Selected quad for the lemma: church_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
church_n	bind_v	earth_n	loose_v	5,255	5	10.5190	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A46526	Compunction or pricking of heart with the time, meanes, nature, necessity, and order of it, and of conversion; with motives, directions, signes, and means of cure of the wounded in heart, with other consequent or concomitant duties, especially self-deniall, all of them gathered from the text, Acts 2.37. and fitted, preached, and applied to his hearers at Dantzick in Pruse-land, in ann. 1641. and partly 1642. Being the sum of 80. sermons. With a post-script concerning these times, and the sutableness of this text and argument to the same, and to the calling of the Jews. By R.J. doctor of divinity.	R. J.	1648 (1648)	Wing J27; ESTC R213600	381,196	433

will carry and lead us into a sea of true and solid joy and comfort Other directions in case of wrongs done to men But as these are Remedies given and prescribed by these holy Apostles in respect of God so seeing we wound our consciences often by trespassing against man we must also seek our cure as by the aforesaid means with God against whom we chiefly sin when we sin against our brethren so as the case may require 1 To submit to them Matt. 5.23 24. Jam. 5.16 1 By submission and acknowledgement of our sins against them and by seeking reconciliation with them 2 By Restitution made unto them whether of their good name or of their goods if by usurious contracts extortion 2 To make restitution if need be theft or otherwise we have defrauded wronged or oppressed them by the example of Zacheus when he became a true convert and penitent 3 To desire their prayers Job 42.7 8. or by desiring their pardon and their prayers for us as God himself injoyned Jobs friends to submit themselves to him who else could have no peace with God And thus for this first particular CHAP. XXVI The Apostles considered according to their Order and Number and that direction and comfort is to be sought of others as well as of Peter and more then of the Pope 2. These Apostles considered according to their order 2. THe other two concerning their order and number shall be but named It s here declared that they said to Peter and to the rest but first to Peter Papists who protend their Pope in speciall manner to be Peters successor and thence to have a primacie and superiority over all Churches do here catch at the placing of a word and name to prove Peters authority over the rest of the Apostles They speak first to Peter as if because these Jewes do all turn themselves unto him therefore hee must needs be chief a leader and guide to all the rest Which they would gather also because Luke Acts 1.13 and in his Gospel and some of the other Evangelists naming all the Apostles together make mention of Peter and name him in the first place But what of this In other Scriptures we find James named before him Gal. 2.9 John also who was the beloved Disciple and at meat was next to Christ leaning on his bosome the very night he was betrayed whom Peter himself used as his spokesman unto Christ John 13.23 24 25. So the Disciples are named before Cephas by the Angel Mark. 16.7 But were they therefore superiour to Peter Our adversaries will deny that If the naming of him after others of them maketh not against his supremacy then the setting of his name before them maketh not for it for speciall reason In this place there was a speciall reason for it Peter it was who deepliest charged them and by conviction of them troubled their consciences he was the chief though not the only speaker and he was therefore first and chiefly spoken to and his advice and counsell asked Howsoever grant Peter were first in respect of order among them An Order may be granted but no Supremacy yet what is this to that primacy and superioritie that power and authority which Papists ascribe unto him above the rest as if he were any more or immediatly Christs Vicar then the rest No Christ gave none of them such authority over other but expresly forbade it in them saying But ye shall not be so We conclude then that the proud Pope's claim from Peter will afford him little power or lordly authority over his brethren And Peter here though first named is but one among the rest among many unto whom these also spake as well as to Peter For they said unto Peter and to the rest of the Apostles 3. Their number many Others as well as Peter 3. For number then those here sought unto were as well the other Apostles as Peter who as they must not be supposed to be dumb all that day and to stand as cyphers beside Peter seeing the holy Ghost in the gifts and power of it was promised to them all as well as to any one of them Acts 1.4 5. Luke 24.49 and did accordingly in the visible signs of it sit upon each of them yea and inwardly fill them all Acts 2.3 4. who all of them began to speak with other tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance so must they be thought equally and indifferently as to preach the same doctrine in the like convincing manner so to give the same saving counsell and direction to such as being alike convinced and pricked in heart sought the same severally at their hands Direction counsell and comfort sought and to be sought from others as wel as from Peter For its likely that some of this great multitude spake to Peter and some to the other Apostles whom they heard seeing it cannot be imagined that either all the twelve Apostles spake at once to the same hearers or that those three thousand which were added to the Church that day did or could all of them speak to Peter Howsoever their counsell and comfort is sought as well as Peters and was accordingly given by them at least implicitely in Peter their foreman who spake for the rest and in their names if they spake not for themselves seeing there is but one and the same rule and ground of true comfort and spirituall direction for the substance of it by which all both Apostles and Pastors of the Church must go to the end of the world For though it by occasion be said by Christ to Peter Matth. 16.19 I will give unto thee the keyes of the kingdom of heaven and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth as well as bind shall be loosed in heaven yet this was not spoken or meant to belong personally or only to Peter but to the rest and therefore the same mouth uttereth the same words to others as well as to Peter saying in the plural Matth. 18.18 Whatsoever ye shall loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven And John 20.23 Whose soever sins ye remit they are remitted unto them Or from his pretended successor the Pope So that suppose the Pope were Peters Successor yet direction and comfort to our consciencs is not to be sought only from him or from any power derived from him as head and judge Others may and ought direct in matters of salvation who cannot quiet troubles either in the Church or conscience in doubts and cases of Conscience as well as he or his Casuists He can no more quiet the trouble of conscience then troubles in the Church Else why is there not an uniformity of doctrine in the Romish Church and particularly why did he not determine the controversie between the Domicans and the Jesuits which yet troubles their Church and the Protestants also through the siding of the Arminians with the Jesuits when he was sought