Selected quad for the lemma: evil_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
evil_n	darkness_n	good_a	sweet_a	3,257	5	8.2420	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A75886	A fannatick's testimony against swearing; being an ansvver to four books, published by John Tombes, Jeremiah Ives, and Theophilus Brabourne; but more especially to that by Henry Den. By Henry Adis, a baptized believer, undergoing the name of a free-willer; and also most ignomineously by the tongue of infamy, called a fannatick, or a mad man.	Adis, Henry.	1661 (1661)	Wing A583; Thomason E1084_2; ESTC R36719	46,294	50

which the Lord Christ hath left in the Holy Scriptures of Truth to be subjected to and to which the Churches in the Primitive times have yielded their obedience and yet they in most things as to common actions between man and man are some of them found acting justly and uprightly and far exceeding some of those that are in Gospel-Order and such that at the Judgement Day will rise up in Judgement against them although they themselves expect not to appear there for they do not believe that Resurrection And for thee to poyson a People with such a palpable grosse Errour is an Evil of a Transcendant Nature and to bend thy Abilities of Humane Learning as some others have and do to thwart the Dictates of Grace and the Requirements of the Spirit in Matth. 5. and James 5. is a matter of no small dangerous Consequence For saith our Saviour Whosoever shall break one of these least Commandements and teach men so shall be called least in the Kingdom of Heaven Matth. 5.19 And therefore I shall desire thee to Query seriously with thine own Conscience whether thou comest not under that Wo of Christ Matth. 22.13 pronounced against those who will not only refuse to go in themselves nor yet suffer others to enter The next thing thou tellest us of to perswade us to Swear is that there is no Nation so Barbarous but doth acknowledge the Religious use of an Oath in calling their God to Witness To which I Answer If the Heathen and barbarous People which have no knowledge of the true God do Swear BY their false gods doth it therefore follow that we who have the knowledge of the TRUE GOD and are in Gods own way and Worship that we must TAKE EXAMPLE by them to SWEAR BY OUR GOD And because they calling their god to witnesse to what they do they look upon that calling to witness to be SWEARING must we needs be so sensless as to say that calling our God to witness to the truth of what we say or do that this is Swearing BY our God The next thing that I shall take notice of in Page 5. is where thou usest this Expression Now how can that thing be accompted Evil which is approved by all Nations To which I Answer How canst thou O Henry Den without blushing and calling thy Reason to question Query such a thing And therefore in thy next words I must desire thee to recollect thy Thoughts and consider what thou hast said in Print and exposed it to publick view Thou dost desire That we would Recollect our Thoughts and Consider whether we can give one Instance of any one Evil which hath been allowed and Approved by all Nations To which I Answer The Worshipping of false gods or the true God after a false manner is the general course of all Nations Now the Worshipping of a false god or of the true God after a false MANNER is an Evil and a great one And we know that it is the Consent of all Nations to continue in a false way and that in hatred and opposition to the true Worship and Service of God the truth of which I shall leave to the Godly Party to judge of And in Page 6. thou Queriest Why we should think it Unlawful to Swear when the Consent of Nations the Example of Prophets and Kings and Righteous men of old and in a condinued series for the most part until this time when the Example of Angels yea of Almighty God himself stands all at your Right hand What one Practice is there that you have more and greater Evidence for To which I Answer That all that hath been said is to no purpose at all for Consent of Nations can be no Rule for Gospel Disciples to walk by because they are required to walk by that Rule Line and Measure that the Apostle walked by and acted in who hath written and left the same to us for a Rule and from which he and they did not dare to derogate 2 Cor. 10.12 to 17. for our only care ought to be that our Conversation be regulated according to the Gospel Phil. 1.27 and not by the Light within only as some would have it nor after the manner of the Heathen as thou wouldest have it the which thou endeavourest to perswade Souls to walk by And therefore Query with thy self Henry Den whether thou art not such an one who with cunning Craftiness liest in wait to deceive Eph. 4.14 and such an one that goeth about to pervert the Gospel of Christ Gal. 1.7 And if a Wo according to the saying of Christ shall betide the Servants of Christ when all men shall speak well of them Luk. 6.26 Query further with thy self Henry Den how far thou art from that Wo pronounced against those that are blind Guides who say men may Swear c. Mat. 23.16 and so endeavourest to perswade them to Comply with all men in their Iniquities And if the Apostle John's words be true who saith That the whole World lieth in wickedness 1 Joh. 5.19 and yet thou perswadest us to walk by their Rule directing us to it as Good when the Spirit saith it is Evil Whether dost thou not pull down that Wo upon thine own head that is pronounced by the Prophet Isa 5.20 Wo unto them that call good evil and evil good that put Light for Darknesse and Darknesse for Light that put Bitter for Sweet and Sweet for Bitter And whether thy deep humane Learning hath not puffed thee up so as to seem wise in thine own eyes and so thou plunge thy self into Wo after Wo for Wo to them that are wise in their own eyes and prudent in their own conceit Isa 5.21 And further If the Consent and Practice of Nations be such a direct Rule to walk by as that it is of Divine Authority as thou endeavourest to beat us into a belief of it is Why then art thou found under the Baptism of Believers the which all Nations considered as Nations so much abominate and walk contrary to And whether thy words in print and thy practice do not evidently contradict each other for by thy own Assertions thou shouldest be an Idolater and a follower and worshipper of false gods Therefore before I go further I would desire thee rationally to consider and judge whether thou speakest by that Spirit that leadeth into all Truth or whether thou speakest not out of a principle of Humane Learning and as one of the Disputers of this World as the Wise and as the Scribes which God hath made foolishness 1 Cor. 1.20 and so art become such an one as our Apostle speaks of 1 Tim. 1.7 who desirest to be a Teacher of such a Law as the Example and Consent of Nations is to be of Divine Authority and so to learn the People of God to swear contrary to the Law of Christ Whether art not thou become such an one that knowest not what thou sayest nor whereof thou doest affirm