Selected quad for the lemma: religion_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
religion_n	christian_a	church_n	profess_v	3,448	5	8.0722	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A44799	The mouth of the pit stopped and the smoke that hath arisen out of it scattered by the breath of truth in answer to a lying story called Hell broken loose, or, The history of the Quakers, published by Thomas Underhill, a seller of the whores merchandize otherwise called a book-seller : his lyes returned upon him, his accusations answered and his envie decleared and truth cleared from all his reproaches / by one that waits to see death and hell cast into the lake of fire, with the beast and false-prophet, Francis Howgil.	Howgill, Francis, 1618-1669.	1659 (1659)	Wing H3172; ESTC R6601	19,385	26

in thy own words what would not these men do if they had power to their will But the power of the Lord God preserves the innocent and is against all the workers of iniquity I shall not trouble the Reader with what Priest Ford and Fowler of Redding hath gathered up out of Priests books which they have vomitted forth against the way of truth nor what Tho. Underhill hath licked up and vomits out again which is but that which hath been vomitted up before so that it may be said of them all as the Prophet saith Their Tables is full of vomit and filthy spewing covers them all all which things hath been answered over and over but that swine loves to be wallowing in the mire and doggs loves to lick up their vomit and the envy of the wicked will not cease till he be cut off nor the evil eye for watching after mischief till it be put out And now Tho. Underhill and the rest of thy party who resist the Spirit if I would recriminate might not I more justly and truly bring many thousand bad examples acted by your party who are accounted Christians and charge them all upon you then all these things in thy lying story which thou hast brought against the Quakers If I should go from Parish to Parish as thou hast done from one end of the Land to another and also beyond the Seas and should I reckon up all the fornicatours and adulterers all the thieves and murtherers all the proud and covetous all the fighters brawlers railers drunkards cheaters and defrauders and should charge all these upon the Presbytery what a Volume I might make And were not this a just Retaliation would thou count it an equal thing or would it be accounted Just in the sight of sober men if I should charge the moderate and guiltless with these things before mentioned then Judge thy self for thy envy and foolishness and let thy mouth be stopped for ever for accusing those whom God Justifies In the 38 page In thy Observation on the whole History That one may talk much of God and Christ and of the things of Religion and all invain and how the coming in of unbelief shuts out Truth Faith and Pitty and the great danger the Nation is in by being overrun with hypocrisie and formality in Religion and how many hath the form of godliness but denies the power He whose eye is open may see the intent of thy History is to resist the power of truth and to strengthen deceit and this shall stand for thy own lot and for the Congregations and Assemblies thou art pleading for who at the best are but in the suburbs of Babyl●● who talk of God and Christ and of the Spirit and of Religon but all in vain for nothing is brought forth among you but formality deceit and hypocrisie and errour and unbelief and a form of godliness hath long covered the Nation and Truth Faith and Piety hath been rejected and the power of godliness but now hath the Lord appeared and hath rent the vail and manifested the deceitful workers and hypocrites and though thou be observant as to others foot-steps yet thou hast not viewed thy self neither pulled the beam out of thine own eye neither hath discovered thy envy nor the murderous spirit that rules in thy heart from whence all these muddy waters flows forth and all this fog and mists arises which darkens the air which whosoever receives in their understandings comes to be darkned but all that fear the Lord will see that out of thy corrupt heart all this mischief which thou hast long been treasuring up doth now come forth upon which the day of wrath will come both upon thee and it Thou saith The Quakers hath no reason in the world to boast of their sufferings as they do for they have suffered as evil-doers for being uncivil to Magistrates and disturbing Gods people in their Assemblies and for being busie-bodies and some other known wickednesses and all their charging Courts ●nd Justices with persecution falls flat to the ground We are no boasters but rejoice in our sufferings for Christs sake neither are we weary but are willing to bear and suffer till the Lord arise and plead our Cause and our sufferings are recorded and the Lord hath considered them though men would not and hath overturned many and rebuked many for our sakes and it is he that justifies us and who art thou that condemns us the Testimony of our innocency and the causeless suffering hath a witness in many thousands hearts who are not like thine as flint and what uncivility hath any to lay to our charge as against Magistracy whom have we wronged or what violence have we done to any except thou Judge that incivility because we do not complement bow and flatter and make feigned Addresses like thy generation and this your Highness and the other your Excellency and another my Illustrious Lord and the next week or next month call them Traytors Tyrants and Usurpers and as I told thee before that which was order among the Churches is accounted disturbance by thee which evidently manifests that you are in the Apostacy and out of the Christian Religion which was professed practised among the Primitive Christians and for any known wickedness among us I am out of all doubt if thou had any thing thou would preach it upon the house top known wickedness hath God redeemed us from which thou yet wallows in yet takes delight in And therefore all these known and wicked abominable falshoods and lies is come forth besides the abusing of our words and false representing what we have written as our Doctrines to the world and this thou hast done sometimes added to our words and sometimes detracted from them and sometimes adds thy own Collections and then presents them to publick view as our Errours and Blasphemies and as for Courts and Justices Magistrates and Rulers many of them hitherto hath ruled by the Dragons power and not by the Power of God and in that many hath incouraged the evil-doers and hath not listned to the cry of the oppressed therefore hath the Lord God overturned them and their day is past and our charges against their wickedness and persecution neither our Testimony neither our sufferings hath fallen to the ground but stands as a record against them And thou saith It is high time for all the redeemed ones and sanctifie ones and Children of Grace the Favourites of Heaven honest godly sincere Christians Children that will not lie to improve their intrust in God for this sinful devided Nation What dost thou own any to be redeemed and sanctified or to be Children of Grace or that doth not lie and yet cryes out of perfection as Blasphemie or that any should come to or live by that which is perfect if thou exclude the Quakers to be any of these they will not find many redeemed sanctified honest godly sincere Christians and all your