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grace_n	bring_v	salvation_n	ungodliness_n	2,454	5	11.7039	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A34096	An exhortation of the churches of Bohemia to the Church of England wherein is set forth the good of unity, order, discipline, and obedience in churches rightly now, or to be constituted : with a description premised of the order and discipline used in the churches of the Brethren of Bohemia / by J. Amos Commenius.	Comenius, Johann Amos, 1592-1670.	1661 (1661)	Wing C5507; ESTC R27266	107,538	185

those mysteries of Christianity are commonly not at all or negligently taught thence it is that most Christians know not what 't is to be Christians much less are such indeed Adam sways all Christ very few because very few endeavour to put off the old man and to put on the new which is created after God and to be transformed into him and made one Spirit with him 1 Cor. 6.17 and so to become by regeneration the Sons of God and to cease from sin as he doth When as notwithstanding the grace of God which bringeth salvation in Christ hath appeared to all men that denying ungodliness and worldly lusts we may live soberly righteously and godly in this present world looking for that blessed hope of glory at the appearance of Jesus Christ who hath given himself for us to redeem us from all iniquity and to purifie us to himself a peculiar people zealously studious of good works Tit. 2. Therefore it is to be earnestly desired and endeavoured that Christians would at last begin seriously to be a people renouncing the world resigned to God having their commoration indeed for a while on earth but their conversation in heaven Phil. 3.10 Thus as touching the salvation of the Church I have let you understand from § 30. hitherto my desires yea the desires of Christ and all the Saints in heaven and earth and now because there is no effect without its cause and what God ordinarily doth he doth by ordinary means Men I demand now if we saw God at this day looking about for a man which should stop the gap and stand up in the breach he were like to finde any such and whether if he found none he would not pour down the fiery storm of his wrath as of old he did Ezek. 22.30 31. Or if we heard him say Whom shall I send Who will go for us whether or no there will be found an Isaiah which may say Behold here am I send me Jsa 6.8 God have mercy and send some not Jsaiah's only which should in speaking be nothing else but for a witness to further hardness of heart and ruine ib. v. 9. c. but also Elias's which may turn the heart of the Fathers to the children c. Matth. 4.4 O stir up also David's and Solomon's Jehosaphat's and Josias's Zerubbabel's and Constantine's c. to be glorious repairers of the collapsed ruinous condition of the Church And wheresoever in all the world God shall vouchsafe to raise up such they will also in like manner daigne God this honour as to do nothing but according to the prescript of his Will because this is no work of man to be done after the wisdom of man but his who said to Moses Look to it and do according to the pattern which I have shewed unto thee Exod. 25. v. 40. and to Joshua Turn not aside to the right hand or to the left Josh 1.7 That therefore they may be assured and the faithful people with them that 't is the Lord which repaireth his own house they must take that of the Lord for an everlasting rule It was not thus in the beginning Matth. 19.8 i. e. Have a care that that which is not of Divine Institution but contrary thereunto be taken away Matth. 15.13 and what ever is instituted by God but through carelesness of man neglected or hath by guile been changed be restored Matth. 5.17 c. Let things indifferent remain indifferent i. e. things which only custome hath brought in if they be not prejudicial to piety be patiently born and not without urgent necessity taken away Another thing to be piously observed is That nothing be done by Tumult and Violence against the consent of the Church or any part thereof but by the common counsel and consent lest there be given occasion of new breaches Wise is that counsel of wise Elihu Let us chuse us out judgement and see among our selves what is best Job 34.4 Out of which place it is plain 1. That it cannot be otherwise but that men somtimes will be of different apprehensions 2. 'T is not alwayes necessary that they must be divided there being given to men a liberty of choice as to the debating and determining of their affairs 3. That that determination may and ought to be done patiently or peaceably and with a rational deliberation The best way then is when any controversie arises as there are too many arisen among us that the parties be called together and patiently heard and reason compared with reason Scripture with Scripture until coming to the bottome of the thing there remains nothing to any which he can justly desire or rationally contradict I was upon it before § 35. to wish that some greater and more famous Church would try to undertake the business viz. of a more full and holy Reformation then can hitherto be found and I cannot give it over in as much as a beginning must some where and by some be made if we expect a Change of Christianity for the better Now because there is no Church to be seen under the whole Heaven which hath more eyes upon it and which is better supplyed with meanes conducing to so great an affaire nor where there doth sway a more adventuring zeale to seek out the things which are best nor yet to whom God hath given such excellent opportunities as are found in the Church of England I addresse therefore again to thee thou Spouse of Christ and shall pray for happy successe to attend thy proceedings Verily O thou English Church thou art indeed in this our Age a City set upon an Hill which cannot be hid Mat. 5.14 where Christ the light of the World darts his brightest beames and wherein so many lightened Candles Books of profound spirituall wisdome have been held forth in their Candlesticks That of your light so many Christian Nations borrow their light reading your books and striving frequently to translate them into their own Tongues that what the Apostle in his time said of his Thessalonians may be said of you The Gospel of God is amongst you not in word only but in power and in the holy Ghost even in much abundance and you are become the patterns to all that believe 1 Thess 1.5 7. Which grace we must not envie in you but pray for your increase therein and imitate the zeal of your piety I said that you were supplyed with means of a further Reformation before others because you having framed among you now for the space of an whole age Meditations of all the Mysteries of the Kingdom of God and printed Books of all such kinde of subjects you seem to have done as Solomon did the first six years when he was to build his glorious Temple unto God seeking to get stuff in a readiness felling Wood in Libanus squaring Stones casting Vessels and carrying together Gold and precious Stones for the glory of the House of God As therefore the setting up of this at