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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
hand_n	command_n	left_a	right_a	9,891	5	7.6822	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A85384	Basanistai. Or The triers, (or tormenters) tried and cast, by the laws both of God and of men. Or, arguments and grounds as well in reason as religion, clearly evincing the unlawfulnesse of those ordinances or commissions (at least as they have been from time to time declared and interpreted, aloud by the persons acting them, and tacitly by the authority enacting them) with all others of like import, by which the respective courts, or consistories of triers and ejectors (so called) amongst us, are established: together with the unwarrantablenesse of the acceptation and exercise of the powers delegated and granted in the said commissions, by any man, or company of men whatsoever, now in being. By John Goodwin, an aged minister of Jesus Christ, and pastor to that remnant of his sheep, usually assembling in Coleman-street, London.	Goodwin, John, 1594?-1665.	1657 (1657)	Wing G1151; Thomason E910_12; ESTC R21913	29,193	48

worship of God for the best advancement of the interest of both amongst men Whereas the truth is that multiplications in this kinde and substractions are of the same demerit and provocation in the sight of God and are accordingly censed and prohibited as it were with the same breath by him Ye shall not adde unto the Word which I command you neither shall ye diminish ought from it that ye may keep the Commandements of the Lord your God which I command you Deut. 4. 2. This last clause That ye may keep c. clearly importeth that when any thing is added in matters of Religion and appertaining to the conscience unto the Word of God it is as impedimental or destructive to the keeping of Gods Commandements as the taking away of any thing from it would be Hereof I give some brief account in these Papers So else where What thing soever I command you observe to do it thou shalt not adde thereto nor diminish from it Deut. 12. 32. And Agurs advice by the Holy Ghost is Adde thou not unto his words lest he reprove thee viz. by punishing thee in one kinde or other and thou be found a lyar a meaning unto thy self who promisedest unto thy self speciall favour in the sight of God for thy imaginary service in supplying that which in thy conceit was wanting in his words whereas thou reapest his displeasure by it This adding unto the words of God of which we now speak is elsewhere I conceive termed A turning aside on the right hand from what God had commanded as a taking away from these words A turning aside to the left And is voted by God himself an enemy to the prosperity and peace of men as well as this Turn not from it saith God to Joshua concerning his Law to the right hand or to the left that thou maiest prosper whethersoever thou goest Josh. 1. 7. Plainly implying that as well turning aside on the right hand from the commands of God by which I know not as was even now hinted what can be meant but mens adding words and ordinances of their own to fill up that which they conceive to be defective and empty in his As turning aside on the left is provoking in the sight of God and obstructive to the peace and comforts of men So again Ye shall observe to do therefore as the Lord your God hath commanded you you shall not turn aside TO THE right-RIGHTHAND or to the left you shall walk in all the waies which the Lord your God hath commanded you that ye may live and that it may be well with you c. Deut. 5. 32 33. The wisdome of Kings and of the Judges of the earth as the great King and Prophet David informeth them is to kisse the Son lest the be angry and they perish from the way i. e. to subject themselves unto the Laws and Ordinances made and established by Christ not to set their thresholds by his or by their authority to super-induce new Laws or Ordinances upon his to serve upon the same account with his or to regulate the judgements or consciences of men in matters of Faith or things appertaining unto God which is his appropriate Sovereigntie The anger or displeasure of Christ against Rulers when they refuse to kisse him especially when they challenge and claim from men the same kisse with him is commonly expressed by such an interposure of his whereby they perish from the way i. as Mr. Ainsworth well interprets the phrase wander and lose the right way and not know whether to go nor what to deliberate and so they become intangled and ensnared in their own Counsels and run to confusion This is the expresse doom that in all ages hath befallen Kings and Princes and States and Persons in power when they have lift up their hearts in a conceit as if that Jesus Christ had given unto them the right hand of fellowship as well in his Propheticall Office as his Kingly and accordingly have fallen upon making Laws Statutes and Ordinances as the furrows in the field for binding under severe mulcts and penalties the judgements and consciences of men And whether the anger of Christ hath not uttered it self in that very kinde of judgement now described against the former Princes and Rulers of this Nation and more especially against our late Parliaments as oft as they presumed to meddle with his golden Scepter whereby he nurtures and rules the consciences of men I referre to the testimony of those amongst us who hath been diligent and constant observers from time to time between the Lord Christ and them at such turns My hope is and my fervent prayer shall be that God in mercy will keep the present Rulers of the Nation from dashing their foot against this stone and that they shall not oppresse or vex by any Apocryphal Statutes or Decrees those consciences in the Nation which are full of goodness and zealous in their love and loyalty towards them But of these things I have upon severall occasions written heretofore more at large The Papers now in thy hand were at the Press some weeks since and in part printed onely upon some overtures of report which since vanished into nothing as if the two Commissions here impleaded were under some relentings and meant to annoy and damnifie the Gospell no more as hitherto they have done the process of the Presse was for a while suspended To what account whether for the benefit and good or of increase of guilt they will turn unto those who are most concern'd in the contents of them resteth in the hand of God in conjunction with the wills and reasonings of these men My hearts desire and prayer unto God for them is that he will incline them to consider what is here said and give them understanding in a matter of so great concernment unto them For my selfe what inconvenience or trouble otherwise I shall gain by the hand {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} I think it not worth the putting to account being so near the line beyond which there are no sufferings to those that love God Certain I am that by giving my testimony against two so great evills and dammagers to the Gospell of Christ sundry his faithfull Ministers and Servants in the Nation as the two commissions against which I here contend I shall gain a departure in so much the more peace whensoever my change shall come In which great blessing good Reader my soul wisheth thee part and fellowship with my selfe and resteth Devoted to thy soul and the dear interest thereof John Goodwin ARGVMENTS AND GROVNDS As well in REASON AS RELIGION Clearly evincing the unlawfulness of those Ordinances or Cōmmissions especially as they have bin from time to time declared and interpreted aloud by the persons acting them and tacitly by the Authority enacting them with all others of like import by which the respective Courts or Consistories of Triers and Ejectors so called