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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	world_n	worship_n	worship_v	1,635	4	8.6836	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A54424	Battering rams against Rome; or, The battel of John the follower of the lamb, fought with the pope and his priests, whilst he was a prisoner in the inquisition-prison of Rome. Also, a certain remonstrance of righteous reason, written in Rome-prison of mad-men, unto all Rome's rulers. Together with a post-script, to all tender-hearted Roman Catholicks.; Battering rams against Rome.	J. P. ((John Perrot)), d. 1671?.	1661 (1661)	Wing P1612; ESTC R217527	61,566	173

the manifest Salvation of GOD unto the ends of the Earth as was spoken by the Word unto Isaiah his Prophet in whose face expresly we have the Revelation of the Father in whom we behold the Glory of the Son as the Glory of the only begotton of GOD full of Power and Wisdom hereby knowing what we Worship whom the whole world alienated from the Power Life Wisdom and Holiness of GOD do ignorantly Worship in the imaginations of their own hearts which before the Lord are only evil continually Him therefore declare I unto you GOD the Eternal and unto every mortal Invisible and Incomprehensible Spirit who is not likened unto the Creation which by the Power of his Eternal Word was made to glorifie hi●… Name by the Spirit sheweth That he dwelleth not in Temples made with hands neither is he worshipped by the Works of mens hands as if he needed any thing who from the beginning determined the times appointed and made all mankind of one mould and gave unto them Life and Breath and added thereunto of the Grace of his Mercy a measure of the Divine Nature if haply that thereby they might seek and feel after him the LORD their Creator But Man whom the LORD made little lower than the Angels and gave him the fulness of the Earth to possess rebelled at all times against his GOD he departed from the beginning from the living Way and made Invention the joy of his Heart and made his Inventions a fence against God and his Imaginations a Bullwark of defence and in all Ages and Generations though the LORD visited with Judgements Destruction Mercies and wonderful Deliverances and sent his Servants the Prophets arising up early and lying down late with Precept upon Precept and Line upon Line speaking as afar off by Signes and Figures and Parables and as at hand by Iudgement and Mercy And always shewed how that he is GOD and altogether unlimited neither bound unto Words nor Wonders nor limited in Sea or in Land but still Man made marks for GOD and set bounds for the Arm of his Power who in no wise is measured as the waters in the Wells nor contained as the Rivers with the banks who was not conceived as the Seed of Man nor born as the Babe of the Womb who is not comprehended as the grass with the ground nor as the wide swelling Seas with the sands of the shores who is not known as he knoweth all fowls and calleth the Stars by name who is not measured as the Earth with the Moon nor as the Heavens with the course of the Sun and therefore Man alwayes lost the knowledge of the eternal Power of the God-head and still settled in his own will which at first rebelled against GOD and in the same Will made Laws and Statutes and Ordinances for Government for Worship and for punishment though even from the dayes of the first man Adam unto this day the hand of the LORD GOD was turned against that work as witness the preaching of the Spirit of Abel Enoch and Noah he who hath an ear let him hear witness also Abraham Isaac and Jacob among the Heathen and Moses among the Egyptians yea witness the Spirit of Moses among Israel by Preaching by Power by Judgement and Deliverance What may I more say They would build a Tower to reach unto Heaven and Arks and Cities and Tabernacles and Temple And all for GOD to be constrained in their Works and when they had Commandments and Sacrifices as appointed by the Word of the LORD the Spirit sheweth when in all these things they would have forced the Rest of GOD the LORD arose alwayes against them and sent his Servants the Prophets to cry against those things with the same Word which commanded them whom they did beat imprison wound and torture yea and put to death And thus it alwayes was He that was born after the flesh persecuted him that was born after the Spirit even as it is now and in like manner it hath been from the dayes of Abel until the Heir came and him they shamefully slew to possess the Vineyard Moreover of his dayes I may also speak even in the dayes of the LORD CHRIST when he was transfigured before his Disciples at the glorious appearance of Moses Eliah and the LORD the Disciples would build them Tabernacles but mercy appeared unto them in a Rebuke and they were instructed in the Way of GOD but yet and notwithstanding also that Paul the Apostle taught a pressing on from one degree of Faith unto another until all should be perfected unto the fulness of the measure of a compleat stature shewing also in the Resurrection who himself was risen with Christ the diversities of the measures of the Glories which were revealed and every measure as gathered into God in his fulness were respectively full shewing it by the figure of the Glories of the Lights of the Sun Moon and Stars and wrote to the Church how that he was caught up into the third Heaven and saw things which were unlawful to be uttered And John in the LORD'S Day in the Revelation of the Lord from Heaven saw the great things of GOD yet said the Angel unto him Come up hither I say notwithstanding all this the doctrine of GOD that he might be known to be GOD and not in any wise to be limited Man in his wilfulness and presumption unto this day hath set marks against him and made measures of words in their Wills as Cords of restraint to bind him yea the Heavens and the Earth and the depth of the Seas and all the increase of the Plant of the field and her seeding Seed the Sun Moon and Stars the Clouds the Winds the Hail and the Rain-bow of GOD shall witness against the Nations of the world in this matter They limit not God in their pleasure but do bow in subjection to his Will but the Nations of the Earth in the crookedness of their hearts have made walls against the passage of GOD. O Man lift up thine head and look and behold how the People and Inhabitants of the Earth do limit the LORD to their lusts O open thine Eye and see how they make GOD as a Transgressor in the Earth even as the Cattle of a Stranger which have fed in the fields of their Pasture and as the hand of a Thief and Robber which hath stolen the labour of another Look thorow the Earth among the Nations thereof and thou mayest read all their Professions as Prisons for the Reign of of GOD in the Conscience is limited by the forms of their Words and one cryeth Here and another saith There and another saith these are the Laws and the Precepts and he that will not Rest in this he is out of the Way of GOD and he that speaks against our Law and the Manners of our Worship he must bear the punishment thereof Concerning all which if the Conscience of GOD should demand Are your Words GOD

