Selected quad for the lemma: truth_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	believe_v	church_n	know_v	4,058	5	4.1423	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A47522	The glory of a true church, and its discipline display'd wherein a true gospel-church is described : together with the power of the keys, and who are to be let in, and who to be shut out / by Benjamin Keach.	Keach, Benjamin, 1640-1704.	1697 (1697)	Wing K66; ESTC R19810	25,670	74

Rule pretending they would not be lookt upon as Contentious Persons but hereby they may become guilty of other Mens Sins and also suffer the Name of God and the Church to lye under Reproach and all thro their neglect This is a great Iniquity IV. When an Elder or Church shall know that some persons are Scandalous in their Lives or Hereretical in Judgment and yet shall bear or connive with them V. When Members take liberty to hear at other Places when the Church is assembled to worship God this is nothing less than a breaking their Covenant with the Church and may soon dissolve any Church For by the same Rule one may take that liberty another nay every Member may Moreover it casts a Contempt upon the Ministery of the Church and tends to cause such who are Hearers to draw off and to be Disaffected with the Doctrine taught in the Church they knowing these Dissenters do belong unto it I exhort therefore in the Name of Christ this may be prevented And any of you that know who they are that take this Liberty pray discover them to the Church We lay no restraint upon our Members from hearing such who are sound in the Faith at other times VI. The Liberty that some take to hear Men that are corrupt in their Judgments and so take in unsound Notions and also strive to distil them into the Minds of others as if they were of great Importance Alas how many are Corrupted in these days with Arminianism Socinianism and what not This causes great trouble and disorder VII When one Church shall receive a Member or Members of another Congregation without their Consent or Knowledge Nay such that are Disorderly and may be loose Livers or cast out for Immorality or Persons filled with Prejudice without cause This is enough to make Men Atheists or contemn all Church Authority and Religion For hath not one regular Church as great Authority from Christ as another VIII Another disorder is when Members are received without the general Consent of the Church or before good Satisfaction is taken of their Godly Lives and Conversations Or when a Church is too remiss in the reception of her Members IX Another disorder is when a Church shall receive a charge against a Member it being an Offence between Brother and Brother before an orderly proceed has been made by the offended Person X. When Judgment passes with Partiality some are connived at out of favour or affection Levi was not to know his Father or Mother in Judgment XI When Members do not constantly and early attend our publick Assemblies and the worship of God on the Lord's-day especially but are remiss in that matter This is a great Evil. XII When part of a Church shall meet together as dissatisfied to consult Church-matters without the knowledge or consent of the Church or Pastor This is disorderly and tends to division and such should be marked XIII Another thing that tends to disquiet the Peace of the Church is when there are any undue heats of Spirit or Passion shewed in the Pastor or others in managing the Discipline of the Church Have we not found by experience the sad effect of this Therefore things must be always managed with coolness and sweetness of Spirit and moderation every Brother having liberty to speak his mind and not to be interrupted until he has done nor above one speak at once XIV When one Brother or more Dissents in the sentiments of their Minds from the Church in any matters circumstantial either in repect of Faith Practice or Discipline and will not submit to the Majority but raise Feuds nay will rend themselves from the Church rather than consent I Quaery what reason or ground hath any Man to refuse Communion with a Church that Christ hath not left but hath Communion with XV. When any Member shall divulge or make known to Persons not of the Congregation nor being concerned in those matters what is done in Church-meetings the Church in this respect as well as in others is to be as a Garden inclosed a Spring shut up a Fountain sealed This oft times occasions great Grief and the disorderly Person should be detected Is it not a shame to any of a private Family to divulge the Secrets of the Family But far greater shame do these expose themselves unto XVI Another disorderly Practice is this viz. When a Member shall suggest and seem ●o insinuate into the minds of other Members some evil against their Pastor yet will not declare what it is and may only be evil Surmisings out of Prejudice and yet refuses to acquaint the Pastor with what it is This is very abominable and a palpable violation of the Rule of the Gospel and Duty of Members to their Minister Such a person ought to be severely rebuk'd and if he confess not his Evils and manifesteth unfeigned Repentance to be dealt with farther Moreover it is a great evil in another to hear such base Insinuations and neither rebuke the Accuser and so discharge his Duty nor take two or three more to bring the Person to Repentance If he deal thus by a private Brother it is a great Evil but far worse to an Elder whose Name and Honour ought with all Care and Justice to be kept up as being more Sacred XVII Another disorderly Practice is which causes much trouble When the publick Charges of a Church are not equally born but some too much burdened when others do but little or nothing And also when every one does not Contribute to the Poor as God has blessed them on every Lord's day or first day of the Week as he hath Commanded XVIII Another disorder is this When Members refuse to communicate with the Church at the Lord's table because some person or persons they think are guilty of Evil and yet they have not proceeded with them according to Rule These either Excommunicate the Church or themselves or those Persons at least they censure unwarrantably I beseech you for Christ's sake that this may never be any more among you You ought not to deal thus with them or refuse your Communion tho faulty until the Church has dismember'd or withdrawn from them or at least Suspended them XIX When one Member shall believe or receive a report against another before he knows the truth of the matter XX. When an Accusation is brought against an Elder contrary to the Rule which ought not be without two or three Witnesses as to the matter of Fact XXI When the word of God is not carefully attended upon on Week or Lecture-days by the Members generally tho the said Meeting being appointed by the whole Church XXII VVhen Days of Prayer and Fasting and of publick Thanksgiving or when days of Disciplining are not generally attended upon Lastly VVhen Gifted Brethren are not duely encouraged