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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	ghost_n	holy_a	mind_n	7,027	5	5.7568	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A35528	Of the unity of the church a discourse written a thousand four hundred and thirty years since, in the time of Decius the persecuting emperor / by Cyprian, bishop of Carthage and martyr ; most usefull for allaying the present heats, and reconciling the differences among us.	Cyprian, Saint, Bishop of Carthage.; Fell, John, 1625-1686.	1681 (1681)	Wing C7714; ESTC R29694	19,253	46

out of the Church scatters and makes havock of it It 's our Lord's saying I and my Father are one And again it 's writen concerning the Father Son and holy Spirit These three are one And now can any one believe that this unity which proceeds from the Divine immutability and is consolidated by heavenly mysteries can be rent asunder in the Church and divided into parts by the discrepancy of the jarring wills of men He who keeps not this unity holds not the law of God nor the belief of the Father and the Son nor the faith by which he should be saved This Sacrament of unity this indissoluble band of concord is represented to us in the Gospel by the coat of Christ which was not divided at all or parted but the soldiers casting lots upon his vesture who among them should wear it it remain'd whole and entire The scripture saith The soldiers said among themselves concerning this coat without seam woven from the top throout Let us not divide it but cast lots for it whose it shall be That garment represented the unity which descended from above that is from heaven and the Father which was not to be torn and cut by any who became possessor of it but he was to have a firm and entire possession thereof He cannot have the garment of Christ who rends and tears his Church So upon the other side when after the death of Solomon the Prophet Ahijah met with King Jeroboam on the way he rent the garment he had upon him into twelve pieces saying to him Take thee ten pieces for thus saith the Lord God of Israel Behold I will rend the kingdom out of the hand of Solomon and I will give ten tribes to thee But he shall have one tribe for my servant David's sake and Jerusalem's sake the city which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel to put my name there Thus when the twelve tribes of Israel were to be rent asunder the Prophet Ahijah presignified it by rending Jeroboam's garment But because Christ's people cannot be torn in sunder therefore his coat which was wove throout and of an entire piece was not parted and shared by the souldiers whose fee it was It 's being undivided and the parts of it being closely and imperceptibly conjoyned is a mysterious emblem of that concord and union which ought to be between all who have put on Christ What person therefore can be so impious so perfidious so raging mad with discord as to imagin he can compass or dare to attemt the rending the unity of the Godhead the garment of the Lord or Church of Christ He himself hath instructed us in his Gospel saying that there shall be one fold and one shepherd And can any one imagin that in one fold there should be many shepherds or many flocks The Apostle Saint Paul recommending to us this unity intreats and exhorts saying Now I beseech you Brethren by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ that ye all speake the same thing and that there be no divisions among you but that ye be perfectly joind together in the same mind and in the same judgment And again he saith Forbearing one another in love endeavouring to keep the unity of the spirit in the bond of peace Can it be thought that any one departing from the Church can subsist and live the man who raises new fabrics for himself when it was told Rahab by whose house the Church was prefigur'd Thou shalt bring thy Father and thy mother and thy brethren and all thy Fathers house home unto thee and it shall be whosoever shall go out of the doors of thy house into the street his blood shall be upon his head and the Sacrament of the passover instituted in Exodus contains no other lesson then this that the Lamb the slaying of which prefigured Christ's death should be eaten in one house The Lord enjoyn'd that it should be eaten in one House and that nothing of it should be carried abroad The flesh of Christ the Holy of the Lord is not to be cast out of doors nor have Believers any other house besides the Church which is but one The holy Ghost in the Psalms designs and expresses this house this lodging of unanimity when he saith It is God who maketh men to be of one mind in an house In the house of God in the Church of Christ the loving inhabit the kind and simple continue therein Therefore the holy Spirit appear'd in the shape of a dove that innocent gentle creature which is not imbitter'd with gall bites not fiercely with teeth nor violently tears with talons These creatures love the places where men dwell keep to the same nest both the mates hatch their young when they fly abroad they go in flocks they pass their age in mutual converse in their billing together they express in a manner the kiss of Charity and in all points fulfil the law of unanimity This simplicity is to be sought after in the Church this charity to be acquir'd that our brotherly love may imitate that of doves our mildness and gentleness equal that of sheep and lambs What hath the fierceness of wolves the madness of dogs the deadly venom of serpents and the cruelty of savage beasts to do with a Christian's breast We are to rejoyce when such are cut off from the communion of the Church least they devour the doves and sheep of Christ or poyson them with their infectious contagion Sweet and bitter cannot incorporate or dwell together neither can darkness and light rain and sunshine war and peace dearth and plenty drought and moisture tranquillity and tempest It is not possible for the truly good to depart from the Church The wind carries not away the good corn nor doth a tempest throw down the well rooted tree It 's the light chaff which the wind drives about and the decaied stock which the storm blows down These are they whom the Apostle John execrates and smites saying They went out from us but they were not of us for if they had been of us they would no doubt have continued with us Hence heresies have frequently been and still arise while the perverse mind retains not peace and perfidious discord abandons unity Which things the Lord permits and suffers leaving to men their liberty of will that when our hearts and minds are tried by this test of truth the integrity of the faithful may be as manifest as the light The Holy Spirit warns us of this by the Apostle telling us that heresies must be that the approved might be made manifest By this the faithful are tried and the perfidious detected so that even here before the day of Judgment there passeth a discrimination between the just and unjust and the chaff is separated from the good grain These are they who of their own heads without any warrant from