Linguistic DNA - Concept Modelling Demonstrator

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	apostle_n	church_n	error_n	1,964	5	7.1034	4	false

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A18346	A fruitfull sermon, vpon the 3.4.5.6.7.&8. verses of the 12. chapiter of the Epistle of S. Paule to the Romanes very necessarie for these times to be read of all men, for their further instruction and edification, in things concerning their fayth and obedience to saluation.	Chaderton, Laurence, 1536?-1640.; Dering, Edward, 1540?-1576.	1584 (1584)	STC 4926.5; ESTC S1546	34,708	90

y t he retaineth it among the ordinary gifts secondly in that he tyeth and lymitteth it to be moderated and ruled by the proportion of faith thirdly in that he commaundeth the Prophet to abyde in that calling fourthly in that immediately after he diuideth it into the office of the Doctour and Pastour all which can not agree with the giftes of foretelling things to come For that is not ordinary not alwayes limitted not alwayes to be retayned neither is it common to the Doctour and the Pastour therefore it must needes be thus expounded in this place as we haue sayde so that the meaning is hee whom God hath called sincerely to interpret his worde to the profit of his people let him abyde in that function For albeit that worde is wanting in the Greek text yet either that or some other of the like force must necessarily be vnderstood as the Greeke Scholiast and other writers doe well note But what is ment here by The proportion of faith To omit the opinions of men I take it to be the same which the Apostle before named The measure of faith and the meaning to be as if he shoulde saye he that is lawfully called by the church truly and purely to expound the Scriptures to the edification of the hearer let him abide therein according to the proportioÌ„ or measure of his gifts which are giuen him to occupie and exercise in faith for God hath giuen to some more to some lesse yea and somtimes blesseth him that hath lesse more than him that hath more Therefore euery man being called must abide therin and occupy his proper talent and gift with all diligence and faith to the edification of his owne flock Whereby we may plainly see what a Prophet is A Prophet is a member or minister of the Word of God which abideth in the true sincere interpretation thereof to the edification of his own peculier flock So Paul chargeth y e bishops at Ephesus to do Act. 20. The word traÌ„slated office signifieth here all other ordinary functions besides the Pastor and Doctor In deede it is sometimes taken in scripture generally for all Ecclesiasticall functions sometime applyed to the ciuill Magistrate but that it is not so taken here it is manifest by the disiunctiue proposition either of whose partes cannot by any rule of reason comprehend both Wherefore as the Prophet hath to handle the Word so y e officer hath to handle not it but other necessary dueties wherein he must also continue with diligence and fidelity Let vs proceed to the seueral branches Or he that teacheth on teaching These wordes as they shewe the office of the Doctor wherein he must bee continually occupied not breaking in vpon any other ciuill or Ecclesiasticall calling so they may teach vs together what a true Doctor and Teacher is howe to define and distinguish him from all other ministers in the Church A Doctor or Teacher is a Prophet which truely soundly and reuetently expounding the Canonicall Scriptures continueth in teaching true doctrin to his own people for the establishing of their minds in the truth If any doubt of y e trueth hereof he may as