Selected quad for the lemma: heart_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
heart_n	action_n	good_a	life_n	2,683	5	4.5961	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A65884	A rambling pilgrim, or, Profane apostate, exposed being an answer to two persecuting books, falsly entitled, I. The pilgrim's progess from Quakerism to Christianity, II. A modest defence, with an epistle dedicatory to his bountiful benefactors / by G.W.	Whitehead, George, 1636?-1723.	1700 (1700)	Wing W1951; ESTC R20202	45,954	62

A Rambling Pilgrim OR Profane APOSTATE EXPOSED BEING An Answer to Two Persecuting Books Falsly Entitled I. The Pilgrim 's Progress from Quakerism to Christianity II. A Modest Defence WITH An Epistle Dedicatoryto his Bountiful Benefactors By G. W. a Servant of Christ. Let the lying Lips be made Dumb which Cruelly Proudly and Spitefully speak against the Righteous Psalm 31. 18. LONDON Printed and Sold by T. Sowle in White-Hart-Court in Gracious-Street 1700. AN Epistle Dedicatory To those of the Clergy and of the Two Universities whose Kindness and Bounty Francis Bugg boasts of in his Pilgrim's Progress Chap. 15. WHereas the said Francis Bugg appears highly to value himself upon the Countenance of some of the Clergy in his Contests against the People called Quakers sounding a Trumpet of the Clergy's Kindness and being very Bountiful to him and particularly of the Bishop of Norwich upon his Request to him giving him a Certificate in his Recommendation together with his Bounty which he says was very Considerable Giving also this Account of the Improvement he intended to make of the said Certificate viz. I was minded to make Application to my Lords the Bishops of the Church of England the two Universities and to some particular Clergy-Men All which I no sooner asked than he granted me and it pleased God so to open the Hearts of my Lords the Bishops and Reverend Clergy that I found help in time of need These his Incouragements considered this Epistle is therefore Dedicated to you who are concern'd therein Friends Do you design to promote Christianity indeed You must use better Instruments for it than Fra. Bugg the Author of the said Pilgrim's Progress whose Progress is apparently from Christianity into Apostacy from Truth and true Charity into Falshood and Envy As hath been evinc'd in divers Answers extant which he could never wipe off and is also further manifest in the Sequel 'T is no small Offence to God or Injury to Men to encourage such Agents as can Forge Lye Calumniate and Asperse under pretence of Contending for the Faith of Christ and promoting Christianity Profanation of the Sacred Name of God and Christ in idle Romance and Fiction is no small Dishonour thereto I hope your Profession does not allow thereof or of taking Liberty thereunto as this Agent F. Bugg is proved to take very largely and if you can either Connive at his so doing or Indulge him therein how will he and you answer it in the great Day of Account before the Tribunal-Seat of Christ the Righteous Judge of Quick and Dead What Account will be given for the Violation of these Two Commandments Thou shalt not take the Name of the Lord thy God in vain for the Lord will not hold him Guiltless that taketh his Name in vain And Thou shalt not bear false Witness against thy Neighbour Both which he has notoriously violated in his forged Sermon in my Name and many other Fictions and Forgeries Do you allow thereof or gratify him for the same Or is it his own officious heady Act and Device only For what then have you been so very Bountiful to him and Contributed such Considerable Sums of Money to him Is it for his just Demerits more than others in devising how to bring Contempt upon the People called Quakers by Forgeries and Calumnies Falsly forming a Judicature Trial ridiculous Answers Pillory Cage c to scandalize honest Men of good Report as a Pack of Perjur'd Persons as in his New Rome Arraigned for denying his Calumnies and false Accusations How should ever Christianity be promoted by such Mockers who act more like Stage-Players Merry-Andrews Jack-Puddings c. than sober Christians or Persons designing to promote Christianity And 't will be no Honour for you to promote or abet such Agents but procure you great Disgrace if you glory in such shameful Treatment and Abuse as this of F. Bugg's against us Besides it will be an Indication of your own Weakness to manage your Cause if not of the Cause it self for you to be beholden to such scornful Agents to manage it What may People think of you Has all your Learning fail'd you that you must needs contribute large Money to a busie Body for his Scribbling against the Quakers Never complain against Illiterate and Lay-Preachers or Mechanick Ministers if such an one must be your Champion who whilst his great Pretence is to Contend for Christ and the holy Scriptures can take Liberty to Contradict both in Practice if to Lye Misrepresent falsly Vilifie and Reproach be contradictory to both as we are sure no Lye is of the Truth And we are not only for Confessing with the Mouth the Lord Jesus and sincerely Believing with the Heart that God rais'd him from the Dead Rom. 10. but also for a Christian Life and Conversation agreeable to such Confession and Believing as is unto Righteousness well knowing that to make good Confessions to speak good Words and live bad Lives to confess Christ in Words and deny him in Actions will not commend or prove any to be true Christians The Sincerity of our Belief in and Confession to the true Messiah the very Christ of God to whom all his holy Prophets gave witness together with the Verity and Divine Authority of the holy Scriptures as being first given by Divine Inspiration I say our Sincerity herein is known to Him who searches and knows our Hearts however we be misrepresented in these Two main Points by some ill-affected Persons perverting cutting mangling and altering the Words Sayings and Sense of both deceased and living Authors which this Agent has been and is prov'd notoriously guilty of as a Person not Consciencious in his Writing and frequent Repetitions of the same Refuted Calumnies still imposing the same over and over without making Defence thereof by any serious Answer Replication or Rejoynder his Course of Scribbling being to repeat the same Fallacies and Misrepresentations under divers Models Titles Forms and Shapes as sometime to make them in Form of a Creed another in the Form of a Trial in a Court of Júdicature another while in the Form of a Dialōgue another while in the Form of Queries another while in the Form of History another while in the Form of a Sermon Together with his Scoff and Jeers Flouts Boasts Challenges intermixt and thus he can make up numerous Books fill'd with Repetitions of the same Stuff in divers shapes without taking any serious notice of Answers or Confutation And according to his crooked perverse Manner of Writing picking mincing clipping forging and perverting Words and Sentences Ill minded Persons may easily abuse and make the best of Writings look ill And now how bitter and envious and how full of cruel Mocking this Agent is turn'd against us the said People called Quakers and with what Contempt he hath writ concerning the Light within or in Man and our Doctrine thereof that his Self-Condemnation and Apostacy may therein the more appear please to observe his own