Selected quad for the lemma: master_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
master_n	aaron_n	brother_n	moses_n	33	3	7.2652	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A64133	Hieragonisticon, or, Corah's doom being an answer to two letters of enquiry into the grounds and occasions of the contempt of the clergy and religion : in vindication of the contemned [sic] : by way of epistle to the author of the said enquiry.	D. T.	1672 (1672)	Wing T4; ESTC R20586	77,186	216

the Testifiers a wise man may sometimes both be deceived and deceive but a multitude can hardly if ever in regard of choice of direction in case of errour or detection in case of forgery the publicity and openness of the testimony and consequently its lyableness to conviction if false or fraudulent the hazard of loss of peace ease and quiet honour credit and reputation profits pleasures and wordly delights means of subsistence liberty yea life it self which that Testimony and Profession exposeth to a practice quite contrary to the Law of Nature which obligeth to self-preservation but that it is warranted by those higher severe lawes of Mortification and Self-denial c. as to all those endearments prescribed in the Scriptures by them attested which whether observed or not observed is a certain conviction of a faithful testimony the observance being matter of credit thereunto non-observance of disgrace which by fore-going the profession might be avoided and lastly the vigilancy subtilty and potency of Enemies and opponents past and present for whom it was and is easie in case of imposture at once both to detect and to destroy who yet either have been wholly silent under the publick attestations of Sacred Truth or have added thereunto their own acknowledgments instances whereof History abounds withal or lastly have disputed the same with the sword rather then with argument though the Gates of Hell never could nor shall prevail herein Let those I say and the like be all duly scann'd and compared together and then undoubtedly the conclusion can be no other then that the Testifiers and Witnesses of the Revelation or Doctrine confirmed by Miracles contained in the Scriptures of the Old and New Testament are and have been a prudent honest and faithful Society which can or could neither be suspected of Errour or of being deceived in themselves nor yet of imposture or intent of deceiving others and consequently that this same Word or Revelation by them thus attested and professed is of a truth the Word of God At leastwise the whole may be of such vertue and influence as to beget in us that veneration and reverend esteem for those Testifiers and the Scriptures by them testified together with the Religion which according to the prescript thereof they profess as to bring us to the Bible and to perswade us to a research of the Scriptures with the applauded Bereans whether things be so as is reported without which take notice my testimony for the Scriptures ought to be of more force with you then yours against them can be expected to be with me mine being with you onely of suspected partiality yours with me of manifest prejudice and then are we half-Proselytes already for Sir the Divine Authority of the Scriptures may convincingly appear to one thus prepared by the subordinate and introductory attestation of the Church from the superiour Testimony of the Scriptures themselves the second thing propounded to be spoken to namely that evidence which may be collected from the intrinseck characters and cognizances of Divinity as so many dignifying prerogatives enstamp'd upon the Word it self as that which 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as saith Athanasius as in a manner self-manifestative and hence which is remarkable frequently likened to the objects or mediums of our natural senses as light voice and sound smell savour and taste fire and heat c. whence any that hath his senses exercised to the discerning hereof may gather that as the things mentioned doe indemonstrably discover themselves to be what they are so the Holy Scriptures whereof those are figurative resemblances doe infallibly prove themselves to be Divine Now these three or four Characters of the Scriptures seem of all others to be more especially argumentative and convictive of their Divinity to natural Conscience namely 1. the majesty of their stile witness those many majestick Titles of Divinity which the Author doth therein assume to himself which I must not hear recount importing either independency of being or universality of perfection or absolute power and authority or excellency of operation c. but all no less then Divinity and amongst other particulars that magisterial affidavit Thus saith the Lord familiar to the Holy Scriptures and pretended to in no writings in the world besides 2. The transcendency spirituality and sanctity of the matter and contents both in doctrines and duties the great mysteries of the Godhead and godliness three distinct persons in one nature in the one two distinct natures in one person in the other the mystery of diverse yea adverse both natures and persons united in one Covenant the mystery of Regeneration the mystery of the Resurrection c. and other Doctrines Duties as opposite to man's corrupt Will as these are to his Reason as the doctrines of original sin the impotency of pure naturals in spirituals the servitude and Bondage of Free-Will c. the duties of mortification of the Flesh self-denial and that strange retaliation of evil with good and hatred with returnes of Love c. infallible marks of Sanctity as is also finally the universal tendency and intendment of the whole contexture namely the exaltation and advancement of God and debasement of the Creature peculiar to Holy Writ beyond all other whatsoever 3. The sincerity and impartiality of the Writers and Compilers who appear to be so far from concealing that on the contrary they have faithfully divulged upon Record each other 's nay almost each his own defaults and infirmities Moses his Grand-father Levi's iniquity his Brother Aaron's Idolatry his and his sister Miriams sedition and his own faulty precipitancy David Mose's rashness and inconsideracy and his own Murther and Vncleanness the Evangelists their very Master's humane infirmities as hunger thirst weariness fear c. and their own dulness of understanding impertinent Queries St. John's and Jame's ambition Thomas's incredulity Peter's triple denial of his Lord and Master recorded by St. Mark his own Disciple Paul's dissention with Barnabas and accessary guilt of Stephen's Death recorded by St. Luke his own Follower St. Paul Peter's Judaizing and his own Blasphemy and Persecution c. an unquestionable conviction of the faithfulness and truth of their Testimony not to be match'd by any Writers whatsoever besides 4. And lastly the jnfallibility and veracity of their predictions the predictions themselves are recorded in the Holy Scriptures the accomplishment of them is sufficiently attested partly by Humane History partly by experience and to argue with Bellarmine if Scriptural predictions of things to come be true as is approved by the event why not scriptural attestations of things present All which duly considered what peruser of those Sacred Digests will not assent to and conclude upon the Divine Authority of the same till this same assent introduced by the Testimony of the Church as the preparative medium by which per non propter our Faith and obedience in and to the Holy Scriptures is first in order of time though not of