Selected quad for the lemma: reason_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
reason_n	divine_a	faith_n	revelation_n	3,413	5	9.3938	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A39305	A further discovery of that spirit of contention & division which hath appeared of late in George Keith, &c. being a reply to two late printed pieces of his, the one entituled A loving epistle, &c. the other, A seasonable information, &c. : wherein his cavils are answered, his falshood is laid open, and the guilt and blame of the breach and separation in America, and the reproach he hath brought upon truth and Friends by his late printed books, are fixed faster on him / written by way of epistle ... by Thomas Ellwood.	Ellwood, Thomas, 1639-1713.	1694 (1694)	Wing E623; ESTC R224514	71,867	130

Christ withn is held in common by him with them of all sorts of other Professions Besides seeing as G. K. says The true Doctrine of the Faith of Christ without teacheth Th●… the only true saving Faith of Christ'●… Death c. is wrought in Mens Hearts by Divine Illumination Revelation and Inspiration and is taught and begot by the Spirit in Mens Hearts There is the greater reason that the inward Appearance of Christ by his Light Grace and Spirit in the Heart should be the more frequently preached and Men directed and turned to that inward Teaching by the Spirit in their Hearts that by the Divine Illumination Revelation and Inspiration thereof the true Faith of Christ's death c. may be begot and wrought in their Hearts His 33d 34th 35th Charges relate all to one matter and seem to be divided and subdivided by him to make the greater shew The first he calls a Perversion of his modest Proposition about correcting some unsound Words in some Friends Books as if with purpose he would hunt for discover and expose if he can the nakedness of such as in comparison of himself may justly be reputed and called Fathers in the Truth This he thinks an uncharitable construction of his Words and that no good Christian that loves the Truth more than Men would judge the worse of him for correcting them tenderly and Christianly not as an Enemy but as a Friend and Brother But it may be guessed how tenderly and Christianly he would deal with the Dead by his harsh and unchristian dealing with the Living whom he has not dealt with us as a Friend and Brother but as an Enemy His comparing his correcting work to Sem's and Iaphet's going backwards to cover their Father's Nakedness gave me fit occasion to tell him he had mistook his point and taken up Ham's work instead of Sem's and Iaphet's For Sem and Iaphet covered the Nekedness which execrable Ham had discovered and exposed as G. K. would do In this he says I falsly accuse him but instead of proving I do so he turns off and says I reflect not only on him but on the late Christian Teachers and Writers who have corrected the Errors and unsound Expressions contained in the Books of them called the Greek and Latin Fathers In comparing the Books of Friends to the Books of them called The Greek and Latin Fathers he has not done as a Friend and Brother but as an Enemy in supposing Friends Books to have been written by no better guidance nor clearer sight than theirs who lived and writ in those dark times He is so idle as to charge me with perverting the Scripture Words in saying Blessed Sem and Japhet did therefore go backward that they might not see their Father's Nakedness And he makes this one of my 50 Perversions by which you may see how hard he was put to it to make his number up But instead of proving this a Perversion he says As if there were not a further matter and mystery in it Perhaps there might be but if there were he hath not shewed it nor my Perversion But he says If it had been only that they must not see their Father's nakedness they might have covered their Face and Eyes and gone forward and not see their Father's Nakedness But they took a more sure way in going backward and that which freed them from all suspicion of seeing or being willing to see their Father's Nakedness 36. He says I pervert his modest Proposition for every Proposition of his is modest with him and perhaps none but his That every one owned by us to be a Member of our Christian Society give some Declaration of their Faith This which he calls a modest Proposition I shewed from his own Words was an Imposition of a Verbal Confession of Faith without which none should be admitted into Church fellowship with him His Words are We are convinced and perswaded in our Consciences that God calleth us to separate from such Unbelievers and not to be yoked together in Church-fellowship and Discipline with any that we have not proof of by Confession of the Mouth c. Reas. of Sep. p. 22. 37. He complains also and makes it his 37th Charge that I pervert his Words that he makes a verbal Confession the Door of admittance into our Society which he says is altogether false This depends upon the former and is proved by those Words of his which I gave for proof of that viz. We are convinced said he and perswaded in our Consciences that God calleth us to separate c. and not to be yoked together in Church-fellowship and Discipline with any that we have not proof of by Confession of the Mouth c. This is that I call Verbal Confession If he like not the Word Verbal let him take Oral or Confession of the Mouth which is all one From my observing out of R. Barclay's Book called the Anarchy p. 48. which G. K. had perversly quoted that R. B. doth not make a bare Profession verbal Confession or Declaration of Principles c. to be any Terms at all of Church-Communion G. K. taking it to himself charges a Perversion on me and says This is false I make them not the Terms at all when the Profession is but barely verbal But he hath no such guard in the Place before quoted where he says We are convinced c. that God calleth us to separate c. and not to be yoked in Church fellowship c. with any that we have not proof of by Confession of the Mouth that they are sound in the Faith So that he makes a Verbal Confession a proof of their being sound in the Faith and this makes a Verbal Confession yea a bare verbal Confession sufficient to yoke them as he phrases it together in Church-fellowship His 39th 40th and 41st Relate to his pretended Quotations out of R. Barclay's Book before mentioned and my Observations thereupon from which he picks several Quarrels one that from his saying as the express Doctrine of R. B. though it be not That some Principles and Doctrines and Points of Faith are necessary to be agreed upon c. 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 c. He says I pervert his Words to a wrong sense as if his Sense were That Men were to contrive and cut out their own Terms and before they entred into a Society or Fellowship should consider consult and conclude among themselves what Principles Doctrines and Practices they would have to be the Terms and Bond of their Society Though this was not spoken directly of him but with respect to the Quotation he feigned to give out of R. B. yet he did well enough to take it to himself for I verily think it to be his Sense and the Terms he propounded it in speak the same And