Selected quad for the lemma: nation_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
nation_n	call_v	church_n	national_a	2,044	5	11.4074	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A78005	A vindication of Mr Burroughes, against Mr Edwards his foule aspersions, in his spreading Gangræna, and his angry Antiapologia. Concluding with a briefe declaration what the Independents would have. / By Jer: Burroughes.	Burroughs, Jeremiah, 1599-1646.	1646 (1646)	Wing B6126; Thomason E345_14; ESTC R200993	27,250	36

while amazed at the providence of God that at such a time a Messenger should be sent to me about such an errand my heart God knowes exceedingly rejoyced in this call of his I presently told him I saw God much in it and dared not in the least to gainsay it yea that my heart did much close with it yet desired to see God a little further in it this only I required that he should go or send to the Church and return my answer with desire that because most of them knew me they should give me their call under their own bands and then there would be nothing wanting that I knew but I was theirs and thus we parted In this my heart was much eased now seeing a cleare hand of God taking me off from temptations that I was affraid might otherwise have stucke upon me but this I kept to my selfe Now as God would have it three or foure dayes after this a friend meets me and tels me that such a man reported of me that in a conference about the Scots justifying them in what they did I should speake such things as might bring me into trouble After I heard this I could not but take notice of Gods hand that surely now God intended to open the dore very wide for that call I had to Rotterdam yet because whether I went out or stayed in the Land I desired to cleare my selfe as much as could be I went to this accuser with one of the Gentlemen who was at our whole discourse we both laboured to convince him that he had mistook what was said in that Conference that certainly there was no such thing as he had reported though at first there appeared a very evill spirit in him as if he intended evill against me yet I went freely up and downe for a fortnight or three weeks after in the Countrey and got another Gentleman who also heard all that Conference to speak with him at the last he began to recant of what he had said and promised to me and one of the Gentlemen who had heard all our former discourse that he would take me off what he could that he would satisfie all that he had told any thing against me unto and now tell them that he was mistaken in me and that things were not so bad as he apprehended and withall said he made no doubt but to set me right againe After this I hoped all would blow over my Lord of Warwick falling sick at London sent for me I came up to him continuing with him a fortnight or three weeks longer going freely up and downe the City my Lord knew all the businesse and made no question but all was over Now I being as I hoped set free from my Accuser the Messenger from Rotterdam comes to me againe with an answer to what I had desired shewing me how the Church there had met and had sent a call to me in writing under the Elders hands with many other hands in the name of the Church upon which we agreed upon the day when and the place where we should meet in Norfolke to make a full conclusion and accordingly to take order for our voyage Now within three or foure dayes after this second call this businesse that we thought had been dead breaks forth againe afresh I had intelligence from a Minister in Essex that the truth was he that accused me before had dealt treacherously with me and the businesse grew to a height it was come to the then Lord Treasurer Upon this still I saw my call the clearer and fuller and at my fore-appointed time went into Norfolke where I met with the Messenger and concluded the going into Holland Though my call by this was clearer yet the thought of going out of the Kingdome thus was grievous to me for I knew I must never see England againe times continuing as then they were and no man living could have imagined that alteration that after fell out Now I appeale to M. Edwards had he knowne all this which if it had pleased him he might have done for I sent to him to tell him I would satisfie him about this business would he have made such a relation as he hath done to such a purpose as he hath done for of all the things he hath against me the manner of my going out of the Kingdome in the way that he relates it is the greatest aspersion that is upon me when indeed it was one of the most mercifull providences of God to me that ever befell me in all my life wherein I saw as cleerly an eye of God watching over me in particular for good as ever in any thing I know not what a bold daring spirit whose aims are to asperse men would have done in this case had this I now relate been knowne as it was to many but ingenuity certainly where it had been in the least degree of it would have abhorred to have done as M. Edwards hath done The Lord set his conscience upon him rebuke him and be mercifull to him in this thing His second thing he hath against me in his Antiapologia is his Charge for my Preaching for the Congregationall way as page 216. he sayes I preached at Mildreds Breadstreet against Nationall Churches under the New Testament and for the way of their particular Churches Ans But what I said for that way he mentions not and I remember not therefore I can say nothing to it but concerning a Nationall Church I doe remember I said something it was in the time of the Prelates my speech was directed against them it was the day the first Protestation was taken because a great argument they use for their power over Nations is from the power of the High Priest over the whole Nation of the Jewes I said that we were freed from the Paedagogie of the Jewes and now there were no Nationall Churches by institution as the Jewes were mentioning these 3. things 1. There are no nationall Officers as they had 2. No Nationall Worship as they had 3. It was not sufficient now to make a member of the Church because one is by birth of this or any other Nation as then it was because one was borne of the Nation of the Jewes And is this a Doctrine that will not goe downe with a Presbyterian Surely it must be a Prelaticall Presbyterian who cannot digest this I am confident all the Presbyterian Churches in the World will acknowledge what I said here to be true That we may call the Church in England a Nationall Church because of the many Saints in it who are of the body of Christ I deny not nor ever did but that it is by the institution of Christ formed into one politicall Church as the Nation of the Jewes was this is no Independency to deny where are any particular men standing Church Officers to the whole Nation by Divine institution what Nationall worship hath Christ instituted doth our Birth in the Nation