Selected quad for the lemma: duty_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
duty_n	christian_n	good_a	great_a	1,170	5	2.4228	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A56659	Falsehood unmaskt in answer to a book called Truth unveil'd, which vainly pretends to justify the charge of Mr. Standish against some persons in the Church of England / by a dutiful son of that church.	Patrick, Simon, 1626-1707.	1676 (1676)	Wing P796; ESTC R11930	17,061	28

not their own Mothers Son but he must still be persecuted with the same calumnies now that he is laid in his Grave But it is no wonder that Pen should do it which bestows such commendations on him who reproaches not only our Bishops but the most famous persons of that Order which have been known in the Christian world I mean the facetious and candid Marvel as you praise him p. 34. with whom honest Mr. Standish as you there truly term him will not take it well to be joyned in the very same breath as if he carried on the same design with that Gentleman He is an honester man I dare say than you would have him and hates that which you applaud with all his heart What do you really think a Son of the Church of England can be in love with him that laughs at the primitive times and makes a jest of the venerable Council of Nice and drolls upon the Bishops assembled there as if they were a company of pitiful Dunces whose understandings were sequestred and knew not what to believe but as they were every day instructed by their Chaplains p. 58. Call you this Facetiousness And is it Candor too when he tells us in his Rehearsal Transpros'd that the highest pinnacle of Ecclesiastical Felicity for the Clergy still have most of his kindness is to asswage their lust and wrack their malice p. 10. And when in the conclusion of his last work we read that the Bishops have induced His Majesty to more severity than all the Reigns since the Conquests will contain if summ'd up together What Not Queen Maries Reign excepted No nor the late Reign of the Presbyterians and Independents Were the flames in Smithfield and all the Sequestration I am loth to mention all the rest of the dreadful sufferings which our times have known mere gentleness in comparison with the present rigors When with so much lenity also as was never known in any Reign such Books as these are suffered to confute their own accusations Good God! how partial are the best sort of Christians grown if you may be believed who can swallow all this glibly and merrily with a great deal of smuttiness to boot which I have observed in the Rehearsal Transpros'd but keck at Dr. Hammond and the Whole Duty of Man c. which will by no means down with them What an odd kind of Conscience is this which cryes out How long O Lord how long p. 35. as if you wondred at his forbearance because some men speak of justifying Faith in other terms than you would have them and can not only suffer but countenance him who directly strikes at a main Principle of Christianity viz. That our Saviour is the Eternal Son of God begotten before all worlds of one substance with the Father For he saith the Council of Nice imposed a NEW ARTICLE or Creed upon the Christian world when this was the very thing they stood upon that they only declared the antient belief which had always been from the beginning concerning the Son of God What outcries would you have made had any person of our Church been guilty of such a fact How prophane how impious would you have thought it to call that explication which they made of the antient Faith a gibberish of their own imposing a Cant wherein they forced others to follow them How oft would you have repeated your facinus ante hoc inauditum p. 35. and reiterated your Hen in the next pages whereas you can read this in him and be as calm as a Lamb nay entertain him with the friendly complement of the facetious and candid Marvel Well I see by this what the care is which some most zealously pretend to have least there should be the smallest innovation in the Doctrine of the Church of England which expresly declares in the 8 Article that the Nicene Creed together with that of Athanasius and the Apostles ought to be thorowly received and believed for they may be proved by most certain warrants of Holy Scripture And in the Second Article it asserts in plain words the Son to be the very Eternal God of one substance with the Father c. Such is the gibberish of the Church of England as he and you too in effect call it for which if you were indeed as much concerned as you imagine and did not deceive your self with an unequal zeal you would so reason upon this occasion as you fancy you do upon another to beblur your paper with Tears more than Ink. For you cannot pretend that any of those whom you trouble your self so much withal have affronted her Doctrine in so audacious a manner as this Writer hath done whom you can read not only with dry Eyes but with a merry Heart There would have been no end of your complaints could you have found any thing so black in our Books we should have had our ears filled with clamours from all parts of the Kingdom and nothing sounded in them but that Christianity was betrayed the name of our Lord blasphemed c. by an impious Innovator You your self though now you be silent would have joyned with them and said that he had out-done all others in scurrility calumny and prophaneness as you accuse others that deserve a better character you would have sobb'd and sigh'd and sate down full of Marvel you must give me leave to fancy how you would have spoken and in deep astonishment that such a thing such an inauditum facinus should be committed in our Israel And truly I am so astonished at it and at your partiality that I am able to go no further but must here break oft abruptly After I have told you that I am notwithstanding so charitable looking upon you in an ill fit when you writ this Book that as you take me for an honest Countrey Gentleman so I take you for no less which of us is mistaken let the world judge without giving it any further trouble by either of our scriblings about this business It had not been troubled with mine I assure you but that I thought it was necessary you should see your Zeal cannot be so great for one way but there are men in the Church of England who will equal it and are as much concern'd and can say as much for the other way And now that this is done let us betake our selves to our Prayers which is the best employment That God would enlighten all our Eyes to see the way of Truth and Righteousness Amen Octob. 20. 1676. FINIS