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duty_n	child_n	owe_v	parent_n	5,339	5	9.4563	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A42672	Tears shed in the behalf of his dear mother the Church of England, and her sad distractions gathered and brought into this small paper vessell for the use of the vulgar, and common people, not to play with religion / by her adopted son, Daniel Getsius ...	Getsius, Daniel, 1592-1672.	1658 (1658)	Wing G632; ESTC R31519	48,008	156

noe certaine stay Therefore the winde of Gods wrath will suddenly scatter and drive them away The Apostle 2 Joh. 10. directs his blessed Lady 1 Not to participate with such indeed that bring not the doctrine of Christ Receive him not into your house why this seemes incivility may we not receive such till they discover what they are and then turne them out Turpius ejicitur quam non admittitur hospes You shall have more a doe to eject such then to keepe them out at first therefore shut up the doores of your house against them 2. Not to participate with such in word ver 11. neither bid him God speed as if he should say be sofarre in shewing him any kindness in deede as vouchsafe him not a kind word or greeting wish him no joy no comfort afford him not a good word or familiar speech shew no token of familiaritie to him He renders a reason for he that biddeth him God speed is partaker of his evil deeds and if we be partakers of their sins we shal be partakers of their plagues Salutation is a sign of love we may not love them therefore not so much as salute them Marcion the heretick meeting Iohn the Euangelist and asking if he knew him I know thee replyed the other to be the first born of the Devil Wee must not salute such familiarily as we do the saints of God and Brethren in Christ but rather shew a detestation of them and their Doctrine As they be our enemies we ought to love them and may salute them as they be Gods enemies we must hate them David Psal 129.21 Shews the manner do not I hate them O Lord that hate thee yes I hate them with a perfect hatred Wee must love the nature which God made hate the evil which the Devil made Our houses should be open to the Preachers and Professors of the Gospel but not so to corrupt teachers Reasons given are these 1. It is a thing displeasing to God to give entertainement to his Enemies Iehu the seer reproved King Iehosaphat for joyning with Ahab wouldst thou help the wicked and love them that hate the Lord 1 Chro. 19.2 God gave us our houses they must be for his friends and not for his Enemies 2. The Godly will grieve at it and shall we grieve them for whom Christ died Rom. 14.15 3. It may bring a bad report upon our selves that we like of them and approove them whereas wee ought to abstain from all appearance of evil 1 Thes 5.22 And provide things honest before God and men 2 Cor. 8.21 4. It may endanger our own souls their word fretteth as a canker 2 Tim. 2.17 It may overrun us and infect us ere we bee aware 5. It may encourage them in their wickednesse Ezech. 13.22 6. It may pull Gods wrath on our houses and us God blessed Potiphar and his house for Iosephs sake Gen. 34.5 c. 30.27 Laban for Iacobs sake So the Shunamitish woman for Elisha's sake 2 King 4.17 His curse will light on those houses where the adversaries of his Gospel are harboured Therefore when John the Euangelist heard that Cerinthus the Heretick was in the house with him let us fly saith he lest the bath fall on our heads this was the practise of Gods saints at all times Quest May we not at all converse with vvicked men and the Enemies of Religion Indeed the Apostle Paul 1 Cor. 5.11 Seems to affirm the like I have written to you not to keep Company if any man that is called a Brother be a fornicatour or covetous or an idolater with such a one no not to eat Did not our saviour eat with publicans and sinners Resp 1. The Apostles meaning is that we ought not to have any intimate familiarity or common usage and conversation with such other vvise in some case vve are not forbidden simply to eat with such Sith neither the bond of matrimony is broken by excommunication nor such duties hindred much lesse cut off thereby as vve owe one to another children to their parents subjects to their Prince servants to their Masters and neighbour to neighbour to win one another to God 2. Concerning Christs conversing with sinners and Publicanes this the Pharisees catch up to calumniate him to his disciples and so to alienate their affection which many now adayes make use of to excuse their dissolutnesse but let Christs answere serve both them and us They who be whole need no Physitian as if hee said I must converse with these because they are spiritually sick and I am the souls sole Physician They are sinners I am their saviour Christ then converseth with sinners not to approve their sinnes but to bring them off by his exhortations taking all occasions to do good so we should take great care to better man His nature was so pure that he could not be infected Take a Christall glasse pure and clean fill it with clear water shake it never so much it will continue clear but a little mudd in the bottome fouleth all especially being stirred so it is with us the originall dreggs of sin are in our nature and will soon marr all we must therefore take great care how we converse with others Lastly Let the great danger of false Doctrine perswade men to beware of false teachers like a canker it soon spreads and if not look'd into killeth eternalie breaks the bond of nature cuts all sinews of humane society puts variance and implacable discords in families soweth seeds of sedition in the state and ruineth all You will say God forbid I shall be brought to this I answere this is but your conceit 1. First when Religion is once gone humanity will not long stay after what can be look't for from inconstant persons those who cast off Religion and so their God will soon forget and so cast off their neerest and deerest friends Besides this Irreligion is the next way to disobedience 2ly Hazael conceived so well of himself 2. Kings 8.13 Elisha foretold all the evill he should doe to the people of Israel vers 12. burne their strong holds and slay their youth with the sword dashing their Children ripping their women with child Hazaell said but what is thy servant a dog namely as a dog fierce cruell merciless that he should doe this great thing such barbarous and inhumane cruelties as no reasonable man would doe but savage ravenous and unreasonable beasts Hazael at this time did not thinke he should doe such cruell acts The heart is deceitfull above all things and desperately wicked who can know it Ier. 17.9 The following history will confirme it The occasion whereof I shall shew 1. 2 Pet. 2.10 Jude 8. There is a generation of whom two Apostles Peter and Jude speake that despiseth all Government and speaketh evill of dignities out of an erronious judgement seduced by false teachers Anabaptists utterly mislike all Government and subjection amongst Christians It is not without cause that