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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
friend_n	worship_n	worship_v	worthy_a	14	3	7.1556	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A34542	The remains of the reverend and learned Mr. John Corbet, late of Chichester printed from his own manuscripts.; Selections. 1684	Corbet, John, 1620-1680.	1684 (1684)	Wing C6262; ESTC R2134	198,975	272

apprehension of that being as an avenger of sin in a higher way than mans temporal Judgment and Vengeance and the propitiating thereof towards us or else a grateful acknowledgment of benefits received from a higher hand than any humane Benefactor upon Earth even from a soveraign providence And that which is so propitiated or gratefully acknowledged must be either the Supreme God or some Inferior Deity to which that is ascribed which the most High God hath not communicated to any other And besides the reason of the thing the custom of all mankind and Divine Ordination hath made this a proper Act of Divine Worship If it were high presumption to render that kind of Worship to any subject which the Soveraign Prince hath appropriated to himself much more presumptuous and sacrilegious is it for us to use the appropriated signs of Divine honour towards any Creature Nay tho God hath now relinquished such a Mode of Worship as Altars properly so called and Sacrifices and Oblations Propitiatory or Eucharistical the reason of them ceasing by the new Dispensation yet it is Idolatrous to use the same afterwards towards a Creature For tho it be disused in Divine Service yet still it hath the Impress or Signification of Divine honour Wherefore the Erecting of Altars and bringing Oblations to any besides God is Idolatry § 8. Of making Vows to any besides God BOth Divine Ordination and the Custom of Nations hath made the making of Vows a proper act of Divine Worship and therefore when it is directed to any Creature it is Idolatry In the reason of the thing Vowing is an act of Divine Worship Vowing to God imports Heart-Subjection and Devotion to him and trust in him as the Soveraign disposer of us and our concernments Vehement and resolute Promises made to men upon Earth may Metaphorically be called Vows to them And things set apart for the use and Service of some persons only may in like manner of speaking be said to be devoted to them The Popish Vows made to Saints departed are of the same reason with Vows made to God importing that Subjection Devotion and Dependence which is due to God alone and therefore are Idolatrous Sometimes the very matter of Vows made to Saints are matters of Religious observance or Devotion towards them as of Invocation Oblations Dedication of Temples to them c. Sometimes the matter of such Vows may be something to be performed to men upon Earth as for one to Vow to a Saint that he will give so much to the Poor and even in this later case the Vow quoad formale is a religious Subjection or Observance towards the Saint as an Invisible Celestial power in expectation of favour from him in case of performance and of vengeance in case of failing therein It will not excuse these Popish Votaries to say That in Vowing to the Saints they do not imply an Obsequium or Devotion towards them as the first Principle or Cause c. which they say is latria nor an expectation of favour or vengeance from them as their absolute Supreme Governours and disposers of them and their Affairs but only as Inferior to God For the things which God challenges to himself they render to the Saints tho pretendedly but in an inferior respect as namely the prostration of the Soul and Spirit the Subjection of the Conscience to them and Dependence on them as causes of good or evil in a Supernatural transcendent and Divine manner of dispensation It was one kind of the Idolatry of the old Heathens to Erect Altars and make Vows and Prayers and offer Sacrifices to such as they knew were not the Supreme God but the Souls of men departed or other Daemons And Idolatry was rare among the Romans if this were not Idolatry The Papists do in their practice make the Saints departed such Inferior Deities as the Heathen Daemons were And indeed they have borrowed the names Divi and Divae from them Moreover to make Vows to Saints supposeth them capable of receiving Vows and that capacity supposeth them to know all things on Earth or at least all things whensoever and wheresoever directed to them even the secret intents of the heart and this makes them Gods 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 § 9. Of burning Incense to any besides God BUrning of Incense is a kind of Worship which God hath appropriated to himself and therefore this Worship given to any Saint or Angel is Idolatry The burning of Incense did typifie prayers and praises and other spiritual Services offered up as a sweet favour or acceptable to God therefore can no more be offered to a Creature than prayers or the like Services may Being offered by the Priest in the Sanctuary while the people were praying in the Court of the Temple it did typifie the Intercession of Jesus Christ with God Therefore it is Divine Worship and being transferred to any Creature it is no less than Idolatry § 10. Of dedicating Places and Times and erecting a symbolical presence to any besides God THESE are acts which God appropriated as his own Worship The dedicating either of Temples and Chappels or Groves or other places to any Saint or Angel as the place of his worship and special residence and benign influente upon mortals that make their Addresses to him which the Papists do is Idolatry it being divine worship directed to a wrong object or that which is not God But to dedicate Temples or Chappels to God and his Service only but in memorial of Saints or Angels is not Idolatry it being not a rendering ought to the creature that is due to God alone tho those places be called by the names of such Saints and Angels in honour of their memory The case of dedicating Days and Times to Saints and Angels may be stated and resolved in the same manner The erecting of a Symbolical Presence with incurvation thitherward was declared by God to be a manner of worship due to him and not to be given to any else and therefore to observe the same towards any other is idolatry § 11. Of worshipping Reliques I Suppose by Reliques are meant not only any parts of Christ or the Saints but also any adjuncts as Raiment c. When the Papists say That a Saints Reliques are to be worshipped with the same worship that is due to the Saint and Christs Reliques with the same worship that is due to Christ they are self-convicted idolaters No doubt a respect may be had to the true Reliques of Saints as we respect the Reliques of dear Friends or of Ancestors or of worthy Patriots or Princes as some remaining Monuments of those that have left the World For any to make use of Reliques to keep the Devil away from them or for any preservation spiritual or temporal is a sortish superstition §. 12. Of worshipping the Crose STaurolatry is Idolatry It is a question with me Whether many of the Papists can mean by the worshipping of the Cross and