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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
son_n	daughter_n	husband_n	wife_n	65,890	5	9.8593	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A50410	Certain sermons and letters of defence and resolution to some of the late controversies of our times by Jas. Mayne.	Mayne, Jasper, 1604-1672.	1653 (1653)	Wing M1466; ESTC R30521	161,912	220

a Drunkard or an Extortioner with such a one we are not to keep Company No not to eat I grant indeed S. Paul sayes so and doe think it very fit that S. Paul should be obeyed But how doth this prove that they are to forsake our Congregations That there are such men among us as S. Paul doth there describe is a Truth too cleare to be denyed But are our whole Congregations composed of such men Are all Drunkards Are all Fornicatours Are all Raylers Are all Extortioners Are all both Priests and People so like one another that when they meete they make not a Church Assembly but a Congregation of such sinners Or are they onely some And they perhaps the lesser part who are guilty of those sinnes Nay suppose they should be farre the greater part who are guilty of these sinnes yet you know our Saviour Christ compares the Church to a Field sowne with good seed But then he tells us too That to the Worlds end among the good seed there shall still grow Weeds and Tares Againe in the 13. chapter of S. Mathew at the 47. and 48. verses of that Chapter he compares the Kingdome of God here in this World to a Net cast into the Sea which inclosed Fishes of all sorts Bad as well as Good And what the meaning of this draught of mingled Fishes is I shall desire you to read at the 49. and 50. verses of that chapter where he sayes That at the End of the world and not till then the Angels shall go forth and shall separate the wicked from among the Iust 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 sayes the Originall Greek They shall separate the wicked from the midst of the Iust which clearely doth prove to us That till this finall Separation in the Church of God here on earth there will alwayes be a mixture To divide or separate therefore from the whole Congregation because some wicked men are in it is a course so unreasonable as if they should refuse a Field of Corne because there grew some weeds or should renounce a Field of Wheat because it beares some Tares Besides I would faine know how farre they will extend the meaning of that Text where S. Paul sayes That they are not to eat with a Brother who is a Drunkard or Adulterer or Rayler or Extortioner Will they extend it to all sorts of persons who are such If they will Then if a Woman have a Drunkard to her Husband she must separate from him because he is a Drunkard if she doe not every time she eats with him she disobeyes S. Paul and in every meale she makes with him she commits a Scripture sinne By the same reason also If the Sonne have a Drunkard to his Father he must remove Tables and not dyet with his Father And so there will be one Division more then those the Scripture speakes of For that onely tells us that the time shall come when the Sonne shall be divided from the Father and the Mother from the Daughter But if this Interpretation be true the Wife must divide and break her selfe from her distemper'd Husband too Nay give me leave to goe one step farther yet If the sinnes of a part be a just sufficient Ground to separate from the whole Why doe not they who separate divide and fall assunder For here let me ask them and let me ask without offence Are they all so Innocent so pure so free so voyd of sinne that there is not one disorderly Brother among them Is their place of private Meetings so much the New Ierusalem That no Drunkard no Adulterer nor Rayler enters there I wish there did not my Brethren We Ministers should not then so oft be called Dumb Doggs Idol shepheards Limbs of Antichrist Baals Priests by Tongues wich if S. Iames say true are set on fire of Hell If then it be not the meaning of S. Paul in that place that we should separate from all because some of those All are wicked upon what other just Ground doe they break Communion with us Is it because we preach in Churches They are Gods House of prayer Made his by the Piety and Devotion of our Fathers who if they lived now would hardly call them Saints who preferre a Barne nay a Hog-stye before a consecrated Temple Or is it because there is Haeresie or Superstition mixt with our once Common Forme of prayer If there had been you see that scandall is removed Or doe we persecute or force or drive them from our Congregations We are so farre from that that you see they are ready to require that our publick Congregations should stoope and bow the Knee to their private Meetings What other secret reason t is which thus divides them from us I can by no meanes think unlesse it be wrapt up in the Mystery and cloud of the 18. chap. of the Revelations which is their other strong Herculean place of Scripture which hath been urged to me to make good their Separation From which dark place of Scripture when I have removed the veyle and Curtaine I will put a period and conclusion to this Sermon T is there said that S. Iohn heard an Angel proclaime aloud and say Babylon the Great is fallen is fallen and is become the Habitation of Divels the Hold of every uncleane Spirit and a Cage of every uncleane and hatefull Bird As you may read at the 2. verse of that chapter T is farther said That he heard another voice from heaven saying Come out of her my people that yee be not partakers of her sinnes and that ye receive not of her plagues As you may read at the 4. verse of that chapter where by Babylon fallen they understand the Church of England falne By the Habitation of Divels the Hold of foule Spirits and Cage of uncleane Birds They understand our Parish Churches and Congregations which meet there which they say are so much a Cage of uncleane Birds places so corrupt so full of wickednesse and sinne that God by his Spirit as it were by a voice from the Clouds hath said unto them Come out of them my people divide your selves from them lest ye be partakers of their sinnes and go sharers in their plagues This is or must be their Interpretation of that place or else 't will no way serve to uphold their Separation If I say by the Habitation of Divells and Cage of uncleane Birds be not meant our Church Assemblyes from which they doe divide they doe but build a House of straw and choose the sand for a Foundation I am sure I have been told that this was the very Interpretation which the Gentleman gave of this place who just now disputed with me at a dispute which not long since he had with Mr. Gibson of Chinner But now will you heare my censure of this wilde Interpretation Take it then thus Among the severall Expounders of the Revelation I once met with one who when he came to interpret the