Selected quad for the lemma: christian_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
christian_n	church_n	jew_n	synagogue_n	1,486	5	11.0980	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A78296	A new and true description of the world as it is now divided in four parts Heathens, Jewes, Turks & Christians.	S. C.	1673 (1673)	Wing C123A; ESTC R223563	12,960	32

know God yet in works they deny him being abominable and disobedient and to every good work reprobate These are not as Virgins but defiled prophane open wicked persons poluted in their lips and in their lives though Tit 1. 16. they call themselves christians they are Christs greatest enemies and make the times more evil and perilous and are worse then Heathens Jewes and Turks whose conversion they hinder by their devilish doctrines rediculous forms of worship and odious carriages hard-heartednesse and impennetencie So that now at this time in matters of Religious and spiritual worship The world in general consisteth of four parts 1 Heathens 2. Jewes 3. Turks and 4. Christians The last of which even Christians are the least part of the world but the 6th part say some writers yet these christians amongst themselves are greatly divided in matters of Religion but they all conclude against the heathens Jewes and Turks and renounce and disclaim their communion esteeming them that they be the Church of the devil the Synagogue of Sathan and Luther saith the Turk is the Body of Antichrist yet are they innumerable Rev. 9. 16. Rev. 20. 8 9. as the sand of the Sea but they are all out of the way and not so good as one mortal Saint For the Heathens worship many gods which by nature are no gods The Jews in expresse words deny that Christ is come in the flesh The Turks and almost all others do deny him in their works for although the Turks do acknowledge and worship the true God after a manner yet do they serve Mahomet And although they protest against the worshipers of Images as Prote stants against Papists yet they worship God by a divised rediculous stinted Service Book of their own invention contrary to Gods institutions Christian though divided greatly in opinion and affection yet most of them in humane traditions and divine or rather divised Services are not untyed but entangled in each others principles and practices Church ministry worship and discipline like to like Mother daughter jumping together in the seeming circumstances of times and places and many other matters O how heathenish are they in their common talke and carnal Songs Their speeches and practices shew as if they had the Heathen gods and godesses and their Temples in great esteem Where the graves tombs and Monuments of the dead be there are their Temples for their Religious Isa 65. 4. worship For their hearts remaineth there among the graves and lodge in the Monuments like the men possessed with devils who came out of the Tombs exceeding fierce their tipes for there was their dwelling being driven of the Mat. 8. ●8 Mar. 5. 3. Devil which dolesom and Idolatrous places in this land were and in other lands are places of refuge and protection for wilful murderers And these miserable sinners are strongly possessed with strange opinions that there are degrees of holinesse in those Idolatrous Temples which were built for heathenish and Popish services Yet these Christians or rather Antichristians are in continual variance amongst themselves Persecuting one another extreamly to the death as they have power and oppertunity censuring one another as Scismaticks and condemning one another as Hereticks often Writing Preaching Praying fighting against one another as mortal Enemies witnesse Spain France Germany other places in Europe living in hatred hating one another for peace is taken from the earth and the way thereof the world knoweth not therefore the Angel with his sharpe Sickle is reaping them and Rev 14. 14 Rev 14. 18 19 20. the Vine of the earth even the false Church with the clusters thereof shall be cut down and cast into the great winepresse of the wrath of God For their vine is the vine of Sodom and of the fields of Gomorra their grapes are the grapes of gall and their clusters are Deut 32. 32 33 34 35. bittet Their wine is the poyson of Dragons and the cruel venim of Aspes the day of their calamitie is at hand and the evil things that shall come upon them make haft Yet the Roman Catholicks say that they are the true Church So saith the Prelaticall Church for themselves and so say other churches for themselves But there is but one way of holyness in which all Christians ought to walk as they hope for salvation and that is the way of Separation for the Scripture saith What fellowship hath righteousness 2 Cor. 6. with unrighteousness What communion hath light with darkness what concord hath Christ with Belial what part hath the believer with the infidels what agreement hath the Temple of God with Idols For the Church of God is the Temple of God wherein God hath promised to dwell and walk Therefore Gods people must come out from amongst the Antichristian assemblies and be seperate and not touch the unclean thing For the Church of Christ is set forth by the Apostle Peter to consist of lively stones built up a 1 Pet 2. 5. Spiritual house they are Gods peculiar people seperated from the world in matters of Spiritual Worship But the churches of Antichrist consist of mixed swarms of sinners unrighteous persons 1 Cor. 6. 9. 1 Pet. 4. 17 18. and the Scripture saith the unrighteous shall not inherit the Kingdome of God Be not deceived neither fornicators nor Idolaters nor adulterers nor effeminate nor abusers of themselves with mankind nor theeves nor coveteous nor drunkards nor revilers nor extortioners shall inherit the Kingdome of God I know Antichrists Churches will labour to justifie themselves by the infirmities of others The incestious person say they was suffered by the Church of Corinth but they should observe that that church upon admonition did put 2 Cor. 7. 11 away from amongst them that wicked person They sorrowed after a godly sort it wrought in them carefulness clearing of themselves indignation fear vehement desire zeal revenge in all things they approved themselves to be clear of this matter Now the churches of Antichrist consist of a mixed multitude of sinners such as are before mentioned swarms of Fornicatos Lyars Sabbath breakers and and Idolaters eating and drinking and dancing about Dame Flora's pillars Swearing and cursing is common amongst them yea swearing by the Mass as Israel did by the sin of Samaria much used in the countryes yea the names of the Idol gods are frequent in their mouthes not in contempt of them but in praise they are the foretops and frontis-peeces of their Triumphals It s a common thing for them not only to revile one another in jest and in earnest but those who reprove or convict them of sin they malitiously reproach and slander as the heathens vilified the christians in the time of the ten persecutions which doth greatly aggravate these obstinate sinners sin and manifesteth them to be vessels of wrath fitted for destruction The abominable sin of Pride the deadly sin of flothfulnesse the detestible sins of drunkenesse and whoredom