Selected quad for the lemma: england_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
england_n	ceremony_n	church_n	rite_n	3,560	5	9.9325	5	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A32862	The memory of the righteous revived being a brief collection of the books and written epistles of John Camm & John Audland, those two faithful and honourable servants of the Lord, who were called to the work of the ministry in the morning of Gods blessed day dawned in this generation, and, with other brethren, bore the heat and burden of the day faithfully, to the end and finishing of their course, being entered into the joy of their Lord : together with several testimonies relating to those two faithful labourers / published for the service of truth and friends, by Thomas Camm & Charles Marshal.	Camm, John, 1604?-1656.; Audland, John, 1630-1664.; Camm, Thomas, 1641-1707.; Marshall, Charles, 1637-1698.	1689 (1689)	Wing C390; ESTC R22076	130,282	441

which God hath made manifest l●seth his Testimony where fruits would be brought forth unto Death and not unto Life and the Hand of the Lord will turn against such for them that honour the Lord he will honour but they that slight his Counsel and despise his Will shall be lightly esteemed all which duly considered we cannot as we live to God but bear witness to his Name and hold forth that Testimony which the Lord hath committed unto us 7. Again We are given up to obey and serve the Lord according to that which he hath made known unto us because no man must give an account unto God for us or answer for us in his day when the secrets of all Hearts shall be manifest and he will reward every one according to their deeds B●t we must stand before the Judgement-Seat of Christ to receive a Portion from him and not others for us Therefore we may not deny the Lord because of Force Pains Prisons or Penlties because they that so force us will not answer for us though weight enough may be upon themselves yet that would not free us if we should forsake the Way of the Lord made known to us And let all people in soberness judge what reason there is that others should force us from that which we believe to that which they believe and yet if we perish by that means they can neither help us nor answer for us Is it not therefore meet that we should live in that Way in which we dare dye and give up all unto the Lord in and not be forc'd out of that Way in which vve have Peace and Love and the presence of the Lord vvith us into a vvay vvhere pain and anguish would fill our hearts and leanness and emptiness would be upon our souls and yet they that forced us from our good Haven and safe Harbour where vve lay at Anchor safe from the storm vvould neither bring us to any sure resting place nor yet preserve us from Winds and Storms and terrible Tempests but vve must by reason of such a force unavoidably suffer shipvvrack We say We may call Heaven and Earth yea Angels and all just men to bear vvitness to our Cause yea and the Eternal God of Life in vvhose hand is the breath of all living to judge between us and our Persecutors in this matter Hearken unto me ye that know righteousness the People in whose heart is my Law fear ye not the reproach of men neither be ye afraid of their revilings for the Moth shall eat them up like a Garment and the Worm shall eat them like Wool but my Righteousness shall be forever and my Salvation from Generation to Generation Isa 51. 7 8. J. A. A Question Answered which was proposed by the Bishops Official at several Places in Westmoreland to the people called Quakers in his Visitation so called about the 7 th Month 1663. Question WHY do you not come to your Parish Church or to the place of publick Worship appointed by the Laws of the Land to hear Divine Service and to join in Prayer with the Congregation and to perform other Rites and Cerimonies of according to the Church of England Answ First the ●postle saith Let every Man be fully perswaded in his own mind Now we are not perswaded in our minds either that God requireth it of us to come to these Places to Worship him or that it can be proved by the holy Scriptures according to the Practice of the Saints that we ought to come to these Places Secondly because we are not perswaded in our minds and that upon good Grounds and Reasons according to the holy Scriptures That the Priests which there serve the Cure so called are Ministers of Jesus Christ sent of God But much perswaded in our minds that God never sent them And that for these four Reasons First Because their Call to the Ministry is not the same as were the Call of the Ministers of Christ Theirs was by the Spirit of Christ not of Man nor by Man Theirs are of Man and by Man Time servers Men pleasers Covenanbreakers having a face to serve every turn and time not serving the Lord but their own Bellies and they used to say before they abjured the Covenant that they had not the infallible Spirit which the Apostle had and what Spirit is entered into them since let all that fear the Lord judge Secondly Because we are not perswaded that their Practice in their Ministry is not according to the Practice of the Ministers of Christ but according to the practice of the false Prophets and false Apostles which the Scripture testifies against Thirdly Because their Maintenance in their Ministry is not according to the Maintenance of the Ministers of Christ but like the false Prophets and them that went in Cain's way and Balaam's way greedily after Gifts and Rewards yea and preparing War against them that puts not into their Mouths Fourthly Because we are perswaded that their Doctrine is not according to the Doctrine of Christ and his Apostles but the contrary for they deny the Light of Christ which lighteth every Man that cometh into the World to be spiritual and sufficient to guide in the ways of Peace and this is contrary to Christs Doctrine and his Apostles again they say all that ever people do is Sin while they are here though Saints and people must never have freedom nor victory over Sin while they live upon the Earth and this is contrary to the Doctrine of Christ and his Apostles They say all they do is Sin their best Actions are Sin their Prayers are Sin to this we consent therefore they are not the Prayers of the Upright which God delights in nor were they ever sent of God whose Prayers and best Actions are Sin ●nd therefore being the Hirelings and Strangers which Christ never sent we are perswaded we ought not to hear them nor go after them Again Thirdly we come not to these places because we are not fully perswaded in our minds that the people there met together are the true Church of Christ or his Members And that for these three Reasons First Because they are a Company of miserable Sinners that err and stray like lost Sheep from the ways of God and are grievous Offenders of Gods holy Laws as that themselves confess therefore say we unredeemed yet in the way of Death not in the way of Life yet we do not deny but confess that there is a time when people do so err and are out of the right way but this in the Unconverted state such are not the Church of Christ nor Members of his Body while they are dead in Sins and Trespasses for the Saints who are Members of the true Church are quickned by the Power of God and ate raised up to sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus Secondly The people there met together do that which they ought not to have done and leave undone that