unto them my said Writings in life and nature the Prophets CHRIST and the Apostles by ungodly and unrighteous Rulers were persecuted and made sufferers in the world And because from the day of Cain's Cruelty even unto this moment there was never any other spirit in the world which did or doth persecute any soul for his pure Conscience of GOD besides the thick spirit of darkness which is of the old Serpent the Devil to which the Apostle in his day held his Testimony saying As it was then he that was born after the flesh persecuted him that was born after the Spirit even so it is now 18. Because the Doctrine and Life of CHRIST teacheth his Church to recompence all men good for evil and not any man evil for evil seeing the recompence of evil for evil rendreth men manifestly as children of the Devil and much more the rendring evil actual for the work of good sincerely intentional And because that Christ reprehended that spirit of Revenge in the youth of his Disciples which would have had Fire come down from Heaven to destroy his Persecutors saying You know not of what spirit you are Who though the glorious Power of the Father was with Him which could do all things yet persecuted no man but suffered all things And because we do not persecute you nor any other Sect beside you 19. Because that when CHRIST so sharply reprehended Peter saying Get thee behind me Satan And when he said also to the Jews You are of your father the Devil and the lust of your father you will do and he was a lyar from the beginning Neither his friend nor his foes persecuted Him with that bitterness wherewith you have persecuted me I might moreover instance Jeremiah's crying against the Temple which once GOD commanded Paul's Reprehension of the High Priest Peter's of Simon Magus Paul's Declaration of Reproof to the Athenians in the open Court of the Arreopageans with many other Acts of CHRIST and his Apostles yea and a Cloud of Witnesses reserved to the day of Judgement and to testifie the Innocency of the Just at the open Bar of Tribunal 20. Because the Kingdom Weapons and Warfare of the LORD JESUS and his Apostles and Church were not nor are not carnal but spiritual and also because my Writings Sayings and Speeches are not carnal nor tending to a carnal end but spiritual tending to a spiritual life without end The which spiritual Holiness if you call spiritual Wickedness yet professing your selves to be the Church which is the Body should consequently in the Channel and clear Course of the running River of Righteous REASON be subject unto CHRIST whom you confess to be the Head of the Body and so the Body to be subject to the Law of the Head and not to make the Head subject to the lust of your body and then you would do as CHRIST did and as the Apostles practised cut down the spiritual Wickedness with spiritual Weapons For when the Jews said unto Jesus Thou hast a Devil and in the name of Beelzebub dost cast out Devils the LORD then whom you are not greater in whose hand all Power was persecuted not their persons but fought with them with the spiritual Weapons and said If I in the name of the Prince of Devils do cast out Devils then is his Kingdom divided and so with the spiritual Weapons cut down the spiritual Wickedness These are the things which I call Righteous Reason to every righteous rational man living Forasmuch also as for more than two years space as precited and in like manner in the interval of the said time as opportunities sundry and divers were presented I having in the spirit of sobriety moved and modestly urged for an open fair and legal Tryal according to the holy Law of GOD and of his Son JESUS CHRIST which righteously regulateth among his Church the which was many times promised but being hitherto never performed may give just occasion unto every person of prudent understanding which hath or may hear thereof to conceive that my continued Restriction thus debarred from the Judgment of the Law of Equity is of the nature of Apostacy from and consequently in Antipathy unto the sage moral Ty of humanity and all things which are of the Virtuous Substance heavenly And that from the consideration of the subsequent causes which I the rather intimate from the cogitation that they may be rationally as an Inducement and Instigation of you to expediate my hitherto detarded Tryal at open Tribunal of Law where I may justly find ample Audience to illustrate unto all attending Apprehensions the perspicuity of the Defence of mine Innocency In due progress whereunto therefore from this Spirit of meeknesse O ye Rulers of ROME conceive c. First Because the simple proper pure solid and sole end of the Law of GOD and all Righteous Laws of Nations is really righteously and equally for the expedition of Judgment on every Transgressor for the fact of his Transgression without respect of persons for the perfecting Righteousness in the Earth and where the end of the Law is made void there the substance of the whole Law is destroyed Secondly Because punishment inflicted upon any man by any Judge or Magistrate which hath a Law without Judgment and open Conviction by the Law is not according to Righteousness so much an act of Equity as directly contrary to all Law and unreasonable constriction of the cruelty of Tyranny and such an Act stains the glory of his Tribunal of Authority For by a Law he holdeth the Seat of his Superiority and the Righteousness of Judgement by the Law being the Glory of the Chair of his Magistracy Judgment being perverted the Just Tribunal is overturned and thereby the Glory thereof rendred as a stage of Infamy And thus the Law being violated mark what follows The Land by unrighteousness ruined Thirdly Because the constriction and continuation of Bonds through suspence of Judgment and Punishment of a Person without Judgment and open Conviction by the Law stands in contrariety to the pure practice and life of true Christianity which actually leadeth to the doing unto all men as a man would that another should do unto him in which also consists both the Law and the Prophets And because it is but of the same which the Proverb rendreth most infamous saying Hang a man first and Judge him afterwards Fourthly Because it is expresly in opposition to the pure Nature of GOD your Creator who looketh for the work of Judgment in the Land and sent Judgment into that Land in which the Righteousness thereof was scanted and where against the end of the Law the Judgment thereof is found delayed and suspended there the measure is scanted and the ballance falsified upon the Stall and there the presumptuous Lust of irrational and unsatiable Will ruleth in the Seat of wrongful Revenge in the enmity to the Righteousness of the Law it self which was added of Christ for the