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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
law_n	gospel_n	grace_n	spirit_n	6,643	5	5.3130	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A86117	Collonel James Hays speech to the Parlament upon the debate concerning toleration. As it was taken by Anonimus a Member of the House, and sent to the press with this epigram on the author. [dagger] Fælix fifa suis cælebrata Catonibus eheu! clodius in miseros furit, & Catalina Britannos. [dagger] Henderson ...	Carlisle, James Hay, Earl of, ca. 1612-1660.; Brummet, Christoph.; England and Wales. Parliament. House of Commons.	1655 (1655)	Wing H1201; Thomason E828_4; ESTC R202584	15,186	32

malorum a gulf of evils Over all this Church you 'l find nothing like Toleration which if it could have been granted to any people or congregated number in the world sure it had been to the beloved house of Israel And yet we find that once upon their Rebellion God was about to have extinguished the very name of Israel and made a Nation of Moses Numb 12.12 And another time upon the like rebellion God condemns them to 40 years wandring and suffered none that rebelled ever to enter the promised Land If any one person might have been dispensed with in this matter sure it had been Moses the Lords familiar acquaintance and yet for but one blow more than enough he was blown out of the land of Canaan he see it but never came into it Numb 20 11 12. Was it so with the chosen Israel with the great Moses whom neither authority nor State necessity could excuse O what shall become of the reconciled Gentiles if we fall into the like errors my soul doth tremble to think on the sad consequence● Avertat Deus I hope I hope Sir the Lord wil preserve you from this uncovert iniquity fly the sin as you would avoid the Judgment I heard an honorable person below move The Isralites suffering slaves to live amongst them as an argument for Toleration I humbly conceive Sir there is a twofold toleraration a civil toleration and a spiritual for the first Sir they had indeed and upon a civil account meerly they suffered them to live amongst them because they served them to good use Josh 9.21 So did they tolerate and cherish their horses and Oxen. As to the second Sir they were strangers to it and it to them They were neither admitted to the priviledges of Israel in the Tabernacle neither were they allowed to serve the Gentile Gods after their own fashion at home So to this spiritual toleration it was with them as with the beasts If this be it that 's pleaded for the seperate Saints In time I shall make bold to speak to it It was also Objected what Elijah said to the people 1 Kings 18.22 If the Lord be God follow him if Baal follow him I hope no man will conclude that this flowed from him as a rule or as if he meant to argue a toleration of the worship of Baal No he spoke it by way of reproach shewing what abominable inconstancy and detestable ingratitude it was and would prove to forsake the living God who had done so much for them and their Fathers and serve Baal and his Chemarims It was likewise Objected Sir that we are not now under the Law and therefore not to be tied by arguments raised from the Law We are not indeed under the dark Law the Typical law the Law of works yet are we under the law of grace even the glorious liberty of the children of God which is the same in substance the old Law was in shadow and which in its substance is as forcible and binding now as ever There was not one tittle of that Law which did not signifie something to come which when it is come is of so much more power as the substance is above the shadow Christ himself saies Mat 5.17 That he came not to destroy but to fulfill the Law and till Heaven and earth pass away one jot of the Law shall not pass till all be fulfilled and whoso breaketh the least of these and teacheth others to do so shall be least in the Kingdom of Heaven Now this liberty The law of the Gospel must not be misconstrued and taken for a loosing of all religious bonds and ties To prevent which St. Pa●l Gal. 5.13 forbiddeth for to use liberty for occasion to the flesh but for love one to●ard another and explaineth himself ver 19. declaring the w●rks of the flesh to be adultery fornication uncleaness and so forth and v 22. the fruits of the Spirit to be love joy peace c. against which there is no Law We are then still under a Law witnes Jam. 2.12 So do and so speak as they that must be judged by the Law of Liberty The fourth Church is that which now is the Universal the Christian Church Universal I call it because the Lord came to call the Jew and Gentile to repentance This Church was called This mystery revealed This seal opened by the Lamb indeed the Lamb inc●rnate Jesus Christ the author and finisher of our faith The characters of this Church were a pale horse and Death with the sword hunger famine and the Beasts of the earth to signifie that this pale and new revived Church the dead dark and lingring letter of the old Law being quickened by the spirit and converted into the light and liberty of the Gospel The law of grace should be begun with death and continued with persecutions of severall kinds the worst whereof and the greatest Enemies to the Church of God I esteem to be the foul noysome Beasts of the earth the children of this world who hatch maintaine heresies Atheisme and Idolatrie the greatest of all evills Ut credant mendacio qui veritati non crediderint these are the beasts you have most need to be affraid of at this time In this Church you 'l find Jesus the founder of it to have beene of One mind with the Father and the Father with him he was of one substance with the Father and the Father with him had no property all things were common to him This he leaveth in legacie to his Apostles willing them to be of One mind and love one another Joh. 13.34 A new commandement give I you that ye love one another for hereby shall ye be known to be my disciples He required it also as a duty and meane of obedience as Ioh. 14.15 If you love me you will keepe my Commandements for this same union and love he prayeth the Father before his death on behalfe of the Apostles Ioh 17.11 that they may be one as we are one In the constitution of this Church I finde two notable passages in order to this same Toleration The one Luke 10.11 where sending abroad his disciples to preach he charged them if any Citie refuse them to shake the dust of their feet against it a sad Anathema indeed Sir if it were rightly considered The other is a sadder yet from the mouth of Christ himselfe If any man deny me before men him will I deny before my Father in Heaven Matt. 10.33 Observe Sir that he who denyeth the doctrine of Jesus denyes himselfe for he saies whosoever shall breake the least of these c. stall be least in the Kingdom of Heaven And who offendeth one of these little ones or who refuseth the works of love to the needy all you know they are liable to severall sad Anathemas Will you looke into the pactice of the apostles after Christ and you l finde it was thus with the disciples and beleivers then also for Act. 4.32