Selected quad for the lemma: spirit_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	faith_n	grace_n	receive_v	7,604	5	5.6899	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A47123	An appeal from the twenty eight judges to the spirit of truth & true judgment in all faithful Friends, called Quakers, that meet at this Yearly Meeting at Burlington, the 7 month, 1692	Keith, George, 1639?-1716.; Hutcheson, George, 1615-1674.; Society of Friends. Burlington Yearly Meeting.	1692 (1692)	Wing K141; ESTC R14383	6,130	9

with him 2. Whether they who have signed that Paper against him are not guilty of giving him Names that did not belong to him but may be justly accounted Names of Reviling Vngodly Speeches and false Accusations And whether Samuell Jenings particularly is not greatly to be blamed for calling G. K. Worse than Prophane and Apostate seeing we know not wherein G. K. is in any one particular gone from Friends Doctrine or Practice or what thing or things he is guilty of so as to be worthy of having his Ministry denyed 3. Whether it cannot be proved that that Faction which have sufficiently shown their Opposition and Prejudice against G. K. and have signed to that Paper against him are guilty of Cloaking more Damnable Heresies and Errors than any Protestant Society in Christendom while it can be proved against them that they have not only cloaked W. Stockdale for above 18 Months in saying To preach Faith in Christ within and in Christ without it to preach Two Christs and Tho. Witzwater in saying The Light in sufficient without any thing else and That he owned no man Christ Jesus as Mediator is Heaven but the Grate of God within him and saying in his Prayer O God that dy●d in us and laid down thy Life in us c. and saying That he had not learned that Lesson whether the God head was crucified on the Tree of the Cross or some-what that he took of the Virgin c. but they have cloaked divers other Persons in their vile and gross Errors as can be sufficiently proved particularly Sam. Jenings in saying To do our own business as men we needed not a super-natural Power and Tho. Lloyd in arguing some hours That we might be Christians good enough without the Faith of Christ as he dyed for our sins and rose again without us and Arthur Cook John Simcock in their charging G. K. for imposing Novelties upon them when he affirmed Christ was in Heaven in the same Body for being in which he suffered and J. Simcock denyed that Christ rose in the same Body in which he suffered and Robert Young in saying That he read not in all the Scriptures of Christ without and Christ within and that Christ was seperated from his Body in the Cloud and Rob. Owen William Southbe in denying any general Day of Judgment and the Resurrection of the Dead but only what every one witnessed within here Whether these with many more that can be proved were not cause enough for G. K. to say More Damnable Heresies Errors were cloaked among the Quakers here than in any Protestant Society in Christendom 4. Seeing their Paper signed by the 28 mentioneth a main matter of Controversie betwixt G. K. and them which they say they proffered to refer to one of his own Books or to the Yearly Meeting here or to the Yearly Meeting at London Let them show what that main Matter of Controversie is and wherein his present Doctrine doth contradict any of his former Books which he saith they can never prove 5. Whether the Act of the Monthly Meeting at Philad●lphia the 26 of 3d Month 1692. is according to Christian Doctrine That the Light is sufficient without any thing else thereby excluding the Man Christ Jesus without u● and his Death Sufferings Resurrection Ascention Mediation Intercession for us in Heaven from having any part or share in our Salvation and thereby making him only a Titular but no real Saviour as one zealous for that side lately called the Difference betwixt them and us concerning Christ An empty Barrel and another great Zealot said He did not believe to be saved by that which dyed at Jerusalem 6. Whether it be necessary to our salvation to believe That Christ dyed for our sins without us rest again and is gone into Heaven without us and there doth make Intercession for us And whether it doth not belong to sound Christian Doctrine to believe That Christ will come without us in his glorified Body to judge the quick and the dead and that there shall be a general Day of Judgment and that there is a Resurrection of the Dead to be that the deceased Saints have not yet attained generally but wait for it until Christs Coming And whether there is not to be a Resurrection of the Body that is not the Resurrection or quickening of the Soul only as some falsly imagine Let them clear themselves in these things they haviug given us just cause to suspect them Unbelievers therein 7. Whether every true Christian is not taught led to believe in the Power and Spirit of Christ his Eight and Life inwardly revealed and by the help of the said measure to believe in him who hath the Fullness even the Man Christ Jesus without us glorified in Heaven And whether by True Faith in the Man Christ Jesus without us as it is wrought by the measure of the Spirit and Light of Christ in us we receive not a daily supply and increase of more Grace Light Life and a further measure of the Spirit from the Man Christ Jesus And whether they who have not this Faith in the Man Christ Jesus without them are worthy to bear the honourable Name of Christians 8. Whether it is not a great and necessary part of Christian Doctrine necessary to be preached in order to bring People to an inward knowledge enjoyment of God and Christ and the holy Spirit to preach Faith in Christ without us even the Man Christ Jesus as he dyed for our sins and rose again is ascended into Heaven and there maketh Intercession for us as well as Faith in Christ in us as he doth inwardly enlighten us And whether it can be said that the Man Christ Jesus is in us otherwise than by a figurative Speech of giving the Name of the whole to the measure or part as when th● Sun is said to be in such a House the fullness of the Sun's light is only in the Body of the Sun and but a stream of Light cometh from the Sun into the House 9. Whether the said 28 Persons had not done much better to have passed Judgment against som of their Brethren at Philadelphia some of themselves being guilty for countenancing allowing some call'd Quakers and owning them in so doing to hire men to fight giving them a Commission so to do signed by 3 Justices of the Peace one whereof being a Preacher among them as accordingly they did and recover'd a Sloop took some Privateers by Force of Arms 10. Whether hiring men thus to fight also to provide the Indans with Powder Lead to fight against other Indians be not a manifest Transgression of our Principle against all use of the carnal Sword other carnal Weapons And whether these call'd Quakers in their so doing have not greatly weakened the Testimony of Friends in England Barbadoes c. who have suffered much for the is refusing to contribute to

