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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
love_n	faith_n	spirit_n	work_n	5,929	5	5.6776	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A46994	A vindication of the Surey demoniack as no impostor, or, A reply to a certain pamphlet publish'd by Mr. Zach. Taylor, called, The Surey impostor with a further clearing and confirming of the truth as to Richard Dugdale's case and cure / by T.J. ... ; to which is annexed a brief narrative of the Surey demoniack, drawn up by the same author ...	Jollie, Thomas, 1629-1703.	1698 (1698)	Wing J889; ESTC R10650	80,797	80

our indifferent Person would thereupon not only vindicte us but the D's also from the Cheat or Combination seeing we all declined the use of any such Popish Magicial Diabolical Means As to Mr. T 's most untrue and uncharitable charge of our promising our selves a rich Harvest by the Miracle we should work It 's well for us Mr. T. must not be our judg and that our own Conscience is as a thousand Witnesses for us His other Reflections here are like the opening of some stinking Grave which I would rather cover Pag. 65 Mr. T. is void of all Reason as well as Modesty in saying that we were guilty of superstitious Credulity were coming Creatures to the Priests swallowed all that was offer'd by them when he at the same time saith it 's true we declined the reading of the Paper over D. that the Priests sending the Paper to D. is an unanswerable Argument of his corresponding with them when himself acknowledgeth that the D 's declined it also Where 's Mr. T 's Religion or Reason Sed perit judicium quandores transit in affectum Mr. T. dare eng age for the Devils vanishing upon our reading that Paper over D. It was wisely done to pass his word for the Devil on such hard Conditions as were never likely to be performed I shall leave the business of the Commission here mentioned to others to canvass I shall only hint here that the Papers which came into D's hand when he stretch't it forth were undoubtedly from an invisible hand as the Spectators testify so as to those Papers and other things which he committed it is attested that he was not near any Wall nor could any one visible convey them to him For I took little notice of what the Devil said concerning his commission nor of the date of it I had a higher to look at from whom he had his Commission or Permission and who alone could determine the time and cancel the Commission as he pleased As to that Poyson of Asps and Gall of Bitterness in charging us with vain-glory all along our being so full of our selves and of the Spirit we had to deal with It serves but to fill up his own measure and that of his Partakers which seems to be almost brimful I confess I did from several Circumstances fear that the Devil in some drunken Fit had drawn D. into some blind Contract with him or Consent to him not because the Devil might say to that purpose but because he was ready to gratify D's Humour several ways yet if the Devil be found a Lyar herein I am not sorry for that and if I did mistake I hope their needs no very large Charity to cover it Pag. As to Mr. T 's reproachful Term of a Farce and reproaching us with weariness because we could do no good in the former he is profane if he refer to the Ordinunce in the latter he doth some of us wrong I am sure we may be weary in our work but not weary of it How little any threatning with Warrants did affect D. towards accepting of the Physician will appear by further evidence and the event in that he was cured of his strange Fits before he took the Physick tho it 's evidenced already that he had his Fits as formerly after the Threatning As to the Passage of Satans speaking several Noises and Voices out of the Lump which rose up I do not remember any thing but that T. Core testifies to that Dr. B's Testimony will but signify a little in this case with those who knew what his Faith and Practice was but he 's dead de mortuis nil nisi bonum And as to his Profession as a Physician what Judgment could he pass upon D's Fits whenas he saw him but once and had not seen the Depositions at all as I suppose I cannot be positive for his supposed Letter bears no date neither can I tell when it was that Dr. B. died Besides what he is supposed to say is not to the purpose for what is it as to the rising of the Lump from his Foot upward when he tells of convulsive Twitchings How doth he prove his being before instructed to improve those Motions to such a purpose Might not a Spirit move such parts tho it have neither Flesh nor Bones so could not be felt What silly work is here But when Men lose their Religion they lose their Reason also What rational Person will deny a Spirits acting tho not animating as the Soul doth the Body Concerning the Expressions in Prayer which I am charged with by I know not who at second or third Hand this is my constant comfort amidst my acknowledged Infirmities in all my Duties that I hope I have the Holy Spirit to help my Infirmities Jesus Christ to bear them the Father to pitty them that I stand not to the Mercy of some Men's Misconstructions and Misrepresentations nor to the Wresting and wiredrawing of my Words by such as Mr. T. to their evil Ends but take the words which they insinuate me guilty of and as they are reported by Mr. T. the former part of them viz. that Satan might appear or seem to be in those that did not believe him to be in that young Man by way of Possession are potentially expressed such a thing might be I wish it were not so The latter part of the words that others might take Warning and thereby Learning are exprest optatively as praying that others may take warning and learn by this Example The Reader will pardon the Incoherence of the Expressions and rather impute it to the Ignorance of the Reporter and the Imperfection of the Report Where now is the Profaneness and Curse of the Petition Where is the Justice of any being scandalized What occasion hath Mr. T. so Sarcastically and Blasphemously to reflect upon praying by the Spirit and Spiritual Sacrifices offer'd up to God But it 's according to the Evil Spirit that Mr. T. I doubt is led by and walks after Pag. 67 Whenas Mr. T. would insinuate against us words of Blasphemy or near bordering thereupon were not my Soul filled and fortified with such firm Faith in dear Love to and deep Veneration of the most precious Person of Chirst his most glorious Gospel and truly Miraculous Works Yea his most Holy Spirit and Conversation too then might Mr. T 's Scorpion Language tho thy such a feeble Hand wound me to the quick but through the Grace of God it is but as Lashes upon Armour in this case Whenas also he would insinuate that a Tongue which speaks such words ought to be boared through with an hot Iron but we must spare the Phanaticks saith he Blessed be God who hath made our Officers Peace and our Exactors Righteousness yea thanked be our Rulers which are such Shields of Defence to us else we yet see what such as Mr. T. would be at right or wrong And what is all this bitter Zeal as the Apostle James calls