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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
soul_n	believe_v	faith_n	love_n	3,679	5	5.6620	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A51680	A Mystery of godlinesse and no cabala, or, A sincere account of the non-conformists conversation ... occasioned by a bitter and malitions [sic] paper called the Cabala.	Birkenhead, John, Sir, 1616-1679.	1663 (1663)	Wing M3184; ESTC R7629	26,519	43

agree in the means 2. Unity and that Scripture 3. Uniformity that every thing be done according to Scripture decency and order that we be one of one way and of one mind and walk by the same Rule 4. Order none stirring out of his place all studying to be quiet and to follow their own business peaceably and obediently knowing them that rule over them 5. The power of Grace and Religion which is a wisdome from above first pure then peaceable and the power of Religion makes for peace 1. By subduing lusts whence come worse 2. By working that love that beareth all things c. 1 Cor. 13. 3. By enlightening the mind difference come from ignorance if we have grace to practise what we know God will reveal other things in due time and we shall all agree 4. By subduing that covetousness ambition pride envy c. that disturb the world 5. The power of Grace in us will convince all men that God is in us of a truth and so will pacifie the world The 6th thing that makes for peace a great care of weak and wilful ignorance which is lazy and will not search for truth bashful and is ashamed to do it sullen and will not understand 7. Take care of interest private or publick keep up a frame of spirit that looks rather what is just necessary and true then what is expedient and useful 8. Be humble and teachable neither proud nor self-conceited pertinacy nor think seriously on this obvious truth a man may erre put on meekness and long-suffering 9. Take care of respect of persons and of prejudice 10. Be deliberate and sober proving all things 11. Have a zeal always guided by knowledge 12. Let nothing be done through strife or vain-glory 13. Prudently suspend your judgement and practise and if you have faith have it to thy self 14. All lawful condiscention and forbearance one with another forbearing and receiving one another and bearing one anothers burden 15. Wait by prayer on the God of peace for your selves for your Ministers for your Magistrates 16. Mark them that cause divisions and avoid them 17. Give up your selves to your faithful Ministers whose faith follow considering the end of their conversation 18. Be wise unto sobriety and rather believe then dispute avoiding all unnecessary questions 19. Take care of an Innovating Spirit stand in the way ask which is the good way and walk therein and you will find rest for your Souls 20. Consider one another so as to provoke one another to love and to good works 21. Let the spirits of the Prophets be subject to the Prophets 22. Correct and keep down the rising of our knowledge with humility in our selves and charity towards others 23. So long as there is sound agreement in fundamental truths and in the simplicity of the Gospel silence all disputes in matters meerly notional and curious which have no necessary influence into faith and godly living 24. Let there be a joynt obedience to the truths wherein all agree and pursuance of the end which all profess whereunto we have already attained let us walk by the same Rule let us mind the same things Phil. 3. 26. 25. Out of a serious and single-hearted love of truth let us address our selves to the search of holy Scriptures 26. A mutual and brotherly love which is a very great means to work upon the judgements of one another and to take off all impediments as usually arise from personal prejudice in disquisition of truth 27. Keep your selves to the Analogy of faith the form of sound words 28. Labour against the inward grounds of contention as pride self-love envy malice and covetousness and endeavour after a meek charitable yielding and submissive disposition of heart and frame of spirit that may let fall private interest for the publick 29. Meet and converse together for a mutual good understanding of one another 30. Wait upon God for further illumination in all truth 31. Let the grounds of Religion be laid by Catechising 32. Suppress the beginning of religious debates by a fair and amicable communication among your selves Thus we have given a sincere account of our selves which we beseech the Lord to bless to confirm the weak to direct the doubtful to convince gain-sayers and to gain peaceable and sober men favour with God and men A SOLEMN VOW That we have taken VVE the Ministers of the Gospel in the Kingdomes of England Scotland and Ireland living under one King and being of one Reformed Religion having before our eyes the glory of God and the advancement of the Kingdome of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ the honour and happiness of the Kings Majesty and his Posterity and the true publick liberty safety and peace of the Kingdomes wherein every ones private condition is included and calling to mind the treacherous and bloudy Plots Conspiracies Attempts and practises of the Enemies of God against the true Religion and Professors thereof in all places especially in these three Kingdomes ever since the Reformation of Religion and how much their rage power and presumption are of late and at this time encreased and exercised whereof the deplorable estate of the Church and Kingdome of Ireland the distressed estate of the Church and Kingdome of England and the dangerous estate of the Church and Kingdome of Scotland are present and publick Testimonies We have now at last after other means of supplication Remonstrance Protestations and sufferings for the preservation of our selves and our Religion from utter ruine and destruction according to the commendable practise of these Kingdomes in former times and the example of Gods People in other Nations after mature deliberation resolved and determined to enter into a mutual and solemn League and Covenant wherein we all subscribe and each one of us for himself with our hands lifted up to the most High God do swear And because these Kingdoms are guilty of many sins and provocatious against God and his Son Jesus Christ as is too manifest by our present distresses and dangers the fruits thereof We profess and declare before God and the world our unfained desire to be humbled for our own sins and for the sins of these Kingdomes especially that we have not as we ought valued the inestimable benefit of the Gospel that we have not laboured for the purity and power thereof and that we have not endeavoured to receive Christ in our hearts nor to walk worthy of him in our lives which are the causes of other sins and transgressions so much abounding amongst us And our true and unfained purpose desire and endeavour for our selves and all others under our power and charge both in publick and in private in all duties we owe to God and Man to amend our lives and each one to go before another in the example of a real Reformation that the Lord may turn away his wrath and heavy indignation and establish these Churches and Kingdoms in truth and peace And this

