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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
enemy_n	army_n	battle_n	prince_n	1,374	5	5.3323	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A62715	A call to the Shulamite, or to the scattered and divided members of the church delivered and published upon occasion by Thomas Tanner.	Tanner, Thomas, 1630-1682.	1674 (1674)	Wing T139; ESTC R30157	22,246	32

you pretend nor any such desire of my company why should you dissemble so for what can you see in the Shulamite that can be taking unto you that are of another way and fancy other looks than such as the Shulamites Some do joyn the latter part to this as it were the company of two armies viz. that are jealous of one another q. d. If I should return again to you we should never be satisfied one in the other we should be alwaies at debate and ready to break out into battels Better asunder as we are Fifthly But I take these last words as the Rejoynder of the true Church or daughters of Ierusalem replying again to the Shulamite If thou wilt but return unto us we shall be strong as it were the company of two armies against a common enemy or we shall make a beauteous or a splendid shew even as one Army drawn up into two Divisions when the Prince is to pass thorough them in triumphant manner as is used after Victory Return return therefore ô Shulamite return return that we may behold thy beauty enjoy thy love and joyn thy strength and thine array to ours and we shall be both happy The result of the words thus opened is only this That the true Church doth earnestly desire the return of her scattered and divided Members When God had stirred up his people to unite and joyn themselves from all parts against the Canaanites is there not mention made of Ephraim and Benjamin and Zebulun and Issachar and Nepthall that assembled But is it not also said for the divisions of Reuben there were great thoughts or impressions of heart for the divisions of Reuben there were great searchings of heart that is much trouble and sorrow much enquiring what the reason should be that Reuben should so divide it self from the body of the Holy People And why should Gilead abide beyond Iordan and Dan remain in ships why should Asher continue in his Ports or Creeks When the ten Tribes did rend themselves from the obedience of the Sons of David and from the Worship of the true Temple built by Solomon according unto God's appointment do we not read of such complaints as these Israel was holiness unto the Lord and what iniquity saith the Lord have your fathers found in me that they are gone far from me and have walked after vanity and are become vain O Israel return unto the Lord thy God for thou hast fallen by thine iniquity Take unto you words and return unto the Lord. And is not this the great Promise to support the spirits of the true Worshippers I will gather my Plock I will set up shepheards over them Because ye are all become dross behold I will therefore gather you into the midst of Ierusalem And abundance of such other Prophecies which may be more close and pertinent is to be left to your observations when you read the holy Scriptures To come to the times of the New Testament when there were divisions in the Church of Corinth doth not Paul protest after this manner I beseech you brethren by the name of our Lord Iesus Christ that ye all speak the same thing that there be no divisions among you but that ye be perfectly ioyned together in the same mind and in the same judgment To the Church of the Galatians thus I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another Gospel which is not another but that there be some that trouble you O foolish Galatians who hath bewitched you To the Ephesians thus I the prisoner of the Lord beseech you that ye walk worthy of the vocation wherewith you are called endeavouring to keep the unity of the spirit in the bond of peace for there is one Body and one Spirit one Lord one Faith one Baptism c. To the Philippians thus If there be any consolation in Christ fulfil my joy that ye be like-minded having the same love being of one accord of one mind Let as many as be perfect be thus minded and if in any thing ye be otherwise minded God shall reveal even this unto them Nevertheless whereto we have already attained let us walk by the same rule let us mind the same thing It might but seem superfluous to run through the rest of the Epistles which are all full of the like expressions To proceed to the times succeeding the Apostles while yet the Church was under persecution About the year of our Lord 199. Because the Eastern Churches held resolutely to the observation of the Feast of Easter at the same time that the Jews kept the Passover which the Western Christians were offended at not because they doubted whether the Feast should be celebrated in memory of our Saviours resurrection which it seems had been alwaies used without any interruption from the times of the Apostles but because they thought it not convenient to have this day kept on any other than that when our Saviour rose whereas if they had observed the falling of the 14th Moon they should not only have gratified the Jews but might have happened to observe the wrong time And we do not doubt but the Western Christians were in the right But because the Eastern Churches were resolute in their own way one Victor Bishop at that time of Rome who was eminent on this side of the world in as much as Rome was the Imperial City and the number and quality of Christians there was predominant took upon him to sever from the union of Communion all the Eastern Churches which adhered to the other Custom Behold the first print of the foot of Antichrist here was a beginning of erecting a false Church excommunicating for an opinion or for a practice which was indifferent or at least not inconsistent with the peace of Christians excommunicating not only one person or a few particulars but whole Churches at a blow yea all Churches though they were on this side and of the same Communion if they would not joyn in the same wrong for which fact the said Victor was sharply then reproved by Ireneus Bishop of Lyons in France and a better man than he where there was also a numerous and a noble Church of Western Christians It is the false Church therefore which is for scattering and dividing whereas the true Church is for gathering and uniting as much as may be And although the Church of Rome did afterwards resume some policy or prudence under other Bishops inclining to a shew of moderation yet the breach as only skinned over hath broken out again and lasteth unto this day and will last for ever till Rome return to be what it was before this breach of unity and charity upon her therefore we justly lay the impeachment of the first great Schism that ever was wherein she still persisteth thinking by her power to bear all other Churches down while she