Selected quad for the lemma: death_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	body_n	righteousness_n	sin_n	4,158	5	4.8648	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A30530	A just and lawful tryal of the teachers and professed ministers of his age and generation by a perfect proceeding against them, and hereby they are righteously examined ... : whereunto is added, A short description of the true ministry of Christ ... justified by the people of God called Quakers, in England / by ... Edward Burrough.	Burrough, Edward, 1634-1662.	1660 (1660)	Wing B6010; ESTC R14657	26,375	26

of foundations but thus the Ministers of Christ never spoke of the Letter and thus herein they differ and disagree the one preacheth Christ to be the Word The other preacheth the Letter and the Scripture to be the Word The Ministers of Christ said Christ was the foundation but these say the Scripture is the foundation and herein they are contrary and sheweth by their Doctrine another spirit then was in the Apostles 7. Again the Ministers of Christ said they spoke wisdom among them that were perfect and said As many of us as are perfect be thus minded and said that the end of their Ministery was to present every man perfect in Christ But the Teachers of this age denies persection and say None must be perfect in this life and if any preach up perfection that it is to be attained they say it is Error and damnable Doctrine Nay they say none shall ever be free from sin or ever have victory over their sin nor overcome the body of sin while he be upon Earth But the Ministers of Christ witnessed they were more then conquerers and that they had put off the body of death and were free from sin and were the servants of Righteousnesse And herein also they differ and are not of one spirit and we know that the Ministers of Christ were guided by the spirit of God which held forth these Doctines and we know the Teachers of this age that their spirit must needs be of the Devil because it holds forth and Practiseth what the Ministers of Christ did not but the contrary 8. Again the Ministers of Christ were persecuted and suffered cruel and grievous things for righteousnesse sake as you may read in the Acts and did not render evil for evil to any man for they suffered patiently But the Teachers of this age are not persecuted but are Persecutor● and causeth men to be put into prison and to be banished out of Towns and sues people at the Law and seeks occasions against the people of God and herein they disagree and are not of the same spirit as they were which were Ministers of Christ but sheweth a spirit contrary 9. Again the Ministers and Apostles of Christ were not chargeable to any but made the Gospel without charge and free and laboured with their own hands and did not live idely but were often in cold hunger and nakedness and perils and tryals but the Teachers of this age live in pride and covetousnesse and fulness and doth not work with their own hands but makes the Gospel of Christ chargeable for many hundred thousand pounds in a year doth but maintain them which they have out of poor mens labours and so these differ and disagree from the Ministers of Christ and shews they are not of that spirit that they were guided by but are guided by a contrary spirit because they are contrary in their call and in their doctrine and practise and maintenance 10. Again the Ministers of Christ preached by the splrit according as the spirit gave them utterance and somtime continued preaching till midnight But the Teachers of this age are limited by a glasse and preacheth by a glass and when the hour is out their time of peaching is ended and that which they have studyed for before-hand that they preach and not that which they have received immediately from the spirit of God And herein do they disagree and in many things more which after may be declared 11. Again the Ministers of Christ said Ye may all prophesie one by one that all might be edified and as every one had received the gift of Christ so they might minister to others and desired that all the Lords people were Prophets and Sons and Daughters did prophesie But the teachers of this age will not suffer all to prophesie one by one neither will allow any to preach as they have received from Christ without such qualifications and learned Arts and ordinations of men and they will not allow a woman to prophesie or speak among them and all might speak the word of the Lord faithfully that had it and all might minister as they had received it this was order in the Apostles dayes among them but this is now counted confusion by the Teachers of this age and if any speak to them or any among them many such are made to suffer cruelty or imprisonment or such like by their means and herein they disagree and shew that they are guided by another spirit than the Ministers of Christ were guided by and so are not his Ministers but Deceivers 12 Again the Ministers of Christ declared what they had heard and seen and felt and tasted of the word of life and none of them did boast in another mans line but what they all had received of the Lord that they declared and not their own inventions and commended themselves to every mans Conscience in the sight of God and they did not provide themselves Studies full of books to gather out of in a weeks time what to preach on the first dayes as the Teachers of this age do who by vain study and humane learning frames up and notes it in a Book an hour or two hours discourse to the people And herein they disagree and sh●ws that they are guided by a spirit contrary to the Ministers of Christ 13. Again the Apostles and Ministers of Christ were called from their Herds and from Nets from their receit of Custom● and from their Callings and by receiving the Holy Ghost were made Ministers of Christ and did not seek peoples money to themselves but sought the people to God and went through aruel sufferings and persecutions many times that they might hold forth the way of life and truth to all people But the Teachers of this age they are trained up from their child-hood in Arts and Sciences rising by degrees from one vanity to another till at last they arrive to the function of a Minister of Christ as they call it and few or none of them hath been called from their ordinary calling to preach the Gospel for such a one is hardly allowed of to preach among people and they seek peoples mony to themselves and not the people to God And herein they disagree and shews another spirit then was in the Apostles 14. Again the Ministers of Christ were led and guided by the spirit of Christ and did not fulfill their own wills nor the wills of men and they brought people to the feeling of the spirit of Christ in them to teach them and after they had begotten people to God they said they needed no man to teach them but as the anointing within them taught them But the teachers of theis age follows their own spirits and are subject to the wills of men if men admits them to teach they do but if men deny them then they do not preach but the Apostles did not thus for when men forbid