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	member_n	pastor_n	1,299	5	9.4696	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A07040	Theses Martinianae that is, certaine demonstratiue conclusions, sette downe and collected (as it should seeme) by that famous and renowmed clarke, the reuerend Martin Marprelate the great: seruing as a manifest and sufficient confutation of al that euer the Colledge of Catercaps with their whole band of clergie-priests, haue, or canbring [sic] for the defence of their ambitious and antichristian prelacie. Published and set foorthe as an after-birth of the noble gentleman himselfe, by a prety stripling of his, Martin Iunior, and dedicated by him to his good neame and nuncka, Maister Iohn Kankerbury: hovv the yongman [sic] came by them, the reader shall vunderstande sufficiently in the epilogue. In the meane time, vvhosoeuer can bring mee acquainted vvith my father, Ile bee bounde hee shall not loose his labour.	Marprelate, Martin, pseud.; Throckmorton, Job, 1545-1601, attributed name.; Penry, John, 1559-1593, attributed name.	1589 (1589)	STC 17457; ESTC S112312	15,688	32

Church or man 5 That if Christ did not ordeine a Church-gouernement which at the pleasure of man can not be changed then hee is inferiour vnto Moses for the gouernment placed by him might no man to alter and thereto might no man adde any thing Heb. 3.2,3 6 That the Lorde in the Newe Testament did appoint as perfite and vnchangeable a forme of Church-gouernement in the offices and officets thereof as Moses did in the olde 7 That the Lorde neuer placed any offices in the Newe Testament but the offices of Apostles Prophets Euangelistes Pastors Doctours Elders and Deacons 8 That vnto the end of the worlde there were no other offices to bee placed in the Church but onely these 9 That none of these were and so no offices of a lawful Church-gouernement are to be remoued out of the Church by any but by the Lorde Christ himselfe who placed them because they are the members of his body in the placing or displacing whereof man hath no skill nor yet commission to deale 10 That the Lord for the causes seeming good to his owne wisedome whereof any further then hee hath set downe in his worde man is not to enquire hath remoued out of the church the offices of Apostles Prophets and Euangelists 11 That the want of these can bee no maime vnto the church seeing the Lorde by remoouing them thence sheweth that the body can haue no vse of them 12 That the church is nowe vnto the worldes end to haue none other offices in it but of pastors doctors elders and deacons 13 That the displacing or the want of these is a maime vnto the church And therefore 14 That the churches of God in Denmarke Saxony Tygurium c. wanting this gouernment by these offices are to be accompted maimed and vnperfect 15 That it is as good a reason yea and a farre better to say that learned men and valiant captaines must haue their eyes put out because Homer and Zisca were blinde as to auouch that the church of England may not bee gouerned by Pastors Doctors Elders and deacons because other good churches want this regiment 16 That to place others in the steade of these is both a maiming and a deforming of the church 17 That no magistrate may lawfully maime or deforme the body of Christ which is the Church And therefore 18 That no lawefull Church-gouernement is changeable at the pleasure of the magistrate 19 That the platforme of gouernement by Pastors Doctors Elders and Deacons was not deuised by man but by our Sauiour Christ himselfe the onely head and alone vniuersall Bishop of his church as it is set downe Rom. 12.4,5 Ephes 4.12 and 1. Cor. 12.8,28 God hath ordained saith the Apostle 20 That no inconuenience can possibly come vnto anie state by receiuing this gouernement 21 That the true stabilitie of al christian states and common-wealths consisteth in the sound execution of this church-gouernement by Pastors Doctors Elders and Deacons 22 That of necessitie all christian Magistrates are bound to receiue this gouernment by Pastors Doctors Elders and Deacons and to abolish al other church-gouernements 23 That a church gouernement being the ordinaunce of the magistrate or of the church is an vnlawfull church-gouernement 24 That it is meerely and vtterly vnlawfull for anie man church or state to ordeine anie church-gouernement or anie church officer saue that gouernement and those officers before named Because 25 That a church-gouernement consisting of any other officers but Pastors Doctors Elders Deacons is a gouernment of maimed and mishapen members Therefore 26 That our church-gouernement in England by lord archbishops and bishops is a gouernment of maimed vnnaturall and deformed members seruing for no vse in the church of God Therefore also 27 That no lord bishop is to be maintained in anie christian common wealth 28 That those kingdomes and states who defend any church-gouernement saue this of Pastors Doctors Elders and Deacons are in danger of vtter destruction in as much as they defend the maime and deformitie of the church And therefore 29 That our lord archbishops and bishops in defending this their vngodly gouernment are not onelie traitours to God and his church but vtter enemies vnto her Maiestie and the State in as much as they enforce the Lord by these their sins to drawe the sworde against vs to our vtter ruine 30 That our lord archbishops bishops holde it lawfull for our magistrates to maime or deforme the church 31 That they holde Iesus Christ to haue left behinde him an vnperfite and a maimed church wanting some of her members 32 That they holde it lawful for the magistrate to abolish the true and naturall members of the body and to attempt the making of newe by his owne inuention 33 That they to wit archbishops and bishops are the maime of our church and like to bee the destruction of our common-wealth 34 That the warrant that the archbishops and bishops haue for their places can be no better then the warrant which the maintenaunce of the open and most monstrous whoredome in the Stewes had in times past amongest vs. For by the worde they are condemned to be the maime or deformitie of the church or both And as for the laws that maintaine them being the wound and sore of the church they are no more to be accounted of then the lawes mainteining the Stewes 35 That the places of lord bishops are neither warranted by the word of God nor by anie lawfull humane constitutions 36 That the gouernement of the church of England by lord archbishops and bishops is not a church gouernement set downe in the worde or which can be defended to be Gods ordinance 37 That the gouernement of lord archbishops and bishops is vnlawefull notwithstanding it bee mainteined and in force by humane lawes and ordinances 38 That the humane lawes mainteining them are wicked and vngodly and to be abrogated of al christian magistrates 39 That to be a lord bishop then is simplie vnlawefull in it selfe that is in respect of the office though the man susteining the same should not abuse it as our prelates do 40 To be a lord bishop in it selfe simplie besides the abuse consisteth of two monstrous parts wherof neither ought to be in him that professeth himselfe a minister 41 The first is to beare an inequall and a lordlie superioritie ouer his brethren in the ministery and the rest of the church of God vnder his iurisdiction 42 The second is the ioyning of the ciuill Magistracie vnto the Ministerie That both these partes are condemned by the written word of God Luke 22.25 1. Pet. 5.1,2 Mat. 20.25 Marke 10.42 1. Cor. 8.10 Luke 12.14 2. Tim. 2.4 and Iohn 18.36 compared with Matth. 10.25 Luke 16.13 43 That the hierarchie of bishops in their superioritie ouer their brethren and their ciuill offices hath beene gainesaide and withstoode by the visible church of God successiuelie and without intermission for these almost 500. yeeres last past 44 That