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
A54132	England's present interest discover'd with honour to the prince and safety to the people in answer to this one question, What is most fit ... at this juncture of affairs to be done for composing ... the heat of contrary interests & making them subservient to the interest of the government, and consistent with the prosperity of the kingdom? : presented and submitted to the consideration of superiours.	Penn, William, 1644-1718.	1675 (1675)	Wing P1279; ESTC R1709	45,312	70

the Grave's Mediation that they parted scarcely Civil To be sure as far from Unity as Controversie is Luther Cardinal Cajeten met for a Composure of the Breach betwixt the Protestants and the Pope but they were too wide for those Conferences to reconcile no Comprehension could do the Business A second Essay to the same Purpose was by Melanchton Cassander others the Consequence of it was that the Parties were displeased and the Heads suspected if not hated of their Followers Nor had Bucer's Meeting with Julius Pflugg any better Success And how fruitless their Contrivances have been that with greatest Art and Industry have of a long Time endeavoured a Reconciliation of Lutherans and Calvinists is well known to those that are acquainted with the Affairs of Germany and such as are not may furnish themselves from those publick Relations given by those that are employed about that Accommodation where besides a dull and heavy Progress the Reader may be a Witness of their Complaint not only that both Parties are too tenacious but that they suffer Detraction for their good Endeavours each Side grudging every Tittle they yield and murmuring as if they were too hardly born upon And if Persons so disinterested and worthy in their Attempts have had no better Issue I cannot see how those who seem compell'd by Worldly Interest more then Conscience to seek and propagate a Comprehension especially when it determins in the Persecution of the rejected Perswasions can with any Reason expect from God or Good Men any better Success to their Design Lastly there is nothing any Man toucht with Justice and Mercy can alledge for a Comprehension that may not be much better urg'd to procure a Toleration they are Men as well as those of other Perswasions their Faith is as Christian they believe as sincerely live as conscientiously are as useful in the Kingdom and mannage their Dissent with as much Modesty Prudence the Church of England her self being in a great Measure Judge as those on whose Account a Comprehension may be intended To be sure they are English Men and have an Equal Claim to the Civil Rights of their Native Country with any that live in it whom to persecute whilest others and those no better Men are tolerated is as I have already said The Unreasonable and Unmerciful Doctrine of absolute Election and Reprobation put in Practice III. A SINCERE PROMOTION of General Practical RELIGION I am now come to the last which to be sure is not the least Part of my Answer to the Question propounded viz. The Sincere Promotion of general and practical Religion by which I mean the Ten Commandments or moral Law and Christ's Sermon upon the Mount with other Heavenly Sayings excellently improved and earnestly recommended by several Passages in the Writings of his Disciples which forbid Evil not only in Deed but Thought and injoyn Purity Holiness as without which no Man be his Pretences what they will shall ever see God In short General True and Requisite Religion in the Apostle James's Definition is To visit the Widow and the Fatherless and to keep our selves through the Universal Grace unspotted of the World This is as the most sacred so the most easie probable Way to fetch in all Men professing God Religion for that every Perswasion acknowledges this in Words be their Lives never so incongruous with their Confession And this being the Unum necessarium that One Thing only requisite to make Men happy here and hereafter why should Men sacrifice their Accord in this great Point for an Unity in minute or circumstantial Things that perhaps inobtainable and if it were not would signifie little or nothing either to the Good of Human Society or the particular Comfort of any individual in that World which is to come No one Thing is more senseless and condemnable among Men then their Uncharitable Mutinous Clamours and Contests about Religion indeed about Words Phrases whilst they all verbany meet in the most if not only necessary Part of Christian Religion For nothing is more certain then if Men would but live up to one half of what they know in their own Consciences they ought to practise their Edge would be taken off their Blood would be sweetned by Mercy and Truth and this unnatural Sharpness qualified they would quickly find Work enough at home each Man's Hands would be full by the Unruliness of his own Passions and in Subjection of his own Will and instead of devouring one another's Good Name Liberty or Estate Compassion would rise and mutual Desires to be assistent to one another in a better Sort of Living Oh how decent how delightful would it be to see Mankind the Creation of one God that hath upheld them to this Day of one Accord at least in the weighty Things of God's practical Law 'T is Want of Practice and too much Prate that hath made Way for all the Incharity and Ill living that is in the World No Matter what Men say if the Devil keep the House Let the Grace of God the Principle of Divine Life as a great Man lately call'd it in his Speech but be heartily and reverently entertained of men that teaches to deny Ungodliness and converse Soberly Righteously and Godlily in this present evil World and it is not to be doubted but Tranquillity and a very amicable Correspondence will follow Men are not to be reputed Good by their Opinion nor is that nor ought it to be offensive to the Government but Practice is what must save or damn temporally or eternally Christ in his Representation of the Great Day doth not tell us that it shall be Well SAID or Well TALKT but Well DONE good and faithful Servant neither is the Depart from me YOU directed to any but the Workers of Iniquiry Error now is brought from the Signification of an Evil Life to an unsound Proposition as Philosophy is from Mortification and well living to an Unintelligible Way of Wrangling And a man is more bitterly harrac'd for an Erroneous Proposition though the Party holding it thinks not so and the Party charging it denies all Infallible Judgment in this World so that it may as well be true as false for all him then for the most dissolute Life And truly it is high Time that Men should give better Testimony of their Christianity for Cruelty hath no Share in Christ's Religion and Coertion upon Conscience is utterly inconsistent with the very Nature of his Kingdom He rebuked that Zeal which would have Fire from Heaven to devour Dissenters though it came from his own Disciples and forbad them to pluck up the Tares though none had a more gentle or infallible Hand to do it by He preferr'd Mercy before Sacrifice and therefore we may well believe that the Unmerciful Sacrifices some Men now offer I mean Imprisoning Persons spoiling of Goods and leaving whole Families destitute of common Subsistence are far from being grateful to him who therefore