Selected quad for the lemma: heart_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
heart_n	according_a	father_n	lord_n	2,116	5	3.5330	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A93733	The cause and cure of divisions: or, The way and means for all Chr[istians] (however they are distinguished [or] named) to come to unity Demonstrated and pointed out from the scriptures of truth; by Richard Stafford, a scribe instructed therein.	Stafford, Richard, 1663-1703.	1699 (1699)	Wing S5109; ESTC R230354	13,703	16

to be more then the first Notwithstanding I have a few things against thee Rev. 2.18 19 20. Notwithstanding the Church of England hath done several things well and she hath many things according to the Pattern of the Gospel and of the Pure and Primitive Church Yet nevertheless the Spirit of God hath a few things against her because she hath not come so clean out of Sodom to the Abominations whereof the Roman Church may be compared for she hath committed Spiritual Whordom and Fornication and Uncleanness in departing away from the Laws and Commandments of God so as not to leave an hoof behind For there should not be in her the least rellick or remainder of Popery or what is meerly the Popes nor yet any other Mans Institutions But she should have hearkened fully and throughly unto the Call and Requiring of God so as to have done accordingly Wherefore come out from among them and be ye separate saith the Lord and touch not the unclean thing and I will receive you 2 Cor. 6.17 For even the very Monuments of Idolatry should be taken away and defaced The Altars and Groves were to be burnt cut down●●● destroyed And we are Commanded not to mention other ●ods nor yet to use their Names within our Lips And we are to abstain from all appearance of Evil and we keep our selves as far as ever we can from the Accursed thing ●nd so it should be of every thing that displeaseth the Lord. So likewise every thing should be laid aside in his Worship which is a great thing relating to that God with whom we have to do which he hath not Commanded nor Required nor entred into his 〈◊〉 Notwithst●●●●●● these things ought to be so yet still by reason of custom ●nd continuance and when people have been long used unto a thing they will not be perswaded off from it altho it be the express Commandment of God to turn away from these Idols and Inventions of their own which also they make an Idol of in cleaving unto them in opposition to his Commands and chiefly because by this Craft and Usage they get their Living Therefore People will still go on in their own ways and their Soul delighteth in their Abominations Isa 66.3 And so they will keep unto their Inventions Imposed on us by the Precept of Men Any Law or Ordinance of God to the contrary Notwithstanding as here it hath been alledged to the contrary from the Scriptures of Truth which contain the Declaration and Mind of the most high God who saith by his Son Jesus Christ In vain 〈◊〉 they Worship me Teaching for Doctrines the Commandments of 〈◊〉 Mat. 15.9 As to which again it may be truly reasoned and inferred that such People who in vain do Worship God Let not those People think that they shall receive any thing of the Lord. Whether People will comply therewith or not Nevertheless the Foundation of God standeth sure and his Truth endureth to all Generations firm and unchangeable Notwithstanding the People of this World are Contentious and do not obey the Truth through the Temptation of Corrupt Interest and filthy Lucre yet still and all along the only way and means which can be understood from the Scriptures which were given by Inspiration of God and to make us wise unto salvation for all Christians however they are Named or Distinguished to come unto Unity that they may with one Heart and Mind Glorify God even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ is to have all things in his worship done according to the Pa●tern shewed to us in the Gospel and that every Plant which our Heavenly Father hath not Planted be Rooted up And that all the Doctrines and Commandments and Inventions of Men be utterly abolished and laid as●●e and not used at all That the Lord alone may be Exalted in that D●● LONDON Printed in the Year 1699.