well doubt of the Scriptures them selues out of the which euery part hereof is drawne For the Apostle here calleth the Doctor a Prophet that he must interpret y e canonical scriptures it appeareth first by the fourth of the 1. of Pet. Let him that speaketh speake as the words of God Secondly because who knoweth not that the Scriptures are giuen of the holy ghost and are sufficient to teach all trueth and that the Churche is built vpon this doctrine Lastly Christe sendeth vs to the Scriptures which witnesse of him and teacheth by them the trueth and confuteth errors Therfore the Doctours must onely expounde the canonicall Scriptures not the Apocripha or any mans writinges For the Lord will haue nothing brought into his holy assembly but that which he hath appointed And therefore albeit there were greate corruption in the Synagogues of the Iewes yet the histories of the Acts of the Apostles declare that nothing was read and expounded in them but the Law and the Prophetes not so much as the Caldie paraphrast For as the Prophetes might not in calling the people together blow any trumpets but those which were made and set apart for that purpose by the commaundement of God Numb 10. 28 so ought not the Ministers of God to expound or read openly in the congregation any writings but onely the Canonicall Scriptures which the Lorde hath set apart and sanctified for that vse That he must doe it properly purely and reuerently appeareth by Peter before cited hee must speak as the wordes of God Paule testifieth y t he spake as concerning Christ as of sincerity as of God as in the sight preseÌ„ce of God 2. Cor. 2. 17. That he must be diligent continue in teaching the generall law prooueth it Last of al y t he must do it to his owne people the word it selfe prooueth for there is a necessary relation betweene y e Teacher and the learner the Doctor and the disciple Howe can hee teach except hee haue disciples howe can those be his Disciples which doe neither heare him nor learne of him The reason why he must doe it diligently to plant and establish his disciples mindes in the truth is because we are very dull to conceiue and learne and although lecture be vpon lecture doctrine vpon doctrine here a little and there a little yet we shal remaine ignorant and proceede slowly if the truth be not soundly beaten into our heades Againe because by this meanes the Pastor shall haue more time in exhorting and applying his exhortation to the present necessity of his people But if any say is this al to teach y e truth to his people by expounding y e scriptures must he not also confute errors stop the mouth of the aduersary No doubt he must But we must acknowledge here the wisedome of the holy ghost which meaneth heere by teaching the trueth the confutation also of errour for the rule of trueth is also the rule of falshood For as light expesseth darknesse so truth falshoode and who is better able to confute errors then hee that knoweth the true meaning of the word Thus you see what a true Teacher is and wherein his whole function consisteth There remaineth nothing but to giue him his schollers and to set him on worke for as the Doctor must continue in true sound and pure doctrine so his schollers must search diligently according to the example of the noble men in the Actes 17 whether his doctrine be true or not whether it bee soundly and purely gathered oute of the word or not As he is reuerently to handle the Word so they must reuerently receiue it as from the mouth of God The next braunche or speciall which Christe hath giuen to his Church is the gift of exhortation else-where called the Pastor who as

