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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	adultery_n	commit_v	fornication_n	1,452	5	12.1572	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A35959	Truths victory over error, or, An abridgement of the chief controversies in religion which since the apostles days to this time, have been, and are in agitation, between those of the Orthodox faith, and all adversaries whatsoever, a list of whose names are set down after the epistle to the reader : wherein, by going through all the chapters of The confession of faith, one by one, and propounding out of them, by way of question, all the controverted assertions, and answering by yes, or no, there is a clear confirmation of the truth, and an evident confutation of what tenets and opinions, are maintain'd by the adversaries : a treatise, most useful for all persons, who desire to be instructed in the true Protestant religion, who would shun in these last days, and perillous times, the infection of errors and heresies, and all dangerous tenets and opinions, contrary to the word of God.	Dickson, David, 1583?-1663.; Sinclair, George, d. 1696.	1684 (1684)	Wing D1412; ESTC R3405	145,943	378

V. IS nothing but Adultery or such wilful desertion as can no way be remedied by the Church or Civil Magistrate a sufficient cause of dissolving the bond of Marriage Nothing Matth. 19. 8 9. 1 Cor. 7. 15. Matth. 19. 6. Well then do not the Enthusiasts and Familists err who maintain that it is free to a man to put away his wife when he pleaseth Yes By what reasons are they confuted 1 Because the God of Israel hatteth putting away Mal. 2. 16. 2 Because whosoever putteth away his wife except in case of Fornication he causeth her to commit Adultery Matth. 5 32. 3 Because the Apostle says art thou bound to a wife seek not to be loosed 1 Cor. 7. 27. Do not likewise the Papists err who maintain that there are other causes of divorce than Adultery and wilful desertion Yes They first tell us that marriage contracted but not consummated may be dissolved to wit by a Monastick Vow of a perpetual single life They tell us secondly that infidelity and heresie are just causes of divorce So say the Anabaptists And thirdly they tell us that murder committed upon the hope of getting such a Match is a sufficient cause of divorce That coldness perpetual impotency and such like fancies are causes By what reasons are they confuted 1 Because Christ says what God hath joyned together let no man put asunder Matth. 19. 6. But marriage contracted and ratified though not consummated is made by God therefore it cannot be dissolved by man Neither ought any man once married to turn a Monck for a single life is only fit for those that have the gift of Continency for God commands them that have it not to marry 1 Cor. 7. 9. 2 Neither can infidelity or heresie be a ground of divorce as is clear from 1 Cor. 7. 12 13. If any brother hath a wife that believeth not and she be pleased to dwell with him let him not put her away And the woman that hath an husband that believeth not if he be pleased to dwell with her let her not leave him CHAP. XXV Of the CHURCH Question I. DOTH the Catholick or Universal Church which is invisible consist of the whole number of Elect that have been are or shall be gathered into one under Christ the head thereof Yes Eph. 1. 10 22 23. Eph. 5. 23 27. Col. 1. 18. Well then doth not the Popish-Church err who deny any Catholick invisible Church consisting of the Elect only effectually called who maintain the Catholick Church to be absolutely visible and as visible a Society as the Republick of Venice or the kingdom of France and that it consists no less of reprobates unbelievers great and manifest sinners void of all inward and true grace than of the Elect effectually called Yes By what reasons are they confuted 1 Because we profess to believe according to the Creed that there is a Church Universal namely such a one as we have now described but what we believe must be invisible Heb. 11. 1. 2 Because the internal form of the Church namely her effectual calling by the Word and Spirit 1 Peter 2. 9. is invisible 2 Tim. 2. 19. 1 Cor. 2. 11. 3 Because the glory of the Kings daughter that is of the Universal Church as the Adversaries themselves confess is internal and therefore hidden and invisible Psalm 45. 13. 4 Because the Word tells us that there is a Church even the number of those whom Christ hath loved for whom he gave himself to the death whom he hath sanctified and washen and cleansed and redeemed with his own blood and whom at last he will glorifie Eph. 5. 25 26 27. 5 Because the Scripture tells that there is a Church which is the mystical body of Christ and therefore invisible to the eyes which by a most mystical and most marvelous union is conjoyned and united straitly with him Eph. 1. 10 22 23. 6 Because the Church Universal as to its internal forme is a spiritual house built of lively stones in Christ 1 Peter 2. 5. 7 Because the members of the Church Universal considered as to their internal state and condition are united and conjoyned together in one body by one Spirit and by one Faith 1 Cor. 12. 13. Eph. 4. 4 5. 8 Because the members of the Church Universal considered the former way are the lively members of Christ which he himself doth cherish with a lively and quickning nurishment Eph. 5. 29 30. Quest. II. IS the Visible Church under the New Testament Catholick and Universal Yes 1 Cor. 1. 2. and 1 Cor. 12. 12 13. Psal. 2. 8. Rev. 7. 9. Rom. 15. 9 10 11 12. Well then do not the Independents err who maintain there is no Visible Church under the New Testament except what may meet in one place and may perform all their holy services in a private Church Yes By what reasons are they confuted 1 Because in very many places of the New Testament the word Church to wit Visible is so largely taken that it cannot be restricted to any particular Congregational Church Acts 8. 3. Gal. 1. 13. Acts 2. 47. 1 Cor. 10. 32. Eph. 3. 10. 1 Cor. 12. 28. 1 Tim. 3. 15. 2 Because it hath been foretold in many places of the Old Testament that the Catholick Church shall be Visible Psalm 22. 22 23 25 27 28. Psalm 72. 8 9 10 11. Psalm 86. 9. Isaiah 2. 2 3 4. Zech. 14. 9. 3 Because the Donation or the gift of the kingdom that is of the Church Universal made by the Father to the Son is Universal and of all the World Psalm 2. 8. Psalm 72. 8. Isaiah 49. 6. Dan. 7. 14. 4 Because the Gospel of the Kingdom is Universal and according to the stile of the Scripture worketh the visible conversion of the whole world and therefore the Church visibly converted and gathered together is Catholick and Universal Matth. 26. 13. Mark 14. 9. Col. 1. 16. 5 Because the Visible Charter which constitutes the Church is Universal and therefore since one Charter constitutes one Politie or Government all the Visible particular Churches which are constitute by that one Catholick Charter are one Church Universal Matth. 28. 19. Eph. 3. 6. 6 Because if there be Officers of a Church Visible Universal there must be a Church Visible Universal it self but the first is true since the Donation of the Ministry and the giving of it in a gift is made to the Catholick Church 1 Cor. 12 28. Matth. 28. 19. 7 Because there is a general outward call and a general outward covenant into which all Christians enter outwardly by vertue whereof all of them are knit and tyed together Acts 2. 39. 8 Because that same individual System and Body of external Laws proceeding from that same Authority in which all particular Churches are equally concerned and by which they are ruled is Universal 1 Tim. chap. 3. and Titus 3 chap. 9 Because that external union of brotherhood which is amongst all the Visible Christians