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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	peace_n	spirit_n	unity_n	1,812	5	8.9331	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A51064	The poor man's cup of cold-water ministred to the saints and sufferers for Christ in Scotland who are admidst the scorching flames of the fiery trial.	McWard, Robert, 1633?-1687.	1678 (1678)	Wing M233; ESTC R25489	71,723	46

without consulting God since the concerne is his and communing with our brethren not onely equally concerned but countenanced of God in their endeavouring to hold fast their integritie and hold on in the good old way Let us studiean onenesse in remembring whence we have fallen and in admonishing and being content to be admonished lest we be hardened through t●e deceitfulnesse of sin into a de●en●ce of it Let us be followers of others forsaking them in no case nor under no pretext in as fare as they are followers of Christ Let these be the men whose practice we propose as a patern for imitation whose carriage al alongs whose constancy in the cause whose courage in continuing at the work of the Lord when hazard did attend dutie spoke them to hate the way of them who turne aside And let us not count that the making of a breach to forsake for then we count without God and have no● th● mind of Christ any or not to fall in with them and follow them in that wherein they forsake the way of God and cease to be what they were and begin to be what once they were not and to do or leave undone what they condemned as de●ection or de●astable neutralitie It is a great abuse of language to give it the best name to put the name or notion of union upon that which if searched to the bottome would make it appeare that in this the uniters are rather dividers from the Lord than endeavourers to keep the unitie of the spirit in the bond of peace It was not against this union nor inconsistent with it for Paul to withstand Peter to the face when he saw that he walked not uprightly according to the truth of the Gospel and when his way had carried away others into a dissimulation If God have said if any man draw back may soul shall have no pleasure in him Let never our soul enter into their secrets who would seduce us in to a relinquishing of the cause or into a conniveance even at a discovered propension to that in others let us studie the import of the place above adduced to wit a standing fast in one spirit with one mind striving together for the faith of the Gospel striving and standing up together for those things in the faith whereof we professed our selves ●ixed beyond the unfixings of contrary Laws execute with all crueltie nay for the fai●h which we our selves delivered to the Saints and for which we should contend with all flesh though for that we should be counted Schismaticks and men of Contention with the whole earth There was an Union amongst the Disciples when they all forsooke him and fled O let us beware and have a care lest while we cry up and commend union amongst our selves that in keeping one another company we leave not Christ Jesus our Lord and master to walk alone Unitie amongst brethren is a very desireable thing and the Lord will require it at his hand who endeavours it not in his way but there is a Iewel of infinit more value onenesse with God and onenesse with and in the truth and if our pursuings of the one be not minded in it's just subordination unto● and for the promoving of the other it loses it's intrinsick value and becomes a plague and thus that which should have been for our welfare is made our trap Let union amogst brethren be accounted the ring never to be broken● but let union in the truth and with God be coured the Rubie and Diamond if this be lost our union loseth it'● name and changeth it's nature and passeth with him for a Conspiracy and so should it do with us This ought to be our first care yea and next care too how to keep him company and to continue sted●ast and immoveable abounding in the work of the Lord and if herein our fellovv servants desert us or our brethren be othervvise minded yet vve must go on hoping and praying that God vvill reveal the same things to them and grant them to be like minded vvith us according to Chist Jesus if vve have attained to clearnesse in dutie and hereby the vvay I must say though I hate and abhore rash courses and I hope vvould no● stand to condemne in my self as vvell as in others ● runing upon and rushing into untroden paths yet God hath made ou● vvay so plaine of old as the vvay-faring man though a fool needs not er●e in it these are no novel●ies or notions these are no new and darke things we have to contend for Is Covenant keeping with God a disputable point Is it dobtful whether Christ be absolut in his own house or falls it under debate whether he is to be obeyed rather than men And tr●ely of late the course and carriage of our enemies so directly opposite to ●he wayes of God hath left no place for doubting about dutie if we be but delivered from feare of danger If then I say we have attained unto clearnesse in dutie let us shut our eyes upon all dangers difficulties discouragements arising from the unclearnesse or reluctancy of Brethren yea of Fathers and hold on in our way let us stop our eares and become deafe to insinuations however ●oloured which would foreslow us in following and serving him If we must desert and be deserted of others for doing so O then but the presence of God appearing with and for them who in such circumstances appeare for him as it hath so it will make up to the satisfaction of men● souls and senses the want of other company Paul's notwithstanding made all odds even It was no reproach to Athanasius that it was said of him unus Athanasius contra totum mundum But that which hath perpetuat his renown and made his name savourie to all the lovers of our Lord Jesus Christ nor shall it be to any who walk in the same Spirit who walk in the same steps And to this union of heart amongst your selves suffer me to append this word Let there be a communion of all good things amongst you also for supplying the wants and necessities of your suffering brethren Ought you in some cases to lay down your lives for the brethren● then I pray such who shut their eyes that they may not open their hands to minister to their necessities to think how they shall answer that question when put to them for put to every one and more particularly to all that have a profession of love to Christ in the Nation it shall be 1 Ioh. 3 17. it may be some of you have much taken from you and so think your self exempted but have you more then what is simply necessare and in this God will be judge who will cut off all your superfluities out of reckoning for the present support of your selves while others have nothing then consider the place 2. Cor. 8 1 2 3. c. for I cannot enlarge nay read that whole Chapter and the next and the