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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
end_n	lord_n	receive_v	supper_n	1,604	5	9.1492	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A35057	The judgment of M. Cartwright and M. Baxter concerning separation and the ceremonies	Cartwright, Thomas, 1634-1689.; Baxter, Richard, 1615-1691.	1673 (1673)	Wing C701; ESTC R21747	13,713	32

Marriage yet we have no reason to take it for any Ordinance of Divine Worship any more than the solemnizing of a Contract between a Prince and People All things are sanctified and pure to the pure Of Organs and Church Musick And for Organs or other Instruments of Musick in Gods Worship they being a Help partly Natural and partly Artificial to the exhilerating of the spirits for the praise of God I know no argument to prove them simply unlawful but what would prove a Cup of Wine unlawful or the tune and meeter and melody of singing unlawful Of Holy-Dayes Nor for my part do I make any scruple to keep a Day in Remembrance of any Eminent Servant of Christ or Martyr to praise God for their Doctrine or Example and honour their Memorial But the hardest part of the Question is Whether it be lawful to keep Dayes in celebrating the Memorial of Christs Nativity Circumcision Fasting Transfiguration Ascension and such like And yet for all this I am resolved if I live where such Holy-days as these are observed to censure no man for observing them nor would I deny them Liberty to follow their judgments if I had the power of their Liberties provided they use not reproach and violence to others and seek not to deprive them of their Liberties Yea more I would not onely give men their Liberty in this but if I lived under a Government that peremptorily commanded it I would observe the outward rest of such a Holy-day and I would preach on it and joyn with the Assemblies in Gods Worship on it Yea I would thus observe the Day rather than offend a weak Brother or hinder any mans salvation much more rather than I would make any division in the Church Of Altars and Rails And for the next Ceremony the Name and form of an Altar no doubt it is a thing indifferent whether the Table stand this way or that way and the Primitive Churches used commonly the names of Sacrifice and Altar and Priest and I think lawfully for my part I shall not be he that shall condemn them I conceive that the dislike of these things in England the form and name of an Altar and the Rails about it was not as if they were simply evil Whether we shall receive the Lords Supper at a Table or in our Seats and whether the Table shall be of wood or stone whether it shall be round or long or square whether it shall stand in the East or west-West-end of the Temple or in the middle whether it shall have Rails or no Rails All these are lest to Humane Prudence Of the Cross in Baptism But of all our Ceremonies there is none that I have more suspected to be simply unlawful than the Cross in Baptism Yet I dare not peremptorily say that it is unlawful nor will I condemn either Ancients or Moderns that use it nor will I make any disturbance in the Church about it more than my own forbearance will make I presume not to censure them that judge it lawful but onely give the Reasons that make me doubt and rather think it to be unlawful though still with a suspicion of my own understanding FINIS Surv. of pretend Discipl c. 34. p. 447. Th. Cartw. to Harrisen 1. Reason 2. Reason * having 3. Reason Of Assemblies of dumb Ministers Mat. 23. 2. Joh. 9. 22. Mat. 22. 42. Mat. 11. Joh. 5. Isa 56. Mat. 8. Jer. 36. 19. Hos 4. 6. Disp 4. P. 361. Disp 5. P. 400. Ibid. P. 401. Ibid. P. 423. P. 424. P. 396. P. 398. Disp 4. P. 358. P. 359. P. 361. P. 364. P. 421. P. 409. P. 409. P. 411. P. 411. P. 412. * In point of Lawfulness For Conveniency is according to several accidents P. 412 413. P. 416. P. 417. Ibid. P. 417. P. 401 402. P. 417. P. 418.