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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	true_a	worship_v	worshipper_n	5,566	5	12.1877	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A27512	A short view of the prelatical church of England laid open in ten sections by way of quere and petition to the High and Honourable Court of Parliament, the several heads whereof are set down in the next two pages / written a little before the fall of that hierarchie, about the year 1641, by Iohn Barnard, sometime minister of Batcomb in Somerset-shire ; whereunto is added The anatomy of The common-prayer.	Bernard, Richard, 1568-1641.; Bernard, John.	1661 (1661)	Wing B2034; ESTC R17815	85,593	122

Canon in stead of remedying their vices decreed that the Commutation of Penance shall not be without the Bishops privity XXIV The general abuse of that great ordinance of Excommunication which GOD hath left in his Church to be used as the last and greatest punishment the Church can inflict upon obstinate and great offenders and that the Prelates and their officers who of right have nothing to do with it do daily excomunicate men either for doing that which is lawful or for vain idle and trivial matters as working or opening a shop on a Holi-day for not appearing at every beck upon their summons not paying a fee or the like yea they have made it as they do all other things a hook or instrument wherewith to empty mens purses and to advance their own greatnesse and so that sacred ordinance of God by their perverting of it becomes contemptable to all men and seldome or never used against notorious offenders who for the most part are their favorites XXV Yea further the pride and ambition of the Prelates being boundlesse unwilling to be subject to either man or Laws they claim their Office and Jurisdiction to be Jure divino exercise Ecclesiastical authority in their own names and Rights and under their own Seals and take upon them temporal dignities places and offices in the Common-wealth that they may sway both swords XXVI Whence follows the taking Commissions in their own Courts and Consistories and where else they sit in matters determinable of Right at Common Law the putting of Ministers upon Parishes without the Patrons and peoples consent XXVII The imposing of Oaths of various and trivial Articles yearly upon Church-wardens and Side-men which without perjury unlesse they fall at jars continually with their Ministers and neighbours and wholly neglect their own calling XXVIII The exercising of the Oath ex Off●●io and other proceedings by the way of Inquisition reaching even to mens thoughts the apprehending and detaining of men by Pursivants the frequent suspending and depriving of Ministers fining and imprisoning of all sorts of people breaking up of mens houses and studies taking away mens Books Letters and other writings seizing upon their Estates removing them from their callings separating between them and their wives against both their wills the rejection of prohibitions with threatnings and the doing of many other out-rages to the utter infringing the Lawes of the Realm and the Subjects liberties and arraigning of them and their families and of later time the Judges of the Land are so awed with the power and greatnesse of the Prelates and other wayes promoted that neither prohibition Habeas Corpus or any other lawful remedy can be had or take place for the distressed Subjects in most cases onely Papists Jesuites Priests and such others as propagate Popery or Arminianism are countenanced spared and have much liberty and from hence followed among others these dangerous consequences I. FIrst the general hope and expectation of the Romish part that their superstitious Religion will ere long be fully planted in this Kingdom again and so they are encouraged to persist therein and to practice the same openly in divers places to the high dishonour of God and contrary to the laws of the Realm II. Secondly the discouragement and destruction of all good Subjects of whom all multitudes both Clothiers Merchants and others being deprived of their Ministers and over-burthened with these pressures have departed the Kingdom to Holland and other parts and have drawn with them a great part of manufacturé of Cloth and Trading out of the land into other places where they reside whereby wooll the great staple of the Kingdom is become of small value and vends not trading is decayed many poor people want work Sea-men lose employment and the whole land much impoverished to the great dishonour of this Kingdom and blemishment to the government thereof III. The present wars and commotions hapned between his Majesty and his Subjects of S●otland wherein his Maiesty and all his Kingdom are indangered and suffer greatly and are like to become a prey to the common Enemy in case the wars go on which we exceedingly fear will not onely go on but also encrease to an utter ruine of all unlesse the Prelate● with their dependancies be removed out of England and also they and their practises who as we under your Honours favour do verily believe and conceive have occasioned the quarrel All which we humbly refer to the consideration of this honourable Assembly desiring the Lord of Heaven to direct you in the right way to redresse all these evils FINIS THE ANATOMIE OF THE Common Prayer-Book Wherein is Remonstrated the Unlawfulness of it and that by Five several Arguments Namely From the Name of it The Rise The Matter The Manner and The Evil Effects of it John 9.31 Now we know that GOD heareth not Sinners but if any man be a Worshipper of God and doth his Will him he heareth 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 A pure Prayer is Gods Temple By DWALPHINTRAMIS Printed in the year 1661. TO The Well-affected READER Christian Reader OUt of a Respect to the Glory of the great God who is a God that will he worshipped by true Worshippers in Spirit and in Truth as also with a Desire of thy eternal good here is presented this following Treatise which was formerly Penned by some Eminent Orthodox Divines Late Non-Conformists wherein are many solid Arguments and Reasons declaring and clearly proving the Book of Common-Prayer or Liturgie to be wholly taken out of the Masse-book As first The Common-Prayers are taken out of the Breviary Secondly The Administration of the Sacraments Burial Matrimony Visitation of the Sick are taken out of the Ritual or Book of Rites Thirdly The Consecration of the Lords Supper Collects Epistles and Gospels are out of the Masse-book Fourthly The Ordination of Archbishops Bishops and Ministers is out of the Roman Pontifical So that the Service-book being thus unmasked is plainly evinced to be a rank Impostor in Gods Worship and notwithstanding its long Possession it is even a violent intruder in the House of God Then a Word to you Readers which are of Three sorts either doubtful in suspense vvho by this Treatise may be fully resolved or such as use it and Idolize it by strength of Reason may be brought off and that such as cannot brook it may be encouraged not only as a Learned Author observeth because many of Gods People are of the same mind but chiefly because God is of the same mind Lastly How much doth it concern all such who have lifted up their hands to the Most High God in a Solemn League and Covenant for the extirpation of Popery Prelacy Superstition Heresie Prophaness and the Reformation of Religion in Doctrine Worship and Discipline according to the Word of God and the best Reformed Churches to contend earnestly for the Truth and for purity in Gods Worship This being the prime work of the day and of this