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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
tradition_n	church_n	good_a	scripture_n	2,095	5	5.9073	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A59958	William Penn and the Quakers either impostors, or apostates which they please: proved from their avowed principles, and contrary practices. By Trepidantium Malleus.	Shewen, William, 1631?-1695.	1696 (1696)	Wing S3427A; ESTC R221166	53,999	145

Not one Family among Christians we can hear of turn Turks The Ignorance and Prophaness of the Man shew what his Writings are Well then It is not what Objections men can make against Scripture being a Rule but what better can they put in its place Now consider we What Signatures and Marks are on Sacred Writ to satisfy us How is it morally impossible or more that the world should be imposed on Was there such a man as Abraham so call'd of God Did the Twelve Tribes come from the Loins of the Sons of Jacob or Israel Were these Slaves in Egypt brought out thence by a mighty Hand Was Pharaoh and his Host drowned in the Red-Sea in the pursuit of them Did they wander in the Wilderness were fed with Manna and the Cloud before them Were they brought into Canaan by a mighty Hand How well writes J●sephus against Appion on this subject I remember Bishop Stillingfleet in his Orig Sacra says If I meet with any Passage in Prophane History contradicting Sacred History I laugh it away with that of Justin That Moses was the Son of Joseph That the Jews were driven our of Egypt because of the Itch that the Egyptians might not be infected Were it possible for the Jews to impose upon the world this way Gen 49.10 The scepter shall not depart from Judah How unlike was it to an eye of sense the Scepter should come to any Tribe When it did it came to Moses who was as a King of the Tribe of Levi then to Saul of the Tribe of Benjamin and at last to David who was of the Tribe of Judah and there continued The famous Story of Josephus about Alexander's Conquest of Judea when he swore to Parmenio his General That he would destroy all the Jews is great Jaddus the High-Priest and the Jews fasted three days and three nights and God revealed to him what he should do Alexander approaching with Fury nigh the Gates of Jerusalem Jaddus as God directed him opened the Gates and went out to meet him in all his Priestly Attire Alexander fell down and worshipped him Parmenio asking him What he meant to worship the man whose death he had vowed He said Three days ago this man in this dress appeared to me in a Dream in Dio in Macedonia Jaddus carried him into the Temple and shewed him the Prophecy of Daniel concerning him who was the Grecian Goat Dan. 8.21 22. A clear Prophecy let Antiscripturists consider it So he gave the Jews great Treasures Could Josephus mention a Story so little time before if not true when thousands of Jews and Pagans could contradict all Could the Evangelists tell the world such a loud Lye in Matters of Fact Place Time Circumstances of Christ's feeding so many Thousands with a few Barley-Loaves and Fishes his opening the eyes of the Blind making the Lame to go raising the dead especially Lazarus and all with their Circumstances had it not been true The Disciples knew they saw his Miracles that they conversed with him forty days after his Resurrection and saw him ascend into Heaven They often say as we read in the Acts We are his witnesses saith Peter Paul could not be mistaken whether he heard the Voice from Heaven Saul Saul Why persecutest thou me I am Jesus Acts 9.4 5. Or whether he were blind three days and recovered his fight by Ananias laying his hands upon his eyes He and the Disciples as they were not deceived themselves could have no design to deceive others Not one of them in their most exquisite Torments confest a Combination and which is more it was never pretended by any of their Adversaries they did When I was a Lad about Seventeen Years old I often conversed with a Jew who had the Old Testament almost memoriter My urging that of Paul to him struck him to the heart and he was afterwards baptized Tell me Reader if thou hast with the men of Herod men of War set Jesus at naught Doth not thy heart now burn within thee as Luke 24.32 Yet the Scriptures by our Perfectionists were at first as nothing You speak the words of David and Paul They were wont to say But at last it was agreed upon Scripture should be used in their Meetings The story of turning one man down stairs for looking in a Bible in their Assemblies is well known I am glad some have more Veneration for Scripture now Some say They be as good as Friends Writings A few say Better What would the Church do without a Bible but as Mariners at Sea without a Pilot or Compass Q. What did they do before Scripture was written A. Revelation and Oral Tradition was their Guide which was at last upon Record Obj. But say some You make Scripture not only a Rule but the only Rule So the Assembly in their Catechism And make not the Spirit a Rule at all I answer The Spirit is not the Rule but the Author of the Rule A Counsellor is not his Counsel nor a Director his Directions Where did the Heathen wander that had no Scripture What a woful System of Divinity is Ovid's Metam though he borrowed so much out of Moses and corrupted it Ante Mare Terras quod tegit omnia Coelum Vnus erat toto naturae cultus in Orbe Quem dixere Chaos rudis indigestaque moles Gen. 2.2 Sic erat instabilis tellus innabilis unda The Golden Age was a corrupting of the Account of Man before the Fall Nec supplex turb a timebat Judicis ora sui Per se dabat omnia tellus The Scriptures acquaint man with things necessary to be known and which the Quakers have contemn'd in their adoring of the Light within the Pharisaical Light which Christ call'd Darkness I say the Scriptures acquaint us with 1. The Fall of Man and the Corruption of Human Nature thereby Our Head Foederal Head sell Acts 17.26 God intended of one blood to make all Nations Now that was tainted and a clean thing cannot come out of an unclean Had he stood we had stood by him and there had been no doubt a state of Confirmation for all Adam's Descendants How long it was Adam stood some think Months Years is easy to conjecture That it was before the Conjugal Act else they being before under the Blessing Increase and Multiply had had some Child born without Original Sin but Cain was the first Child and therefore I conclude the Fall was before Adam knew Eve and therefore the same day in which they were made And it may be had Adam overcome in the first Assault of Satan the Serpent he and all his had been confirmed Our first Parents by Sin murthered themselves actually were under the Curse though it may be recovered by Grace they murthered their Posterity virtually that they then not born should be cursed they murthered Christ occasionally as their Sin was the occasion of Christ's death to make Satisfaction to Divine Justice In the day thou eatest thereof thou