Selected quad for the lemma: grace_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
grace_n	salvation_n	teach_v	ungodliness_n	2,577	5	11.7800	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A91904	The great calumny of The Quakers despising the Holy Scriptures, refuted out of their printed books, unjustly perverted, confusedly curtail'd and crowded, by William Mather in his Dagger-sheet.	Robinson, William, of Durham.	1700 (1700)	Wing R1725; ESTC R182827	4,770	1

difference Lay down thy Daggers and call for Quarter the Quakers and the Bible are too hard for thee or any Apostate in your Town c. Most of these things have been answered before and will speak for themselves but if thou in thy Fury hadst killed a Man and no other had known it Who might have been Chief Speaker in this Case See Gen. 4 6 7. And the Lord said unto Cain Why art thou Wroth and why is thy Countenance Fallen If thou dost well Shalt thou not be accepted And if thou dost not well Sin lieth at the Door W. Mather 's Perversions Noted NOW having searched the Quakers Books those Pages and Passages set down by William Mather I do not find in any of the Books cited by him these following Passages viz. In no sense can the Scriptures properly be called the Word of God However I desire W. M. to prove by plain Scripture where they are properly so call'd It is the Devil that contends for the Scriptures to be the Word of God C Here he was digging a Pit for others and himself is fallen therein They are blind Sots and evil Beasts that say ths Scriptures are the written Word of God E Note I have not found it in the Quakers Books Beastly-ware c. I Challenge W. M. to prove this to be spoken either of the Scripture or Bible in any one of our Books 't is F. Bugg's old repeated and refuted gross Lye The Knowledge and Experiences that the Fleshly-wise got in them must be forsaken for it fits People for the Slaughter being not the pure Milk of the Word O Therefore he W. M. is not to obey any Command in Scripture but his own Spirit moved him Note To put up in Mockery a silly Picture of a Book and call it The Holy Bible with four Hands bely'd about it William This was from thy own Spirit very wickedly done to hold up that in Derision and make it a Scorn to Fools Thou talkest of giving God Thanks and Family-Prayers or Catechising Children but remember The Prayers of the Wicked are an Abomination to the Lord. But there is more still to Charge thee with How came it to pass when F. Howgil in his Works p. 211. says and testifies against Inventions Images c. and the Attire of the Whore what ailed thee Was thou bewitched with her so to forget thy Self and say at T The Scriptures are the Attire of the Whore or False Church which brings none to know God and Christ And for W. Mather to put in Faith in Christ's outward Manifestation instead of Faith in the History was both knavish and wicked at his S. h i The Light that inlightens every Man that cometh into the World and the Grace of God which brings Salvation which has appeared to all Men is not only some natural Reason or Understanding as W. M. and our Adversaries would have it he is very ignorant of the Light of Christ and Grace of God neither is he taught by it as the Apostles were to deny Ungodliness T it 2. 12. neither doth he obey it but something else that is the Imaginations of his own evil Heart Neither did Christ approve of them that thought to have eternal Life in the Scriptures but rather reproves them because they will not come to him that they may have Life Joh. 5. 39 40. Now at Letter k it is Mather and our Adversaries that say The Scripture is the Rule and Touch-stone instead of the Spirit the Quakers printed Books do well agree with the Scriptures therefore a Lye in Mather and our Adversaries that say the contrary And we did meet G. K. several times until he was denied and that Mather and our Adversaries as he says are not Sincere while he Cloaks Errors in his own Books which are not to be found in the Quakers Books And their Principles are the same now as they were when first a People tho' backsliding Mather and some others make themselves ignorant thereof Now to his Objection If any say that this Man Mather hath given full and true Quotations out of the Quakers Books they say an Untruth but that he has wilfully wronged the Quakers on this occasion is true And the Quakers say Christ is the Word of God and so say the Scriptures Rev. 19. 13. And he was clothed with a Vesture dipt in Blood and his Name is called the Word of God And it is false in Mather to say we call our Writings the Word of the Lord. Then he Queries how some of old made the Word of God of none Effect Answer That may be as to their own selves by their Rebellion against Christ But Mather says They could not so use Christ Let him see John 18. 2. how Judas the Apostate betrayed his Master and the sad effect that followed for his so doing he went and hanged himself Again he Queries How the Corinthians corrupted the Word of God Answ Why are any said to make Merchandize of the Word of God Then his third Query How the Devil could take the Word of God out of Peoples Hearts This ignorant Man calls Christ's Words in Question Is there not cause to suspect that the Devil has taken the Sense of the Word of God out of W. Mather 's Heart at unawares or while he has Slept and sown Tares instead thereof See Mat. 13. 28. He said unto them An Enemy hath done this Lastly I desire W. Mather may be awakened and his Eyes opened then he may see the Quakers Books do well agree with the holy Scriptures and that he may come out of Darkness least he meet with Condemnation see John 3. 19. And this is the Condemnation that Light is come into the World and Men loved Darkness rather than Light because their Deeds were Evil. Vers 20. For every one that doth Evil hateth the Light neither cometh to the Light lest his Deeds should be reproved Now let Mather go to work again pull out the Beam in his own Eyes renounce his own Errors put away his Malice for it was Cain that slew his Brother and Judas that betrayed his Master And the Followers of the Lord Jesus Christ have been often persecuted both in this Nation and elsewhere and also in New-England the Priests and their Abettors there persecuted many of the Lord's Servants and they killed some and one among the rest was William Robinson LONDON Printed and Sold by T. Sowle in White-Hart-Court in Gracious-street 1700.