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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	apostle_n	gospel_n	preach_v	2,817	5	6.7760	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A18924	The syn, against the holy ghoste made manifest from those grounds of faith, which haue bene taught & received by the faithfull in Engla[n]d, & that for those 40.y. togither vnder the prosperovs raigne of my Soveraigne Lady and Quene Elishabet. Which may serue for a rayning in of the heady, & yet for a spur to slouthfull spirits: by Henoch Clapham.	Clapham, Henoch.	1598 (1598)	STC 5345; ESTC S117149	23,663	26

bene preached therefore now none of theyr Parish people visible Christians nor can the preachers be sayd to preach the ghospell Answer to the first conclusion First if they can prove euerie sowle there to have sufficiently heard that doctrine and yet to be Contumax which no reasonable sowle can beleiue then they say somthing Secondly the same word is exercised even now in England when the Sun of Brownisme shines in Netherlande shall we thinke it begets not faith in som now aswell as of yore and must those also be no visible Christians Thirdly the Author to the ●…ebrues fynding the people he writ vnto in a maner Dunces who for the tyme might have bene Doctors though he fo●…res them with the irremissable syn which might steale vpon them through negligence yet He wold not pronounce them cut of from God The Apostle teacheth another Rule Philip. the second Conclusion As for that they preach if it contained not the substance of the Gospell how haps anie sowle hath bene saued or bene brought into the state of saluation thereby Death begets not lyfe falshood begets not truth and so no Brownist could euer by that preaching haue bene interessed with iustifyinge faith Faith is got by hearinge or haue they heard som Angel from heauen or did the first of them get theyr iustifying faith by readinge obiection But there is no promise made of good to such preaching although God somtymes extraordinarily do blesse it to good Answer Tis false for it hath bene the only ordinary way of begetting sowles to god for those 40. y togither vnder the raigne of our soueraigne Queene nor did euer other Doctrine in any age before beget true faith and therefore a promise of blessinge i●… lynked with that ground of faith be the preacher thereof otherwise ād for other causes highly reproueable Besides that euident effect Gold is as verily gold in the snowte of a swyne as vpon the fynger of Zorobabel Augustine teacheth this largely tellinge the Donatists that the 4. Riuers of Paradise though appointed for watring it yet they verilie ron downe into Egipt so equally mynded was he towards the schismatiks his sowle lothed But all must be no Ghospell with those which theyr aduersarie preacheth But to make the Ground of Brounisme lesse colourable to the allegiants theyr Suns light hath giuen afalse shyne and thus it is First they tell vs that in raising vp this Church-ministerie lay-men may ordaine by Laying on hāds and consecrating the partie to such businesse That this is but a dreame I haue all rules in scripture ād consent of all Auncients and all Churches in this age against them Are they not like to haue a sound platforme of externall church-order that begin in such disorder Sec they tell vs of a Doctor exercised in the Church her peculiar exercises and that in deliuering doctrin vpō whome in the secōd place the Pastor must iump in with his exhortatiō distinguishing Doctor ād Pastor only by Doctrine ād Exhortation which rather ought to be reconciled by 1 Cor. 14. 26. hauing for this only a poore sermon written on Rom. 12. 3. c. misapplyinge verse 7. thertof as also the end of verse 8. for Men-widowes here against I haue the concordance of scripture and the voice of all Churches who acknowledge no Doctor peculiarly distinct but him of the Schooles much lesse did euer any dreame of menwidowes in one age or other Thirdly taking for graunted which is false to me who can proue a visible Church in all ages that all our synagogues were builded by Anti-christ to Idolatrie and therfore symply vnlawfull for a christian therein to pray or teach Besides the first may not be graunted I iudge theyr doctrine Iuish and after a sort to be a denyall of Christ com in the flesh and opposit to those scriptures Iohn 4. 21. 23. 1 Tim. 2. 8. 4. 4. Coloss. 2. 20. c. Isa. 23. 17. 18 Micah 4. 13. with others and heare againste hath bene the practise of the Church euer synce such was builded Fourthly they teach a man after the first excommunication he is to be held an enemie And to this end where Mr Barrowe had in his description of the Church placed that of the Apostle 2. Thess. 3. 15. after excommunication they in reprintinge it last yeare but subtilly giuing it tholde date as if he had bene of theyr mynd although both he Mr Penry Mr Greenwood wold haue shamed to stand in this and others theyr cōdemnations they do place that Apostolicall Canon before 〈◊〉 because they wold quickly ridde their hand of brotherly admonishments as for all scripture and 〈◊〉 the Catholike church it is euer against them As thei begin theyr discipline so they finish it in Censures vn-ruly neither beginning nor ending with anie harmonie of scripture or consent of anie church To omit other inventions of theyrs if now Corah Dathan and Abiram do seeke for offices by a lawe of theyr owne makinge trobling the Chatholicall Church with theyr start-vp inventions though they schismed not from the vniversall body vvhich they haue the vniuersall church of Israell is bound in payne of death vpon the insight of theyr insurrection to depart from theyr tēts againste whome alredy a deuouring fire is gone out from Iehouahs presence So far are they from beinge fitte to sit as Iudges on all others or fitte to prescribe rules of direction to all Churches But let them if they can afforde vs thinterpretation of any one Riddle in the Ghospell which they did not synd out by psowing with Samson his heifer in England Hearing thus that the grounds of Brownisme will nothing sheilter the Reuolts that vse them let vs heare what Daut●… saith of such as are adverse to the Church They that hate Zion the place where god hath put his name There called by Ezek. ch vlt. Iehouah-there because the eternall shold in habit there for euer they shalbe ashamed turned backward ashamed to returne they shall apostate They shalbe as the grasse on the howse tops despising fellowship with the lord his poore people in a lowe estate it may be because of som weeds they therefore cry stand apart com not nere to me for I am holier them thow and so they ●…ount vp alofte swelling in the bladder of theyr pride as grasse on the howse tops which vvithereth before it com forth these are saith Isaiah a smoke in the lords wrath they shalbe sodainly destroyed euen when the mockers eat and drinke saying peace vnto his owne sowle as euery of those hatefull spirits braggeth they neuer had such rest in theyr sowles but woe to those that are at rest in Zion much more at rest out of Zion whereof the Movver filleth not his band the Man of god may hope to reape such for the Lord his barne but god his iudgment ceazing on the proud Pharises the ministers hope shalbe frustrate neither shall the glainer fill his lappe nor shall anie