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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A48289	Eyaggeloigrapha. Or, Some seasonable and modest thoughts, in order to the furtherance and promoting the affairs of religion, and the gospel, especially in Wales Mainly tending to the discovery of the evills of extreams, and the spirit of errour and dissention, that hinders the success, and the begetting of a due temper and moderation of judgement, with an universall love and peace amongst us. All, rationally, materially, and very moderately handled. By J.L. Esquire.	Lewis, John, Esquire.	1659 (1659)	Wing L1840A; ESTC R218109	32,748	45

design to discover first what Lets and Obstructions lye most in the way and after to propound the Remedies and means to promote it Certainly our Lets and hinderances of successe proceed from some mistakes and dissentions amongst us and I have often mused seriously wherein this spirit of error and discord doth lye and in my poor judgement it chiefly lurks in meer words and I have thought it is no marvell the Apostle hath so often and emphatically warned us to beware of them charging before the Lord that they strive not about words and indeed if wee look upwards through the whole ages of the Church wee shall find they have been ever unhappy and fatall to it one word or rather syllable or letter rent and ruined the antient glorious Church of the East and Mr. Calvin bemoaning the same unhappinesse of Words in his time as when some not content with words the primitive Church was necessitated to make use of but would have words out of Scripture with more inconvenience they did saies hee ob nudas voculas digladiari so brabble and quarrell about words that veritas altercando amittitur charitas odiose rixando dissolvitur Truth Love and Charity was lost and gone And it please God wee had not cause to make it our own complaint in these dayes I verily think there hath not been an age more guilty of this vanity and unhappinesse than wee are I list not hear to offer you a list of the words wee contend and differ about I beleeve there is scarse a word that belongs to the Body of Religion whether those from Scripture or used in Divinitie and the Church that hath been left unquarrelled with by some or other and I pray God the word Scripture it self calling it Bible and the ancient Greek names and Titles of the Books as Genesis Exodus c. may be left quietly alone nay many words of the Language but of civill use are gain-said such a turbulent Villain is this spirit of Error and Dissention the Remedy whereof with all humble submission to the godly wise and especially safest for Religion were to rest and stand content with words as use and custome hath delivered them unto us for they have been ever held to be the sole Masters of Words and to give the Law and stamp unto them and it is worth taking notice of that many times words of good and harmlesse signification through Ignorance and prejudice become in time to be taken in the worse sense which did we understand and not behold them through the false glass of prejudice clearly in their first innocent institutions and right meaning a wise man would but laugh at the variances about them though some of them passing through the revolutions of corrupt ages may carry some cause of offence with them yet so to strive for them even to so much trouble and loss of Charitie I conceive is a Remedie worse than the disease and many can make that wise use of them as to bear with them as some petty monuments of the Truth and Antiquity of Christian Religion c. And I conceive it would bee a labour well bestowed for some able hand to open and explicate all such words in Religion as the Vulgar take offence at that every body might not call this and that superstition and Antichristian without more ground than his own weak fancie and doubtless it would be a course that would much conduce to settle mens judgements and allay their differences and a means to avoid that other mischief and cause of variances our pronenesse to bee falling and reeling from one extream to another as our care to shunne superstation wee slip sometimes into a worse angle and wider from Religion which is Prophanenesse both which words I shall somewhat open anon in the mean time I could heartily beg it from the able Ministers to make it more their work than hitherto I have seen to open and unfold unto the people those main and Cardinall words of Religion as that most glorious and awefull name God oh that wee could consider what wee speak when wee name it the Word of God the Spirit Heaven Hell and all other Principall and fundamentall words of Religion every which word is and is not much more than what every one thinks that have them frequent in their mouths this I say I could heartily commend unto the Orthodox good Ministers which people being solidly instructed and grounded in would doubtless more kindly and happily bring on the work of grace in them when those other speculations which I see without this ground-work doe but swell and distemper the fancie and thence the strange opinions and imaginations of many poor well-meaning souls in these dayes Thus farre of words in generall as they foment our Error and dissentions I will now offer as for our present design to open some usuall words which being not throughly understood by all do minister much matter of mistakes and contention about them as also some brief observations upon them but still with submission to the Judiciously godly The Word Propagation explicated THe word Propagation properly as every School-boy knows signifieth the cutting down of an old Vine and planting young ones in their stead but in the sense of Religion it hath ever very properly been used as much as to extend and inlarge and in that signification wee take it It being so let us grant the word a twofold sense as it hath been used and is in order to Religion the first wee may call the ancient Propagation as in the primitive times people from Infidells and Pagans were converted to acknowledge and beleeve Christ c. And as multitudes and Nations did come so to beleeve this was called the Propagation of the Gospell now in this sense some among us mutter at the word as a disparagement to our Country who from our Ancestors the Britains have received the Title of Christianity with some of the first of the World as all Histories and Antiquity doth grant and also to the honour of our Nation wee must confess as a great mercy of God to us that since that best Act one of the worst Kings ever did Henry the eighth our incorporation into England wee are much improved in all points of civilitie and Religion farre above what our Ancestors were now besides this we may also call Propagation in a more modern sense as when those that go under the generall name of Christians and yet are dissolute and unchristian and unholy in their lives and brought by means of the Gospell and converted into a better state of vertuous and holy Christian living and fear of God and in this sense wee may well admit of Propagation and heartily wish it amongst us and all the World for it is a sad observation that a great Author makes that Christians in that generall term and in gross are thought to be the impurest part of all mankind it is able