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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
religion_n	church_n	discipline_n	doctrine_n	4,176	5	6.2312	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A19614	Collections out of S. Augustine and some few other Latine writers upon the first part of the Apostles Creed. By John Crompe, Master of Arts of C.C.C. in Cambridge, and vicar of Thornham in Kent. First preached in his Parish Church; and now inlarged (as here followes) for more publike use.	Crompe, John.	1638 (1638)	STC 6048; ESTC S117464	55,567	64

it happened to grow acquainted with a certaine Priest latenter partibus Arrii favente closely and under-hand favouring the Arrian faction who notwithstanding out of cunning at the first would bewray nothing of his mind unto her ubi vero multa familiaritas copiam tribuit paulatim sermonem caepit asporgere but when much familiaritie afforded him licence and opportunitie to speake by little and little hee began to sprinkle as it were and cast some speeches abroad tending to his purpose as that it was for the envie onely and some private quarrells of the Bishop that Arrius was cast out of the Church and banished his Countrey and not for any just desert of his owne the people thinking little or never the worse of him but that he was deere unto them still in their good esteeme notwithstanding such injurie offered unto him With which and the like speeches often suggested and whispered into the eares of the said Constantia hee made her so fast and firmly his owne that she with a great deale of earnestnesse and zeale more than discretion made it her last suit unto her brother the Emperour lying upon her death-bed ut Presbiterum in familiaritatem reciperet that hee would receive this Priest unto his favour and not only so but that he would heare him also in those things which he should suggest and deliver unto him tending to his good and well-fare which hee accordingly did and upon the said Priests instigation and perswasion cals home Arrius from banishment and puts such further trust and confidence in him that when he drawes neere his end also himselfe he made choyce of him above all others to commit the custodie of his last will and testament unto with speciall charge to deliver it to none but Constantius himselfe which was to succeed him By the performance whereof the said Priest gained him the said Constantius also to the Arrian faction which bred much unrest and unquietnesse to the Orthodoxall servants of God for a long time after as the Ecclesiasticall histories doe report at large And therefore considering the danger that hath doth and may come to the Church of God through their weaknesse and wilfulnesse let all women of what ranke and condition soever they be in the name and feare of God keepe silence not onely in the Church as S. Paul commandeth 1 Cor. 14.34 but also in all Church causes it being a shame for them to be medlers and sticklers in businesses of that nature as there followes And therefore I permit not a woman to teach saith he elsewhere viz. 1 Tim. 2.12 But if they will learne any thing as before 1 Cor. 14.35 whereby the Apostle me thinks seemes not to require or expect such sufficiencie and fulnesse of science in women as in men as fearing more danger belike to Gods Church than good by their much knowledge Yet if they will needs doe it why then let them aske their husbands at home and learne in silence with all subjection 1 Tim. 2.11 and he gives his reason too because Adam was not deceived but the woman was deceived vers 14. And indeed it hath so come to passe ever since that in all such deceptions plures inventae sunt foeminae quam viri more women are found than men as Alphonsus à castro speakes For that malignant enemie of ours the Devill knew from our verie first cteation that the woman was more easie to be seduced than the man Tenacius amplectique malum cui semel adhaeserit and that shee would the more firmly and stiffely embrace that evill unto which she did once adhere And yet farther It must needs be a meanes to breed errours and heresies in the Church of God saith he cum vulgus c. when the common people will not be contented onely with the reading of the Scriptures but will undertake also to discusse and dispute of the sense and meaning thereof and that with such confidence and boldnesse many times that verie lewd fellowes will not be ashamed to provoke the learned and contest with them about the understanding of Gods sacred Word And that which is worst of all as he goes on Non solum haec à viris fiunt sed etiam à foeminis These things are done not onely by men but by women also S. Paul verily saith he doth not permit a woman to teach and yet in these times women are not afraid nor ashamed neither to teach and dispute too even in matters of faith Atque adeo prot●rve ut facilius centum viros ab errore revoces quam mulierem unam And that with such obstinacie and perversnesse that yee may more easily reclaime an hundred men from their errours than one woman Thus far Alfonsus Now whether this were just matter of complaint in his dayes or no God knowes But that it is so in our dayes not onely God but also our Church knowes in which a great part of the distractions and divisions under which she at this time groanes proceed onely from hence that all Recusant Priests whether Popish or other Sectaries find so great a shelter under this sex and that their venomous doctrines and pestiferous positions which with slie insinuations they broach and preach unto them are so easily admitted and so eagerly defended by them For divers of the men I doubt not of both sorts I meane as well of Papists as Sectaries would returne againe under the roofe of our Church if it were not for the stiffnesse and wilfulnesse of their wives But this is not the way by which they of that sex must save their soules viz. first by yeelding prompt and ready eares and assent unto and then wilfull and obstinate defense and supportation of those erroneous doctrines which by subtill insinuations they have received and sucked in from a slie seducer in either of these kinds Qui Doctoris nomen ambiens maluit magister fieri erroris quam discipulus veritatis as it was said of Tatianus the Heretike who ambitiously aspiring to be accounted a great Doctor and a learned Rabbi chuseth rather to become a master of errour than a Disciple of truth But their soules shall be saved saith the Apostle through bearing of children if they continue in these ensuing vertues which are far more befitting their sex than disobedience to their mother the Church viz. Faith and love and holinesse with modestie 1 Tim. 2.15 either of which I am bold to say they cannot truly have so long as they continue refractarie and rebellious back-sliders from the received doctrines and discipline of our Church in which they have beene educated and instructed and from which in their baptisme they received and sucked in the first life and breath of Christianitie and Religion And therefore for conclusion of this point let me intreat all men especially of reason and religion to shew themselves to be men and to take the staffe againe into their owne hands considering that the husband is the wives head unto whom