Selected quad for the lemma: christian_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
christian_n	christian_a	church_n	society_n	2,901	5	9.2764	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A90962	The city-remonstrance remonstrated. Or An answer to Colonell John Bellamy, his Vindication thereof, in justification of The moderate reply to the city-remonstrance. / By I.P.	Price, John, Citizen of London.	1646 (1646)	Wing P3339; Thomason E345_18; ESTC R200996	24,101	36

personally sell such bookes as prayer bookes c. which were ordinarily sold by other Stationers in your Masters shop in so much as that your name grew famous for a most pious and conscientious man to the multiplying of your acquaintance and the begetting and increasing your customers when you set up shop for your selfe and studying to know more of the mind and will of God as touching the dispensation of his publique Ordina●c●s worship the businesse of infants baptisme came into your consideration and in that point you fel into the opinion of Anabaptists but whether rebaptized or no I cannot tell after this still respecting so far as men could judge the main duty of christ●anity viz. not to sin against your conscience condemn●●● your selfe in the thing that you allowed according to the 〈◊〉 of your own judgement and conscience you applied your s●ll to a ●eparate congregation whereof Mr. Jacob was Pastor and desired admission thereunto and upon your acknowledgemen● o● your error concerning Anabaptism you were admitted with whom continuing and frequen●ing to walk with them in their more private meetings through the tyranny of those times you were by the Bishops officers apprehended so had up into the High-Commission Court at which time your godly friends as was their duty came unto you and gave you brotherly exhortations encouragements unto Christian courage and fortitude not to sh●inke but to honour God by suffering according to that present call which you had thereunto but it seemes you had not yet received strength to abide such a temptation and therefore grievously tooke on wishi●g you had never beene borne and in short by the mediation of some friends and upon the giving of your bonds that you would no● goe among that separate Church congregation any more c. you were set free againe and being called in question by some of your brethren for so doing you endevoured to satisfie them as cōcerning your giving bonds to come among them no more with this consideration viz you could better give bonds therby only hazarding your purse then your verball promise to doe so nomore to the hazard of the peace of your conscience insinuating thereby that it was not the care of your purse but of your conscience that made you run that course at which answer your friends being satisfied for the present as judging the best of you they expected your Communion and fellowship as before but considering it seemes the danger thereof you withdrew from them made a Schisme and went away and as some say after along tymes forbearance and many admonitions was at last excommunicated which act of theirs it is presumed is the maine sourse of those bitter proceedings of you●s against these wares revenge it s feared putting you on worke After your separation and rent from them you became againe an obedient and dutifull child to the Canons of Episcopacy giving ample testimony hereunto by singular observance of one of their great Commandements viz. the frequent and decent publique use of the Common prayers of the Church observing their injunctions even to a tittle standing whē they bid you stand kneeling whē they bid you kneel so observing your postures to the life yea your dutiful obeysance to the fathers of the Church falsely so called I meane the Prelates was abundantly testified by your exact performance of another of their great lawes like unto the former viz receiving the Sacrament of the Lords Supper kneeling at the high Altar as intelligence affirmes if men may beleeve their eyes but before your stomach could digest a high Alter you prepared your self for it by degrees first refusing to come to common Service but going only to heare Sermons after this common prayer would down with you but not if read by any with a Surplisse a while after neither Common Prayer nor Surplesse nor high Altar it selfe was to hard meat for you to the great griefe and amazement of godly non-Conformists who were never in the separate Churches and the rather considering your Christian dial●ct and language of Canaan which was yet notwithstanding all this often found to proceed from you and not very long since the glory of Christian society and brightnes of such a fellowship dashing upon your cōscience you betook your self to a very precious select company of christians who met togetherin a coutsary maner according to agreeme● for the mutual com●ort edification of one another by pra●er exhortation and the exercise of one anothers gifts in which company none more free frequent and forward then Master Bellamy and indeed according to their acknowledgements exceeding and excelling them all in delivering many lushious soule-refreshing and heart-quickening truths both in pra●er and other exercises the sweetnesse benefit and comfort thereof being yet as Manna in their palates the dew of Heaven upon their hearts who with much griefe of soule assert these things Now sir I beseech you take notice that I doe not in the least reflect upon you for your difference in judgement from what you have beene heretofore your selfe nor from your brethren nor yet for your so often altering your judgement and practice but this is that that I would you all others should observe in you how you have made a personall experiment of all those waies have been for Bishops against Bishops for Anabaptists and against Anabaptists for Sepatates and against Separates for Bish ●gain and against Bish for Common prayer book and against Common-prayer book for conformity against conformity and now as it were halfe facing you are for Presbytery viz. jure humano and so left to the wisdom of Parliament and the prudence of Christian Magistrates this is the profession of your lips and yet you act and that to the utmost with those that hold it Jure divino and seekes the establishment of it in that cōsideration so that your tongue complements with the Parliament and sayes as concerning the power of Church government let the Crowne be set upon the head of Civill authority the high Court of Parliament sitting at Westminster and yet your hands endevour to lift it up and fix it upon the Temples of the Episcopall Corporation the London Ministers sitting at Sion Colledge and so you are likewise for Presbytery against Presbytery and yet that you should scoffe and jeere at your brethren that differ from you though you agree not even with your selfe as men intoxicated and elevated with new Lights doctrines of new date Sectaries hereticks more beseeming a Judas a Julian a Baalamite then Master Bellamy oh Sir whither are you fallen Master Bellamy what is salt worth that hath lost its sav●u● will you that have beene enlightned and tasted of the Heavenly gift and beene made partaker of the Holy Ghost tasted the good word of God and the powers of the world to come crucifie to your selfe the Sonne of God afresh in his members by seeking for and endevouring after an effectuall course of