Selected quad for the lemma: cause_n

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
A89317	Coena quasi koinē: the new-inclosures broken down, and the Lords Supper laid forth in common for all Church-members, having a dogmatical faith, and not being scandalous: in a diatribe, and defence thereof: against the apology of some ministers, and godly people, (as their owne mouth praiseth them) asserting the lawfulness of their administring the Lords Supper in a select company: lately set forth by their prolocutor, Mr. Humphrey Saunders. / Written by William Morice of Werrington, in Devon, Esq;	Morice, William, Sir, 1602-1676.	1657 (1657)	Wing M2762; Thomason E895_1	613,130	518

dico nisi de eo tantùm qui in se quod dico esse agnoscit si enim extra conscientiam suam sunt quaecunque dico nequicquam ad injuriam ejus spectant cuncta quaedico si autem in se esse novit quae loquor non à mea sibi hoc lingua dici aestimet sed à conscientia sua but I not onely hope but am assured of better things of them however they are faulty so to suspect my meaning I am not culpable to insinuate any such suspicion but perhaps they would in this also be like the Donatists those among them called Circumcellions of whom St. Augustine tells us Cogunt eos quos in viis invenerint laethalia iis vulnera inferre so they will enforce me to would them whether I will or no and though I have as little cause as will to doe it in this particular They acknowledge repentance to be as necessary a disposition and qualification to receiving acknowledge and a part of examination to be that of repentance but when they should have answered our inference That then it carrieth equall reason to urge and practise a tryal of mens repentance antecedently to the Communion and that this must introduce as great a necessity of bringing men under confession as under their examination they keeping close to their familiar ignorantia elenchi which runs thorough all their discourse as the string of poyson doth thorough a Lamprey instead of answering whether it be universally and absolutely necessary doe onely tell us that Confession in a right and rectified manner and we fore-stalled them in these qualifications hath been and is practised in some difficult cases and they dislike it not And truly so much we shall say and grant them of their examination if they would require no more and let it be moderated and regulated as our Divines prescribe for Confession whereof Luther saith it is Utilis non necessaria Instit l. 3. c. 9. S. 12. debet esse libera nemo cogi wherein Calvin is Symphonous saying Si ita privatim angitur as flictatur peccatorum sensu ut se explicare nisi alieno adjutorio nequeat and adding iis tantùm modò commendetur Exam. conc Tri dent part 2. c. 5. qui eâ se opus habere intelligunt because as Chemnicius rationally asserts non est mandatum ut corda scrutentur so let their examination be proposed as profitable not imposed as necessary let it be somewhat of their prudence nothing of our bondage let it be exercised toward such as may justly be suspected of gross ignorance or exitious crimes for such a just suspicion onely is principium inquirendi as Vasquez speakes and others left free that are elevated above such suspicion and we shall be as perfectly reconciled to their examination as they or our Divines seem to be pacified toward confession But in the interim the Argument remains unshaken If repentance be as necessary a qualification to receiving and as essential a part of examination as knowledge then there is in order to communicating no less reason to introduce the discipline of confession than of examination if the one be set up the other must also be imposed if the one may be omitted the other may be laid aside if the one be but profitable to some the other is not necessary to all these two being like the subcelestial Gemini which appear ominously and unluckily the one without the other They assert their Principles in their separation and examination not to be Romish and we suppose by former instances we have demonstrated the contrary They profess to abhor the Church of Rome her ways and friends and to be able to maintain their cause without the Philistines forge however the Apologists may have a file for sharpning some of their Weapons yet in several subjects their main Armature was forged hammered out by the Pop●sh Philistines for there was no Smith in Israel wont to own it Nevertheless they are no farther off from Popery than we are from any suspicion that they are thereunto affected one either practice or opinion gives not rise to a denomination But secondly we know though Saul had put away those that had familiar Spirits and Wizards out of the Land yet being in a strait and exigence he had recourse to one of them for counsel and I might say did I not doubt it might irritate that two Foxes though looking several ways may be conjoyned in a Fire-brand Thirdly besides that which is opposed directly may be farthered obliquely and by accident and some men may suppose they are in the way to Dothan when they are going to Samaria and suffer like delusion with those in Athenaeus who supposed themselves to be at Sea in a Tempest and casting out the Utensils of the house thought they had eased the ship of her luggage and were plying hard their Oars to attain their Port whereas all was but the effect of their cups and such Impostures may be occasioned by the golden Cup in the hand of the woman full of abominations though insensibly and unawares sip'd off as to make men dream they are doing one thing when they are acting another And as the Rabbins though vainly expounding Exod. 32.24 say that Aaron intended not to make a Calf but cast the golden Earings into the fire to consume them but by the operation of Sathan working by some Aegyptian Magitians in the Camp the form of a Calf came forth so it is neither impossible nor unusual for some proling men by over-witting and under-acting them to make their enemies unwittingly to drive on their designs and unwillingly advance their Interests as it was said of Pompey the Great Miscriâ nostrâ Magnus est so what sage man fears not that our divisions do more occasion and facilitate an union with that Kingdome which is not so much divided within it self and that not onely because the Trumpets must be of one peece that can call to the Assemblies but we see that water which is in an entire body is not so subject to the impressions of Air yet being scattered into drops is easily preyed upon and absorp'd by it and when a besieged City is set on fire the enemy who upon this account helps to blow and foment the flame may more easily enter and surprise it amidst our confusions And verely the unchurching of so many may make them more malleable to temptations to step aside into the Roman Church which is ready to spread her skirt over them in which respect he that put away his Church from this ordinance the Canon of the Nicene Councel saying Matrimonium inter Episcopum Ecclesiam esse contractum saving for the cause of fornication that is some noto rious sin causeth them to commit adultery or lastly in so little freedome to partake of the Ordinance and so great liberty to take up any wild and extravagant opinions truth and godliness may finally fall under such