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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
world_n	grace_n	teach_v	ungodliness_n	2,208	5	11.7915	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A31664	A brief apology in behalf of the people in derision call'd Quakers written for the information of our sober and well-inclined neighbors in and about the town of Warminster in the county of Wilts. by Wil. Chandler, Alex. Pyott, Jo. Hodges, and some others.	Chandler, William.; Pyott, Alex. (Alexander); Hodges, Jo.	1694 (1694)	Wing C1934A; ESTC R35979	36,422	93

uncharitable Expression Devil must needs carry us a pick-pack to Hell Is it in that we hold forth the infinite Love of God to Mankind in not only freely of his meer Grace and Favour providing a Sacrifice through which an Atonement is made for the past Transgressions of Man who was never at all in a capacity to make any for himself Joh. 3.15 16. Act. 10.43 1 Cor. 12.7 which is applicable to every one who shall believe repent and return but hath also afforded to all the means of Faith Repentance and Conversion for God requires not impossibilities of Men but expects they should improve those talents distributed to them In not only sending forth the Son of his love to dye for their Sins that they should no longer live therein but also in sending forth his Light and Spirit of Truth into their Hearts Joh. 14.16 17 26. 16.13 to lead and guide them into all Truth and causing his Grace that brings Sal●ation Tit. 2.11 12. to appear to all Men to in●truct and teach them to deny all Ungodliness and Worldly Lusts to forsake the Devil and all his Works the Pomps and Vanities of this wicked World to rescue and save them from ●iving in the sinful Lusts of the Flesh and help and strengthen them to return to their Obedience and live a Sober Righteous and Godly Life to keep God's Holy Will and Commandments and walk in the same all the days of their Lives Which Gift from God to Man the Holy Scriptures plentifully testifie too under various denominations as Spirit Light Word Grace Seed Leaven Anointing c. By all which we understand that Spirit or Heavenly Talent Mat. 25.14 15. with which God hath endowed Mankind in some degree or other that he may profit with it in the improvement whereof by a diligent Co-working therewith to the answering those holy ends for which we receive it we doubt not but to be happy in rendring a good account of our Stewardship and entring finally into the Joy of our Lord. Our Opposers themselves also pretend to the Spirit and Grace of God or else what means their Praying for its Assistance and those plausible fine-spun Discourses of it wherewith they sometimes entertain their Auditory We Charitably hope 't is more real than only to beautify and recommend them to the Hearers as what they cannot well avoid for that the Scriptures are so full of that Language and if indeed it be real why is that a●… Fault and Error in us which is so sound and ornamental in them And we think it very strange that they should apprehend any incongruity in granting this Divine Principle to be a Divine Light to the Mind since its proper Office is to teach and instruct to manifest and point to us our Duty as well as to dispose and enable us to perform it and ought to be our Leader and Governour If the Godly Admonitions Tit. 2.11 12. Joh. 14.17 26. 16.7 8 13 14. 1 Joh. 2.27 and Exemplary Lives of Good Men were rightly called Lights to the World surely much more properly may this whose Fountain is Light and does more nearly illuminate and inform the Understanding and renders those effectual justly challenge that necessary and acceptable appellation If then the Grace and Spirit of God be in the Hearts of Men surely 't is not wholly unactive there ●●t will be making some Attempts ●●wards accomplishing the end for ●hich 't is placed there 't will be at ●●mes attacking the Enemy and endea●●uring to supplant its contrary for ●●ing holy and pure in its Nature it s ●…ver reconcileable to Sin and Evil ●…t ever strives against it and may as ●●…en regard it be infallibly known by ●●e nature of its efforts And we dare ●ppeal even to all Mankind whether ●●ey find not something placed in their ●inds and Consciences which though ●erhaps not regent there yet never ●ingles with nor consents to their e●●… deeds but always remains undefi●●d and testifies against them and con●●icts reproves Joh. 3.20 21. Eph. 5.13 and condems them for 〈◊〉 and also oft-times in the cooler ●…emper of their Spirits manifests their ●…ates to them and as 't were Reasons ●ith them discovering the evil of their ●ays secretly calling to them to come ●ut of it begetting Desires and Incli●ations sometimes to seek after God ●nd to make their Peace with him Now since Man in his meer natural ●tate is totally Dead and fallen from God that he cannot as of himself think 〈◊〉 good Thought and that God only ●…s essentially good and as that which is truly so must needs proceed fro● him Joh. 16.8 13. this Principle in us that ever co●victs us for Vice and Evil whether 〈◊〉 Thought Word or Deed and dispose● us to consider of our latter end Prov. 14.13 an● oft makes Men sigh in the midst 〈◊〉 Laughter reminding them that f●… those things they must give an A●count that draws us Heaven-ward and inclines us to Vertue and Goodness to do to all Men as we would b●… done unto to be Just Sober Merciful Temperate c. Must needs b●… something that is not of us but 〈◊〉 pure and immaculate and of a divin● nature ever aspiring and raising th●… Mind towards its Original Whence it cannot be a Natural Light or meer light of Nature as very man● would have it who yet talk of the Spirit of God being in Man for 't is a● undoubted truth that no Agent can act beyond its own sphere and raise its object to a state more noble that it self nor produce effects of a Nature more sublime than its own Original Besides 't is very clear and evident from Scripture Job 21.17 Psal 18.28 that the Mind of Man is oft lighted by a Light superiour to that of meer Reason and that Man by the utmost power and extent of Humane Reason and Speculation though 〈◊〉 may arrive to an implicit know●●dge that there is a God yet can ●ver attain to a true spiritual and ●●ving knowledge of God without the ●oncurrence of a Divine and Super●●tural Agent Ro. 1.19 2 Cor. 4.6 Prov. 20.27 Luk. 24.45 Joh. 1.9 Eph. 5.13 14 17. Psal 36.9 For though the Mind 〈◊〉 Man as a Rational Being be that ●apacity or Candle that is to be Light●● yet 't is Christ that must so en●●ghten it as to give us a true dis●●rning of those things that appertain ●o him and his Kingdom and by ad●ering and yielding Obedience to its Discoveries Prov. 4.18 1 Cor. 2.10 to the end we shall know an Accession ●f more Light And the Apostle speak●ng of what God by his Spirit had re●ealed to them saith expresly that ●he spirit searcheth all things yea the deep things of God and that as none knows the things of a Man save the Spirit of Man which is in him so the things of God knows no Man but the Spirit of God That the Natural Man neither knoweth nor receiveth the