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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	rule_n	scripture_n	word_n	4,530	5	4.5831	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A54246	A winding-sheet for controversie ended	Penn, William, 1644-1718.	1672 (1672)	Wing P1394; ESTC R217516	14,041	11

and has been by me Corrected with a Pen and never was in my Copy But what then do I answer it as All or Many If as the First then I Err yet perhaps not designedly neither but if as the Last MANY what Hurt have I done Sober Reader hear my Book If we excel in ALL Things as he confesseth there 's the Cavil which is to say there are but Few Things wherein we do not transcend all others how possibly can we be Dangerous and Dishonourable to the Christian Religion Is the Christian Religion among the Few Things wherein we are supposed wanting which is the main Thing of all If so what are the MANY Judge O Impartial People How Dis-ingenuously and with what Envy he hath aggravated that All for Many when my own Answer makes no Advantage by it but runs as it would have done had Many been instead of All Is it true then that to esteem it an Error in Printing is without Good Reason for which there is so evident a Reason Does this Man make Conscience of a Lye An Idle Shifter To his Second He is here as False as in the Former for the Paragraph immediately fore-going to which this has reference speaks thus He is pleased to allow us at least a great many of us to be Honest-Hearted c. If this takes in the Quakers in General or if any such word as Quakers in General be mentioned or by me made to be the Consequence of his words and not rather some of them I will confess to have wronged him In the mean time he has kept to his old wont of most Ungodly Defamations and fastening upon Mens Writings Plain Untruths but of his own making God the Righteous Judge will Reward him Pag. 9. § 8. Lastly But he tells us again that in Sect. 8. which is Page 13. of my Spirit of Truth Vindicated I say I will not give him the Lye and that in Page 92. I tell him he has broke his Word with us which in plainer English is He has told a Lye and would therefore fix the Lye on me saying I am Unchristian and Uncivil But if this be an Answer to my Just Objection against his Twice Breach of Promise with us not to Reflect yet immediately to do it not to use Scripture or Reason counting us Unworthy yet endeavour at both let 's forever give off Writing What tell me I Lye because more then Seventy Pages of the Former Passage in quite another case I say that breaking a Man's word is in Plainer English telling a Lyar If I did forbear it at first it was meer Curtesie The Author's Countenance in Lyes might well justifie my saying what I did however Lye and Contradict he did and he denies it not whatever I did but it seems his Proud Spirit can't abide to be spoken plainly to and to tell Truth of him or reprove his Lyes must cost a Man as much Implacable Scurrility as may be expected in case of Real Wrong from the most Dissolute of Men. This is H. H. with his Grim Socinian Cavils burson'd with Folly and Revenge For my Non-sence or Ignorance in my Mother-Tongue we will venture that with the World but the Press has injur'd me not a little I deny that ever Non-sence went to it whatever came from it However H. Hedworth is not my Judge Sect. II. of G. Fox § 1. P. 15. NOw let us hear what he says of G. F. He that is not Infallible is a Deluder but G. F. is not Infallible therefore G. F. is a Deluder The first proved from G. F's Book How can ye be Ministers of the Spirit and not be Infallible And how can they but Delude People who are not Infallible I Answer G. F's words stand Immoveable forever He that is a Minister of the Spirit is Infallibly so and in that Ministry is Infallible otherwise the Spirit 's Ministry is Fallible which is the Consequence of this Anti-spiritual Socinian and not of G. F's Doctrine Next They who are not Infallible as to the Things of God they Teach are not taught of God nor of his Spirit of Grace which gives Certain Unerring Understanding and so Deluders But G. F. never said That every one that is not Infallible is a Deluder in all things for a Man may be Fallible or Mistaken in some Matters wherein he is not a Deluder But the Drift of G. F's words is this That such Preachers who deny the Spirit 's Teachings and Infallible Knowledge as necessary to a Qualification of a Gospel Ministry are Deluders and in this Sence who pretend to Teach and know not the Certainty but the Incertainty rather of what they Teach such are Deluders and by this will I stand against this Vain Syllogizer in Defence of that Defamed yet Worthy Man G. F. But he endeavours to prove G. F. himself not Infallible Pag. 15 16. § 2. Next he that renders the Pronoun YE where it is to be understood or renders the Greek Preposition 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 BY WITH or AMONG or TO or puts HE for WE or what is equivalent is a Perverter or Corrupter of Scripture and not infallible as saith G. F. of his Adversaries but G. F. does so himself Ergo a Perverter and Corrupter the same about his being a Blasphemer since who corrupts Scripture preaches what he has not from Heaven therefore a Blasphemer O the Logick O the Ethicks but O the Metaphisicks of this Under-Graduat in Philosophy What! Is this any more then Bumbast Repetition It was time for Controversie to End indeed I say that G. F. had to do with such as believed every Particle yea the very Hebrew Points themselves to be part of the Scriptures divinely given forth as an unalterable and only Rule He denies it but asserts the Spirit of Truth that gave them forth to be the Rule especially since Christ's Manifestation in the Flesh The Priests therefore are Perverters and Corrupters if they leave out one Jot or Tittle but G. F. not so for if the Sense be rendred God never tyed People to the express words says he therefore G. F. his not oblieging himself to that exactness makes him no Perverter unless he should be judg'd by the untrue Notion other men have of a Rule that he submits not to which were Injustice it self This shows then how unwarrantably our Adversary useth my words against G. F. which are only due to himself and the Priests he defends unless he could make their Case one which he can never do and therefore what I say to them cannot be ascrib'd to G. F. but with manifest wrong For the Doctrinal Mistakes they shall be considered anon only thus far G. F. is no Perverter or Corrupter and consequently no Blasphemer if he put With for Among but the Priests are who so grievously transgress their own Rule for they esteem it no less by their Opinion of it Pag. 17. § 3. But Sol. Eccles's Testimony makes G. F little other then a God