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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	keep_v	peace_n	unity_n	7,015	5	8.9407	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A67119	Eleutherosis tēs aletheias, truth asserted by the doctrine and practice of the apostles, seconded by the testimony of synods, fathers, and doctors, from the apostles to this day viz. that episcopacie is jure divino / by Sir Francis Wortley ...	Wortley, Francis, Sir, 1591-1652.	1641 (1641)	Wing W3637; ESTC R34763	18,183	38

of Episcopacie because the contrary part have not the like proofes warrant and approbation for their Presbytery and can bring no sufficient and convincing authority for a quarterly or yeerely President joynt Presbyters and Lay Elders usurping pastorall and Episcopall jurisdiction And here in confidence of my cause I adde that if they have any lawfull generall Councill or any Synod except their own which established a Church Government by such a President Presbyters and Lay-elders as above I will yeeld the cause Now it concerns us very much to be well advised and truly to judge of these matters because it appeares in that dangerous and seditious Pamphlet concerning the late Protestation that the Author therof and such as he is care not what government be established so that Popery which we wish more rightly then they be abolished Episcopacie and the present government which change how inconvenient it may be they know not be altered and that they may have liberty and toleration which what state wil permit to professe what manner of Religion they make choise of So may we have as many religions as there be at Amsterdam and unpeople all our plantations by calling many phantasticall schismaticks home who under colour of dislike of the Church Government here have fallen out with our Religion and framed to themselves divers opinions if not Religions contrary to ours not only in forme but in reality Seeing there is but one Lord one faith one baptisme one God and father of all let us indevour to keepe the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace that there may be one body and one spirit even as we are called in one hope of our calling Eph. 4. Let us stick fast to that one truth which wee are taught and be stedfast in one faith and agree joyntly with one accord like children of one Father and Mother Let us not lose the honour of our Church Government but reforme the personall errours And since reformation signifies nothing else but the reducing and setting matters into the forme in which they were most perfect let us constantly hold our-selves to the forme kept and practised in the Primitive times and in the first second Cēturies In which we shal find the Order Episcopall Presbyteriall and Diaconall observed and ever since confirmed by Nationall Synods and Councils of our own neere 1400 yeeres agoe or at least 1000 and practised by many Successions before and since What then remayneth but that wee establish the present Government of our Church which is so agreeable to the ancient Constitution As for that which is alleaged by Saint Ierome in his Dialogue against the Luciferians concerning those things which were rather in honorem sacerdotii quam legis necessitate gratia Principum Conciliorum authoritate data collata for the honour of the Ministerie then the necessity of any Law given and bestowed by the bounty of Princes and authoritie of Councils I say for these things I take them not to be Iure divino though Deo data I know that God is to be honoured with our substance and that it is as lawfull since Christs time to vow or give to him according as he blesseth out labours and meanes as it was for David Solomon and their worthies and how offensive it may be to him to alter what is given or vowed as it was of old to change and give a bad lamb for a good I leave to the grave consideration of others Only I here wish that we may save the honour of our deare and aged Mother and punish her sons if any have dishonoured her by Pride Tyranny or Covetousnesse and that the Church and Common-wealth may hold such correspondencie as they did in the daies of David and Solomon and that as Kings were Nursing Fathers and Queenes Nursing Mothers to the Church in her infancie so in her age shee may find Kings to support her if weake and if any of her children be like those of Elies their fathers may correct them so that their Mother be not dishonoured nor ruined To say no more I conclude with that of Saint Augustine Siquid tota Ecclesia hodie per orbem frequentat hoc quin ita sit faciendum disputare insolentissimae est insaniae If any thing at this day be of frequent use in the whole Church to question and dispute whether it ought so to be is a most insolent madnesse Epist. 118. And that it is Aerianisme to say that Presbyters in the common acception are equall to Bishops such namely as were successors of the Apostles and such as Saint Augustine himselfe was This Epiphanius reckons among the ancient Heresies and time hath not bettered it and whether it resembles and comes neere to the Antilogie of Koreh or not my self not being rigid or prone to censure I leave to be determined by others FINIS Object Answ. Object Answ. Object 2. Answ. Of the first point Object Answ. Epist. ad Antioch The second point The third point Object Answ. The fourth point Object Answ.