Selected quad for the lemma: lord_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	apostle_n	day_n	sabbath_n	13,396	5	10.0850	5	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A75872	An answer to a book, titled, Quakers principles quaking: subscribed by the name of one Ralph Hale, with an epistle (so called) to the reader, subscribed with the name of one Zachariah Crofton. A principle of darkness, deceit, and confusion in Ralph Hale, and his fellow labourer in Sathans work Zachariah Crofton, is discovered by the Quakers principle, and the Quakers principle doth stand against the power of darkness, and all the false principles in the world, them to discover and lay open. The book was said to be modestly propounded by Ralph Hale, but in it I found so many lies, slanders, and false accusations, with confused, vain, and frivolous words, as many of them is not worth mentioning; yet, lest the author should boast in his mischief, I shall lay down somthing in answer to some few of them, in respect of the number of them. / A servant to the least in the houshold of faith, and the lest amonst his brethren, whose name in the flesh is William Adamson.	Addamson, William, 17th cent.	1656 (1656)	Wing A501; Thomason E897_3; ESTC R206690	24,865	37

taste of Hamans cup and if God had not put a Bit into thy jaws and a hook into thy Nostrils to draw thee back from thy cruelty and so limited and chained the power of the murthe●ing prince of darkness in thee I pray thee what height of mischief would thy cruelty have reached unto where it l ghts if thou had power to act it seeing thy compassion and pity would not afford a harmless and despised people their liberty but thy pity would subject them to a Bedlam Discipline Here thou shews thy self to be of thy old grandfather Cain who was active in mischief and murther a cruel and envi us man like thy self but here thou truly fulfils that Scrip●ure Prov. 12.10 The tender mercies of the Wicked are cruel Priest And thou vents forth a long Oration of foaming smoaky words in reviling the Light with as scornful Titles as possibly the Divel can invent and thou sayest The Light drives the soul from every duty Answ I say for the soul first know what it is before thou talk of its Daties and first know thy own duty to cease from lying for that the light drives the soul from every duty that is one of thy lies it is darkness that drives from good duties and not the light Prie. The subjects of it sanctifies no Sabbaths saith thou Answ I say whether we who are called Quakers or you who accuse us of Sabbath-breaking do more truly sanctifie a Sabbath let all that read these following words consider First Do not your hireling parish-masters on that day that you call your Sabbath sell the stuff that they have stolen and bundled together I mean their Sermons as they call them some say they invent them by study but I say they rather gather them by stealth out of old Authors and other men● labours and so are they that steal the word from their Neig●b●urs and say the Lord saith it and the Lord never spoke to them And do not they take fifty pounds an hundred two or three in the year more or less as they can get for the work that they generally do on that day Do they not make it their Market day to sell their stuff on Is th●s to sanctifie a Sabbath to the Lord And do not the people that follow them and so much cry them up think their own thoughts speak their own words and do their own works on that day Nay Do not many of them use vain drinking vain gaming and sporting on that day Will they not go to a Steeple-house one part of that day and spend the rest of it on their own lusts or labours Is this to sanctifie a Sabbath to the Lord And thus both priest and people are profane And whether do you believe that Christ suffered and rose again by which the worship was taken from the seventh day yea or nay And if Yea then do thou prove where it was tyed to one day above another again by any command in Scripture as a day in seven The Apostles held their meeting on the first day of the week and on other days of the week and so do we what hast thou now against us concerning the sanctifying of a Sabbath We wait on the Lord in filence as his Spirit guides us and we worship him in Spirit and as he reveals his word to us we speak as his Spirit gives us utterance both in praises and in prayers to our God on the day which he hath chosen to himself and so do we celebrate an everlasting Sabbath unto the Lord our God on the m●unt of his Hol●ness where the day is without night Priest Seeks not God at any time in Prayer saith thou Answ I say that is another of thy lies as they can w●tness who have been at our meetings Priest Craves not so much as a blessing on their meat and drink sayest thou Answ That is another of thy lies as many can witness who have eaten with us though we do not utter words outwardly at all times that we eat according to the exp●ctation of some men whose tongues are at their own or other mens command who have not the word immediate from the Lord but their own invented words and so they can utter that when they please or if another man bid them when he please●h then they can either crave a blessing or give thanks as ye call it and such craving as this which stands not in Gods counsel but in m●ns customs fashions and wills we do utterly deny and the example of Christ we own whose example we follow in our measures to the gl ry of his praises Priest In a word it throws off every Act of Religion sayest thou Answ It seems that the Father of lies is so fully seated in thee that he hath brought thee to his will to vent forth thy lies for this is another of them the light keeps all them that are guided by it in the pure Religion to relieve the strangers widdows and fatherless and the light keeps them unspotted of the world who are guided by it and the light denies all hypocrites and lyars like thy self who hath not power over their words all whose Religion is vain Priest And thou accusest us that we reprove the very worship of God Answ Zachariah Crofton if the worship of God had stood in lying thou had been grown very high in it and that God that gives thee to vent forth these lies and his worship we do reprove and d●ny and the God Truth and holiness and his worship which stands in spirit and truth which Christ speak o● we do own but the worship of the god of this world which stands in mens wills in outward forms times and customs observing of days moneths and times of eating and drinking and out-side washings sprinklings dippings plungings and the like outward dead helpless and needless shadows we do reprove and do deny them Priest And thou accuseth us that we reprove Prayer Reading Hearing Receiving of Sacraments and so forth Answ I say that ever we reproved the prayers of the righteous that is another of thy lies for we own it both in heart and voice but the Prayers of such liers as thou art and vain repetition of words we reprove and do deny them and for thy saying that we reprove Reading and Heari●g that is more of thy lies for reading of the Scripture and hearing of them read in the meas●re of the Spirit that gave them forth we do own and for receiving of Sacraments for which there is no Scripture we reprove and do deny it and return them back to the Pope who invented many of them and the true Baptisme and the Lords Supper according to the Scripture we own Priest Even all the practises of Piety they decry sayest thou Answ Zachariah Crofton that is another of thy lies thou labours hard to get thy measure full where did either thou or any man else hear any of us speak against a godly and pious life but