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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	blood_n	life_n	sin_n	8,000	5	4.5474	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A41771	The nonconformists vindication, or, A testimony given against the indulged assembly of separatists wherein the false calumnies and aspersions cast upon the suffering Presbyterians, are answered and confuted : also, the heads and causes of separation are opened and explained, together with an illustration of the Erastian state of the present church.	Grant, Patrick, 17th/18th cent.	1700 (1700)	Wing G1522; ESTC R12655	52,064	65

Enemy as for example If the King of France would proclaim a Liberty to all the Banished Protestants were it not duty to them to imbrace the offer Ans This I deny and the reason is That this he must do either as an Enemy or absolute Master over the Church or else as a Friend and Subject to the Crown and Kingdom of Christ Now as an Enemy retaining and adhearing to his Popish Idolatrie without repenting of his cruel Bloody Tyrranny formerly committed in this he cannot give a liberty to the Gospel Because it involveth a contradiction by reason that he cannot serue two opposites viz. The Gospel of Christ Jesus and his Popish Idolatry For this were to build and destroy simul semel that 's to say once and together which is a compleat contradiction according to our Saviours Words Matth. 6. 24. No Man can serve two Masters for either he will hate the one and love the other or else he will hold to the one and despise the other That 's to say He cannot with full D●ligence single love and fidelitie serve them both they being opposites for Love and Fidelity terminates only in one single object So that from this you see that as an Enemy he can never give libertie to the Gospel Secondly As a Friend and Subject to the Crown and Kingdom of Christ he cannot retain an Authoritie over the Church that is Supra Sacra by prescribing Bounds and Limites to the Doctrine Discip●ine and Kingly Government of Christ Jesus But on the other hand as a Subject he is to exercise his power Circa Sacra that is that the power of Doctrine and Discipline be Faithfully exercised in the Land by these to whom the power is committed and that according to Gods Word without partiality and respect of Persons And when this or shall be then he declares himself to be guilty of Death by reason of his former sins in sheding the Blood of Innocent Persons by reason that the Law of God requires that such shall die as in Num. 35 31. Ye shall take no satisfaction for the Life of a Murderer which is Guilty of Death But he shall he surely put to Death And Verse 33. The Land cannot be cleansed of the Blood that is shed therein but by the Blood of him that shed it Now if the King of France Act as a Friend and Subject then he will acknowledge his Subjection to the Kingdom of Christ And then by consequence will deny any Authoritative Superioritie over the Gospel Moreover in the next place Protestants can never imbrace that Liberty as they call it and the reason is 1. it sets limits to the extent of the ●ospel in its Doctrine which is to go throw all Nations and consequ●ntly all places of the Kingdom and teach them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you Matth. 28. 20. Now if they shall declare this Command Faithfully viz. That Popish Idolatry is to be rooted out of the Land and not to be permitted and Tyrrannie to be cast out and that the Throne and State are to be Reformed and that Men of Truth Fearing God and hating covetousness are to be invested with the present power that Justice may be Execute on the Guilty without respect of Persons Now I think this will overturn their Liberty and make it null And no otherwayes can they Faithfully do if they observe all that is given them in Commission as Faith●ul Ambassadors in the Name of God and Christ who are to declare the whole Will of God unto the People So that from this you see that a sinful Indulgence is inconsistent with a Gospel Liberty And therefore nowayes to be imbraced by any that professes Jesus Christ to be King and Head of his Church and that by reason that it cuts off the Doctrine Discipline and Kingly Government of Christ Jesus by their Su●jecting to ●hat Government which distinguishes from the Government of Christ so that in this they are the Servants of Men. Obj. But some will object and say If a Heathen King would proclaim a Liberty to the Gospel were it not a duty to imbrace it Ans A ●●athen hath no Law And therefore we are not to proceed in Law against him either for his past or present Practise For the Scripture says where is no Lw there is no Transgression Rom 4. 15. That 's to say ●hey cannot be accused of Defection from that Law which they never receaved and consequently cannot be punished whatever judgements the Lord may inflect upon them for their ignorance and miserie Now Papests or Malignants professes the name of Christ and pretends to be under Law therefore we are to see to the right maner and exercise of that Law that it be according to the will and word of the Lawgiver Moreover as to a heathens proclaming of liberty in this we are not to give eare For belivers hes this in commission allready to go throw all Nations also it is Christs right and prerogative Psal 2 8 I shall give thee the heathen for thin inherietance Now all that Belivers are to do in this is that the occasion and encouragement is the stronger but but not their commission Moreover in the next place you say there are three Doctrinal Mistaks that occasion our divisions 1 because we think a thing to be duty therefore it is to be done at all Seasons and we consider not that a thing may be good on the matter which is not to be done at all times I Ans we acknowledge prudence is to be exercised in going about Duty but however it hath a time which time we fear you would deny if put to it or if ye should go about this duty I fear according to your former practise it would be unseasonable as for exemple in the matter of your late King ye did never cry out against his sin so long as he was in power commiting them but when his back was at the wall and the Lords judgements powering down upon him then ye did give witness which witness was unseasonable by reason of your unfaithfulness The other is ●hat we cannot maintaine union with any that differs from us and cometh not up to our minde in all things Ans we denay to have any proper or peculiar judgement or mind but what hath been received owned and avowed by our Ancestors in the Confession of faith and Covenants and if there be any new step of Reformation started by you or us for the time here after we desire it may be prudently and tenderly carried on and not by Division The third is that where we apprehend persons guilty of sins we cannot have communion with them unless they explicitly and publickly confesse the same Answer we denaie likewaies to have anie peculiar apprehension of guilt but onlie what the Scripture condemns and the Acts and Constitutions of our Church And is not agreeable to Scripture that Sins publickly committed are to be publickly confessed as in 2 Cor.