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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
christian_n	church_n	communion_n	society_n	2,512	5	9.2730	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A85121	A plain-dealing, and plain-meaning sermon, preach't in the parish church of St. Nicholas, Bristol, April. 6. 1660. Being the day appointed by the Parliament for publique fasting and humiliation for the sins of the nation, &c. Together with a prefatory epistle, and subsequent vindication both of the sermon, and author. Wherein (besides an apology for home and plain-preaching) you have something offered to allay the heat of thier stomacks, and to temper the tongues of those, who (being ignorant in scripture) reproach and revile Presbytery and Presbyters. With some hints at Satans subtlety, and the mischief of those people, who brand zeal for God and truth (in free, home, and faithfull preaching) with the reproachful names of anger, passion, and railing.	Farmer, Ralph.	1660 (1660)	Wing F443; Thomason E1025_5; ESTC R208684	39,155	50

then that those who professe it and live peaceably may be protected by him from outward violence No let the beauty excellency benefit and necessity of the communion of the Church with the priviledges thereof be clearly layd open to the people Let the hazard danger and mischief of just excommunication be declared and urged upon them And let all Christians with draw all countenance and unnecessary lessowship and society from them according to the Scriptures And if the sense shame and grief thereof with other such considerations set on by the spirit of God will not humble them Let them alone till the Lord cometh But then I would not have those who are by just excommunication cast out of one Church or Congregation received in into another for this were the way to make Conventicles of Hereticks Schismaticks blasphemers and all manner of prophane and ungodly ones And in this I conceive the Civill Magistrate is much concern'd especially being a Christian For 't is found too true by sad experience that factions in the Church beget fractions in the State And therefore my soul longs for such a happy day wherein by the favourable aspect of Christian Magistrates all wayes of faction separation and division may be fore-cluded And if men be otherwise minded let them sit still and be quiet Or if they will be doing it were good if they would go and gather Churches among the heathen and not intrude themselves into other mens labours This which I have now declared was and is onely to allay the heat of those mens stomacks who being altogether ignorant of what the Scripture hath and saith in the behalf of Presbyters and Presbyterians do so slight and vilifie them as to make the name and thing a reproach unto them You may as well call a man prick-eard Christian as prick-ear'd Presbyterian And I have done this to give you timely warning and to prevent your prophanesse If you will not leave it know however you scorn them the Scripture honours them and take heed of kicking against the pricks Your prophanesse is that I complain of and if you will go on Dominus venit And now I have one thing more to speak to and then manum de tabula and it is to fore-warn or rather after-warn you for it hath been too long practised of another evill and that is reproaching zealous home and plain down-right preaching with the odious names of passion anger and railing And let me tell you this is no other then Sathans subtlety to render our preaching unto you unprofitable and ineffectual We confess we are men subject to passion yea and sinfull passion as others are Iam. 5.17 Instances might be given from Scripture of the Lords most precious Saints and servants in this sad particular But what then Is plain and home and down-right preaching passion and railing Take heed of that Nay is it not lawful sometimes to be angry and in passion Eph. 4.26 Be angry and sin not A man may be angry and not sin Nay 't is a sin not to be angry sometimes Is not the Lord himselfe said sometimes to be angry And can he sin It 's true St. Paul would not have a Bishop or Presbyter soon angry Tit. 1.7 not suddenly lightly hastily But doth that infer he should not be angry at all Nay rather doth it not infer the contrary He may he must be sometimes angry Would you be drunke and swear and curse and prophane Gods Sabboths and hate and scorn strict profession of Religion and openly declare your enmity and shall not must not we be angry Must we not reprove you sharply cuttingly So the word properly signifies 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 I 'le tell you sirs That which you call anger and passion and railing is in Scripture call'd zeale Tit. 1.13 I could be large in this particular but there is so much in this kind done to my hand already by a worthy and reverend brother and that in print in a little book called Elias Abatement or Corruption in the Saints Being a Sermon preached by Mr. Thomas Case at the Funerals of a godly Minister one Mr. Gualter Roswel I say this being so excellently and fully done to my hand I shall forbear the further prosecution from my own thoughts Onely because every one hath not that Book and some may meet with this who possibly may never meet with that And for that prejudice against Ministers upon this account is so great a mischief to them especially to their people being as I said a device of Sathan to hinder the entertainment of their Doctrine I shall take so much pains as to lay before you some of that which that Reverend Author hath to this purpose and which he did in vindication of that deceased brother who it seems was changed to be a man passionate and cholerick In the first place he confesses he was a man in whom the black adust humour of choler had predominance in his natural constitution and who can help that And he sayes that many times gave a tincture to his discourse and actions which standers by more censorious then candid interpreted to his unjust prejudice Then he gives him a high commendation for his eminent gifts parts and abilities comparing him in his measure to Elias and John the Baptist in many things Amongst others he says his Ministery was a thundring Ministery and I would to God sayes he we had more of them there is need of them And because t is so good and pertinent take more Thunder says he purgeth the air And if so we have need of more such sons of Thunder amongst us and not such as will sing Placentia unto people Sow pillows under their elbows and sing men to Hell with sweet Lullabies of peace peace when there is no peace Our air is pestilentiously infectious in the sense of our spirituall Physitians and our Climate is mortally infected with the pests of heresies and blasphemies and with the putrid stench of all manner of poysonous lusts which is the fatall source of all our plagues both in Church and State and this our precious brother saith he was deeply sensible of And hence it was that his spirit was warmed within him to a more then ordinary degree of zeal in his Ministery And he says his courage was rival with his zeal he feared not the face of any man but would boldly reprove as Elias even the highest In all the Changes that went over his head in all the Controversies of the times wherein he exercised his Ministry he was a most strenuous assertor of the Truth and a most couragious opposer of errour and innoviation and that even while some higher then others by head and shoulders in their own eyes did basely and unworthily betray their cause he feared not the face of man in the cause of Jesus Christ He durst tell the greatest person he had to do with of their faults upon just occasion in the worst of Times He was a hammer