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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	great_a	judgement_n	sin_n	3,123	5	4.8089	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A49280	Love the pretious oyntment, that flowes downe from the head Christ Jesus, to all his members, and makes them dwell together in unity		1654 (1654)	Wing L3222; ESTC R3849	10,092	16

God in his dispensations God is not pleased to put this knowledge within his part and therefore thou fall'st out with him and is not thy quarrell against God also because God hath not revealed it unto him yea as confident as thou art it may be that opinion for which thou fall'st out with him is not in thy part but that which he holds is within his part and then what a double madnesse is it to hate thy brother for not maintaining that opinion which thou holdest but knowest not to be a truth and for that truth which thy brother knowes and therefore maintaines But if of ignorance he erre in those things that are out of his part beare with him as thou wouldest be born with yea loved notwithstanding that errour for this is the Law and the Prophets It is not to be believed that any Saint willingly would maintaine a knowne errour and if he hold it of weaknesse receive him that is weake and not for contentions and dividing disputations beare with him in that which is beyond his part and he shall beare with thee in that which is beyond thy part for there is a great number of truths which some Saints know and others do not yea many which none attaine unto We have plaine places of Scripture wherein love to all Saints is commended and commanded but none wherein hatred of Saints for lesser measures of knowledge is injoyned or approved Againe the Body of Christ doth edifie it selfe in love therefore no love no edification But on the contrary as love edifies so hatred pulls downe and teares the building into pieces Now what saies the Scripture Who so destroyes the Temple of God hin shall God destroy A fearefull worke paid with fearefull wages Temple destruction followed with destruction of Temple destroyers Neither is this wholly deferred to the great day but even in this life division of Saints threatens destruction for if ye bite one another ye shall be consumed one of another When these lesser differences make a division the great Malignant puts in his wedge and the less●r follow and serve him in this worke and both teare Saints asunder to destroy them by dividing yea to destroy one Saint by another A sad thing when Saints shall do the Devils works dividing and destroying But farre from Saints be the works and paths of the destroyer But let them much rather do the works of God even of that God who is Love and his work is Salvation Let them strive to preserve each other by provoking one another to love and good workes and by being knit and linkt together so fast in love that none of these infernall Wedges and Engines may teare shem asunder Let them walke in those saving truths to which they have attained with one minde and one love and if any thing besides be not yet attained to waite with mutuall patience and forbearance untill the same be revealed I know there are errours to whose owners and maintainers the A postle allowes not God speed But I speake not of those but of such differences and divisions as are of a lower nature And is not the internall unity of the Spirit a greater band of love and peace th●n difference in small ma●ters or externals be of hatred division and mutuall destruction Is not such a destruction like unto this that when two owners of a field of Corne cannot agree about the fashion of the hedge upon this disagreement they will both agree to set the Corne on fire and destroy it What were this but to destroy the Corn for that very thing whose maine if not only use is to preserve it Let Saints heare the voice and judgement of Moses a great Saint and who in this voyce spake as one that was designed to be the great Judge of Israel Why sttive ye since ye are brethren Why teare ye the Body of Christ into pieces for the cloths of the body Is not the body better then raiment Christ hath shed his blood for his Saints and his Spirit into the Saints to purchase love peace and unity for them doe not rob him of his purchase by divisions and tearing his body asunder least he againe cry out from Heaven Why doe you persecute me and why doe you teare me in pe ces in my members Let us not prefer low quarrels and opinions before Christ dwelling and living in his members what is this but to make Idols of them and to make our selves like those of Canaan who sacrificed their S●ns and Daughters to their Idols and what followes Thus was the Land defiled with innocent blood But let every men sadly and sincerely examine the matter both as a Christian and as a wise man as a Christian let him aske his Soul whether it can be the Spirit that hates and endeavours to destroy a man that hath the Spitit certainly it is impossible that the Spirit should hate the Spirit or him that hath it For the fruit of the Spirit is love even love to all the brethren that are borne of the same Spirit And if it be a work of the flesh what hath a spirituall man to doe with the flesh but to kill it and not for the flesh to kill those that have the Spirit Secondly as a wise man who would by such devision and opposition of Brethren make a gap and open a gate for the common enemy to come in and destroy both wherefore to conclude let not lesser faults or exceptions which may stand with brother-hood dissolve brother hood much lesse set Brethren to destroy one another And if it were lawfull as it is not in Abrahams judgement who was the Father of the faithfull and told his Nephew Lot Let us not strive because we are brethren yet first of all meanes should be used for reconciliation and satisfaction thus did the whole Congregation of Israel by Messengers sent to the Tribes of Reuben Gad and halfe tribe 〈◊〉 Manasseth when they were suspected for setting up a new and forbidden kinde of Worship Lastly farre be it from Brethren upon doubtfull and disputable differences yea doubtfull breaches of Covenant to breake that plaine and down-right part of the Covenant That each one of us according to our place and interest shall endeavour that these Kingdomes may rentaine conjoyned in a firm peace and union to all posterity To breake a certaine and cleare part of the Covenant for uncertainties is a most certaine sinne Surely the breach of this peace and union is in it selfe a great Judgement upon the Kingdomes But how great a Judgement shall he deserve that by a breach of Oath is a cause of this Judgement Come not into their secret O my Soule for cursed is their anger and their wrath is cruell divide them in Jacob and scatter them in Israel for they would divide Jacob and by dividing scatter and destroy Israel even our Jerusalem compacted and knit together in both Nations by Saintship and Covenant But pray we for the union and peace of Jerusalem let us say and endeavour what we say peace be within thy walls and prosperity in thy palaces For my Brethren and companions sake I will now say Peace be within thee and let all the Brethren and Companions agree in this and say Amen Amen FINIS