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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
doctrine_n	according_a	church_n	discipline_n	2,858	5	9.0169	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A86482	Certain queres modestly (though plainly) propounded to such as affect the congregational-way, and specially to Master Samuel Eaton and Mr. Timothy Taylor. With an epistle also directed to them concerning their late book intituled A defence of sundry positions, &c. / By Richard Hollingworth, Mancuniensis.	Hollingworth, Richard, 1607-1656.	1646 (1646)	Wing H2488; Thomason E316_16; ESTC R200531; ESTC R233855	20,720	31

chiefly so that no Christians though never so syncere and holy have Christ for their King except they be Church-members and also within the Congregational Covenant or at least none so much as they And if it be not so applied in Scripture do not they wrong Christ his Kingdom and people that presume so to apply it Did not New England-men well and warrantably when their hopes began to languish of reducing the erroneous by private means or by preaching and conference to hold an Assembly of the Churches for discovery and confutation of them Had the General Court Civil in New-England a lawful power when Opinions grew on and experience discovered the danger to make a Law that Churches should not be set up in N. E. without the consent of the Magistrates and Churches there And hath not the Civil power in Old England from whence theirs is derived seeing the Word of God doth not alter with Climates the same power when there is the same or greater occasion And ought not obedience by yeelded here as well as there Would not they that now plead for Liberty of Conscience and Toleration in the Kingdom were they able to root out Presbyterians and their Way and could Civil Authority enclinable to put forth coercive power against it tell the Magistrate that he might if not he ought represse it with a strong hand at least under the notion of being prejudicial to the Civil peace if it could not otherwise be suppressed Did not the Magistrates of N. E. when they saw that neither preaching conference nor Assembly of the Churches did work the cure of their Distractions but the erroneous went on in their former course not onely to disturb the Churches but miserably also to interrupt the Civil Peace to convent them and to disfranchise some fine others and banish others Is it true or no that sundry speak and some write that our N.E. Brethren would not tolerate a few Presbyterians notwithstanding the now-pretended smalnesse of the difference which were persecuted for Nonconformity in any corner of their Countrey no not so much as in that which was next to the Barbarians Whether they which hold Episcopal Government to be Antichristian Babylonish to be destroyed by fire and sword and also Presbyterian Government to be Antichristian as bad or worse then Episcopal be not bound by their principles to root out Presbyterial Government and the resolute abbettors of it with fire and sword if they can get ability and opportunity for such a designe Whether they which have solemnly sworn to endeavour the Reformation of Religion in Doctrine Discipline Worship and Government according to the Word of God and the example of the best Reformed Churches and to endeavour the Vniformity of the Churches in the three Kingdoms and the extirpation of Popery Prelacy Superstition Heresie Schisin c. as all Parliament men the Assembly and the best affected in the Kingdom have done can with good conscience allow or tolerate Popery Prelacy Superstition Herefie Schism and why may they not for any obligation lying upon them by this Covenant tolerate Popery Prelacy and Superstition as well as Heresie and Schism Whether the Parliament can perform those promises they have made in the first Remonstrance and since wherein the Kingdom hath much confided If they loose the golden reins of Discipline and leave private men or particular Congregations to take up what form of Divine Service they please without requiring conformity to that Order which the Laws enjoyn according to Gods Word Have our Brethren expressed all their present opinions and desires or kept some for a reserve and what may be the reason of such a reserve Are they fully perswaded in their own mindes of the truth of all that which they expresse themselves to hold or onely take them up for the present waiting for further light May not the Presbyterian-Way for ought they certainly know howbeit they at present think not so be the Way of God and most agreeable to his Word And have not expressions to this purpose proceeded from their Tongues or Pens FINIS