Selected quad for the lemma: duty_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
duty_n	church_n	member_n	visible_a	1,366	5	9.2837	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A34014	Charity commended, or, A catholick Christian soberly instructed by J.C.	Collop, John.	1667 (1667)	Wing C5391; ESTC R16883	68,489	162

There can be no cause to make a schisme or separation from the whole Church for the whole Church cannot universally erre in faith for if it could it would cease to be holy neither can all the members of the militant Church erre either in the whole or an Article of faith if they could there could be no union betwixt the head and members and so no body no Church The Church of the Elect is in the Church of them that are called and the invisible Church in the visible or else the invisible Church is tyed to no duty of Christianity for all such duties are required of the Church and performed as 't is visible and consequently if the whole Church of the Elect cannot erre in fundamentalls the whole visible Church cannot erre in which the Elect is 'T is manifest out of Saint Austin ipsa est Ecclesia quae intra sagenam dominicam cum malis piscibus natat grana sunt inter illam paleam quand● area cum videretur tota palea putabatur There are bad fish in the net of the Lord from which there must be ever a separation in heart and manners but a corporall separation must be expected at the sea-shore in the end of the world And as the spirit of a man doth not quicken any member of the body but as it is united to it so neither doth the Spirit of God any member of the Church but being united in the bond of peace Sect. 73. I have weakened the lights of my body to introduce knowledge by by these windowes of my soule lost my selfe to finde others to magnifie my age I will not boast I have outlived Emperours Popes If he lives only long who lives well I am the shortest liver I have served twice Jacobs time to a more deceitfull Master then Laban an impious world young in years old in folly a Labyrinth riddle bubble nothing The reward of Jacobs servitude was blessed mine cursed could produce only spotted actions checquer'd with the guilt of my own black imaginations who have been carried about with the air of my own phancy that I might not be transported with the wind of every phanaticks error discompos'd my fortune to settle my mind Amicus Plato amicus Socrates sed Magis am●ca veritas If truth be not more my friend then any one my memory can challenge a familiar acquaintance with I may modestly presume my selfe destitute of any while I have moved upon quick-silver and whe●l'd upon the incertainties of giddy chance a Polypire Ephorine and Philaetic become all with all not that I might gain others with the Apostle or gain of others wi●h the world but gain my selfe And though this itch of my curiosity may produce bad blood by exasperating malignant humours yet I shall skin my own sores over by so good a conversation and by no rash exposures of aliene sores to the ayre I shall endanger the wranckling of any into male-content I shall not relinquish my part in our elder Brothers legacy the love that Christ bequeath'd us for the greatest of Mundan inheritances for if my barns were full my soul could not take her ease should I disease my brother I might fear with a Thou fool hac nocte in the night of error illuminated by no beam of Gods grace and mercy from a darker action to be cast into a darker dungeon for having no mercy on him for whom the light in darknesse rose I would snatch a Brother out of the fire with fear and trembling and not commit to flames with rigour and malice The Spanish devotion shall prescribe no rule to mine who hang'd up thirteen Indians to the honour of Christ and his twelve Apostles Sect. 74. I am not of the Tyrants minde oderint dum metuant as I would incurre no mans hate so I would lend an occasion to no mans fear since invention witty in cruelty should not wrack a confession that may prejudice another I would not endanger a Priests life to save mine own Bellum cum vitiis Pax cum hominibus is my motto I hate no Sect but pray for all that like Sampsons Foxes divided by the heads they may not be tyed together by the tails in the country they reside to raise a combustion or Snake-like return a sting for entertainment and can wonder that the twilight of nature and noctiluce of reason in Heathens should out-shine the Sun-beams of the Gospell in Christians while History presents us with an Aristodes a Phocion and Themistcoles who though their bodies suffered by an Ostracism would not exile out of their minds that piety which was due even to an ingratefull Country One asked What he would wish to his country for their ingratitude answered Never to want an Aristides The second commanded his sons to forget their Fathers injuries and the third dyed rather then he would revenge his own and could wish the Athenian Legislator might even prescribe a Law to Christians who for blindnesse returned light who instead of retaliating the losse of an eye administred light to the Author by opening the eyes of his understanding Sect. 75. I would convince by reason make no conviction by Law make a confiscation of error not goods though I seek not their goods but the good of their souls Persecution is a seeds-time of error as well as of truth The Norfolk Arian could laugh at the stake and though none can dye well who live not so no one can live so ill as cannot dye desperately The old Roman humour of braving death sleeps not with Paganisme Rome hath still her Scaevola's dare court the flames and have a hand in every combustion no part of the earth can make a breach for which they can want a Curtius who to make it up will not ingulph himselfe in misery Some with Augustus can die in a complement more with Tiberius in dissimilation No Priest but Galba-like will offer his neck with a feri si ere sit populi Romani while with Vespasian they can smile with an ut puto Deus fio A Garnet may be Sainted even for a powder plot And some resembling Otho's friends wil die for society while they like him murder themselves under pretence of being publick victims Sect. 76. I would bring tears to quench rather then fewell to the flames not cause others to be disembowelled but could even disbowell my selfe by an inviscerate dilection Show excrementatam liquidiora tam crassiora non solùm pectoris sed religionis anatomiam To reclaim these Traitors to reason who believe heaven can side with factions and omniscience cannot discover these disguises of charity He who commands us to let our light so shine before men that they may glorifie our heavenly Father commands us not to light men for his glory And though he whom we must pattern was a light in darknesse in usum nocturni luminis Nero like non proponit cremandos Christianos These fires may show hell flames but to show a way