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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
england_n	call_v	church_n	name_n	2,831	5	5.3453	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A66418	A sermon preached at the Northampton-shire feast, November 8, 1683 being the first general meeting of such citizens and inhabitants in London, as were born within that county / by John Williams ...	Williams, John, 1636?-1709.	1684 (1684)	Wing W2725; ESTC R7241	20,162	36

temper yet it too much entertained is and cherished amongst them and no sooner can persons come together upon any good and worthy design than they become clans and Parties amongst themselves and what were intended and should have been the means of a happy Union have become the woful Nurseries of discord and Dissension But Beloved whatever may have been the sad fate of others I hope better things of you and that you that are of the same Country by Birth the same City by Habitation and meet by joynt consent upon so generous and Christian a design of Charity will take all due care to prevent and banish from amongst you all such evil principles of Faction and Turbulency and avoid all such provocations as may obstruct it and take you off from the just prosecution of it That you that in the first place profess to honour God by your appointed Assembly here for Divine Worship and in the next to do good to others will do both by an happy Union amongst your selves And therefore since there is nothing perhaps that doth more cherish and keep up our differences than new invented names which I shall not so far honour as to mention in this Holy Place and Service by which those that were really no otherwise distinguished are too often distinguished and that men may and do too much apply to the wrong as to the right let it be your resolution and practice to lay them aside and leave them in the Streets without giving them admission into your Society That there may be no others than what will in conversation distinguish an Honest man from a Knave in the State a Loyal person from a Rebel And I wish there were no need of any more in the Church than what would distinguish a Protestant from a Papist or rather that there were no such distinction at all but that we all might return to the primitive state and temper when all of the same Religion were known by the one name of Christians and the Church of God all the World over being purged from bad principles Superstition and Idolatry truly so called which at present distinguish and divide the Church of Rome from the Church of England and from other Reformed Churches and from all Schism and Faction that divide us amongst our selves we may come to be one Fold and Flock under the one Shepherd and Bishop of our Souls the Blessed Jesus Joh. 10.16 1 Pet. 2.25 But though this is a State of things that we may rather desire than expect and is not to be brought about without the wonderful Providence of Almighty God yet let us next to our Prayers that this Kingdom of God may come use our endeavour to make up the differences that are amongst us an effectual obstruction thereunto This is a work may become the wisest of men and will indeed try the Skill of those that are most acquainted with the passions of humane Nature and the State of Affairs in the World to prosecute and Accomplish when notwithstanding all the attempts made toward it it has yet remained for the most part as it was And therefore when all the Arguments taken from Divine Moral or Political reasons have not succeeded why should we not try that which is Artificial which may serve as Mechanical ways do in some Operations where Rational and Methodical Applications fail When a Prince of the Family of Orange was stab'd by the Murtherous hand of a flagitious Assasin and all the Art and Medicines the Chyrurgions could use stop'd not the Flux of Blood that Issued from the Orifice of the Wound they took another way and stop'd it with the pressure of mens Thumbs till they had turned the course of Blood And when we see that all the means and prescriptions used by good men amongst us cannot stop the Flux of that Virulent humour of strife and contention let us try the artificial way before proposed and obstinately resolve to forbear such Names as may well be conceived do add no little fuel and flame to our dissensions Those names I say that divide between the Honest and the Honest the Peaceable and the Peaceable the Loyal and the Loyal and those that are of the same Communion and Church from those that are in all points of that Communion This is a course that all may observe the Simple as well as the Gentle and he that understands little of the State of Humane affairs as well as he that understands much And therfore if it be a means proper thereunto no Christian should and no one that wishes well unto our Sion and prays for the Peace of Jerusalem will omit Now whether this be a means proper or no becomes not me to be magisterial and positive in since it is a means rather Prudential than Theological but I shall leave it to the Judgement of all Pious and Peaceable persons to consider and the Experience of Mankind to answer for And that I shall produce a most eminent example of from the History of Italy The story of the Guelfs and Gibellines is well known to the World and the sad state of things that issued upon it Some say though probably it was otherwise that the dispute began betwixt two Brothers of those names the one contending for the right of the Emperour the other for that of the Pope But it soon set City against City Province against Province and one part of the people so against another that they had not only different Ensigns in War but divers Garments Colours and Gestures nay they took a pleasure to be distinguished by certain motions of their Fingers and Mouths And being thus distinguished the Animosities remained after the first cause was removed and notwithstanding all attempts made toward a pacification they pursued one another with such inveterate Rage Vt ferme ad internecionem certatum sit saith an excellent Historian that it wanted little of an universal slaughter Thus it continued for above two Hundred Years and perhaps had longer continued if there had not been some other way taken for the extinction of that Flame that for such a long current of years had been thus pernicious Which was put in prosecution by Pope Clement the 6 th who ordained that the names of the Guelfs and Gibellines should be held accursed and those be excommunicated that should use them by way of of distinction and reproach And so the names falling the contention by degrees fell with the names And why may it not be so again and that be done by a general consent amongst all Pious and Peaceable persons which was done by a decree of the Pope And I pray God it may be so amongst us that no Corrupt Communication proceed out of our Mouth but that we may conclude this advice with the following words of the Apostle Let all bitterness and Wrath and Anger and Clamour and Evil speaking be put away from you with all Malice And be you kind one to another forgiving