Selected quad for the lemma: duty_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
duty_n	day_n	holy_a	week_n	1,884	5	10.1877	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A54407	Indulgence not justified being a continuation of the Discourse of toleration, in answer to the arguments of a late book entituled A peace-offering, or plea for indulgence, and to the cavils of another call'd The second discourse of the religion in England.	Perrinchief, Richard, 1623?-1673.	1668 (1668)	Wing P1594; ESTC R26874	40,846	54

to their own Condemnation which they may and ought to lay aside So that they have not proved what they intended And if they had done so yet they would gain nothing by it Because the 2 d. proposition which they included in their inference The exercise of mens consciences or the Practices of men upon their apprehensions of things Spiritual are not in their power Is also false For the practices of Men which are the Subject of Laws whether conformable or not to their apprehensions are within their power either to act or not act as shall seem most for the benefit of the Society the Church This is plain by that principle of Order which the Apostle layes down 1 Cor. 14.32 The Spirits of the Prophets are subject to the Prophets where by the Spirits of the Prophets the Context shews were signified some Inspirations and gifts of the Holy Ghost as to Prophesie or to sing a Psalm or to speak in an unknown Tongue and these certainly were more vigorous had a stronger impulse and more efficacious impressions upon the minde of the Prophet then a bare apprehension of a thing could effect and yet the Apostle saith these Spirits were subject to the Prophets whether it were the Prophets that received it so that they might forbear or speak as it seemed most for Order and edifying or else to the other Prophets that were to judge so that they might give Rules and Laws for the use of those gifts Of which sort soever you take these Prophets to be to whom the Spirits were to le subject it argues that it was in their power and therefore the Apostle commands that they should use it to the benefit of others The same is in the Apostles counsel when he directs him that had a particular perswasion of the lawfulness or unlawfulness of some things to restrain that to his own breast * Rom. 14.22 Hast thou faith have it to thy self and therefore he was Master of his own practice notwithstanding his perswasion This the Apostle supposes in all these admonitions which are given to men of different perswasions to preserve the peace of the Church For if they were by their perswasions to be acted violently like the Enthusiasts among the Idolaters that were not able to contain themselves in their extasies it had been in vain to have given counsels to them who were not able to observe them Besides if God should have concluded us under an Impossibility of having all the same apprehensions of Spiritual and supernatural things and bad also condemned us all to such a slavery to those apprehensions as that it should not be in our power to manage our selves under them to the peace and tranquillity of the Church it had been in effect to have created us to mutual Destructions concluded us under a worse condition then Brutes and given us Apprehensive Faculties only to destroy our selves and others all which are contrary to the Divine goodness amd the gentle meek and charitable commands of Christ But say they To teach men that their consciences towards God are not concerned in their not acting according to their Light in his Worship or in acting against it is to teach them to be Atheists We answer That to teach men not to be over confident in their own apprehensions but to be so moderate as may be for the Peace of the Church is not to act contrary to their Consciences but most agreeably to a well ordered Conscience this being a plain clear and confessed duty by all Christians the particular apprehensions of one person or party being subject to many suspicions whether they be the right measures of a duty or no. And in doing this they are so far from being Atheists that they become the better Christians following the Rules of Christ and his Apostles SECT 3. Indulgence not justified from the Example of Christ THeir second Argument is drawn from the Example of our Saviour in which we confess we are not only to adore and admire but also to imitate all that Meekness Lowlyness which rendred his life glorious in holiness yet these men dare not say that the number of our duties is bounded by his example and that we are to forbear every thing whereof we have no pattern in his holy Conversation For then they should not keep holy the first day of the Week nor Baptize Children nor gather particular Congregations nor impose Congregational Covenants all which these men do and we no where read that Christ did Besides these men are not so ignorant as to believe a negative argument to be of any force though they make use of it to commend this doctrine of their interest to the Vulgar and therefore when they say Coerce Fine Imprison Banish those that apprehend not aright all and every thing that I would have you instructed in are words that never proceeded out of his mouth c. We reply 1 That this does not inforce that no Church and State by good Laws and well proportioned Penalties should reduce erroneous and disagreeing Christians to Peace and Order 2. This makes nothing against Our Laws who do not say Coerce Fine c. those that apprehend not aright all and every thing which Jesus would have us instructed in for there be many different opinions in the Church of England which the Laws of the State and Church take no notice of And it is not their intent to make men of one minde in all and every thing Which yet is to be wished But coerce those who do things contrary to the Peace of Christians and will not submit to their Lawful Superiors when they command things just and in their power And this we are sure may be collected from the words that proceeded out of our Saviours mouth Nor is it any more to the purpose when they say That it is a marveilous difficulty for any to think seriously That he who was so full of compassion towards all the sons of men should ever give the least consent unto the Punishment and gradual Destruction of those who in sincerity desire to Love and Obey them and do yet unavoidably mistake in their apprehensions of some few things pleaded to be according to his minde For 1. It is our duty and also the duty of all who do pretend to be true Christians seriously to think of those many and very pressing commands of our Lord Jesus Christ that his Disciples should preserve unity among themselves and it is our great marvel that these men who pretend so high to the name of Christ should yet take no notice of those Precepts Secondly when we seriously think of them we cannot but conclude That these Commands of Vnity preceeded from the fulness of his compassion towards the Sons of Men. 1. Towards those men who should desire to enter into the Kingdom of Heaven that these should not be distracted in their choice what party to apply themselves unto with whom they might joyn themselves to