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	heresy_n	schism_n	2,940	5	9.8144	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A62015	To the nobility and gentry lawyers and physicians, sea-men & trades-men, magistrates subordinate and supreme, &c. By Tho. Swadlin D.D.	Swadlin, Thomas, 1600-1670.	1658 (1658)	Wing S6229A; ESTC R220646	17,046	127

the whole world thus From pestilence famine and war from earth-quakes inundations and great fires from the plagues of immoderate rains and droughts from corrupting winds and blastings from thunder lightning and tempests from epidemicall and sharp diseases and from suddain death Deliver the whole world good Lord From private interpretations of Scriptures from innovations in holy things from strange doctrines from doating about questions from heresies schisms and scandals publick and private Deliver thy whole Church good Lord From the Priesthood of Micah and Jeroboam from the combination of Judas Iscariot and Simon Magus from the doctrins of the unstable and the unlearned from the pride of novices and from people that strive with the Priest Deliver this Church good Lord From forain invasion and civil insurrection from displacing good Magistrates and exalting bad from the massacre of Athaliah and from the bloodinesse of Herod Deliver this nation good Lord From the Anarchy of Corah and Dathan from the tyranny of Ashur and Achab from the dangerous counsil of Achitopel and the foolish counsil of Zoan from the Statutes of Omri and the Judgements of Jesabel from the floods of Belial and from the plagues of Peor Deliver the state of this Nation good Lord From the pride of the Amorite from the envy of the Hittite from the anger of the Perizzite from the gluttony of the Gergashite from the wantonnesse of the Hivite from the worldlinesse of the Cananite and lukewarmnesse of the Jebusite Deliver this City good Lord for Jesus Christ his sake Amen In whose blessed name and words c. To the condemned to dye YOur time is short therefore my discourse to you shall not be long not many dayes betwixt you and death and therefore not many words lest I keep you from the thought of death I dare not be so unchristian as to think you prepare not your selves for the last fatal stroak and therefore one onely prayer for you from me if you have not a better from others for your selves O God! most powerfull yet most pitifull by thy Power preserve them that are appointed to dye and redeem them from the sentence of death which is past upon them if it may stand with thy Goodnesse But if thy Providence hath appointed this time for their period and this way for their dissolution yet by thy pity save their souls from eternal death and grant them all those graces which are necessary for their salvation Remember not their ignorances Forget the sins of their youth and Forgive the sins of their age Give them a sight of all their sins Give them a sense of all their sins and true repentance to bewail them Give them a sight of all thy Promises Give them a sense of all thy Promises and true faith to apply them Suffer not their Ghostly enemies to assault them to any present desperation for their former presumptions against thy Justice Send thy holy Angels to take their souls as they did the soul of Lazarus and carry them into Abrahams bosome and let thy everlasting Gates be open to receive them for his sake who by overcoming the sharpnesse hath opened the Kingdom of Heaven to all Beleevers Make keep their senses intire their understandings right their penitence unfeigned their hope well grounded their faith firm and their charity perfect Give them ô give them a quiet and joyfull departure by carrying their eyes back unto Jesus who died for them and forward to those Joyes which are purchased for them by the life and death of Jesus Christ Amen In whose most blessed Name and words I further call upon thee as he hath taught me saying Our Father which art in Heaven c. Or if any sin lies heavy upon thy soul and thou canst not have those assistances thou desirest then confess thy sins and comfort thy soul in this or such a kind of Devotion as this Behold ô God! I was conceived in sin Psal 51. and brought forth in iniquity and therefore I pray God be mercifull to me a sinner And mercy I hope to have Because my Saviour was conceived by the Holy Ghost Luc. 1. and born in innocency not for himself but me for which My soul doth magnifie thee ô Lord But I have discoursed with the Devil Gen. 3. and at his temptations have tasted the forbidden fruit and therefore I pray God be mercifull to me a sinner And mercy I hope to have Because my Saviour wrestled with and overcame the Devil for me Mat. 4. for which My soul doth magnifie thee O Lord But I have committed all sin and kept the poyson of Asps under my lips Psal and therefore I pray God be mercifull to me a sinner And mercy I hope to have Because my Saviour did no sin 1 Petr. neither was any guile found in his lips for which My soul doth magnifie thee ô Lord But I have fulfilled the will of the flesh too Psal and done no good and therefore I pray God be mercifull to me a sinner And mercy I hope to have Because my Saviour fulfilled thy will Joh. and did all good for me for which My soul doth magnifie thee ô Lord But I have defiled my body Gen. as Onan by Pollution if not as Judah by Fornication Gen. if not as David by Adultery 1 Sam. 11. if not as Ammon by Incest if not as the Sodomites by Bestiality and therefore I pray God be mercifull to me a sinner And mercy yet I hope to have Because my Saviour offered his Body to the knife of Luc. 2. Circumcision to the water of Baptisme Mat. 3. to the Curse of the Tree to the Death of the Crosse and all this to expiate the sins of my body for which Philip 2. My soul doth magnifie thee ô Lord But mine hands have been lifted up against Heaven and therefore I pray God be mercifull to me a sinner And mercy yet I hope to have Because my Saviours hands in Heaven are as upon the Crosse they were stretched out to embrace me for which My soul doth magnifie thee O Lord But my feet my very feet have been swift to shed the blood of Revenge and therefore I pray God be mercifull to me a sinner And mercy yet I hope to have Because my Saviours feet were nail'd to shed the blood of Attonement for me for which My soul doth magnifie thee ô Lord But my heart my inmost and remotest heart hath been filled with evil imaginations and that continually and therefore I dare not but continue to pray God be mercifull to me a sinner And mercy yet I hope to have Because my Saviours Heart was pierced to offer up the blood of satisfaction for the sins of my heart for which My soul doth magnifie thee ô Lord But my soul my once most precious soul I have defaced by all manner of ungodlinesse and therefore I pray God he mercifull to me a sinner And mercy I yet