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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	body_n	eat_v	lord_n	4,945	5	4.6368	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A42092	The compleat conformist, or, Seasonable advice concerning strict conformity, and frequent celebration of the holy Communion in a sermon preached (on the seventh of January, being the first Sunday after the Epiphany, in the year 1682) at the Cathedral, and in a letter written to the clergy of the archdeaconry of Durham / by Denis Grenville.	Grenville, Denis, 1637-1703.	1684 (1684)	Wing G1938; ESTC R8783	37,668	65

assurance of our eternal Salvation to their just honour and use by frequent celebration the want whereof hath caused them to fall under a most grievous neglect if not heinous contempt even among the generality of reformed Christians a great part of them going no farther than just to satisfie the Law not good Conscience and many who yet pretend much zeal for our Church not far enough to satisfie either To set about so excellent and Christian a Work besides the Call at this time from our Superiours we have more Arguments to encourage than discourage us For First There do appear blessed be God some better tokens both of Religion and Loyalty than for some years past among the people of the Nation Men seem better than heretofore disposed towards good order in general and begin to be awaked into some sense of their Duty to God and the King nay into some real feeling it is to be hoped that it is their Interest to stick close to the established Religion and Prerogative of their Sovereign rather than to consume all their zeal in a needless concern for the Liberty and Property of the Subject in less danger than any where in the World Most People seem now very well convinced of the necessity of the execution of the Law and in particular of the Act of Uniformity the scandalous neglect of which upon Examination may be found one special cause of the disorders both in Church and State And very considerable steps have been made in sundry places of the Nation towards a better settlement Our gracious Sovereign hath for his own part done even Wonders in new modelling the Capital City of the Nation wherein God's Providence hath evidently appeared in blessing His Majesty in the dexterous management of Affairs by reducing that ungovernable body to so considerable degree of Obedience A famous Lord Mayor and sundry Loyal and faithful Members of that Body for whom the whole Nation hath great reason to bless God have also done their parts worthily in withstanding the Rabble who it were and not the City of London that did so furiously bend themselves under a specious shew of Religion to destroy the Government And it is well known that some faithful and painful Divines have done great things beyond expectation upon this account with very considerable success even in the City of London which one would have believed in such a degree tainted that it had been scarce possible to have reduced any Congregation to half that order and decency which is by the mercy of God visible in many And we have Instances God be praised of the like nature not only in our City of London but in other parts of the Nation Devout People also in several places have made Addresses to the Clergy to enjoy more frequency of Communions What remains then but that we of the Clergy should faithfully and vigorously do our parts in our respective Stations towards the restoring decayed Piety by the diligent and reverend use of the most effectual and infallible means to produce so desirable an end which are those of Christ's own Institution namely the faithful and religious Feeding at his Table eating his Body and drinking his Bloud Thus piously commemorating the pretious Death of our dear Lord until his coming again And these things considered it is more easie for all Priests for us especially to set about the faithful discharge of their Duty than it hath been for many years past God hath defeated the Rage and Craft of the Enemies that would undermine us as well as those that would devour us We have in some manner regained God make us sensible and thankful our lost ground and are or may be if we please in circumstances to do the same things that were unhappily slip'd in practice though enjoyned at the Restoration Clergymen may now more plausibly set upon the performance of those Duties which they have long lived in the neglect of nay they can with no more safety of Reputation than of Conscience live any longer in the Omission of them For the very Laicks of our Communion do not onely invite us by their Examples to more exact conformity but very powerfully press us thereto by their Writings who with divers eminent Writers convince the Ministers as well as People of the wrong Notions they have received concerning Conformity and constancy of communicating for which honest zeal they deserve much praise In which Christian Attempt we of this Diocese have less reason than others to be remiss The Bishoprick of Durham hath been stiled long since Terra Sacerdotum and ever since the happy Return of our Sovereign it hath been more famous than other parts for Conformity and very justly for though there happen to be some Omissions even to scandal which an honest Visitor can no way approve of and which I never did nor ever shall yet in respect of most Dioceses of England we have long led the Van and outstrip'd them in good order and regularity of publick Worship to wit in a more exact observation of our Rubrick in daily Prayers and constant Catechising nay in some Country Parish Churches have enjoyed monthly Communions celebrated by fuller numbers than perhaps in some great Cities I might add and speak what I know than in some Cathedrals It is manifest therefore that the time requires an exact Conformity to the Rule of God's publick Worship being thus quickened by the Government and chief Governours of Church and State by the pious Laity as well as Clergy by both our Friends and Enemies These and other Encouragements which we have God be thanked to provoke us to attempt a higher pitch of good Order and Conformity than has ever yet obtained since the Restoration ought to ballance all the discouragements we can possibly have to the contrary and should create in us rather a hearty concern for our own excellent Religion established than an excessive aversion to other Mens We have talked Preached and written sufficiently sometimes more than enough against Fanaticism and yet all the while have lived in so constant a Breach and contempt of clear Laws of great importance and easily practicable that the Nonconformity of the Clergy hath a second time been like to prove our ruin And so on the other side while many have been enflamed with a mighty preposterous zeal against Popery they have not been concerned for the most truly and best Reformed Religion in the World yea among our selves for the last is the sin of our Adversaries for these hundred years past we have shewn much more Indignation against the corruptions of the Mass than hearty love to the Communion the contempt of which holy Institution of Christ seems to be the most visible Flaw of Professors in Reformed Christendom which is the most unaccountable part of the practice of the Church of England Men and the weakest place that we have to defend if we are attacked against our Adversaries If we therefore would ever do