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lord_n	word_n	worship_n	write_v	390	3	5.1423	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A67326	A second Christian warning-piece wherein is shewed the first and chief cause of England's present misery, proved to be the chief magistrate's neglect, in not fully doing that work God hath commanded, that must yet be done, because God hath said it, before this nation can expect deliverance. Humbly presented to the Parliament.	Wall, Thomas.	1681 (1681)	Wing W487; ESTC R218348	8,614	8

Ahab walking in their Counsels in Worship contrary to the Law of God given by the hand of Moses for which the Lord threatned to make them desolate how shall such Protestants believe any other that worship God by a Ministry of Man's making with many Popish Inventions also but for it God will still vex this Land with all Adversity as by woful experience is seen this day and if we be not warned in the end the Lord may justly make this Land desolate as when no means would cause Israel to return to the Lord 's true Worship the Land did spue them out 4. Because the Lord's People of old by Covenant made between him and them were his espoused Wife and he their Husband and the fellowship and communion they spiritually had together was as in a Bed of Love so long as she as an obedient Wife yielded obedience in all things that appertained to his Worship and to no others Commands and Directions either in Ministry Ordinances Time or Order but when Judah did defile her self with the Babylonish Inventions in Worship the Babylonians were said to come in to her into the Bed of Love Ezek. 23. 17. for which God threatned them as a Woman that brake Wedlock to give them into the hands of the Babylonians her Lovers Even so under the Gospel the Lord's People by the Covenant of the Gospel are espoused or married to one Husband Christ Jesus who is the Head of the Body his Church and so long as she obeys the Commands of her Lord the only Arch-Bishop and Pastor of his Flock she is said in the performance of his holy Ordinances to have fellowship together with him as in a Bed of Love But when those Protestants that so account of themselves that they are the Lord's People by Covenant and Christ their Head and Husband do yeeld obedience to the Commands of Popes Prelats or any other mortal men in the Worship of God she as an Harlot is said with Antichrist to take their fill of Love together as in a Bed Prov. 7. 18. Now if no honest Man will endure that his Wife should yield obedience in Marriage-duties to another Man because Jealousie is as the Rage of a Man that he will not spare in the day of his Anger how then shall the Lord because Marriage is honourable and the Bed undefiled but Whoremongers and Adulterers God will judge so that the Lord will not spare in the day of his Anger O that these things might be well minded by all good Protestants Now Right Honourable and Noble Patriots seeing for the Evils aforesaid first for the King's Majesty together with the Parliament's neglect to obey the Commands of God in making the Whore to wit of Rome desolate in abolishing all and every thing that hath but the smell scent or taste of Popery either in Place of Trust in the Nation or in Place and Office with their Traditions in Worship set up by former Kings by Law of oversight in Protestant Churches for which the Lord is angry not only with the King and your Honours but also with the whole Nation And for the doing of this glorious Work that there be no erring on the right hand nor on the left I humbly beg leave to lay before your Honours these three Observations 1. The wise God hath given the King's Majesty together with his Honourable Council most perfect Directions in this his Work of Reformation about the Worship of God by example of the Godly Kings of Judah who had no power by their Civil or Kingly Authority to add to or diminish from the Worship of God but to remember the Law of Moses as a most perfect Direction for all things in Worship so that when any King by the counsel of false Prophets and Teachers together or in his own heart did devise or set up in Worship to God or to the worship of Idols any thing either by way of a false Ministry or Altars or Sacrifice or any other thing aforesaid contrary to God's Law the Godly Kings of Judah Asa Jehosaphat Hezekiah and Josiah by the Command of God did demolish it and destroy it out of their Dominions and did call the Lord's People by all loving means to the Service and Worship of God according as it was found written in the Law of Moses And thus they were as God had promised Kings should be Nursing Fathers not such Nurses to give the Lord's Children Milk the sincere doctrine of his Word as is the Ministers work the Breasts of his Church for Consolation but as Nurses that look after with care to defend and preserve the Church from all enemies at home or abroad that Dragon-like are ready to devour her Children which the Church in her painful Ministry and Preaching travelleth in pain till Christ be formed in them begotten by the seed of the immortal Word that so as the Psalmist Prophet and others say this and that Man was born in her Psal 87. Isa 66. Rev. 12. Gal. 4. And this is still the duty of Christian Kings under the Gospel not to add or diminish but to preserve the Church while she followeth her Head and Husband CHRIST in all his Directions in Worship and to demolish all Images and false Inventions and Traditions set up by other Kings in Worship to God that so the Romish Whore may be made desolate and the Anger of the Lord turned away from this Nation as it was when the good Kings of Judah did the same work from that Nation For what a shame is it to see in the Cathedrals in England how the Clergy bow and cringe themselves to a wooden Altar Papist-like 2. There is no King nor other mortal Man hath power over the Conscience of any of his Subjects in spiritual things as saith the Apostle we have no dominion over your Faith Therefore when Joshua conquered part of Canaan and the Nations became tributary to Israel as their Subjects and Servants they forced them not to be of their Religion because they and all Kings should know that it is a work belonging to God only to perswade Japhet or the Gentiles to dwell in the Tents of Shem so that to force any man after that persecuting manner as do the Pope and his Prelats to worship before they have faith or be born again is to force blind men to the Kingdom they see not and to make a Church of Hypocrites bringing men into a snare even to their Condemnation to devour that which is holy and after that saith Solomon they must with sorrow enough make enquiry what they have done Therefore the work of Kings is only to take off all the yoke of Popish Bondage so that their Subjects may be free seeing saith the Prophet every Nation will walk in the name of his God that so Protestants as true Christians may walk in the Name of the Lord their God whose Name is his Law the Gospel that so as Christians they may do their duty to God and