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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	aaron_n	appoint_v	levite_n	170	3	10.3271	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A51669	The spiritual vvorship exalted. Or A treatise concerning the worship and service of God shewing how uncapable men are in their natural and unconverted state of worshipping and serving God acceptably in this Gospel day. And that it is the light, grace and spirit of Christ revealed in men, which doth renew, fit, prepare and [q]ualifie them for performing that pure spiritual and acceptable worship which was instituted by our Lord, and practiced by his disciples and followers. As also several other things here inserted, worthy of observation. By a lover of truth, and wel-wisher of the souls of all men, George Myers.	Myers, George, 1653?-1714.	1687 (1687)	Wing M3174; ESTC R213894	43,291	111

here mentioned it is not common to force Guests to a Feast nor punish them if they come not neither is it likely that such Persons as had no better Provision then they could get from the High-Ways and Hedges should need any outward Force Violence or Compulsion to bring them to a good Supper if they were destitute of Succour and Relief a gentle and loving invitation to a Feast and encouragements of being kindly Entertain'd were sufficient reasons to compel them to go And also if we consider it in aspiritual sence the like reason will hold good any way for we can no way conceive that there is any occasion of using outward Force of Compulsion to cause those that are spiritually poor in want to receive inward Help and Succour their Necessities will sufficiently enduce them to accept it without any violent or forceable treating Further more as the Servants of Christ and People of God ought not by any outward Compulsion to force People to receive their Testimony and embrace their Religion whether they will or no So on the other hand if those in publick Authority who are concern'd in the Government of this World shall happen to Molest Trouble and Persecute them for and upon the account of the exercise of their Consciences towards God and thereby endeavour to force them to deny their Religion and to embrace another although such Persecutors do greatly Err in such practices yet it does no way appear to be consistant with Christianity for those who are Persecuted upon that account to make any publick Resistance by outward Force or Violence but they ought patiently to suffer what Afflictions the Lord is pleased to permit to come upon them in those Cases which thing is plainly manifest by the Example of our Lord Jesus as also by the Doctrine and Practice of his Apostles We read that when our Lord Jesus was apprehended by the Jews one of those that were with him drew his Sword and smote a Servant of the high Priest but Jesus was so far from encouraging People in such actions that he had him put up his Sword in its Place saying All they that take the Sword shall perish with the Sword Mat. 26.51 52 53. There 's no question but if our Lord had seen it requisit to have made forceable Resistance he might have prayed the Father and have had Legions of Angels to have assisted him but he was other wise disposed When he was Reviled he Reviled not again When he Suffered he threatned not but committed himself to him that judgeth Righteously 1 Pet. 2.23 Also the Apostle Paul in his Epistle to the Corinthians gives an account how they behaved themselves in these Cases Being Reviled saith he we Bless being Persecuted we suffer it being Defamed we Intreat we are made as the filth of the World and are accounted as the off scouring of all things unto this day 1 Cor. 4.12 13. Again the Apostle says Avenge not your selves but rather give place unto Wrath for it is written Vengeance is mine I will repay saith the Lord Rom. 12.19 The Weapons of the Saints warfare were not Carnal 2 Cor. 10.4 Neither did they wrestle with Flesh and Blood Ephes 6.12 But in all Christian Patience Meekness and Self-denial they were willing to bear the Reproches and Contradictions of sinful men and that for the sake of him in whom they had believed Preces Lachrymae Prayers and Tears were the Arms they used upon these accounts and those that suffer thus according to the will of God were to commit the keeping of their Souls unto him in well-doing as unto a faithful Creator 1 Pet. 4.19 and herein was their Peace and Safety Section X. Concerning the Maintenance of Gospel Ministers FOrasmuch as those whose Ministry doth proceed from the Grace and Spirit of God do not Force or Compel People to receive their Testimony whether they will or no neither do they go about to Force or Compel any to Maintain them but as they are Gospel Ministers they are content with a Gospel allowance We read that when our Lord sent forth his Disciples to preach the Kingdom of Heaven at hand amongst other things that he gave them in charge he says unto them Freely ye have received freely give Mat. 10.8 And into whatsoever City ye enter and they receive you Eat such things as are set before you Luke 10.8 And whosoever shall not receive you nor hear your Words when you depart out of that House or City shake off the dust of your Feet c. Mat. 10.14 From whence divers things are to be observed First What the Disciples had to Preach they had freely received it Secondly They were not to require Wages for Preaching but to do it freely Thirdly They were to eat such things as were set before them only where they were received Fourthly They were to be so far from being clamourous for Relief of them that did not receive them that they were not to suffer the dust of their City to cleave to them but to wipe it off against them And as this was the way of Maintenance and Relief that was appointed by our Lord for such as were sent forth to preach the Gospel so we no where find that the Apostles or Servants of Christ did act contrary thereunto so as to force any by outward Compulsion to maintain them whether they would or no for that would have been quite contrary to the way of Christ and to the nature of that Religion which he Instituted And if so then it was unlawful for those whom Christ immediately sent to preach the Gospel outwardly to force or compel any either to receive their Testimony or Maintain them I hope few will deny but that it is much more unlawful for those whom Christ never sent to claim any such priviledge As for Tythes which many of those who now pretend to be Gospel Ministers will needs claim and which many of them do Sue Trouble Molest and Imprison their peaceable Neighbours about we do no where find them appointed in the writings of the New Testament as due to the Gospel Ministry 'T is true in the writings of the Old Testament Numb 18. we find that God did chuse Aaron his Sons for the office of the Priesthood and he did also chuse the rest of the Tribe of Levi for the service of the Tabernacle and gave them the tenth in Israel for their Service those Levites were to offer up a Heave Offering to the Lord out of their Tythe and were to give it to Aaron the Priest for himself and his Sons and this was all the share which we find the Legal Priest to have appointed him in Tythes even the tenth of the tenth and that from the hand of the Levites moreover those Tythes were only due and payable by Gods appointment from the Children of Israel unto the Levites of that Land and that because the Tribe of Levi had no other Inheritance allotted them