little separations and divisions and resolvedly knit our selves together in an entire affection one to another that by this all men may know that we are Christs Disciples because we love one another and are ready to shew all mutual respects of Christian love and observance to each other upon all occasion loving as Brethren As likewise we shall in all meekness of spirit lovingly converse with and kindly affectionate to and respectful towards all our Fathers and Brethren in their places living without offence and blameless 14. We mourn but not as men without hope that our gracious God will find out a way to have mercy upon us and to chear up his countenance towards all his Chosen Ones wiping as that holy Bishop said all tears from their eyes and all spots from their faces and answering the holy desires of their hearts in shewing them Sion in perfect beauty and that not by overturning any part of the Government but by opening our hearts to see our errours and close one with another by turning the heart of the Father towards the Child and of the Child towards the Father least God come and smite the earth with dicurse 15. In the mean time we possess our Souls in patience and we keep silence before God waiting upon him that hideth his face from Jacob for his Spirit of love unity peace and concord resolving to continue thus doing till we receive an answer from heaven 16. It s true there are many of us whose bodies will not bear that austerity of fasting and humiliation which our cause may require yet they that cannot fast do pray and they that cannot spare a day in seven can spare an hour in twelve and make up the rest in frequent and servent ejaculations 17. Whereas some have pretended that we set up a Government within a Government and that we have an Authority among our selves we must let the world know we are all equal and we have no formality or Ceremony among us but a free and voluntary entrance left open for all comers into this strict course of Christian Austerity without any noyse without the required notice of any but God and their own conscience that all may well know and see that here is no design than meerly Spiritual aiming at nothing but Religious Transactions between God and our own Souls and consisting in the performance of the unquestionable exercises of Piety and holy Devotion 18. Since we have been uncapable of speaking to the people the things that are of everlasting concernment we have recommended to them the writings of good men pious and peaceable who being dead yet speak and poor men we know may read a good book when they cannot hear a good man and we our selves teach them from house to house with tears day and night as the Apostles did leaving with them such books as Mr. Baxters Call his Now or Never his Directions for Peace of Conscience his Saints Everlasting Rest Mr Bolton Dr. Sibbs Mr. Perkins Mr. Dod and Dr. Preston 19. We settle mens judgements upon most firm and solid principles leading to peace and holiness leading them through that safe and middle way that is equally distant from all the extremes men have run into in their hearts about some points of Religion as particularly in the points now in difference among us we teach our people that though we cannot conform to the Church without sin yet they cannot separate from it without sin we cannot administer according to the prescribed form but we and they can hear according to it we must joyn with the Church in our duties though we are not guilty of her infirmities we teach them that it is one thing to hold communion with a Church that is under some miscarriages and another thing to act those miscarriages what we chiefly insist on are things much comporting and agreeing with the spirit of the Scriptures and things that are most proper to build men up in their most holy Faith and to promote the power of godliness in their hearts and lives 20. It s true we desire to settle our peoples hearts upon all occasions but always offering them such things as tend to peace and quietness and godliness of living dealing as faithfully with them as those who must give an account and if therefore we have any interest with them we improve for God our Soveraign and the Church of Christ for whose distressed members we sometimes solicit them with success and find them willing above their strength and ability and we hope the Lord will not forget their work and labour of love and yet we desire not to wrong any Minister in his place for indeed we stated the point of Ministers maintenance upon such grounds that we are perswaded no sober Christian with whom we have any interest will withdraw any thing that is due from any man that labours in the Word and Doctrine and watches for their Souls And though we are otherwise represented yet our great endeavour is by a discreet interposition to allay and fix the people to a due temperament gently guiding some mens well-meaning zeal by such rules of moderation as are best to restore and preserve the health and peace of this Church and Kingdome much pleasing our selves in that good and firm understanding which would thence grow between his most Excellent Majesty and his good people all jealousies being laid aside our own and our Posterities Interest lay before us many strong obligations to seek and preserve the peace and welfare of the Land of our Nativity the offence which some mens dangerous medling and over-busie interpositions have contracted upon our profession we have resolved to expiate by such moderations for the future as might not only check the excesses of our practise but of our Opinions too no men having a greater kindness for peace and settlement preserved in truth unity and order then our selves whom it most concerns whether we consider our consciences callings or interests as knowing that nothing undermines to much in our Authority and Calling as those dangerous dissentions wherein the people learn to shake off both 21. It is true we cannot own that Episcopacy now established so as to undertake it our selves yet we would submit to it as to every Ordinance of man for the Lords sake whether to the King as Supreme or to those who are sent by him whose great charges and care is like enough to betray them to some errours and many enemies whereof they canno but contract good store while so eminent and so active they provoke that envy which improved to a popular odium is able to overcast the highest Merit and Integrity wherefore the Bishops have our prayers pity and assistance and although we cannot in our judgement approve all that they do driven it may be rather by the temper of the people and unhappiness of this age then 〈◊〉 their own disposition to any height and rigour of action yet we allow not that their persons