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death_n	body_n	jesus_n	soul_n	6,686	5	4.8718	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A10795	Gods holy house and service according to the primitive and most Christian forme thereof, described by Foulke Robarts, Batchelor of Divinity, and prebendary of Norvvich.	Robartes, Foulke, 1580?-1650.	1639 (1639)	STC 21068; ESTC S121261	55,029	143

us to sit whilest the minister is reading or expounding any part of the word of God for our instruction and while doctrines are taught and applyed for our further edification But when we come to utter an hymne or petition then the minister who before spake unto the people doth now joyn with the people and both minister and people with one heart and voice joyn in a language to almighty God And therefore compose themselves to a gesture of solemne adoration and worship which I never knew sitting to be neither do I thnike that any president can be found in all the whole Bible of any either Congregations assembled or persons in privat sitting at their solemn worship of almighty God We find in the revelation Apoc. 4. 2. God described upon his throne and foure and twenty Elders wearing crownes sitting upon so many seates round about the throne And anon those Elders betake themselves to worship him that sitteth on the throne But now they keepe themselves no longer on their seates when they are to performe the act of solemne worship But they fall downe before him that sate on the throne and cast their crownes before the throne saying Thou art worthy O Lord to receive glory c. So also cap. 11. ver 16. there are 24 Elders who sit before God on their seates But when they worship they fall downe on their faces We read also of some that worshipped God standing So did the publican 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 standing a far off he said God be mercifull to me a sinner And a great company whom no man could number did stand before the Luc. 18. 13. throne in the sight of the Lambe and cryed with a loud Apoc. 7. 8. voice saying Salvation from our God which sitteth on the throne And therefore we give glory to the father sonne and holy Ghost or recite some hymne appointed by the Church to be pronounced by the Minister and people joyntly to glorifie and praise God withall standing both in imitation of these examples and also accompting it the more reverend gesture then sitting which we never finde used in the solemne and publique worship by Gods people And in all this no man can point out any Superstition Againe we use the gesture of standing when wee publiquely rehearse the articles of our faith or attend unto those choise portions of the Gospell appointed for their speciall times and occasions And both these are the same For the Creede is the breviate of the Gospell and the Gospell is in the Creede or the articles of our Faith at large At the rehearsing of the one and at the reading of the other we stand up The reason is to signifie and expresse hereby our resolution and readynesse to stand and persevere to the end in this Faith which we do professe And this expression is according to scripture which by the metaphor of standing setteth out Christian fortitude and perseverance as Rom. 5. 2. we are by faitb admitted to this grace wherein we stand And cap. 11. 20. Thou standest by faith So 1 Cor. 16. 13. Stande in the faith And 1 Pet. 5. 12. This is the grace wherein yee stand So then we by this gesture of standing at the Creede or Gospell professe our constancy or perseverance But when the scripture speaketh of standing in Ob. grace or in the faith it doth not intend a bodily but a spirituall standing It is very true And when wee by our bodily standing do professe our spirituall standing we do Ans herein no whit swarve from the meaning of the Scripture But what the Scripture expresseth in word we declare by a gesture of the same signification And so in this is no superstition One would think that no body should be so absurd as to dislike the gesture of kneeling in prayer But because I have seene with mine eyes and that not seldome whole troops of men and women and those not of the meanest in the time and place of divine Service while prayers and supplications were made unto God sit all the while I think not altogether needlesse to free the gesture of kneeling in Gods worship from all suspition of superstition And that by precept practise and reason For precept take the words of the Psalmist Ps 95. 6. O come let us worship and fall downe and kneele before the Lord our maker For practice we will looke upon the farest president Our blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ kneeled downe and prayed If Luc. 22. 41. men will be ruled by reason they will not when they are to petition the King of Kings omit such a gesture of humility as kneeling is being the most suitable for a man at his prayers and for this cause we kneele at the holy Communion receiving whereat we both lift up thankfull hearts unto God for the death and resurection of Jesus Christ as also beg of God that by the merits thereof our bodies and Soules may be preserved to everlasting life It is not denyed but that a man may pray sitting walking standing or layd along For we ought to pray alwayes But when a man betaketh himselfe to a set exercise of prayer and that specially in the publique Congregation kneeling is the fittest and no Superstitious gesture But though divers things in use with you in Ob. your worship might in themselves be something indifferent and tollerable yet there are some gestures used in your Churches very offensive to weake Consciences and therefore ought to be forborne How weake the consciences of these men be I must leave it to God to judge of But I must needes thinke that their fancies are strong whilest they will not beleeve but that they have better knowledge then their teachers and more wisdome then their Governors For they will prescribe what the minister must teach and how both Church and Common-wealth must be ordered And wherein their Ministers teach or their Governours Command otherwise then they like of they will slight the one and disobey the other But to come to the point What is that which is so offensive above the rest Let it come forth and shewe its Superstitious face that when wee see it to be such wee may abhor it thereafter It is as I am told for else I should never have magnified it The bowing which wee use at the name of Jesus and at the Communion Table For as the name of Jesus the plaine text telleth me that every knee shall bow thereat But forward people thinke to evade the authority of this text Phil. 2. 10. by saying that the word Name doth in scripture sometimes signifie power And this wee deny not and wee acknowledge further that it also signifieth divers other things as fame or renoune 2 Cro. 26. 8. His name went forth to the entrance of Aegypt So it signifieth also Posterity Deut. 25 7. My husbands brother refuseth to raise up a name unto his brother It is taken for memory or remembran●● Es 56. 5.