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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
doctrine_n	church_n	england_n	protestant_a	2,893	5	9.2918	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A40678	Mixt contemplations in better times by Thomas Fuller ...	Fuller, Thomas, 1608-1661.	1660 (1660)	Wing F2451; ESTC R7395	42,203	158

not only a rod in the hand of God but what is worse a sword Psal. 17.13 the wicked which is thy sword they shall do no hurt as long as God hath the ordering of them A pregnant experiment hereof we have in the call it rod or sword of our late Civil warre which lasted so long in our land yet left so little signs behind it Such who consider how much was destroyed in the war may justly wonder that any provision was left whilest such who behold the plenty we have left will more admire that any was ever destroyed XVIII All Tongue and Eares WE read Acts 17.21 All the Athenians and strangers which were there spent their time in nothing else but either to tell or to hear some new thing How cometh this transposition tell and hear it should be hear and tell they must hear it before they could tell it and in the very method of nature those that are deaf are dumb But know it is more then probable that many Athenians told what they never heard being themselves the first Finders Founders and Forgers of false reports therewith meerly to entertain the itching curiosity of others England aboundeth with many such Athenians it is hard to say whether more false Coyn or false Newes be minted in our dayes One side is not more pleased with their own factions then the other is with their own fictions Some pretend to Intelligence without Vnderstanding whose relations are their own confutations I know some who repair to such Novelants on purpose to know what newes is false by their reporting thereof XIX Give and Take THe Archbishop of Spalato when Dean of Windsor very affectionately moved the Prebendaries thereof to contribute bountifully towards the relieving of a distressed Forreigner reporting him a person of much worth and want to whom one of the Company replied Qui SVA DET SVA DET Let him who perswadeth others give something of his own But the Archbishop who was as Covetous as Ambitious and whose Charity had a tongue without hands would not part with a penny The Episcopal Party doth desire and expect that the Presbyterian should remit of his rigidnesse in order to an Expedient betwixt them The Presbyterians require that the Episcopal side abate of their Austerity to advance an accommodation But some on both sides are so wedded to their wilfulnesse stand so stiffe in their judgments are so high and hot in their passions they will not part with the least punctillo in their opinions and practises Such mens judgments cannot pretend to the exactnesse of the Gibeonites Iudg. 20.16 that they hit the Mark of the Truth at an hairs breadth and fail not yet will they not abate an hairs breadth in order to unity they will take all but tender nothing make motions with their Mouthes but none with their Feet for peace not stirring a step towards it O that we could see some proffers and performances of condescension on either side and then let others who remin obstinate and will embrace no peace be branded with PEREZ Gen. 38.29 the breach be upon them XX CHARITY CHARITY IN my Fathers time there was a Fellow of Trinity Colledge Camb. a Native of Carlton in Leicestershire * where the people thorow some occult cause are troubled with a wharling in their throats so that they cannot plainly pronounce the Letter R. This Schollar being conscious of his infirmity made a Latine Oration of the usuall expected length without an R therein and yet did he not only select words fit for his mouth easie for pronuntiation but also as pure and expressive for signification to shew that men might speak without being beholding to the Dogs letter Our English Pulpits for these last eighteen years have had in them too much Caninal anger vented by snapping and snarling spirits on both sides But if you bite and devour one another saith the Apostle Gal. 5.15 Take heed ye be not devoured one of another Think not that our Sermons must be silent if not satyrical as if Divininity did not afford smooth subjects enough to be seasonably insisted on in this Iuncture of time let us try our skill whether we cannot preach without any Dog-letter or biting-word the Art is half learned by intending and wholly by serious endeavouring it I am sure that such soft Sermons will be more easie for the tongue of the Preacher in pronouncing them lesse grating to the eares of pious people that hear them and most edifying to the heart of both speaker and hearers of them XXI But one Favourite WE read how Abraham Gen. 25.5 gave all he had unto Isaac As for his six sons Zimran Iokshan Medan Midian Ishback and Shuah which he had by Keturah his Concubine he only gave them gifts and sent them away into the East-Countrey England hath but one Isaac or legitimate Religion of the Church namely the Protestant as the Doctrine thereof is established in the 39. Articles But how many spurious ones she hath whether six sixty or sixscore I neither do know nor will enquire nor will I load my Book and trouble the Reader with their new numerous and hard names Oh may the State be pleased so far to reflect on this Isaac as to settle the solid inheritance upon him Let the Protestant Religion only be countenanced by the Law be owned and acknowledged for the received Religion of the Nation As for other Sects the sons of Keturah we grudge not that gifts be bestowed upon them Let them have a Toleration and that I assure you is a great gift indeed and be permitted peaceably and privately to enjoy their Consciences both in opinions and practices Such favour may safely not to say ought justly be afforded unto them so long as they continue peaceably in our Israel and disturb not the Estate This gift granted unto them they need not to be sent away into the East or any other Countrey If they dislike their condition they will either leave the Land and go over seas of their own accord or else which is rather to be desired and hoped for they will blush themselves out of their former follies and by degrees cordially reconcile themselves to the Church of England XXII Calmly Calmly WE read Gen. 3.8 that when God solemnly proceeded in the sentencing of our first Parents he was heard walking in the Garden in the cool of the day to teach men when they go about matters of Moment wherein not only the present Age but Posterity is also concerned to be-calme their souls of all Passion But alas much Reformation made rather under then by King CHARLES was done in the heat of the day in the dog-days of our civill discords and mid-summer Moon of our military distractions So that possibly when that which was done in the heat of the day shall be reviewed even by the self-same persons in the cool of the day they will perceive something by them so reformed now to need a new Reformation But