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spirit_n	father_n	manner_n	son_n	5,970	5	5.8560	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A50949	The reason of church-government urg'd against prelaty by Mr. John Milton ; in two books.	Milton, John, 1608-1674.	1641 (1641)	Wing M2175; ESTC R3223	58,920	68

consisting of two parts the inward and the outward 〈◊〉 by the eternall providence left under two sorts of cure the Church and the Magistrat The Magistrat hath only to deale with the outward part I mean not of the body alone but of the mind in all her outward acts which in Scripture is call'd the outward man So that it would be helpfull to us if we might borrow such autority 〈◊〉 the Rhetoricians by parent may give us with a kind of Prometh● skill to shape and fashion this outward man into the similitude 〈◊〉 a body and set him visible before us imagining the inner man only as the soul Thus then the civill Magistrat looking only upon the outward man I say as a Magistrat for what he doth further he doth it as a member of the Church if he find in his complexion skin or outward temperature the signes and marks or in his doings the effects of injustice rapine lost cruelty or the like sometimes he shuts up as in frenetick or infectious diseases or confines within dores as in every sickly estate Sometimes he shaves by penalty or mulct or els to cool and take down those luxuriant humors which wealth and excesse have caus'd to abound Otherwhiles he ser● he cauterizes he scarifies lets blood and finally for utmost remedy cuts off The patients which mostanend are brought into his hospital are such as are farre gon and beside themselves unlesse they be falsly accus'd so that force is necessary to tame and quiet them 〈◊〉 their unruly fits before they can be made capable of a more human ● ure His general end is the outward peace and wel-fare of the Commonwealth and civil happines in this life His p● ular ● nd in every man is by the infliction of pain dammage a● disgrace that the senses and common perceivance might carry this message to the soul within that it is neither easefull profitable nor prais-worthy in this life to doe evill Which must needs tend to the good of man whether he be to live or die and be undoubtedly the f● means to a natural man especially an offender which might open his eyes to a higher consideration o● good and evill as it is taught in religion This is seen in the often penitence of those that suffer who had they scapt had gon on sinning to an immeasurable hea● which is one of the extreamest punishments And this is all that the civil Magistrat as so being conser● to the healing of mans mind working only by terrifying 〈◊〉 upon the rind orifice of the ● ore and by all outward appli● as the Logicians say a post● at the effect and not from the cause not once touching the inward bed of corruption and that hectick disposition to evill the sourse of all vice and obliquity against the rule of Law Which how insufficient it is to cure the soul of man we cannot better guesse then by the art of bodily phisick Therfore God to the intent of further healing mans deprav'd mind to this power of the Magistrat which contents it self with the restraint of evil doing in the external man added that which we call censure to purge it and remove it clean out of the inmost soul In the beginning this autority seems to have bin plac't as all both civil and religious rites once were only in each father of family Afterwards among the heathen in the wise men and Philosophers of the age but so as it was a thing voluntary and no set government More distinctly among the Jews as being Gods peculiar where the Priests Levites Prophets and at last the Scribes and Pharises took charge of instructing and overseeing the lives of the people But in the Gospel which is the straitest and the dearest cov'nant can be made between God and man wee being now his adopted sons and nothing fitter for us to think on then to be like him united to him and as he pleases to expresse it to have fellowship with him it is all necessity that we should expect this blest efficacy of healing our inward man to be minister'd to us in a more familiar and effectual method then ever before God being now no more a judge after the sentence of the Law nor as it were a school maister of perishable rites but a most indulgent father governing his Church as a family of sons in their discreet age and therfore in the sweetest and mildest manner of paternal discipline he hath committed this other office of preserving in healthful constitution the innerman which may be term'd the spirit of the soul to his spiritual deputy the minister of each Congregation who being best acquainted with his own flock h● th best reason to know all the secret● st diseases likely to be there And look by how much the inter●● an is more excellant and noble then the external by so muc● 〈◊〉 his cure more exactly more throughly and more particularly to be perform'd For which cause the holy Ghost by the Apostles joyn'd to the minister as assistant in this great office sometimes a certain number of grave and faithful brethren for neither doth the phisitian doe all in restoring his patient he prescribes another prepares the med'cin some read some watch some visit much more may a minister partly not see all partly erre as a man besides that nothing can be more for the mutuall honour and love of the people to their Pastor and his to them then when in select numb● and cours● they are seen partaking and doing reverence to the holy 〈◊〉 discipline by their serviceable and solemn presence and receiving honour again from their imployment not now any more to be separated in the Church by vails and partitions as laicks and unclean but admitted to wait upon the tabernacle as the rightfull Clergy of Christ a chosen generation a royal Priesthood to off● up spiritual sacrifice in that meet place to which God and the Congregation shall call and assigne them And this all Christians ought to know that the title of Clergy S. Peter gave to all Gods people till Pope Higinus and the succeeding Prelates took it from them appropriating that name to themselves and their Priests only and condemning the rest of Gods inheritance to an injurious and alienat condition of Laity they separated from them by local partitions in Churches through their grosse ignorance and pride imitating the old temple and excluded the members of Christ from the property of being members the bearing of orderly and fit offices in the ecclesiastical body as if they had meant to sow up that Iewish vail which Christ by his death on the Crosse rent in sunder Although these usurpers could not so presently over-maister the liberties and lawfull titles of Gods freeborn Church but that Origen being yet a lay man expounded the Scriptures publickly and was therein defended by Alexander of Jerusalem and Theoctistus of Caesarea producing in his behalf divers examples that the privilege of teaching was anciently permitted to