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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
england_n	hold_v	king_n	scotland_n	4,230	5	8.8042	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A92007	The ancient bounds, or Liberty of conscience tenderly stated, modestly asserted, and mildly vindicated.	Rous, Francis, 1579-1659.	1645 (1645)	Wing R2011; Thomason E287_3; ESTC R200087	74,527	88

to this Thirdly The Kings of Judah as it is generally received had a peculiar Notion from Kings now therefore 't is no good argument from them to these For they had not onely a Civill notion but an Ecclesiasticall also which ours have not They were types of Christ the King of the Church and did bear visibly and execute typically his Kingly office even as Priests and Prophets did his other two offices as is manifest by those glorious promises of dominion and stability that are made to Christ in the persons of the Kings of Judah and to bring home this exception what is alledg'd to be done by them in the foregoing instances of compelling the people was done by vertue of their Ecclesiasticall Notion But now the case is otherwise Our Kings are onely the Ministers of God in the world ruling indeed for the Church not in the Church and over it as then neither are they anointed in any such Notion as They were that is to execute the Kingly office of Christ in his Church Fourthly and lastly The people of the Jewes were interchangeably a Church a Nation so that he who was head of the State was so also of the Church in a typicall way as he that was a member of the Common-wealth was by that a member of the Church and vice versa which no people ever since were therefore the Argument will not hold from Israel to England or any other Nation and this compulsive power that was exercised by the Kings of Judah among them did relate to this Notion Now then to any other Nation that neither is nor can be lookt upon under such a Notion such a discipline is not applicable For a spirituall body as the Church and a spirituall power or jurisdiction as if it be Christs it is are relatives and as posito relato ponitur correlatum so sublato uno relatorum tollitur alterum Now though I know a Nationall Church in one sense is the apple of some mens eye and Mr Prin of late hath endeavoured to make a lid for it with a numerous quotation out of the old and new Testament Isa 2.2 Mic. 4.7 c. But those places doe no more hold forth Nationall Conversions and Churches then the 12. Joh. 47. Eph. 1. Joh. 2.2 which speak of Christs dying for the sins of the world yea the whole world doe hold forth universall redemption Yet in this sense they will none of them hold it That as in Israel so in England so in Scotland the Nation is holy and all that are borne in it are of the Church ipso facto or ipso natu and if not so then may not Christs Kingly Scepter which relates onely to his Church be swayed over them all generally Therefore Kings or Magistrates may not now as then compell men to Religion But that which those Kings did in a typicall way Christ the King of his Church doth in a spirituall antitypical way of accomplishment that is as Jehosaphat the type distributed the knowledge and feare of the Lord by his Princes or * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The chiefe ones chiefe Priests for so the word may be rendred indifferently with the assistance of Levites through his Dominions which was Christs dominion and the Church adaequately then so Christ Jesus the true King it is his part and he did it when he ascended giving gifts to men efficaciously to apply and bring home to his Church the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of his Priestly and Propheticall office and so might their other acts be paralleld by the Antitype Another Objection like unto the former is Uniformity Object 2. How shall there be uniformity if there be this liberty Unity there is and ought to be Answ and uniformity also is to be indeavoured after because the Apostle says Whereto we have attained let us walke by the same rule Phil. 3.16 But this cannot be in all things attained more then to thinke the same thing to which yet wee are also exhorted There is one body the Apostle says Eph. 4. and one spirit even as we are called in one hope of our calling One Lord one Faith one Baptisme one God and Father of all who is above all and through all and in us all Here 's unity over and over but this doth not necessarily draw uniformity after it in all things Nay the Apostle says the quite contrary But to every one of us is given grace according to the measure of the gift of Christ Not to every one the same gift nor the same measure As not to every Officer so not to every Church nor to every Christian much lesse to every man The rule holds proportionably throughout Eph. 4.4 And wherefore doth the Apostle so urge and insist upon unity but partly if not chiefly to salve up the want of uniformity as ver 3. doth shew For ver 2. he exhorts them to the duty contended for through this discourse of forbearing one another in love that is in case of differences it must be supposed not so much as to censure one another much lesse to prosecute one another and as an Argument to this forbearance he minds them of their unity ver 3. Now what need were there of pressing to unity where there is uniformity Saevis inter se convenit ursis where all are of a straine What needs a bond of peace where there are no crackes nor flawes of division Neither were the preservation of peace upon such termes thank-worthy among them Again to require uniformity in a compulsory way is to bind heavier burdens on the Churches then Christ hath laid upon them Doth not the Apostle say mercifully * Phil. 3.16 Nevertheless that is notwithstanding all our particular severall apprehensions whereunto we have attained let us walke together by the same Rule and if any man be otherwise minded God shall reveale even this unto him To violate unity in the zeale of uniformity is a bargain as will never make us rich * Rom. 14.15 Wilt thou for meat says the Apostle destroy him for whom Christ dyed Gold may be bought too deare so may uniformity And is it not as vaine an expectation to have all men of one apprehension in all things as to have all men of the same stature or complexion or their faces to be all alike Is it not the glory of heavenly mysteries that as the Heavens for height and the earth for depth so they should be of an infinite inscrutability and exercise the parts and acutenesse of men in an endlesse variety But lastly Uniformity was the Bishops Argument and let it dye with them having in it more of name then of realty As the Apostle says in the case of singing be sure it be done with a gracefull heart Col. 3.16 Making melody in our spirits els a gracefull and melodious voice is a bawble for God is a Spirit So we may say in the matter in hand There is indeed