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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
world_n	hate_v	love_v	persecute_v	3,099	5	9.6553	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A27449	Rome tyrannical, idolatrous and heretical the origine of her errors with an answer to her objections : also three short sermons of repentance against swearing and drunkenness preached to the ships company before Admiral Aylmer and several captains / by Peter Berault.	Berault, Peter.	1698 (1698)	Wing B1956; ESTC R30222	55,952	193

Religion are Cruel and Tyrannous The Church of Rome contrary to the Doctrine of Jesus Christ and Law of Nature does persecute Men and cause them to die meerly because they are not of her Opinion and Religion Therefore She is Cruel and Tyrannous The Major Proposition of this Argument is true as for the Minor which is in question I prove it thus It is evident that the Roman Church does persecute Men and cause them to die meerly because they are not of her Opinion and Religion The rigorous Laws of her Inquisition whereby She did persecute an innumerable number of Men and cause them to die meerly because they were not of Her Opinion and Religion is a convincing proof of what I say And that it is contrary to the Doctrine of Jesus Christ and Law of Nature to persecute Men and cause them to die because they are not of our Opinion and Religion I shall endeavour to prove it evidently 1. I say that this Doctrine of the Roman Church by Persecuting Men and causing them to Die meerly because they are not of her Opinion and Religion is contrary to Christ's Doctrine For Jesus Christ going to Worship at Hierusalem the Samaritans who were of another Religion refusing to receive him in his Journey two of his Disciples James and John presently took Fire and out of a well-meaning Zeal for their Master and of the true God and of Hierusalem the true place of Worship asked leave to dispatch out of the way these Enemies of God and Christ and the true Religion And to this end they desired our Saviour to give them Power to call for Fire from Heaven to consume them Jesus Christ seeing them in this heat which seem'd to be well-meaning did very calmly but severely reprove this Temper of theirs saying The Son of Man is not come to destroy Mens lives but to save them Luke 9. 56. You own your selves to be my Disciples but do you consider what Spirit now Acts and Governs you Not that surely which I do teach you which is not furious Persecuting and destructive Spirit but mild gentle and aiming at nothing but to save Men's Lives even of our greatest Enemies This Spirit of Persecuting and Destroying one another about Religion is contrary to the Intention for which I came into the World For I am not come to destroy Men's Lives but to save them Ye ought to love one another even your greatest Enemies and far from giving you leave to Persecute them I forbid you to hate those who Persecute you If I would destroy my Enemies and the Hereticks that are not of my Religion could I not do it by the Power which I have received from my Father and could I not obtain of him a Legion of Angels to destroy them But my Intention is not that Religion should be propagated in this cruel Method but by Meekness and Perswasion I will have Men to be drawn to the Profession of it by the Bonds of Love and Conviction If any Man saith he will be my Disciple if any Man will come after me And when his Disciples were leaving him he does not as they do in Rome and Spain set up an Inquisition to Torture and Punish them for their Defection from the Faith only says will ye also go away And in imitation of this blessed Pattern the Christian Church continued to speak and act for several Ages This was also the Language of the Holy Fathers and the Style of Councils they said that the Christian Law doth not avenge it self by the Sword Lex nova non se vindicat ultore gladio and that we must not offer Violence to no Man to compel him to Faith Nemini ad credendum vim inferre And Gregorius ad Episc Constant Writes thus Nova inaudita praedicatio quae verberibus exigit Fidem This sort of Preaching is new and strange which extorts Faith by Whips and Scourges If Hereticks were to be Persecuted and Destroyed the Samaritans who were true Hereticks and had affronted our Saviour himself the Honour of God and of Religion ought certainly to be punished And to shew the contrary Jesus Christ does severely rebuke his Disciples that had a great mind to destroy them saying unto them Ye know not what manner of Spirit ye are of and he gives them such a Reason as ought in all Differences of Religion how wide soever they be to deter Men from this Temper for saith he The Son of Man is not come to destroy Men's Lives but to save them What can then the Church of Rome plead for her Persecution to Men for the cause of Religion which James and John might not much better have pleaded for themselves against the Samaritans Does she practice these Severities out of a Zeal for the Honour of God of Christ and the true Religion Upon these very Accounts it was that James and John would have called for Fire from Heaven to have destroyed the Samaritans Is she perswaded that those whom she Persecutes are Hereticks and that no Punishment can be too great for such Offenders So James and John were perswaded of the Samaritans and upon much better Grounds than those of the Church of Rome for Jesus Christ does excuse them saying Ye know not what manner of Spirit ye are of But in the Church of Rome and especially in the Governing part of it this Excuse cannot be brought for a good Plea for the Christian Religion which they do Profess forbids them Persecution And it is no more evident in the New Testament that Jesus Christ was born died and rose up for Sinners than it is manifest that Christians ought not to Persecute one another for the Mis-belief of any Article of Revealed Religion much less when these Articles are invented by Men or are imposed as only Ceremonies I know that those that live in the Roman Church are not all of this Opinion that all Hereticks or those that are not of their Opinion ought to be Persecuted and put to Death I knew some of them in France which were of a better and more Christian Principles yet it is too true that this hellish Doctrine is taught and practised among them Their several and frequent Conspiracies in England their cruel and horrible Massacres in Ireland France and other Countries as we may read in the History their severe and damnable Inquisition in Italy and Spain their rigorous Persecutions towards our poor Brethren of the Reformed Church in France which was these several years and is at present 〈◊〉 extreme that I should be to● long if I would write it down in this Treatise and the very words of the Council of La●●●n are a certain Proof of what I say If a Temporal Lord saith this Council be required and warned by the Church to Purge his Country from this foul Heresie does neglect it let him be Excommunicated by the Metropolitan Bishop and from that time let him Denounce his Subjects discharged of their Allegiance and let him give