Selected quad for the lemma: christian_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
christian_n	day_n	keep_v	sabbath_n	6,787	5	10.2588	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A34014	Charity commended, or, A catholick Christian soberly instructed by J.C.	Collop, John.	1667 (1667)	Wing C5391; ESTC R16883	68,489	162

world Sect. 52. I cannot be so much an Iconomachist as to think all image making Idolatry it 's eminently true of graven and molten which after the c●remonies of consecration was by the Gentiles conceived bodies of inspir'd Deities Pictures by Gods own appointment lawfull as the cherubims or if unlawfull to the Jewes the commandment is as little relative to Christians as the Sabbath as little understood as the taking Gods name in vain meant by forswearing Yet he who keeps the seventh day to praise God for the Creation as the first in memoriall of the Redemption or he who is so farre from using Gods name in vain by forswearing it as he will not misuse it in vain conversation or hates so much an Idol as his eyes will not treat with a picture I honour him for his zeal I wish I could as well commend him for his charity and not misapprove him for his ignorance We should not offend weak ones yet some are so weak that all things offend them madder then he who perswaded himselfe he was made of butter the sunshine of the Gospell terrifies them and the least scintillation of charity seems dangerous Others have the weaknesse of children whom nothing but rattles and pictures will please take away these they grow querulous baul and disquiet the whole houshold of faith Sect. 53. The bra●en Serpent the emblem of our Saviour curing the sting● of the fiery Serpents our sins while we wander in this wildernesse of error may be erected But if the old Serpent creeps into the body and tempts to Idolatry a Monk like an Idols Priest can give responses from a rood and make it move by a wire to induce a puppet-play in religion a prestò be gone befits both the Jugler and his Hocus had not foure Councels condemned them and a jury of Fathers Basils and Eus●bius testimonies on their side mistook Athanasius Chrysostoms and Damasus suffrages for them suspected therefore with Saint Hierom nos unam tantum veneramur imaginem Jesum nempe Christum qui est imago patris Though Basil saies the honour due to the abstract is due to the pattern if any one can show such an image of Christ as Christ is of the Father we will worship else we may believe with the Father Errare omnino meruerunt qui Christum non in divinis codicibus sed in parietibus quaerunt Or as Irenaeus saith where Pastors became dumb there Images became their Pastors These books of the unlearned though made use of by Paulinus Bishop of Nola since wooden Priests leave the rabble as unlearned as their books it is better the images of Christ be defac'd in Churches then the image of Christ should be defac'd in the people which should be the Temples of the holy Spirit But if any be lawfull sure the picture of the Father cannot being a piece of intollerable folly which in our fecunditie of sects may tempt a weak brother to reimbibe the humour of an Anthropomorphite God who loves decency in his spouse is so jealous of his honour in her that he cannot approve that fucated face of Religion which may shame honesty out of countenance This Italian wash and Spanish die disfigures the face of Religion whose grace is simplicitie What Caesar of his wife can we believe Christ should expect lesse of his spouse to be free not only from crime but even suspicion Sect. 54. Superstition which makes such a noise the worshiping of Daemons or Superstitum Cultus the worship of the survivor to dead mens souls as little as Idolatory an Image inspir'd by a Devill hath relation to Christians the part of that commandment which forbids adoration bowing down or corporall worship to an Idol seems to intimate a tribute due to God the worshipping God in spirit and truth plac'd in opposition only to that in the Mountain and Jerusalem impugns not this who redeem'd both body and spirit expects reverence from both Our spirits not lesse such by corporeall allegation even corporall worship is in spirit and in truth Henry Burtons Jesu-worship Idolatry prov'd the ridiculous non-conformist an Idolater who could Idolize his own fancy Most of our Polemick Divines more Andab●tarum pugnant their valour proceeds from their ignorance hacking and hewing fellowes which play prizes with the two e●g'd sword of Scripture and care not how they maim and mutilate Christian communion rather then not retain the aery name of Masters in the science of defence Yet the decryers of Idolatry are the greatest Idolaters covetous persons who would be gilded o're with promotion and made worshipfull like petty theeves they care not what hedges they break so they may warm their own fingers take away the fences of the Church to fence their own broken fortunes Ceremonies are the hedge that fences the substance of Relgion from the indignities which prophanes and sacriledge too frequently put on it While the divines of England have preached down ceremonies they have pulled up the hedge and not only let in Foxes into their Vinyards but opened a gap for the sheep to wander out of pasture of the Church and become a prey to Romish wolves seducing th●m in sheeps cloathing It is true that inter●all worship of the heart is the greatest service of God but externall worship of God in his service is the great witnesse to the world that our hearts stands right in the service of God take away this and what light is there left to shine before men that they may see our Devotion like a day-spring from above or a starre guiding wise men to Jesus and glorifie our Father which is in heaven The Kingdome of heaven his Church without civill order and comlinesse religious exercises will be disorderly and confused like the first Chaos God made in the beginning void and without form and whose face darknesse covered Sect. 55. That Romanists deny Christs humanity by transubstantiation make irrite his death by merits and satisfaction Credat Judaeus Apella non ego Christian charity will lend me no such deductions A Chrysostom Theodoret Isych●us Euche●●us and some Primitive Fathers with a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 if not a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 transfiguratiō conversion mutation translation transelementation transition if not a transubstantiation generally believed a mysterie a matter of faith not sense to be believ'd not grosly phancy'd if they have lent sōe an occasion of error shall administer to me an occasio● Charity though both within and without the pale of the Church it may afford opportunity to scandall not to be redeemed by a fictitious miracle of an Hoasts conversion into flesh when Christs body is no longer present then the form of bread remains how is Christs body in the miracle when the Species being gone it is no longer a Sacrament I love not such acute disputing about Christs body as the killing of 1000. in a battell and at Beziers 60000. how can we not dread Christs appearance who singe his Livery