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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	faith_n	heart_n	spirit_n	4,438	5	4.9670	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A20724	An apostolicall injunction for unity and peace. Or, a sermon preached by George Downame Master of Arts of Christs Colledge in Cambridge, to the parishioners of Saint Stephens in Walbrooke, at his departure from them	Downame, George, d. 1634.	1639 (1639)	STC 7108; ESTC S110125	23,771	45

that thou art not able to answer the cavils of these Seducers these Brownists Familists Anabaptists Papists and the like take my counsell and give no eare at all unto them lest thou be perverted and brought to believe lies and if thou wouldest increase in knowledge and be bettered in thy judgement that thou mayst not be seduced let me advise thee to search the Scriptures diligently and compare one place with another not in private study only but by conferring with the Godly With all pray unto Almighty God in true humility of heart for the illumination of his holy Spirit whereby thou mayst in minde rightly conceive of the truth by Faith embrace it in thy heart and by obedience honour it in thy life If thou shalt thus do constantly and faithfully thou shalt be sure to be preserved from errour both fundamentall and finall and in due time shalt know the truth for the promise is Aske and you shall have seek and you shall finde and If any man want wisdome let him aske it of God and it shall be given him And so much for the first sort of men that do infringe the Apostles charge to be of one minde and they are Hereticks We come now to the second and they are Schismaticks that do cut in sunder the unitie of the Church for small and trifling matters because forsooth there are imperfections and blemishes in the Church because Holy Discipline is not restored to the manner of the Apostles because the Eldership the Presbytry the Brother-hood or Seniory is not re-established which when it shall be done after their desire look for a masse of mischiefe a Chaos of confusion presently to follow These are the new-fangled fantasticall fashionists of these times who for the most part illiterate and unlearned take upon them to censure the Scripture and perversly defend and hold their own judgments rejecting all other interpretations These are they that leave the Society of the Saints and the appointed places of Gods Worship and Service and call assemblies themselves in private houses in secret corners in solitary places in fields in woods in barns and other unseemly places as unholy as themselves Surely these people are not of Hierusalem that is a Citie that is at unitie in it self They seem rather to come from Babylon they are so confounded among themselves they are not such as keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of Peace but they follow the directions of a turbulent and fiery spirit in strife and discord They may bragge of the Spirit what they will but this I know that the holy Spirit did not descend upon the Disciples till they were all with one accord in one place till the whole multitude of them that beleived had all but one heart and one soule And St. Iude saith plainely that They that thus separate themselves have not the Spirit No no it is the spirit of errour it is the spirit of ignorance it is the spirit of rebellion It is the spirit of the Divell I was going to say but then I had wrong'd him for he is wiser than so hee knows full well that if his kingdome were divided within it selfe it could not stand The barbarous Souldiers themselves had this wit with them Not to divide Christs seamelesse coate but rather to cast lots for the whole None but a jadish Harlot will say Scindite puerum Divide the Child None but an enemy to the Church will seeke the division of the Church for that is one In Judah the hand of God was to give them one heart to doe the commandement of the King and of the Princes by the word of the Lord and I will give them one heart and I will put a new spirit within them And We being many are one body in Christ and every one members one of another And the multitude of them that went before and that followed after cryed saying Hosanna to the sonne of David blessed is he that commeth in the Name of the Lord Hosanna in the Highest They that went before and they that followed after sang the same Tune would to God that we were of that mind once that there were no divisions amongst us but that wee all spake the same things The Ministers that goe before and the people that follow after would wee were all of the same minde would we were but one body and one spirit even as we are called in one hope of our calling For what becomes of the member that is cut off from the body What becomes of the branch that is cut off from the Vine What becomes of the River that is cut off from the head you all know that the member dyeth that the branch withereth that the River dryeth up even so shall they that separate themselves from the Church of Christ perish and come to a fearefull end I remember a Story of Cyrus who going to fight against Scythia and comming to a broad River and not able to passe over it hee bethought himselfe and cut and divided it into divers armes and sluces and so made it passable for all his Army This is the Divels policy comming to invade us and finding his passage stopped by the over-flowing streames of Love Unity and Concord he then labours to divide and separate us into divers Sects and Factions and so hee will easily overcome us Would to God therefore that we were but as wise as those barbarous people of whom Quintus Curtius reporteth who though they were continually jarring and falling out and banding in Armes amongst themselves yet when Alexander the great came among them the equality of the danger wherein they all were joyned their hearts and forces together against their common enemy When Moab was against Ammon and Ammon against Moab and Edom against both sheathing their swords each into others sides Iehosaphat and the Iewes need not strike a stroke To this St. Paul alludes when he saith If you bite and devoure one another take heed that you be not consumed of one another How have the Kingdomes of Israel and of Iudah beene weakned but through divisions among themselves How could the Turke have ever made such inrodes into Christendome as he hath if Christians had not been divided among themselves I have read of a Stone called Tyrhenus which being whole swimmeth above water but being broken every part thereof sinketh to the bottome In like manner will it be with us if we remaine whole and undivided having but one heart and one soule and one minde we shall swimme above water all the boysterous surges and raging billows that our enemies can raise up against us shall not be able to overwhelme us but if wee be once broken and divided in our opinions if wee have divers hearts and divers soules and divers minds we shall incontinent sinke perish and come to nought I 'le conclude this with that prayer of the Apostle St.