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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
state_n	body_n	soul_n	union_n	1,547	5	9.5555	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A34735	The counter-plot, or, The close conspiracy of atheism and schism opened and so defeated and the doctrine and duty of evangelical obedience or Christian loyalty thereby asserted / by a real member of this most envy'd as most admired, because, best reformed Protestant Church of England.	Real member of this most envy'd, as, most admired, because, best reformed Protestant Church of England.	1680 (1680)	Wing C6522; ESTC R10658	41,680	44

The name of Jesus adorable The Bowing at the Name of Jesus is none of those things and the offence they take therefore is not given for admitting what they object that the practice is neither warranted nor intended by the Apostle in that common Text yet certainly those mighty peculiar Emphases which we find put by the Spirit of Truth upon that all-adored and salvifick name must needs enforce it Have the Angels in their more exalted nature have they knees for this hyperhypsistous Immanuel and can the Christian man have none for the same superexcelling and most exalted Jesus do they bow inquisitively shall the mountains and rocks bow litterally and can I not bow Religiously must my understanding bow or break to the Faith of the incarnation and can my body in this state of Vnion not bow at the Name or which is all one at the mention or memory of God incarnate Versus c. Typical And for the like reason though bowing towards the Temple Hierusalem were Typical then yet bowing in the Temple or house of Prayer even by the practice of the Antitype it self must be pious still and that place as separated and consecrated by Christ so hallowed and esteemed by us Arist The Philosopher can tell us that a lye is malum in se a sin against the Law of our Nature therefore to make a lye quod efficit tale must be so and more and to violence or captivate a profitable truth can be little less the good which I do against my mind is so far hypocrisie as the evil which I so do is infirmity and there is crimen falsi in both when I bow my body to the person I had rather stab or kiss the hand that I wish cut off does not my soul make my body lye so when my soul bows in Adoration of God can it so exclude the body in this state of conjunction as either to deny the right or interdict the use of its assistance would not such exclusion be an injurious restraint and oppression of that truth which I am always bound to own and assert by a reasonable service of God with my whole man my soul and body together We grant 't is the Loyalty of the soul that makes a true Christian subject yet we know this never is or can be unattended by the hand and knee too Voluptas animae anima voluptatis We grant that as the pleasure of the Soul is the soul of pleasure so the worship of the Soul or Spirit is the soul of worship but then this soul is in the body still and acts not but ecstatically without it and it acts as distinctly as grosly bodily in any determinate position of the hand or eye as in the flex on of the back or knee all are alike bodily worship and equally lyable to exception though their fortune has not been alike if there be any difference in the notoriety of the gestures then we say the more visible if decent and Analogous the more honorary we think it impossible for any soul seriously militant to think it adviseable to throw away his arms or give them up to his enemy to give that bow or worship to any creature which upon the oath and fidelity of a souldier he must give to and only to his Creator he must bow as spiritually and litterally too as he must not bow yea he must bow as naturally and necessarily whilst he is in the body as he must not he cannot enter the house or begin the work of Prayer without bowing forth his Domine non sum dignus nor make any solemn religious address without the Soul of a Christian and the body of a man together the negative precept both directs and confirms the positive duty and by being commanded not we are instructed how to bow look what share he knows his body must have in the violation he gives it the same in the performance of his duty and is so well perswaded of the reasonableness of this service that without doing open violence to the express command by hacking out a piece as some of our Schismaticks acquaintance have cut off the whole and restively stopping at thou shalt not bow he cannot conceive the least colourable objection against this or in favour of the contrary practice unless either it should be said here as we have heard before that it must not be done because commanded which God forbid or that it could be thought argumentative or not Sarcastical which I remember to have seen somewhere produced by a person of Honour as the only Text that can piece up the rent of that mutilate Communion in the Church of Rome viz. Father if it be possible let this cup pass from me c. But it may be the pinch is not so much here and they are more offended as English men than as Christians Where the pinch lyes as abridged of those priviledges which their interest in Magna Charta claims for them that they are not admitted to places of trust and office c. Truly we might willingly endure the envy of this objection upon condition it were but as true in Thesi as it would be absurd in Hypothesi For besides that we know by sad and memorable experience were Schismaticks Legislators they would certainly inforce such a Conformity as they will now neither comply with themselves nor forgive in others they have made themselves even by their own Principles incapable of being what they complain they are not for if indifferent things are not properly the matter of humane Laws as humane is contradistinct to divine there 's nothing in the world besides that can be so because all necessary things are already sufficiently commanded and all unlawful things as evidently forbidden in the Word of God in which respect they are altogether divine and in no wise humane Laws so that there could be but one Law precisely humane which the Schismatick Legislator could possibly enact The Schismaticks Law viz. that every Christian should be a law unto himself or the same in other words that every mans reason should be his guide and every mans will should be his Law and consequently that all should be rulers as much as any May we not now appeal unto themselves whether they be not of all Recusants the most unexcusable more than those that are tossed about with every wind of false doctrine when not our Doctrines true or false but our bare Surplices can skare them or our Organs blow them out of the Church whether it had not been better for them never to have been the members of Christ than being such to out themselves off from his Body which is the Church whether it were not fitter seeing common safety cannot always subsist without publick peace nor publick peace without compliance on one side or other whether I say it were not fitter that the Inferiours the fewer and the more ignorant should yield to the Superiours the many and the