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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
fire_n	wood_n	word_n	work_n	257	4	4.9234	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A34136	Common-prayer-book devotions, episcopal delusions, or, The Second death of the service-book wherein the unlawfulness (with advantage) of the imposition of liturgies ... is clearly and plainly demonstrated from the Scriptures ...	C. W.	1666 (1666)	Wing C5572; ESTC R35602	67,445	80

set his Labourers and Servants on work effectually to oppose them in order to their utter and final abolishment the service may prove somewhat hot and that the Persons strongly devoted to them are like to swell and rage and fume and to endeavour to raise a great dust both amongst great and small to turn every stone yea and Acheronta movere to dig into Hell as the Prophet Amos speaketh Chap. 9.2 to save their darling Inventions their old Idol-Practices and Doctrines if it were possible from the hand of Heaven which is now stretched out against them Even as a Tree that hath been a long time growing in a Soyl proper for it and where it hath thriven amain so that with the numerous Roots of it it hath taken strong and fast hold on the Earth round about it far and near in case it should be forced or turn'd up by the Roots either by a Tempest or strong gust of Wind or by some Engi●e devised for such a purpose or the like it would tear up the Earth on every side of it and raise and bring up with it Stones and Gravel and Dirt and whatsoever it could take hold on to secure it against the force that now attempteth the extirpation and downfal of it Again That Hay Wood and Stubble in spiritual and Church-Buildings may for a long time be in equal esteem with and pass more generally for Silver Gold and precious Stones and yet in process of time it may be not till after many Ages be detected to be but a base kind of material very improper for such a building and so come to be pull'd out of it and thrown away the Apostle Paul emphatically declareth 1 Cor. 3.12 13. in these words Now if any man build upon this Foundation Gold Silver precious Stones Wood Hay Stubble every mans Work shall be made manifest For the day that is saith Grotius with other Interpreters longum tempus length of time shall declare it because it shall be or is to be revealed by fire c. Meaning 1. That Time in the duration progress and continuance of it will be sound as severe and searching an Examiner or Trier of mens church-Church-work in every kind as Fire is of Metals 2. That there are or may be some bad Materials made use of in Church Work the badness whereof will not in reason cannot or is not like to be discovered or made manifest until they have passed the test and trial of many Generations So then the long continuance whether of the free use onely which is the more tolerable of Liturgies and stinted Prayers in the Church of Christ or of the Imposition of them which is the more unchristian and insupportable is an Argument of no interest or weight at all to justifie or prove either the lawfulness much less the expediency either of the one or of the other I end with the saying of Tertullian Veritati potest nemo praescribere non spacium temporum non patrocinia personarum that is There is no prescription or Plea neither of any length of time nor of the patrocinations or Authoritative Assertions of the contrary of any Persons whatsoever that is of any force or value against the Truth Postscript NOn attendamus quid ante nos aliquis fecerit sed qui ante omnes est Christus prior fecerit Cypr. Sapientiam sibi adimunt qui sine ullo judicio inventa majorum probant ab aliis pecudum more ducuntur Lactant. Magnos Errores magnorum virorum Authoritate persuasi transmittimus Vadianus Cautum debet reddere non sequacem Error alienus Ra. Ardens Honestissimum majorum vestigia sequi si recto itinere praecesserint Plin. Ep. 8.5 Mala Pax est Concordia quae inter Pastores Lupos est Chemnit Harm Maledicta sit Charitas Concordia propter quam conservandam periclitari necesse sit Verbum Dei Luther in Gal. 5. Pios hoc nomen titulum in mundo oportet gerere quod Seditiosi ac Schismatici ac infinitorum malorum Authores sunt Idem ibidem Heu heu Domine ipsi sunt in persecutione tua primi qui in Ecclesia tua videntur principatum diligere gerere principatum Bern. de Conver. S. Pauli Serm. 1. Ignosci potuit simpliciter errantibus post inspirationem vero revelationem factam sine ignorantiae venia peccatur Cypr. Ep. 63. Qui vero me errare existimant etiam atque etiam diligenter quae sunt dicta considerent ne sortassis ipsi errent August De Bono Persever These Sayings may be Englished as followeth Let us not regard or minde what some have done before us but what Christ who is before all hath first done They take a course never to attain unto wisdom who without Judgement approve of the Inventions of their Fore-Fathers and like unto Sheep are led by others Sometimes we let pass great Errors as if they were Truths being perswaded hereunto by the Authority of Great Men. The Errors of others should not move us to follow but to look about us It is most honest and honourable to follow the steps of our Fore-Fathers if they have gone before in a Right Way It is no good Peace or Agreement that is made between Shepherds and Wolves Accursed be that Charity and Accord for the conservation and maintenance whereof the Word of God must be endangered Godly and good men must be content in the World to bear the name and title of being Seditious Schismatical and the Authors of a thousand Mischiefs Alas Lord alas they are the prime men in persecuting thee who are seen to affect Primacy in thy Church and to bear Rule there God might pardon them whilst they simply and for want of Knowledge went astray but when they have received the Truth by Inspiration and Revelation they sin without any allowance of Favour for their Ignorance They who think I am in an Error let them again and again diligently consider what hath been said lest haply themselves prove to be the Men that err FINIS