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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
church_n	hear_v	heathen_a	publican_n	4,379	5	11.4435	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A86113	The right of dominion, and property of liberty, whether natural, civil, or religious. Wherein are comprised the begining and continuance of dominion by armes; the excellency of monarchy, and the necessity of taxes, with their moderation. As also the necessity of his Highness acceptation of the empire, averred and approved by presidents of præterit ages, with the firm settlement of the same against all forces whatsoever. / By M.H. Master in Arts, and of the Middle Temple.	Hawke, Michael.	1655 (1655)	Wing H1172; Thomason E1636_1; ESTC R202383	79,995	208

Christian Horizon fire and sword were the arguments he ejaculated against devout consciences The Hussits first come upon the Stage who submissively imploring of Ferdinand the Emperour to be admitted to receive the Sacrament under both Species Ludov. Aurel. Ann. Eccles f. 460. were by Pope Martin interdicted and a sacred war denounced against them wherein Zisca their blind yet quick-sighted Captain who saw as much in military affairs as Homer did in Poetical Layes and became so terrible to the enemy that he supposed a Drum of his skin would fright an Army behaved himself so skilfully and stoutly that he overthrew the Emperors Army and forced him to vail to their conscientious demands and not only to grant them the sacred mysteries under both kinds Id. 46● but to permit them to possess those goods they had taken out of Popish Churches until they were with the value redeemed with many other reformed immunities Next ensued the Scene of the Lutherans the Hussits Successors who were as one stileth them Id. f. 445. Lutheranorum Antesignani They likewise marched under their Sacred Banners and were confident propugnators and defenders of the Primitive purity and in spite of the Popes thundering power acted their parts so couragiously and piously that they withdrew Denmark Swethland and Norway with the Duke of Saxony Lantsgrave of Hesse and some other Princes of Germany from the Popes Sup emacy whose pious president the Hugonets in France and the Protestants in England with the reformed Netherlands did follow to the Popes perpetual detriment and preparation to his downfal the which he fearing and finding upon this defeat many in all his Jurisdictions to fall from him repaired to his Vulcanian Conclave Europ Spec. f. 112. and there forged the infernal Inquisition which he per antiphrasin calls the Holy House wherein is executed the more then barbarous tortures on mens consciences apprehending any upon the least suspition of any their supposed Heresies of affinity or connivance which Hereticks and the bare reproving sometimes of the Clergy's lives or the having any book or edition prohibited and especially a Bible in the vulgar language discovering men by the pressing of all mens Consciences whom they charge under an high degree of mortal sin Ib. v. 113. and damnation to appeach their neerest and dearest friends and if they know or suspect them to be culpable therein proceeding against the detected with such secrecy and severity as that they never shall have notice of their accusers but shall be urged to reveale their very thoughts and affections The which though he intended to have propagated through all the Catholick Dominious yet was it not onely rejected by Germany and France Europ spe ib. and solely retained in Italy and Spain but also most of the Catholicks within their Precincts who perhaps if need were would die for Religion abhored the very name and mention of the Inquisition as being the greatest slavery the world hath tasted And which inhumane and unnatural violence of planting and propagating of Religion was execrably detested of the vertuous Heathens and is abominated of devout Christians as opposite to pious Principles For if it were aproved and grateful to God why did he send his Son unarmed and indigent of any external power why did he restrain and rebuke Peter endevouring with his drawn Sword to defend his Master why did he send his Disciples as Sheep among the midst of Wolves and naked into all parts of the World as his Father sent him And when did it come into the minde of the Apostles to perswade and allow of any such violence or their Successors in the Primitive Church to practice any such force neither is the distinction of any force that the Christians deposed not Nero Dioclesian Julian and Valens because they were unequal to them in Military power otherwise it was a strange dissimulation in Paul to instruct the Romans to obey the power of Nero if he lawfully having had power might have deposed him Prayers were their armes and admonitions their Inquisitors The Churches Cheif Master prayed for his enemies and Paul his Selected Apostle exhorteth us to pray for all men which is acceptable to God our Saviour who would have all men come to the knowledge of the truth And it is also his admonition instruct with meeknesse those that oppose themselves if God peradventure would give them repentance to the acknowledgement of the truth 2 Tim. 9.25 For they who like lost sheep goe astray may be drawn to the fold and the ranke Tares may become sweet Corn. CAP. VI. 1. Knowing and obstinate Hereticks are after the first or second admonition to be rejected 2. What Excommunication is 3. It was rarely executed in the Primitive Church 4. Qui argumentis convicti persistunt tamem in heresie propugnanda Whit. de sacra script l. 1. c. 2. Grot. de Jur. Bel. pac f. 505 The abuse of it by the Pope and Prelacy hath caused it to be neglected in most reformed Churches and to be utterly abrogated in ours THere are Hereticks Scientes who know themselves to be Hereticks and who convinced by arguments as Whitaker persist in the defence of heresie either for some temporal commodity or desire of vain glory And who being carried away with selfe-love ambition or popular applause build the City of the Devil upon false and new opinions not respecting the truth but their positions because their own inventions whom Augustine onely placeth in his Catalogue of Hereticks Such Hereticks after the first and second admonition are to be avoided and rejected as the Apostle prescribeth 1. Tim. 3 10. who offend not from ignorance and infirmity but from voluntary malice and obstinate industry From the admonishment of such a one we are to abstain and to leave him to himselfe as one condemned by himselfe as the Apostle speaketh and Turtullian interpreteth Elegit sibi in quo damnetur He hath chosen to himselfe his own damnation Excommunication is a separation from the Communion and Congregation of the Church C. 8. and of it is understoood that of Matthew If he shall not hear the Church let him be as an Heathen and a Publican 1. Tim. whose body as the Apostle speaketh is delivered to Satan That is put out of the Church out of which Satan is Lord and Master as among the Jewes greivous offenders aposynagogi fiant were cast out of the Church which was to shun their Communion as the Jewes did the Samaritans Neither doth Anathema the greater and more greivous Excommunication signifie much more of which in the Gospel we have no example onely a general Precept 1 Cor. 13. Whosoever loveth not our Lord Jesus Christ let him be an Anathema which by the Glossary is expounded Esse execrationem extra Communionem honorum usque ad adventum domini To be a vehement spitting out from the Communion of the good until the comming of the Lord and it is rendered by Hesychius 〈◊〉