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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
friend_n	adversity_n	bear_v	brother_n	812	5	7.0506	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A77504	The mystical brasen serpent: with the magnetical vertue thereof. or, Christ exalted upon the cross, with the blessed end and fruit of that his exaltation, in drawing the elect world to himself, to believe on Him, and to be saved by Him. In two treatises, from John 3. 14, 15. 12. 32. Whereunto is added A treatise of the saints joint-membership each with other. As they were delivered to the Church of God at Great Yarmouth, by John Brinsley, minister of the gospel, and preacher to that incorporation. Imprimatur, Edm. Calamy. July 30. 1652.	Brinsley, John, 1600-1665.	1653 (1653)	Wing B4719; Thomason E1249_1; ESTC R208891	155,986	284

our Saviour tels us is to be looked for when the blind lead the blind Matth. 15.14 a blind teacher a blind people that both should fall into the ditch The worst office that one member can do to another And therefore let Christians beware of it and upon that account taking heed of usurping that office which belongs not to them 3. There is a lying in fact 3. In fact defrauding one another when the members of the Church shall hide themselves one from another A thing expresly prohibited Isai 58.7 Thou shalt not hide thy self from thine own flesh i. e. turne away thy face from thy brother in his need as taking no notice of him and his condition This should not Christians do from any they being of one flesh with themselves much lesse from their Brethren such as are knit unto them in spirituall Relations such was Peters deniall of his Master whom at his Arraignment first he would not own and afterwards for-sware Matth. 26.70 72 74. And such was the dealing of Pauls friends and companions with him of whom he complaines that at his appearing before Nero None stood by him all forsook him 2 Tim. 4.16 Even as Davids friends dealt by him of whom hee complaines Psalm 38.11 My lovers and my friends stand aloofe from my sore and my kinsmen stand afar off This is a deceiving a kind of lying one to another Church-Benevolence not to be with-held And so is it when Christians shall defraud one another by with-holding one from another that which is their due Thus Paul would not have Husband and wife to defraud one another 1 Cor. 7.5 viz. by withholding one from another a due Conjugall Benevolence Let not Christians do the like by with-holding one from another a due Church-Benevolence Thus did Ananias and Sapphira lye unto God and man as Peter chargeth it upon them Acts 5.4 when they kept back part of the price of their possession which they pretended to come and lay down at the Apostles feet for the Churches use And truely little better do they to whom God having given a larger portion of this worlds goods yet doe not communicate unto their poor brethren in some measure proportionably It was Pauls order to his Corinthians 1 Cor. 16.2 that upon the first day of the week the Lords Day every one should lay by somewhat in store for the poor as God hath prospered them Now should any herein have dissembled either laying by nothing or nothing proportionable to what God had blessed them with this had been a kind of lying both to God and to their Brethren And so is it when men pretending to contribute to the necessities of the poor in a publick Congregation shall choose out the worst of their Coyne clipt or counterfeit not regarding what it be for quantity or quality so it will but ring in the Bason What is this but for Christians to lye one to another Now surely were it to give an almes to Prisoners in the Grate or Dungeon the worst of malefactours either give what is good and sweet or give not at all How much more to Fellow-members Surely the members of the naturall Body would not so deale one by another Should a portion of bread or meat be put into the hand it would not with-hold it from the craving mouth and hungry belly And why because they are members one of another And so are Christians being Church-members they are members one of another And therefore let them not defraud one another of what in this way is their due a due Church-Benevolence Nor yet deceiving the trust reposed each in other Like false friends Trust not to be deceived which prove like staves of Reed to those that trust in them as the Prophet compares Egypt Isai 36.6 Or as Brooks in the Summer It is Jobs comparison Job 6.15 My brethren have dealt deceitfully as a brook and as the stream of Brooks they passe away Job hoped to have had some comfort from his kindred and friends whom there he calleth his Brethren in the time of his adversity a brother is born for adversity Prov. 17.17 but then they failed him like brooks in the Summer when he had most need of them so deceiving whatever trust or confidence hee had reposed in them let not Christians so deale one by another The members of the naturall Body will not do it The legs will not willingly deceive the body which rests upon them But I hasten 4. And Lastly There is a lying in life and conversation 4. In life and conversation Hypocriticall Dissembling which in one word is Hypocrisie When men shall onely act a part in the Church seeming to others to be what they are not This will not Gods people do They are children that will not lie Isai 63.8 They will not play the grosse hypocrites But so do many in the visible Church who are no better then as glassen eyes and wooden legs and armes to the naturall Body which are onely tied on by some outward bonds and ligaments having no life in them Such are there many who out of some by and sinister respects cleave unto the body hold communion with the people of God but they are nothing lesse in truth then in appearance They are among them but not of them as Saint John maketh the distinction 1 John 2.19 Such were the Scribes and Pharisees in the Jewish Church and such ever have been and will be in the Christian Church Though persons openly profane may be and shall be shut out Rev. 21.27 yet Hypocrites some or other will keep in Such as have a form of Godlinesse but no power no life no truth of piety in them such as deceive themselves nay such as knowing themselves yet deceive others grosse Hypocrites such as joyn themselves to the Church putting on a vizard of publick Profession meerly for private advantage Now what is this but for the members of this Body to lie one to another which being members one of another their reciprocall Relation forbids them to do Thus have you seen some few of many negative Instructions which may be by way of inference deduced from this consideration of the Saints Joint-membership wherein you have seen what Christians should not doe Come we now to the later sort to positive Instructions to see what they ought to do Are Church-members thus members one of another Positive Instructions Then let them be admonished and exhorted to give such mutuall respects Mutuall respects to be given by Church-Members each to other one to another as are due upon the account of this Reciprocall Relation These I shall referre to two heads They are Inward or outward Affections or Offices expressing those affections Let Christians bear the one and perform the other and that in a mutuall way as being members one of another Begin we with the former Inward respects 1. Inward Respects Affections which ought to bee mutuall and reciprocall betwixt these joynt-members This