Selected quad for the lemma: glory_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
glory_n	knowledge_n	light_n	shine_v	6,882	5	9.8263	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A34987	A backslider reproved and his folly made manifest and his confusions and contradictions discovered in a short reply to a book lately published by Robert Cobbet called A word to the upright, who being turned from the light now makes it his work to war against it and them that walk in it; but his weapons are broken and in his own snare is he taken / written for the Truths sake by a servant thereof known by the name Stephen Crisp ; unto which is added a brief answer to a pamphelet [sic] stiled A brief discovery of the labourers in mystery Babylon.	Crisp, Stephen, 1628-1692.; Atkinson, Elizabeth. Breif and plain discovery of the labourers in mistery, Babilon, generally called by the name of Quakers.; Travers, Anne. Harlots vail rent and her impudency rebuked.; Coleman, Elisabeth. Harlots vail rent and her impudency rebuked.	1669 (1669)	Wing C6925; ESTC R29284	17,630	26

Quakers because she is turned treacherously against them in a light airy spirit with a parcel of fained expressions this were unjust in them as well as in her It were a great wickedness for any to accuse the true Prophets or Apostles because of the false Prophets and false Apostles that rose up against them who turned from the Counsel of God and Truth And it is as wicked in E. A. to accuse the people of God now because probably she knows of some disorderly persons that walk not according to the Principle and Doctrine of Godliness which we have received as it 's probable she being false and perfidious her self might have more knowledge of or intimacy with such disobedient and disorderly Spirits and Walkers than some of us have But however her accusation being general it 's most unjust and impudent For first We are not onely principled against all wickedness filthiness and abominations as that of Cheating using Deceit and Adultery with all other wickedness which we Judge and Testifie against both in the spirit and practice and such as are guilty c. But secondly We also endeavour as much as in us lieth to clear the Truth and Gods people of all such scandals and of all such as give any occasion thereof by bringing just Reproof and Judgement upon the Offenders and endeavouring to suppress and cast out that loose disobedient and unclean mind and spirit which either doth tempt or lead any into disorders or wickedness So that indeed a modest woman or person would have been ashamed to publish such a general Charge of wickedness and impiety against us as thousands that are not of us know many of us to be both of better spirits and principles than in the least to countenance or admit of such gross wickedness as Cheating or Adultery under which she has included many innocent persons for her words Those that practised Honesty and those that were contented with their own Wives c. are general terms and may be construed that all amongst us that were so are now contrary for here is no exception made Who but an impudent person would thus grosly and slanderously have endeavoured to have defamed a people whom she confesses to have walked nine years amongst wherein she has brought Reproach upon her self And now E. A. what hast thou against our principles more than that thou tellst us That we preached a Light within that shewed you good and evil and that thou knew was in thee So herein thou knew the Truth was preached amongst us And that we said if you would mind that it would lead you out of all evil Thus sayest thou we set you to feed upon the Tree of Knowledge which indeed was good but not for food but the subtile twining Serpent called it the Tree of Life thou sayest Thus by hearkening unto them wast thou deluded and blinded to forsake thy first Love c. Thus like a silly ignorant Woman perverted with prejudice hast thou blasphemously accused the Light as being but the Tree of Knowledge and perverted the Truth which directed thee to it as being but the subtilty and delusion of the Serpent and yet thou knows such a Light was in thee as shewed thee Good and Evil which Light hadst thou lived and waited in it would have kept thee out of evil and backsliding which thou art fallen into It s shewing the evil was that thou mightest forsake sin and evil and not that thou mightest either feed upon it or upon the knowledge of the evil by partaking thereof Did not the Light give the Saints a discerning between Good and Evil And things that are reproved are manifested by the Light and the Light that did shine in their hearts gave them the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ 2 Cor. 4. and Christ said Believe in the Light that you may be the Children of the Light and this was not the Serpent that thus directed as blasphemously thy words import against the Light and the Ministry of Truth amongst us which directs to it But we need not say much in answer to such silly ignorant sottish blasphemous stuff as thou hast here uttered for like a drunken person thou hast reeled and staggered both ways and hast sufficiently answered and confuted thy self in what follows in thy own words on the behalf of the Light within As in page 2. thou sayst in the beginning God made the World by Christ the Word and the bright shining of his Life was the Light of Men and this Christ is indeed the true Light that enlightens every one that cometh into the World and by this Light Man knew the Will of his Maker but being disobedient thereunto he fell into the wrath of God c. Here take notice That the Life of Christ was the Light of Men and this was not the forbidden Fruit And secondly That every one that comes into the World is enlightened by Christ Thirdly That Mans disobedience to the Light was his Fall and this disobedience the Serpent led into therefore it is not the Serpent nor his delusion that directs people to the Light within as blasphemously and contradictorily thou hast implied Again Thou confessest that Christ came to be a Sacrifice for sin for the whole World if they will believe in him and that these things by the Light within are shewed to us By which thou hast justified the Quakers Doctrine though to thy own confusion And in p. 3. thou adds The Light within is but the manifestation of him that is the Saviour A large confession And must not people look to the manifestation of their Saviour or that which shews them Christ to be a Sacrifice for sin Again Thou sayest we deny the Fountain because we have had a little taste from the Stream and tells of the Plant being refresh'd by the beams of the Sun So here again thou hast falsly charged us but justified our Principle for in thy setting thy Light as the Stream and as the Sun-beams thou hast contradicted thy former accusation against it for they that follow the Stream do not deny the Fountain which it leads to neither is the vertue of the Sun denied where its Beams or Rays are felt and acknowledged for the Suns vertue and influence is felt in the Beams Again P. 4. thou confessest the Light within which shews good and evil to be a glance from him who came to be Salvation And also that we may refresh our thirsty Souls in the Stream but we must go unto the Fountain to be cleansed in the City of God c. So then if the Light within be this refreshing Stream it is not the Tree of knowledge forbidden neither are we forbidden to drink of the Stream for it comes from the Fountain and surely people may wash in the Stream And why dost thou suppose the Stream not to be in the City Whereas there is a River the Streams whereof make glad or refresh the City of