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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	father_n	scripture_n	word_n	5,665	5	4.3306	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A66579	The vanity of humane inventions held forth in a brief exercitation upon the controverted ceremonies, managed in certain queries : first drawn up for the satisfaction of some private friends, and now made publick for the good of others.	Wilson, Joseph, d. 1678.; Willson, John, d. ca. 1672.	1666 (1666)	Wing W2928; ESTC R2749	85,695	142

looked upon it as the invention and work of the Devil and upon those that did it as his Friends and Fiends And did they think it unlawful to persecute or use violence for the Faith it self the very substantials of Religion yet do our Adversaries think they may do it for circumstances Did they think it lawful to do it for things necessary and do our Adversaries think they may do it for things indifferent Do they think that the sticking at a frivolous vain Ceremony is sufficient ground for them to deliver men up to Satan throw them into prison and undo them if so who will ever think they regard Scripture Reason or Fathers more Who will ever think that they regard the peace of the Church propagation of the Gospel or Humanity more If this be the Spirit of our Mother the Church who will ever think her religious or Compassionate more Lam. 4.3 Who will not take up the words of the Prophet and say That she is become cruel like the Ostriches in the wilderness Who will not count her hard-hearted and merciless Ps 1●2 6 and choose rather to be a Pelican in the Wilderness or an Owl in the Desart than lye in her bosom What 's become of all that grace and pity that her sons use to say is in her Doth she spend it all upon Harlots and Whoremongers Doth she lay it out all in conniving at their miscarriages and commuing and remitting their Penances Hath she none at all left for the scrupulous and doubting This may tempt a man to think that she is of the same mind with those of her Sons who teach That Non-conformity is worse than open Profaness That to refuse at the Churches Command to put on a Surplice is worse than to Swear be Drunk or go to a Bawdy-house as if the transgressing of the Churches Ceremonial Law were a greater offence than the breach of Gods Moral Law then which what can be grosser Blasphemy Well if notwithstanding all we can say our Adversaries eye towards us be still evil Ap●vd M●●n Myst ad ann 1416. Edit lat in yel p. 523. and they will yet proceed to persecute us we shall sit down and say as Clemangis did in the like case These carnal Sons of the Church saith he do not only not care for spiritual things nor have any feeling of them but persecute those that are according to the Spirit as since the time of just Abel whom carnal Cain murdered it hath ever been and will be to the end of the World These are they who for temporal commodities flee to the Church and living like Secular men covet and grasp and rob desiring to rule but not to serve glorying in their superiority oppressing their inferiors rejoycing in their own pride and luxury They account gain godliness and are alwayes ready to do and endure any thing for the encrease of their temporalties choose how they are gotten scorning and laughing at those that are willing to live justly holily chastly innocently spiritually So far he Qu. 50. If notwithstanding all the evils we see in the Ceremonies we should yet submit to them whether do you think it would serve our turns If we should fall in with our Adversaries and do all that at present they require from us whether do you think such complyance would satisfy them so that they would then let us be at peace and live quietly among them Many wise and sober men think it would not but that if we would be painful in Preaching holy in Life and appear in any good degree for the power of Godliness we should be as far from having their true love and living in peace with them as ever we were before And indeed if we look upon past Ages and observe what hath been the issue of such complyances we shall find that the stitching of old and new cloth or the joyning of contrary Spirits and Principles Mat. 9 16 hath not as our Saviour teaches filled up the rent but made it worse When Paul at his coming to Jerusalem Act. 21.2 did upon the advice of some Brethren there and for preventing the offence of some Jews Vid. Tert. cont Mar cion l. 1. c. 20. Hieron ep 89. Magd. Cent. 1. l. 2. c. 10. vit Paul Zanch. vol. 2. de vit exter cult oppos thes 11. col 541. Gualth Bulling alios in loc Vid. Theodor hist eccl l. 2. c. 21. Mr. Park of the Cross pt 1. c. 3. sect 16. p. 159. zealous of the Mosaical Ceremonies comply and that sinfully as many think in purifying himself after the manner of the Law what did it avail him Why the Jews were so far from being satisfied with it that they stirred up the People against him laid hands on him reproached him drew him out of the Temple beat him and had not the Roman Captain prevented they had taken away his Life And when some of the more simple and facil● sort of the Orthodox in the Council of Ariminum yeelded to the Arrians that the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 should be layd aside the Arrians did not only publish all over the World that they had overcome the Orthodox and substitute 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 instead of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 but being unsatisfied with that they turned 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 into 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 So likewise when Zeno to hush the strife about the Council of Chalcedon framed his Henoticon and Anastasius to accord all parties established an Amnestia or Act of Oblivion commanding every one to preach according to the custom of his place and when Heraclius to pacifie the hot contention betwixt the Orthodox that held there were two Wills in Christ and the Monothelites that held he had but one injoyned silence on both sides what did all this produce Did it unite the differing parties No but set them further at distance than they were before And if we descend to later times hath this course wrought any better therein No but hath yeelded the same effect it did before For instance when Rochezana with some other of the more luke-warm sort of the Hussites submitted upon mutual abatements to an accommodation with the Papists what was the event of it why not long after their Adversaries reduced them to their former state and made them subject to the tyranny of the Pope as before And what became of the German Interim Did it heal the breach betwixt the Protestants and Papists No but made it wider than ever and which was worse begot differences amongst the Protestants themselves The like may be said of divers other compositions betwixt both Papists and Protestants Lutherans and Calvinists which have proved ineffectual as to the procuring of the unity and peace aimed at and intended by them In like manner when those good men that carried on the Reformation in this Nation in Edward the 6th dayes out of a charitable zeal let many things alone that should have been