Selected quad for the lemma: virtue_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
virtue_n	godliness_n	love_n	temperance_n	1,495	5	11.3666	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A62896	An awakening voice to the Papists declaring to them the fallen state of the Pope from Peter's, and of the Church of Rome from what it once was : in love to the souls of those who have any uprightness in their hearts towards the Lord (but through ignorance are held in bondage) that they may be awaked, and see where they lie, and if any shall smother these things, lest they should come to the sight or knowledge of that people, let them take heed, that they bring not upon themselves the guilt of their blood / William Tomlinson.	Tomlinson, William.	1673 (1673)	Wing T1845; ESTC R10231	20,715	28

of murderring the Innocent And such principles as this is part of that Smoak that hath risen out of the bottomless pit of Men's Imaginations and hath darkened the bright shining of the Gopel of Truth and kept Men in the destroying Nature ignorant of God and of Christ And he that opened this bottomless pit and let out such Smoak was a Star fallen from Heaven The Angels or Ministers of the Churches Christ called Stars Apoc. 1.20 Now this was a star fallen to whom the Key of the Bottomless pit was given who had power to open the pit This must needs be in the Churches of Christ for there were the Stars Now what is the Use or power of a Key but to let forth or shut in This Star had got that power that he could let forth smoke out of the bottomless pit He could establish Principles and Doctrines and Traditions of his own and so open the bottomless pit of Men's Inventions and Imaginations for there is no bottom to be found And so here rises a smoak out of this pit which darkens the Sun the pure Light received from Christ And so the bright Sunshine of Truth being darkened with smoaky Imaginations of Men's Hearts and Wisdom of the Flesh out comes the Locusts out of this smoak who have Power to kill and so comes in the murdering Spirit again which was once cast out by the Doctrine of Christ and of his Holy Apostles And the King over these murdering Locusts was he that was the Angel of the bottomless pit the Star that was fallen from Heaven Rev. 9.1 2 3 11. Thus you see whence was the reviving of the killing Spirit which had been prohibited by Christ It was from a fallen Star one that was fallen from the pure Doctrine of Christ and from an Innocent and Heavenly Life yet retained such Power from his place that he was in that he could make his own smoaky Imaginations take place and his fleshly Wisdom which works contrary to the Wisdom of God Thus this man of Sin being exalted above all that is called God or that is worshipped you may understand what Power he hath and whereto it tends It works quite contrary to Christ Jesus and to the Holy Apostles though under pretence of honouring them he bears up himself in peoples Imaginations as Successor to them and the chief Father in the Church of Christ People open your Eyes and be not so befooled with that doating blockish principle that Ignorance is the Mother of Devotion but search the Scriptures and try all things and hold fast that which is good as you are exhorted in the Scripture to do 1 Thes 5.21 And those at Berea that did so when Paul preached to them were commended for it and counted of a more Noble Spirit then others in that they would search and see with their own Eyes and not take things upon trust therefore many of them believed as you may read Act. 17.10 11 12. Is it likely that Ignorance should make men more devout to God Have not the most knowing Men in the World been alwayes the most devout to God Search the Scriptures from end to end and see Begin at Enoch who saw Dayes that are yet to come so far of was not be devout to God think you who had this Testimony that he walked with God Was not Abraham devout towards God who fore-saw the Day of Christ in his time and rejoyced Did Moses want Devotion Did his being brought up in all the Learning of Aegypt or his great Knowledge in all the Counsels of God make him less devout to God Was David less devout because he made the Testimonies of the Lord his Delight and his Meditation and doth not he pronounce him Blessed whose Delight is in the Law of the Lord Was Daniel less devout by understanding by Books the time of their Captivity O sottish principle contrary to all Experience have not the most devout Men mentioned in Scripture been Men of deep Understanding in the things of God for shame you Teachers among the Papists teach them better Doctrine and let it appear that you do so by their Liberty and Boldness to search into all Truth For we know you do but lye if you say you teach them otherwise whilst they live according to that principle and dare not search the Scriptures Do ye not remember that it was said of old Hos 4.6 My People are destroyed for lack of Knowledge What do you delight in the Destruction of people that you keep them lockt up by such a principle from searching the Scriptures It s a Doctrine to be abhorred by all Men as fit only for Hell and the Kingdom and Children of Darkness who hate the Light lest their Deeds should be discovered But it s not to be admitted among the Children of Light who are not of the Night but of the Day who love the Light and bring their Deeds to the Light that they may be made manifest that they are wrought in God If the Pope and his Subjects were Children of the Day they would not fear the Light but love it as all Children of the Light do But being in Darkness they love the Darkness and its fit Doctrine for his Kingdom to keep his Subjects and Slaves in Darkness lest they should discover his Abominations and so deliver their own Souls from under his Thraldom for Ignorance is the Mother of Devotion to him and to the dead Forms of Worship and vain Repetitions and Traditions which he keeps the People in Bondage to for his own Gain But let him or any of his shew from the Writings of the Holy Men of God where ever such Doctrine was taught among them It s he that hath the Key of the bottomless Pit that hath taken away the Key of Knowledge darkening the Sun and the Air with his smoak It s he that hath let out that Doctrine out of the bottomless Pit Deliver your selves you poor deluded People who are held Captive in his Chains of Ignorance under that serpentine Fallacy that it is the Mother of Devotion for its only so to him but not to God who will have the Knowledge of himself to be as the Waters that cover the sea as he hath promised and shall be fulfiled in due time And therefore Peter opens to you the Way to Knowledge but this false Successor shuts up the Way to Knowledge Add to Faith Vertue saith Peter and to Vertue Knowledge and to Knowledge Temperance and to Temperance Patience and to Patience Godliness and to Godliness Brotherly-Kindness and to Brotherly-Kindness Love for if these things be in you and abound 2 Pet. 1. they make that you shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the Knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ but he that lacketh these things is blind and cannot see far off and in that Blindness would the Pope and his Agents keep you by Doctrines of Darkness lest you should see too far to be ruled by them If you did