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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
church_n	believe_v	faith_n	infallibility_n	5,890	5	11.4885	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A51566	Liberty of conscience asserted against imposition proposed in several sober queries to those of the people called Quakers who have assumed such an authority contrary to their former testimonies, as also unto those that have submitted unto it before they found convictions in themselves, for them to weigh and consider in the ballance of true judgment / [by] William Mucklowe.	Mucklow, William, 1631-1713.	1674 (1674)	Wing M3034; ESTC R30067	6,481	1

the Lord with the Requirings of his Spirit Whether the use of the Hat is not so to those that believe it is not required Whether we are not rather to cease from our own Labours from a Voluntary Humility which hath a seeming shew of Reverence lest we set up Posts by his Posts for whatsoever is not of Faith is Sin Whether it is not possible for some to forbear its use in Prayer for Conscience sake as to the Lord lest be should say Who hath required this at your hands and not through an obstinate wilful and opposite Spirit What will you have these to do in such a Case Ought they for this cause to be excluded your Communion If yea whether you may not pull up the Wheat with the Tares and to eject before God doth and then where is your Liberty to Tender Consciences Whether if there be a Difference among you in things Ceremonial or in Bodily Gestures when the Truth is owned loved and received as it is in Jesus you ought not to wait with patience till God shall teach him because without this Teaching he can never know it aright And therefore will it not manifest a Spirit of Love and Tenderness not to condemn one another for the Vse or Forbearance thereof any more than those that did and did not keep days did and did not eat Meats And whether the Apostle did not foresee that judgings in such things would tend to Separation and Division Whether if we are to walk by the same Rule whereunto we have already attained then is there a Necessity of a Oneness in Practice forasmuch as there are different Measures Growths and Motions Whether the Differences in Outward Exercises or Gestures will not abundantly commend the Vnity of the True Faith which doth not stand in Garments Gestures Meats or Drinks but in the power of an endless life in which God only is truly worshipped Whether it is not better to be reputed Vile Crawling Stragling and old Cankered Apostates VagabondQuakers c. and to be separated from your Communion rather than through Fear Interest and Necessity to do that which may be right before he sees it to be so But especially rather than through Fear and Necessity or any private Interest whatsoever to do that which is evil because the Hypocrite God will judge Whether To declare there is not a further Manifestation as many of you have done and also whatsoever shall be added to or diminished from what you were in at the Beginning shall not the Truths we yet know not which are to be brought in be reputed Errors and the Errors which yet remain for ought you know be reputed Truths Whether For you to assert those Romish Positions which have enslaved Nations and destroyed Thousands is not of a more dangerous Consequence than can well be uttered Namely 1. That we are to believe as the Church believes 2. That the Church cannot Err. 3. That She hath Power to Bind and to Loose 4. That it is abominable Pride not to submit unto Her Judgment She having always the Infallible Spirit With many such like Expressions And if you limit the Power and the Church to Persons why may not you Apostatize as well as Rome and yet still claim the same Infallibility and Dominion over their Faith Which is contrary to the Apostles Saying 2 Cor. 1. 24. Friends THat which was declared of and testified unto in the beginning was to direct our minds unto the Heavenly Gift not to the Church but to the manifestation of the Spirit in the particular waiting there to feel its Motions and to hear its Voice which would infallibly teach us our Duty towards God our Neighbour and our selves and not to go forth into Reasonings to promote comely Orders after the manner of men nor to be found in the exercise of any thing in his pure Worship but what the Lord and not the Body required else to stand still in the silence to all Flesh attending the Motions of the Heavenly Drawings and then to answer its Requirings Were we not then exhorted to be like the Noble Bereans to examine and to try the Verity of your Doctrine by the measure of his Spirit in us and whatsoever led from that Pure Gift drew into the Apostacy yea if an Angel from Heaven brought another Gospel let him be said you accursed Christ within us was then to be Head but now the Body without us The Church was then to be in subjection to her Head and every Member to be governed and exercised according to the Order of the Head But now the Body the Church claims an Authority over their Fellow-Members as peculiarly having the infallible Spirit the certain un-erring Judgment residing with them upon all occasions to know Truth from Error and the Right from the Wrong Spirit Will you limit the Lord cannot he reveal that to a particular yea such things as the Church would be startled at yea and be ready to question the Verity thereof because She likewise hath not the Manifestation of it when alas it is hid from Her as well as from a particular Member unless the same Spirit reveals it It 's undeniable therefore that the infallible Spirit and the Word of Wisdom depends not upon the Church the Body but upon Christ the Head of the Body who administers of his Spirit in Diversities of Operations to few or to many as he pleaseth without respect to Persons or Bodies And it hath pleased the Lord that there may be no Glorying no Imposing no Usurping over the Faith of any to reveal himself unto the Lowly Ones that are Little in their own Eyes and in the Eyes of others to inform the Church and Elders thereof to wit John to the Seven Churches Isaiah and Jeremiah to the Jews Elihu to Job and his Friends Joseph unto his Parents and Brethren Moses that was bred in Pharaob's Court to the Church there Who revealed unto David that Goliah must fall by his Hands Or who revealed unto Daniel and John those profound and deep Mysteries Did the Church Nay Was it not hid from her Eyes Did not the Elders that sate in Moses his Chair resist the Appearance of Christ both in Flesh and Spirit Did the Church make known unto Peter that the Gospel was to be preach'd to the Gentiles and that in every Nation he that feareth God and worketh Righteousness is accepted of him Nay Nay Did not Caleb and Joshua withstand the whole Congregation of Israel Would they not have stoned them with Stones for opposing the Church in their Desires to return towards Egypt Who was the Schismatick here Caleb and Joshua or rather the whole Congregation Of what hath been said this is the Sum A Church limited to persons may impose an Error and cast out the most Spiritual Moreover Who revealed unto Paul the Abolition of Circumcision c Was not the Church at Jerusalem dissatisfied with him in what he preach'd to the Gentiles Did not Paul withstand