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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
body_n	nature_n	soul_n	unite_v	6,882	5	9.6339	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A20215	Answeres to certaine novations desired by some to be embraced by the reformed church some defend one part, others another part of these novations : in this treatise their chief objections are turned into questions.		1638 (1638)	STC 664.7; ESTC S1042	60,919	98

with as good reason be discharged for these evils may accompanie them also Quest Can private prayer edifie in a publ●ct assemblie Ans Practise and example edifieth as well as preaching 2. Example maketh people seek a blessing for their hearing as the pastor doth for his preaching Quest In a publict assemblie should not preachers and people concur in doing the same publict actions Ans They should concur in the same mater but not alwayes in the same manner and actions at publict prayer all should pray the Preacher with a loud voice the people in their hearts with a still voice At preaching all should be exercised in the word one in preaching the rest in hearing it but at divine praise all should sing with a loud voice In a publict house men may pray for particular blessings to themselves with as good reason as in a private house they may pray for the church militant 2. A publict house may admit private exercises as duely as a publict person may have private affaires So Christ in the temple bad one whom He healed Sin no more John 5.14 So said He to the woman taken in adulterie John 8.11 So in a church men may meditat read privatly and do the private actions of faith and repentance So the Preacher first considereth every word in his minde least he preach in publict unadvisedly and out of purpose 3. At any time of the preaching men may send up ejaculations without concurrance of the rest and why may not the preacher do so before his publict exercises whether the people be singing psalmes or hearing the word read But when he entreth in publict their exercises should give place to his more publict exercises for they may read and sing at home when they can not have preaching 4. At reading the word only at singing of psalmes a paraphrase of the word only but at preaching both the word and paraphrases with the interpretation doctrin and application are said therefore other exercises should give place unto it as unto a greater shining of the spirituall light of the same word Quest Did not the Lord forbid his Disciples in Matth. 6.5 to stand in the Synagogues and corners of the streets at private prayers Ergo privat prayers should not be in a publict place Answ It was never forbidden in the Scriptures 2. Because hee forbiddeth to doe after the meaning of all these words together forbiddeth he therefore to do after the meaning of any part of these words separat from the rest He forbiddeth not to pray nor to pray standing in the synagogues and corners of the streets nor to pray desiring to be seen of men but that they should not pray standing in the synagogues and corners of the streets desiring to be seen of men as the hypocrites do for they do all things for ostentation and humaine praise as the Lord faith of the Scribes and Pharisees Mat. 23.15 so they abused fasting and praying and giving of almes 3. For eschewing of hypocrisie and vain glory he bad the disciples do these things secretly as well as openly which hypocrites do not 4. They should do these things before men not for humaine praise but to provock others to do the like and to show that they are not ashamed to glorifie God before men they should also do them privatly to be exercised in the sinceritie of well doing and to be frequented with the neglect of humane praise and thereby to acknowledge that they are in the presence of the Al seeing God before whom they dare not be idle from well doing they should esteem it a greater honour if God alone behold them doing good then if all men and angels were looking upon them 5. The affecting to be seen of men at private prayer is oftimes a notable glorifying of God So Daniel prayed 3th the day opning his windows of set purpose to be seen of men Anna the mother of Samuel prayed privately in the Temple in the sight of men 1 Sam. Christ prayed for himself before men Ioh. 17.1 and he willingly heard many praying to himself before men as Jairus for his daughter the thief on the crosse the Cananitish woman Mat. 15. Peter prayed the Lord to wash his hands head and feet John 13. the Lord corrected the matter but not the manner of his prayer 6. The Lord in Mat. 5.16 saith Let your light so shine before men that they may see your good works and glorifie your heavenly Father No good works have mo heavenly vertues seene in them then prayer faith is seen in it for we believe that God heareth us and hope for we expect a good answer and charitie for in the Lords prayer we pray for others as we do for our selves and holinesse praying not to be led into tentation temperance in desiring only dayly bread patience in suffring and meeknesse in pardoning wrongs in the words As we forgive them that sin against us the zeal of Gods glory in the first three petitions a thankfull praising of God in this confession For thine is the kingdome the power and the glory c. Quest May any pray privatlie in a publict place where there is no assemblie Answ They may because of the reasons foresaid whether they be forced thereto because they want secret chambers or because the church is the most secret house they can finde or because occasionally they are in it when they would pray or men are hindered by other businesse to goe to their chambers being far distant from them or because men appoint churches for private as they doe for publict prayers the one is as comely as the other but men make decencie a reason for every thing for the which they can not finde a reason CHAP. XVI The principall opinion of the Antinomians or Libertines The first proposition conteining their chief tenet EVery faithfull Christian being united to CHRIST by faith is one with Christ Christ with him therfore as it is impossible for Christ to sin so for the Christian Answ If the union of two diverse natures make the united parts alwayes equall in properties then the body is immortall invisible and an understanding substance like the soul for they are united in one person and all the members may hear and see c. because they are one body with the ears and eyes and every faithfull man is almightie infinit and eternall God and man in one person for they are united to Christ God and man 2. If any be united to Christ the Iust are united to him but Salomon saith they fall seven times a day Prover 24.16 3. Before that David was made King GOD testified of him as Paul saith Act. 13.21 I have found a man according to myne owne heart This was not the decree whereby GOD ordeined him to be holy it was a divine testimonie yet after this though he had union with Christ hee fell in murther and adulterie and hee numbered the people 4. Job 3.1 2. cursed the day of his death