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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
honour_n	image_n	worship_n	worship_v	5,699	5	9.5098	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A89189	A sober ansvvere to an angry pamphlet, or, Animadversions, by way of reply, to Robert Barclays late book (entituled, Truth cleared of calumnies) in answere to A dialogue between a Quaker and a stable Christian by VVilliam Mitchell.	Mitchell, William, 17th cent.	1671 (1671)	Wing M2294; ESTC R43708	69,116	149

to GOD and what is Religious worship but that which is given to GOD Answer It is true Religious Worship is given to GOD and its that which is peculiar to GOD and due to him alone and giveing to the Creature what is thus pecular to GOD Is Idolatry but bowing of the body and uncovering of the head is not of this nature And therefore worship is to be distinguished it is either Civil or Sacred this distinction is founded on Scripture of Civil-worship we read Luke 14.10 Then shalt thou have worship in the presence of them that sit at meat with thee We read of Sacred Religious worship Matth. 4.10 Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God and him only shalt thou serve Civil worship proceedeth from a reverencing of men for their Stations Relations or some notable Qualifications and this kind of worship hath been given and received by the holiest of Saints neither is it any where forbidden in Scripture and so Joseph upon his approach to his Father Jacob he bowed himself with his face to the ground Genesis 48.12 Abraham and Lot bowed themselves to the Angels supposing them to be men Genes 18.3 and 19.2 compared with Heb. 13 2. and the Angels accepted this worship without any reproof of them for it yea Abraham bowed himself twice before the people of the land Gen. 23.7.12 and though every practise of Abraham is not to be so lowed yet these practises which are not condemned in Scripture neither by repehension or prohibitiō why should we be blaimed for an imitatiō of the Saints in them Seeing we mantain Sacred Religious worship to be due onely to GOD and his glory must not be given to another as the Papists give to their Images of which one of themselves affirms that it is the constant opinion of their Divines that the Image is to be honoured and worshipped with the same honour and worship which is given to him whose Image it is None can say unless they will be peevish and perverse that we bow to men to worship GOD in and by them It is known that the Papists speak of two kinds of Religious worship namely absolute which they give to GOD or the Saints and relative which they give to their Images and therefore Papists have no advantage as to their Idolatrous worshipping of Images from our allowable practise of bowing to men thereby to testify a meer Civil respect to them The Gentle-man disputeth against bowing of the body as Idolatry but he seemeth to justify Moses his doing Obeysance to his Father in law And yet what is obeysance but civil reverence by bowing the body in token of that regard which we owe to some person of note SECT II. Concerning Salutations by Words And as Salutations by Gestures are warranted by the Scriptures so likewise are Salutations by words Ruth 2. 4. And behold Boas came from Bethlehem and said unto the Reapers the Lord be with you and they answered him the Lord bless thee And that command of Christs Matth. 10.5 when ye come into an house salute it It s explained by the Evangelist Luke chapter 10. verse 5. And into whatsoever house ye enter first say peace be to this house Now it s known that the Jews in their ordinary Salutations and Greetings when they wished all happiness unto one another they expressed it thus Peace be to You And from this I inferre that bowing of the body and expressing our affections by words comprehending desires and good wishes though persons be not friends but foes Matth. 5.47 is agreeable to Scripture and the practise of renowned Saints As for taking of the Hatt seeing it is not manifest from Scripture that the Saints did wear Hatts the word so rendred Dan. 3.21 is varied on the margine Turbants which were Head-garments peculiar to those Eastern Countries it is no wonder that we do not read of their putting them Off and yet this being one harmless way whereby we express outward honour to those to whom it is due why should it be quarrelled against We must not think it enough to give Superiours inward honour the Scripture also calleth for outward honour Levit. 19.32 Thou shalt rise up before the hoary head and honour the face of the old man SECT III. Containing an Answer to the Quakers Objection He saith It s strange that we should say considering our principles the kingdom of God consisteth not in words for what is our Preaching and the Scripture it self and the very Gospell according to us but a company of words Answer Truely by the Scriptures we meane nothing else but that Heavenly Doctrine those divine instructions or revelation of the mind and will of God which the Lord excited and moved Holy men of old to speake and write for the good of his Church and People and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or the Gospel according to us is the doctrine of Christ the good newes and joyful tydings of Salvation by him to poor sinners contained in the Scriptures And the Preaching of this Gospell hath been found the Power of God to the salvation of many a Soul Rom. 1.16 Now if Quakers be for another Gospel then they may justly be reputed subverters of the Christian Religion and enemies to the Cross of Christ and therefore liable to that curse which is threatned Gal. 1.8 And likewise know that we use to distinguish between the subject matter of the Scripture or the doctrine which it contains and the words or writtings containing or expressing this Doctrine the one is as the Blood the other as the Veins in which it runneth II. HEAD Wherein is warranted our way of speaking in Opposition to the Quakers Thou and Thee Page 12. He findeth fault with me for saying that to whom the singular number is agreeable the plural may be applyed without making a lie and saith the proofes alleadged evince nothing in this matter Answer Though that place Luke 22.31 be not understood of one Exclusively of others yet Christ there directeth his speach onlie to one viz. Peter and he saith not after the Quakers way Satan hath desired to have Thee and You that he might sift Thee and You but behold Satan hath desired to have you and to sift you as wheat It is plaine that the third Epistle of John is directed to a single Person verse 1. The Elder unto the well beloved Gaius whom I love in the Truth and yet verse 12. the Apostle saith Ye know that our report is true Job 18.2 there Bildad speaking to Job saith how long will it be ere you make an end of words I am of that minde that if our Translators had translated Attah and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 not according to the rigour of construction but as use hath made the propriety of our Language that then the Quakers would have kept their old tone and said you instead of thou But if men will needs make a contentious busle about words then let them read and ponder 1. Tim. 6.4 he is