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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	believe_v	church_n	err_v	1,967	5	9.6697	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B13489	An ansvver to the ten counter demands propounded by T. Drakes, Preacher of the Word at H. and D. in the county of Essex. By Will. Euring	Euring, William.	1619 (1619)	STC 10567; ESTC S114521	22,154	48

former answer affirmed thē to be true constituted Churches that they haue a true lawful ministry set over thē whereby you see we do not alltogether distaste them as much as we doe yours And now to this your Demand which is why we do not adioyne our selves vnto them c. I think this may serue for answer we can not vnderstand their language and I think you cannot giue vs any good reason why we should adioyn our selves to worship God though in a true Church when we can not vnderstand what they say for how should we profit or be edified by their doctrine how should we say Amen to their giving of thanks seeing we know not what they say 1. Cor. 14.16.17 You yet further Demand Why we do not in iudgement assent vnto any or all those reformed Churches that with a ioynt consent as may appeare you say by the harmony of confessions acknwledge the Church of England to be a true Church and giue it the right hand of fellowship how dare they say you refuse c. To this I answer I do not know that the word of God bindeth vs to assent vnto the iudgment of true Churches any further then we vnderstand their iudgment to assent with and agree vnto the word of God True Churches may err in their iudgment of another Church especially if they be not rightly informed of their estate as it appeareth the reformed Churches are not rightly informed of yours for how then can they approue of the constitution ministry spirituall governours spirituall governmēt of your Church to be warrantable by the word of God but they must in so doing condemne themselues for in all these points they are as far contrary to you as white and black true and false are the one to the other and I suppose none will say that two such cōtraries can be both true But mind with all the Apostle saith to perticular Churches and persons iudge ye what I say 1. Cor. 10.15 beleeue not every spirit but try the spirits c. 1 Ioh. 4.1 And againe if any man preach otherwise vnto you then we haue preached let him be accursed Gala. 1.8.9 Now you seeme to teach vs another Gospell for you would not haue vs iudge and try our selues and others by the word of God but send to other Churches in Germany in France and Geneva heare what they say and what they iudg for truth or falshood if they approue who dare disalow if they giue the right hand of fellowship how dare we refuse c. Thus you daube with vntempered morter haueing nothing but such ould popish valour to countenance your Counter-Demands doth ill beseeme a man of your place and learning Heare what the word of God saith To the Law and to the Testimony if they speake not according to this word it is because there is no light in them Isay 8.20 Your leaving of this Law and this Testimony makes vs leaue you you may as well bid vs put out our owne eyes that other men may lead vs and as soone will we follow you in that as in this your popish counsell We haue learned to liue by our owne faith and to know that every man must bear his owne burden and answerr for him selfe vnto God Hab. 2.4 Gala. 6.5 And to think that any may excuse them selues or be the boulder because they haue the approbation of others when they can not approue themselues by the word of God will proue but an evill and false delusion of Sathan therefore seeing that all men even whole Churches may erre in their iudgments let every man take heed how he iudgeth and how he dependeth on other men and makes flesh his arme and will not heare the word of the Lord that reproveth his iniquities As for the reformed Churches we beleeue that they reioyce for the many truthes you witnes against Popery and we also do the like but if you rely vppon their aprobbation and will not examine your waies and try your selves by the word of God you may perish in your sins and other churches shal not be able to excuse or saue you And thus I think your sixt Demand is sufficiently answered Let him that readeth consider 7 Demand Your 7 and 8 Demands are so much alike that one may iudge them to be twins they resemble either other and so vnlike the rest therfore this answer shall serue for them both vntill further occasion be offered In your seventh Demand you thus begin How can the Church or Church assemblies bee false c. 7 Answer I answer your Church and Church-assemblies of England may be false for ought that you haue yet said to the contrary but if we might intreat you to set foorth and shew vs the right forme and fashion of the building of your Church we should the better discerne it and giue you a directer answer to your Demand then now we can do but in the meane time we will a little consider and examine what you say In these words of yours how can the Church or Church-assemblies c. you grant the whole nation to be a Church then me things you seeme to devide that Church into many Churches calling them Church Assemblies meaning thereby as I coniecture your Parish-assemblies 8 Demand And so it appeareth by your 8 Demand where you write thus How can the formall state as they call it of the provinciall diocesan cathedrall and Parishonall Churches of England and the regiment thereof be vnlawfull c Here you haue foysted in a word or two which I found not in the former which word because I vnderstand it not as you peradventure meane therefore I will not meddle with it neither will I meddle with popish names and titles of your Churches though you muster them vp so valorously as if you ment to terrifie the readers with the very names of them only this I finde your demand in both to be how the Church and Parish-assemblies of England can be false the rest dropt or rather scattered abroad throughout your Demands is but your vnsavery salt which you haue cast out vpon the dunghill of your counter work all being as you think so couched together as that it cannot be easily raked abroad but I will try if by the help of God and the truth of his word I can shew what vnsavery stuffe it is 8 Answ To these your 7. and 8. Demands I answer that to hould and maintaine a nationall Church that is to hould that any nation can be a church now in the time of the Gospell we deeme to be erroneous and false and do affirme that no warrant or defence for it can be found in the word of God It is an humane invention and differeth from the testament of Christ which sheweth many Churches to be in a nation or Country as in Iudea Asia Galatia c. Gala. 1.2.22 Rev. 1.4 But not any nation to be a Church Now that yours is a Nationall Church