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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
heaven_n	bow_v	earth_n	knee_n	3,628	5	9.5783	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A42355	Toward the vindication of the second commandment by Edm. Gurnay ...	Gurnay, Edmund, d. 1648.	1661 (1661)	Wing G2260B; ESTC R40533	26,448	84

are oftentimes fast bound by sicknesse imprisonments or necessary callings yet is it allowed to have accesse unto the Lord and to present him with such sighs and grones and ejaculations and thanks as it thinketh good Fourthly that no sacrilegious disposition may take up this trick of robbing the Lord by excusing the neglect of it by the littlenesse or poornesse of it the Lord himself hath said it and sworn it that unto him every knee should bow Which also he Apostle extending to the knees of things in Heaven and things on Earth and things creeping under the Earth he giveth us fairly and plainly to know that the least ability in the nature of man not onely may but also must find a knee to bend unto him our least muscles and knuckles inclinations and dispositions having more composition than the nature of Angels and more understanding than the nature of Worms and creeping things have Yea the very hairs of your head are numbred saith our Saviour And therefore if the Lord keepeth a reckoning of our hairs shall we think he will neglect the excellencies and honours of our substantial abilities the least lifting up of the eye or the least motion of the lip being able to do God more honour then multitudes of our hairs who knoweth not It is true indeed the Lord sometime rejecteth some kinds of honour as the honour of the lips the tongue the eyes c. but it is not because they be small and little but because they that offer them are false and double and think with their lip-labour to be quit of the Lord and so to keep their hearts and substantial parts to themselves Even like unto deceitfull debtours which with the tendring a small sum of money intend to defeat their creditours of the main For else as the penny being as good silver as the pound and having the Kings stamp as well as the pound may not be rejected from bearing a part in the Kings tribute no more than the pound So the tongue and the lips and never so outward abilities being the Workmanship of God no lesse than the parts most inward and supreme may not be debarred from tendering their offices and services unto the Lord no more then the parts never so able and supreme the withholding the least of them being of force to make our greatest honours imperfect as the want of a farthing may hinder the clearing of the debt and their accesse being of force to make the greatest honours the greate as the least digit is of force to give an augmentation to the greatest number We conclude therefore That as the Lords appointing us to perform divers kinds of honour unto sundry sorts of men is not of force to dispossesse himself of those honours so also neither is the commonnesse or littlenesse of any kind of honour of any force to exempt or dismisse the same from belonging unto the Lord And so the first ground of our Demonstration is most certain and manifest namely That all kind of honour glory and praise of what degree or kind soever is wholly and perpetually due only unto the Lord and consequently That no degree or kind of honour whatsoever may be given to any kind of creature much lesse to the Image of any kind of creature but only by vertue of the Lords expresse and special appointment even no more than a creditours money may be payed unto any but such as the creditour hath assigned to receive it Now that the Lord never assigned nor appointed any kind of honour to be done unto Images we must take it for granted and assuredly believe it until we find his expresse word under his own hand-writing for it And lest any should busie themselves unprofitably and mispend precious time about seeking for some Texts and parcels of Scripture to prove such a matter we shall give them a sufficient Item to save them that labour and that is this That unlesse the Scriptures which they bring for the honouring of Images be far more plain peremptory and abundant than any that can be brought for the honouring of men as Parents Princes Masters c. they must not be admitted And the reason of this our Item and Caveat is this Because men being reasonable and understanding Creatures and such as are able to improve the honours that are done unto them unto the honour and glory of the Lord it is a thing not incredible unto flesh and blood that some degrees and kindes of honour should be done to them and therefore a few words from the mouth of God or under his hand-writing might be sufficient for such a purpose But now for Images which are most palpably void of all understanding and utterly unable to improve the honour that is done unto them unto the Lords final advantage it must needs be a thing most incredible unto flesh and bloud and contrary to all the rules of reason that any honour should be done unto them And therefore unless we have most peremptory charge from God so to do and that far more abundantly than ever we had for the honouring of men it must not be done But so far is the Scripture from such super-abundance of charge for the honouring of Images as that whereas it every-where and most expresly in the Commandments teacheth the honouring of men as Parents Masters Kings c. it scarce once affordeth any shadow of appointment for the honouring of Images And therefore we may securely conclude That the Lord did never appoint any jote or scrat of scruple of honour to be done unto them And so our Demonstration against the doing of civil honour unto Images is abundant and compleat The force whereof by the strings of art may thus be contrived That kinde of honour which the Owner of all honour did never appoint us to give unto Images must not be given unto Images But the Civil honour is such a kind of honour as the Owner of all honour did never appoint us to give unto Images Therefore the Civil honour must not be given unto Images But because every capacity is not apt to be fastned upon by Demonstrations nor ready enough to gather negatives from the the want of affirmatives though in all kinde of grants and conveyances betwixt man and man the want of an affirmative is negative sufficient it hath therefore seemed good unto the indulgence of God to declare his mind in this point to be expresly negative and that not only in general when he forbiddeth the worshipping of any thing which he hath not commanded and elsewhere he saith My glory will I not give to another neither my praise to graven Images but also most especially and with his own mouth from Heaven when he saith Thou shalt not bowe down to them nor worship them there being no kind of honour whether actual or intentional real or personal corporal or spiritual natural or moral domestick or civil divine or humane but may easily be