Selected quad for the lemma: master_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
master_n	great_a	know_v	see_v	2,714	4	3.0038	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A89846	The railer rebuked, in a reply to a paper subscribed Ellis Bradshaw, who calls it The Quakers whitest devil unvailed: but hath discovered a dark devil in himself, as in his paper appears, / replied by him who is called James Nailer.	Naylor, James, 1617?-1660.	1655 (1655)	Wing N306; Thomason E830_4; ESTC R203039	7,510	8

it in his place and saies there is no other way to know God all which the letter denyes and declares God to be the word and exhorts to hear his voice and know it and saith there is not nor can be any knowledge of God but by Revelation from Jesus Christ which is before the letter was which the letter declares but this is the spirit of Satan that would stop the mouth of God never to speak more nor that any should wait for it but he that hath heard the voice of the living God doth bear witness in his presence against that spirit to be a lying spirit and an enemy to Abrahams seed and his Faith who stands opposing between God and the creatures to make people believe that they shall not have the same fellowship with God as the saints have ever had but would set up the letter in his stead spoken forth by them who heard his voice and declared for that end his word to wait for and his teachings to witness by him to be guided in all things which such as thou would deny to set up the hirelings who never heard his voice but were ever denyed by them who had the word as the letter declares and proves all you Lyars who puts the Lord farre from you in these later dayes which saith in the latter dayes he will pour out his spirit more abundantly and that the knowledge of God shall cover the earth which is witnessed by hundreds who from the mouthes of the wolves and lyars are set free which whilst we were under them we could not believe and we know whom we worship and his power and all the lyars in the world cannot make us deny him nor his work in us who is blessed for ever And thy doubtfull queries are answered and with the spirit we are taught this faith to hold forth and with meekness they are shewed and in that wisdome that is foolishness to the world and ever was and his vertues who hath called us out of darkness into light and this faith worketh by love to all the creatures of God and by it we are constrained to call all to this love for which we suffer in you Streets Markets and Synagogues in a spirit of meekness and this we have learned of him which is more then thou knowest as thou sayest for if thou knew thou would not have a hand in which thou art deeply ingaged as thou sayes And it is utterly in vain to write or speak against this faith for therein thou shewes but thy folly and what generation thou art of who calls this perverted which the saints practised and thou that doubts art damned in thy own conscience and being deluded to believe lies thou art rejected and steadfastly resisted in the faith who art under the power of Satan bringing forth his works who saith we in works deny God and that we know not what the resurrection of the dead means and then sayes thou w●lt not absolutely determine nor judge of us and here thou hast told three lyes together and its easie to determine who is that vassal thou speaks on led captive at his will And the word of God we have and his law written in our hearts which condemnes all such practises And the fruits of love such could never discerne nor the end of the Commandement but under pretence of charity would be flattered in their sins And we know Christ to be in us without thy comparisons and by his spirit are we led which if thou was so thou durst not lie and slander as thou doest nor have rested my words in printing them false in thy paper saying I deny all those laws without as though I denied the laws of the Nation when my words is I deny all whose law is without and morall intending your popish notions with which you set up the letter to oppose the new Covenant yet herein do I deny no Laws in Books which are according to this Covenant but owne them in their place but not to try the law of life which is in Christ by as thou wouldst make it and here thy crooked wayes are seen subtill lying slandering and perverting my words and the whited Devil thou tells on is discovered in thy self not in the Quakers as thou scornfully callest us and thou hast the seared conscience thou tells on else ashamed thou would bee and to thee I have written and all thy generation but not for your help but to help thee to see thy folly which to that of God in thy Conscience if thou be obedient it will stop thy mouth and let thee see thy envy and a busie mind speaking evill of that thou knowes not that thou may appear to be some body but thy work is seen and thy reward also And now seeing these things thou chiefly opposest yet dare not plainly deny them I shall return the sum of them by way of Querie to which in plainess that thou answer the Yea or the Nay that thy mist may be cleared is the demand of him who is called James Nayler First Whether that Faith which layes hold of an Imperfect Righteousnesse be Faith in Christ or self righteousness Whether God can own an Imperfect Righteousness for salvation or is any perfect but that of Christ Whether God have given Christ with his righteousnesse and perfection freely to all that receive him Whether Christ so given and by faith received be properly ours with all he hath in the measure so received Whether any one can be born of God and not have the life of Christ in him and abiding in him whether he commit sin or no Whether the Law of the new Covenant be written in the heart And whether the Apostle denied the Old to Establish the New and whether of them is the believers rule and freedome Whether the hope of Christ purifies the heart and is not that the hope of thee hippocrite that hopes to be saved but lives in sin and worldly pleasures and whether that be the life of Christ yea or nay Whether every one that hath received Christ hath received power to resist the devil and to do the wills of God in his measure and if such commit sin whether it be want of power or denying the power seing the greater is in us then in the world Whether they that are called of men Masters love greeting in Markets Chief place in Assemblies sue for tithes or set wages bear rule by their means Imprison the Innocent be those labourers Christ hath thrust out into his vineyard Or do these fruits prove them so seing Christ saith by their fruits you shall know them Whether the end of Christs coming be to redeem his people from their sins in this life or are they believers that deny it Whether the spirit of God teacheth to call Christ ours and his righteonsnesse ours but to deny his perfection to be ours Whether the letter be that word and light of John Christ and the Apostles bear witness on yea or nay Whether plain dealing be pure love seing thou pretendest Charity to spare the wicked FINIS