Selected quad for the lemma: city_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
city_n	day_n	great_a	part_n	5,328	4	4.0128	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A41496	Moses made angry, or, A letter written and sent to Dr. Hill, master of Trinity Colledg in Cambridg upon occasion of some hard passages that fell from him in a sermon preached at Pauls, May 4, 1651 / by John Goodwin.	Goodwin, John, 1594?-1665.	1651 (1651)	Wing G1182; ESTC R37400	8,761	14

Moses made Angry OR A LETTER WRITTEN and SENT To Dr Hill Master of Trinity Colledg in CAMBRIDG Upon occasion of some hard Passages that fell from him in a SERMON preached at Pauls May 4. 1651. By John Goodwin Them that sin de Presbyteris hoc dictum accipio Calvin rebuke before all that others also may fear 1 Tim. 5. 20. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 It is hard for thee to kick against the pricks Acts 9. 5. Obsequium amicos Veritas odium parit Paradoxa quidem plurima quae non paraloga Si accusásse sufficiat quis erit innocens London Printed by J. M. for Henry Cripps and Lodowick Lloyd and are to be sold at their shop in Popes-head Alley neer Lumbard street 1651. Mr Doctor Hill I Understand by several that were your Hearers the last Lords day and these not of the weakest or least intelligent of them that in your Sermon at Pauls before the Lord Major and Aldermen of this City with many others you were pleased to vent your self with much unseemliness of Passion which gave great offence to the sober and most considerate part of your Auditory against certain Opinions which through the violence I in Charity presume of the distemper then upon you you so far forgat your self as to call Pelagian and Arminian and that in the heat of your Discourse upon this Theam you reflected in words of much bitterness and with height of indignation upon a Book lately published which as my Intelligence beareth you either plainly said or insinuated maintains the said Opinions That by this Book you meant that intituled Redemption Redeemed your Auditory generally conceived and your self I presume will not deny Sir you are a Gentleman to whom I never to the best of my knowledg gave the least offence if unwittingly I have done it I am ready to make you all Christian satisfaction For your parts of learning and knowledg according to what grounds I had to make an estimate of them I proportionably honored you and much more because as I always conceived until now you chiefly employed them about that most honorable and worthy work of propagating the Glorious Gospel of God in the World That testimony also and report which from many hands time after time I received concerning your Moralities goodness of spirit blamelessness of conversation c. much advanced my esteem of you Notwithstanding had you poured shame and contempt upon my head alone had you ground to powder onely me and my Name you might have done it without trouble or inconvenience to your self at least from me such Millars in black clothing I meet with dayly and let them pass quietly by me But in as much as you have magnified your self in your wrath and height of spirit against the Truth yea several of the first-born and most important Truths of the living God it will neither stand with that loyalty of obedience which I owe unto the Command of God imposed on me in that behalf nor with that love which I owe unto your self as a Christian Brother to suffer such a sin to rest upon you The Lord God Almighty before whom I stand knoweth that I delight not in Contests with men I am all desires made for peace with all men and for a quiet and retired pilgrimage on Earth So that whensoever I contend with any man I sacrifice the darling-disposition of my Soul upon the service of the Truth Nor shall any man approve himself more easie to be entreated upon any equitable yea or tolerable account or more willing to receive satisfaction from him that hath offended him then I. Therefore Sir I beseech you trouble not dishonor not your self either with seeking out or with pretending to finde any other construction meaning or intent of this Address unto you then as a simple plain-hearted and right-christian Application of my self to vindicate the just right and claim of the dearly beloved of my Soul and I trust of yours also Truth First therefore whereas you were pleased to take that undue liberty of Conscience as to affirm That the said Book against which you so publickly inveighed before you had I fear privately surveyed it or that the Doctrines or Opinions maintained therein advance carnal Reason into the Throne of God or words to like effect be pleased to understand that this was an assertion proceeding either from ignorance and this extreamly palpable and gross or else from an itching humor to asperse and defame though never so untruly both which are very evill Oracles for a Minister of the Gospel to consult about his Pulpit affairs And Sir I judg that I may very Christianly expect from you that either you produce some passage from the said Book wherein carnal Reason is so magnified as you affirmed which I am certain you cannot do or else that you make an ingenuous and free acknowledgement that at this turn you lost your way of dealing Christianly That Reason the use exercise and service whereof the Preface of that Book requireth of all men in and about matters of Religion is not carnal Reason if by carnal you mean sensual worldly blinde corrupt or the like but that Candle or Lamp of the Lord as Solomon calleth it Prov. 20. 27. that spiritual or inward Light which God himself hath planted in the Souls of men by which they are made able though not always willing to search out discover and discern many worthy Truths as well concerning God himself as that he is that he is good wise just powerful c. as in other things It is not by carnal Reason i. e. by Reason as it is made or becomes carnal through the wilful negligence and sinfulness of men that men by the force and help of it come to discover that there is a God or that this God is Good Just c. the carnality that cleaves to it is a cumber and hinderance to it in such actings and workings as these but it is by Reason as retaining that of God in it or such impressions of divine Light whereby notwithstanding much enfeeblement and dimness contracted by the irregularities of men in sundry kindes it is yet able and in some capacity to discover and judg of many such worthy Truths as those mentioned Nor doth the said Preface ascribe this ability or capacity we speak of unto Reason simply considered or as bare or meer Reason much less as carnal Reason but as super-intended influenced and supported in and about her movings and actings by the Spirit of God himself Which Spirit of God seldom or never withdraweth himself in his super-intendency over the Reasons and Understandings of men to such a degree but that they are still preserved in some capacity of searching after finding out and discerning aright the things of their eternal Peace I mean things essentially requisite hereunto until after much and long abuse of his gracious presence and treatings with them by walking stubbornly against that Light of the Truth wherewith he