prophesie according to the proportioÌ„ of faith 7 Or an office let vs wait on the office then hee that teacheth on teaching 8 Or he that exhorteth on exhortion he that distributeth let him do it with simplicitie he that ruleth with diligence he that sheweth mercy with chearefulnesse THese sixe verses necessarily inferred of the former containe a perpetuall Lawe touching the gouernement of Christes Church the continuall keeping whereof as it is the safety of the bodie so the breache of it is the destruction thereof The same is either generall appertaining to all the members of the Church declared by two familiar argumentes One of the contrarie vnto the law for the cleerer vnderstanding therof verse 3. ioyned in the same sentence with the law The other of a similitude wherin as in a glasse we may see the trueth necessitie of this law taken from the natural disposition of the bodye verse 4. 5. Or it is speciall belonging onely to publique persons that is to Prophetes the disposers of the word and Secreates of God whom he deuideth either into Doctors as in the latter ende of the 7. Uers. Pastors as in the beginning of the 8. verse officers occupied about other necessarie duties diuided into Deacons Rulers Attenders on the poore This generall law thus inferred necessarily vpon y e former exhortation as a most readie way and ordinarie meane whereby to haue certaine experience and triall what the good acceptable and perfect wil of God is teacheth the duetie and way of all Christians wherin they ought to walk continually without wearinesse The giuer whereof is not man but God For albeit Paule writ those wordes and this Epistle to the Christian sainctes at Rome yet he was but onely the pen man of the Lordes inditement or as Moses was the writer of the Lordes lawe and commaundement For he saith not I by mine owne authoritie or by any gift and grace in me but I saye thorough the grace that is giuen to me meaning no doubt that grace of his Apostolical authoritie which he being a blasphemer had receiued of God to publish by word and writing his will and counsel to the Gentiles that their faith religion might not be grouÌ„ded builded vpon the weake sand of humaine traditions but vpon y e commandemeÌ„t of Christ the strong rocke and euerlasting foundation Where it is said I say it is all one in effect as if he should say I commaund For this Uerbe Lego in Greeke as also the Hebrue verb equiualent to the same especially beeing ioyned to the infinitiue Mood without an article is often vsed in that sense importing not a bare saying or affirmation but as here of necessitie it must seeing the Apostle sheweth not what hath beene is or shall be but what ought to be a flat law and commaundement So that for a more plaine demonstration of the truth it maye be thus expounded and resolued for I Paule by the authoritie of my Apostleship beeing a singular grace receiued by the free gift of God giue vnto euery one of you this generall lawe in the name of him whose Apostle I am inuiolablie and perpetually to be kept euen to the comming of Christ. Thus the Apostle maketh his enterance vnto the law with great wisdome and singular discretion for in that he sheweth his law not to proceede from himselfe or any other mortal man but onely from the lord of hostes whose apostle he was it doth not onely purchase great reuerence credite vnto it but also remoueth al iust occasion of enuy wherof he might haue bin suspected of vsurped authority wherwith the enemies of y e gospell might haue charged him if he shold not thus haue doÌ„ But now considering this law is his who only is the lawgiuer which is able to saue destroy no man can iustly contemne it or think it of small importance Also seeing the minister heereof was called and commaunded of this lawgiuer to write and preach it no man can safely enuy and contemne him or suspect him arrogantly to haue vsurped any vnlawful authority ouer the Romans or the Church of God Nowe then if Paul who was not in any spirituall gifts necessary for his calling inferior to the cheefe Apostles thought it a necessary point of wisdome and Christian duety both in respect of him selfe and of the Church here else where plainly to declare as wel who was this lawgiuer as the authour of his function and Apostleship how much more necessary deare brethren ought you to thinke it is for the Ministers in our time whose giftes in comparison of Paules are very fewe and small to let vs see both the authour of their doctrin and laws and also of their particuler function For if they commaund vs any thing hauing not receiued it from this Law-giuer by whose spirite wee must liue in all obedience of his will why shoulde we obey Nay why may we not cast it from vs as a vayne and fond tradition of man Againe if they cannot shew vs the authour of their Ministery and the grace they haue receiued for the godly and acceptable discharge thereof why may we not iustly iudge them to be either prowd vsurpers of vnlawful functions inuented of man or couetous intruders of them selues into the lawfull callings for the which they are vnmeete I would all those which haue any publique place in the Churche of England seeing they will not voluntarily follow this wisdome of Paul might be compelled by the godly wise Magistrates to shew the proof of their ministerie out of y e word and the gifts which God hath giuen them meete for the discharge of their calling For theÌ„ I assuredly perswade my selfe that the Lord iniustice and mercy would so direct their sword that it would cut off not onely the head shoulders armes legges and all the rotten members of popish religion but also shred of from the true Church of God and the beloued spouse of Christe all ignoraunt idle wicked and hurtfull hirelings with all the reliques of Antichristian vsurped power which nowe to the greate and present perill of the Lordes Uineyarde do occupy the place and roome of most faithfull and painfull work-men But a fitter place for this matter shall be offered hereafter It is not to be omitted that Paule tearmeth his Apostolical function A grace giuen of God For herein he giueth the Romans vs in them to vnderstand that if they shall reiect or lightly regard his function and the precepts he giueth to euery one of them by the vertue thereof That then they openly shew theÌ„selues reiectors or light esteemers not onely of him his word but also of the grace and gift of God which after this manner appeareth in him for their saluation The which cogitation might breede in them a reuerent opinion of his person being the Ambassadour of Christ a godly care diligently to receiue and louingly imbrace the grace of God giuen him and by him offered vnto them

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