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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	good_a	life_n	work_n	6,139	5	5.3471	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A87537	A scourge for the directorie, and the revolting synod. Which hath sitten this 5. yeares, more for foure shillings a day, then for conscience sake. / By Judge Jenkins.	Jenkins, David, 1582-1663.	1647 (1647)	Wing J607; Thomason E409_24; Thomason E447_14; ESTC R204438	3,988	8

in peace among his people for evermore I verily beleeve that if every Presbyterian Priest or Independant bee left to do what they will we shall have more domineering and disturbance in the Church then ever there was since the Church was first built up in England What would you have then would you have Bishops which have bred all this broile among us yes provided that their Lordly dignitie may be eclipsed and preaching Bishops put in their rooms not to have a high Commission Court little inferiour to the Inquisition of Spaine nor meddle with temporall affaires but to preach the Word of God soundly plainly and powerfully to root out heresie and errour out of the Church of God like a man of knowledge who shall chuse those good men no● their rich kindred nor the King nor his money but their learning Godly lives and conversation c. For Prayer and confession we have them in the Booke of Common Prayer excellently set down and also humiliation with some amendments but to take them quite away I am humbly of opinion you greatly sin against God and this poore Island of England and I think as long as you keep the Arke of God from us I mean the Service Book you will ever have swellings and Emrods among you I am no Prophet nor the sonne of a Prophet but I pray God in his mercy keep you from these plagues which hang over your heads for leaving so many poore distressed soules in want not having the known will of God taught among them who lye and languish for his known Lawes and are kept short of them by force For the Let any I should have rejoyced greatly if I could have seen but half such good matter proceeded from you of the Synod though I am not ignorant that there are some things that might have been amended in some passages of them but not utterly to have them rooted out for those that give their voices to put them quite out of the Church I pray God of his mercy that he one day put them not quite out of the Kingdome of his mercy As for the order of reading the Old and New Testament once a yeere what a comfort must it needs be to those who cannot read What an excellent order is that of reading Davids Psalmes once a Mouth in due place and order which is not to be parallel'd by any Reformed church in the Christian world with many other excellent passages of great note and worth But now that a company of shuttle-brain'd fellowes who for their understanding and knowledge can scarce hold argument with a Schoole-boy that these I say must have that godly Book quite taken away as a great Idoll in the Church what a kind of madnesse is it let all wise men judge I do not write so much in the applause of the Book of Common Prayer so to magnifie it as to put down preaching and to ease your lazie Priests of their paines in studying no my earnest desire is that ther may be praying with the whole Congregation together and preaching too that the Word may be taught plentifully among the poore people and that we which are the inhabitants of England may go hand in hand that God may have his due praise and glory among us and then we with you and you with us may give God his due praise and honour both together which God in his mercy grant and that we may sit together every man under his own Vine and Figtree And to you the Brethren of the separation which have the spirit so much at command and know Gods Word so well that you need no teacher take from you the exposition of the ancient Fathers and other good mens workes which you so much despise and then take the bare Bible and fall to expounding the Scriptures and I dare pawne my life for six pence you shall have as good non-sense as you would desire to heare Goe back go back thou foolish man or woman whatsoever thou art and returne to thy mother the Church of England who first brought thee up to know God in Christ and come out of these puddles and light headed fooleries and know he that takes hold of the Plough and lookes back is unmeet for the Kingdome of God FINIS