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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
sin_n	apostle_n	law_n	transgression_n	5,619	5	10.4785	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A45426	Of schisme a defence of the Church of England against the exceptions of the Romanists / by H. Hammond ...	Hammond, Henry, 1605-1660.	1653 (1653)	Wing H562A; ESTC R40938	74,279	194

kingdome of heaven and so doth all unjust excommunication now unite us to the Apostles by this conformity with and participation of their sufferings And I suppose the arguments and testimonies produced by the Chancellour of Paris are and when they were first published were so deemed by those of the Romish communion unanswerable to this matter And accordingly that of Thomas de Curselis in the Councel of Basil that it was * Papae à Christo dictum Quicquid ligaveris super terram erit ligatum non quicquid dixeris esse ligatum Jacob Angularis in Ep ad Wesselum ap Goldast l. 1. p. 575. Which holds in the Interpretative Excommunication said by Christ to the Pope Whatsoever thou shalt binde on earth shall be bound not whatsoever thou shalt affirm to be bound hath with it the evidence of undeniable truth equally applicable to him and all Bishops in that and in all future ages § 5. And then certainly what hath thus been said of the Formal will with the same evidence be extended also to the Interpretative excommunication whensoever the conditions of the communion contain in them any sinne and so become as the former censures were supposed to be For in that case certainly it is no act of Schisme from any Church for any member to be or to continue thus excluded from it For how desireable and valuable soever an intire inviolate peace with all Christians with all men together with the approbation of our willing cheerful obedience and submission of our judgments and practises to our superiors must forever be deemed by all true disciples of Christ Yet must not the purchase of this treasure be attempted by the admission of any sin any more then the glory of God might be projected by the Apostle's lie The least transgression of God's Law must not be adventured on upon any the most Christian designe or consideration The peaceable living with all men which is so often exhorted to and inculcated is yet no farther recommended then 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 if it be possible and as much as in us lies and that we know must be interpreted of a moral and leg●● possibility by which we are pronounced able to doe that and no more which we can doe lawfully and so when the Apostle 1 Thess 4.11 exhorts to the most earnest pursuit of this blisful state this ease and rest and quiet from the labours and toils and hell of the factious turbulent spirit it is in a style which supposes this reserve we must saith he 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 have an ambition and emulation and contention to live peaceably and quietly obliging us to use all means that would be allowed to the ambitious person in his warmest pursuit i. e. the utmost lawful but not the lowest unlawful means M r Knots Concession in this matter c. 7. p. 471 472. § 6. In which matter it is remarkable what course hath been taken by the late author of Infidelity unmasked in his discourse of the Schisme of Protestants where having acknowledged how perfectly unlawful it is to dissemble equivocate or lie in the matters of faith and withall urgeing from all antiquity that to forsake the external communion of God's visible Church is the sin of schisme he makes a shift to conclude as a natural consequence from hence that therefore the Church I suppose he means of Rome is infallible and not subject to errour because otherwise men might forsake her communion Where though the consequence be very strange that we may forsake the Churches communion in case she be fallible or subject to errour for this supposes it lawful 1. to forsake the communion of any erroneous Church which is much more then we would desire to be granted us and 2. to forsake all that are fallible though they be not actually in errour which is in effect to forsake the communion of all but Saints and Angels and God in heaven for they only have the privilege of impeccable and infallible yet it absolutely acknowledges that it would be lawful to separate from and forsake the even Vniversal Church of Christ in case or on supposition that we could not be permitted to communicate with it without lying and dissembling and equivocating in matters of faith which he there acknowledgeth to be the denying God on earth § 7. Now to return to our present consideration Severe conditions of some Churches Communion Of this there is no question but that as it is said to be customary among the Kings of the Hunnes as soon as they have any children and so no need of their brethrens assistance to banish all their brethren out of their dominions and not to admit them again without putting out their eyes 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 saith Cinnamus Hist l. 1. so it is possible I wish it were not justly supposable for a particular Church so to fence and limit to guard and restrain their communion to require such severe conditions of all whom they will admit or tolerate within their Church that some men cannot without putting out their eyes or wilful acknowledgment of untruths others without committing sin against conscience undergoe the conditions thus required nor consequently be admitted to communion with it Make Communion with them impossible As in case any unsound or untrue position be entred into the Confession or Catechisme of any Church and all the members of that Communion be explicitly required to believe Such are prescribing subscription of errors and acknowledge the truth of every branch of that Confession and so that confession be really the condition and accordingly in the reputation of men esteemed the tessera or symbol of that communion then he that shall enter this communion thus conditionated must certainly either actually subscribe or which as to the scandal of the action is equivalent be reasonably supposed to acknowledge that untruth and if in some persons blameless ignorance may be supposed sufficient for the excusing or alleviating that fault yet 1. he that hath means of discovering that untruth and criminously neglects to make use of those means and 2. he that hath discovered the truth and yet thus professeth himself to believe the contrary will not be thus excusable And it is not here sufficient to object the supposable levity of the error or intellectual falsity For how light and inconsiderable and extrinsecal to the foundation soever the error be supposed to be yet if there be obstinacy in continuing in it against light and conviction or if there be falsness in professing or subscribing contrary to present perswasions or scandal and ill example temptation and snare to others in seeming to doe so these certainly are sins and neither light nor inconsiderable nor reconcileable with that fabrick of Christian practise which ought to be superstructed on that foundation § 8. or Profession against Conscience Nay if the errors be really on the other side if the doctrines so proposed as the condition of the communion