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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
duty_n	husband_n	perform_v	wife_n	3,838	5	7.4579	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A09441	The churches plea for her right, or, A reply to an answer made of Mr. Iohn Paget against William Best and others wherein the maine points of our present differences are handled and the principall causes of our troubles declared / published by William Best.	Best, William, fl. 1635.; Paget, John, d. 1640. Answer to the unjust complaints of William Best.	1635 (1635)	STC 1973.5; ESTC S151	93,797	110

then to apply Act. 20.28 to the matter in hand whereas Paul appointeth the Ephesian Elders unto the care and charge onely of their owne particular Congregation and no further it followeth necessarily this being writen for our imitation that every Minister under the Gospell is to containe himself altogether within the bounds and circuit of his owne Church and not to exercise any act of his ministerie otherwhere For to doe it is meerely intrusion and a taking of to much upon him 1. Cor. 7.24 Therefore Let every man wherein hee is called therein abide with God Els others will be injured good order broken scandalls raysed and the doer severely punished for his irregular walking Observe againe how Mr. Paget makes use of the Papists argument for thus writeth Scultingius The Calvinists sayth hee object that the authority of Bishops and Archbishops is not from the Apostles Hierarch l. 10. p. 79. because Act. 15. the controversie there was not confirmed by them but by the whole Church Now marke how prittily hee answereth to it This will not follow for the authority of Bishops Archbishops might be exercised at other times in the Apostles dayes although then it were not Thus hee drawes out Antichrist sword against us onely hee puts a new scabbard upon it His third answer is that Pastours and Teachers are bound to exercise some acts of their ministery towards those who are no members of their Church And why so Because they ought to invite and call others even those that are without Prov. 9.3.4.5 Mat. 28.19.20 Answ 1. I would willingly know of him whither his office be so with him and alwayes about him that hee cannot performe some good actions but they must needs be actions of his Ministery I and others are otherwise minded our reason is because wee are told that as a man and wife a father and child so a Pastour and a Flock are relatives Now in my understanding as I am a father I exercise no proper acts of a father but towards my owne children what good soever I doe to others it cannot properly be said to be the act of a father but rather of a freind a neighbour a Christian c. Now let him make further application of it 2. For his two Scriptures 1. Mat. 28.19.20 is very unskilfully quoted for howsoever the Apostles exercised some Acts of their ministery towards men without yet this prooves not that ordinary Ministers may doe so too but onely a thing so conceited of him The other place is answered before 4. Hee saith that a Pastour may administer the Sacraments both of Baptisme and the Lords Supper in neighbour Churches and this hee sayth hee hath prooved against Mr. Ainsworth in Arr. pag. 17.18 and againe from pag. 109. to 114. Answ 1. As Parents love their owne children because they begat them how ill-favored and black soever they are So Mr. Paget in this place applaudeth his old writings because they are the inventions of his owne head I have 3 or 4 times read the places over and I doe assure thee Reader I find not any thing there prooved of which hee here so vainely boasteth For either hee takes that granted which hee is not able to proove to wit that the Elders Deacons and widowes of one Church may administer in another by vertue of office or els like the unwise mans building his whole discours is without foundation Hee tels us that the Eldership of the separated companie of Leiden did help Mr. Ainsworth in his Controversie with Mr. Iohnson VVhat then must it follow that they exercised some acts of their Ministery in another Congregation For sooth so hee concludeth but how truely I will here manifest in this argument If the Magistrates of Amsterdam performe sometime a worke of mercy to the people at Harlem then they exercise there some acts of their Magistracy but the first is true Therefore the second If Mr. Paget will compare his manner of reasoning with this hee shall see that blood is not more like to blood then these two one the other But I gesse what causeth him to erre herein Hee thinketh that Officers of a Church cannot be helpfull in some causes unto other people but they exercise acts of their Ministery But the thing is not so for whatsoever they doe in such cases they doe it not as Officers but as Christians neither can they now doe more though Ministers in other Churches then any other Brother may doe being indued with the like gifts One thing here I cannot let passe and that is touching his unsound reasoning in pag. 110. Hee tels Mr. Ainsworth that his similitude from a Husband is against himself The reason hee gives for it is because a Husband notwithstanding his relation and bond unto his owne wife may yet become a protectour and guide of the poore widow that wants a Husband to performe these dueties If Mr. Paget will stand to justify the true proportion of his argument as it must necessarily hold or els it is mere vanity I will hence proove from his writing that adultery is lawfull for thus I reason That which is the peculiar duety of husbands to be performed towards their wives is to give them due benevolence But husbands notwithstanding the relation and bonds unto their owne wives may performe the peculiar dueties of husbands to poore widowes Therefore husbands notwithstanding the relation and bond unto their owne wives may have the use of the bodies of poore widowes If hee doe not grant this hee reasoneth without reason For I hope hee will not deny but a man that is no husband may performe many kind offices to poore widowes yea I thinke hee will confesse that a man unmaried may doe as many good turnes to poore widowes as any husband If so then of a certainty either hee must maintaine whoordome as I sayd before or confesse that which hee writes here is most impertinent and that the comparison holds no further but thus viz. that any man out of office may in other Congregations performe as much duety as those which are not Ministers there I hope his sinne here was of ignorance rather then of wilfullnes and that hee had a devotion to serve God a right though hee tooke not in this the right way wherein hee will be served And thus much is sufficient to confute whatsoever hee hath there said Let us therefore proceed to the next For his 5 answer I can better understand his meaning then make either sence or good English of it To proove that a Pastour is bound to exercise his Ministery in some acts thereof towards those who are no members of his Church hee brings the example of Classes and Synods where many Ministers doe meet together for the administration of Discipline in them and to determine and decide by a joint authority the cases and controversies of sundry Congregations and this hee sayth is to be seene in Act. 15.1.2 Answ Who seeth not that this plea is none