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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	aaron_n	altar_n	moses_n	60	3	7.4829	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A36102	A discourse of the Holy Spirit his workings and impressions on the souls of men : with large additionals.	Sherlock, R. (Richard), 1612-1689.	1656 (1656)	Wing D1605; ESTC R203556	193,794	256

to silence some weak adversary then 't is the wisdome of the spirit in them which the wisdome of the flesh cannot resist Tell them of their folly and madness they say Christs own Apostle was accounted mad if they suffer according to law for their enormities then they say they suffer for righteousness sake nay their sins and delinquencies they would make appear to be pieties so subtil are all Hypocrites in the outward and nominal part of Religion that if it were possible they would deceive the very Elect and many thousands are deceived by their appearances of holiness and strictness of life but 't is such only who are somewhat infected with Hypocrisie as well as themselves therefore they are styl'd Wels without water clouds that are carried with a tempest 2 Pet. 2.17 For as empty clouds are most tossed by the winde so men that are religious only in religious names and religious talk and outward shew of Religion being not ballast with sincere devotion towards God and charity towards man such are they that are most apt to be tossed with every winde of doctrine 8. All errors and seditions in the most holy faith are generally thrown upon the grand impostor and father of lies the Devil who no question hath a great influence therein therefore cal'd The doctrines of devils and he and his Angels seducing spirits 1 Tim. 4.1 and all that are seduced the children of the wicked one Mat. 13.38 but yet withall we must know that if the voluntary sins of pride covetousnesse presumption c. did not first infect the minde his tares of Heresie and Schism could never take rooting there 't is of the corruptions of the mindes and manners of men that all Heresies are engendred and like the creatures of putrefaction to which heat and moisture gives a natural being so the filthy moisture or corruption of mens hearts quickned by the incessant operation of the evil spirit gives unto all Heresies their spiritual being and growth in the minde For wickedness saith the wise man doth alter the understanding and the bewitching of naughtiness doth obscure things that are honest Wisd 4.11 Sin saith Chrys doth so blinde the senses of sinners Chrys in Mat. 7. Hom. 19. that seeing not the waies of falshood and error they headlong themselves therein nor could ever any errors prevail ever man if sin had not made the way for first a man is blinded by his sins and then drawn away by the devil and seduced For error saith he begetteth not sins but sins beget and bring forth error CHAP. VI. The ends why God permits Heresies and Schismes ALmighty God as by his powerful word of nothing he hath made all things so doth he still not only uphold all things by the word of his power but most wisely govern order and dispose of all being the Master-wheel of all motions and the original cause of all actions and events whether they be good or evil of the good by his active and of the evil by his permissive providence as Amos 3.6 Shal there be any evil in the city and the Lord hath not done it Terra salutiferas herbas eademque nocentes Nutrit urticae proxima sea●e rosa est And as it is in the greater world all good and useful things have their contrary evils there are fruitful showres and the fatning dew of heaven and there are also harmful storms of hail and corrupt and infectious vapours There are trees of wholsome fruit and herbs for the use and nourishment both of man and beast and there are also both trees and herbs that are unwholsome and poysonous there are living creatures also both tame and wilde both such as are serviceable unto man and such also as are destructive fierce cruel and mischievous so in the lesser world also there is in the field of Gods Church both wheat and tares corn and chaffe both true and false Prophets the one the pillars of sound celestial soul-saying Truth the other the deceitful workers and Patrons of errors heresies and schisms Truth stands ever firm upon its own proper base and being supported by no other but it s own native excellency and vertue ever appears like it self in its own plain simple naked colours But Error being in it self crooked and deformed puts on the shape and ever appears in the likeness of holy truth following her steps to trip up her heels and take possession of her throne The very Philosophy of the Heathens was followed and undermin'd by false Philosophers and amongst the Jewes their circumcision and some other rites and ceremonies were imitated by the Arabians and other nations and yet the one were the worshippers of the true God herein and the others worshipped Idols And in the worship of the true God to that which is sound and sincere is opposed false counterfeit and hypocritical worship to the true and lawful Baptism is opposed unlawful and extraregular dipping to the commandements of God the traditions of men to the Apostles and faithful Ministers of Christ false Apostles and deceitful workers and in a word there is nothing of the most holy fath but by the cunning of the Devil working upon the corruptions of mens hearts something is forged in opposition thereunto 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Athen. lib. de resur No article of the Christian faith escaping the invasion of Heretiques and the corruption thereof by heretical and false positions the which will easily appear to every man that list to consult Philastrius Epiphanius Augustine Joh. Damscene who out of Ecclesiastical records have given the several catalogues of Heresies and Heretiques The Reasons why God is pleased to permit it should be so may be reduc'd to two general heads viz. 1. In respect of the faith it self 2. In respect of the professors thereof 1. In respect of the faith of Christ 1. The excellency thereof doth appear from the manifold assaults and machinations of the devil there against for were not the stedfast profession of the Christian faith and the conscientious practise thereof the way both of Gods acceptable service and of mans salvation the devil would never be so busie to corrupt and adulterate the same whose inveterate enmity both to God and man incites provokes him perpetually to deprave and falsifie the pure worship of the one and hinder the salvation of the other 2. The holy faith of Christ appears more pure sincere and illustrious by the test and opposition of heretical positions we read Numb 16.36 that the Lord commanded Moses to take the censers of those proud rebels which rose up against Moses and Aaron wherein they offered strange fire before the Lord and to make broad plates for a covering of the Altar for they offered them before the Lord therefore are they hallowed sc sanctificata in mortibus peccatorum Through the death of the offenders they were sanctified to be a memorial to the children of Israel to beware of the like schism insurrection