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cause_n	child_n	good_a	parent_n	1,888	5	8.6795	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A47191	Truths defence, or, The pretended examination by John Alexander of Leith of the principles of those (called Quakers) falsly termed by him Jesuitico-Quakerism, re-examined and confuted : together with some animadversions on the dedication of his book to Sir Robert Clayton, then Mayor of London / by G.K.	Keith, George, 1639?-1716.	1682 (1682)	Wing K225; ESTC R22871	109,893	242

or Thanksgiving nor any use of the Word of God but that which is Vocal and External Do we not Read of the Prayer of the Heart in Scripture and also of Singing and making Melody in the heart unto the Lord as well as with the Mouth Or doth I. A. think that brutes can do this as well as we that he compares our Eating and Drinking altogether to that of Brutes However for the satisfaction of those that are sober I futher declare that we hold it our duty and I hope we can say it is our aim and endeavour in all our Eating and Drinking and in the receiving all the Mercies of God both Spiritual and Temporal to reeeive them with Prayer and Thanksgiving either both Mental and Vocal or at least Mental which we know is aceepted of God if in sincerity when the Vocal is not used And they who Pray or seem to Pray with their Lips and Voices when their Hearts are far away as it is too much the general manner and custom of people their Eating and Drinking is worse than that of Brutes which sin not when they Eat as all wicked persons do But I ask I. A. doth he use Vocal and External Prayer and Thanksgiving always when he receives any of the Creatures of God as in the use of Tobacco or Tasting a little Wine or Ale occasionally in a Tavern or when walking in an Orchard is his Conscience so scrupulous that he cannot Taste an Aple but he must use Vocal Prayer I suppose he is not so scrupulous And doth not I. A. know that there is not one moment of our Life but we are still receiving the Creatures of God seeing every breathing or receiving in of the Air is a renewed Mercy and Ble●ing of God with many others continually added unto us And yet the Lord doth not continually require Vocal Prayer in the continual use of t●ose Mercies And here I shall propose a few plain Questions for I. A. to Answer upon this whole matter 1. Whether one that sincerely useth Prayer and Thanksgiving in his ●●art before he Eateth and Drinketh and in his Eating and Drinking and at a●● other times laboureth to have his heart exercised in the ●ear of God although at times he use not Vocal Prayer before and after Meat is not more unlike to a Brute and more indeed a true Christian than he who knoweth not what it is to fear God or Pray to God sincerely in his heart at any time yet always at Meal-times useth a form of dead and lifeless words before and after Meat 2. Whether to Pray without the Spirit and without sincerity of heart be not a transgressing of the first second and third Commandments 3. Whether that Doctrine which teacheth men to Pray spiritless and hypocritical Prayers doth not oppose these three Commandments Further I. A. doth alledge that we do openly impugne the fourth Commandment in one of the following Queries unto which place he referreth the Controversy To 〈◊〉 I Answer and so he might all the rest without prepossessing his Reader with prejudice against us until he had heard the whole matter more amply discussed Our opposing the fifth Commandment he instanceth in not taking off our Hats and bowing the body in Salutations But seeing the fifth Commandment mentioneth no such form of Honour nor doth he deduce it by any just consequence therefrom It is as easily denyed by us as affirmed by him Nor doth it follow as he alledgeth that because we are to obey ehe fifth Commandment with our Bodies as well as with our Souls that therefore we are to take off our Hats in giving that honour to Parents for the Iews to whom that command was particularly given used no such form of honor or respect And as for bowing the Body although it was practised under the Law yet we find it forbidden under the Gospel as in the case of Cornelius bowing to Peter And in the New Testament we read of no bowing that is lawful but that which is at the Name of Jesus and of God Almighty Again whereas he alledgeth that from the words of Christ Iohn 5. 44. We Impugne the very letter of the fifth Commandment and declare that no manner of Civil Reverence or regard is to be given to any man I Answer this is a false Charge like unto the rest for we deny not that there is a civil regard and honour that is due unto all men in their respective degrees which is also to be signified and practised with a suitable outward behaviour of the body and may very well be without either uncovering the Head or bowing the Knee such as to rise up before the Hoary-Head or those that are our Superiours also to stand before them to speak humbly or be silent unless when required or liberty is given also to havean humble Aspect or regard of the Eye and Face towards them to give the Hand if required to be ready at a beck to Answer their Call and to walk and run to serve them in what is requisite these and many such instances of External Honour and respect may Children lawfully practice to their Parents and Inferiors to their Superiors without either bowing the Knee or taking off the Hat But certainly these words of Christ Ioh. 5. 44. Condemn all false honour which the spirit of the World hath invented And such we have good cause to hold the uncovering of the Head to men until I. A. can produce a better Original for it Lastly His instances of our opposing the sixth and ninth Commandments seeing they are but Allegations I pass them And thus I have gone through all that I saw requisite in his Preface to answer which may occasion me to be the more brief in the things that follow where most of the same things do again occurr CHAP. II. ANd here I give the Reader to know that this pretended Examination of I. A. is in Answer to 17 Queries which he saith came to him subscribed by I. S. But I believe I. S. never did Subscribe those Queries nor was he Author of them but some of our Friends in England however it is possible that through a mistake some had put the said Letters unto them And though I. A. seemeth not a little offended that these Queries should be directed for one or all of the Ministers in Scotland to Answer as if such a direction did argue both the Arrogance and weakness of the Authors yet I do not believe that they all can Answer them sufficiently holding to Scripture without renouncing their former Principles in great part Far less is this pretended Examination of I. A. any sufficient Answer unto them as the sequel I hope shall make appear In his Survey or Examination of the first Query he alledgeth That the Questionist doth pervert the whole state of the Question For saith he who ever heard that the Church of Scotland or any other Church made humane Arts and Sciences an Infallible Rule to make a