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
A30539	Satans designs defeated ...	Burrough, Edward, 1634-1662.	1659 (1659)	Wing B6022; ESTC R14163	16,232	20

others and to charge others with that wch she is guilty of her self but now it will not cover them to slander others that themselves may seem clear for the Lord is opening peoples hearts and giving them a spirit to discern all things And whereas the Author speaks against the Quakers for crying against Cuffs Caps and for using thee and thou and for crying against Pulpits and hour glasses and such things and for owning Revelation and for holding the free grace of God to be given unto all and because of trembling and quaking and saying our writtings are given out by the same infallible spirit that the Scriptures were given out by and for crying down the Ministers maintenance and for calling some of them vipers and Serpents To all this I answer it is your generation that makes a great noise about thee and thou and Cuffs and Caps for we in plainness and simplicity do speak the proper Language thee and thou to a single person and it is the proud and exalted minds of men that are offended hereat which pride and arogancie hath eaten out the sincerity and the very propriety of speech also and you are offended at us because of it and for crying against your Cuffs and Boot-hose-tops Ribbands and points we cry against all these things as not becoming the Ministers of Christ but as being of the world in the pride and vanity and superfluity abusing the Creation which the Lord will Judge among you And as for having an hour-glasse and Preaching thereby and as for your carnal Bells which you call people by we do disown these things and say they are old Popish inventions for the Ministers of Christ never limited their spirits to an hour-glasse neither had they a carnal Bell to call people to their worship and as for Revelation we do own that the Spirit of God doth reveal truth to us and God hath revealed Christ in us and none ever shall know God but by Revelation for none knowes the Father but the Son and he to whom the Son will reveal him And as for free grace we say the grace of God hath appeared to all men and it teacheth the Saints to deny ungodliness but the wicked turns it into wantonness and doth dispite unto the spirit of grace and we also say that who now speakes or are moved to write forth by the Spirit of God they speak and write by the same spirit that is infalliable that the Scriptures was given forth by And as for your maintenance it is altogether abominable and oppression to the Nation and the Lord is against it your taking peoples goods and casting them into prison that will not pay you wages and give you Tythes against their consciences And be not offended at being called vipers and Serpents for these are the works of venemous vipers and stinging Serpents which pesecute the servants of God and cryes to the Magistrates for help against a poor people that useth no weapons against you saving that of the Spirit of God and though we do thus to you to the false Ministers to cry against them and give our witness against them in the name of the Lord yet we do not deny the true Ministers of Christ nor speak any thing against them which are the true Ministers that hath received the ministry of righteousness by the gift of the holy spirit which all that are true Ministers doth receive their ministry thereby And whereas thou sayest we are bitter enemies to the Doctrine of Iustification and agrees with the Cavelierish party and would silence godly Ministers and are Iesuitical and such like things thou falsly chargeth upon us and that we have a notable faculty to delude ignorant unstable souls c. Ans. These are but the Authors reproaches and his slanders he hath filled his mouth with against the innocent And he hath set his tongue on the fire of hell to slander the Just and the innocent and all these things we bear in patience counting reproaches for Christ our chiefest riches and thus to the substance of this Paper I have given answer whereby all that love the Lord and desire to be informed in the truth may receive satisfaction for it is seen that that generation of Priests are joyned with the Prelatical Cavelierish party and this is known at large in the Nation in the North especially and so as I said they would fain slander others that themselves might seem clear but the Lord will rebuke him and his lying tongue and the innocent shall be delivered from his devouring lips and as for any other thing in his Paper it is not worth answering to nor worth minding but his wickednes will turn upon his own head and he shall bear the burthen of his own words only he queries whether this be not the pestilence that walks in darkness And the flouds that the Dragon hath cast out of his mouth to drown the woman is not this the mark of the beast who opened his mouth in blasphemy And are not these the unclean spirits that came out of the mouth of the Dragon and out of the mouth of the false prophet Ans. Now the pestilence that walkes in darkness is the plague that is out of the light sin and death and misery which smites the ungodly and he sees it not And the flood which the Dragon cast out is the flouds of persecution and cruelty viz the imprisoning until death and spoiling peoples goods for tythes and mony as the Priests have done And the Dragon gave power to the beast that compelled all to worship and that carried the Whore the false Church and the true Church hath been fled into the wilderness for many generations and the false Church the Whore hath sate as a Queen and given her cup to drink the false Church of Rome and the false Church of the Protestants all which are of the Whore these have all been carried by the beast which the Dragon gave his power to And they have all persecuted the woman the true Church and the mark of the beast he compelled people to receive and compelled them to worship and they opened their mouths in blasphemy that denies Christ and denies the light and that sayes they are Iewes and are not this is error and blasphemy which the Beast opens his mouth in against the Saints and against them that dwell in heaven and the unclean spirits are the spirits of Devils that are out of the truth and these the Dragon cast out in slanders and reproaches and lies such as this Author hath done and of that generation is he Christ said false prophets should come and Iohn saw in his dayes they were come and he saw the world gone after them and of that generation are you and now the Lord is gathering people from you again and Babylon must fall and all her merchants howl and weep And these things have been which the Scripture speaks of and the woman is now coming out of the wilderness