miscarrying and untaught teachers them to understand it and then with you their miscarrying and untaught teachers they accordingly as you say are like to perish yet you cry up your own way at a very high rate for your own ends and sets the price of a perishing condition without the understanding of your brain Imaginations which you call your preachings or your humane Inventions and poor people your hearers c. that after they have spent their labour and meanes or money upon you this many years yet want their understanding and benefit from you therefore it is high time for them to cease from you and hearken to the light of Christ in their conscience that calls to repentance that it they may obey and thereby come into the teaching of God Isa 54.13 Joh. 6.46 which causeth all to profit 1 Cor. 12.7 that obey the true light and follow the same Ioh. 8.11 Heb. 5.8 9. But people have many yeares heard you and are yet little or nothing at all as you say benefited by you for they remain yet in Ignorance c. you say and are like to do so for you I say Whose ministry stands in your wills and not in the will of God and can alter and change as times and mens wills alter and change but now that you see your ministry doth not kill Ignorance c. you are using the same meanes which your fore-fathers did to do it but left undone and is found with you in the Error Heresies and Miscarriages but you say that Catecthisme and personall Instruction is a great meanes to overcome that killing Ignorance c. page 9. If so how was it that the same meanes viz. personall Catechizing and familiar Instruction from the same spirit that led into miscarriages and to wrong men and Christ as you do did not kill that killing Ignorance in the time of the Pope Prelates Episcopalls and old out-cast or rooted out Bishops whose branches from that body are you and did not they set people on the same work and to use the same meanes as you do which did not kill it c. they set them to get the Creed as you call it and the same Creed as you do and the Lords prayer ten Commandements and those Catechismes which they as well as you call Orthodox Catechismes and their old Expositers as you do and yet the killing Ignorance is unkilled amongst you their off-spring that growes a little more into subtilty and gets words to talk of and sets people to get a few words by you summed together to talk of but are out of the life of them and are in pride coveteousnesse vain glory self conceitednesse Error and Heresies persecution and commiting abomination in as high a degree as your fore-fathers did though under a