Selected quad for the lemma: doctrine_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
doctrine_n	church_n	false_a	teacher_n	2,669	5	9.2889	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A93861	The second part of the apology of Socrates Christianus, or, A plain declaration of the authority by which he acts freely offered to the consideration of all serious, considerate, and unprejudiced Christians.	Stephens, Edward, d. 1706.	1700 (1700)	Wing S5439A; ESTC R42855	13,986	16

highly necessary in such a Case and very suitable to the Methods of the Divine Wisdom and Providence And for the rest of my Business what is it but what is a Common and Ordinary Duty The Service of God The Service of my Country the Reformation of Manners the Preservation of Peace by removing the Seeds of Dissention and great Occasions of Wars and making that impregnable which is now indefensible the Restauration of the Genuine Primitive Christianity Healing the Breaches of the Church of Christ and promoting the Restitution of its Rights by Assertion of Truth necessary Truth and such Truth as all my Adversaries are not able to gain-say or resist Nay does not their very Dealings with me at the same time both discover them to be of the Spirit of the False Prophets and Attest and Confirm My Mission as a true Disciple of Christ This is My Business to assert and bear My Testimony to the Truths of God in such Manner and Order as he is pleased to order and direct and those not any New Revelations but the Truths once delivered to the Saints and received by the Churches Catholick Truths opposed by none but Hereticks and Schismaticks and False Teachers who corrupt the Doctrine of the Gospel to gratify their own Lusts and to please the People who can unconcernedly behold the Growth of all Sects even of ' Infidelity and Apostacy and notorious Opposition of all revealed Religion under the Notion of Deism and Socinianism except only such as they think like themselves aim Chiesly at their Cathedrals and Preferments This is their Diana for which they are concerned and for which they can easily join and combine with Infidels and Deists and Commonwealths Men to secure that against such as they think may lay Claim to it And so they can but secure that they can willingly enough give up one part of the rest to the State and the remainder to the Sects nay be well appaid to have their Pastoral Charge performed by them so they may but quietly enjoy the Revenues and Profits to themselves and upon Confidence of such Assistants without either Shame or Scruple of Conscience or Fear of Scandal hold such Charges at inconsistent distances as good Christians heretofore would have dreaded to undertake but one of them And certainly their so great Concern in the one Case and so little Concern in all others of Religion of which the instances which might be given are undeniable and notorious is so scandalous that it is not to be doubted but it is one of the greatest Temptations to Atheism and Deism that is in this Nation For the Scandals of the most grosly Scandalous is nothing so effectually Scandalous as such as appears under Sheeps Cloathing It was my plain Reproof of these things and charging them with Filthy Lucre that first provoked an Angry Letter to my self then the Appeal sent me in a Penny-Post Cover then that false and foolish Letter elsewhere mentioned and at last that Religious and Loyal Combination of Latitudinarians with Deists and Commonwealths Men of like Concern in the State as the others in the Church and all that Noise and Clamour wherewith the People have been abused the King affronted and all good and solid Methods and the Advantages which the good Providence of God had put into our hands at this time for a Happy Settlement of a lasting Peace both in Church and State madly disturbed and the Peace of the Nation greatly endangered unless more Prudent Counsels and better Courses be taken in time And indeed what Mischiefs may not reasonably be expected from a Combination of two such Factions if they be but a little animated at the first either by Authority or which is more to them by an inconsiderate well meaning abused People Of the One we have had Experience enough within our own Memory and they have given the Nation a fair Warning of what they would be at now again by a bold attempt to suppress the Anuual Memorial of it by a very Virtuous and Religious Preacher of Mr. Toland's Club upon the Thirtieth of January which I hear is sometimes visited by a like Virtuous Chair Man of the same Party in his Chair A very proper and seasonable Preparative for so furious reviving the old Pretence from which that day at last became so Memorable The Other is as very a Faction too and that appears by like Practices to promote their own Designs in keeping the Convocation from sitting and acting For did they not know that the greatest part of the Clergy of this Church are against what they would have and in Matters of no small Moment they would never be guilty of so foul a Practice And that it is done by their Perswasion or Misinformation and Encouragement doth likewise appear by the Answer to the Letter to a Convocation Man And how foul a thing this is will appear if the Manifold Evils apparent in it besides what may be latent and not yet discovered be well considered 1. It is a Betraying of the Rights of the Church of Christ and Essential Rights as to its being one Body and a formed Society 2. It is a Betraying of the Rights of their own Order and Rights absolutely Necessary for the Discharge of their Duty in common to Consult and Advise concerning the Great and common Concerns of the Church 3. And this is done at a time of as great need as ever of an Assembly of the Clergy when Immorality is grown to that height that all the Bishops of England did not dare to bring in a Bill drawn at their own Request and perused by able Counsel and all the Judges then in Town into the Parliament to suppress it and to that Impudence that a Notorious Scandalous Cause and of one in Great place hath not only been defended in the Courts of Law in Westminster but at last brought by Appeal before the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and no notice of the Scandal though undeniable taken by all or any of the Bishops as if there was nothing of Discipline left in the Church of England and Impiety to that height and Impudence that one of their Lordships hath complained to me that they are put to prove their Creed and the fifth Chapter of St. Matthew But a greater instance than this I have lately given in my Letter to Sir R. C. which hath produced only a more notorious Confirmation of it 4. This Antichristian Treachery is so peculiar to this Faction that I know no Sect besides themselves that is guilty of it Nay what they deny to their own Brethren they themselves will not deny to any of the Dissenters nor so much as to the Quakers though Constantly Annually Notorious and complain'd of 5. It is an injury to the whole Body of the Clergy of the Church of England joyned with Abuse and Mockery in Effect and repeated and continued for many years together For what else is it never to let them Sit and Act when