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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
saint_n	church_n	communion_n	fellowship_n	1,870	5	10.0945	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A31052	The pollution of vniversite-learning or sciences (falsly so called) whereby most of the youth are so infected, and both they and their parents so deceived, that when they come to age, they prove either unprofitable or hurtfull members to the common-wealth ... / by that faithfull martyr of Iesus Christ, Mr. Henry Barrow ...	Barrow, Henry, 1550?-1593.; Barrow, Henry, 1550?-1593. Plain refutation of M. Giffard's booke.	1642 (1642)	Wing B922; ESTC R18358	15,109	18

be as I heare he can be no lesse then an Apostle by his offices hee being a Pastor if not a double or plurified Nonresident Pastor of many Churches a Doctor you see by priviledge and stile and a Deacon I meane also at Ely And what was or could any Apostle be more Yet seeing all these are but forged stuffe and that he hath neither any true office in the Church neither any true calling thereunto c. we can take him but for a false Apostle at the best if he sit not in an Apostataes chaire that I say not an Apostataes gowne somewhere else and so leave him either to repentance or to follow his predecessors to his appointed place But by following this bird over farre I had almost been trained from the nest I was shewing what little affinity there is betwixt the Churches of Christ and these Vniversities these Colledges of Clerkes these Schooles of Prophets In the churches of Christ the names and offices of Chancellor Vice-chancellor Commissary Proctors Taskers Bedells Provosts Masters of Colledges vice-Masters Bowcers Deanes Fellowes c. are all strange and unheard of as also their severall statutes customes ceremonies their manner of degrees and disputing for their degrees and order of teaching which were no small labour but to reckon up All which as they are strange to the Church of Christ who find not in all Gods Word any of these offices degrees statutes orders customes ceremonies vows c. neither any such Vniversities colledges Societies of Schollers so seeing they have no ground in the Word of God no fellowship or communion with the Church I see not why they should have any more toleration then their elder brethren the Monks who every way had as great shew of holinesse and colour of utility to the Church as they or these other Cathedrall Collegiate dens have yea and might both as soone and as well have beene purged of their Masse and Latine-service as these are so that the same end that is besalne the one remaineth the other The Lord is not pleased with any voluntary Religion That building that hath not the Word of God for the foundation though it be dawbed with never so great cunning and learning 〈…〉 and undershored with never so great policy and power though it be built as high as Babel yet shall it assuredly fall and the greater shall be the fall thereof As there is no building without the Word of God for the foundation so is there no fellowship or communion out of the Church of God And therefore no such consused Colledges no such Idolatrous assemblies as are not gathered unto Christ but unto Antichrist as live not in that Christian order and fellowship which Christ hath appointed to all his servants in his Church but leade their lives in Antichristian disorder in Babylonish if not Sodomitish confusion no such heathen Schooles wherein youth is not trained up in the feare knowledge and order of Christ but in vaine Arts Ephes 〈◊〉 Prov. 〈◊〉 superstition Idolatry disorder c. have any foundation in the Word of God any fellowship with or allowance in the Church of God But here will the Vniversity Knights draw mee within the compasse of these two absurdities First that I condemne all good Arts and Literature then that I quite drive them out of the world by taking away the Schooles of the same wherein youth might be trained and brought up Nothing lesse I with my whole heart allow of any Art or Science that is consonant to the Word of God and to the Doctrine which is according to godlinesse onely the curious and heathen Arts prophane and vaine babblings and oppositions of Science falsly so called which they professe and wherewith they poyson and corrupt all the youth of the Land I abhorre because God condemnech As sor Schooles to teach the Tongues or any laudable or necessary Art I wish them in abundance that if it were possible not onely the youth but even the whole Church might be trained therein I with my whole heart wish that all the Lords people were Prophets such an enemy am I to the true knowledge and learning that I would not have it any longer kept secret in a mysterie but even proclaimed upon the house top in every Cit and in every street yet still and ever with this caution that these Schooles both be in an established Church I meane in such places where the Saints live together in the faith order obedience and communion of Christ and not in such Monkish Idolatrous confused idle prophane Colledges and Fellowships as theirs are Likewise that the Tongues or Sciences be here taught in an holy sanctified reverend grave manner and not in such an unsanctified vaine manner as they use So shall the earth be full of the knowledge of the Lord as the waters that cover the sea for in the Church of Christ are all his springs inclosed which by this meanes should runne at every conduct and water the whole land abundantly whereas now they lie in miserable darknesse wholly overgrowne with brambles and briers And surely I even with marvell wonder how these men can be so blinded to compare these wicked Idolatrous societies to the assemblies of the Prophets or unto the Church of Christ when you see they have nothing common with them or like unto them either in the people assembled Doctrine taught manner of teaching and learning or order of life when they utterly want warrant in the Word of God for such kinde of Colledges Societies and Schooles these having beene derived either from the Heathens Egyptians Greekes Persians that had their peculiar Colledges and Schooles to their peculiar Sects or else have issued out of the smoke of Antichrists inventions out of the bottomlesse pit They alwayes have beene and still are the very hives and nurseries of these armed poisoned Locusts and venomous Scorpions I meane either that false Ministery of Antichrist even all the governing and teaching Priests as Cardinalls Archbishop Bish Suffraganes Archdeacons Chancellors Commissaries Civill Doctors Advocates Proctors Vagrant roving Ministers and Preachers parish Priests c. or those counterfeit religious hypocrites Monks Friers Nuns Clerkes or as we now of late call them Schollers All which have in innumerable multitudes from time to time and at all times swarmed and issued out of these hives into the face of the whole earth corrupting and destroying every greene thing poysoning the pure founraines of Gods Word with their accursed glosses deepe learning subtill and figurative interpretations darkning the sunne and infecting the ayre therewith as also with the blasphemous traditions of their King Apolluon that Angell of the bottomelesse pit They have alwayes most pestilently fought under this their Captaine against the Lambe his Gospell and Church plentifully furnishing and continually supplying all the offices and roomes belonging to that huge Midianitish Host of Antichrist the Leaders Captaines and Officers whereof are and ever have beene wholly taken out of these Seraliaes even from the Popes person to the lowest Priest How they are reformed by having this English portesse their service-booke in stead of their old masse-booke may partly by that which is above written concerning the same appeare but more manifestly by taking a view of fome of the blasphemous Idolatrous customes which still remaine in practise with them in the same manner as they did under the Pope all or any of which it is not here my purpose any further to describe It sufficeth me to have shewed them to be confused Idotrous unchristian unlawfull assemblies and societies so farre from being to be compared unto or justified by the assemblies of the Prophets or that heavenly exercise of prophesie now in the Church of Christ as they are not to be suffered in a Christian Common-wealth And therefore here againe once more I conlude that both these ungodly assemblies as also the Cathedrall Dennes and Colledges ought by as good right to be abolished as their other brethen and sisters of a birth the Monasteries and Nunneries are seeing they all want foundation in the Word had one and the same hellish originall had and these still retaine the same blasphemous incurable abuses which can by no way be reformed but by their utter dissolution FINIS A PROTESTANTS ACCOUNT Of His Orthodox Holding in Matters of Religion at this present in difference in the CHURCH For his own and others better confirmation or rectification in the points treated on Humbly submitted to the censure of the Church of ENGLAND Printed by ROGER DANIEL Printer to the Universitie of Cambridge 1642. And are to be sold by John Milleson Stationer over against great St. Maries in Cambridge