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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
love_n	heart_n	law_n	love_v	6,424	5	6.4721	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A42884	A true and lively character of a right communicating church-member briefely laid down in eighteen severall arguments: proving an absolute necessity of separating, not only, from all that are openly prophane, but from such also, who have not some visible, that is to say, probable worke of the sanctifying spirit upon them. By Iohn Gobert Master of Arts, and minister of the Gospel.	Gobert, John.	1650 (1650)	Wing G904B; ESTC R217419	24,327	70

common reason doth dictate what ought not or what is found unlawfull at last was first unlawfull The Minor Proposition is pregnant Scripture as in the Revelation and where also is no difficulty in matter of sence as all will grant not onely the Members themselves are reproved and threatned but the Churches also whereof they were Members ●or suffering such see Revelation the second and fourteenth and twentieth verses also Corinthians the first the fifth and the sixth Chapters when the Apostle telleth us that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump Whither a well catechised Moralist have purged ●ut his old leaven and become a new lumpe with some that are more universally conscientious let that be left to the scanning of all that are wise to Salvation The eleventh Argument is taken from the danger of confonnding the infirmities of the faithfull with the vices of unregenerate men thus The taking in of Members other then such as are visibly godly doe confound the infirmities of the regenerate with the vices of the unregenerats Ergo such a Church-gathering is not lawfull the consequent I suppose to be strong enough without further proofe Who is it professing the Gospel and zeale to the Christian Religion will not affirme that whatsoever causeth con●usion in the Church● specially as to the right frame and constitution of it is to be shunned as rocks at Sea considering what the Apostle saith Corinthians the first the fourteenth and eigth If the Trumpet give an uncertaine sound who shall prepare himselfe to battell And though such doe mainely run the hazard of confounding things who neglect sincere and faithfull preaching according to that in the second of Ez●ki●l S●nne of man I have made thee a Watchm●n c. yea the most inward teaching to ● regenerate understanding is no idle or uncertaine sound because such as are spie●tuall doe savour the things of the Spirie Rom. the 8th and the sixth yet ordinary experience will make it out for a truth ●hat as in Armies mingling of Colours or Trumpets unskillfull sound so also in a Church mixture of Members unqualified doe breed confusion Therefore the Antecedent which I confesse should have been first confirmed neede●h most proofe videlicet How this mixt gathering do confound the infirmities of the one with the vices of the other and for a cle●r●r ●viction in this particular we thus argue That whatsoever it is which maketh the by-stander or third person to think and believe t●at the infirmities of the one and the vices of the other to arise from one roote and foun●a●ne videlicet from an heart affected with the love of sin that is it which doth by an unhappy scandall confound the vices of the unregenerate with the infirmities of the faithfull but the mixt gathering of Church-Members doth this it causeth the by stander or third person or any one that is unregenerate to think that their vices and the believers infirmities doe proceed from one and the same roote and fountaine which is to say from an heart infected with the love of sin Ergo Both Propositions are apparent for if the Preacher be required by Gods Law to set forth the difference between th●se to the people according to those divine sentences in the Epistle of John That ●e that is borne of God cannot sn●● that is cannot love it for so as doe all unregenerate men in one kind or other And he that is borne of God keepeth himselfe and that wicked o●e toucheth him not that is though he may by a temptation be outwardly soyled yet if the seed of God remaineth in his heart as it doth in the regenerate cannot be inwardly infected I say againe if it be required of the faithfull Minister thus farre to set these at a distance in his preaching and instructions what good to one especially in the dregs of nature will acrew when by this most wholsome and no lesse necessary separation he ●●eth not that generally practised in matter of Church Discipline which is held forth by the Minister Now to illustrate the truth of the Minor Proposition take it thus Suppose two Members to be taken in one a meere Formalist another a si●cere hearted Christian The first videlicet the Formalist we will suppose him to be endued first with all endowments of nature Secondly with all civill and morall education which will cause a generous and noble deportment of himselfe to others Thirdly all Christian accomplishments as farre as concerneth the exact knowledge of the Principles of Religion Fourthly adde here unto a prosperous and usuall concurrence of all earthy happinesse where through his gracious and glorious abilities to the ontward view doe not only gaine him respect from men but these are most commonly exempt from and not often subject to those miserable provocations and other straits the poorer and yet sincerer Christians are subject to the reason is they are appointed to suffer Thess the first the 3. d and the 3d and is in this life to receive their evill things Luke the 16. and 25. though now this our glorious brother both in his owne eyes and in the eyes of such as are like to him is the only Professor yet here will be the question whither such an one ought to be taken in for a Church Member neither speak I this to exclude such as are Saints and may have these endowments because God hath chosen some both rich and noble and wise as the Apostle speaketh in the 1 Cor. chap. 1. v. ●6 but this I say whither such with all these who are thought to be forward enough in profession for Heaven I say againe whither those outward and former qual●fications are enough Secondly on the o●her side let another be taken in unfurnished of all this goodly trapping his birth meane his breeding according and his knowledge chiefly in any points of high concernment suitable adde to this happily a crabbed teachie nature which is often rendred far more odious not onely by the cunning and subtile wire drawing of some selfe-pleasing Pharisee who ordinarily carries about him a multiplying glasse as it were to put others faults in which makes them seeme much bigger then they are but views his owne at a ●ar greater distance Adde moreover a too often and unhappy and ●orced subjection to all both domestique and forreigne streigts and miseries which in this life must be the Saints portion all that this Brother hath to commend him either to God or man is an hearty zeale and affection to that he knoweth his judgement is often weake his best actions through the poysonous venim of naughty tongues wrested disgraced and disparaged thus brother for all the prejudice and hard censure he meets with from carnall men is yet in the judgment of all true dis●erners a ●ight brother the other not so A twelfth argument is taken from the errors which have been in former Church-builders thus Whatsoever miscarriage in Church building and gathering Church members have come in amongst men