Selected quad for the lemma: grace_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
grace_n	covenant_n	deny_v	infant_n	2,377	5	9.5458	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A59696	Wine for Gospel wantons, or, Cautions against spirituall drunkenness being the brief notes of a sermon preached at Cambridge in New-England, upon a day of publick fasting and prayer throughout the colony / by that reverend servant of the Lord, Mr. Thomas Shepard, deceased.	Shepard, Thomas, 1605-1649.	1668 (1668)	Wing S3150; ESTC R38169	10,388	16

and unsetled souls not knowing what to do nor what side to take and abundance among them that any religion will serve their turn so long as their stakes may be setled and may be in peace and quiet 1. Some there be that are Antinomians that do deny the use of the Law to any that are in Christ to be any Rule of Life to them such are not under the Law but under Grace And hence it follows they will not take any comfort of their good estate from any conformity of their hearts to the Law of God nor from any Law of God written in their hearts for what have they to do with the Law for they are under Grace and they look to Grace onely and in truth are become Patrons of free vice under the mask of Free-grace And hence not being under the Law and having nothing to do with it their Consciences have their liberty and they will not take any discomfort from any sin against the Law of God or Rule broken for if not under the Law there is no sin and why should there be sorrow for any sin and these sort do now abound there You know they are the very things that did Leaven this poor Country for which the wrath of God hath broken out against the Patrons of it These very Delusions they have now their elbow-room to spread there and they spread far and wide 2. Others are Anabaptists and there is such swarms of them that they are like the Locusts they begin to eat up all the green grass in the Land Multitudes there be that are carried aside with them whom though in former times they had other marks whereby they were known yet now in these dayes they profess that they hold but one thing differing from the godly Orthodox viz. That they would not have any Children to be Baptized and so they make the condition of the Children of the Saints of God dear to God in as miserable an estate as the Children of any Turk or Pagan and but as lawful to Baptize them as a Cat or a Dog Now though they say they hold but this one thing yet it is impossible that they should hold this but there will be fourty others that will follow upon it As now they must of necessity hold That the Baptism of all the Churches of God is no Baptism and therefore must be done over again And again as they hold Churches are made by Baptism then if there be no new Baptism there is no true Churches and then no true Administration of any Ordinances of the Lord but they are all abominations in the sight of God and what that reacheth unto let wise men judge And if they deny the Seal they must deny the Covenant of Grace to Infants and so by consequence do undermine all hopes of posterity for time to come This where-ever it hath come it hath been a Troubler 3. Others are Rigid Separatists that refuse to hear an holy Minister preach or to communicate in their Assemblies because not altogether purified according to the purification of the Sanctuary hence forsaking Christ and his Servants before Christ forsake them their whole course full of Confusion and Scandal either edifying themselves by their own Gifts onely or chusing Unlearned Ministers abhorred in Bishops challenging a licentious liberty to speak and rule and do and not be ruled 4. Some are Seekers they deny all Churches Some that be risen up of late that think there be no Churches nor no Ministers nor Ordinances of God in any place of the world but they are in a seeking waiting condition for Apostles to be sent to make a Reformation and this spreads very far 5. There be others that think the Soul of Man is mortal and dies with the Body they Print this and speak thus and many are deceived by them Others think that they are both Mortal and that there is no Resurrection 6. Others there be that would give Liberty and Toleration to all Religions their colour is this No man should be punished for his Conscience and it is wonderful to think how this doth dazle the eyes of many men which for my own part as I believe any other Truth of God I do believe and judge it to be the foundation of all other Errours and Abominations in the Churches of God if it once be attended among any People of God It is a sad thing That that which was accounted of as the heavy plague of God among the people of Israel in the latter end of the Book of Iudges That every man did that which was right in his own eyes that it should now be accounted of as a blessed way of God which indeed is the heaviest Judgement of God upon a People or Nation Now is not here matter of Mourning to God for poor England that is left to be full of these Delusions If the Lord love his People he will bring them very low and stock them and whip them till he make their spirits sober and humble or else mark what I say Englands misery is near at hand Secondly See if the Lord hath not left them to a spirit of Division and they increase every year more and more worse and worse In former times the People of God when the Wolf hath been abroad they have been glad to be of one minde but now when God himself is come with a drawn Sword and stands at the door that now there should be such a division me-thinks this should be the sobriety of the people of God there is Gods Hand on the one side very dreadful and Gods Mercy on the other side working all for them I say this should be their sobriety now to lye down and mourn at the feet of the Lord. Humiliation and Praise should now be the work of Gods People in England But how is it The Lord hath filled all the Inhabitants of the Land with a spirit of drunkenness Sermon against Sermon reviling one another Head against Body Go into the Camps whom can they trust Religion it is the occasion of the breach of peace and look into the Parliament Upper House against Lower House and many pretended Friends but secret Enemies and by means hereof the Enemy is encouraged Religion it is scoffed at and what Religion would ye have men to hold unto Many godly People they are discouraged and Gods Servants desiring to say nothing but rather to lye hid and mourn for their own sins and the sins of the people there And let me say this and you will finde it is certain At this very day the principal strength of the Land are such as be seeming Friends to the Parliament but secret Enemies to the Truth and Ordinances and People of God and his Wayes and deadly ones too Lastly The deep Security of England under the sins that are now laid open I will tell you what is their Complaint still Their words be these One especially that in former times did publish as glorious