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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	election_n	reprobation_n	variable_a	24	3	15.8957	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A54083	The fig-leaf covering discovered, or, Geo. Keith's explications and retractions of divers passages out of his former books, proved insincere, defective and evasive by John Penington.	Penington, John, 1655-1710.	1697 (1697)	Wing P1227; ESTC R22450	96,997	142

Seed which is Christ in whom they are therefore said to be chosen Eph. 1.4 The Reprobate Seed is that Seed of Darkness and Unrighteousness of Men which is of the Devil They now which cleave thereunto and continue in Unity therewith until the Day of their Visitation from the Lord Expire they are the Reprobates and concludeth Thus though the decree of Election and Reprobation be from Everlasting yet it Respects Men NOT SIMPLY AS MEN but as finally adhereing and cleaving ●o the Elect or Reprobate Seed Thus far G. K. for●erly which how Reconcilable the Vnderstanding he ●en said was given him of the Lord by his Spirit is 〈◊〉 his late Understanding will be further Obvious up● comparing it with his Assertion in Truth Advanced Printed Anno 1694. p. 12. He there Assigns it as an ●ror to say That the Elect Seed is only Christ and ●he Reprobate Seed is only the Serpent or the Devil ●nd when any come into Christ by Faith they come into the Election and may be said to be Elected b● not before but when they depart from him or an● not come to him they may be said to be Reprobate● And again ibid. He reckons it Absurd and contrar● to Scripture to say A Man may pass from Election 〈◊〉 Reprobation as if God's Election were a variable thi● saith he then adds that The Scriptures declar● the Gifts and Callings of God are without Repentanc● Thus one while this variable Man declares as accor●●ing to the Vnderstanding given him of the Lord by his Sp●●rit that the Election and Reprobation are in the t● Seeds the decree of Election and Reprobation respe● not Men Simply as Men but as finally adhering a● cleaving to one of the two Seeds Another while it● an Error to Asse●t the Elect Seed is only Christ a● the Reprobate Seed is only the Devil and that M● may come into or depart from the Election 〈◊〉 there is now no passing from Election to Reprobati● with him without Fal●ifying the Text and all 〈◊〉 from the same Pen from a Man not Erring in Fun●●●mentals if ye will believe him but steady and sted● in his Testimony viz. as any Weather-cock Yet this is not all for as I had in my People called Q●●kel's Cleared p. 42. referred from p. 9. to 15. of Truth Advanced compared with his Book of V● Gr. from p. 73 to 79. and p. 105. to the end a● Indication of G. K. his Instability while treating● this Doctrine of Election and Reprobation which he 〈◊〉 took no notice of here either to Retract or Defen● shall give an Instance or two of what he hath said b● Formerly and Lately concerning Conditional Election so leave this Head In that Book of Vni Gr. p. ● having said God willeth not all to be saved Absolut● but Conditionally parte Objecti upon their b●●ving and its being Objected either God willeth the● believe Absolutely or Conditionally he answers we CONDITIONALLY Aagain in Truths Defence p. 193. To J. A. his urging That Christ Died for those that perish Absolutely or Conditionally G. K. answers partly both Again to J. A. his Objecting That seeing the Condition it self to wit Faith is the Gift of God he either bestows it upon them Absolutely or Conditionally G. K. Replies to p. 194. God is willing to bestow it upon them and work it in them not upon the Condition of their first Believing before he give them to believe but the Condition is if they do not finally resist his Spirit of Grace c. Thus far for Conditional Election Now hear what he saith against it in Truth Advanced p. 11. As for that Conditional Election saith he as it is not a Scripture Phrase so it doth not agree with Scripture but is contradictory unto it for if such a Conditional Election were it would be General or Universal and comprehend all Mankind for why are one part more than another seeing Eternal Life and Salvation are held forth Conditionally to all And from Christ's ●eaching That many are called few chosen he infers This cannot be a Conditional Election for it would not be good Sense to say Few or some are Conditionally-Elected saith G. K. All which I now leave with him seeing he hath hitherto over-passed it to reconcile if he can and to inform his Reader whether to say Election is Conditional and that the Condition ●s if they do not finally resist the Spirit of Grace and ●gain to say That Conditional Election is not a Scrip●ure Phrase but Contradictory to Scripture it would ●ot be good Sense to say Few or some are Conditionally Elected are both true and no Contradiction Till then though I could load him with more upon his Subject these may suffice § 2 His next § is very short what he had said of the Spirit of Life from God its being entred into the Two slain Witnesses he would turn off as said only by an Allegorical and Metaphorical Allusion But in this he is not plain whether the Expression it self be Allegorical and Metaphorical or his ascertaining that time as already begun only be so For I remember the Testimony he hath given in this Book of Vni Gr. p. 5. and elsewhere with respect to this and the Church being now com● and coming out of the Wilderness he hath Contradicted in Truth Advanced p. 157 158. of which more an● in my Sect. III. § 9. § 3 In his § 3. quoting a place in Vni Gr. p. 6 he bids us note That diverse of his Adversaries among the Sect of Quakers with whom he hath had a great Cont● of late have from this passage sought to infer his Agre●●ment with them so as to hold that the Light within was suf●ficient to Salvation without any thing else and thereby 〈◊〉 only excluding all outward Helps and Means of Salvation but even the Man Christ Jesus and his Death and Suffer●ings and Sacrifice of himself from being necessarily concern●ed in our Salvation Answ As this is a Slander upon us so also hath he not attempted to prove it offering 〈◊〉 Evidence no Demonstration out of any of our Book● to make it out 2dly I cannot find that any of us hav● so much as brought the Citation in p. 6. against him For my part I who have been more particular i● Confronting him out of that Book than any of them have it not and it cannot be a Typographical Error se●ing the passage given is in the Page assigned Yet 〈◊〉 busie is he at Fighting as with the Man of Straw he ha● set up that he bestows above a Page upon it which th● Foundation being wrong for we deny the Charge de●serves not my notice Nor have we blamed as he also alledgeth p. 18. upon his single Credit without referring to any Book of ours his distinction between first and second Legal and Evangelical Covenant given to both Jews and Gentiles But his late saying That even the Law within both in Jew and Gentile made nothing perfect until the Faith