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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
A92054	The spirits touchstone: or, The teachings of Christs spirit on the hearts of believers. Being a cleare discovery, how a man may certainly know whether he be really taught of the spirit of God, being very useful for these times. / By J.R. late student of Merton Colledge in Oxford.	Roys, Job, 1633-1663.	1657 (1657)	Wing R2161; Thomason E1663_1; ESTC R203429	176,299	389

and deportment in preaching the Gospel to them to this end to breed Schisms in the Church for saith he I was with you in weakness and in fear Yers 3. and in much trembling that is he was so farre from being pust up with those gifts and graces which God had indued him with that he was among them with much infirmity in much affliction and in much contempt as he saith Who is weak and I am not weak we are fools for Christs sake 1 Cor. 4.10 but ye are wise we are weak but ye are strong ye are honoured but we are despised In the 2. Cor. 10.10 For say they his Letters are weighty and powerfull but his bodily presence is weak and his speech coutemptible So that the Apostle was no promoter of Sects and Separations and Parties in the Church but these divisions came from their lusts from their carnality and fleshly mindedness 1 Cor. 3.3 4. For whereas there is among you envying and strife and divisions are ye not carnall and walk as men For when one saith I am of Paul and another I am of Apollo are ye not carnall So saith the Apostle James Iom 4.1 From whence are warres and contentions among you are they not hence even from your lusts that warre in your members It is a sign thou art of a proud impetuous and of an ambitious spirit if thou art a breeder of dissentions in the Church of God and that which was falsly charged upon Paul that he was a seditious person and a disturber of the Nation and upon Jeremy Act. 24.5 Ier. 15.10 that he was a man of ftrife may be justly charged upon thee who for a very light occasion makes a departure from the Church of God Pro. 13.10 From pride cometh contention saith Solomon so thou art of a proud spirit if thou art of a contentious spirit Hence observe Note That the Ambassadors of Jesus Christ and of the Gospel of his grace must be men of peace and not study to make factions and parties in the Church of Christ They should endeavour to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace Eph. 4.3 They should endeavour to preserve the truth of God that so the truths of God may preserve them For as long as they stand up in Gods cause in opposition to the flesh the world and the devil God will stand by them and plead for them and smite through the loins of them that shall rise up against them Jude v. 3. They must contend earnestly for the faith that was once delivered unto the Saints and plead with that Whore of Babylon by the sword of the Spirit which is the word of God and vindicate the Scriptures from all those foul aspersions which the locusts of the bottomless pit together with the Socinians Arminians Anabaptists and Quakers of these times have cast upon it The Church it is the House of God and the Word is Gods Looking-glass which he hath set up in his House whereby all the defects and spots and blemishes which are in Gods people may be discerned and this word is committed to the hands of the Ministers as Trustees and Stewards to give out and to dispense to every soul its portion as time and occasion shall require Now this treasure is in earthen Vessels 2 Cor. 4.7 that the praise might not be of men but of God and the people are not to be their own carvers as now adaies many are but to require the word at their mouths and to obey them in all lawfull commands examining by the Scriptures whether those things be true or no which they preach as the Beraeans did Act. 17.11 and highly to honour them for their work sake But now if they shall contrary to Gods Word set up new Lights in Gods Church and offer up strange fire as Nadab and Abibu did Lev. 10.1 and a new Looking-glass in Gods House and appoint those things which God never commanded neither came it ever into his thoughts to require and rend the seamless Coat of Christ that is the Church by their inventions and traditions and seek new doctrines and new opinions and vent them forth that others may follow their pernitious waies by reason of which 2 Pet. 2.2 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Exitiis 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Blaspemabitur 2 Pet. 3.16 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 torquēt Rack the Scriptures the way of truth is evil spoken of and captivate the understandings of others by their carnall reasonings and sinfull objections whereby they wrest the Scripture to their own damnation and giddy the spirits of weak Christians by their deep notions and Allegoricall interpretations and set themselves up for the only men and to have other men called by their name and by that party they are of What is this but to be of a seditious spirit and to be the incendiaries of the Churches peace The Kingdom of Christ is a Kingdom of peace Omnes literae in nomine Jehovah sunt literae quiescentes quo observandum est Deum ipsissimum fore pacis fontem 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and God is a God of peace and Christ is the Prince of peace and the Gospel is the Gospel of peace Why therefore should not Christs Ambassadors be the Ambassadors of peace I am not here against the communion of the Saints by way of Church fellowship joyntly to serve God and Jesus Christ in way of distinction and separation from the profane world But against that venomous humour which is in some men that to get themselves a name in the world do seek out and invent some strange and uncouth opinion and vent it forth with all the fair pretences of truth that possibly can be that thereby adopting to themselves proselytes they may walk in the light of their own fancies and delight in the vanity of their own imaginations Observe again That for Beleevers to call themselves by the names of their spirituall guides be they never so holy and religious men or by strange names taken up by the contumelies of ungodly men it is an unchristian thing The word Brethren is very often used in the Acts of the Apostles in the Epistle to the Romans and in several other places Act. 9.30 10.13 16.2 17.10 18.18 Rom. 12.1 and disagreeing to the minde of the Spirit Those be the best names which the Scripture useth as Brethren Beloved in the Lord Saints Christians Servants of Jesus Christ c. It was Luthers charge to his followers that after his death they should be sure not to call themselves by his Name that is not to be called Lutherans by his Name Luther and why Did Luther die for you or Christ If Christ died and was crucified for you let him be your Lord and Master But if Christ did not die for you and I died for you then let me be your Lord and Master and be ye called by my Name This argument the