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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
water_n	bread_n	lord_n	wine_n	3,679	5	7.3104	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A41425	A plain testimony to the antient truth and work of God and against the corruption of the clergy, and their upholders. By T. G.	Goodaire, Thomas, d. 1693.	1691 (1691)	Wing G1088; ESTC R218842	26,567	31

they would deceive the very Elect c. To which I Answer That there is not any Person or People that live and walk in Sin and take pleasure and delight therein and plead for a continuance in it 〈◊〉 term of Life and say That there is none can be set free from Sin in this Life that can witness any thing of their Election by the working of Christ's Spirit in them and all such are deceived already by the deceitfulness of Sin which bears rule in the Hearts of all the Children of Disobedience who are disobedient to the Light and Spirit of Christ in them and suell are in the broad way that leads to Destruction and are in the state of Reprobation and Condemnation But the true Prophets which the Lord sent prophesied freely without either taking Tythes or Money and they prophesied truly that which came to pass and they bore witness against the false Prophets and false Shepherds that prophesied for Money and Hire as for instance read Isa 55. 1. 2 3. Chap. 56. 10 11. And Isaiah was a true Prophet and sent of God and he did as I may say comparatively make as it were a Proclamation and saith Ho every ●re that thirsteth come ye to the Waters and he that hath no Money come ye buy and eat yea come buy Wine and Milk without Money and without Price And he saith unto the People Wherefore do ye spend Money for that which is not Bread and your Labour for that which satisfieth not Hearken diligently unto me saith the Lord by that true Prophet and eat ye that which is good and let your Soul delight it self in Fatness Here People may see how the Lord by his true Prophet invites every one for to come to the Waters and buy and eat freely that which is good for their Souls without Money and without Price and he exhorts them that they should not spend their Money for that which is not Bread and their Labour for that which would not satisfie their thirsty Souls And now the generality of people are spending and giving their Money for that which is not the Bread of Life neither will it satisfie any hungry thirsty Soul that truly hungers and thirsts after the Lord and his Righteousness And this true Prophet called the false Prophets and false Shepherds which spoke and prophesied for Money dumb Dogs greedy Dogs which can never have enough and they all look to their own way every one for his Gain from his Quarter And he told them that they were blind and ignorant and so they did not understand the things of God And now if people be not wilfully blind and ignorant you may see that there is as much difference between the true Prophets of God and the true Ministers of Christ and the false Prophets and false Minstors that either preach or prophesie for Tythes or Money or both as there is betwixt Light and Darkness And now I have something to propound unto all you Clergy-Men before mentioned which do profess and say that you are true Believers and Ministers of Christ and that you follow Christ and his Ministers for your Example and that the Scriptures are your Rule and Guide for to walk by first Where do ye find or read in all the holy Scriptures of Truth that any of the Ministers of Christ ever went to any Schools of outward Learning and staid several Years there and did commence from one degree of Learning unto another for to be made Ministers of Christ as you Clergy-Men did and do now And when you have been several Years at such Schools or Colledges until you think that you are Artists and are sufficient for to preach to People then you get an Order to Preach And so you come from those Schools into the Country and inquire where there is a vacant place where there is no Ministers and then you endeavour to get that place for to Preach at if you like their Wages but if not then you inquire for to get a better place where there is most Tythes or Money which is worth so much by the Year and this is your Call to your Ministry But the true Ministers of Christ were never called nor made Ministers after such a way and manner as yours is And is not this way of yours in being made Ministers like unto a man that binds his Son to be an Apprentice with a Trades-man for several Years to learn him his Trade and gives him so much Money for so doing when his time is expiered his Master gives him his Indentures and then he becomes a free man to set up his Trade and to trade for himself without any opposition But these Clergy-Men before mentioned exceed all the Trades-men in the World that have any Principle of Honesty ruling in them for when an honest Trades-man sells his Commodity he delivers it to them or some for them that buys it and pays for it But these Covetous Clergy-Men aforesaid sell their Sermons for Tythes or Money or both and keeps them still and do not deliver them to those that pay for them And when they have a mind to go to another Town to Preach they may have some of their old Sermons still for to preach to that people and if that people do not give them any Money for that Sermon yet notwithstanding they are paid for it by their own Hearers which pay them so much every Year for their Preaching which may amount to ten Shillings or more for every Sermon they preach throughout the whole year Did ever the Ministers of Christ do any such things as these And further where do you find or read in all the Scriptures that any of the Ministers of Christ took either Tythes or Money for their Preaching or went to Law with any sort of People and took away their Goods and Chattels and cast them into Prisons for not paying of them Tythes or Money for their Preaching as these ungodly covetous Clergy-Men have done unto as these many Years and still continues and goes on in these wicked ungodly Practices against us as is before mentioned And further where do ye find or read in all the Scriptures that any of the Ministers of Christ when they went to preach took a Text of other Mens Words and from those words raised Doctrines Reasons Motives Uses and Applications as you Clergy-Men do now And further where do you find or read in all the Scriptures that any of the Ministers of Christ baptized Infants and had Sureties to stand up for them and to promise that they shall forsake the Devil and all his Works the vain Pomp and Glory of the World with all Covetous Desires of the same the Carnal Desires of the Flesh so that they will not follow nor be led by them And all this the Witnesses promise in the behalf of that Child or Children that they stand up for and when the Priest asketh those Witnesses whether they do forsake the Devil and all