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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	body_n	soul_n	spirit_n	17,497	5	5.6554	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B01694	An ordinance presented to the Honourable house of Commons, by Mr. Bacon, a lawyer in Suffolk, and Mr. Taet, both of the Members of the same House, and by their meanes was twice read, and referred to a committee. : Pretended for preventing, growing and spreading of heresies. With some briefe observations thereupon, shewing how contrary it is to that law of love, which teacheth men to doe to others, as they would have others doe to them.	Bacon, Nathaniel, 1593-1660.; Taet, Mr.	1646 (1646)	Wing B356; ESTC R201099	3,057	10

AN ORDINANCE PRESENTED TO THE Honourable house of Commons by Mr. Bacon a Lawyer in Suffolke and Mr. Taet both of them Members of the same House and by their meanes was twice read and referred to a COMMITTEE Pretended for preventing growing and spreading of Heresies VVith some briefe Observations thereupon shewing how contrary it is to that Law of Love which teacheth men to doe to others as they would have others doe to them London Printed in the Year 1646. An Ordinance presented to the honorable House of Commons by Mr. Bacon a Lawyer in Suffolk and Mr. Taet both of them Members of the same House and by their means was twice read and referred to a Committee BE it ordained that all such as shall from and after the date hereof willingly preach teach print or write publish and maintaine any such opinion contrary to the Doctrines ensuing Viz. That God is present in all Places That God is or that he is One in three Persons Or doth know or fore-know all things Or that he is Almighty Or that he is perfectly Holy Or that he is Eternall Or that shall in like manner publish That Christ is not God coequall with the Father Or shall deny the Manhood of Christ Or that the Godhead and Manhood of Christ are severall Natures Or that the Manhood of Christ is pure unspotted of sin Or that shall publish that Christ did not die or rose from the dead nor is ascended into Heaven bodily Or that his death is meritorious in behalfe of Beleevers Or that shall publish or maintaine as aforesaid that Christ is not the Son of God Or that the Holy Ghost is not God Or that the Scriptures are not the Word of God Or that the Bodies of Men shall not rise after they be dead Or that there is no day of judgement after death Such publishing with obstinacie shall be judged Felony Such persons shall by two witnesses be bound over by two Justices unto the Gaol-delivery and the Delinquent shall be indicted for Felony and upon finding the same indictment and that the party be found guilty and shall not abjure his said error he shall suffer the pairs of death without benefit of Clergy But upon abjuring of the said error he shall upon two sufficient Sureties be bailed And be it further ordained ●hat if after abjuring the said errours he shall publish it again he shall be indicted and put to death And be it further ordered that if any person shall wittingly and presumptuously or contrary to admonition blaspheme the name of God or any of the holy Trinity or shall impugne the word of God such offences shall be adjudged Felony and the Offender committed without Bayle or Mainprize and the partie being found guilty shall be branded in the left Check with the Letter B. and upon the like offence the second time shall suffer death And be it further ordained that all persons who shall publish any of the severall errours hereafter ensuing viz That all men shall be saved that a man by nature hath free will to turne to God That God may be worshipt by Pictures or Images or that the soule of any man after death goes neither to Heaven nor Hell but to Purgatory or that the soule of man dyes or sleeps when the body is dead or that the revelations or workings of the Spirit are a rule for a Christians life though divers from or contrary to ●he written Word of God or that a man is bound to believe no more then by his reason he can comprehend or that the Morall Law contained in the Ten Commandements is no rule of a Christians life or that God sees no sinne in the justified or that a Believer need not repent nor pray for the pardon of sin or ●hat the two Sacraments of Baptisme and the Lords Supper are not Ordinances commanded by the Word of God or that the Baptizing of Infants is unlawfull or that such Baptizing is void and of none effect or that such persons are to be Baptized again and in pursuance thereof shall baptize any person formerly baptized or that the observation of the Lords Day as it is injoyned by the Ordinances and Lawes of this Realm is not according or contrary to the Word of God or that it is not lawfull to ●yn in publique or Family Prayer or to teach Children to pray Or that the Churches of England are ●ot true Churches Or that the Ministers or Ordinances are not true Ministers or Ordinances Or that the Church government by Presbyterie is Antichri●●ian or unlawfull or that the Magistracy or power of the Civill Magistrate by law established in England is unlawfull or that all the use of Armes for Publique defence be the cause never so just is unlawfull And in case the party so accused for any of the said ●rrours be committed before two Justices the party 〈◊〉 committed shall be ordered to renounce his said errour in the publique Congregation of the Parish Church whence the complaint comes and in case he refuses or neglects the same at or upon the day time and place appointed by the said Justices that he shall be committed to prison by the said Justices untill he shall find two Sureties of Subsidie men that he shall not publish or maintaine the said errour or errours any more Some briefe Observations upon the foregoing Ordinance 1. THat Mr. Taet and Mr. Bacon be desired to offer to the consideration of the Honorable House seriously to debate how far their power can extend as to the knowledge or worshipping of God over the persons and Consciences of the people who in trust them For how can there be an intrusting power of any thing from any or many men to the custody or ordering of any compacted body but only such power which evidently appeareth to reside in every Individuall part thereof in themselves 2. Mr. Taet and Mr. Bacon should doe well first to prove that any individuall part of this Parliamant or people of any Nation injoyes such a power in themselves either to direct or compell their owne consciences in the knowledge or worship of their Creator which as yet is not evident for It is Impossible that any finite creature can comprehend an Infinite incomprehensible God for it appears by many texts of Scripture to be the only act of Love that dwels with God to regulate and guide the hearts of men according to his owne good pleasure who requireth no man to adore him in knowledge or worship more or lesse but as every man is fally perswaded in his own mind For man in himselfe hath no kdowledge of God But as God manifesteth himselfe unto him therefore man of necessity must follow in practice the dictates thereof otherwise man sinneth against the light of knowledge whereby his condition is more abominable then the brute Beast that perisheth 3. That Mr. Taet and Mr. Bacon notwithstanding they have done in this the Clergies worke will now at last move the Honorable House to remember how odious and abominable former Acts of Parliaments in such cases hath proved in the sight of this generation some Parliaments establishing that Idoll of poperie requiring conformity thereunto under the paines of Death affirming it to be agreeable to the Word of God Other Parliaments condemns this way as Antichristian and establisheth Episcopacy alledging that agreeable to the mind of God with the use of Common Prayer Surplices and other devices requiring obedience thereunto under the like pains and punishments So that many for adhering to their judgements suffered Death for pretended Heresies and errours which pretended errors since appeareth to be truth and the guilt of their blood remains on this nation at this day and had not such men out-went the limitation of Parliaments we might have sate in darknesse till this time That this Parliament hath declared Episcopall government to be Antichristian and setled Presbyterie in stead thereof but the Priests not contented therewith without a sole power of Iurisdiction over the lives and consciences of the people of this nation indevoreth to inslave all inquiring people to seeke knowledge from their lips to believe as they believe to know no more then they judge fit we should know The contrary minded shall be inflicted with imprisonment and death under pretence of Blasphemie and errours when there is no such thing can be brought forth by the contrivers thereof much like the old Religion in Henry the eights time hanging in Smithfeild a Protestant on one day for his judgement and a Papist the next for his to such a condition are we like to be reduced through the instigation of the Clergie of our times whose end is their interest and domination over us the free people of England FJNIS