Selected quad for the lemma: saint_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
saint_n	judgement_n	lord_n	ungodly_a	1,215	5	10.0738	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A42806	Catholick charity recommended in a sermon before the Right Honorable the Lord Mayor and Aldermen of London : in order to the abating the animosities among Christians, that have been occasion'd by differences in religion / by Jos. Glanvill ...	Glanvill, Joseph, 1636-1680.	1669 (1669)	Wing G801; ESTC R13297	24,826	40

they are not like these Publicans these men of the world They hug themselves in the dear opinion of their own Light and conclude all others to be in Darkness They heap up Teachers to themselves 2 Tim. 4.3 and doat upon their own Apostles I am for Paul or I am for Apollos or I am for Cephas This is a pretious man or that is a Gospel-Preacher such a one is very Powerful and such a one is very Sweet and Spiritual and O how Beautiful are the Feet of those Messengers of good tydings to them while they assure them by the Marks of their Sect that they are God's Peculiar and Chosen People Which Fondness were not so Mischeivous if at the same time all others were not counted Reprobates and Cast-aways But this followes and many other fatal evils endless Enmities are begun and Charity is destroyed and the foundation is layed for Cruelty and Persecution and Gods goodness which is to his whole Church is wronged be being narrowed and Christs Blood is undervalued and the greatest part of his Purchase is by these men given to the Devil and Christianity is undermined and the Peace of Mankind is overthrown All this we have sadly seen and I have said nothing here out of any Animosity or Bitterness nor have I any design to render any good man or number of men Odious or Contemptible but to represent the Vanity and the Mischeif of this fond spirit of admiring Parties which hath been very fatal to Charity and to the whole body of Religion And we shall understand more of the evil of it if we consider St. Iude's description of the Sectaries of his time who looked upon themselves as the only illuminated people and despised all other Christians These the Apostle describes 1 by the groundlesness and vanity of their conceits They were Dreamers ver 8. 2 by their insolence against Government They Despised Dominion and spake Evil of Dignities in the same Verse 3 by their ignorant malice ver 10. They spoke evil of things they knew not 4 by their Cruelty and Vnmercifulness to their Brethren They have gone in the way of Cain 5 By their Murmuring and Projecting against their Rulers ver 11. And perished in the gain saying of Core 6 By the speciousness of their shew and appearance They were Clouds ver 12. 7 By their emptiness and want of real vertue notwithstanding their pretenses They were Clouds without water 8 By their unconstancy and unsetledness They were carried about of winds 9 By their violence and fury ver 13. Raging waves of the Sea 10 By their eminency and pretended Light They were Stars 11 By the irregularity of their motions and their running up and down they were Wandring Stars 12 By their discontentedness They were Murmurers Complainers ver 16. 13 by their Stubborness in the way of their own wills Walking after their own Lusts. 14 By their Proud expressions concerning themselves and their Party by their Canting and Mysteriousness of their Phrases Their Mouth speaketh great swelling Words 15 By their fond Admiration of their own People Having mens Persons in Admiration 16 By their Proud Scorn they are called Mockers ver 18. 17 By their Separation ver 19. These be they who Separate themselves 18 By their real Sensuality and self-pleasing under great Boasts and pretensions to the Spirit sensual having not the Spirit This is the Apostles description of the first Separatists the Gnosticks who admired themselves and withdrew from the Communion of other Christians under pretense of greater Holiness And I could wish they had had no Successors among us and they will have the fewer if we learn to avoid the undue Admiration of any particular Sect. My next Caution is II. That you avoid eager and passionate Disputes in these Charity is always lost and Truth seldom or never found When the Passion is raised the Iudgement is gone and there is no seeing to the bottom in disturbed and muddied waters 'T is the calm and quiet considerer that finds Truth while the hot and confident disputer looseth both himself and it when his passion is once kindled he cannot speak any thing pertinently himself nor understand what is spoken to purpose by another and so can neither convince nor be convinced If thou differ with thy brother then do not ruffle with him in vehement disputes but remember the Apologue The Sun and Wind contended for the Travellers Cloak the Wind blustered about him and endeavoured to prevail by rudeness and violence but with this bad success that the man held his Garment the faster for it At length the Sun shines forth with a calm and insinuating beam which warmed him gently and by degrees and then the Traveller put his Cloak from him If thou art desirous to prevail with thy friend to lay down his Opinion assault him not by the fierceness of disputes For such attempts will but raise his passion and that will make him stick the closer to his Errour but shine upon him with a calm light insinuate thy better principle by modest and gentle suggestions He that hath wedded any falshood hath many prejudices against the contrary Truth and these are not to be torn off all at once but softly and by degrees to be unwound This is the likeliest way to prevail upon Dissenters or if at any time it fails of its success there is however no hurt done Charity and Peace are preserved which are much better than most Opinions for which we contend Whereas by Disputes men are mutually provoked and tempted to pour forth many Idle and many bitter words the quiet and temper of their minds is disturbed and likely the Peace of others also They are brought no whit nearer each other in their Iudgments but put at a much greater distance in their Affections Whereas by the other method of calm proceeding all these evils are avoided 'T is true we are commanded to contend earnestly for the faith that was once delivered to the Saints Iude 3. But the Faith there meant doth not consist in points of doubtful disputation but in the Fundamental Article of Christ Iesus being the Messias joyn'd with a vertuous and holy conversation and the persons against whom those primitive Christians were to contend were Ungodly Men that denyed the only Lord God and our Lord Iesus Christ ver 5. For these Essential matters we may and we ought to be earnest but Contention about lesser things is called by the Apostle Perverse Disputing and reckoned as the effect of pride and ignorance 1 Tim. 6.5 And hence I pass to a Third Caution which is this III. Beware of Zeal about Opinions by which I mean all the Propositions of less certainty or consequence About these we may no doubt be inquisitive and thoughtful and our search will be commendable while we manage it with modesty and caution in order to the gaining more Motives and directions for a vertuous Practice But to be eager in them and to disturb the peace