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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
ground_n	hear_v	receive_v	word_n	3,147	5	5.3302	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A86482	Certain queres modestly (though plainly) propounded to such as affect the congregational-way, and specially to Master Samuel Eaton and Mr. Timothy Taylor. With an epistle also directed to them concerning their late book intituled A defence of sundry positions, &c. / By Richard Hollingworth, Mancuniensis.	Hollingworth, Richard, 1607-1656.	1646 (1646)	Wing H2488; Thomason E316_16; ESTC R200531; ESTC R233855	20,720	31

publike Worship be lawful and useful or no Are these Offices grounded on Scripture or on Reason or the light of Nature Hath God any where forbidden that he that exerciseth those Offices of Presidency or Moderatorship c. in one Synod should exercise them in the next and in the third fourth c. while he is willing able faithful in discharge of his duty and is thereunto elected and approved Is not the preaching of the Word the highest and hardest part of the Ministerial Function in respect of which Paul saith Who is sufficient for these things And if so by what warrant do private men unfit for the meanest Office in the Ministery so ordinarily and presumptuously usurp it and yet are justified by some of you How dare non-Elders which have no commission from Christ to Preach and Baptize nor power to receive maintenance usually and publikely preach the Word in the Congregations and receive maintenance for the same Do not they themselves sin and all they which usually hear and maintain them in their way especially such as may hear true Ministers as able and as faithful men as they Hath not any in the Congregation by their own grounds as much authority to preach and receive maintenance if the Congregation judge him gifted and desire it Doth the absence or dissent of some or of the minor part of the Congregation disannul the election of an Officer admission excommunication c of a member or other Church-proceedings or is the minor part bound to rest in the vote of the major part though contrary to their own judgements or must they separate from the Church in case they conceive the major part doth sin in such election admission c. lest they be leavened Are not all bound in conscience ordinarily to hear their own Ministers which themselves or their husbands or parents or the major part of the religious in their Congregation did either elect or afterward consent and freely submit to which after consent in the case of Leah was enough to make a Marriage Or is every Christian notwithstanding this at liberty to hear whomsoever and whensoever they please even upon Sabbath days when they conceive he is bound to preach Were not husbands wives and children alway of one and the same Church Doth the vote of the husband or his joyning to this or that true Church include the vote and joyning of his wife and children under his Government Is it not then a disorderly unscriptural practice that husbands should be of one true Church and wives and that often without their husbands privity of another and children possibly of a third Can an example of the like be shewed Can Masters of Families in such a case take that care that those that are under their Government do sanctifie the Sabbath which by the moral Law of God they are obliged to take when one go's one way another a second another a third Whether there be any precept or president in Scripture for suspension of any member of a particular Church or Congregation from the Sacrament of the Lords Supper who is not at the same time cast out of the Church and where is it Whether any greater degree of knowledge and sanctity ought to be required from any before we admit them to the Sacrament then Christ required of all those which he admitted to it if so great a degree may be required considering what men they were and what means they enjoyed Doth the Scripture contain in it any precept president or warrant that a man should refuse to communicate where either the Presbytery or Congregation are remisse in Discipline and admit such to the Sacrament as in his judgement are not fit Was every particular Corinthian by communicating guilty of that grosse profanation of the Sacrament by the Incestuous person though in his place he as it is like some few did laboured to reform it and mourned for what he could not mend Is not the instance of Achan for Relative guilt more sutable to the Israclites as a Camp then as a Congregation and as valid against fighting in an Army as against communicating in an Assembly where wicked men are admitted May a man under pretence that he abhorreth Idols commit sacriledge that is in Scripture phrase rob Churches or Temples of that which belongs to them and convert to private use things he never bought or bargain'd for nor is the propriety of them legally in him but in others because he falsly conceiteth or suppose truely that they were at first idolatrously and superstitiously dedicated to God Is gain godlinesse Doth this Reformation savour of Conscionablenesse or Covetousnesse Is there now adays any such sin as Sacriledge and what is it Whether the practice of every humane Invention suppose those mentioned in these Queres prove such or the practice of every humane Institution used by the Papists suppose celebrating and receiving the Lords Supper before dinner in unleavened bread bare headed c. be such though accompanied with sincere hatred and solemn renunciation of the Papacie and Popery be the mark of the Beast Can they that receive the mark of the Beast be saved without explicite knowledge of it and particular repentance for it Is that the mark of the Beast in one Age that is not in another Was there not both Pastors and People during all the rage and reign of Antichrist which did not receive the mark of the Beast but their Fathers name and were Virgins and yet did live and die in the practise of some Traditions used by the Papists Can it be said either with truth or charity that the reformed Churches or Waldenses Albigenses c. which were more corrupt then they did or do receive the mark of the Beast and who is he that can or will justifie this accusation Whether notwithstanding the apparent differences between the Apostolike Churches and ours the Jewish Ceremonies being then scarce dead or at least not buried their Civil customs differing from ours the Church being then but in gathering from amongst Heathens and Jews under Heathenish and Jewish persecuting Magistrates and endued with extraordinary gifts and offices which is not our case the Rites and ●eremonies Practices and Usages of the Apostolike times be unalterably binding to all after-ages Doth Christ's faithfulnesse above Moses consist in a more particular and punctual determination of all externals of Gods Worship in the New Testament then was given by Moses in the Old Are the times and days of Baptism and the Eucharist as plain as the days and times of Circumcision and the Passeover the place of meeting with the utensils c. Is the particular way how maintenance should be given to the Ministery as punctually prescribed in the New Testament as in the Old or the place of c. Where in Scripture is that glorious title of The Kingdom of Christ applied to the external policie of the Church and of all other ways of Church-Government to the Congregational-way onely and