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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	worship_n	worship_v	worshipper_n	22	3	10.9557	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A32160	More wonders of the invisible world, or, The wonders of the invisible world display'd in five parts ... : to which is added a postscript relating to a book intitled, The life of Sir William Phips / collected by Robert Calef, merchant of Boston in New England.	Calef, Robert, 1648-1719.	1700 (1700)	Wing C288; ESTC R7219	167,192	172

to pursue that which seems good and fly from that which seems evil unto them but the inbred notions that every man has of the Devil is that he is an Enemy and destroyer of mankind therefore every man hath a Natural aversion from him and consequently cannot formally worship him as such because the object of worship must be esteemed to be propitious and placable by the worshippers otherwise if fear alone be the adequate cause of Adoration it follows that the Devils and damned in Hell do worship God which is contrary to Scripture which faith they blasphemed because of their pains whence it follows that they who worship the Devil must have changed the innate Idea that they had of him viz. that he is an in placable Worrier of Men and take him to be benign at least to his own but this change cannot be wrought by any suggestion of Satan unto the minds of Men whom indeed he mentally tempteth to Lust Pride and Malice but it is his greatest Artifice to cause his Insinuations to and in the hearts of Men as their own natural thoughts and if conscience discovers their Author and opposes them then he varnishes them over with the specious colours of pleasure honour and glory and so represents them as really good to be willed and desired by the Soul which judgeth of all things without according to the Ideas she hath of them but because most objects have two and some many faces and she not always attends therefore she often errs in her choice nevertheless it is impossible for her to apete an object whose simple Idea is Evil but the Idea we have of the Devil is such for we cannot represent him an our minds any otherwise than as the great destroyer of Men therefore no mental temptation can make us believe this our grand Enemy to be ever Exorable by or in any measure favourable to us whence it evidently follows that the Devil to work this change of opinion his wor●●●pers have of him must appear unto them in a bodily shape and impose 〈◊〉 them whom because of their great Corruption and Sinfulness God 〈◊〉 wholly left and given up strong delusions that they should believe a lye and the Father of lyes who now appearing in a humane shape ●elleth them that he is no such Monster as he has been represented to them by his Enemy who calls himself God which Title of right belongs to him and that he if they be contract to be his Servants will both amply reward them by giving them power to do many things very suitable to their abominable depraved Nature that the Christians whatever opinion they may pretend to have of their God cannot so much as pretend to and also that he will protect and defend them against him whom heretofore they have mistaken for the Almighty and his pretended Son Christ whom they must abjure ere they can be received by or expect any benefit from him Upon no other consideration is it possible for any Man to worship the Devil for the Atheists who deny the Being of a God do likewise deny the Existence of any Spirit good or bad therefore their drinking the Devils health even upon their knees tho a most horrid Crime cannot be construed any part of worship paid to him whom they assert to be a Chimera a meer figment of States men to keep the vulgar in awe Now I have evinced to you that there are Witches that the Witch receiveth power from the Devil to do strange things that there is an express Covenant between the Devil and the Witch that this Covenant cannot be transacted mentally but that the Devil must appear in a bodily shape to the Witch therefore I conclude that a Witch in the Scripture is such who has made an Explicit Covenant with the Devil and is impowered by him to do things strange in themselves and beside their natural course ● S. I perswade my self you do nor expect from me any Essay concerning the methods how Witches may or ought to be convinced I with that those Gentlemen whose Eminent station both inables them to perform it and likewise makes it their duty so to do may take this Province upon them and handle it so fully as to satisfie you herein I once intended to have provided some materials for this Work by de●ining four principal things relating to Witchcraft viz. 1. Witch-fits 2. The Imps that are said to attend on the Witch 3. The transportation of the Witch through the Air. 4. Lastly the invisibility of the Witch out upon second thoughts that it was foreign from my purpose who am not concerned to compose a just Treatise of Witchcraft which would require more vacant time than my present Circumstances will allow only I did promise you to give you my Opinion privately therefore I 'le venture to make use of an Argument which sheweth neither Art nor Learning in the Author and it is this that seeing there are Witches and that the Law of God doth command them to be put to death therefore there must be means to Convict them by clear and certain Proof otherwise the Law were in vain for no Man can be justly condemned who is not fairly convicted by full and certain Evidence III. S. In the last place we are to inquire whether a Witch ought to be put to death or no you Answer in the Negative because you say that that Law thou shalt not suffer a Witch to live is Iudicial and extendeth only to the People of the Iews but our Saviour or his Apostles have not delivered any where any such command therefore they ought to be suffered to live this indeed seems somewhat plausible at first view but upon through Examination hath no weight in it at all for these Reasons 1. All Penal Laws receive their Sanction from him or them who have the soveraign Power in any state as thou shalt not commit Adultery is a Moral-law and obligatory over the Consciences of Men in all places and Ages but the Adulterers shall be put to death is a judicial law and in force only in that state where it is enacted by the Soveraign 2. The Government of the Iews was a Theocracy and God himself did condescend to be their King not only as he is King of Kings for in that sense he is always was and ever will be supream Lord and Governour of all his Creatures but in an especial manner to give them Laws for the Government of their State and to protect them against their Enemies in one word to be immediately their Soveraign 3. Our Saviour's Kingdom was not of this World he was no Judge to divide so much as an Inheritance between two Brethren nay he himself submitted patiently to the unjust Sentance of the Governour of the Country in which he lived therefore both the rewards and punishments annexed to his Laws are Spiritual and then shall have their full accomplishment when the Son of Man at the last day shall