Selected quad for the lemma: england_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
england_n	authority_n	church_n	pope_n	2,849	5	6.2786	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A52084	Two sorts of latter days, proved from Scripture. First, the latter days of perilous times, the which are to be ended before the great and glorious latter days have their beginning. Proved when the elder people or nation is to serve the younger. And by that servitude made blessed. The old and new testament made to agree. And truth vindicated against all heresies. By M. Marsin	Marsin, M.	1699 (1699)	Wing M813E; ESTC R223742	30,711	48

the coming of the Lord in their Day is farther evident till such time he wrote the Second Epistle to the Thessalonians wherein he then wrote to them not to think that the Day of the Lord was at Hand Chap. 2.2 The which had he not before thought otherwise he would not have had occasion to have wrote to have brought them out of that mistake Now some Men had rather continue in their Mistakes and let God's Glory and Man's Salvation lye at stake And so the People dash themselves in pieces about their several Opinions like so many Potsherds rather than themselves be found in a mistake or venture to encounter with a difficulty The which they know they must do without they have orders from Authority and an agreement among themselves For altho' most of all the Teachers are in some one thing more right than the other yet the height of Man's mind is so great that they will not in the least yield one to the other For tho' the greatest part of the Church of England are righter than the Dissenting party in some things yet in some other things the Dissenting party is righter than they In that they ingage none in Oaths at Baptism And also that they do not now allow any Lord-like dignities in the Church And as for either Pope or Devil as far as they own the Truth all that have the true fear of God before their Eyes are bound to acknowledge it But the Protestants are not willing to own there is a Redemption in the World to come because the Papists and Jews own there is a returning for some from the place of Punishment but the place of Separation will not be found the Popes Purgatory for the Priests to pray them out for a piece of Money For as the Tree falls there it lies till the Judge's time is to remove it And to prove that there is a Redemption for some in the Worl● to come I shall only here cite two or three Quotations of Scripture out of many for brevity sake● First that Israel whom God hath concluded in unbelief when the Lord again comes will be delivered out of the Pit wherein there is no Water Zech. 9 11. The which are now Prisoners of hope vers 12. Rom. 11.26 32. And the Children that were Slain by Herod will then return from the Land of the Enemy to their own Border Jer. 31.15 16 17. Mat. 2.18 Isa 49.9 Isa 24.22 1 Tim. 1.20 Chap. 2.5 6. Chap. 4.9 10. The word All in Scripture doth not include the whole but it doth the major part I desire the Teachers of all parties not to be offended for I am to speak the Truth of all sides Some say that I do not write in a Scholastick method and that I heap Scriptures one upon the Back of another As for writing in a Scholastick method I never desire to do it for by that method any one may turn the Scriptures as a Nose of Wax which way they please and as for my heaping Scriptures together it i● the only way to make the true meaning of the Wor● appear what it is when I have a Cloud of Witnesse● to prove what I affirm and likewise mak● plain to the understanding what did first see● by slight examination to appear to be anothe● thing than what it really is for the Bible hang● one upon another from Genesis to the Revelations an● by making plainly appear that all the Prophesie● and Christ and the Apstoles do agree in one and th● same thing it is the most Convincing way to confir● the Truth of the Scriptures and to bring the Pe●ple into a right understanding of the same the whi●… by the Scholastick way the Learned Scholars take 〈◊〉 with it is impossible for them to do should th●… live to the Age of Methusalem I hope the wise Heart will consider these things FINIS