Selected quad for the lemma: grace_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
grace_n	appear_v	teach_v	ungodliness_n	2,521	5	11.6887	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A54228	A testimony to the truth of God, as held by the people, called, Quakers being a short vindication of them, from the abuses and misrepresentations often put upon them by envious apostates, and mercenary adversaries.	Penn, William, 1644-1718.	1699 (1699)	Wing P1380; ESTC R220497	18,332	56

his Worship Whereas nothing can be more absurd since without it no Man can truly call Jesus Lord Besides it is our Duty to wait upon him who hath promised not to compel but fill them with Renewings of Strength that so wait upon him by which they are made capable to Worship him acceptably be it in Prayer Preaching or Praising of God And how warrantable our Practice herein is from Holy Scripture see Psal 25. 5. 37. 7. 27. 14. 130. 5 6. Hosea 12. 6. XIII Of God and Christ's being in Man BEcause we say as doth the Holy Scriptures that God is Light and that Christ is Light and that God is in Christ and that Christ by his Light lighteth every Man that cometh into the World and dwelleth in them and with them that obey him in his Inward and Spiritual Manifestations People have been told by our Adversaries that we believe every Man has whole God and whole Christ in him and consequently so many Gods and Christs as Men Whereas we assert nothing herein but in the Language of the Holy Ghost in the Scriptures of Truth and Mean no more by it than that as God is in Christ so Christ by his Spirit and Light dwelleth in the Hearts of his People to comfort and consolate them as he doth in wicked Men to reprove and condemn them as well as to call enlighten and instruct them that out of that state of Condemnation they may come and by believing in him may Experience their Hearts cured of the Maladies Sin hath brought upon them in order to compleat Salvation from Sin here and from Wrath to come hereafter 2 Cor. 5. 9. 1 Joh. 1. 5. XIV Of Christ's coming both in Flesh and Spirit BEcause the Tendency generally speaking of our Ministry is to press People to the Inward and Spiritual Appearance of Christ by his Spirit and Grace in their Hearts to give them a true Sight and Sence of and Sorrow for Sin to amendment of Life and Practice of Holiness And because we have often opposed that Doctrine of being actually Justified by the Merits of Christ whilst actual Sinners against God by living in the Pollutions of this wicked World We are by our Adversaries render'd such as either deny or undervalue the coming of Christ without us and the Force and Efficacy of his Death and Sufferings as a Propitiation for the Sins of the whole World Whereas we do and hope we ever shall as we always did confess to the Glory of God the Father and the Honour of his dear and beloved Son that he to wit Jesus Christ took our Nature upon him was like us in all things Sin excepted That he was born of the Virgin Mary went about amongst Men doing Good and working many Miracles That he was betrayed by Judas into the Hands of the chief Priests c. That he suffered Death under Pontius Pilate the Roman Governour being Crucified between two Thieves and was buried in the Sepulchre of Joseph of Arimathea Rose again the third day from the Dead and ascended into Heaven and sits at God's Right Hand in the Power and Majesty of his Father and that by him God the Father will one day judge the whole World both of Quick and Dead according to their Works But because we so believe must we not believe that Christ said He that dwelleth with you shall be in you John 14. I in them and they in me c. Chap. 17. When it pleased God to reveal his Son in me Gal. 1. The Mystery hid from Ages is Christ in the Gentiles the hope of Glory Col. 1. Unless Christ be in you you are Reprobates 2 Cor. 13. Or must we be industriously represented Deniers of Christ's Coming in the Flesh and the Holy Ends of it in all the Parts and Branches of his Doing and Suffering because we believe and press the Necessity of Receiving and Obeying his Inward and Spiritual Appearance and Manifestation of himself through his Light Grace and Spirit in the Hearts and Consciences of Men and Women to Reprove Convict Convert and Change them This we esteem hard and unrighteous Measure nor would our warm and sharp Adversaries be so dealt with by others But to do as they would be done to is too often no part of their Practice Yet we are very ready to declare to the whole World that we cannot think Men and Women can be saved by their belief of the One without the Sense and Experience of the Other and that is what we oppose and not his Blessed Manifestation in the Flesh We say that he then overcame our Common Enemy foiled him in the open Field and in our Nature triumphed over him that had overcome and triumphed over it in our Fore-Father Adam and his Posterity And that as truly as Christ overcame him in our Nature in his own Person so by his Divine Grace being received and obeyed by us he overcomes Satan in us That is he detects the Enemy by his Light in the Conscience and enables the Creature to resist him and all his Fiery Darts and finally so to Fight the Good Fight of Faith as to overcome him and lay hold on Eternal Life And this is the Dispensation of Grace which we declare has appeared to all more or less teaching those that will receive it to deny ungodliness and worldly lust and to live soberly righteously and godly in this present World looking for which none else can justly do the blessed Hope and glorious Appearing of the Great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ c. Tit. 2. 11 12 13. And as from the Teachings Experience and Motion of this Grace we minister to others so the very drift of our Ministry is to turn Peoples Minds to this Grace in themselves that they may all come to do even the good and acceptable Will of God and work out their Salvation with fear and trembling and make their High and Heavenly Calling and Election sure which none else can do whatever be their Profession Church and Character For such as Men sow they must reap and his Servants we are whom we obey Regeneration we must know or we cannot be Children of God and Heirs of Eternal Glory And to be Born again an other Spirit and Principle must prevail to leaven season and govern us than either the Spirit of the World or our own depraved Spirits and this can be no other Spirit than that which dwelt in Christ for unless that dwell in us we can be none of his Rom. 8. 9. And this Spirit begins in Conviction and ends in Conversion and Perseverance And the one follows the other Conversion being the Consequence of Conviction obey'd and Perseverance a natural Fruit of Conversion and of being Born of God For such Sin not because the Seed of God abides in them 1 John 3. 7 8 9. but through Faithfulness continue to the end and obtain the Promise even Everlasting Life But we do acknowledge that Christ through his Holy Doing and