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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
word_n	hymn_n	psalm_n	song_n	3,209	5	9.5347	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A37296	Nayler's blasphemies discovered, or, Several queries to him proposed with his owne answers thereunto / by a friend to the truth of Christ.	Deacon, John, 17th cent.	1657 (1657)	Wing D486; ESTC R19310	45,154	64

thorow the Red-Sea and were all bapti●ed unto Moses in the cloud and in the red Sea where was also the Element water and surely there were some buds of this now unmeasurable Sect in the Church when Paul saith The unbelieving Wife is sanctified by the believing Husband and the unbelieving Husband by the believing Wife for else were your children uncleane observe but now are they holy and if so then how much more are they holy when both the Father and Mother believeth too and if they are so holy why may not they enjoy holy things as Baptism c. And who doth know whether the Lord shall sanctifie unto himselfe a Jeremiah in the wombe And our Saviour himselfe thus declares setting a child before him Whosoever offendeth one of these little ones that believes in me observe that believes in me where its possible they may believe it were better for him that a milstone were put about his neck and ●e cast into the Sea Now what greater offence can there be then to exclude them from their society and fellowship with Christ Peter also speaking to the Jewes testifieth this The Promise is to you yea and to your children also not dividing that which God hath put together neither robbing God of his subjects by impairing his Dominions nor bereaving his subjects of that glorious priviledge of being his people but as God said I will be a God unto thee and to thy seed so said he The Promise is unto you and to your children and therefore as said the Angel to Peter so say I unto you That which God hath sanctified count not you unclean And for singing of Davids Psalmes in meeter establisheth a concord in the harmony and the matter being the same it is nothing to the lawfulnesse or unlawfulness of the thing but O thou hypocrite seest thou the mote in anothers eye pull first forth the beam or if you will adde an s and make it beams out of thine own eye and for finging Psalmes we have the practice of our Saviour himselfe Paul Silas and the recommendation of James and of Paul also and 't is reported of Theodorus that under the cruel persecution of Julius the Apostate suffered much in martyrdo me and being on the Rack to the amazment of all the beholders sung Psalmes most harmoniously and if there can be any song spiritual and yet unlawful why then did Paul admonish us to exhort one onother in Psalms and Hymns and spiritual songs and there can be no song but there must be meeter for so the word signifies and therefore take them as songs our practice is justified And if you look for more I refer you to them who have writ largely on this subject And for prayer I wonder you should cavil about it when your society so much abominates the exercise but it seems you look on the posture of the body more then the sincerity of the heart and for your Lordly commands send them to them that will be commanded by you if it be a Bull it is likely sooner to be baited then feared by any unlesse your Papistical Fraternity or some of Romes Society all which and whom we abominate but as was the beginning of thy first so is the end of this thy Query a lye in saying none of Christs Ministers worshipped so Quere 14. Are you wiser then the Jewes was or stricter in your profession or more able to search the Scriptures or are you fuller in your wisedome and prudence for that work any of you who deny the light of Christ And was not they ignorant of the voices of the Prophets though they was read every Sabbath day and so fulfilled in condemning him And are not you in the same work as to the word of Christ though you have them every first day beating in your Synagogues and haling before Rulers and think that you doe God the best service when you are greatest opposers And so fulfilling the measure of wickednesse as they did and how can you escape their end Mark 13. 9. Acts 13. 27. Matth. 24. 9. John 16. 2 3. And are not they who are in envy in Cain's way out of Christ hath God any respect to their sacrifice yea or no An Answer to the fourteenth Query What the natural wisdome of the Jewes was and how profound I care not to enquire and what the strictness of their profession or rather superstition was you know best who so far know as to imitate their Pharisaical precisenesse not of sacred devotion but rather secular hypocrisie but to search the Scriptures and the Mysteries therein comprised and for wisedome and prudence to that worke wee are fuller then they were though you having eyes see not for Christ having opened our eyes with the eye-salve of his grace to pry into the mystery of Gods word which hath been hid from generations and from you I fear also but is revealed unto us by faith in him we can see that he even Jesus is the Christ the Son of the living God and that in him and his name onely is eternal Redemption to be found or preached and salvation in no other under the Sunne that he is bodily ascended unto glory and sitteth at the right hand of God making intercession for us and this they could not see though we see this and much more by faith in him and wee can see the way wherein we must run to attain the end of our race even eternal rest which neither they nor you their successors could or can see But since with a parenthesis of nonsence you seem to direct your latter part of his Query To any who deny the light of Christ finde them out and let them answer it for it concerns not me and so I have ended my Answer And if you please you may begin your progresse to your ghostly father Pope Alexander the 11th and implore a blessing for better fortune in your future undertakings that so the fruits of your future policy may have more prosperous fruition that so he may have cause to rejoyce with singing Te Deum when his sheepskin of glorious pretences shall better hide his wolvish inside then thus to be unmasked Having accomplished what you and others of your Faction so much bawled for to wit an Answer to your Queries I hope I may claim it as a debt rather then a courtesie that you also answer what I here propose afresh that so a discovery of the truth may be further made and I doubt not but that truth will discover your falshood Query 1. WHether your quaking and trembling be not the effects and tokens of those curses 1 Sam. 14 15. Deut. 28. 65. Psal. 69. 23. And whether the Lord hath not given you eyes that you should not see And whether the god of this world hath not blinded your minds And whether the Lord hath not given you over to a spirit of delusion to believe lyes And whether you slumber not in that self-pleasing