Selected quad for the lemma: doctrine_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
doctrine_n	concern_v	faith_n	justification_n	2,843	5	9.2516	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A35136	Truth's principles: or, Those things about doctrine and worship, which are most surely believed and received amongst the people of God, called Quakers viz. concerning the man Christ, his sufferings, death, resurrection, faith in his blood, the imputation of his righteousness, sanctification, justification &c. Written, to stop the mouth of clamour, and to inform all who desire to know the truth as it is in Jesus; by the servant of the Lord, John Crook. To which is added, somewhat concerning the difference between the perswasions of reason, and the perswasions of faith.	Crook, John, 1617-1699.; Penington, Isaac, 1616-1679.	1662 (1662)	Wing C7217; ESTC R204876	16,180	24

Truth 's Principles OR Those Things about DOCTRINE and WORSHIP which are most surely believed and received amongst the People of GOD called QUAKERS VIZ. Concerning the Man CHRIST his Sufferings Death Resurrection Faith in his Blood the imputation of his Righteousness Sanctification Justification c. Written to stop the mouth of Clamour and to inform all who desire to know the Truth as it is in Jesus By the Servant of the Lord John Crook To which is added Somewhat Concerning the Difference between the Perswasions of REASON and the Perswasions of FAITH LONDON Printed in the Year 1662. TRUTH' 's PRINCIPLES OR Those things about Doctrine and Worship which are most surely believed and received amongst the People of God called QUAKERS MAny are the Reports that are abroad concerning this People not only as to their Practices and Deportments but also as to their Doctrines and Beliefs The former time having in a great measure resolved and worn out as being the refuge of lyes for the ignorant and unrighteous to fly unto but that stormy and wintry appearance is well nigh over and gone because the Sun is so far risen and the true Light so shineth that most begin to see that those reports were but lyes and scandals raised as Fig-leaves to cover the nakedness of other Professions that begun so manifestly to appear through the Light that shined in these Peoples Lives and Conversations But though the first be gone yet the latter still sticks with many as not knowing what they hold as to Doctrine some saying they deny the Scripture and the Resurrection of the body and all Ordinances with the Man Christ and his Death and Sufferings and imputation of his Righteousness and faith in his Blood c. Wherefore for the satisfaction of all that would willingly be resolved and know the Truth as it is in Jesus I have written this short Account of their Faith and Belief and if it were possible to stop the mouth of clamorous tongues before Sentence be given against them by some signal stroke of the Lord from Heaven which he will undoubtedly in his appointed time reveal and make manifest to the trembling of all hearts concerned therein and tingling of all ears that shall hear thereof when it shall be said to them The holy shall be holy still and be that is filthy let him be filthy still Rev. 22. 11. We believe that the God of all Grace hath given a measure of Grace or some manifestation of his Spirit and Light thereof unto all men according unto these Scriptures John 1. 9. Tit. 2. 11. 1 Cor. 12. 7. Nehem. 9. 20. and experiences of all men who at some time or other do feel something in their Hearts and Consciences that doth lust against the flesh and the flesh against it and that these two are contrary the one to the other one lusting after evil which is evil and the other after good which is good the one carnal the other spiritual the one from the Earth the other from Heaven Gal. 5. 16 17. We believe By this Gift Grace and Inspiration of the Almighty man only can come to know the true God truly What he is and how he works in the Hearts and Consciences of People to regenerate them and make them bear his Image according unto 1 Cor. 1. 19 20 21. Luke 10. 21. and experiences of all that ever were regenerate and born again We believe that all the Errors and mistakes about God and the things relating to his Kingdom sprang and arose from mens wandring from this Gift of God into their own Imaginations whereby though they thought themselves wise yet they became fools and erred their foolish hearts being darkned according to Rom. 1. not knowing the Scriptures nor the Power of God as it is written Mat. 22. 29. We believe and know that this Gift and Grace of God appears in and unto all men that all may be without excuse accusing for the evil and excusing for the good according to Rom. 2. 15 16. shewing unto man what is good and reproving of him in his own Conscience for the evil whether thoughts words or deeds and that this reproof of Instruction is the way of Life Prov. 6. 23. We believe that as the true God and Eternal Life is known only by the light of this Gift and Grace according unto the Scriptures from which Light and Spirit of God came the Scriptures both of the Old and New Testament as it is written 2 Pet. 1. 21. so can they only be read as truly to be believed fulfilled and practised in the Light and Power of the same and all that are out of this Spirit must needs be ignorant and unlearned in the Apostle's sense who wrest the Scriptures to their own destruction as it is written for Peter and John were unlearned men outwardly not knowing letters but inwardly read in the knowledge of this Light and Spirit of God and wrested not the SCRIPTURES Acts 4. 13. 2 Pet. 3. 16. We believe according to the Scriptures 2 Cor. 4. 3. that wheresoever the Power of God is not known within there the Gospel is hid and unknown unto them that are lost in whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them that believe not lest the Light of the glorious Gospel of Christ who is the Image of God should shine unto them and God should heal them because it is only by the Light of Christ the Power of God that the Creature comes truly to see himself in his lost and undone estate from which sight ariseth the true sence in the heart of the Creature that makes him cry out of his wretchedness by reason of the body of sin and death which necessitates him to look out for a Saviour whom God manifesteth in and by the same Light that shines in the heart on purpose to give the light of the knowledge of the Glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ God's Image whereby God healeth the soul And therefore doth the Devil the god of the world strive so much by the gifts of the pleasures profits vanities and lusts that are in the world which he presenteth to men and women now as he did to Christ in the dayes of his flesh when he shewed to him all the world with its glory which glory is the lust of the flesh the lust of the eye and the pride of life what-ever may make this life happy as it were in the things that may pride it or lift it up to sit as Queen And as men and women take and receive these gifts from the god of this world their minds are blinded because they believe not in the Light which sheweth them the vanities of all the gifts of the god of this world which gifts the Devil knows if they be received will so blind the minds of them that receive them that they will not come to be sensible in the true Light of their lost conditions so as to cry unto God