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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	aaron_n	bid_v	consecrate_v	30	3	9.6184	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A00796	A treatise of faith wherin is briefely, and planly [sic] shewed, a direct way, by which every man may resolue, and settle his minde, in all doubtes, questions, or controuersies, concerning matters of faith.	Fisher, John, 1569-1641.	1605 (1605)	STC 10915.5; ESTC S2122	65,176	166

they can perswade thēselues to haue that faith which is necessarie to saluation sith they will not admitt the authoritie and doctrine of this Church of which onely they ought to learne this faith or how they can as some of them doe challenge to themselues the title of the true Church sith their companie hath neuer one of the foure markes which by common consent of all must needes be acknowledged for the true markes of the Church how can their congregation be the true Church which neither is One because it hath no meanes to keepe vnitie nor Holy because neither was there euer any man of it which by miracle or any other euident testimony can be proued to haue beene truely holy neither is their doctrine such as those that must purely obserue it do without faile thereby become holy nor Catholique because it teacheth not all truths that haue beene held by the vniuersal Church in former times but denieth many of them neither is it spred ouer all the Christian world but being deuided into diuers sectes euery particular secte is contained in some corner of the world neither hath it beene in all times euer since Christ but sproung vp of late the first founder being Martin Luther an Apostata a man after his Apostasie from his professed religious order knowen both by his writings wordes deedes manner of death to haue beene a notable ill liuer nor Apostolique because the preachers thereof can not deriue their Pedegree lineally without interruption from any Apostle but are forced to beginne their line if they will haue any from Luther Caluin or some latter How can they then bragge that they haue the true holy Catholique and Aphstolique faith sith this is not found in any companie that differeth in doctrine from the onely true holy Catholique and Apostolique Church For if it be true which Saint Austen faith that in ventre Ecclesiae veritas manet the truth remaineth in the bellie of the Church it is impossible that those who are disioined by difference of beleefe from that companie which is knowen to bee the true Church should haue the true faith For true faith as before hath bene proued is but one wherefore hee that differreth in beleefe from them which haue the true faith either he must haue a false faith or no faith at all Againe one can not haue true faith vnles he first heare it according to the ordinarie rule of Saint Paule saying Fides ex auditu faith cōmeth of hearing but how can one heare true doctrine of faith sine praedicante without one to preach truely vnto him how shold one preach truely at least in all points nisi mittatur vnles he be sent and consequently assisted by the Spiritt of God now how should wee know that Luther or Caluin or any other that will leape out of the Church and leaue that company wherein is vndoubted succession and by succession lawfull missiō or sending from God how should we I say know that these men teaching a new and contrary doctrine were indeede sent of God Nay certainely wee may be most sure that they were not sent of God For sith Almightie God hath by his Sonne planted a Church vpon earth which Church hee would haue alwaies continue vntill the worldes end hath placed in it a visible succession of lawful ordinary pastours whom hee will with the assistance of himselfe and his holy Spirit so guide that they shall neuer vniuersally faile to teach the true faith and to preserue the people from errours wee are not now to expect any to bee sent from God to instruct the people but such onely as come in this ordinary manner by lawfull succession order and calling according as Saint Paule saith Nec quisquā sumit sibi honorem sed qui vocatur à Deo tanquam Aaron Neither doth any man take to himselfe the honour but hee that is called of God as Aaron was to wit visibly and with peculiar consecration as we read in Leuiticus cap. 8. to which accordeth that which wee read 2. Paralipp cap. 26. where Azarias said to king Ozias Non est tui officij Ozia vt adoleas incensum Domino sed Sacerdotum hoc est filiorum Aaron qui consecrati sunt ad huiusmodi ministerium egredere de Sanctuario c. It is not thy office O Ozias to offer incense to our Lord but it is the office of Priests to witte of the sonnes of Aaron who are consecrated to this function or ministerie goe out of the Sanctuarie Which bidding when Ozias contēned would not obey he was presently stricken with a leprosie and then being terrified feeling the punishment inflicted by our Lord he hastened away as in the same place is declared By which places we may learne that it doth not belong to any one to doe priestly functions as to offer incēse or sacrifice to God or take vpon thē the auctoritie to preach and instruct the people but onely to Priests called visibly and cōsecrated for this peculiar purpose as Aaron and his children were For though the Priesthood of the Pastors of the new law be not Aaronicall yet it agreeth with the Priesthood of Aaron according to Saint Paule his saying in the foresaid place in this that those that come to it must not take the honour of themselues but must be called vnto it of God as Aaron was to wit visibly by peculiar cōsecration In which ordinary manner whosoeuer commeth he may be truely called Pastor ovium a Pastor of Christs flocke because intrat per ostium he entereth in by the doore to wit by Christ himselfe who first visibly called consecrated and sent immediatelie the Apostles and the Apostles by authority receaued from him did visiblie by imposition of handes call consecrate and send others and those in like manner others from time to time without interruption vntill these present men who now are Priestes of the Catholique Romane Church These therefore enter in by Christ who is the doore and therefore these be true Pastours and whosoeuer entereth not thus in at the doore but cōmeth in another way our Sauiour telleth vs how we should account of him when he saith Qui non intrat per ostium in ouile ouium sed ascendit aliunde ille fur est latro he that entreth not in by the doore into the sheep-fold but ascēdeth by some other way he is a theefe a robber who commeth not to feede the sheepe but to steale kill and destroy them So that we haue not I say to expect any to be sent of God to feed vs with the food of true doctrine of faith but such only as come in this ordinary maner as it is certaine that Luther Caluin when they left their former profession and tooke vpon them to preach this new faith did not come visibly called cōsecrated sent for this purpose by any lawful authority according to the ordinary manner or