Selected quad for the lemma: lord_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	christian_a	day_n	sabbath_n	12,184	5	9.9778	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A90603	The mysticall vvolfe. Set forth in a sermon preached in the Church of Edmond the King, in Lombard-street. / By E.P.	Pagitt, Ephraim, 1574 or 5-1647.	1645 (1645)	Wing P183; Thomason E27_9; ESTC R8274	23,897	45

The Fryers of old erected their Kingdome by lyes Walsingham reporteth that they were so famous for lying that it was accounted a good argument hee is a fryer Ergo a lyer Do not our lying prophets goe beyond them they tell lyes they write lies they preach lyes they print lyes as if God needed lyes Thou wilt destroy all them that speake leasing saith the Prophet Here I would observe two things 1. That there have beene and always shall be false prophets in the Church 2. Why God suffereth them For the first that there have been and always shall be false prophets in the Church There shal arise saith our Lord false prophets and if it were possible they shall deceive the very elect I know saith St. Paul that after my departing grievous Wolves shall enter in among you Again the spirit speaketh evidently that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith and shall give heed to the spirit of error and doctrines of Devills which speake lyes through hypocris●● Likewise St. Peter affirmeth But there were false prophets among the people and there shal be also false teachers among you which privily shal bring in damnable hesies even denying the Lord that bought them bring upon themselves swift damnation For example sake wee read of the Devill the archfalse prophet deceiving our first parents in Paradice of Iamnes and Iambres withstanding Moses and resisting the truth In Eliahs time of many false prophets deceiving the people yea in this very time when our Lord preached upon the earth The Church was annoyed with divers pernicious sects as with the Pharisees who like the Papists held Justification by works With the Saduces who held with the Atheists of our time that there is no resurrection With the Essens who like the Anabaptists of our time thought themselves free from all humane authority I might set down the hereticks that sprang up in the most pure ages of the Church viz. In the first 400. yeares after Christ collected by St. Agustine out of Eusebius and Epiphanius The Apostles and holy men seldome planted any Churches but the devill with his false prophets went about to subvert them Heare what St. Paul saith to the Galatians O ye foolish Galatians who hath bewitched you that you should not obey the truth Again to the Corinthians I fear lest as the Serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty so you should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ The noble Churches of Antioch Ephesus Alexandria and Constantinople were poisoned by false prophets In Ephesus were the Nicholaitans in Alexandria Arrius in Antioch Samosatenus in Constantinople Eutyches and Nestorius and i● Britany Pelagius called in Welch Morgan But how Christian Princes holy Bishops and learned men bestir'd themselves to save their flocks from those Wolves and in the very beginning to suppresse them you may perceive by the ancient Councels in some one of which 400. year 600. Bishops conve●ed and ran together yea among us to damne Pelagius heresie Bishops came from beyond the Seas as Germanus and Lupus out of France St. Augustine also Bishop of Hippo in Africa was assisting to us against him as appeareth by his writings extant among us Our histories report that our Welch Arch-bishop Davie was a great meanes to extirpate his heresie who wrote a booke against it As sorreign Bishops were ayding to us in suppressing the hereticks that rose among us so were we assisting to them as Eborius of York Restitutus of Londō Adel●ius of Colchester with other Brittish and learned men subscribed the Councell of Arles Also some of our Bishops were at the Councell of Nice and Sardis and with others damned the Arrian heresie and absolved Athanasius Our poor Church is at this time oppressed with false prophets not only with Iesuites and other Romish Emissaries but also with unpure Familists who blasphemously pretend to be godified like God whereas indeed they are devillified like their Father the Devill who would be like the most high With illuminated Anabaptists who blaspheme the baptisme of Children and these hereticks whom in time past we burned wee may heare now in our pul●its ●educing the people We have also Donatistical Brownists who like the Pharisees of old separate themselves from other men counting all men prophane that are not of their Conventicles We have also Independants who dream that they have a perfect model● of Church-government which Almighty God kept secret from the Patriarks Priests Prophets Apostles and Doctors of the Church and now lately revealed unto them We have also Antinomians who whereas the Papists leave out one Commandement of the ten they null the whole Law not allowing it to be a rule of life This opinion simple people swallow down having as they suppose found a new way to heaven We have Arminians an after-brood of Pelagius We have Sabbatarianss who affirme the old Jewish Sabbath to be kept and not the Lords day We have also Antisabbatarians who would have no speciall Sabboth day at all affirming every day to be a sabbath to a christian man We have Traskites who affirme many Jewish ceremonies to be observed by Christians We have Arrians who deny the deity of Christ We have Antitrinitarians who blaspheme the holy Trinity We have Millenaries who dream that wee must live with Christ 1000. yeares here in earth before the resurrection We have Hetheringtonians who hold a hodg-podg of many heresies We have an Atheisticall sect who affirm that mens soules sleep with their bodies We have Socinians who teach that Christ dyed not to satisfie for our sins but to give us an example of patience with other abho●inable errours Alas what Heresie have we not and most of these are subdivided into many Sects as there are about twenty sorts of Anabaptists fourteen set downe by Alstedius and the rest by Bullinger sundry sorts of Familists Brownists and of others every day begets a new opinion it faring with them as with the ancient Hereticks who having once forsaken the truth wandred from one errour to another they agreeing onely in this one thing to doe mischiefe to the Church of God The old Fable may have relation to our times of an overture of peace tendred by the Wolves to the Sheep but upon condition that they would put away their dogs that were malignant to them and doth not all this follow upon the suspension of Church Government Alas our Church is oppressed by false Prophets and we have no government to helpe The City of God is on fire and who goeth about to quench it The plague of Heresie is among us and we have no power to keep the sick from the whole The Wolves that were wont to lye in the woods dare come into our Sheep-folds and roar in our holy Congregations O thou Shepheard of Israel why hast