Selected quad for the lemma: duty_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
duty_n	commandment_n	law_n	moral_a	2,159	5	9.3779	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A43749	A testimony to the true Jesus and the faith of him wherein the way of the people called Quakers is in meekness and righteousness summed and weighed, first in a general examen of their spirit and chief principles, after in a particular review of the same as it is distinctly set forth in a book of theirs, called, Love to the Lost : wherein are many things useful for the discerning of spirits in this hour of darkness and temptation / by T. Higgenson.	Higgenson, Thomas.	1656 (1656)	Wing H1950; ESTC R31109	71,988	85

him gave place to more evangelical manifestations of him as a Saviour of sinners the Covenant is heaven compleatness in the Head began to be more opened and the People came to Mount Sion as the children of the free-woman as saved already in the Lord and set up above all things in him This Grace and Liberty in Christ being by some turned into wantonness and liberty in the flesh by very many into dispute and contention about the letter and form has given occasion to the old Spirit to enter again into the house new swept and garnished that is the Law-working spirit denying the blessed Attonement and Righteousness as already in the Head the Person of Christ in zeal to another Attonement and Righteousness by obedience to the Light within which mystery of iniquity works more secretly in the Churches who too much press and praise a certain perfection by their rule and order but more manifestly in the people called Quakers of both whom it may be said whilst their first light and love liberty and perfection in Christ the Head was turned into strife about the letter and bitings of one another by the first they are in danger to be consumed and destroyed by the last a people indeed that have shew like a Lamb but speak like a Dragon devouring words to destroy both old and young not sparing the flock whom nothing sufficeth as to me yet appears but to tear out of our faith knowledge and profession the bloud of attonement redemption and reconciliation by that one Sacrifice offered once and for ever to blot out of our hearts the name remembrance the light and joy thereof till no other Redemption nor liberty be known but by a pretended divinity or light within working it in us through our perfect obedience thereunto which his true sense is to say the vail is yet spread the Law yet is standing the Lamb is to be slain all things continue as they were from the beginning ye are yet in your sins till by obedience to the light within you be redeemed The glorious Rest and Liberty in Christ the Head as it is the light of our eyes the girdle of our loyns to conduct and defend us from the mists and darts whether proceeding from the Law Philosophy or Satanical mystery so if once we suffer our selves to be spoiled of them our strength is departed and our eyes put out and we betraid unto every Fox out of the hole and Boar out of the wood unto every confusion distemper or deceit which may come amongst us therefore stand fast in the Liberty wherewith Christ hath made you free that Liberty in him which is in being as to the Spirit when in you are felt nothing but buffetings and streights as in the flesh thus these departures from the faith have been as a door set open the one to let in upon us the o●d spirit of tyranny upon our bodies the ther of legality upon our spirits and the darkness and rebuke that is upon us is very great The Christ that dyed at Jerusalem how far acknowledged and how far denied by this people to be the Redeemer THis leads me to two Questions of weightiest consideration as to this people 1. Whether they deny the Christ that dyed at Jerusalem to be the Redeemer 2. Whether they establish a Righteousness by the Law As to the first how far they affirm or deny I shall give that just judgement and therein do them that right I desire they may do unto me That Christ became flesh was made in the likeness of men therein humbled himself and became obedient to death that he might become a living example to all generations of perfection thus far they affirm and have a zeal for Christ that in that body of his flesh through that obedience to death he crucified our old man purged away sin made reconciliation for iniquity and perfected for ever all that are sanctified this they deny as to me it appears and the faith thereof The Gospel has in it morality and mystery the morality of it is this that Christ came forth from God a man holy and innocent obedient in all things to the light or will of God and left that obedience for an example unto others this sets forth Christ onely as a Law-giver as one who came to give a Law more divine and perfect than others before him had done and as thus he is known by this people and set forth by their words and writings The mystery is this that Christ the righteous the blessed and Lord of the Law was made for us sin a curse and under the Law that was we who beleive being the unjust the cursed and under the Law are made in him the righteousness of God the blessed and no more under the Law The Gospel as a Commandment and peice of morality may be read and beleived by every man and so was taught by the Popish School men and is at this day by such Ministers as are more zealous for duty than grace the Gospel as a mystery or free gift can onely be known to whom it is given and so is clearly known and sincerely and worthily preached not by many obedience to moral Principles is the divinity of Pagans to the Law of Moses the divinity of the Jews to the preceptive part of the Gospel of Jesuites and Papists to the Light within of the so called Quakers these indeed excel one another as to Notion and Rule but they agree all in one as to principle or bottom that is that work or obedience to some law or rule is the way to redemption perfection and God the sum of all is this a Jesus in flesh as a Preacher of perfection also as dying for an example to us they beleive and teach the Jesus that dyed and therein by bloud and spirit perfected us for ever in himself they deny they know not whosoever deny the bloud of attonement in the death of Christ know not the Son not the Father in him nor the grace in his bosom nor our glory in him and to all such in some bowels of compassion I say you may walk a while during your hour in the light of your fire and warm your selves in the sparks you have kindled conceits of approaching perfection and the glory of God by a righteousness and cross set up in your flesh but you shall not be able to stand before God and the Lamb in the day of his appearing whose bloud whose travels whose sacrifice on the Cross is of no more account with you Whether this people build up a righteousness by the Law THe other Question is resolved in this onely for fuller satisfaction it may be weighed by it self The Law and Prophets testifified of Christ and continued till he came who fulfilled all that was written therein even the righteousness of the Law whereby he was justified according to the Law and so it is said he was a Minister of the Curcumcision being made thus under