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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
religion_n	article_n	church_n	true_a	3,598	5	5.1162	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A96476	A challenge sent to Master E. B. a semi-separatist from the Church of England. Now published by the author, J. W.	Wilcock, James, d. 1662.	1642 (1642)	Wing W2117; Thomason E131_22; ESTC R22968	9,212	16

factum vel naturali vel acquisito paeniteat hoc nolit nondum se peccasse senfit doceo contra legem divinam humanam si hoc sit peccatum secundo manifesto contradicitur in ea primae Verum dubitat ne peccet eo dupliciter peccat 1o. Scrupulosa dubitatione circa rem lege stabilitam deo non repugnantem in qua vel teste Cicerone inest facinus Off●e l. 3. 2o. Neglecta vel contempta quae ei debita fuit obedientia Quis ferre potest quemquam adhuc regerentem indeterminatam suam opinionem legi stabilitae determinatae esse praeferendam Laudo fidem quae ante credit observandum esse quam didicit in quit Tertul. de cor c. 2. Det deus ut omnes unum studeamus sentiamus omni malitia omni contentione omni praejudicio valedictis In unum corpus Christi mysticum coalescamus neli judicare ante tempus paveas ne pereas quod ipse deo juvante sequar Qui tuus sum in Christo J. W. Certain Questions of no mean Consequence propounded to Mr Edward Bright to which the Author partly for his own satisfaction and the Consciences of many which are justly offended doth Demand a speedy answer or is ready to prove him a false reporter of God a Seducer of souls a Blasphemer of the Church of England a Time-server one that maketh gain godlinesse and Merchandizeth the Word of God 1. WHether you do think that you are bound in Conscience according to the precept of Saint Peter 1 Pet. 3.15 Be ready alwayes to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meeknesse and reverence Vers 16. Having a good conscience that when they speak evill of you as of evil doers they may be ashamed which slander your good conversation in Christ And also the pattern of Saint Paul Acts 28.22 Who upon the like request made no more adoe but presently appointed a day for the performing of it to give some reasonable satisfaction to their just demands which take themselves to be offended at some of your bold affirmations which both publikely and privately you have not shamed to deliver which have tended only to the seducing of many ignorant though well affected souls from their duty of Obedience to the shaking of their Faith and weakning their Religion which they have been taught and iustructed in in the Church of England to the kindling the Coales of hatred and separation among their Brethren to the sounding of the Trumpet to sedition and rebellion Which I premise upon these considerations following First Out of fear lest you should refuse it having done the like already to a letter which I wrote unto you in Latine because of your impediment in hearing whereby I found you unfit for any conference which you returned me again with this short reply That you would neither receive nor answer any which seemed unto me contrary to the ingenuity of a Scholler and the Discipline of a Minister being it contained a religious dispute concerning Obedience How far an ignorant mans conscience might be satisfied in performing it to Laws Ecclesiasticall and savoured either of pride that you would not or of ignorance that you could not or of underhand dealing and most pernitious policy that you durst not answer it lest one way or other you had betrayed your self unto the state or been deserted of your Disciples Secondly Out of hope that if you do it substantially and faithfully as you ought it will confirm your followers in those opinions they have suckt from you in which they cannot walk doubtfully without danger to their souls or if simply and slovenly as I expect you should in so bad a cause it will release them from the bonds of their captivity under which your counterfeit holinesse Hypocriticall zeal forged insinuations have hitherto holden them that they may return to their ancient liberty of conscience and to the right path of Obedience And thirdly We for our parts shall from thenceforth cease to think or speak evill of your sect or as you assume it to slander your godly conversation for if you prove them our mouthes shall be stopped but if you fail in that our sayings shall be found true and no slander 2. Whether you do beleeve that the religion of the Church of England is the true Orthodox Religion and in all the Articles of Doctrine agreeable to the Word of God because you have been heard to say in the Pulpit that now was the time to change their Religion by which saying you must either prove our Religion to be false or your self a seducer of souls from the truth 3. Whether you do hold that any of the Ceremonies of the Church of England which have been by unquestionable Authority commanded to be used in the service of God be Idolatrous or a worshipping of Baal for you have implyed as much when you said of the Defenders of them after an ignominious manner Let Baal plead for himself which if you dare avouch I demand farther Whether they were not Idolatry ten yeers agoe as much as now and if then Whether you by practising of them were not an Idolatrous Priest and by holding of your peace and not crying our against them untill now a cunning dissembling Idolater when as neither fear nor favour should have stopped your mouth or restrained you from crying out against such a crime and if you impute it as some of your followers to the times of your Ignorance Whether did you not take your self to have had your calling to the Ministery from God before these yeers last past and if you do whether such asin can stand with such a calling And whether now you be deservedly counted so holy a man so faithfull a Preacher as the people cry you up for having formerly been so odious an Idolater and not yet acted your repentance upon the stage of the world as such a crime doth require nor been absolved by any Church nor restored again unto your Ministery as the Ancient Canon doth command If you deny that ever in your Judgement the●e was any Idolatry in them there are multitudes of your disciples will have the better opinion of them and of the Church that enjoynes them but the worse of you reserve not your determination till the times shall be more open for you but as becomes a Christian Minister of Gods Word and one that it behoves to be resolute against fear or flattery tell us plainly what we may trust to to be your opinion 4. Whether do you hold that Bishops are Antichristian and that the order of Episcopacy is the spirit of Antichrist which some of your faction have in their Pulpits affirmed and unto which affirmation Whether have not you among many others which are reported to have done it solemnly and secretly entred into a combination that you will never consent unto that Government again And what do you think of