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	society_n	1,721	5	9.2198	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A40256	Something in answer to a book called Fiat lux being a discourse between a papist and a Protestant &c. who writes at the bottom of the title page, J.V.C. : also something in answer to the papists queries.	Fox, George, 1624-1691.	1667 (1667)	Wing F1910; ESTC R25206	11,959	18

which ye may read your selves Isa 8.19 Psal 115.17 Something in Answer to the Papists Queries THou sayest in the 338 Page Apostacy is not only a renouncing of the Faith of Christ but the very Name and Title of Christianity and no man will say that the Church of Rome had ever such a fall as this A. The Faith of Christ that works by Love the Romish Church hath renounced and made shipwrack of and then what remains but a Form of godliness when the Power is denied and such are to be turned away from and such a Church as deny the Faith deny the Power and to profess Christ and Christianity in Words and deny him in Life and Power is Anti-Christ and this the Church of Rome is fallen into For many that kept the Title of Jews as you have done the Title of Christianity were found of the Synagogue of Satan so will you when you come to be proved and tryed by the faithful as they that said they were Jews and were not but lyars blasphemers and Synagogues of Satan Querie 2. If the Church of Rome did ever adhere to any singular or new Opinion disagreeable to the common received Doctrine of the Christian World I pray you satisfie me as to these particulars A. The Church of Rome have set up new Opinions by which they force their people to adhere to them contrary to all the Primitive Churches as all may see who will read but the Decrees Orders and Canons in your Church and that read the Epistles that were to the Churches in the Primitive times to be contrary to the Doctrine of the Primitive times as your making your God and Christ in your Bread and Wine your Crosses Crucifixes Reliques making of Ministers Pilgrims Popes and all your Body of Clergy together with their Orders and Garments that are nothing like the Way Worship and Practice of the Primitive Church which was the first among the Apostles And was not Rome degenerated when the Bishop would excommunicate all the Eastern Churches who was reproved sharply for it Qu. 3. Thou sayest By what General Council was the Church of Rome Condemned and by what Authority was she Reproved A. Three hundred and seven years after Christ the Bishop of Rome denyed Christ and sacrificed to Idols mark denyed Christ then he must deny Christianity when he took up another Religion then what did he bring the People of Rome to when he had sacrificed to Idols The Bishops Name was Mercelinus and he was condemned by a Council of 300 Bishops And here thou mayest see the Authority that reproved him before your Popish Religion See Eusebius in Pag. 36. Chronograp Was not the Bishop of Rome the first that Decreed that Priests should not Marry in the 399 year of Christ And then the first Council held at Toledo in Spain in the year of Christ 401 Decreed That Priests should Marry and so contradicted the Bishop of Rome And were they not once of the Sect of the Arrians and Reproved Look in Eusebius and you will see Reproofs enough Also you may read in Scripture what work the Apostle had with the Church of Rome how they were in his day going 〈◊〉 the Works of the Law from the Faith Also in the 423 year of Christ how that the Bishop of Rome passed the bounds of his Priestly Order in his presumption in challenging to himself the Secular Power and Authority who was reproved sharply and then a Council held in Affrica Decreed That no Bishop should be called The Head of all Priests That no Appeal should be made at Affrica to any other Bishop And so the Church was Ruled by Councils till Boniface the Third who got up to be Universal Bishop of all the World by the means of Phocus that murdered Mauritius the Emperour his Master after the 600 year of Christ and then came in the Pope the Turk and the Devil with all their Body and pelting Ceremonies Then did the Pope lose the greatest part of Christendome and the Emperor the greatest part of his Empire and so in succeeding Ages in stead of the Bible you brought into the Church Legends of Lyes as you may read Euseb Pag. 410. Qu. 4. Thou Queriest If ever the Church of Rome divided her self by Schisme from any other Body of faithful Christians to break Communion or went from the Society of any Elder Church what Company did she leave from what Body did she go forth where was the true Church which she forsook Answ She went from the practice of the Church in the Primitive times and from the Body of their Elders in all their dayes and hath forsaken their Society and Communion and divided her self from Christ the Head and hath set up another and is divided from all the Apostles and Elders Compare your own Canons which you use in your own Church with the Writings of the Apostles and you may quickly see from what Church Body and Company of faithful Christians and Elders you are all g●●●●● and erred from into another Faith Worship Life Power Gospel and Practice than Christ and the Apostles were in in the Primitive times For what one thing is it that the Church of Rome practiseth that is agreeable to theirs in all your Worship and your Teachers that hold it up who are maintained by oppressing the People and are upheld by carnal weapons and by them are all your dark Doctrines and Inventions set up and by Goals and Prisons and Tortures But the Elders which you have forsaken and Ministers and Apostles their Weapons were Spiritual and not Carnal as yours are who are sold under the sin far off the Redemption therefore do you destroy so many Lives not knowing what Spirit ye be of persecuting them that have the mind of Christ who came to save mens lives and to love Enemies and one another whose Doctrine ye deny THE END