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soul_n	become_v	body_n	sin_n	4,701	5	4.7025	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A51171	A short answer to several questions proposed to a gentleman of quality by a great minister of state not unfit for these times of our continuing divisions, though written when a general indulgence of all opinions was endeavoured to be obtained : shewing the authors judgement concerning the publick exercise of several religions and forms of worship, either upon pious or prudential grounds, under one and the same government : as they may relate both to discipline and doctrine, ceremonials or essentials in worship.	Monson, John, Sir, 1600-1683.	1678 (1678)	Wing M2463; ESTC R8157	17,665	24

vices and nursing them up with the milk of flattery in calling good evil and evil good a Isa 50.20 which is a beautifying of a people as the Pagan Negroes do by painting with Ink instead of Colours b Isa 9.16 to which the greatest wo belongs though the wicked may bless for a time those whom God abhorreth c Psal 10.3 3. Mandando So Vriah's Murder and Drunkenness were Davids sins though effected by others 4. Consentiendo For thus St. Paul was guilty of Stephens Martyrdom d Act 22.20 and therefore if sinners intice thee consent thou not e Prov. 1.10 for sentient eandem poenam qui consentiunt in candem culpam 5 Provocando By inflaming or inticing others to sin as the Harlot in the Proverbs f Prov. 7. for by setting any others house on fire we are sure to burn and consume our own if contiguous to it and be answerable for the others damage 6. Participando For if thou seest a Thief attempting to steal and hast a power to hinder him and dost it not thou art guilty of his crime the not preventing sin in another where I may do it lawfully being a promoting of it And then Aequum est ut qui participes fuerunt in peccato participes fiant in supplicio it is but just that we suffer in the punishment if we partake in the sin g Rev. 18.4 for so wrath came upon Jehoshaphat h 2 Chron. 19.2 for a good wish to a bad action is a partaking of the evil i 2 Joh. 5.11 7. Omittendo vel Conivendo by conniving at or not reproving others in their sins a Eph. 5.11 Lev. 5. Ezek. 3. such a love and indulgence to my brother being the greatest hatred b Lev. 19.17 For so God hates us most when he seems not to hate us at all by reproving and correcting us but suffers us to go on in a course of wickedness c Isa 1. 8. Defendendo for he that defends or maintains a bad cause or action espouseth the guilt of it when He that justifyeth the wicked or condemneth the just is abominable before or unto God d Prov. 27.15 and becomes the greater sinner in that he hath more of deliberation and perhaps less of temptation in it than the other had 9. Praecedendo by giving ill examples for if I pluck up the first pale in anothers inclosure and engage others by my example to lay it waste and common I am guilty of their trespass as he that wilfully makes or inlarges any cuts in a Sea-bank is liable to repair the damages any receive by those waters And thus Jeroboam made Israel to sin saith the Text even exemplum dando as well as imperando and Peter the Jews e Gal. 2. And to these I might add many other ways as a learned Divine hath observed to me by which we derive others sins upon our selves to make us vigilant over our own and others Souls since there are so many Avenues for sin to approach us and that it is of so subtil and insinuating a nature as though the Guards be never so well kept it will sometimes enter by a false pass or glide in by the advantage of that gloomy darkness that sometimes over-shadows the best men And therefore we need add Ballast to our Sail examination to every action to poise and prove it by it being a safe and noble no melancholly thing as one wittily expresses it to be always in ploughing weeding and worming a conscience in removing Straws as well as Logs occasions of temptations by trying and testing every thought word or work to make them currant and by filing the Iron and melting the Ore to clear and smooth the greatest difficulties lest our spungy souls apt to receive any liquor suck in and imbrace any thing evil and swell us into such an immence body of sin as through custom or impenitency may become too big to enter into the Bethesda of Christs Blood though what comes there is ever cleansed and cured But to express it the better almost in a great Authors words I conceive a wilful permission or toleration of the most atom airy sin is a crime in any man that may prevent it and much more in a Magistrate who bears the Sword in vain if he endeavour not to restrain all appearances of evil and sheaths it in his own bosom like Ely 1 Sam. 3.14 For the Devil brought the Divinity of doing ill that good might come of it Rom. 3.8 early into the Church to undermine and ruin us and of all other evils Factions in Religion if countenanced for any civil end prove the most dangerous in that mistaken zeal hath a Cement in it that makes the strongest Combinations tyes the closest and yet breaks the strongest Bonds violates all Obligations natural and civil and under a pretence of serving God brings the Devil in upon his shoulders and inthrones him for a Deity acting all Rapines and Disorders under a pretence of Piety so as the mutual Communications of Members in civil bodies that should be a means of common advantages is corrupted and men live rather to stir up Animosities than pay the Duties of Charity to Neighbours or of Obedience to Superiors not only to the invasion of Order and Unity but the undermining of Christianity it self though pretended Religion be the Engine by which they work and all this to shape Government at the last for the Interest of the strongest party ever pretending to fight for their God when they fight against their King and glory in their Crime as the highest vertue so as Religion the great instrument of Peace and Piety proves the greatest Incendiary For a light distemper in the Church proves many times a Contagion in the State and is ever to be cured by Corrosives where Lenitives work not but with more moderation to those that agree with us than to such as depart from us in our setled Doctrine though they artificially pretend to be in these times the great Patrons and Vindicators of our Church by it with the unnatural Viper to eat out the bowels of their own Mother for there are many now of our High Clergy that with a strange impudence do intitle her to their Errors and want not the countenance and encouragements of many great ones to invite them by preferments to it yet their Arguments are rather Railings than Reasons by slighting and defaming our most Orthodox Doctrine concerning Faith Grace and Justification with disowned and false consequences to make way for the entertainment of their dangerous Errors which are both derogatory to Gods honour and tend to the shaking the sure foundations of our Christian Faith comfort and assurance of our spiritual Estate by improving Arminianism beyond the modesty of its Author into great degrees of Pelagianism and Socinianism and press them as agreeing with the Articles of the Church of England though I dare confidently affirm that both the Compilers