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

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A41424	A cry of the just against oppression	Goodaire, Thomas, d. 1693.	1660 (1660)	Wing G1087; ESTC R28246	9,147	10

A CRY of the just against OPPRESSION I the prisoner of the Lord who am now in outward bonds for conscience sake in the common goal at Oxford and another was put in with me for the same thing now it lieth upon me to acquaint and publish to the whole Nation the reason and cause of our imprisonment and why we suffer these hardships and all this cruel usage that now we do and I shall leave it to that pure principle of God in every sober minded man to judge whether we be not cruelly used and unjustly dealt withal contrary to the righteous law of God which is that every one should do unto all men as they would be done unto themselves IT hath pleased God of his infinite Love Mercy and Goodnesse to my poor soul to visit me in his tender love when I was an enemie and a stranger to him by wicked works And now the Lord Jesus hath appeared in me by his Light and Spirit and hath shewed and discovered unto me the deceit which lodged in my heart and the evil of my wayes which I lived in and he hath called me to repentance and amendment of life and I have owned the Call of God and by believing obeying and following the Light and Spirit of Christ I have received Power from him who is the Light and Life of men and by his light I am led out of darknesse and out of my evil wayes words and actions which once I lived in before I knew the Pure appearance of the Lord Jesus by his Spirit in me and by his own Power he hath brought me out of uncleannesse into holinesse and out of the broad way wherein I was walking going headlong to destruction into the strait and narrow way that leads to Life and Peace which few finds And by his own free grace which hath appeared in me which is his free gift and hath appeared unto all men which was and is the Saints Teacher am I taught to deny my self and all ungodlinesse and worldly lusts and to live soberly justly and righteously in this present evil world and to do unto all men as I would be done by and Christ by his own Spirit working in me hath destroyed the works of the Devil which was in my heart and hath taken away my sins and purified my heart and reconciled me to himself and I have true peace joy and comfort in God and enjoyes his pure love and presence now in my outward suffering and cruel usage which carries me above it and makes it easie unto me and this I do acknowledge in the fear of the Lord and to his praise that it is the onely work of God which he hath wrought in my heart and in many more of his dear servants and chidren by his own spirit for which I do in all humility return and give unto the Lord all honour and glory praise thanks and obedience for his everlasting love mercy and goodnesse both to me and many others and to him onely it doth belong now and for evermore And now the same light which shewed unto me the evil of my wayes lets me see that the whole World now lyeth in wickedness from the highest to the lowest and is out of the fear and Council of God and in the broad way that leads to destruction and is not yet come to true Repentance but rather goes further from God and groweth worse and worse and more wicked and dark then they have been formerly and the reason is because they hare and despise the light within them which Christ hath enlightned them withal and cals it a natural light and so counts it a thing of nought and this is the condemnation of all the wicked and ungodly that light is come into the world and shines in their hearts and lets them see the evil of their wayes and doings and smites and reproves them in their hearts and consciences but they do not believe in it neither do they obey nor follow it but lives in disobedience and unbelief and loves darknesse and their evil deeds better then the Light of Christ which shews them their evil deeds for every one that doth evil hates the light and because people receives not the Truth in the love of it but hates and rejects it for these causes God hath given them over to strong delusions to believe lyes that they all may be damned who believe not the Truth but takes pleasure in unrighteousnesse 2 Thes 2. 10 11 12. Now the Lord of his infinite love hath redeemed me to himself out of the World and the vain conversation of it to serve him and do his will and not my own and he hath required me to leave my native country house land and other things and Relations whatsoever as to the outward who am a York-shire man and to go abroad into his work and service where he shall lead and direct me by his Spirit and in obedience to the Lord whom I love above all other things I have left all and am come into his work and service and he hath sent me forth as he did many of his servants in the dayes of old as he hath done many of his servants now at this day to turn people from darknesse unto light and from the power of Satan to the Power of God that they may receive forgivenesse of their sins and an inheritance among them that are sanctified by faith which is in Christ and by the foolishness of preaching which is counted so by the wise and learned of the world it hath pleased God to convert many thousands which the wise and learned by their preaching hath not done but on the contrary both they that are preachers and they that are their hearers sins daily and hourly and brings Scriptures to plead for sin so long as they live upon the earth but blessed be the Name of our God for ever who hath turned many thousands from darknesse to his light within and from the power of Satan unto his power since he hath sent forth many of his Servants called Quakers and by believing obeying and following the light within they have received power from God and by the power of God are they led out of their ungodly wayes and out of the vain conversation of the world and from under the dominion of Satan and are brought into the life and power of Truth and can witness their sins forgiven by the Lord and hath assurance of an Inheritance which is incorruptible and shall never fade away which all the Children of darknesse who hates the light of Christ within and sayes it is a naturall light and do not believe obey nor follow it shall never witnesse their sins forgiven by the Lord neither can they have any assurance of their eternall Inheritance so long as they continue in their sins and in disobedience hating and disobeying the light of Christ within and not believing in it and in obedience to the Lord and according to his