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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
sin_n	blood_n	jesus_n	shed_v	5,215	5	9.4404	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A20966	A letter of a French Protestant to a Scotishman of the Covenant VVherein one of their chiefe pretences is removed, which is their conformitie with the French churches in points of discipline and obedience.	Du Moulin, Peter, 1601-1684.	1640 (1640)	STC 7345; ESTC S111088	22,932	58

in the dish as it is with the Dutch but the Minister delivereth it to every Communicant When I received in my countrey the Minister used these words It is the body of the Lord Iesus Christ which suffered for your sinnes It is the blood of the Lord Iesus Christ which was shed for your sinnes And it is an expresse Article of their Discipline That the due reverence belonging to the holy Communion Cap. 12. Art 12 be carefully maintained The distribution of the Cup by a Lay-Deacon is worne out of use among them and whereas it was brought in in the beginning and in time of persecution it was afterwards removed Cap. 12. Art 9. by a Canon of their Discipline and by way of fact in all the Churches And whereas at the first as in all beginnings of reformation every one taught his neighbour Jbid. and for want of Ministers Lay Deacons would catechize It was declared by an Article of their Discipline That the office of those Deacons is not to preach the Word of God nor to administer the Sacraments As for the power of their Lay-Elders it is little more than the office of Churchwardens in England Their office is to look to the disorders of the flocke and give account of it to the Consistory as Church-wardens put in their Presentments in the Spirituall Court A voice they have in the Censures but the determination and pronouncing of the Censure belongs to the Minister They and the people together may admit or refuse a Minister chosen by the Synod if the King give way to it And so it must needs be where there is neither Bishop nor Living nor right of Patronage Chamier Tom. 2. Lib. 5. c. 2. Nos certe praeter electorum Ministrorum approbationem vel reprobationem nullas esse partes plebis censomus in Ecclesiastico regimine We hold indeed saith Chamier that besides approving or refusing the Ministers chosen the Laity hath nothing to doe in the government of the Church This is all the power of the Laity No mention there of ruling Elders that have alwayes the casting voice Page 424. of his Majesties large Declaration of which his Majesty saith very truly That it is a course unheard of in any Church and in any age The notable difference betweene the French Elders and the Scottish In the Yeare 1631. was justified not long since by one M. Adam Stewart a Scottishman heretofore Reader of Philosophie in Sedan who finding there the Consistory ruled as it ought to be by the Clergie of the place kept a great coyle to raise the power of the Lay-Eldership which had no such ambition and grew so violent in his course that after a long forbearance and moderation of the Ministers they were forced to excommunicate him and crave the Princes helpe who banished him out of his dominions Being put out of Sedan he went to Paris where he offered to stirre the same matter but he had no better successe there Neither shall ye finde among the Protestants of France that aversion from the Spirituall Courts which is among you For although they have more reason to hate the Spirituall Courts of Popery by whom they have suffered much yet the Canons of their Discipline allow them to resort to the Spirituall Courts to sue for their right Cap. 14. Art 8.9 10. and Protestant Advocates are allowed to plead there And which is more Protestants are allowed to exercise jurisdictions and procurations under the Clergie of Rome Ibid. Art 10. if so be they do not concerne that which they call spirituality Also to be farmers of Tithes Art 2. Priories and Church-demeanes Which sheweth that when they forbid Pastors to possesse any land under the title of Pastors Cap. 1 art 40 it is not because they disallow that the Church should possesse demeanes But because in the present povertie and paritie if some few had Livings and the rest none they conceive it would breed envie and factions in the Church As for Holy-dayes they observe reverently the dayes of Christmas Easter Ascension and Pentecost And where they have Sermons upon Week dayes as at Charenton by Paris upon Thursdayes they will change the day when there is a Holy-day of some note in the weeke This is Calvins counsell upon that point I would have you constant in refusing Holy-dayes yet so Calvini Epistola ad Montbelgardenses In festis non recipiendis cuperem vos esse constantiores sic tamen ut non litigetis de quibuslibet sed de iis tantum quae nec in aedificanonem quicquam factura sunt superstitionem prima ipsa facie prae se ferunt Nam in papatu magna celebritate Conceptionem Ascensionem Virginis coluerunt that you picke not a quarrell with every Holy-day but with those onely that are not at all for edification and beare a stamp of superstition in the front And he giveth them for example the feasts of the Conception and Ascension of the blessed Virgin which are also refused by the English Church But generally of all Holy-dayes the French Discipline commandeth Cap. 14. Art 21. that No scandall shall bee committed by working on dayes appointed to rest according to the Kings Edict And it were to bee wished that the Scots were no more refractarie to their good King the pious Defender of their Faith than the French Protestants are to their Soveraigne though of contrary religion even in those points of Ecclesiasticall Discipline How they stand affected in all points of Ceremonies and outward Order you may see by their Confession presented to the Emperour and the Princes of Germanie Wee acknowledge that both all Churches Confess Eccles Gallicar inter Opuscula Calvini Fatemur tum omnes tum singulas Ecclesias hoc jus habere ut leges et statuts sibi condāt ad politiam communem inter suos const ituendam cum omnia in domo Dei ritè ordine fieri oporteat Ejusmodi porto statutis obedientiam deferendam esse modò ne conscientias astringant neque superstitio illis adhibeatur Qui hoc detrectent cerebrosi pervicaces apud nos habentur and every Church have that right to make Lawes and Statutes for themselves to establish a publike Order among their own people since all things must be done in the House of God decently and with order and that obedience must bee yeelded to such statutes so they doe not binde the consciences and no superstition be mingled with them Those that will doe against this we hold them peevish and stubborne people You have heard Beza before perswading the English brethren to obedience unto their Prelates In the same Epistle hee tells them That the Surplice is of no such importance that the Ministers should leave their function Blza ad quesdam Anglicar Ecclesiarum fratres Non videntur ista tanti momenti ut propterea vel Pastoribus deserendum potius sit Ministerium quam ut vestes