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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
city_n	stir_v	zeal_n	zealous_a	29	3	10.4518	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A85411	A post-script, or appendix to a treatise lately published by authority, intituled, Hagio-Mastix, or the scourge of the saints displaid in his colours of ignorance and blood. Being an explication of the third verse of the thirteenth chapter of the prophecie of Zacharie; (the tenour whereof is this: and it shall come to passe, that when any shall yet prophecie, then his father and his mother that begat him shall say unto him, thou shalt not live, for thou speakest lies in the name of the Lord: and his father and his mother that begat him, shall thrust him through when he prophecieth.) According to the analogie of the Sriptures [sic], the scope and exigency of the context, and the sence of the best expositors upon the place. / By John Goodwin a servant of God and men, in the Gospel of Jesus Christ.; Hagiomastix. Appendix	Goodwin, John, 1594?-1665.	1647 (1647)	Wing G1191; Thomason E383_10; ESTC R201432	31,560	34

necessary also by way of duty for the Ministers of the Gospel to be as zealous for the glory of God and for the peace and safety of their people as either Phineas or the same Eliah was but it is not as lawfull for them either to thrust adulterers or adulteresses thorow with spears or javelins as Phineas did nor to slay Idolatrous Priests with their own hands as did Eliah In like manner it may be as lawfull yea and a matter of duty lying as much upon Parents whether naturall or civill now to proceed with the same measure and strength of zeal against their respective children in cases of those sinfull misdemeanours specified in the Scripture in hand as it was heretofore either for the one kind of Parent or the other amongst the Jews to proceed against theirs and yet withall they may sin grievously in case they shall utter their zeal in such outward actings against them as the other did The reason of the difference is because God hath now under the Gospel appointed other methods and means for the vindication of his glory and the peace of his people against the enemies of both differing from those prescribed under the Law as hath been argued and proved in the preceeding Treatise And as the Jews though as the Apostle testifies of them they had a zeal of God that is either for the glory of God or for the obtaining of his favour a yet this zeal of theirs not being according to knowledge 1. Not being exercised or acted according to the will and minde of God revealed in the Scriptures in that behalf but according to their own erroneous sense misapprehensions herein sinned greatly even to the losse of the favour of God for ever in and by such an execution or acting of it in like manner men may be very zealously affected either to promote the glory of God or to procure his love and favour and yet by seeking to effect either the one or the other by means disallowed by God in the Scriptures they may both highly dishonour him on the one hand and provoke his displeasure instead of his favour on the other And that temptations in this kinde are very incident to persons of zealous affections and desires for Gods glory appears by the character of those times wherein as our Saviour informes his Disciples whosoever killeth them will think that he doth God service b Whosoever killeth them will thinke c. This note of universality whosoever imports that there would not be onely one or two or some lesse considerable numbers of men that would stumble at the stone here spoken of but that this would be a common or generall practise countenanced and allowed if not enacted by the Authority of States and Kingdoms The obnoxiousnesse of zeal to the said temptation might be further confirmed by that example of the Jews recorded Act. 13. 15. who are there said to have stirred up the devout and honourable women and the chief men of the city and raised persecution against Paul and Barnabas and expelled them out of their coasts as also by the example of Paul himself whilest yet he was Saul who as himself confesseth was zealous towards God and yet persecuted this way the way of Christ unto the death binding and delivering into prisons both men and women a yea and verily thought that he did God service in so doing * But 2. Even those Expositors who understand the expression of thrusting thorow in the Scripture in hand not literally only but even to the utmost extent of the letter viz. for an absolutely slaying by death though the letter it selfe doth not inforce this as we shall shew presently yet do not allow such proceedings as this in Parents against their children upon every false Doctrine or errour taught or published by them b nor do their hearts or learning here serve them to undertake the arbitration between the severall kindes of false Doctrines and errours so as to sanctifie such and such for the sword and to shew mercy unto others And whosoever will now undertake it had need have a speciall Commission for it under the broad Seal of Heaven Therefore such Parents who shall thrust their children thorow or slay yea or punish them for any false Doctrine or error whatsoever had need have a better I mean a more particular and speciall warrant for their practise then this Scripture So that 3. If the said expression of thrusting thorow be to be taken literally viz. either for slaying with death or punishing otherwise with any civill punishment the particular delinquency or offence against which such a proceeding is to take place must be inquired after and found out onely by consultation had with the tenour of the Law Deut. 13. 5 6 c. and Deut. 17. 2 3. c. unto which Scriptures Expositors generally as was formerly noted send their Readers for a right understanding of the passage in hand Now the false Prophet that was in these Scriptures sentenced by God unto death was not every Heretick or erroneous person especially as men now count Heresie and errour but determinately and onely such a false Prophet who endeavoured to perswade them to the worship of a false God and that by pretending the inspiration of some Deity for the confirmation of such a doctrine a as was sufficiently proved in the fore mentioned Treatise Sect. 41. So that howsoever by the joynt consent of Interpreters upon the place in hand thrusting thorow in the literall or proper import of the word whether high or low was never allowable by God in the Old Testament much lesse is it in the new for any other kinde of false Prophecying or teaching but that onely whose express bent and tendencie was to draw off people from the worship and service of the true God and to allure them to the worship of some Idoll or false God yea and this by asserting some speciall Revelation as of divine Authority and credit to procure credit and acceptation for such a doctrine 4. Tarnovius a Protestant and learned expositor observes that the Originall word {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} transfodit seu transfixit doth not always signifie such a thrusting throw which is unto death but sometimes such a wounding which admits of a ready cure as well as of a recovery and cites Jer. 37. 10. for this signification yea and further affirms that if men will needs understand the expression of thrusting thorow ver. 3. literally and properly they must of necessity considering and comparing herewith what follows in the sixt verse understand it in such a sence From whence also he infers that the punishment of thrusting thorow here spoken of if taken properly cannot be meant of any punishment to be inflicted by the Civill Magistrate but by the naturall Parents only to whom we know as he saith that God hath given power of correction and that by stripes and scourgings against their disobedient children a