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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	father_n	true_a	worship_v	5,831	5	9.4836	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A29452	A brief exposition of our Lords Prayer shewing that through ignorance and the wickedness of their own hearts, those that use it most, doth abuse and prophane it most, and pray against themselves that instead of a blessing, they draw down a curse upon themselves.		1680 (1680)	Wing B4592A; ESTC R214138	15,072	16

4 the power of the Church is nothing but a Ministry or Service whereby they publish and pronounce according to Gods word what Christ bindeth and looseth and not what they can bind and loose by their pretended usurpation for Ecclesiastical Laws and Traditions as they are called doth not stand in the authority and pleasure of men no nor of councels No Law is of force to bind conscience but as is is agreeable to the word of God but in the consent and agreement which they have with the Scripture and all such as have rule or Government in Church State or Family they must not rule according to their will and pleasure but in the Lord and for the Lord according to the word of God doing hom g●and ●eildi●g obedience to their Head and King Christ Jesus and every on● inde●vour to rule as a King over his own thoughts will and ●ff●ctions by Gods word and spirit Rev. 1.6 and ●hos to live unto God in me●s several places is to have Gods Kingdom to com● and to be erect d and set up among men when Christ alone is exalted accor●ing as we pray For this Kingdom is nor meant of Gods absolute Kingly power whereby he immediately of himself ruleth all things in Heaven and Earth but as is said before it is meant of the setting up of his Laws and O dinances in the Church the Kingdom of Grace here on Earth in the hearts of man the outward means thereof as the preaching of the word the administration of the Sacraments The Devil and evil instruments hinder the setting up of Christs Kingdom which is may be hindred from exercising of them in their purity according to Christs institutions by the Devil the Pope and other Prelates who will not suffer Christs ministers to minister his Ordinances according to the word of God except they mingle mens devised Ceremoni●● and Traditions with the Laws and institutions of Christ and thus at this time the coming or setting up of Gods Kingdom in the hearts of men is hindred as much as they can though they Hi●orri●ically pray that his Kingdom may come he advanced and therefore it behoves all that are of Gods Kingdom the true Church to pray to God without ceasing to remove all blocks and impediments out of the way that his Kingdom may come and his Will may be dome The third Petition Thy Will be done in Earth as it is in Heaven In the former petition we pray that God-Kingdom may come that he may Reign Rule in our hearts by faith if he must Reign th●● we must be his Subjects and obey his Laws and do his Will and his Will must be done by denying our selves and our own carnal wisdom and all humain inventions in a devised outward form●lity of will-worship for all is will-worship that is not according to the perfect and acceptable will of God VVill worship forbidden it is utterly condemned Rom. 12.1.2 Yea even all the Comm●ndements and Doctrines of men though they have never so great a shew of holiness and humility in their wil● worship it must perish and will not avail the worshippers os Col 2.22.23 Here in these two Texts all voluntary Religion is condemned therefore nothing may go under the name of Gods worship but that which he hath prescribed in his word Deu. 12.31.32 For the rule of divine worship is not the will of him that worshippeth but the will of him that is worshipped therefore to worship after the precepts of m●n is detestable and vain for Gods a Spirit and they that worship God most worship him in Spirit and in truth for our father to whom we pray seeketh such to worship him John 4 23.24 For mans in ●n●●●n doth not make Gods worship but Gods will revealed in his word for ●●aal in Israel was some time worshipped as the true God if we respect the intention of men The intention of men doth no make the VVorship of God therefore mens intentions in worshipping by Ceremonies and Traditions of there own devising is no part of the worship of God and therefore we pray thy will be done in Earth by us men as thy Saints and Angels do thy will in Heaven and they do Gods will willingly chearfully and readily and his will only and not the wiles nor Ceremonies of men neither should we but the will of God only for so we pray that we may do the will of God in Earth as the Saints and Angels do it in Heaven now to pray that we may have grace given us to worship God with that integrity and willingness that Saints and Angels do and after so praying to worship him after the precepts of men it is meer Hipocrisie and praying against our selves and a mocking of God openly declaring that we will not have Christ to Reign over us nor take him for to be King and Governour of his Church nor submit to his Laws like Johanan and the rest of Captains and people that sent the Prophet Jeremias to inquire of the Lord for them but they resolved before that whatsoever the Lord said by the Prophet they would do after their own devices Jer. 42. and like the Idolaters who said to Jeremias as for the word which thou hast spoken to us in the Name of the Lord we will not heark in unto thee here Mr. Perkins on the negative part of the second Commandment he saith that will worship is to worship God with a naked and bare good intention as in Col. ●● 22.23 and so Sauls burnt-offering was a will worship for which Samuel told him he had done foolishly in not keeping the Commandment of the Lord wherefore the Kingdom should not continue with him 1 Sam. 13.9 to 14. he also faith that holy days and some sorts of apparrel gestures Ceremonies altars temporary prayers Consort in Church Musick in divine Service feeding the ear The Negativ● part of the second commud●●● and not edifying the mind giving God a painted shew of worship without the sincerity of the heart to seek the pomp and glory of the world to be more forward to observe Traditions then the Law of God to corrupt Gods worship ordained for his Church by detracting or adding any thing to Christs Institutions as Ceremonies or Traditions all these and the like he saith are forbidden in the second Commandement for they are but Images to worship God by them for we may not obtrude any thing in Gods worship which Christ himself hath not ordained and appointed as a part of his worship for after the publishing of the Gospel the Ceremonies of the Jews Church though formerly commanded yet now became unlawful and so shall continue to the end of the world There is no new institution of Ceremonies in the Gospel and there is no new institution since neither of any of them nor any other Traditions or Ceremonies in the New Testament of Jesus Christ nor no command of God that Popes or