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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
enemy_n	david_n	hate_v	hatred_n	1,155	5	10.0548	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A51052	The case of the accommodation lately proposed by the Bishop of Dumblane to the non-conforming ministers examined wherein also the antient Prostasia, or, Episcopus Præses is considered, and the Solemne League and Covenant occasionally vindicat : together with a copy of the two letters herein reviewed : vvhereunto also is subjoined an appendix in ansvver to a narrative of the issue of the treaty anent accommodation.	McWard, Robert, 1633?-1687.	1671 (1671)	Wing M231; ESTC R5121	109,669	138

part were certainly as little worth all the stir and vexation made about him as the Bishops their insignificant Dignities and Ceremonies were a cause inferior to the late wars which they did mostly occasion And it were a folly insufferable for wise men● so desirous of ease to set so little value upon so great a thing as is the peace of both Church and State disturbed by the present Episcopacy and this Presidencie offered But seeing it is evident that the thing designed by this proposal● is a compliance with the present establishment not only to the relaxing of conscience and the bonds of former ingagements but to the suppression and extirpation of the true Government of Gods House the acknowledging of and submitting unto the Supremacy more absurdl● contrary to the Power and Liberty of the Gospel then its instrument Prelacy which we have expresly and particularly abjured can the Author reasonably find fault if he rencounter in us an opposition commensurat both to the value of the prize and the measure of his own instance If men for poor perishing interests do endeavour at so high a rate to introduce their modes and inventions for no other end imaginable● then that by the contrivance and influence thereof they may have the Gospel Ministry and Kingdom of our Lord still in subjection unto their lusts and pleasures Should not the lovers of Gods Glory and of their own salvation the proper and great ends of all Christs institutions more vigourously resist all these their intended corruptions I ma● not here stand to discusse the specious and flattering pretensions held out by our Adversaries as if meer subtilties were by us opposed to the solid good of the Churches peace Certainly he who remembereth how in the ancient times of the Church Satan was very cunning to set the mystery of iniquity on foot from the smallest and least suspicious beginnings yet thence by more sub●ile and metaphysical methods then these which our Author undervalued to carry it on to the very revelation of the Man of sin and withal considereth in our own late experience the meen entrie as Kirk-commissioners and constant Moderators with the suddain elevation and corruption of King Iames his Prelats unlesse he do very supinely misregard the intimation of all present circumstances specially that of an al-swaying Supremacie already regnant can neither be ignorant of nor catched by such devices But the Peace of the Church is of great value Thus they who have troubled and overturned the righteous Peace of a wel setled Church are not ashamed to make their possession attained by wrong and violence a plea for their security in their evil way and after that by breaking their Oath and Covenant ranversing the Lords Work and Ministry they have got what the● desired and used force and compulsion against consciencious Nonconformists until they are wearied now they come forth to practise by flatteries a few Syrens with charmes of peace canting in Nazianzen's words 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to try if these enticings may be more succesful and by a strangely comprehensive spirituality both of truth and error telling us that when one saith he is for Bishops another I am for Presbytery that we are carnal as if the Apostles censure of a divisive respect of persons were equally against the discrimination of things which the Lord himself hath certainly distinguished But as in the competition of peace the heathens saying 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 might have admonished the Author and seing that that peace is only precious which is founded in designed for truth so when it is meerly pretended for procuring a sinful compliance with an evil course it is but an empty delusion We know whose practice it was to heal the hurt of the Lords People slightly saying peace peace when there was no peace To pretend for nay to pursue seriously after peace without regard to Truth Righteousnesse and Reconciliation with God is only a precipitant error and lying vision But he who stands in the Counsel of the Lord and causeth his People to hear His Words should turne them from their evil way and from the evil of their doings And when the loud and harsh noises of our debates shall be turned into the sweetersound of united mourning and lamenting after the Lord then and not before may we looke that the Lord will return and cause his face to shine on us and restore unto us his favour the fountain and blessing of all other blessings This is the only way to shew our selves real supplicants for peace indeed to remove all the obs●ructions that may disappoint its firm enjoyment Nay this is the mean whereby the sincere seekers of the ●ord do even in the midst of tribulation attain to that superexcelling Peace of God which surely establisheth and that joy which no man takes from them But the Author still longing for and hastening to outward peace not that which the Lord left and gave to his followers exhorteth unto a temper recep●ive of it and that is great meeknesse and charity and no doubt in their right application● these are most beautiful graces but as they seem here to be proposed for the preposterous courting of this worlds peace● I feare that they are not only unseasonably recommended in exclusion of the love of Truth and zeal of God incompatible with the Authors evil courses but with an extension of charity to rejoyce in iniquity and meeknesse towards wickednesse beyond their known and just measures It is true whatsoever party or opinion we follow in this matter the ba●ge by which we must be known to be ●ollowers of Iesus Christ is ●his that we love on another Yet ● must take the l●berty to say first that in this point to confound persons and things on purpose to transfer that love and charitie we owe the former to t●e latter though never so detestable is but a silly sophisme He who rightly estimateth Christian love will readily acknowledge that oftentimes the wounds of a friend may be faithful when his kisses would prove deceitful Next that though the Author would alleviat our present differences as amounting to no more then opin●ons and humours yet I do reall● conceive some of them to be o that import● as to judge a perverse and stated enemy asserting t●e Supremacie to the manifest denyal of Christ's Kingdom and Government in His house not to merite the privelege of one of his Disciples nay that in order to such David's profession Do not I hate them O Lord that hate thee And am not I grieved O Lord with them that rise up against thee I hate them with perfect hatred I count them mine enemies may rather become our duty And thence it is that although this Law of love be in●eed of Divine right therefore would not be broken by bitter passion and revilings rooted ha●reds fo● things in dispute betwixt us Yet sure I am it doth as certainly admit of the foregoing exceptions as the