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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
son_n	ghost_n	holy_a	trinity_n	32,243	5	10.2915	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A61701	The religion of the Dutch represented in several letters from a Protestant officer in the French army to a pastor and professor of divinity at Berne in Switserland ; out of the French.; Religion des Hollandois. English	Stoppa, Giovanni Battista.; Davies, John, 1625-1693.	1680 (1680)	Wing S5769; ESTC R8262	51,056	72

the Father the Son and the Holy Ghost there is no necessity of using the terms of Persons or the Trinity That the first Productions of the Creation as to Mankind were not created in a state of Justice and Holiness That there is no such thing as Original Sin That Jesus Christ did not take Flesh of the substance of his Mother Mary but of the Essence of the Father or that the Word was changed into Man or that he brought it from Heaven or that it is not known whence he took it That the Union of the Divine Nature with the Humane in Jesus Christ was so made that the Divine Nature was render'd visible subject to Suffering and death That it is not lawful for Christians to swear to exercise any charge of Civil Magistracy or to make Use of the Sword not even to punish the wicked or to oppose force with force or to engage in a War upon any account or occasion That a man may in this life come to that pitch of Perfection as to have an accomplish'd Purity and to be without any defilement of Sin That it is not lawful for the Ministers of the Word to receive any Salary of their Churches for the Pains they take That little Children ought not to be baptiz'd That the Souls of men after their death rest in an unknown place till the day of Judgment These Mennonites are divided into several Sects upon very slight occasions Of these Sects there are two of a considerable standing whereof one is that of the ancient Mennonites of Flanders The other that of the Mennonites of Friezland Those of Flanders exercise Ecclesiastical discipline with extraordinary severity and excommunicate those of their Sects for very trivial miscarriages They are of a persuasion That it is not lawful to eat or drink or to have any communication no not as to the Concerns of a Civil Life with those who are Excommunicated They by that means make a division between Husbands and their Wives Children and their Parents maintaining That all the Obligations of Friendship and Society are to be cancell'd with those whom the Church has anathematiz'd Those of Friezland receive into their Communion such as have been rejected by the other Sects of the Mennonites and they exercise so great a relaxation in their discipline that they entertain all sorts of polluted persons into their society and for that reason are they called Borboritae or Stereorarii But as there are even amongst them some more scrupulous than others so they also are parcell'd into divers S●cts upon very slight and trivial occasions I shall only give an account of one by which a judgment may be made of the rest There is one Sect of them called Mamillarii upon this score That a Young Man had taken the freedom to put his hand into a Young Maids Bosome whom he was then courting and within a few dayes to marry Some amongst them maintain'd That he ought to be Excommunicated and others condemning that severity there happ●n'd a Schisme They who would not have the Young Man to be Excommunicated were called Mamillarii There are daily divisions and separations amongst them and assoon as they chance to be ejected out of one Society they find a reception in some other Many amongst the Mennonites have embrac'd most of the Opinions of the Socinians or rather those of the Arrians concerning the Divinity of Jesus Christ They generally press that Toleration of all Sects which is so earnestly recommended by the Arminians It is their persuasion That they ought not to expell out of their assemblies any man who leads a devout life and acknowledges That the Holy Scripture is the Word of God though the same Man does not agree with the others in many things which are accounted Articles of Faith These last are by the others called Galenists taking their name form one Galenus a Physician of Amsterdam a very Eloquent Learned and well-Experienc'd Man and one who is charged to be an absolute Socinian The Socinians deny the Divinity of Jesus Christ the Existence of the Holy Ghost Origina Sin the Satisfaction of Jesus Christ the Resurrection of the Reprobate and the Reassumption of the same Bodies which the Faithful had during their abode in this World Their publi●k Ass●mbli●s are forbidden but they lurk under the names of Arminians and Anabaptists They have also their secret Assemblies in which they are very fervent in Prayer to God with groaning and weeping They make it their Comp●a●nt That they are odious to and abominated by most Christians upon the score of the doctrine which they profess They affirm Th●t they have not Interest in the maintaining of it save only the P●rsuasion they have of its truth and the zeal of appropriating to its only individual and Sovereign God the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ the glory of his Divinity They are further of opinion that having been confirm'd in their Faith by the reading of the Word of God and by the Books which have been written against them they make it their earnest and humble Suit to that great God That if they are in any error he would discover it to them that they may renounce it and give his Truth the glory Their conversation is holy and without reproach as far as men can judg by what they see and that conversation is absolutely modell'd according to the Precepts of Jesus Christ and it externally appears that since they are not much concern'd for the things of this World their care is the greater to perform the works of Devotion and Charity and to promote the Salvation of their Souls They wholly employ themselves in the reading of the Word of God in which they are so well vers'd that most of them seem to have it by heart In the Assemblies they make for their exercises of Piety all that are present have the liberty of speaking One amongst them begins to read a Chapter of the Scripture and when he has read several Verses of it till he has come to a full Paragraph he who reads and they who hear do respectively give their Sentiments concerning the sence of the words which have been read to them But what is most surprizing is that though the greatest part of them be illiterate and men of no study at all as being Merchants or Tradesmen yet they all seem to have a particular Talent for the understanding and exposition of the Holy Scripture Nay it is reported that the Learned amongst them who have written Commentaries or Annotations upon the Holy Scripture have every where done very well save only in those places where their own prejudgments have engag'd them to accommodate the Scripture to their own Erroneous Sence So that it may be said of them as I think I have heard it heretofore said of Origen Vbi benè nemo meliùs ubi malè nemo pejùs Where he had done well no man could have done better and where he had done ill no man could do worse