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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
heaven_n	great_a	lord_n	word_n	5,344	5	3.8322	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A54142	Good advice to the Church of England, Roman Catholick and Protestant dissenter, in which it is endeavoured to be made appear that it is their duty, principle & interest to abolish the penal laws and tests	Penn, William, 1644-1718.	1687 (1687)	Wing P1296; ESTC R203148	42,315	65

of his Word and Doctrine His Followers fully satisfied who he was whence he came what he taught and how eminently confirm'd grew impatient at Contradiction they could not bear the least Dissent for when some of the Samaritans refused to entertain their Lord because they thought he was going for Jerusalem the place of their greatest aversion these Disciples were for having but the Word from his Mouth and they would in imitation of Elijah have called for Fire from Heaven to have destroy'd them But he turned and rebuked them and said ye know not what manner of Spirit ye are of for the Son of Man is not come to Destroy Mens Lives but to Save them This Answer is to purpose and for all times to be sure Christian ones and the higher the Pretentions of any Party are to Christianity the more inexcusable if they practice the contrary Would not Christ then hurt them that refused him and can we hurt our Neighbors for not receiving us He condemned that Spirit in his Disciples and shall we uphold the same Spirit and that by Law too which he condemned by his Gospel This is killing for Gods sake expresly charg'd by Christ with Impiety They shall think says he to his Disciples they do God good service to kill you who should think so why the Christian Persecutors Is it their Property to do so yes what shall one think then of those Christians that profess it The Jews were grievously punished of God for that abomination of sacrificing their Children to Moloch but these 〈◊〉 though they change the Object they have not lessen'd the Sin for they offer up Man Woman and Child and tho they say 't is to God no matter for that since it makes their Case worse for 't is to imagine that so good so just so sensible so merciful a Beeing can take pleasure in so much Cruelty Well but if we must not knock Folks on the Head what must we do with them Take an Answer at the Mouth of Truth and Wisdom Let the Tears and Wheat grow together till the Harvest what 's that he tells you 't is the end of the World so that whatever the Church of England is 't is certain Christ is for a Toleration and his Doctrine is always in Fashion what he was he is and will be he went not by Reasons of State or Customs of Countries his Judgment was better built who came to give Law and not to receive it and 't is a Light and Rule to all times And He that loves Father or Mother or Wife or Children or House or Land better than him that is his Doctrine of which this is so great a part is not worthy of him and I fear no other Reason induces the Church of England to decline it To confirm what has been said tho I design Brevity let me not lose another Passage very pregnant to our purpose when his Disciples had accomplisht their first Mission at their return they gave him the History of their Travels Among the rest they tell him of one they met with that in his Name cast out Devils but because he would not follow with them they forbad him here is at least a Dissenting Christian tho a Believer yet it seems not one of that closer Congregation we also see their Zeal and Sentence But what says the Master yet alive and with them the infallible Doctor in whose Mouth was no Guile who had not the Spirit by measure and was the great Wisdom of God to his People was he of the same mind or did he leave them without rule in the Point His Answer is this And Jesus said to them forbid him not for he that is not against us is for us The Prohibition is taken off and their Judgment revers'd and from his to be sure there lies no Appeal For tho a Power of Decision were allow'd to some one or more on Earth in matters obscure and undetermin'd yet in cases already adjudged by the Son of God himself who had the Chair and could not Err there can be no room for another Judge Now to apply it I must first say I find no such Disciples among those that are of the side of keeping up the Penal Laws God knows the disparity is but too unequal But next if they were all Twelve in Westminster Abby and should be of the side of upholding the Penal Laws which is the wrong side they were of before I should beg their Pardon if I were of their Masters mind and objected his Wisdom to their Zeal and his gentle Rule to their harsh and narrow Judgment And I beseech the Church of England to consider that no Pretence can excuse her Dissent and less her cross Practice to the Judgment of her Saviour A Judgment that seems given and setled for the Conduct of the Church on the like Occasions in succeeding times And 't is pitty any worldly thing should have place with her to divert her Obedience Did Christ then come to save Mens Lives and not to destroy them and should she she I say that pretends to be a reformed Church uphold those Laws that do destroy them He Alas went to another Village instead of burning them or theirs for refusing him And she forbids any that belongs to any other to lodge in hers upon pain of loosing Life or Estate This may make her a Samaritan indeed but not the good One whose Example would have taught her instead of these sharp and ruder Remedies to have poured the Oyle of Peace and Gladness into those Chops and Wounds that Time and Heats of all Hands had made in every Religious Party of Men. Nor does she lose anything by repealing those Laws but the Power of Persecuting and a good Church would never have the Temptation Come some body must begin to forgive let her not leave that Honour to another nor draw upon her self the Guilt and Mischief of refusing it She pretends to fear the Strokes of the Romanists but I would fain know of her if following their Example will convert them or secure her Does she hope to keep them out by the Weapons that have fail'd in their Hands or can she honourably censure Persecution in them and yet use it her self But she is extreamly scandal'd and scared at the Severity upon Protestants in France 'T is certainly very ill but do not the Laws she is so fond of point at the same Work Conformity or Ruin. And don't we know that in some Places and upon some Parties her Magistrates have plow'd as deep Furrows especially within these six and twenty Years Husbands separated from their Wives Parents from their Children the Widdows Bed and the Orphans Milk made a Prize for Religion Houses stript Barns and Fields swept clean Prisons crowded without regard to Sex or Age and some of both sorts Dungin'd to Death and all for Religion If she says they were peevish Men Biggots or mov'd by private Interest she still made the Laws and says