Selected quad for the lemma: love_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
love_n	call_v	great_a	lord_n	3,043	5	3.4503	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B02465	A lye is no scandal. Or a vindication of Mr. Mungo Craig, from a ridiculous calumny cast upon him by T. A. who was executed for apostacy at Edinburgh, the 8 of January, 1697.	Craig, Mungo.	1697 (1697)	Wing C6799A; ESTC R174378	11,849	17

Charge would be by a Thousand times a more valid Vindication of me because such a thing cou'd never be laid to my Charge by any Man SECTION III. Wherein the second part of the Calumny is demonstrated to be false THere is one previous consideration I would offer to the Reader before I proceed to this point viz That in proving the falsity of the other Clause I had a great advantage that I lake here my proper station in that being to Oppugn but here the scene is changed my Office properly being to defend my self from any thing that he had to lay to my Charge and his to prove it But by his bare asserting of the thing that but seemingly too (a) Sect 1. Observe 2. without giving particular Instances I am deprived of many eminent Topicks from which I might have made his malice demonstratively evident to the World Notwithstanding in the strength of the Lord I shall lay down such grounds for the contrary of his Assertion taken in the strictest sense that can be put upon it that tho every one of them in it self considered will not be a Demonstration yet we may draw a conclusion from them collectively considered not inferior to any evidence that a thing of that nature can admit of which may serve for an Example that a Holy and Wise God will never leave oppressed innocence without a sufficient ground of Vindication Then Consider 1 That I am neither a Stranger come from America not any other remote place but had both my Birth and Education in and about the City of Edinburgh and has had Converse with People of several Ranks and Qualities and I give a publick defyance to any one or all of my Acquaintances if ever I spoke or Acted any thing that tended that way either directly or indirectly Yea I Magnifie the Lord for it that my Life and Conversation has been so void of Offence before God and Man I speak not here of those Infirmities which are the inseparable adjuncts of corrupt humane Nature but of gross Enormities in Principles or practices that the Rumor of this was as Astonishing to any that had particular acquaintance of me as to my self and is very far from having the least Degree of their Credit Consider 2ly That this Clause is both Ridiculous and Impossible For I 'm confident that no Intelligent Person who over heard his Lybel can deny that it is Ridiculous to suppose any Rational Soul guilty of such Horrid and Presumtuous Blaspheniy that is not either wholly debauched with grols immora●●ty or dround and misted with self conceited Ignorance And I defy any man to lay these to my Charge And Ah Christians who gives Ear to this groundless Calumny what for a Monster conceive ye me to be were I guilty of any such thing In painting out that Sin in such black and dismal Colours as I did in that Satyr in de●e●●cing son●a●y Wo's against the guilty and in Attribution to them such He ●●ish properties Can it enter into your minds 〈◊〉 a Man cou'd ever screw up his Soul to such a hight of Hypocrisie and shake from him so far the aw and d●●●d of a Supream being As for my part I 'm perswaded that if it be not simply impossible 't is the greatest trouble i● the World for men or these Principles to play the Hypocri●●● And now whatever Misconstructions some may put upon it I call God to Witness that out of sincere love to the everlasting Gospel and disdain to that mistery of Iniquity I threw in that Mire of Mine to the publick Treasury Neither does any thing there delivered express the Thousand Degree of that Detestation which my Soul conceives against that Hellish ●●homination Do not I hate them O Lord that here Thee And am not I grieved with those that rif● up against Thee Ps 139 v 21 I hate them with a perfect hatred I count them mine Enemies But mistake me not as if I endeavoutred from this either to clear my self or to Extort your assent to my Innocence But I observe it only by the By as an an instance of Probability I say also that 't is impossible because although I had erred in my Judgment as to the Matters of Religion as God forbid tha● either I had or should do it yet I cou'd not be so guity a● he in that I neither Rail'd against nor Scandaliz'd the Sublime and Sacred truths of Cristianity as he did Consider 3ly that I was an avow'd Oppugner of him endeavoured diligently to extricat him from those Souldestroying P●●nciples of which he was possessed As Mr. Patrick Midl top Richard Comlie and several others can Testifi● upon Oath Consider 4ly That it was but small and short acquaintance I had of him as to particulars being only from Feb. 1696 till April tha● sam● year And a●oon as I had discovered th● Latent treasure of Corruption which was within him and had perceiv'd that all ordinary means of Recovery prov'd ineffectual I wholly abandoned his Company and sep●●●●ed from him only upon that Account As is well known to the most part of my Acquain●●nces From which date of April till he was Apprehended I never saw him but twice or thrice Consider 5ly that it was not I alone that T. A. Not only without all ground but against all Reason Slandered as guilty of his horrid Extravagancies For I can prove that he was so Bewitched with his Hellish Delusions that he ordinarly said that all knowing Men were so whatever they said to the contrary And Mr. Patrick Midlton Mr. John Neil●on and I can declare that he boasted how he had prosolytiz'd to his Apostacy a certain Minister of the Gospel How ridiculous this is let any man Judge Consider 6ly the qualities of my Accuser we are certain and it was legally proven against him that he was an Apostat from the Faith a Blasphemer of God and a contemner of the Sacred ●rem●nduous Misteries of our Holy Religion And the Spirit of God makes us Infallibly certain (3) 2 Tim 3. v 3. that such should be false Acensers i● and as we are certain of this so we are uncertain whither he had the very first Decrees of solid Repentance The Lord forbid that I should take upon me the Incommunicable attributes of God and prentend to be a searcher of Hearts But I say we are very uncertain of it if we consider 1 That he gave but little satisfaction to tho Pious and Reverend Ministers who Labouted Industriously to Reclaim him 2ly His last Speech is very unbecoming a dying Man in his Circumstances being so far Stuff'd with the Affectation of a Bumbast and Airy S●●le which he was not able to Mannage that he run himself inevitably to writ● what no Man can make souse of where we are entertain'd with much of Extravagant and Illogical Reesoning in order to self Justification but with nothing that Savours like a Soul Touched with a Sense of such nefarious Blasphemy as