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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
mercy_n	miserable_a	offence_n	sinner_n	4,012	5	10.4369	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A40719	A review of the grand case of the present ministry whether they may lawfully declare and subscribe as by the late act of uniformity is required? : in reply to a book entitled A short surveigh of the grand case, &c. : wherein all their objections against both the declarations are considered and answered / by the same hand.	Fullwood, Francis, d. 1693.	1663 (1663)	Wing F2514; ESTC R20121	61,527	240

how doth it follow that the Lords Prayer is accounted the necessary and only lawful Petition for this mercy in every approach to God is the Absolution in every approach to God Or if the Lords Prayer be must it therefore be accounted the only lawful petition of pardon of sin 11. Lastly all the reason you express to inforce this Conclusion is in your last words that the Lords Prayer is constantly subjoyned but that indeed is no reason at all for though it be constantly it is not only enjoyned as a Petition for pardon of sin and therefore you cannot say that it is reputed or enjoyned as the only lawful Petition for that end and consequently ●our Objection vanisheth 12. Can it be affirmed by any that converse with the Book of Common-prayer that if we do assent unto it we assent that the Lords Prayer is the only lawful P●tition for pardon of sin while we find so frequent and so various forms to that purpose even from the beginning to the end of the said Book besides that of the Lords Prayer 13. What do those words in the Confession signifie But thou O Lord have mercy upon us miserable offenders spare thou them that confess their faults Restore thou them that be penitent How often do we meet with Lord have mercy upon us have mercy upon'u miserable sinners 14. Again more expresly Remember not Lord our offences nor the offence of our forefathers neither take tho● vengeance of our sins Deal not thou with us after our sins nor reward us after our iniquities mercifully forgive the sins of thy people and abundance more in the Office of Communion the visitation of the Sick Commination and indeed either more expresly or implicitely in every approach to God by the book of Common Prayer we have other Petitions of pardon of sin besides the words of the Lords Prayer 13. Thus we see that wise and good men may have cause to joyn with us in the words of our Liturgy that it may please thee to forgive us all our sins negligences and ignorances SECT 3. Of popular Responds 1. SEcondly you complain that you cannot Assent and Consent to the word Answer and the other directions for popular Responds for these are you say in Mr. Croftons Dialect Repugnant to the Apostles Rule Let all things be done decently and in Order 2. My dear brethren pray consider that though these things seem so directly repugnant to the Apostles rule of decency and order with you Mr. Crofton yet they did not seem so to our present Governours What Order can be prudently expected in Church or State if every private spirit should be Judge thereof and accordingly Act or Reject in publick Administrations Yea I dare in this thing appeal to your selves were you in the place of Government durst you trust the management of all indifferent things and all external Circumstances about Gods Worship to every private Discretion I am sure the Apostles did not 3. However you say in your Preface that you have admitted and could admit many inexpediencies for the liberty of your Ministry Now I am confident you will not say these are other then inexpediencies in your own judgments and the reason of this confidence your selves have given me page 15. where referring to these things you say you could submissively bear these things which cannot be understood but in the use of them and conformity to them Now how you can admit inexpediencies in your practice and bear with these things and yet not give some assent and consent thereunto I am still to learn especially that they are indifferent and not simply sinful though perhaps inexpedient in your opinion SECT 4. Of the Holy Table 1. AGain you are offended at the word Holy as an Adjunct to Table frequent in this Book for you know no holiness of Places or Instruments under the Gospel 2. For answer hereunto pray ask your selves in what sence Places and Instruments might be said to be holy in the time of the Law that the Gospel dispensation cannot bear as you seem to intimate 3. Nay rather is not that holiness that was restrained to some places and some things in the time of the Law now spread by the coming of Christ over all places and all things To the pure all things are pure What God hath sanctified call not thou common or unclean 4. So that any place or any thing that is capable of use in order to Gods Service by this grace of the Gospel we have liberty to use it and to set it apart for that peculiar use about the Worship of God as this publick house and not another this particular Table and not another c. 5. This I know neither you nor M. Crofton will scruple at and this granted you must needs confess that the exception against the word Holy as given to the Table is only a strife about a word for indeed you allow the thing and all the thing which this word as applied to the Table intends to signifie 6. Neither can you reply that it is improper to call a Table in this sence Holy seeing you may easily know the Church doth not intend by calling the Table Holy a proper but a figurative holiness or a holiness not inherent in the thing but predicated of it with respect to the end and use for which it is set apart which distinction I need not inform you hath undeniable ground in Scripture 7. Yet seeing you say you know no holiness of places under the Gospel give me leave to remember you of the Holiest of all Heb. 9. 3. and that peculiar to the Gospel-state the Holy Ghost signifying that the way into the Holiest of all was not yet made manifest while the first Tabernacle was yet standing v. 8. 8. Yea this seems to be a place to be entred into even in this life Having therefore boldness to enter into the Holiest by a new and living way And having a High Priest over the House of God Let us draw near with a true heart not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together as the manner of some is Heb. 10. 19 to 26. To this the Holy Citie answereth Revel 11. 2. 21. 2. 22. 9. 9. But I am afraid of being mistaken let me therefore have leave to add that the end of my alledging these Scriptures is only to let you know that Holiness is attributed to places under the Gospel Contenting my self with my former Answer to the Objection without any strict Application of the Scriptures pointed at to that end and purpose 10. Howbeit if you acknowledge as I know you do with the Apostle that there is such a thing as Sacriledge Rom. 2. under the Gospel you may easily perswade your selves that some things may warrantably bear the Attribute of Holy even under the Gospel for what is Sacriledge 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 it unquestionably imports that either the things that are stoln or the place out of which they are