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	promise_n	seal_n	4,049	5	9.6971	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A85393	A fresh discovery of the high-Presbyterian spirit. Or The quenching of the second beacon fired. Declaring I. The un-Christian dealings of the authors of a pamphlet, entituled, A second beacon fired, &c. In presenting unto the Lord Protector and Parlament, a falsified passage out of one of Mr John Goodwins books, as containing, either blasphemie, or error, or both. II. The evil of their petition for subjecting the libertie of the press to the arbitrariness and will of a few men. III. The Christian equity, that satisfaction be given to the person so notoriously and publickly wronged. Together with the responsatory epistle of the said beacon firers, to the said Mr Goodwin, fraught with further revilings, falsifications, scurrilous language, &c. insteed of a Christian acknowledgment of their errour. Upon which epistle some animadversions are made, / by John Goodwin, a servant of God in the Gospel of his dear Son. Also two letters written some years since, the one by the said John Goodwin to Mr. J. Caryl; the other, by Mr Caryl in answer hereunto; both relating to the passage above hinted.	Goodwin, John, 1594?-1665.; Caryl, Joseph, 1602-1673.	1655 (1655)	Wing G1167; Thomason E821_18; ESTC R202307	68,987	94

the Promises and Covenant of God a By the seals annexed to the Covenant by the earnest given to assure the bargain by the Witnesses to confirm that last Will and Testament of special and saving grace Which Testament is further ratified by the Oath of God and heart bloud of Christ We are assured of all this not onely by Christs death but by his life for Christ saith to every soul that he hath quickned by special grace as he said to all his disciples but Judas the Son of perdition b Because I live ye shall live also Jo. 14. 19. God saith to all whom he brings under the power of the Covenant of grace I will be your God and ye shall be my people I will and ye shall I will not depart from you and ye shall not depart from me I will not ye shall not c Such an unchangeableness as this true Protestants such as Edward Arthur and William d do maintain Such an unchangeableness as this you do oppose e Such an unchangeableness as this the Scriptures do hold forth and yet you cannot upon this or any other account prove the Scriptures of the old and new Testament not to be the pure word of God though you have a cursed Art in Swan-Alley to undermine the authority of the Scriptures even when you do most pretend to defend them f It is a black Art g leave it for your juggle is discovered your folly manifested and your book about we had almost said against the Scriptures would have been wast paper had not some Anti-Scripturists brought them up h we can purchase some of your works at a good easie rate already but we beleeve the Cooks will help you away with some of them next moneth to defend Geose and Turkeys to lay up spice and underlay their pies i and therefore we think your works need not be called in Mr. Goodwins Animadversion 5. a If you be assured of the unchangeablenesse of Gods counsels by the several means you here enumerate I am glad for your sakes that you are in so Christian a posture God of his Grace keep you in it b But whereas you exempt Judas from amongst the Disciples to whom Christ said Because I live ye shall live also I know no sufficient ground you have from the Scripture or otherwise to do it For certainly Judas was included in another saying from the same lips of grace which imported as high a favour as this And Jesus said unto them verily I say unto you that ye who have followed me in the regeneration when the Son of Man shall sit in the Throne of his Glory ye also shall sit upon twelve Thrones judging the twelve tribes of Israel Mat. 19. 28. If you please to peruse Chrysostomes exposition of this place which you may find faithfully delivered pag. 360 361. and again 373 374 of my Redemption Redeemed you will find him looking upon Judas as a son of the Kingdome for a time which opinion of his I give notice to be together with the ground and reason of it approved by Peter Martyr who was alwaies untill now judged a Protestant yea and not the least amongst those that are called Orthodox from whose pen likewise we took knowledge upon the occasion of that golden rule That the promises of life and salvation made by God unto particular men are to be understood with reference to the present state and condition of things with them a But if Judas was excepted as you say your cause is neither the whiter nor blacker for it c God indeed speaks as you here say I will be your God and ye shall be my people unto all whom he brings under the power of the Covenant of grace but first this proves not that he speaketh not the same thing unto others also Nor do you nor can you prove that the whole Nation of the Jews to which this promise was jointly and indifferently made Levit. 26. 12. were all in your sence brought under the power of the Covenant of Grace 2. The performance of this promise even where it is made or applied to such persons as you speak of is suspended upon their obedience and perseverance in it 2 Cor. 6. 17 18. Whereas you mention another promise in these words I will not depart from you I find it not at least in your terms in all the Scripture I suppose you look at Jer. 32. 40. But how far the heart of this passage is from your cause is demonstrated at large pag. 219. 220 221 c. of my Redempt Redeemed By the way is it not a rank impertinency in you to think to stop my mouth or satisfie me by a bare citation of such texts of Scripture as if they countenanced the way of your errour which I have upon a diligent and narrow enquiry evinced above all reasonable contradiction to have no Communion therewith at all d e Your Edmund Arthur and William may very probably maintain such an unchangeablenesse as you have described for I think that in many points they maintain they know not well what And the description which you have made of your unchangeablenesse hath neither head nor foot in it And whereas you say that I oppose it you again oppose the truth in so saying For according to the best construction among many that can be made of your words I assert it as well as you The men you speak of may be Protestants at large but this is no character of their Orthodoxisme Besides concerning that unchangableness which I suppose you would describe if you knew how the publick confessions of several Protestant Churches do manifestly contradict it as you may inform your selves if you please by a perusal of pag. 394 of my Redempt Redeemed and by pursuing the directions there given Therefore let us heare no more of this Fable f. g. In this you speak truth though to little purpose that I cannot upon the account you mention nor any other prove the Scriptures of the Old and New Testament not to be the pure Word of God Nor have I lift up either heart or hand to any such proof though you after your manner diabolize me so to have done That which I have anywhere asserted as to this point is onely this or to this effect that we are not bound to own for the Word of God or as any part of it whatsoever every ignorant or heedless person who was employed of old to transcribe the Old and New Testament for the best pen-men are seldom the greatest Clerks did insert in their Transcriptions nor yet what every Printer of later times hath through carelesness or mistake thrust forth in their Printed Copies of the Scriptures into the world Jerome in his latter Prologue upon Job complains that for his labour and faithfulness in correcting the enormous Translations and Transcriptions of the ancient Scriptures he was charged with a double errour one that when he corrected things amiss he was a Falsifier the other that