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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	apostle_n	church_n	pillar_n	3,742	5	10.1590	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A61664	An essay on a question relating to divine worship viz. whether it be contrary to the apostolical laws of decency and reverence for a man to have his head covered in the time and place of Gods solemn publick worship? : aff. / by Samuel Stoddon ...	Stoddon, Samuel.	1682 (1682)	Wing S5712; ESTC R34621	48,463	62

the Man but not to this end or for this use Not that this covering is enough for the Woman though it had been enough to answer its end as a symbole of her subjection to the Man had she abode in innocency but this shews that her head ought to be covered proportionably as all her other parts are and the head especially because uature it self intimates it and thereby teaches it But now to reduce this to the Argument in the former verse where he was reasoning ab indecoro Judge in your selves is it comely The assumption he proves in these two verses by the indications of Nature q. d. the very works of God in nature are sufficient to convinceus that the Woman ought to be covered and then by the same reason and rule of opposition that the Man ought to be uncovered at least in the solemn publick worship of God Hence I infer Inf. 1. That Christians ought not to disregard the moral dictates and indications of nature Inf. 2. That it is a shameful unnatural thing for men to pride themselves or to glory in the curiosities of hair after the manner of Women Inf. 3. That length of hair is given of God unto the Woman not only for her covering but for her ornament though not for pride or levity Inf. 4. That for men and Women mutually to interchange modes and fashions in wearing their hair is unnatural and abominable Ver. 16. But if any man seem to be contentious we have no such custom neither the Churches of God We are now arrived to the conclusion of this Dissertation of the Apostle where for a close we meet with three well accoutr'd Arguments more in a breast But if any man seem to be contentious Thus he speaks by way of Anticipation if any one hath a mind to quarrel 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to maintain his contrary opinion not for truths sake but for satisfying of his ill humour that he may seem to prevail by his Sophisms and Fallacies and will not acquiesce in these our Arguments and Determinations as every one will do that is not of a contentious schismatical Spirit Here we have one Argument more insinuated which may be formed thus To dispute against a clear truth or plain duty is the property of a contentious wrangling person but to dispute against what hath been here asserted and prov'd is to dispute against a clear truth and a plain duty Erg. We have no such Custom What Custom Some will tell you No custom to be contentious or to insist peremptorily or stifly upon frivolous matters I believe it this were indeed a great shame for an Apostle a Planter and Pillar of the Churches to be once guilty of it much more to make a Custom or Trade of it But what is this to his purpose Can we imagine that he would tell them thus Well! notwithstanding all the Medimns I have used and all the words I have wasted to prove my Argument 't is but a frivolus thing if any one seems he hath any thing to object I have done 't is a business that is not worth the arguing any one may do as he seems best whatever I have said to the contrary Certainly if this had been his mind he had done much better both for the Churches peace and his own credit to have took his pen and scratcht it all out again and not to have troubled the sacred Canon with so trifling a matter But when he says we have no such custome I think he tells them quite another thing He here informs them what the Custom and Practice of the Apostles was in the case whereof he had been speaking and assures them that he had herein laid no other burden upon them than he himself and all the rest of his Brethren the Apostles had always born and took to be their duty so that here in the close of his discourse he seems to look back on the first verse where he began it and so to knit up both ends together Be ye followers of me And then the second Argument you have thus It is the duty of all Christians to follow the examples and practice of the Apostles in all things that are according to the wil of God but this was the practice of the Apostles and according to the will of God as was proved before Erg. Neither the Churches of God That is the primitive Gospel-Churches planted by the Apostles where we have the third Argument thus That which was the general practice of the primitive Churches of Christ by Apostolical institution ought to be the practice of all succeeding Churches But this was the general practice of the primitive Churches and that by Apostolical institution Erg. And now you have heard the Apostles sense of the Question and our sense of the Apostle whence I conclude at once That for a Man to have his head covered or a Woman to have her head uncovered in the time and place of Gods solemn publick Worship is a disorderly irreverent uncomely unnatural shameful schismatical antiapostolical and unchristian-like practice And thus much by way of Exposition wherein I hope I have not run beyond my Text. CHAP. III. Answers a few Objections and Scruples upon the case NOtwithstanding what hath been hitherto said perhaps some may seem to be contentious in our times as well as in the Apostles which I shall answer as I am able And truly I wish I had now before me all that the Art of Contention could produce against our Thesis But before we meddle with the Objections we will consider how far all or most are agreed upon the matter 1. Then I suppose that all with whom I have to do are agreed That there is a reverence of the body as well as of the mind and soul due to the Worship of God on the account of that God whom we worship and adore The body is the Lords as well as the Spirit and by both he ought to be Worshipped with those explicite signs and demonstrations of Reverence and Veneration which are proper to both For ye are bought with a price therefore glorifie God in your body and in your Spirit which are Gods 1 Cor. 6.20 O come let us worship and bow down let us kneel before the Lord our Maker Psal 95.6 The humblest and most abject postures and self-abasing prostrations of body as well as of soul a covering of the lip a laying the mouth in the dust are all too little to express the distance that is between the holy God and sinful Man Besides where there is the truth of that inward fear and Reverence that is due to God in the heart it will naturally and necessarily seek to express its self externally in such a way and by such signs as are apt and proper to shadow it forth by True Devotion is like fire which cannot be shut up but will discover it self but where there is no symptom of life in the exterior parts we rationally conclude that the