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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	adam_n	grace_n	sin_n	4,888	5	5.2180	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A42477	Considerations touching the liturgy of the Church of England In reference to His Majesties late gracious declaration, and in order to an happy union in Church and state. By John Gauden, D.D. Bishop elect of Exceter.	Gauden, John, 1605-1662.	1661 (1661)	Wing G349; ESTC R218825	26,979	44

of the same Church and polity in one holy harmony and to secure the unity of Faith and Doctrine which were oft tainted by ill tempered passions and courser kind of devotions but also by the joynt wisdom and devotion of the Church they sought to preserve the sanctity and solemnity of Holy duties from the contagion and deformity of private Ministers frequent infirmities either in their invention judgment memory or utterance all which ought to be avoyded as much as may be in publick celebrations of Christian mysteries Nor may any Ministers single abilities be compared especially when extemporaneous to that sociall and concurrent sufficiency of gifts and graces of wisdom and devotion which may be presumed in the spirits of the Prophets united and piously improving their joynt abilities to the common stock of Gods glory and the Churches edification while they wisely weigh measure and fix according to the Word of God which is the onely standard of true Religion both in Doctrine and Devotion the foundations of Faith and the superstructures of Worship by an humble obedience holy fervency and unanimous harmony so firme complete and uniforme that they shall least receive any prejudice detriment disparagement or diminution from any Ministers weakness depravedness or indisposition on which they are no more to be ventured than the Ark upon a Cart which should be carried on the Priests shoulders The established and uniforme use therefore of a well composed Liturgy hath very many great and good influences upon true Religion and every Church 1. First it conduceth much to the more solemne complete August and reverent Worship of the Divine Majesty in Christian Congregations where otherwise the most sacred and venerable mysteries must be exposed to that rudenesse and unpreparednesse that barrennesse and superficialnesse that defect and deformity both for matter and manner judgment and expression to which every private Minister is daily subject as late experience hath taught us Certainly societies of men and Christians owe a Solemne Comely Worship in publick services to God beyond those in private Closets proportionable to their dignity and eminency above single persons or families 2. Secondly a Liturgy is a most excellent means to preserve the truth of Christian and Reformed Doctrine by the consonancy of publick Devotions into which other wayes corrupt minds are prone to infuse the sowre leven of their own corrupt Opinions 3. A Leturgy is necessary for the holy harmony and sweet communion of all Christians in National as well as Parochial Churches while thereby they are all kept in one mind and spirit praysing the same things and cheerfully saying Amen to the same praises or petitions A little spark of difference in Religion is prone to kindle great dissentions among Christians nor doth any thing more quench the heat of Disputation than the cool and gentle dewes of uniforme Devotions when Obs. and Sols are resolved into Amens or So be it 's which are still the seals of charity and mutual love or consent 4. Liturgical forme and use is not onely of great benefit and comfort to the more knowing judicious and well-bred sort of Christians but highly to their security and to the Holy and humble composure of their spirits in the Worship of God who otherwise are prone not onely amidst the publick devotions curiously to censure but scoffingly to dispise yea many times to laugh at and at best to pity or deplore the evident defects and incongruities which appear in many Ministers odd expressions and incongruous ways of officiating according to their several opinions humors or abilities Hence not only distraction but indevotion yea great irreverence and profaneness do follow men of quick fight and acute understandings being made to dispise and abhor even these holy things of God when so unholily at least unhamsomely handled 5. But above all a constant and compleat Liturgy mightily conduceth to the edification and salvation as well as unanimity and peace of the meaner sort of people to whom daily variety of expressions in prayer or Sacraments is much at one with Latin Service little understood and lesse remembred by them They are still out and to seek when a new Minister officiates yea and when the same if he affect varity of words where the duty is the same Alas as I have oft observed when poor Boys and Girls who have no institution of Religion from their ignorant Parents or Masters and Dames when these whose souls are precious begin first to gape upon the Minister in Religious duties and to see as well as hear a Sermon which way can they in populous places be brought to or built up in Christian principles of Religion without some easy clear and constant summary or set from of wholesome words and sound doctrine in the Catechisme and Liturgy or Common prayer frequently repeated to them and so inculcated on their minds and memories For want of which what sober Minister sees not and grieves not to see how of late years ignorance profaneness faction irreverence superstition scandall of manners and all villany of opinions as well as of practise To remove this scruple I conceive that this meerly passive regeneration by the grace of God in Christ of which an Infant baptised is partaker is sufficient for its salvation in point of taking away the imputed guilt of Original sin by Adam if it dye without any actuall sin But if it live to wilfull actual sin it must have a further active work of regeneration by an actual faith and repentance without which 't is sure there is no salvation for knowing malicious or presumptuous actuall sinners The passive baptismal regeneration may suffice to take away Originall sin as to guilt and penalty in Infants and to fit them for heaven When from being born of flesh and blood yea children of wrath and death and damnation by nature they are by Christian baptisme instated into a relation and condition of Grace life and salvation by the Spirit and Merits of the second incarnate Adam Christ Jesus effectually applyed in baptisme to take away the sin of the first Adam derived to them without their actuall fault But this baptismal grace and passive regeneration or seminal principle and spark if afterwards smothered and quenched by actuall and presumptuous sin will not alone as I conceive suffice to save an adult Christian under another guilt though baptis'd in infancy unless there be an 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a further renewing reviving by actual faith and repentance in w ch he is a worker together with the grace of God That first little spark and degree of grace baptismal as fire will serve to take tinder which is dry and apt to kindle but it will not take or continue in grosser materials nor on the same tinder if it be grown more damp and wet Nor but that the same first spark of regenerative grace received in Baptisme may continue in the soul as only raked up in the