Selected quad for the lemma: diversity_n

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
A96113	A scribe, pharisee, hypocrite; and his letters answered, separates churched, dippers sprinkled: or, A vindication of the church and universities of England, in many orthodox tenets & righteous practices. Whereunto is added a narration of a publick dipping, June 26. 1656. In a pond of much Leighes parish in Essex, with a censure thereupon. By Jeffry Watts B.D. and Rectour of Much-Leighes.	Watts, Geoffrey, d. 1663.	1657 (1657)	Wing W1154; Thomason E921_1; Thomason E921_2; ESTC R207543	280,939	342

that a man should go to School and learn his Accidence and Grammar and so to a Scrivener to write a good hand to cypher and cast account commence a shop-keeper or Grocer and set up shop and sell by the pound Figs and Currens being never brought up to the trade in the parish they nilling willing to make a living to the value of he knows what more or less and there stile himself a Brother and Teacher of Jesus Christ but this is nothing Look about you all Apprentices How dare you say you embrace the truth as it is laid out in Jesus did ever Jesus lay down that a man should go up to London binde himself to such a Trade for seven or eight years and after a Trade learned and his years of Apprentiship served out to get himself made a Free man and then to Commence Merchant or Trades master after that to come to be Warden of his Company and so Deputy of a Ward at last to rise to be an Alderman and Lord Major of the City and get a great estate there amongst the Citizens to a value of 1000 l. per annum more or less they nilling willing and then stile himself a Citizen of London Once more look about you Lawyers How dare you say you embrace the truth as it is laid out in Jesus did ever Jesus lay down that a man should go to the Inns of Court learn the Latine and French tongue and there read Magna Charta the Reports and Cases and so Commence Barrister and Councellor and so Serjeant of the Coife and lastly a Judge of Assize and so take Fees from the Clyents for Causes to the value of divers 100 l. per annum more or less they nilling willing and there stile himself a Councellour at the Law But why do I intermeddle here The Narrator or Relator meaneth not me sure for that he speaketh of some Doctor of Divinity who might therfore do well to doctrine a little better yea and discipline the Indoct young-man But if he be not indocible also me thinks my self but a Batchelor of Divinity and but an ordinary Pastor or Minister could do the one doctrine him sufficiently to go to no higher degrees for this and leave the other of disciplining him to the higher Powers Nay even a Batchelor of Art to go so low nay I believe some Sophisters of a Colledge not to trouble any of the degrees at all of the University in so mean a work can tell you and will tell you in answer to your Audacious bold fac'd daring interrogations 1. That as there are in Scriptures laid out by Jesus Christ orders and degrees of Truth so also a Truth of orders and degrees even such as are in our Church and Universities See for your learning Eph. 4.8 11 12. When he Jesus ascended up on high he gave gifts unto men diversities of gifts and therefore he gave some Apostles and some Prophets and some Evangelists and some Pastors and Teachers or Doctors diversities of degrees for the perfecting of the Saints for the work of the Ministry for the edifying of the body of Christ till we all come unto a perfect man c. Are all Apostles are all Prophets are all Teachers or Doctors c There is that whole Chapter 1 Cor. 12 to this purpose to shew the diversity of gifts and degrees of Officers in the Church from the foot hand eye head of the natural body and the diversity of the parts thereof insomuch that the same Apostle saith 1 Tim. 3.13 They that used the office of a Deacon well purchased to themselves a good degree that is a Presbytership and howsoever you think otherwise of it Jesus himself as he was present at the marriage in Cana of Galilee John 2.1 to countenance that estate and degree of Matrimony so he sate in the midst of the Doctors Luke 2.46 both hearing them and asking them questions whereby he also Authorised that degree also and all other inferior and subordinate degrees tending thereunto So it is laid out by Jesus both in Nature and Grace also as that one Text sheweth Mark 4.28 The earth bringeth forth fruit of her self first the blade then the ear after that the full corn in the car and then when the fruit is ripe he putteth in the sickle because the Harvest is come Are there not mentioned in the Psalm 62.9 Men of high degree and men of low degree and doth not James bid the brother of low degree rejoyce in that he is exalted Jam. 1.9 Will not you do the like who are now but a Brother of low degree rejoyce when you are exalted to be a Preacher and then a Dipper who is with you a Brother of bighest degree You have been a Surveyour in your own Parish and then Overseer and now having a little better regulated your house may hope to be a Constable to rule the Town and also you may rise to be a Church-warden but that you have forsaken your Church and the Church if that will exempt you and now then why are you so against our being Batchelor of Art and then Master and so Batchelor of Divinity and then Doctor which are our degrees of the University like as the other are your degrees of the Countrey 2. He can tell you that Jesus indeed hath laid down expresly and absolutely in particular Texts words That a man must serve and worship God onely in Spirit and Truth and place his faith confidence in his promises and repent of all sinful habits and acts and what are his duties to God and man in the place and calling that he is of with all other particular and general matters necessary to salvation and of Moral concernment But for other things that are of an inferior alloy and but of Ceremonial or Temporal Circumstantial nature he hath laid them down onely inclusively and respectively in some general rules and dictates of good order and comeliness upon a just occasion or need unto edification and for good and so left them to common Christian reason and humane prudence to undertake and prosecute according to the same amongst which things are those that you except too education in the University study of the Greek and Latine reading Philosophy taking Degrees Titles of discrimination getting Preferments diversity of Orders c. of which you may read more particularly and largely in my book before if you desire to be a Scribe instructed to the Kingdom of heaven in such particulars Onely I will either add here or repeat here fearing you will scarce be at the pains for so it will be to you pains to read it that the learning of the Latine and Greek tongues you might have put in the Hebrew too if you had been a true Israelite and the studying of Philosophy and other Arts and Sciences and the taking of the several Degrees which are the honours and garlands of the Universities which they give to Proficients accordingly to make