Selected quad for the lemma: christian_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
christian_n	body_n	church_n	mystical_a	1,148	5	10.4023	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A32818	Quod tibi, hoc alteri, ne alteri quod non vis tibi a profitable enquiry into that comprehensive rule of righteousness, do as you would be done by : being a practical discourse on S. Matt. vii, 12 / by Benjamin Camfield.	Camfield, Benjamin, 1638-1693.	1671 (1671)	Wing C382B; ESTC R25964	104,175	262

one Father Mal. 2.10 Hath not one God created us Why do we deal treacherously every man against his brother q. d. Partial and treacherous dealing is unaccountable between them who stand related each to other as fellow-creatures of the same God as fellow-brethren of one and the same Father Job 31.13 14 15. If I did despise the cause of my man-servant or of my maid-servant when they contended with me saith Job what then shall I do when God riseth up and when he visiteth what shall I answer him Did not he that made me in the womb make him and did not one fashion us in the womb or as the margin reads Did he not fashion us in one womb The rich and the poor meet together Prov. 22. ● saith Solomon the Lord is the Maker of them all Prov. 29.13 And again The Lord enlightneth both their eyes God saith the Apostle Paul that made the world Act. 17.26 and all things therein hath made of one blood all Nations of men for to dwell on the face of the earth And saith the Psalmist of these Inhabitants of the earth The Lord fashioneth their hearts alike Psal 33.15 So that we may well conceive what others would desire of us Alterius animum de tuo metiaris Lactant. by what we our selves desire of others and there is great reason we should be to others such as we would have them be towards our selves Prov. 27.19 As in water face answereth to face so the heart of man to man Wisd 7.6 All men have one entrance into life and the like going out even upon this account I am speaking of in as much as we are partakers of one and the same humane Nature joynt possessors of the same Earth Fellow-Citizens of the same World Brethren of the same Descent Branches sprouting from one and the same Stock All men are valuable to us in that they are homines Lactant. idem quod nos sumus men and the same that we our selves are When God injoyns us to love one another 't is as S. Chrysostom somewhere observes Ecclus 13.15 Every beast loveth his like little more than that natural Law quam Leones Lupi servant which even Lions and Wolves keep to not to devour Creatures of the same kind with themselves saevis inter se convenit Vrsis The savage Bears do yet agree with each other 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Theocr. Idyl 9. Where there is nothing else to tye and oblige us unto others their communion and participation of the same nature with our selves is sufficient Humanitas summum inter se hominum vinculum as Lactantius speaks Est aliquid quod in hominem licere commune jus animantium vetet quia ejusdem naturae est cujus tu Sen. de Clem. li. 1. c. 18. To this purpose Seneca well notes that there is somewhat unlawful towards man upon this common right with other living Creatures even because he is of the same nature with our selves And therefore Aristotle when he was accused for relieving a notoriously wicked man made this rational Appology for himself 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 That he had not respect to the manners but to the man And again 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 That he gave not to the man as so qualified but relieved Humanity in him considered the Nature more than the Person Thus far we have an actual equality with each other as men in as much as we are all of one and the same kind fashioned alike as to the frame of our Bodies and the general inclinations of our hearts partakers as of the same flesh and blood so of the same reasonable souls descended from the same Adam having one and the same Creator and bearing the same Divine Image born alike into the world 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Phocyl Poem admon and passing alike out of it and to be raised alike again after Death to Judgment But then beyond this the Christian Religion equals us much more in as much as we are thereby made capable of the same happiness and redeemed and purchased by the same Saviour who tasted death alike for every man and gave himself a ransom for all Tantum hoc cogita frater est in Domino cohaeres in Christo ejusdem corporis membrum eodem redemptus sanguine fidei communis socius ad eandem gratiam felicitatem futurae vitae vocatus quemadmodum Apostolus dixit Unum corpus unus spiritus sicut vocati estis in unâ spe vocationis vestrae unus Dominus una Fides unum Baptisma unus Deus Pater omnium Alienus esse qui potest quicum tibi tam multiplex intercedit unitatis copula Erasm Enchir. Mil. Christ p. 143 144. And we as Christians are farther equal in that we are united in the same Sacraments in the same Faith and Hope Disciples of the same Lord and Master Believers of the same Gospel Baptized with the same Water Participants of that one Loaf and one Cup which is the Body and Blood of Christ sanctified with one and the same Spirit enriched with the same Grace Fellow-members of the same mystical Body one only holy and Catholick Church and Joynt-heirs of the same Promises and Glory Who now art thou whether Man or Christian that vauntest and preferrest thy self above others or refusest to walk by the same Rule towards them which thou art ready to prescribe them towards thy self This is the first Particular The Actual Equality of all Men by Nature and of Christians by Grace Upon the account of which we should as S. Paul adviseth be of the same mind one towards another and be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love in honour preferring one another Rom. 12. 2. Possible it is for every man to be in the same state and condition with any other As with the People Isa 24.2 so with the Priest or Prince as with the Servant so with his Master as with the Maid so with her Mistress as with the Buyer so with the Seller as with the Lender so with the Borrower as with the taker of Usury so with the giver of Usury to him saith the Prophet Quod cuiquam contigit cuivis potest That which hath hapned to another may happen unto thee We should all thus reckon with our selves that being Men we may possibly undergo whatsoever other Men have undergone or do undergo We are liable to the same imfirmities and the same afflictions and the same temptations with others 1 Cor. 10.12 13. Let him that thinketh he standeth saith the Apostle take heed lest he fall There hath no temptation taken you 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 but such as is vulgaris frequens inter homines common unto men And again in his Epistle to the Galatians which I before occasionally mentioned Brethren Gal 6.1 if any man be overtaken in a fault ye which are spiritual restore such an one in the spirit