An 〈◊〉 from the Twenty Eight JUDGES TO THE Spirit of Truth true Judgment In all Faithful Friends called Quakers that meet at this Yearly Meeting at Burlington the 7 Month 1692. WHereas twenty eight Persons called Friends of the Ministry have publish't a Paper of false Judgment against George Keith and the rest of his Friends and Brethren without any Hearing or Tryal We in behalf of the rest do make this our Serious and Solemn Appeal to the Spirit of Truth true Judgment in you all that by the help guidance of the same ye may enquire and search into the matter requesting beseeching you to do Justice in these things for the Vindication of the Truth the honour of Christ the Peace of your Consciences the Credit and Repute of our holy Profession making up the Breach that is among us if possible ans●ering the expectation of our faithful Brethren in England and other places of the World who will be greatly concern'd with us that Justice and true Judgment may take place impartially and without respect of Persons And Friends Think it not strang● that we Appeal to you universally that by the Spirit of Truth ye may give true Judgment in these matters concerning Us and these Twenty Eight Persons and others of the Ministry who are joyned with them therein for tho' upon a pretence of their being Ministers they claim a Superiority over you the Lords Heritage People as if ye were not capable nor qualified to judge them but that they have Authority to judge you on this pretended Authority too like the Roman-Hierarchy they have sent their Paper of Judgment against us to you tho' they wer● Yearly Meeting ●or any true Representative of the Body 〈…〉 these three Provinces but a Party or Faction of 〈…〉 against the Truth and us the defamed Witnesses of it many of whom we can prove guilty of great Ignorance and Error in Doctrine as well as some of them are guilty of evil and scandalous Practice repugnant to our holy Profession and some that have been too busie to comply with their usurped Authority over you have re●d the said Judgment in divers Monthly Quarterly and other Meetings without the consent of the said Meetings or so much as asking it All which we Appeal to you Whether it be not a manifest Usurpation over you and seeking to bring you into Bondage And when we have at several Meetings requested the Friends of the said Meetings to enquire examine the matter of Difference between these twenty eight men us some of the said 28 have still refused to suffer the thing to come to any further Examination or Judgment pretending None have Power to judge in th●se Matters but Friends of the Ministry whereof these 28 are the far greatest part in these 3 Provinces and most of the rest of the Preachers are joyned with them to uphold and defend them in their Tyrannical Usurpation over your Consciences as if ye were only to see with their Eyes and hear with their Ears and not with your own and that ye were to take all things without all due Examination and Tryal by an implicit Faith Papist-like from them But if there remain that Nobility in you and sence of your Christian-Liberty and Freedom where-withall Christ hath made you Free as we hope there doth ye will not suffer your selves to be so imposed upon nor to be thus Ass-rid by them as to take things by a ba●e implicit Faith from them but every one of you to see with your own spirituall Eyes and hear with your Spiritual Ear● of Gods opening and to bring these weighty things of Difference to the true Touch-stone the Spirit of Truth and true Judgment in your selves which ye have as well as t●ey and which many of you are better taught by and acquainted with than they even as formerly it was that many of the 〈◊〉 say beyond the Priests and Teachers in the dayes of the ●●●hets and of Christ in the Flesh and the Apo●les all of late many Thousands of the People have seen beyond the Priest and Teachers and have been made able by the Spirit of Truth to judge them for their great Ignorance and Error And that ye may have the better Opportunity to examine these matters and impartially and throughly to search into them and judge of them we have procured to be printed their three Papers of Judgment viz. the first given forth by their Monethly Meeting at Philadelphia the 26 of 3d Month 1692. wherein they clear Tho. Fitzwater and condemn G. K. for saying The Light is not sufficient without something else which something else Thomas Lloyd as the Mouth of the said Monthly Meeting acknowledged They knew G. K. held to be the Man Christ Jesus and what he did and suffered for us on Earth and what he now doth for us in Heaven The 2d Judgment is given forth by them called Friends of the Ministry concerning W. Stockdale signed by Sam. Jenings as Clark of the said Meeting the 4 of 4 Month 1692. The 3d signed by 28 of them of the Ministry against G. K. and his Friends c. Which said Judgments we desire you to compare with our Printed Answer called The Plea of the Innocent c and another Paper called An Expostulation with Thomas Lloyd Samuel Jenings c. and another by way of Epistle in answer to their three false Judgments And we earnestly request and desire of you to procure of these 28 men that we may have a publick Hearing with these men before you all at a place and time mutually appointed by them and us before the People he gone from the Yearly Meeting and that an orderly Method be agreed upon betwixt them and us to prevent all Confusion and especially that none but one speak at once and that every one that speaketh who is concerned may have full Liberty without Interruption in order to which we are most willing that one or two Impartial and Judicious men may be c●●sesby both them and us to preside and 〈…〉 Power to command and enjoin Silence to any of them 〈…〉 they shall see occasion and whoever of them or us yieldeth not obedience to the said Command shall ● and declared unworthy uncapable of further speaking at ● said publick Conference And also we demand that Justice of these 28 men that they will give us the said Publick Hearing and Tryal before you And let these particular things be discoursed of and come to a publick Hearing and Tryal at the said Meeting and what other things they and we shall agree to viz. 1. Whether George Keith hath been proved guilty by these 28 men his Accusers of Reviling Vngodly Speeches and false Accusations Or whether he hath given Names to any of them as alledged in their Paper that they did not deserve did not belong to them And whether it be not false that they say This Meeting having Tenderly and Orderly dealt