Selected quad for the lemma: grace_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
grace_n	deny_v	teach_v	ungodliness_n	4,302	5	11.7286	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A28614	Judas his thirty pieces not received but sent back to him for his own bag who hath betrayed the Lord of Glory ... : being something by way of answer to a letter that was sent to John Reynes ... from Robert Rich ... which was for the distribution of a certain sum of money to seaven churches ... wherein it is mainfested ... Quakers cannot partake of his gift ...	Bolton, John, 1599-1679.	1660 (1660)	Wing B3506; ESTC R26455	13,488	15

folly was made manifest and blessed be the Name of God Truth and the Power of the Lord is established over the heads of all the unclean in heart and so we deny thy gift But Robert there is another end in sending thy Contribution to Seven Churches as thou call'st them thou sayest that these might more fully discern the mind of thy Lord in this figure of Love and Amity to them in the reading thy Letter there was a belief that there was a mystery in thy imagination about these Seven Churches it is declared before that thou wast one of the first that run out in the imagination to the dishonour of Truth thou joyned to them that could not indure the Yoke and to the Ranters and after some small space of time when that Cloud of Darkness was blown over a second assault from the Bottomless-Pit ariseth through that Poetical Instrument John Perrot who set up and promoted the keeping on the Hat in Prayer and Supplication to God and that was not the only thing by which he sought to destroy and overturn the precious Truth of the Living God but it will stand for ever the second thing whereby this Instrument that was as thy fore-runner in this matter he wrote that Epistle for Unity and Amity and to take away the hedge of Opinions and so to unite all together in one this was the work of this nimble Poet and afterward when he could not effect his work to espouse and joyn us to the world that are in wickedness who were escaped from Sodom and were gotten to Soar the place of rest then himself after all his profession that he made of denial of this World and the Fashion thereof for a more enduring Substance yet at the last turned into the Earth and sought the preferment thereof and built again the things which before he had destroyed and so in that sinfull state laid down his body and so is a warning unto thee for if thou continue in that Apostising spirit in which thou went'st out from Gods Truth thou also wilt likewise perish but yet it is the desire of the Soul that thou mayst repent and come to Salvation and the glorious Salvation that we testifie of and are joyned together in is the pure Life and Power of Jesus Christ and blessed for ever be the Name of the Lord we abide therein and all those that did partake with us of the Grace of God in the Light of Christ Jesus and after a while drew back and fell from it we very well know Gods Soul harh no pleasure in them Therefore having received power from Christ we warn thee in the Name of the Lord to return to that which first convinced thee which was the pure Light and Spirit of Christ that thou mayst know it to clense and sanctifie thee and to lead and guide thee in the Everlasting Way of Holiness which will administer comfort to thee in the latter end We omitted of purpose the naming of those Persons which thou speakest of in thy Letter of direction to John Reynes because of our intention to make this Paper sent unto thee publick unto whom thy further request is to receive the Thirty pounds and therewith to provide a Dinner or a Supper thy words are which I chiefly do for the raising of my dear Friend Lazarus viz. the Love of God we are not unquainted blessed be the Lord for ever how the Love of God was raised up in our hearts we have in some degree spoken of it before but yet its needfull to say that the Lord in an acceptable day reach'd to our Souls to let us see that without Christ we were utterly undone and lost for ever and we had been long seeking him even through almost all Forms of Religion that had a Form of godliness amongst them but we could not find the Beloved of the Soul there for in those several Forms we come to know that Christ the Second Adam the Lord from Heaven his Countenance is more marr'd then any mans but when in the Ministration of the Gospel and by it alone we came to be acquainted with the pure Power of the Lord God we very well yet remember how that Power of God wrought in our Souls even to an utter loathing of all manner of sin and evil and it begat an everlasting love in our Souls to the Living God and to one another who by a visitation in his Spirit and Power had drawn us with the Cords of pure Love and this Spirit and Power of the Lord Jesus Christ this and this only is able to raise up the Love of God in man and also to preserve for ever that Love in the heart for by the Power therof are we preserved and therein do we rejoyce and our Joy can no man take from us But what love is that which is raised up in good fellowship as the World call it in eating and drinking is it not the love of such a god whose god is Bellies who mind earthly things to raise up the Love of the true God in the hearts of men and women but undoubtedly a Dinner or Supper in the outward will not raise up the Love of God in the heart that which sheds it abroad in the heart that alone can raise up pure Love to the pure God and this we are acquainted withal and we do believe that thou speakest thy own condition in those words viz. Which hath been long pining away through a tedions and sore famine of contention and strife even unto death Robert we very well yet remember when thy self with others departed from the Unalterable and Everlasting Living Holy Way of God what strife and sore contention did you and your Company make in our Meetings and Assemblies to the wounding the hearts of many that did truely love and fear the Name of the Lord through which strife and contention of yours together with the Ranters to which you were joyn'd you made our otherwayes peaceable meetings to be a scorn to the World and thereby thou lost the pure Love of God that before did begin to be shed abroad in thy heart by the holy Spirit and now being gone from it and from the pure Light that leads to it thou wouldst buy the Gift of the holy Spirit with money in giving Thirty pounds to make a Dinner or a Supper for the raising up thy Friend Lazarus as thou call'st it but yet thou canst not be in friendship with the pure Love of the Living God whilst thou art out from the way that leads to it and we advice thee to turn to the Grace of God in which the Salvation is which blessed be the Name of God is become our Teacher and hath taught us to deny ungodliness and worldly lusts and to live soberly and righteously in this present World in the beginning we had some knowledge of thee in this Grace of God in which the Love of God is for ever but not to be bought with money