Selected quad for the lemma: christian_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
christian_n	believer_n	church_n	visible_a	1,349	5	9.2573	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A66107	Ne sutor ultra crepidam, or, Brief animadversions upon the New-England Anabaptists late fallacious narrative wherein the notorious mistakes and falshoods [sic] by them published are detected / by Samuel Willard, teacher of a church in Boston in New England.	Willard, Samuel, 1640-1707.; Mather, Increase, 1639-1723.	1681 (1681)	Wing W2288; ESTC R33664	28,078	36

would might under him be made Priest fit or unfit The Belgick and others read it of both ends of the People If a fit man would accept it so if not to the other end and take one unfit The Anabaptists would have a learned Man if they could get one of their mind if not John Russel the Shoemaker The learned Zepperus De polit Eccl. p. 186. lamenting the low and miserable estate of Religion gives this for one reason of it they make Ministros De extremitatibus populi i. e. Sartoribus Sutoribus Idiotis c. He doth not think the Spirit is locked up in the narrow limits of Colledge Learning No● we neither nor yet Ministerial gi●ts to be ordinarily acquired in a Shoemakers Shop We believe men are to be instructed and endeavours used and that there are Schools of the Prophets to that end or there may be private m●ans used We believe a learned man may prove v●tious and so not fit to be improved in that work We believe every true Christian receives the spirit in his measure but that he therefore is fit to teach and instruct a Congregation is an Enthusiastic●l notion Truly ●● Goodman Russel was a fit man for a Minister we have but fooled our selves in building Colledges and instructing our Children in learning Frange leves calamos scinde Thalia libellos Si dare SVTORI CALCEVS ista potest Mart. We have enough of his Last to people New-England with Prophets SECT XX. One thing more and he will dismiss us Mr. Mather chargeth them with a pernicious Principle in their Confession of Faith viz. That Believers Baptized are visible Christians and fit matter for a visible Church How may the altering of a word or two change the sence the words of their Confession are Believers being Baptized are visible Saints and true matter of a visible Church Hence if the Anabaptists would give leave to draw consequences but then they would never have done with us and that is the reason they cannot receive our Arguments for Infant Baptisme because they are nothing but a few consequences and that is nothing to the purpose a man might argue that Believers being unbaptized are not visible Saints we know they acknowledge n●ne Baptized but themselves and that will bring in another consequence that there are no visible Saints but Anabaptists But suppose a man cannot reach them a blow with a consequence let them yet say is Baptisme administred to persons within the visible Church or without it Besides they say Baptized persons are true matter of a visible Church and they say those that were only sprinkled in their Infancy were never Baptized and will not this undermine the foundation of all the Churches in the world but theirs and what more pernicious They had even as good cry with Edom's Sons Raze it Raze it to the Foundation And now he cannot chuse but burst out into a lamentation over such a spirit But thus it will be in the world that the joy of some will be made the grief of others the triumph of truth will be the mourning of error I pray God this cause of the Anabaptists lamentation may be continued by the constant supply of men zealous against errors SECT XXI For a Conclusion the Narrator turns Prophet gets up to the top of Mount Ehal and there curses the people of God or these Churches in New-England and what is it so stirs his splene why they have born their witness faithfully against Anabaptists Errors and Scandals and detected the sin of those men who after they have for Lyes ' Slanders Covenant breaking despising Gods Ministers and slighting the Admonitions of their respective Churches been in Christs Name delivered up to Satan have joyned themselves in erecting and establishing an Anti-Temple and like the Samaritans of old become a Mount-Gerizzim a Den and Receptacle for every mal-content and scandalous person that cannot submit to the Discipline of Christ in his Churches to repair unto And now for this they are compared to those damnable Hypocrites mentioned Mat. 24. 49. and threatned with no less then eternal desolation We see what men may come to in time begin with falshoods and end with cursings But causeless curses shall not come nor need these Churches regard if they keep faithful to their God though Anabaptists Anath●matize them FINIS