Selected quad for the lemma: heaven_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
heaven_n	angel_n	power_n	principality_n	1,953	5	10.9253	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A34136	Common-prayer-book devotions, episcopal delusions, or, The Second death of the service-book wherein the unlawfulness (with advantage) of the imposition of liturgies ... is clearly and plainly demonstrated from the Scriptures ...	C. W.	1666 (1666)	Wing C5572; ESTC R35602	67,445	80

themselves and consequently that the appointment and commanding of his own Worship is a darling prerogative unto him the glory whereof he will not give unto another The truth of this Doctrine runs clearly enough in other veines of Scripture besides those in which we have seen it already by the opening and arguing of which we might have more enterviews and appearances of it in somewhat differing shapes How strict is the charge of God unto men neither to add to nor take from the Word which he hath commanded them that they turn not aside from it either to the right hand or to the left Deut. 4.2 5.32 12.32 17.20 28.14 Josh 1.7 Pro. 30.6 Rev. 22.18 19. Doubtless they who turn their backs upon the Appointments and Commandments of God concerning his Worship and will impose Apocryphal Forms and Models of Worship upon men saying in effect first to God himself Except thou wilt be pleased with that worship which we prescribe and enjoyn thou shalt not be worshipped at all as far as we have to do and then unto Men Unless you will worship God after our mode and with the worship which we enjoyn you be it good or be it bad true or false you shall not worship 〈◊〉 at all if we can help or prevent it such m●n I say is these do ●o a very broad sence both add unto and diminish from the Word 〈◊〉 God hath commanded I shall not need to interpre●●r pre●● 〈…〉 of this assertion And indeed for the conviction and 〈…〉 of those that are spiritually ingenious and tremble to detain the truth in unrighteousness that which hath been already argued and pleaded from the Scriptures I know cannot but suffice But for those that are contentious or of cavilling spirits and do not will not obey the Truth if it toucheth the apple of their eye and thwart their carnal interest the Sun and a Sack-cloth the Light of the Noon-day and the Darkness of the Mid-night seven Demonstrations from the Scriptures and seven Stories out of the Golden Legion are much alike Yet let us in a few words further weigh and consider that ingenuous acknowledgment of the great Apostle Paul to the Corinthians that he had not a dominion over their Faith 2 Cor. 1.24 To have dominion over a mans Faith requireth a lawful Authority to impose any thing upon him to be believed which the Impo●er pleaseth or judgeth meet upon the account of his own judgement and will and under what penalty he pleaseth and again to prohibit him the believing any thing upon the like tearms Now then evident it is that neither Paul nor Cephas nor Principalities nor Powers nor Cherubims nor Seraphims nor all the Angels in Heaven have any dominion over the Faith of men but only He whose judgment is universally and in all things infallible and his will in like manner impeccable Especially the Dominion we speak of is not competent unto cannot reasonably be imagined to be vested in such a creature that knoweth but in part that seeth darkly and through a glass only and besides is sold under sin and in or with his flesh serveth the Law of sin all which our Apostle acknowledgeth of himself and that which concerneth imperfection of knowledge he affirmeth of all men without exception even of the most enlightned Christians 1 Cor. 13.9 12. And if so great an Apostle who was so high in favour with God as to be taken up into the third Heaven where he heard words that were unspeakable and which it was not lawful or possible these were the same with Paul for a man to utter and who doubtless knew more of the mind of God and of Christ than all the world besides and beyond all this was so mightily subdued under the Truth that as he professeth he could do nothing against it but do and suffer all things for it yea and was so effectually mortified unto the world that he could most gladly spend and be spent for the souls of men if I say an Apostle thus highly accomplished above all his fellows and in the largest capacity amongst ten thousand to be made a Lord over the Faith of men yet was not by God judged meet for such an investiture himself declaring and professing as much as we heard how intollerable is it in men who being compared with Paul scarce hold the proportion of the snuff of a Candle to the Sun to claim and exercise that most high and sacred Dominion we speak of as if it were vested by God in them Or do they any whit less than claim exercise it who under sore mulcts and penalties impose a necessity upon men to believe subscribe unto and teach what conceits opinions and tenets they please in things appertaining to God and withall to renounce and abjure all such opinions and perswasions which please them not Or do not they broadly usurp the Dominion we speak of who command men at the peril of their Estates Livelyhoods Liberties c. to believe that such or such a Form of divine Worship which pleaseth them pleaseth God also yea and that it pleaseth him better than any other Form yea than any other Worship whatsoever which they are capable of performing or exhihibiting unto him Or do they thus command men to use their Form of Worship whether they whom they command believe it to be pleasing unto God or no If this be the sence of their command it is yet more imperiously impious and horridly prophane Therefore in commanding them to use it they implicitely yet next to explicitly command them to believe it to be lawful and good Nay if they rightly understood the nature and import of that command of theirs we speak of they do not only command those on whom they impose it to believe that the Form of Worship enjoyned them is simply lawful but that it is better and more acceptable unto God not only than any other set Form of Worship they can use but then any other Worship kind or manner of Worship whatsoever of which they are capable For he that shall use any set Form of Worship without such a belief as this I mean without being perswaded in his soul that he cannot Worship God better in any other way or by any other Form exposeth himself to the curse denounced Mal. 1.14 Cursed be the Deceiver that hath a male in his flock and voweth and sacrificeth unto the Lord a corrupt thing debile a weak thing as the Latine rendreth which Grotius explains by vitiosum aut foemininum that which is faulty or feminine For I am a great King saith the Lord of Hosts and my Name is dreadfull among the Heathen What hath been demonstrated from the Scriptures concerning the Prerogative of God touching his own Worship is not obscurely taught by the Light of Nature it self and by the Principles of Reason especially if we shall allow them now and then a little assistance and relief from the Scriptures For 1. The Light