Selected quad for the lemma: judgement_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
judgement_n	error_n	time_n	writ_n	1,465	5	9.4487	5	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A47142	George Keith's explications of divers passages contained in his former books as also his free and open retractations of sundry other passages contained in the same, which may at present suffice for a reply to the late, as well as former books of Tho. Elwood, and John Penington, published against me, in respect of the most material things.	Keith, George, 1639?-1716.	1697 (1697)	Wing K163; ESTC R18950	49,736	50

take it if not for a genuine and proper Explication if so be it is in the least inconsistent with the truth of the Holy Scripture to be my plain and free Retractation For what I cannot fairly defend by Explication I am freely willing to correct and amend by Retractation As concerning the late abusive Books published in Print against me as well as the former by T. E. and J. P. and others containing vile Errors in point of Doctrine gross Perversions base Slanders trifling Defences in their own and others Vindication I defer my larger Answer to them to another occasion which I hope may be e're very long if it shall please God to afford it unto me Having thus far proceeded to explain amend and retract those particular passages in my Books above-mentioned which I judged my Duty so to do from true Conviction and out of real love to Truth I conclude with my making a general Retractation which I do freely and humbly of all passages either in my Books above-mentioned or in any others of my Books not mentioned in this Treatise in so far as they are not perfectly consistent with the holy Scriptures and the divine Doctrines and Testimonies delivered in them and likewise I submit all that I have at any time given forth in Word Writ or Print by way of Doctrine in Religious matter to the Test Touch-stone and Rule of the holy Scriptures as the greatest the best and most authentick Rule and Standard of Truth compared with all Testimonies Writings and Books of Men whatsoever renouncing revoking retracting disowning and denying whatever is contained in any of my former or latter Books that doth not perfectly agree with the holy Scriptures Which general Retractation I make for this Reason because it is possible that divers other particulars in my Books which I have not observed may need correction therefore until I see other particulars to need Correction which how soon I see I am ready to correct I hope this general Retractation will suffice And if any shall inform me or show me either by Word or Writ any particular passages in any of my Books that may need further Correction and Amendment they being enabled so to do by a divine Illumination I shall receive so most kindly and as amost friendly Office and judge my self greatly obliged to be thankful unto them But if any presume or proffer to make any seem Corrections in my Books or pass Censures on passages in them without a right understanding or from a spirit of Prejudice or a scossing taunting airy Unchristian Spirit as my late Adversaries have done whereby they have shown and continue daily to show their great Ignorance and Perverseness of Spirit they have their Reward and they will but still more and more expose their Folly and Enmity for indeed so blind with Ignorance and Prejudice my-late Adversaries have been particularly Tho. Ellwood and John Pennington and Caleb Pusey that the soundest Passages for most part in my Booke in relation to Doctrine they have blamed and censured though ge●●●●y such as most need Correction they have past without the least censure However as my great Comfort is that both they and I shall stand e're long before the Supream Judge of the whole Earth to whom I have committed my Righteous Cause and I do still commit it and make my humble Appeal to him acknowledging my many sinful defects and imperfections for which I humbly beg pardon of God for Jesus Christ's sake and for all my other Sins and hope for it and have in measure the sense and Faith of it being fully perswaded in my Conscience both by the divine Testimony of the Holy Scriptures without me and the divine Testimony of the Holy Spirit within me and also by the concurrent Testimony of all true Christians in all Ages of the truth of that doctrine God has raised me up to contend for which three are as a threefold Cord that cannot be broke that whatever my Imperfections are in managing this great Controversie my Cause is Just and my Heart is sincere before him so it is a great comfort to me that many throughout these Nations far and near have a good understanding of the present Case and though my Adversaries seek to overwhelm me with a thick Cloud of Infamy grounded on Falshoods and Calumnies yet the Truth and Integrity of my Testimony will overcome it all and will shine forth and be manifest and the Generation to come of the Posterity of many of that People who now account me their Enemy and pour out Curses and Lying Prophesies against me will regard my Testimony and it will be a good savour unto them This trust and hope I have in my gracious God whose I am and whom I serve and it is a considerable advantage unto me that some of my greatest Adversaries have acknowledged they have nothing against my Morals nor Doctrine and it is come under the Observation of many that hear them in their Meetings how admirably they are changed of late to preach the very same Doctrines which formerly they have so fiercely opposed in all that were not of their way and for which they have Excommunicated me but they cannot be judged sincere until they plainly Retract their former Errors And finally with a free and willing mind I make a general Retractation of all the hard Names and uncharitable Censures I have at any time either by Word or Writ past on any differing from me in point of Judgment that have not deserved them humbly desiring their Forgiveness wherein I have in that case justly offended them And though I do with deep regrat acknowledge and blame my too great rashness in giving hard Names and passing uncharitable Censures on divers with whom I have differed in point of judgment being engaged in the heat of Controversie and divers times provoked by the hard Names and uncharitable Censures that some of my Opponents have given me which provocation I should not have given way to but rather according to what the Scripture requireth to have sought in meekness to instruct them that opposed themselves if God peradventure would give them Repentance yet I was never so uncharitable as to think or judge that few or none were truly Pious or of a true Christian Spirit or that did belong to the true Church of Christ but such as were of the same outward Profession with me for the Contrary I have several times signified in Print and as I have been charitable in my Judgment with respect to others with whom I have distered in Controversal points when I did think they held the Head and built on Christ the true Foundation though some part of what they built was but Hay Wood and Stubble so it is my resolution by divine assistance to be yet more charitable in judgment concerning others that differ from me in the lesser matters when they agree with me in the greater and whose manner of Life and Conversation is suitable to their Christian Profession But as for such who deny the Lord that bought them and hold such Antichristian Principles as oppugne the great Fundamentals of the Christian Religion as I have sufficiently proved my late Adversaries to have done the greatest and best Charity that I can extend unto them is to deal roundly and plainly with them and give them and their vile Errors such sit and proper Names as they deserve and as the Scripture giveth to such who were guilty of such vile Errors in former times But the nasty and unclean Terms and Words worse than Billingsgate that some called Teachers among the Quakers and some of which are my present Adversaries have given to their Opponents I account it my mercy that I never had the faculty of them and yet so impudent have these my late Adversaries been to accuse me for giving hard Words to such unto whom they have given an hundredfold much harder and I have this with other great advantages over them that I have freely and willingly Retracted them as well as other things that I saw cause and occasion for which I find not that any of them in the least have done and are not like to do until their Crown of Pride come down and they see themselves to be fallible men having Infirmities and Defects like other Men which I pray God they may see and find Mercy to Repent of all their Errors and Evils before it be too late and may have a. Heart given them of God if not to follow me as an Example yet to follow the Example of other great Penitents and obey the Command of God that requireth every Man both to confess and forsake his Sins for he that hideth his Sins will not prosper but if we confess our Sins he is just and faithful to forgive us our Sins and to cleanse us from all Unrighteousness G. K. THE END Pref. Imm. Rev. Pres Imm. Rev. Pag. 12. lin 2. 2d Edit pag. 22.