Selected quad for the lemma: spirit_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	aaron_n	body_n	son_n	23	3	4.4127	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A17576	The pastor and the prelate, or reformation and conformitie shortly compared by the word of God, by antiquity and the proceedings of the ancient Kirk, by the nature and use of things indifferent, by the proceedings of our ovvne Kirk, by the vveill of the Kirk and of the peoples soules, and by the good of the commonvvealth and of our outvvard estate with the answer of the common & chiefest objections against everie part: shewing vvhether of the tvvo is to be follovved by the true Christian and countrieman.	Calderwood, David, 1575-1650.	1628 (1628)	STC 4359; ESTC S107402	71,807	74

Ceremonie no Bishop and in practise is more earnest in urging of Ceremonies then of obedience to the greatest things of the Law by the Canons aboute matters which they themselues call indifferent doth viole●● eyther to the bodies or consciences of the people that thinke otherwayes maketh them to serue as roddes to scourge and whippe out of the Kirk and ministerie whom and when they thinke good 3. The PASTOR considering that he is called to feede the f●ock of Christ and to care for the peoples soules in his entrie to the ministerie will be loath to undertake a greater charg● then he can in some measure overtake and the lesse his charg● is the greater is his contentment not that he desireth to be 〈◊〉 but to be faythfull when he is entered he hath the work of the ministerie in singular regarde as the most honourable and laborious worke that he can be employed aboute whereof the best man is not worthy and unto which the wole man is not sufficient and therefore is resident among the people serveth not by deputies and Suffraganes but in his owne person and is altogether taken up with the Pastors dueties of preaching praying catechising visiting exhorting rebuking comforting c. but labours most diligently in the word and doctrine because fayth commeth by the Word preached The PRELATE intending nothing but to feede himselfe at his entrie to his prelacie he regards not so much the number of soules he should feede as the number of chalders the large revenues and the great dignities he is to feede upon and the larger his Diocie the better for him Hence is it that he ascends from a Diocesan to an Archbishop and a Primate After he is entred he disdayneth the worke of the Ministerie as base and unworthy of bis grace and great Lordship he serveth by his deputies and Suffraganes and thinks it a more honourable and necessarie imployment to attend and reside at Court or at the places of civill judgment as Councell Session Exchequor and howsoever he appropriates to himselfe the reward of double honour due to them who labour in the word doctrine yet he thinkes that he is not bounde to take the paines of that worke unto which the double honour is annexed So the Pastor must labour in the worke and the Prelate must reape the reward and which is more prejudiciall to the peoples soules he maintayneth that learned qualified preachers are not so necessarie in congregations as Curats and Readers that there is too much preaching and too litle reading and praying meaning nothing els but their confused Leitourgie 4. The PASTOR dare not do harme to the peoples soules because he is subject both in calling and conversation to the discipline of the Kirk which stryketh upon the Pastor as well as upon the people and to bring the transgressers to repentance he sitteth with his brethren in session presbyterie assembly administring the holy discipline holily that is in sinceritie faythfulnesse without prejudice or partiality and never ceasing till the scandall be removed the Kirk be purged and the offender if it be possible be wonne unto God and all this as being Christs owne worke he doeth with Christs owne weapons that is with the spirituall sword of the word which is mightie through God to subdue every thing exalting it selfe against God and to bring sinners to repentance The PRELATE may doe what harme he will for his owne tyrannicall custome and prastise but not by any law eyther of Kirk or state he exempteth himselfe in respect of his Episcopall administration and as he is a Prelate from all censure and scorneth to submitte himselfe to any Ecclesiasticall judicature albeit the chiefe Apostles submitted themselues unto the Kirk and albeit there be no subject in a Kingdome of whatsoever qualitie or condition but in every respect he is under the controulement of some judicature in the Land where he liveth And as he is thus singularly lawlesse of himselfe so pretending the sole power of proceeding to belong to him by vertue of his place and office he sweyeth the course of discipline as best pleaseth his Lordship processes begu●ne for trying of slanders if the partie never so wicked haue Argument of weight for my Lord or his Receaver are incontinently by the Word of his Monarchicall authoritie stricken dead Hereby it commeth to passe that where prelates rule sinne reigneth and the nearer the Bishops wings the greater libertie for sinne as is seene in their owne houses and traynes And for this reason is it that both Atheists and Papists like the Episcopall discipline better then the pastorall which they call straytelaced because it troubleth their corruption whereas the other layeth the reynes upon their neck And if the Prelate happen to proceede against offenders his discipline consists not so much in spirituall censure as in worldly power and civill punishment as fining confining imprisoning c. which haue no power to worke upon the consciences of sinners to bring them to repentance which is most proper for the preachers of the Gospell and the chiefe ende of Kirk discipline 5. The PASTOR for the good of the Kirk is desirous that the assemblies of the Kirk provinciall and nationall be often holden and well kept knowing how necessarie they are for redressing things amisse for fulfilling things omitted and for preventing evils that are like to ensue and when the assemblie is convened he carrieth himselfe toward his brethren as toward the servants of Christ and collegues of equall authoritie none presuming to any place or preheminence though of order onely and not of power without the calling and consent of his fellow brethren There every one hath libertie to utter his minde every one is ready with the gift that God hath giuen him as the diverse members of one body for the good of the whole Kirk meeke Moses and burning Elias Esay with his trumpet and Aaron with his belles Bonaerges and Barionah the sonne of thunder and the sonne of the doue all moved by one spirit with mutuall respect reverence and brotherly loue joyne together in one conclusion and if at any time they be of different judgements they are not suddaine and summar in concluding things of importance that concerne the whole but that all may be done with uniforme consent after the example of the Apostles Acts 15 the conclusion is delayed till all objections be satisfyed and God giue greater light to such as are otherwise minded and so to the greate good of the Kirk both peace and trueth are preserved The PRELATE is as averse from a free assembly as the Pope is from a free Generall councall and therefore will eyther haue none at all or will haue them so slavish as if they were but his ecclesiasticall courts convened under him and in his name When this Assemblie is convened at his owne hand without calling or election he taketh upon him to preside moderate There no man