Selected quad for the lemma: cause_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	body_n	soul_n	spiritual_a	1,721	5	6.6792	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A80413	What the Independents would have, or, A character, declaring some of their tenents, and their desires to disabuse those who speak ill of that they know not. / Written by John Cook of Grays Inne Barrister.	Cook, John, d. 1660.	1647 (1647)	Wing C6031; Thomason E405_7; ESTC R201877	9,934	18

fast till authority settle a forme of worship He holds the Word and Sacraments not to be the constitution of a Church no more then the Law is the Common-wealth or the axe the house but the means and instrument of constitution and counts him the onely extravagant man that flies from reason which makes all men so noble he is of an opinion that the far greater part of men in the Kingdom beleeve that an honest upright meaning will win heaven and hope so to live as by their good works Prayers and good meanings to be saved and therefore does not conceive these men to be visible members of Christs body and consequently not to communicate in the distinguishing Ordinances Hee thinks it ill done to enforce any under penalties to receive the Sacrament possibly to seal up his own condemnation he is for every reformed Church so far as it is reformed but says many Scotch Ministers complain that things are not thorowly reformed with them hee counts it licentiousness not Christian liberty to affront those that be in Authority and never speaks any thing against the Nationall way of worship but to justifie his owne if called thereunto Hee will not be beaten but by Scripture weapons and in reading Scriptures neither stretches things wider nor draws them narrower then God has made them hee holds perswasion to be the Gospellary way and that liberty of Religion to all Protestants is the bond of Religion against Papists hee believes the community of the faithfull in appearance to be the immediate receptacle of all ecclesiasticall authority and holds Non-communion with Churches when one Church after fasting and Prayer shall tell an hereticall company that it appears they are in the state of damnation as Heathens and Publicans and better a milstone were hung about their necks then to give such just offence to be as effectuall to attain the spirituall end as Excommunication He is sorry that Brethren should fall out by the way being all animated by one Spirit as the body by one soul but is glad that himself is not the least cause of the disagreement He thinks spirituall diseases must have spirituall cures and thinks it is no proper way to confute an Heretick to break his head with the Bible Hee is one that desires to live lovingly with all the World and loves most where he sees most of God hee does not so much desire that Jesus Christ should love him because he knows hee loves him already nor that hee should love him more because hee knows hee loves him enough but that hee might love Christ and love him more and hee joyn●s himself in Church-fellowship not to gaine Heaven but to witnesse his love to Jesus Christ and desires to love himself no farther then he finds the Image of God renewed in him He counts it a great honour and security to Protestants to joyn all as one man against Popery and desires heartily a Union with our Brethren the Scots which hee conceives may very well be without a Uniformity which is a condition for the Saints above fully enlightned hee thinks Religion is ab eligendo as well as à religando and that the French Protestants are cordiall and sincere that may eyther goe to Masse or to Church as they please He conceives a moderate Presbytery such as men cannot except against in point of Reason or Conscience is best consistent with the happinesse of this Kingdom and why should not moderate men be content with a moderate Discipline He loves an honest Presbyterian better then an dishonest Independent and believes that the want of Morality excludes from Heaven he believes that this Army would fight as heartily for the State against Popery or any that should doe them wrong as ever they did for the Liberties of this Kingdom and desires that the Parliament and Army would grant as much to the City of London as may possibly consist with the safety of the Kingdom Hee freely forgives all those that rail against him in Pulpits and prays that God would make such Ministers more zealous to advance the power of godlinesse then their own power Hee desires to learn the truth with all diligence and humility and if for the present hee be in an errour hee hopes all good Christians will excuse it because it proceeds from a desire of all possible purity in a Congregation as if a servant be over diligent thinking to please his master by doing his businesse too well no ingenuous man would blame him He judges him the best Common-wealths man that wil suffer much himself when it may conduce to the publike peace and that is most forward to go in a way safe for the Kingdome though dangerous to himself and him the best Christian that studies Truth and Peace yet so as a Union of hearts rather then a vicinity of Houses is to make up a Congregation according to the New Testament then which he conceives his way no Newer Concerning the Errours of the times many whereof pretend from weak judgements but strong affection to Jesus Christ he thinks all this smoak is not without some fire but because the common enemy the Papists have more differences among themselves lest our jarring should be their musick he desires we may spend our wits upon them and our charity upon one another and if all truths be seasonable he conceives that the Assembly sitting so long before they agreed upon any thing was a great occasioner of them they kept the Kingdome too long fasting as if all men had beene of a like strong constitution whereas passengers to heaven are in haste and must walk some way or other and hee that hath gone far in a Wood is loth to turn back though hee be wrong so dangerous is it to procrastinate in their matters and very rare for a man to confute himself His practice is to baptize the children of one or both believing parents as foederally holy the contrary opinion of some Anabaptists or Antibaptists make him study Scripture in pietie and devotion more there being neither expresse precept nor example for it and the correspondency of the Seals under both dispensations more and possibly that may be a truth which for want of light hee conceives to be an errour if it be an errour 't is a very harmlesse one resting there and cannot disturbe the publike Peace If an Antinomian doctrinall doe not prove an Antinomian practicall hee thinks some of those opinions are very comfortable and learns hereby not to exalt duty too much but to study free grace the more and believe that the Doctrine of Justification and satisfaction have never been more cleerly taught then by them that have been so called He hopes Seekers finde the way to Heaven yet counts it sad that any should wait for new Apostles they may as well seeke a new Gopel and that those Ordinances which Christ hath purchased with his pretious bloud should be counted shadows much derogatory to his love and wisdome yet he