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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	body_n	show_v	soul_n	5,454	5	5.2942	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A45496	Archaioskopia, or, A view of antiquity presented in a short but sufficient account of some of the fathers, men famous in their generations who lived within, or near the first three hundred years after Christ : serving as a light to the studious, that they may peruse with better judgment and improve to greater advantage the venerable monuments of those eminent worthies / by J.H.	Hanmer, Jonathan, 1606-1687.; Howe, John, 1630-1705.; Howell, James, 1594?-1666.	1677 (1677)	Wing H652; ESTC R25408	262,013	452

indivisible and the operation thereof one For the Father by the Word in the holy Spirit doth all things and so the unity of the Trinity is kept or preserved and so one God in the Church is preached who is above all and through all and in all viz. above all as the Father as the beginning and fountain but through all by the Word moreover in all in or by the holy Spirit But the Trinity is not in name only or an empty form of speech but in truth and reason of subsisting the Trinity For as the Father is that very thing that he is so also the Word God over all is that very thing that he is so also the Holy Ghost is not any inessential thing but truly existeth and subsisteth 10. According to the Ecclesiastical Canons saith he as the Apostle commanded the people being gathered together with the Holy Ghost who constitute a Bishop publickly and in the presence of the Clergy craving a Bishop inquisition ought to be made and so all things canonically performed 11. Concerning the lawfulness of flight in time of persecution he thus speaks I betook me to flight not for fear of death lest any should accuse me of timidity but that I might obey the precept of our Saviour whose command it is that we should make use of flight against persecutors of hiding places against those that search for us lest if we should offer our selves unto open danger we should more sharply provoke the fury of our persecutors Verily it is all one both for a man to kill himself and to proffer himself unto the enemies to be slain but he that flees as the Lord commands knows the Articles of the time and truly provides for his persecutors lest being carried out even to the shedding of blood they should become guilty of that precept that forbids murther Again concerning the same thing 12. That law saith he is propounded unto all in general to flee when they are pursued in time of persecution and to hide themselves when they are sought for neither should they be precipitate and rash in tempting the Lord but must wait until the time appointed of dying do come or that the Judge do determine something concerning them as shall seem good unto him But yet would he have us always ready when either the time calls for it or we are apprehended to contend for the Church even unto death These things did the blessed Martyrs observe who while they lay hid did harden themselves but being found out they did undergo Martyrdom Now if some of them did render themselves unto their persecutors they were not thorough rashness moved so to do but every where professed unto all men that this promptness and offering of themselves did proceed from the Holy Ghost 13. He giveth this character of an heretick Heresie sa●th he or an heretick may thus be known and evinced that whosoever is dear unto them and a companion with them in the same impiety although he be guilty of sundry crimes infinite vices they have arguments against him of his hainous acts yet is he approved and had in great esteem among them yea and is forthwith made the Emperour's friend c. But those that reprove their wickedness and sincerely teach the things which are of Christ though pure in all things upon any feigned Crime laid to their charge they are prefently hurried into Banishment § 6. The defects and blemishes of this eminent Father and Champion of Jesus Christ were neither so many nor so gross as are to be found in most of the Ancients that were before him yet was he not altogether free but liable to error as well as others as appears from somewhat of this kind that dropt from his pen which were especially such passages as these in his genuine works for as for the apparently supposititious I shall forbear to meddle with them having in them so much hay and stubble as we cannot imagine should pass thorow the hands of so skilful a Master-builder 1. He affirms the local descent of Christ into Hell He accomplished saith he the condemnation of sin in the earth the abolition of the curse upon the Cross the redemption from corruption in the Grave the condemnation of death in Hell Going through all places that he might every where perfect the salvation of the whole man shewing himself in the form of our image which he took upon him Again The body descended not beyond the grave the Soul pierced into Hell places severed by a vast distance the Grave receiving that which was corporeal because the body was there but Hell that which was incorporeal Hence it came to pass that though the Lord were present there incorporeally yet was he by death acknowledged to be a man that his Soul not liable unto the bands of death but yet made as it were liable might break asunder the bands of those Souls which Hell detained c. 2. Concerning the state of the Fathers before Christ that they were in Hell he thus speaks The Soul of Adam detained in or under the condemnation of death did perpetually cry unto the Lord and the rest who by the law of nature pleased God were detain'd together with Adam and were and did cry with him in grief In which passage we have also a third error of his viz. 3. That men by the law of nature may please God contrary unto what we find in Heb. 11. 6. 4. He maketh circumcision a note or sign of Baptism Abraham saith he when he had believed God received circumcision for a note or sign of that regeneration which is obtained by Baptism wherefore when the thing was come which was signified by the figure the sign and figure it self perished and ceased For circumcision was a sign but the laver of regeneration the very thing that was signified Besides these there are in him some other passages not so aptly nor warily delivered as they ought to have been viz. 1. Concerning the freedom of mans will he thus speaks The mind saith he is free and at it's own dispose for it can as incline it self unto that which is good so also turn from it which beholding its free right and power over it self it perceives that it can use the members of the Body either way both unto the things that are i.e. good things and also unto the things that are not i.e. evil 2. He is too excessive and hyperbolical in the praise of Virginity The Son of God saith he our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ among other his gifts bestowed upon us in virginity an example of angelical holiness Certainly Virgins endowed with that virtue the Catholick Church is wont to call the Spouses of Christ whom being beheld by them the very heathen do prosecute with admiration as the Temple of Christ. There is a large encomium hereof in the end of the treatise of Virginity which being but a vain