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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
soul_n	ordinance_n	power_n	resist_v	4,907	5	10.4011	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A62865	Christs commination against scandalizers, or, A treatise wherein the necessitie, nature, sorts, and evils of scandalizing are clearly and fully handled with resolution of many questions, especially touching the abuse of Christian liberty, shewing that vengeance is awarded against such as use it to the grievance of their weake brethren / by Iohn Tombes ...	Tombes, John, 1603?-1676.	1641 (1641)	Wing T1802; ESTC R1928	96,775	467

or forbid every action in speciall which is not so as may appeare by induction in the particulars before mentioned and thousands of the like I have read of some that have gone about to maintaine that there is nothing indifferent but this opinion either hath beene retracted by the author or conceived so absurd that it hath had either none or very few followers In the manner that I have declared I take it as certain That there are indifferent things It is granted that all humane actions in individuo in the particular or singular that flowe from deliberate reason are either morally good or evill as agreeing to or disgreeing from Gods law I said signantèr to bee marked that flow from deliberate reason to exclude such particular actions of men as being naturall actions from naturall instinct or force of imagination are not of morall consideration such as are the handling of the beard rubbing the nose shaking the legge when a man thinks not of them talking or walking in sleepe These as not comming from reason nor having any end are accounted not as rationall actions but as animal only though they be done by men and therfore neither good nor bad But for all singular actions which are not of morall consideration that come under a law being clothed with circumstances specificating and singularizing them as they come from reason as Aquin. 2 a. 2ae q. 18. art 9. or as Paraeus in Rom. 14. dub 10. ratione principij hoc est ratione electionis intentionis quâ fiunt in regard of their principle that is the election and intention by which they are done are either good or bad agreeing or disagreeing from Gods law Thus every act of eating or wearing apparrell or going a journey with this or that intent in this or that manner is either good or bad right or sinfull But then it is as certaine that many actions of men in the generall or in specie in the kind of them considered without restraint of particularizing circumstances afore they are in actu exercito that is actually done are indifferent as I have declared And it is further to bee observed that in these indifferent or middle things as they are called the christian Church hath greater liberty then the Iewish Synagogue For many things were not indifferent to them which are indifferent to us It was not indifferent to them to eat swines flesh or not to weare a garment of linsey-woolsey or not with many more But it is to us indifferent to eate swines flesh or not to wear a garment of linsey-woolsey or not The ordinances whereby the Iews were restrained in their liberty were a yoake which they were not able to beare Acts. 15. 10. But it is removed from our necks by Christs death who hath abolished the law of Commandements contained in ordinances Ephes. 2. 15. And in this liberty wee are commanded to stand fast that wee bee not intangled again with the yoak of bondage Gal. 5. 1. A liberty then we have in things indifferent to renege and deny it is to put on our neckes that yoake that Christ hath freed us from Neverthelesse though God hath not made these indifferent things intrinsecally or in their own nature good or evill yet extrinsecally they may be made good or evill and that sundry wayes 1. By the command or prohibiting of the Magistrate For though the Magistrates authority cannot make for examples sake the eating of flesh or the wearing of a weapon unlawfull to me as a thing prohibited by God and thereby intrinsecally evill yet if hee forbid them who is the lawfull governour and hath power to make lawes or ordinances it is sin against God to doe these things because he contemnes the law of the Magistrate against the common good which is the ground of it and the authority concerning which God hath commanded Rom. 13. 1. Let every soule be subject to the higher powers For there is no power but of God the powers that be are ordained of God Whosoever therfore resisteth the power resisteth the ordināce of God they that resist shall receive to themselves damnatiō The same is to be conceived of the commands of Ecclesiasticall governors according to their authority of naturall parents of tutors teachers Masters according to the flesh to the which God hath commanded us to be subject Ephes. 6. And elsewhere Whence it was that the Rechabites would drinke no wine because of Ionadab the sonne of Rechab his command not to drinke wine Ierem. 35. 6. For though by such mandates they cannot take away our originall liberty yet they can restraine the use the liberty we have in things indifferent being the proper matter for the Magistrate or Governour to shew his authority of making lawes in 2. By a vow whereby a man bindes himselfe to doe or not to doe to use or not to use his liberty in such or such an indifferent thing For by vowes and promissory oathes a man may make that necessary or sinfull to himselfe which neither is intrinsecally good nor evil necessary nor sinful nor would be to him such but for the vow he made because God hath enjoyned Deuter. 23. 21. When thou shalt vow a vow unto the Lord thy God thou shalt not slack to pay it for the Lord thy God wil surely require it of thee it would be sinne in thee But if thou shalt forbeare to vow it shall be no sinne in thee And Psal. 15. 4. it is made a requisite condition of him that shall dwell in Gods Tabernacle that though hee sweare to his owne hurt he change not 3. Likewise a man may by his owne opiniō make that extrinsecally evill which is not so intrinsecally For though a mans opinion cannot make that to bee duty which is not so yet it may make that to be sin which otherwise would not bee so according to the Apostles resolution Rom. 14. 14. To him that esteemeth any thing to be uncleane to him it is uncleane ver 23. And hee that doubteth is damned if he eat because he eateth not of faith For whatsoever is not of faith is sinne 4. The good or evill of our neighbour binds us to use or not to use our liberty as it may further their good or be a scandall to them For though wee are called to liberty yet wee may not use our liberty as an occasion to the flesh but by love serve one another Gal. 5. 13. Now it is to be observed that which is intrinsecally good by vertue of Gods command is intrinsecally good to all to whom that command is given who are the whole world and that which is intrinsecally evil is evil to all to whom Gods Commandement forbids it who are the whole world and therefore it is sin to any to doe that which hee forbids as to lye blaspheam c. But that which is extrinsecally good is not good to all but only to those to whom the obligation reacheth and for the