Selected quad for the lemma: faith_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
faith_n	evil_a	good_a	tree_n	6,434	5	10.3457	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A65908	The doctrine of perfection vindicated by way of answer to some objecting reasons frequently used by them that plead for sin in this life ... with some wholesome exhortation ... shewing plainly how it is agreeable with what is signified in the Scripture and the light within ... : something likeways expressed concerning bread and wine : also some wholsome directions to stir up young people to seek after their Creator in the days of their youth / written by one who breathes to God for the redemption of the seed that lies yet in the house of bondage bound by the cords of iniquity, J.W.	Whitehouse, John, fl. 1662-1663.	1663 (1663)	Wing W1984; ESTC R33637	36,477	48

mixture into the Cup of his Indignation and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy Angels and of the Lamb of God who would have taken away their sin by his Light of Life but they would not believe therein Joh. 3.19 but loved the darkness rather because their deeds were evil but blessed are they that believe therein and follow it for it 's they only that die in the Lord and rest from their labour and their works do follow them saith the Spirit Revel 14.13 But now to the thing before-mentioned It 's plainly manifest that the Doctrine of Perfection is of God commanded by him and preached by his Son whom the Prophets prophesied should come to that end and witnessed by his Apostles and Ministers who have left in the Scriptures of Truth their Testimony concerning the same which as a Cloud of Witnesses doth testifie for and to the same far exceeding more than I have here mentioned By all which it appears that your Ministers are not of Christ notwithstanding all their wisdom and learning but contrary to him and his Ministers Isa 40.3 and the true Prophets who foretold of Him and the glory of his Day Therefore the conclusion must needs be They are of the false Prophets spirit and consequently of Antichrist wherefore I shall mention a little according to Scripture how they are one in this very thing with the false Prophets and Antichristian Seducers which were in the world in the Apostles days and which they prophesied should come in the latter days after their decease Now in the first place in the dayes of old God by the mouth of his Servants cryed against false Prophets and Priests who were from the greatest to the least all given to covetousness every one dealing falsly Jer. 23.14 17. Micah 3.5 13. Ezek. 10.11 12 13 14 15 16 in healing the hurt of the danghter of his People slightly crying peace to those that put into their mouth when there was no peace So they strengthned the hands of the wicked that they should not turn from their evil wayes but promised them life therein and so seduced the people and caused them to erre by their lyes and by their lightness one building a wall and another daubed it with untempered mortar which would not stand in the overflowing shower of the Wrath of God So in like manner your Teachers through covetousness and self-ends have spoken smoothly to you telling you of the Mercy of God 2 Pet. 2● through which your sins should be forgiven you though you lived in them and with the Serpent's voice have said though you eat of the forbidden fruit which is sin yet ye shall not die so here in your unsound conditions even like a rotten wall they have daubed you with untempered mortar which will not stand you in any stead when the Lord by his pure Light in your Consciences comes to search you with Judgment then your daubing will not hide you from the Wrath of the Lamb no no then all their smooth words and untempered doctrine which they have invented to please you for self-ends telling you of Heaven what a happy glorious place it is wil all flie away from you and them also who have led you in blindness and have caused you to erre from the Voice of God to follow the voice of the Serpent who led man into sin and so blinded his mind that he might cause him never to find the way to God again which is a way of Holiness in which the unclean cannot walk So I say if you will not come out from amongst them and be separated from the unclean thing which is sin and own and receive the Light of Christ that it may search all your wounds and putrifying sores from the crown of your heads to the soals of your feet that so he may wash you thorowly and baptize you with fire and burn up all that is contrary to his pure Life in you I say except this you come to and witness with you blind guides you must fall into the ditch Now I shall come to speak a little of the Deceivers which Christ and the Apostles spoke of in their dayes First Christ said 1 Joh. 3.8 Beware of false Prophets which come unto you in sheeps clothing but inwardly are ravening wolves ye shall know them by their fruits Now we know that sin is a mark of the Devil or a fruit of an evil tree likewise Perfection is a mark of God for he is perfect and it 's the fruit of a good tree so they who are in sin and plead it for doctrine that they can never be out of it whilst in this life are the evil trees because they bring forth such fruit as this which a good tree cannot bring forth Also Paul said that the Spirit spake expresly that in the latter times some should depart from the Faith 1 Tim. 4.1 giving heed to seducing spirits and doctrines of Devils speaking lyes in hypocrisie having their consciences seared with a hot iron Now mark Is not this the doctrine of the Devil that though men live in sin they shall not be damned but shall escape the condemning power thereof did not the Devil himself preach this first Gen. 3.4 when he said Ye shall not surely dye though you eat of the forbidden tree and are not they who maintain this for truth those whose consciences are seared and hardned against the Voice of God even to speak lyes in hypocrisie against his Spirit which condemns sin in the flesh And also he further saith this 2 Tim. 3.1 2 c. Know that in the last dayes perilous times shall come for men shall be lovers of their own selves covetous boasters proud blasphemers false accusers without natural affection truce-breakers fierce despisers of those that are good heady traiterous high-minded lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God having a form of Godliness but denying the power thereof Now of this sort are they that creep into houses leading captive silly women laden with sin led away with divers lusts ever learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth Now it seems that these proud covetous high-minded men who were fierce despisers of those that are good had a form of Godliness like many now who deny the power thereof even as those did for the power of God or of Godliness makes all those that have it free from the power of the Devil whose power leads man captive at his will doing his work which is sin which all who have the form and not the power are servants to for he that commits sin is the servant of sin Joh. 8.34 and he that serves it the Devil is his master Rom. 6.16 for his servants ye are to whom ye obey and he that serves him cannot serve Christ nor is a Child of God for ye cannot serve God and mammon neither two masters saith