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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	dead_a	dwell_v	quicken_v	6,316	5	11.0324	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A77100	Paideia Thriamous. The triumph of learning over ignorance, and of truth over faleshood. Being an answer to foure quæries. Whether there be any need of universities? Who is to be accounted an hæretick? Whether it be lawfull to use coventicles? Whether a lay-man may preach? VVhich were lately proposed by a zelot, in the parish church at Swacie neere Cambridge, after the second sermon, October 3. 1652. Since that enlarged by the answerer, R.B. B.D. and fellow of Trin. Col. Camb.	R. B. (Robert Boreman), d. 1675.	1652 (1652)	Wing B3760; Thomason E681_10; ESTC R206793	32,371	43

Deity the * Gen. 2.7 breath of God are more † Mar. 8.37 Mat. 16.26 pretious then our bodies which are clodds of earth and by nature cages of uncleannesse by so much greater ought our care to be towards those then these mortall bodies Now no man that hath a Treasure of Jewels or gold about him will venture alone into a place which is a receptacle of Theeves and Robbers None that is found in health will thrust himselfe boldly without feare or wit into the company of those who are infected with the plague or some other noysome disease Oh then how doe they at once betray their Religion and forfeit their reason who mingle themselves with Hereticks and resort frequently to the company of Schismaticks who are Theeves and Robbers John 10.8 for that they steale the Truth out of mens hearts and rob their high-born Soules of the love of God and goodness whose opinions likewise are worse then the plague in the event and consequent for as they incurably infect the soul So being embraced and followed they debarre men from ever coming to the Kingdome of God Vid. Gal. 5.19 witnesse likewise that of * Ignat. Epist ad Philad Ignatius which did our Saparatists understand his language they would read with a trembling in their joynts like that great prince in Daniel c. 5. v. 6. when he read his doome on the wall The words of Ignatius in English are these * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. Ignat. ibid. They that joyne themselves in a faction and adhere in affection to such who separate and divide their hearts from the Truth such men shall not inherit the Kingdome of God They who shun not the company of false Teachers shall be condemned to everlasting torments For as with David we must hate the congregation of the wicked or evill doers such are perverse Schismaticks So must we delight in the company of the Saints who are such not onely in name but also in practise being pure in their opinions holy in their lives not carnall nor sensuall Psal 26.4 They despise not Government neither speake evill of those who are set in authority over them by God Jude ver 8. but are Spirituall Heavenly minded meeke and obedient these are the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Those that excell in vertue commended by H. * Psal 16.3 David for our choice respect and companie Againe in the second place as reason fetches an argument against them from the danger of such meetings where the Devill may seize upon thee as hee did once upon that woman in the Theater as Tertullian recordes Tertul. cap. 26. li. de spectaculis There he calls Conventicles Diaboli Ecclesias c. so my reason tells mee Thus should every one argue with himselfe That it is a shame and disgrace for a Christian a brother of Christ to follow such a Teacher to make him his Master who is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a servant to his owne belly and a slave to his lusts the subserviencie to which hath ever beene the originall of Heresies as Theophylact notes well upon that place of the Apostle Rom. 16.18 They serve not the Lord Jesus but their own bellies This is spoken of Schismaticks whose private meetings end commonly in belly-cheere in luxurie and wantonnesse This is too well knowne to be true in these Truth-denying times and this too was confessed of † It was on the 1. of April last 1652. on which day I baptized two of his children in the open Congregation one newly borne the other of the Age of two years and an halfe late to me by a Taylour here at Whethamstead to be the cause of his revolt from such private meetings and coming againe to our Church it was as he ingeniously said their disorder and unseemly carriage in their Conventicles that moved him a man of a tender Spirit to forsake their wicked company and return to God Oh therefore be perswaded in time before you meet with destruction to avoid such Teachers and their meetings in dark cells and corners They are nurceries of sinne and corruption Though Israel play the Halot let not Judah offend Come ye not to Gilgal neither goe up to Bethaven Hos 4.15 Give not up your names to be those mens Disciples who for ought ye know may be the Popes Legats who broach new opinions contrary to those you have received and repugnant to the Scriptures Bern. Non pastores sed Impostores such men are not Doctores but Seductores not Doctours but Seducers not Pastours but Imposters Therefore shun their company come not into their privat assemblies lest ye be defiled with their pollutions corrupted by their Haeresies which ever end in Schisme both which break the bones and bruise the flesh of Christs Church his * Cant. 4.9,10 S●ouse And he that lives and dyes in a Schisme cannot hope to be saved being severed from that body whereof Christ Jesus is the Head which body is quickned by that Spirit whereby we shall be raised Rom. 8.11 If the Spirit of Him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you He that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortall bodies c. If then that Spirit dwell not in you you shall not be glorified As a member that is cut off from the body dyes and by no art can be quickned or have life put into it being severed from the Influentiall vertue or activity of that Soul which gives life to the body whereto whilst it was joyned it lived and moved I le conclude this third Quaere with that exhortation of the Apostle Eph. 4.3 Keep the Vnitie of the Spirit in the bond of peace that is in Love and Charity If this heavenly fire burnes and glows in your Christian breast you will not from that which I have delivered deduce this uncharitable and mistaken Inference as some once did but are now better informed of my intentions That I am an enemy to all kindes of meetings of Gods Saints and Servants I am not I exhort them often to meet but when Not when they should be at Church what to do Not to take upon them the Ministers office to preach but to repeat what they have heard from the mouths of their orthodox Teachers or to read the Scriptures to the unlearned or lastly to doe as David did i. e. Psal 66.18 Tell what God hath done for their Souls the manner of their Conversion the method and meanes God used to comfort them in their tribulation or to pray together Psal 122.6 for the peace of Hierusalem for the restauration of the poore distressed Church for a blessing upon the persons and labours of their honest Ministers let this be the end of your house-meetings and my Soul shall meet with you in commendation of your holy practise and in prayer for a blessing on your pious exercise but if you do otherwise e. i. forsake