Selected quad for the lemma: duty_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
duty_n	believe_v	faith_n	see_v	1,265	5	3.8101	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A46824	The state of the case, briefly but impartially given betwixt the people called Quakers, Pensilvania, &c. in America, who remain in unity, and George Keith, with some few seduced by him into a separation from them as also a just vindication of my self from the reproaches and abuses of those backsliders / by Samuel Jennings.	Jennings, Samuel, d. 1708.	1694 (1694)	Wing J670; ESTC R3996	38,369	87

you ha● a Sense contrary to Scripture At this Rat●● who can be secure in their Religious Reputation But I know the way he useth to take to Condemn by wholesale There are says he amongst you some that I have detected of Err●● which you by Cloaking and Covering have m●● your selves equally guilty with If this be true I say so too But I challenge him to nam● the Person amongst us that any orderly Complaint hath been made against and the matte proved that hath been Cloaked yea the hath not been testified against if they refuse to Clear Truth in any thing whereby a Scandal through their Means was brought upon 〈◊〉 either by Principle or Practice And at the last Yearly Meeting at Philadelphia a Minute w● made That great Care should be taken that 〈◊〉 any amongst us had given any Just Cause 〈◊〉 Offence they should be orderly dealt withal the Truth might be Cleared and the offence remove So that I think all his Pretences of Friend Cloaking c. in America are taken awya and will be no more a Cloak for him to Cove his false Accusations against them But because I find him so bitterly to Envy against a Person whom I am well assured he Abuses and Misrepresents I shall do him that Justice to speak my Knowledge of him in a matter wherein he G. K. doth highly and frequently Charge him Plea c. p. 5. Many are Witnesses saith he how at the School-house-Meeting as well as at these other Meetings aforesaid Tho. Lloyd Argued that Faith in Christ without us as he died for our Sins c. and rose again was not necessary to our Salvation I Confess I was not at that School-house-Meeting but since he refers to other Meetings before wherein he suggests him to have Argued in like manner I do remember that at other times and once especially I was present at a Discourse relating to that matter but the Question was not Whether Faith in Christ without us as he died for our Sins and Rose again was not necessary to Our Salvation But Whether that Faith were Indispensibly necessary to all Mankind and that none could be ●aved without it though they had not the Means Opportunity or Capacity to know or receive it Which will Include a great Part of Mankind is namely all those that have not the Use of ●he Holy Scriptures nor the Advantage of ●earing it Preached to them which will Affect many great Nations as also all Infants Deaf and Dumb Persons c. But G. K. ha●ing affirmed before That this Faith is indipensibly necessary to all occasioned the Discourse and carries with it a very harsh and uncharitable Judgment upon all that part of Mankind before mentioned Which I know not what can palliate but the strange Notion of the Revolution of Humane Souls Which makes it more than Probable that they shall have Opportunity one time or other before the End of the World of Hearing this Faith and Doctrine Preached and may receive it though now they die without it But this Point must be tenderly touched now because few are ripe for it Yet how far he hath Countenanced it is known to many Further he then said to Tho. Lloyd That if he were not of the same Faith he could not o●● him as his Christian Brother but yet he might be a Devout Heathen Now see the Fallacy of this he would suggest that T. Ll. made the Faith of Christ Crucified a very Indifferently thing Indefinitely when as then and many other times I have heard him Affirm That he di● believe it to be Our Duty who had the Advantag of having the holy Scriptures and hearing t●● Faeith Preached to receive and believe it I sha● say no more on this matter believing that none that know T. Ll. can Impartially Judge him Guilty of any thing so Antichristian I have thus far according as I premised given an Account of the Matter of the Difference in America as is pretended on his part and I hope I have also shown how little Real Ground there was for it But my Reader must not Expect that I should follow him in all his vain and frivolous Charges for that were to swell a Volume far beyond my Intention or Time It remains now that I give an Account what was then the Real Cause of this Unhappy Breach and Difference Which I will endeavour to do Candidly Cautiously and Truly The General Cause I take to be an Vnbounded Ambition in G. K. which had blown him up into such Towering Thoughts of himself as made him a very uneasie Member of any Society either Civil or Religious of which he hath given too pregnant Proofs as I shall shew hereafter He first began and sought a Qnarrel with the New-England-men making it his practice in many places where he came to Challenge Disputes with the Professors and Priests which ●ow little it redunded to Truth 's Advantage ● am a Witness being then in N. England with him And truly the Spirit and Temper ●n which he managed it being with great deat and Rage was a certain Indication to me ●hat he designed Victory and Vain Glory rather ●●an Edification In which I was the more ●●nfirmed by his Common Insults where he ●●ought he had any Advantage For it s a Maxime with me That who ever the Lord 〈◊〉 emploies in any Service of his he furnishes 〈◊〉 and abilitates with his own Spirit in the Dis●● charge thereof And how Contrary that is 〈◊〉 a Spirit of Wrath and Bitterness I leave to ●● determined by such as know the Fruits of ●ach And this single Observation hath been enough to many and one would think might be to all were they but Indifferent to satisfie them of the Nature of G. K's Work even the Spirit in which it s Acted Doth he exceed others in his Love and Zeal for God how comes he then to have so little of the Love of God shed abroad in his heart which teaches to Love Enemies but he hath not spared vilely to Abuse his Friends Is he under more than a Common Constraint to preach and Exalt the sufferings and Death c. of our blessed Saviour how comes he then to have so little of his Suffering Spirit and Image upon him And will he say he loveth God while he hateth his Brother Let him remember the Character due to such an one But I Confess I have made a little Digression by Expressing my own sentiments bu● shall now Return again to matter of Fact G. K. not having sufficiently vented himself by the Controversie he had with the New-Englanders he turns the point of his Weapon upon those he then owned and called his Friend And begins first about Church-Discipline conplaining That there was too great a Laxn●● therein For the Amendment of which b● presents a Paper to the Meeting of Ministring Friends in order to have it published and put ●● to practice But there being many things i● it which seemed very uncouth and