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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
diversity_n	apostle_n	prophet_n	teacher_n	630	5	9.4590	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A52757	The great accuser cast down, or, A publick trial of Mr. John Goodwin of Coleman-street, London, at the bar of religion & right reason it being a full answer to a certain scandalous book of his lately published, entituled, The triers tried and cast, &c. whereupon being found guilty of high scandal and malediction both against the present authority, and the commissioners for approbation and ejection, he is here sentenced and brought forth to the deserved execution of the press / by Marchamont Nedham, Gent.	Nedham, Marchamont, 1620-1678.	1657 (1657)	Wing N389; ESTC R18604	109,583	156

as Moses was not because he had done things in all respects to answer the things done by Moses for then he would have left us such Rules and Directions at large which we cannot yet see upon Record as Mr. G saith he hath done for the Politie or Oeconomie of the Church and as fully and compleatly set down in writing as Moses left his but the genuine meaning of the place must be undeniably this That he was faithful in all things as Moses was because he published the Doctrine of the Gospel and sealed it with his blood for the expiation of sin and therein did what he was appointed to as faithfully as Moses formerly did what he was appointed to by God The 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or Equiparation of the faithfulness of Christ and Moses in this place respecteth only the reality and exactness of their performance both of them having alike punctually performed the several Appointments made to them by God but it doth not infer that there was or ought to have been a similitude correspondency or congruity in the whole manner extent and fabrick of their Institutions For to the end of the world let Mr. G. do what he can with the Scripture let him wring it by the nose to turn it which way he please as the Papists do or to force blood out of it as too many in our times do yet he will never be able to make this Text to serve his purpose Besides even in common sense it is manifest to any that is but the least acquainted with the Gospel that our Lord and Saviour hath not by positive Laws descended so far into particularities with us as Moses did with the people of Israel And so you see what is become of the Third Argument grounded upon a misunderstanding of that part of the Scripture concerning Christ and Moses We might be far more copious but this is too much for him ARGUMENT IV. THe Lord Christ being as was said faithful as Moses also was in all the house of God and his wisdom and providence every ways answerable to this his faithfulness it cannot be conceived but that with his precepts counsels and directions for the advancement and prosperity of the Gospel he hath taken up and filled the whole roomth or space which is capable of receiving Injunctions Orders or Directions in that kind So that no man can add insert or thrust in any thing by way of advice or under the notion of a prudential contrivance for the promoting of the Gospel but he must justle or thrust out and in our Saviours phrase make of none effect some or other of those precepts or directions which have been given by the Lord Christ himself for the same end Even as the Pope cannot gratifie any new Saint with a day in the Kalendar but only either by turning some of the more antient out of their long-continued possessions or else by compelling them to take the other into part and fellowship with them in their honor because the Kalendar is from the one end of it to the other already filled with the Names of the more antient In like manner the whole latitude and compass of wisdom and prudence for the due and successfull managing of the affairs of the Gospel being spread with the orders and charges given by Jesus Christ in that behalf it is not possible for men to devise or set on foot any method means or device of theirs for the promoting of this end but by disauthorizing or with reflection of disparagement upon some or other or all of the said prescriptions of Christ Nor is it possible for any man to invent or form any projection or make any provision which upon a true account will be found in any degree material or pertinent for the welfare or success of the Gospel wherein he hath not been prevented by the Great Author and Father of the Gospel himself Otherwise it must be supposed that men are either as hath been said wiser then God and able to supply that which hath been wanting in him or else that they are more sollicitous and carefull over the interest of the Gospel more intent upon the salvation of the precious Souls of men than He. Therefore the two Commissioners we implead the one of Triers the other of Ejectors being neither of them given in charge by Jesus Christ for the promotion of the Gospel nor holding any true or real Communion with any of his Orders in that behalf must needs be of another Spirit and tendency from these and rather counter-workers then co-workers with them and this experience it self hath sufficiently discovered Answer Now we are come to that which he calls his fourth Argument and expecting here to meet with somewhat of Reason or Religion because he boasts in his Title page that the whole Dozen and half are all Arguments of that nature I am not able in this to find a grain of either onely we have him sitting down in the Reverend chair of Tautology where he is pleased with much commiseration of the dull heads and weak memories of mankind tanquam ex Tripode most oraculously to dictate the same things again over and over telling us If Christ was as faithful as Moses in all the house of God then it cannot be conceived but that with his Precepts Counsels and Directions he hath done so much that no man man can adde any thing by way of advice or prudential contrivance for the promoting of the Gospel c. Mr Goodwin might have done well to give us a Transcript of those pretended copious Precepts and Directions and till he doth he must rest satisfied with the Answer given to his first Argument in reference to this particular because we are not at leisure for Repetition Howbeit because he seems to lay some weight upon these words In all the house of God some Reply must be made to that for the undeceiving of the Reader By 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the House of God is here meant the Church of God universal as will appear by comparing it with 1 Tim. 3. 15. where the house of God is plainly called the Church of the living God Now it is not to be denied but that Christ took care with as much faithfulness as Moses did for the ordering of all this House of God For whatsoever was necessary for the founding building and ordering of this House Viz. The Church universal he very faithfully provided He laid the foundation of it upon the Prophets and Apostles these latter viz the Apostles seconding that Doctrine of the Gospel which had been first published by the Prophets Moreover for the planting and building up of the House of God it is said That he set in the Church first Apostles secondarily Prophets thirdly Teachers after that Miracles then Gifts of Healings diversity of Tongues Lastly for the ordering of this House of his he left the great Ordinances and Institutions of Preaching the Word Baptism and the Supper which