Selected quad for the lemma: grace_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
grace_n	faith_n	justification_n	sanctification_n	4,477	5	10.0495	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A47129	The causeless ground of surmises, jealousies and unjust offences removed, in a full clearing of faithful Friends, and a sober vindication of my innocency, and the Friends concerned with me in relation to the late religious differences and breaches among some of the people called Quakers in America.	Keith, George, 1639?-1716.	1694 (1694)	Wing K149; ESTC R1482	14,639	18

of Truth furnisheth them withal or giveth them liberty to make use of out of the Holy Scriptures for the Faith may be one and the same received and confessed by many thousands and yet not the same Forms and Words used by them all but all these Words and Forms will have the same sense and signification and be of the same importance if the Faith be one and the Spirit be one in them all But that some Principles and Doctrines and Points of Faith are necessary to be agreed upon together with the practices necessarily depending thereupon and to be owned professed and declared by us to be as it were the Terms that draw us together and the Bond by which we become centred into one Body and Fellowship and distinguished from others yet not this so the Bond but that we have a more inward and invisible to wit the Life of Righteousness is the express Doctrine and Testimony of R. Barclay his Book above mentioned pag. 48. And whether Friends do not make some Principles and Doctrines of Faith yea and lesser matters called by some The form of Truth as plain Language and plain habit refusing to Salute with the Hat and Knee and some Matters belonging to Church Discipline as Mens and Womens Meetings Terms of their Communion I appeal to all intelligent Friends And how it is that the greatest and most necessary Articles of the Christian Faith professed and owned by us and declared to be necessary to be owned professed and confessed by us as that Faith in the Man Christ as he dyed for our Sins and rose again is necessary to our Christianity Regeneration Sanctification Justification and Eternal Salvation as well as to believe the Inward Appearance of God and Christ by his Grace Light Life and Spirit in our Hearts and that therefore none is a true and perfect Christian in kind and Nature without this Faith and that we must not place our whole Salvation upon any Light Gift or Grace within us so as to say it is sufficient to Salvation without any thing else as some have said thereby to exclude the Man Christ Iesus in whom the fulness of Grace and Truth dwelleth and of whose fulness we receive and Grace for Grace even every new and fresh Supply and increase of more Grace with many other the greatest and most necessary Articles of the Christian Faith must be called Imposition and refused to be Terms of our Communion and yet far less Matters as these abovementioned of Plain Language Habit Salutation c. Mens and Womens Meetings must be made such Terms of Communion so as to exclude them by such a severe Penalty as not to own them to be in Unity with us and yet allow them to be in Unity with us that may differ from us in great and weighty Matters of the Christian Faith for ought we know if they have but the Policy to conceal their unbelief or if they express it as some have done to call it but a Weakness whereas to deny or oppose the other lesser things abovementioned is not reckoned by many a Weakness but such a Matter as for which a Man is Worthy to be denyed for my part I see not the Consistency of these things and so I Judge nor do many more And whereas some have charged me with Imposition for modestly presenting a Paper called Gospel Order and Discipline improved c. some years ago to the Yearly Meeting at Burlington in West Jersey delivered only by way of Proposition and Query being read in the hearing of many Witnesses very lately I see not why any should call it an Imposition which is only proposed by way of Query and was never urged or pressed by me at any time but the Paper it self is so fair and innocent and so free of any thing that looks like Imposition that several Friends that have seen and heard it read are well affected with it and do wish that Friends might find it convenient to practice the things therein mentioned they being generally agreeable to Scripture and well Warranted by either General or Particular Precepts of Scripture and therefore cannot be called Imposition And whereas some through ignorance and shortness of understanding have blamed some of the ten Articles or Heads of Doctrine having this Title some of our Principles to which if ye agree lately read before many Witnesses but no ways contradicted I have in readiness to Print a Collection of Testimonies out of Friends Printed Books to prove every one of these ten Articles as well as I have elsewhere proved them out of the Holy Scriptures divers of which have been so much opposed by some and questioned by others and seing there hath been of late so much querying about Principles by some Is it not high time that by the general Consent Advice and approbation of the most judicious wise and understanding of Friends now alive all the most necessary Principles and Doctrines of our Faith both common and peculiar should be published and made known for the great good Service and benefit of Men in General as well as for the Good of Us and our Posterity in particular that in our universal and harmonious Testimony both with the Scriptures and with sound Christians in all Ages and with one another the Posterity that is to come after us and our Children that are growing up may have the benefit thereof and thereby have occasion to bless God on our behalf And also that whatever weak and unsound or unjustifiable Expressions Sayings or Passages are to be found in any Books among us that have happened through humane weakness or inadvertency that are offensive and stumbling to other Professions and hurtful to the Weak among our selves may be Noted Corrected and amended without partiality and respect of Persons and in so doing we shall not only show our Love to Truth but also to those Men not by cloaking but by amending what is amiss in them which is the best way of covering them as God covereth us when he amendeth and reformeth us after the worthy Example of them that have been the Successors of those called Fathers in the Church since the Apostles dayes who having highly esteemed and loved them for their Works sake yet have corrected their Errours impartially having in so doing imitated the Example of Blessed Sem and Japhet who taking a Garment went backward and covered their Fathers Nakedness And as concerning the Advice given me by some to retract the bitter or severe Language that I have given to some of my opposers in some of the late Printed Books which advice they gave with telling me and many others that I have confessed my human Imperfections and Passions to this I answer some who have so advised me should give me their good Example by retracting their much more bitter Language and more hard and severe Names they have given to some who have differed from them in less Matters But why do they not give the same advice to