Selected quad for the lemma: honour_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
honour_n	abundant_a	body_n	member_n	1,662	5	10.0159	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A26983	A petition for peace with the reformation of the liturgy, as it was presented to the right reverend bishops, by the divines appointed by His Majesties commission to treat with them about the alteration of it.	Baxter, Richard, 1615-1691.	1661 (1661)	Wing B1343; ESTC R39870	94,803	106

be done till those that are strong do bear the infirmities of the weak and please not themselves but every one of us please his neighbour for his good to edification instead of vilifying him or undoing him and till instead of casting each others out of the Church or Ministry on the account of things indifferent wee received one another as Christ received us to the glory of God Rom. 15. 1 2 6 7. and till wee are thus like-minded one towards another according to Christ Jesus vers 5. instead of being selfishly minded as men or maliciously as enemies 1 Cor. 3. 3. 1 Cor. 14. 20. Col. 3. 8. Titus 3. 3. If the very Babes were fed with the sincere Milk of the Word and all malice and guile and hypocrisie and envies and evil-speaking were laid aside it would prove the best way to their growth and a surer way to your present and eternal peace than casting them out because they cannot bear your burdens or digest some unnecessary things 1 Pet. 2. 1 2 3. How good and how happy a thing would it bee for Brethren to dwell together in unity Psal 133. 1. And as those that by one spirit are baptized into one body and know they have need of one another to contribute honour to the parts that lack it yea to bestow more abundant honour upon those members which wee think to be less honourable and more abundant comliness on the uncomely parts as knowing those members are necessary that seem to be more feeble If indeed wee would have no Schism in the body the natural way is for the members to have the same care one for another as suffering all with one that suffereth and rejoycing all with one that 's honoured 1 Cor. 12. 12 13 21 22 23 24 25 26. Take their sufferings as your own and you will not be hasty to bring them unto suffering It must be the Primitive Simplicity of Faith Worship and Discipline that must restore the Primitive Charity Unity and Peace and make the multitude of Beleevers to bee of one heart and of one soul and to converse with gladness and singleness of heart as having all things common Act. 4. 32. 2. 46. No such things as our controverted Impositions were then made necessary to the unity and concord of the members of the Church 18. And wee humbly offer to your consideration which way will most gratifie Satan in his cause and servants and which will most promote the work and interest of Jesus Christ The ungodly that have an inbred enmity to holiness and to the holy seed will bee glad to see so many of them suffer and glad under the shelter of your displeasure and afflictings to finde opportunity to reproach them and add affliction to affliction The common adversaries of our Religion and of the King and Kingdome will rejoyce to see us weakned by our Divisions and employed in afflicting or censuring one another and to see so many able Ministers laid aside that might do much displeasure to Satan by the weakening of his Kingdome and by promoting the Gospel and Kingdome of the Lord. And whether this will tend to the edification of the Saints and the pleasing of Christ wee have inquired before 19. And if what you stand for bee indeed of God this course of unmerciful imposition is the greatest wrong to it that you can easily bee drawn to unawars while somany truly fearing God are cast out or trodden down and tempted to think ill of that which themselves and the Church thus suffer by and when so many of the worst befriend this way because it gratifieth them it tendeth to make your Cause judged of according to the quality of its friends and adversaries And how great a hand this very thing hath had already in the dislike of that is befallen Diocesans Ceremonies and the Liturgie is a thing too generally known to need proof 20. Lastly wee repeat what formerly wee have said that the Holy Ghost hath already so plainly decided the point in controversie in the instance of meats and daies Rom 14. 15. that it seemeth strange to us that yet it should remain a Controversie A weak Brother that maketh an unnecessary difference of meats and daies is not to bee cast out but so to bee received and not to bee troubled with such doubtful disputations Despising and judging the servants of the Lord whom hee receiveth and can make to stand and that upon such small occasion is unbeseeming true Beleevers vers 1 2 3 4 5. All should bee here left to the full perswasion of their own minde vers 5. Both parties here acknowledgeth the soveraignty of Christ and in observing or not observing such things they do it all to him vers 6 7 8 9. his judgement should affright us from despising or judging one another vers 10 11 12. instead of judging others wee should judge it our duty that none of us put a stumbling block or occasion to fall in his Brothers way vers 13. If wee grieve those that esteem that unclean which we do not wee walk not charitably destroy not the work of God nor him for whom Christ died by your indifferent things vers 14 15 20. It is evil to him that judgeth it to be evil vers 14 20. Do you beleeve these things to bee indifferent have this belief to your self before God and condemn not your selves in that which you allow vers 22. your Brother is damned if hee practise doubtingly for whatsoever is not of Faith is sin vers 23. and you drive him upon damnation Wee may well conclude then that it is good even your selves to avoid such things unnecessary by which your Brother stumbleth is offended or made weak vers 21. Much more to forbear the forcing them upon him which those that the Apostle reproveth did not attempt It is the Kingdome of God that wee must all promote and that Kingdome consisteth not in meat or drink but in righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Ghost And hee that in these things serveth Christ is acceptable to God and should bee approved of men vers 17 18. Let us therefore follow after the things which make for peace and things wherewith one may Edifie another verse 19. If you say Rulers imposition maketh indifferent things cease to be indifferent Wee answer 1. They are not indifferent in the judgement of dissenters though they bee so in yours 2. Paul was a Ruler of the Church himself and yet would deny his own Liberty rather than offend the weak so far was hee from taking away the liberty of others 1 Cor. 8. 13. And it is to the Church of Rome and Corinth and so to the Pastours as well as the rest that Paul thus writeth Wee beseech you therefore plead not Law against us when our request is that you will joyn with us in Petitioning to his Majesty and the Parliament that there may bee no such Law The Apostles and Elders Act. 15. 28. declare unto