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power_n	bind_v	church_n	loose_v	4,001	5	10.0884	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A05190	The prophane schisme of the Brovvnists or separatists With the impietie, dissensions, levvd, and abhominable vices of that impure sect. Discouered by Christopher Lavvne, Iohn Fovvler, Clement Sanders, Robert Bulvvard. Lately returned from the companie of M. Iohnson, that wicked brother, into the bosome of the Church of England, their true mother.	Lawne, Christopher. aut	1612 (1612)	STC 15324; ESTC S121934	59,954	107

M Bernard p. 234 Schisme for teaching that the power of Excommunication is in the Officers for hereby saith he All the communion passeth betwixt the parties admonishing and admonished excommunicating and excommunicated whereof the body of the Church is neither but a very cipher and a hang-by Now maister Iohnson practising and teaching that which maister Robinson here reprooueth by his Sentence is become guiltie of Schisme making his Church to be a cypher and a hang-by M. Robinson speaking of the power of binding and loosing saith Pag. 244. These knots are to bee tyed and loosed onely by the Chauncellours or Officialls fingers this power haue they enclosed with hedge and ditch c. This contumely may as iustly be returned vpō master Iohnsons head with master Robinsons wordes that those knots are to be tyed and loosed onely by master Iohnson and his officials fingers especially the filthie fingers of Dan. Studley his a Quondam chiefe Chancelor and that hee hath captiued his Church and seized the substance and kernell as it were into their hands leauing the poore people onely the shell and shadow to feede vpon Further master Bernard writing about ordination and succession of the Ministerie is tasked by master Robinson as being b Answere to Ber. pag. 421. either a marked seruant of the Pope or one that cared not what he wrote for some present seeming aduantage Now master Iohnson arguing in like matter about ordination and succession of the Ministerie and fetching the same from Rome the reproach doth fall as strangely vpon master Iohnsons pate Master Robinson writing about the Temples wherin we worship Saints that they are as c Page 443. execrable things to be auoided and yet further saith that they are the least d Page 4●5 difference betwixt him and master Ber. The matter therefore of popular gouernment and the peoples power is acknowledged to be a matter of greater waight and therin master Iohnson erring falles into a sinne more then execrable or accursed To omit many the like speeches by this it doth euidently appeare how master Robinsons teeth are like kniues and his iawes like swords to eate vp master Iohnsons companie while he thus bites them by his doctrine while hee makes master Iohnson and his elders to be bastardly runnagates miserable guides engrossers of the keyes arrogant Zidkiahs laying the corner stone of Babylon Lucians or skoffing Atheists Schismatikes making their Church a Cypher and a hang-by wanting an honest heart like Chancellors and Officials captiuing of the Church either marked seruants of the Pope or such as care not what they say for some present seeming aduantage vsing a power more then execrable or accursed Thus hauing shewed what he writeth against master Iohnson let vs see in a word what hee witnesseth against master Ainsworths companie When some of master Ainsworths companie wrote vnto master Robinson desiring him to come and helpe the Lord against the mightie against master Iohnson whom they had accounted as the strongest Giant of the Separation master Robinson at last came vnto them to dispute with master Iohnson about the change of his gouernment and being come and entred within the listes of that disputation he found master Ainsworths faction so disorderly and clamorous that he often desired them to be still and silent and reproued their vnseemely and vnreasonable behauior but at length when he saw the tumult encrease looking vpon them round about as a man amazed and agast with fierce and outragious carriage he did then openly testifie among them That he had rather walke in peace with fiue godly persons than to liue with fiue hundred or fiue thousand such vnquiet persons as these were Hauing spoken to this effect master Iohnson told him further That this was a small thing and nothing in respect of their vnpeaceable and disordered carriage at some other times And these things being so alas how euill doe they prouide for their owne peace and comfort which ioyne themselues vnto such a contentious and tumultuous band of Schismatikes As for master Smith and his disciples they doe at once as it were with open mouth swallow vp all the Separation besides by a Charact of Beast Epistle protesting against their false constitution false worship false Ministerie and false Gouernment For howsoeuer master Robinson did heretofore seeme to agree with master Smith in the reproofe of the triformed Presbiterie as he calleth it and hath had much question with his people about the same howsoeuer master Robinson hath followed master Smith in his doctrine and practise about the separation in almes and so hath one speciall kind of separation more than master Iohnson or master Ainsworth in their Companies doe practise and therefore might seeme to haue a more holy treasurie and a more pure sacrifice of almes free from that rigour and pollution wherewith the treasurie of the Franciscanes and Ainsworthians appeares to be defiled yet notwithstanding all this while they retaine a false constitution maister Smith stil protesteth against them all without exception b Epistle to the Character That there is no one true ordinance of the Lord among them And how they haue on the other side laied him open as a Schismatike an Heretike and an Apostata their Bookes against him doe plenteously declare We might here proceed yet further to shew what bitings there be among the other lesser factions and broken peeces of the separation and among those that walke alone but hauing alreadie led the Reader a rough way and beeing our selues weary thereof wee doe here rest our selues and sit downe for the present hoping that this which is alreadie done wil be sufficient to shew what bitter fruit groweth vpon the trees of the separation and withall desiring the Lord to keepe his seruants from tasting of this forbidden fruit which in our owne experience we haue felt so bitter we here take our leaue and heartily bid the Christian Reader farewell in the Lord. MATTH 7.15.16 Beware of false Prophets which come to you in sheepes clothing but inwarly they are rauening wolues Ye shall know them by their fruits Do men gather grapes of thornes or figges of thistles FINIS