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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
head_n	body_n	member_n	mystical_a	10,421	5	11.0632	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A91916	Divisions cut in pieces by the svvord of the Lord: or, A discourse on a text of Scripture, of the unlawfulness of divisions in the Church of God, upon the highest pretences whatsoever. By John Rocket, minister of the Word at Hickling in Nottingham-shire.	Rocket, John.	1650 (1650)	Wing R1764; Thomason E593_18; ESTC R206903	50,803	87

and languages without separation or distinction being called are to hold communion Shee is frequently compared to a body as in this Epistle not as in reference to Christ their Head as in Ephes 5. but in reference one to another as members 1. All the members are firmly knit by sinews 2. What gifts that any have the rest partake of 3. There is need of the weakest And here I must insert a Storie much used There were oft grievous broiles betwixt the Commons and Nobles of Rome Livius Decad 1. l. 7. Mr. Par. in Rom. 12.4 once among the rest when the people had banded themselves and the Common-wealth in great danger the Senate sent unto the people one Menenius Agrippa a famous Orator to perswade them He tells them this Parable On a time saith he the members of the body objected against the stomack that it devoured all and idlely and sluggishly lay in the midst of the body while the rest of the members laboured full sore whereupon the foot refused to stir and carry the stomack the hand refused to put meat into the mouth the mouth to receive it the teeth to chew it c. what followed the stomack being empty the eie began to be dim the hand weak the feet feeble all the members began to faint and the whole body to wither so that at last they were compelled to be friends with the stomack and they learned that the stomack is the most profitable to all the members of the body and by this parable he quieted the people and brought them to concord with the Senate and so ought it to be in the Church Again let us look upon the Epithites given to her Friends not only to Christ but to one another Brethren begat of the same word bound together per eadem sacramenta unitatis and having subdued the Egyptian that would have enslaved you will you kill one another not only heirs but co-heirs of one Kingdome whereof we hear of no division Nay to make up all Shee is called one not onely one by way of distinction Vritas Distinguens Conjungens because the Concubines that pretend some right to Christ are many the Papist the Jacobite c. and those that quite abominate Christ are many the Jew Turk Persian c. and she is but one from and out of all these but one perfectly one in her self having one God c. All these laid together they conspire nothing but unity and are they that are of the Church nay the Church yet divided what the persecutors in the Primitive dayes made you seem to be by putting on you Bears skins c. you really act on one another to your power by putting on you their hearts and affections You are Heirs of heaven but do you expect to stand before Christ as Paul's or Apollo's his disciples Will you appear as of this or that sect or Church no no I am afraid ere then many of your works must be burnt and that by fire and it s well if some of you escape it for your works are very rotten and counterfeit Oh therefore you that professe the true Church agree of one way before you appear before the Head of this Church for I would say to such as the Apostle 2 Cor. 10.7 Do ye look on things after the outward appearance if any man trust to himself that he is Christs let him of himself think this again that as he is Christs even so we are Christs And sure if we belong to one Christ why should we be of two Churches hath he two Nay conclude this from the nature and constitution of the Church For the Apostle saith 1 Cor. 11.1 Be yee followers of me even as I also am of Christ 2. Let us look upon the Church in reference unto Christ Shee is a Queen having a garment of divers colours of needle-work yet all these colours these gifts so excellently are placed that they make up that one garment and her very beautifull in the Kings eyes Called a flock washed and even shorn not scattered but in one sheepfold and all these bringing forth twins The House of God Doth the God of peace dwell in the midst of you There is one head and one body one Spouse and one Husband one Shepherd and one Flock one Lord and one way Eph. 4.1 I therefore the prisoner of the Lord beseech you that ye walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called Mark what he exhorts us unto viz. a walking answerable to our calling And what more answers Truth then Unity as the natural daughter of the mother and that is shewed ver 2 3 4 With all lowliness and meekness with long-suffering forbearing one another in love Endeavouring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace There is one body c. and he shews the means of preserving this by using our gifts to this end ver 7. But unto every one of us is given grace according to the measure of the gift of Christ Though all one in substance yet different in gifts yet this difference not to make difference but to maintain joyntly the unity of the whole ver 12. And then he applyes this doctrine of Unity by way of dehortation ver 14. and exhortation and direction ver 15 16. Nay more cannot be said then by the Apostle Hebr. 2.11 He that sanctifieth and they who are sanctified are all of one for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brethren And sure that vertue whereby we are made one with Christ should make us all as one God the Father so preserved our Saviour that his coat was undivided and not a bone broken and such should be his mystical coat the Discipline of his Church and his mystical body his members in the truth of Jesus Those then that will keep close to Christ need to keep close to his Church He is the fountain stop the fountain where are the streams He is the root that gives sap onely to the branches uncut off Surely Beloved we stop the fountain head we cut our selves from Christ if wee leave the body of Christ we indeed lose our relation to Christ wholly And that you may see whether it be not so that you lose Christ in losing his spouse his body search and deal with your selves impartially and know of your selves since your divisions 1. Whether softnes of heart and tendernesse of conscience be not lessened 2. Whether duties of holy practise be not neglected 3. Whether when thou hast thoughts to rejoyne pride in much strength and power appears in thee 4. Whether the very reall warmth of true affection to godly Ministers brethren and naturall friends if not in thy division be not decayed 5. Whether much confusion be not in thy thoughts 6. Whether sound knowledge saving light that brings peace and joy on sure grounds be increased in thee 7. Whether yet thy mind flotes not whethou makest a period in thy present division and there