Selected quad for the lemma: duty_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
duty_n	catholic_n	church_n	communion_n	1,107	5	9.3710	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A26856	Additions to the poetical fragments of Rich. Baxter written for himself and communicated to such as are more for serious verse than smooth.	Baxter, Richard, 1615-1691.	1683 (1683)	Wing B1180A; ESTC R26683	25,832	82

Nor did his Truth and Servants more oppose None with more Zeal for Holy Blood did thirst None did more mischief to the Church than those Wolves in Sheeps cloathing by their Fruits are known By hurtful fangs devouring bloody jaws As Thorns and Bryars prick Men to the Bone So these by hurtful Hands and cruel Laws They 'r humble Ministers but Rule as Lords Servants of all yet Vice-Kings under Christ On pain of Hell all must obey their words If you will serve God you must serve them first Heav'ns Keys are theirs their right we must not doubt To curse and cast out those whom Christ takes in These they by words themselves indeed shut out By mortal fleshly and malignant Sin Christ's House a place of Merchandize is made Children cast out his Table spread for Dogs To make sound Christians odious is their Trade To curse Gods Saints cast their Pearls to Hogs The Holy Catholick Church is in their Creed Which is all true Believers upon Earth Of whom Christ only is the King and Head To him they joyned are in the New Birth But these Men mean one corrupt Sect alone About the Fourth Part of the whole are they Cut off and separate from the rest as none Their Pope and Councils that do not obey The Saints Communion they in words profess Themselves and Dead Mens Images they mean None pass for Saints who do not wear their dress The best if not their Subjects are unclean Call them but Hereticks and they may kill A Thousand Saints and by it Heaven may win Such is the Power of a Papal will To make a Vertue of the greatest Sin On Catholick Communion they lay Not only all Mens Duty but Salvation For Schism rends Men from the Church say they And so from Christ therefore brings damnation Yet that 's Mans Duty which they Schism call To own no human universal King No Legislative Power over all In Councils Pope or any human thing None 's capable to Rule all but the Lord Give Church or State Law Judgment or Defence Mans Universal Soveraignty's abhor'd By Nature Reason and Experience Among the Mad those Princes Monsters are Who subjects be to this Church-Soveraigns claim And yet with Scorn and just disdain would hear A Universal Civil Soveraigns Name VVhen certainly it is a harder thing To Rule all Earth by the Church-power word Than for the wisest Parliament or King To Rule the whole world by the Civil Sword Thus they impossible Communion make And yet Damn all that do not it observe None can tell whom for Soveraign we must take Nor which the Laws are from which none must swerve Must Pope or Council this Great Soveraign be Is 't Monarchy or Aristocracie Or is it mixt and must they both agree Or is it the diffus'd Democracie Whom must we take for Pope Who must him choose Which is the Pope when there are two or three Must they that give the Power which they use Superiors Equals or Inferiors be When one at Rome one at Avignion was And each a Council had which took his part Which for the true Communion then must pass Which was the Chuch from which none must depart Must all th' Abassians and Armenians know And in Cosmography so Skilful be Whither there 's such a place as Rome or no Whither there be a Pope and which is he Is 't the whole Church on Earth that he must rule Why then hath not the whole a choosing Vote Is all the world save Rome but the Popes Mule And that his Crown 's Elective all do Note It s like that all the Church consents they 'l say Then he 's no Pope whom three 4th parts disclaim How shall three parts then know whom to obey Will any serve that will usurp the Name When Popes damn Popes Councils damn them all And Popes damn Councils what must Christians do When they each others Laws damn recal How shall we know whose Power then was true The French say Councils have this Soveraignty The first Three Hundred Years it was not so The Soveraign Power the Church doth Unifie Was it then none or how could Men it know An Universal Council never was 'T was but one Empire that did make that name Now that 's dissolv'd how should it come to pass That any Prince on Earth should do the same Hath any one the common Rule of all Or will Turks Papists and all Kings agree Such a true Council when and where to call Or can one third part Universal be The Church of Councils Power is not agreed Therefore this doth not it now Unifie Those that stand for their Soveraignty indeed Which were those Councils differ shamefully Some are for four some six some eight some all Some such as by the Pope approved were Divers each other Hereticks did call And which we must obey cannot appear And is Church Unity no better known And yet is necessary to Salvation And to all those that Christ himself will own What fallows hence but general Damnation An Universal Council none shall see Till the world have an Universal King This the Triple-Crown'd Pope pretends to be Though not the name he challengeth the thing The poor Fifth Monarchy Seekers they pity As seeking that which long hath extant bin No Monarch ever matcht the Holy City By his Church Keys thus rules the Man of Sin And if we knew which Powers to obey Which be the Canons which so needful are If some who knows them if all then are they More necessary than Gods Scriptures far Christ hath the Terms of Church-Communion made These wiser Men who make so many more Will shortly find their Legislative trade Among their greatest Sins set on their Score Baptism Christ made what was thereto requir'd The Church still knew by Gods mercy knows The words then us'd the requisites desir'd Scripture and sure Tradition fully shews The Church by Baptism was specify'd Christ did command all such to love each other Holy Communion was to none deny'd All were to take a Christian as a Brother Till by some Heresie or great offence He brought his Covenant-keeping under doubt And having added prov'd impenitence Was not so much cast as declared out None were Baptized into Peters Name Much less to General Council or the Pope They had one God one Christ their Creed the same One Spirit Body and one future hope But as the Serpent tempting Eve at first By Pride and promis'd knowledg did Man kill So from the pure simplicity of Christ By promis'd Wisdom he befools Man Still To know this Subject better read a Book Call'd the remains of Fulk Grevile Lord Brook V. Man VAin Man Why is thy Being no more known Why seeking knowledg readst thou not thy self How many books in vain dost thou take down Thy own Book standeth on the nearest Shelf Should vital knowing Spirits cloath'd in Flesh Mistake so Course a Garment for the Man And live as if they did not hope or wish