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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	church_n	communion_n	schism_n	2,198	5	10.4367	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A95963	The authours, nature, and danger of hæresie. Laid open in a sermon preached before the Honorable House of Commons at Margarets Westminster, upon Wednesday the tenth of March, 1646. being set apart as a solemne day of publike humiliation to seeke Gods assistance for the suppressing and preventing of the growth and spreading of errours, heresies, and blasphemies. / By Richard Vines. Printed by order of the House of Commons.	Vines, Richard, 1600?-1656.	1647 (1647)	Wing V545; Thomason E378_29; ESTC R3304	47,605	81

and wallowing in the mire vers 20. 21 22. and so the shipwrack of faith and the putting away of good conscience 1 Tim. 1. 19. goe both together and therefore the Nicolaitans whose doctrine was hatefull to Christ Rev. 2. 15. and whose lusts and filthinesse maintained by their pernicious doctrine a Iren. lib. 1. cap. 20. Clem. Alex. lib. 7. Strom. were monstrous can bee accounted no other then damnable Haereticks and we may judg the like of others of the same stamp being the very persons as is b Epiphan haeres 26. Beza in Revel 2. 15. Quiros in Judam conceived by good Authors whom both Peter and Iude describe as turning the grace of God into lasciviousnesse and denying the onely Lord God and our Lord Jesus Christ Iude 4. So much for the opening of the three points which you may if you please bind up together into one That false teachers shall privily bring in damnable haeresies even denying the Lord that bought them Now we come to search out what Haeresie is The word haeresie is of Greeke originall and is often translated Sect not o Justinian in 21 et 2. a secando from cutting but a sectando from following as being a way which men chuse to follow as it s said The way which they call haeresie Acts 24. 14 A way of worship or doctrine for so he saith so doe I worship the God of my Fathers beleeving c. It appeares to be an act of the will electively pitching upon such a way For the word it selfe signifies election comming not from b Martinius lexicon 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to expugne or lay waste though that be proper enough but from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to chuse or adhere unto and therefore the Septuagint Levit. 22. 18. 21. translate 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 free-will offering by 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 election or free-willednesse The Rabbins call an Haeretick c Drusius de 3. sectis Judae lib. 1 cap. 2. Grotius in Tit. 3. 10. Nic. Fuller Miscellan 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which in f Gen. 1. 12. Levit. 11. 22. Scripture signifies a kinde or species and so they denote a man to be an Haereticke who leaving the common road or way of faith and Doctrine sets up and followes a particular way of his own e Elias in Tishbite 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 one that is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 without law that will not bee bound up by the rule but runnes out into his owne way and g Nic. Fuller miscel sacra lib. 2. cap. 3. some derive it from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which is translated 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Nehem. 9. 17. Exod. 22. 16. signifying to refuse or deny as if you would say a renegado or denyer of the trueth This word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 while it kept it selfe among Philosophers Physitians and other Professors of knowledge and learning past for an honest word but when it came into the Churches quarters and was taken up by Christians it became branded stigmatized and odious It s used about sixe times in the h Acts 5. 17. 26. 5. 15. 5. 28. 22 24. 14. 24. 5. Acts of the Apostles and whether it may not in some of those places at least bee taken in good part or indifferently shall not bee my dispute at this time But when you finde it in the Epistles Apostolicall and in the Gospell Churches it hath not a jot of good savour in it but carries a marke of iniquity and infamy upon it In those Epistles it is used about i 1 Cor. 11. 18. Gal. 5. 20. Titus 3. 10. 2 Pet. 2. 1. foure times expresly and because I would not make a definition which you might say is mine owne and so slight it I will lay before you the Scriptures that speake of it that you may in their light see what it is The first place is that 1 Cor. 11. 18 19. I hear that there bee Schismes among you and I partly beleeve it For there must bee also haeresies among you that they which are approved may be made manifest among you The Greeke Interpreters take Schisme and Haeresie in this place for both one in a manner and understand not by the word Haeresie any matter k 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Chr●●● Oecumen in ●●cum dogmaticall or of Doctrine but others l Beza in loc argue from the word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 also There must also be haeresies that they are distinct and that though haeresie include schisme yet schisme doth not include haeresie and to mee it seemes that they are neare a kinne because the Apostle rises from one to the other saying there are schismes there must also be haeresies but they are not collaterally a kin for by the ascent haeresie seems to be the greater For there must bee also haeresies into which those that are 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 do not m Neque enim eos probatos intelligi jubet qui in haeresin fidem demutant Tertull. de prascript easily fall but are made the more conspicuous or manifest for soundnesse and integrity That we may find the true nature of haeresie let me in few words declare what schisme is The word schisme imports a rent or division of things that were or should be in continuity and undevidednesse and as it s taken in the matter of Religion it signifies a rupture in the communion or from the communion of the Church upon unnecessary and unwarrantable causes and grounds A causelesse breaking or breaking off from the communion of the Church in matter of worship or Religion Society and communion are of great importance the evill of schisme is answerable to the good of society and communion we are to judge of schisme by the cause of it For if it bee upon a cause which the Word warrants not it is a sinne of high nature Cameron de Schismat Some distribute it into two sorts or parts b negative and positive Negative is the very rupture and breaking off positive is the coalition of the parts rent off into new bodies or associations under other Pastors and Teachers The formality of schisme consists in the secession or negative part though the coalition into new bodies which was called the setting up altare contra altare may make it more obstinate and pernicious Now I say the cause must rule us in judging of it For as it is not the party which separates that makes the Divorce but the Adulterous party which gives the cause And as Mornay saith it is not the man who commences or begins the suite which makes the trouble but he that detains the right So they are the schismaticks who give the just cause of separation from them what a hurry was made in the Church by the paschal controversie wherin a Tract of schis page 5. as one saith both parties might beschismaticks dividing themselves asunder upon so triviall a