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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	peace_n	spirit_n	unity_n	1,812	5	8.9331	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A51566	Liberty of conscience asserted against imposition proposed in several sober queries to those of the people called Quakers who have assumed such an authority contrary to their former testimonies, as also unto those that have submitted unto it before they found convictions in themselves, for them to weigh and consider in the ballance of true judgment / [by] William Mucklowe.	Mucklow, William, 1631-1713.	1674 (1674)	Wing M3034; ESTC R30067	6,481	1

Liberty of Conscience Asserted against Imposition Proposed in Several Sober QUERIES to those of the People called QUAKERS who have Assumed such an Authority contrary to their Former Testimonies As also unto those that have Submitted unto it before they found Convictions in themselves for them to weigh and consider in the Ballance of True Judgment WHether Imposed and Enforced Vniformity and Vnity in outward Ceremonies or Gestures is not a great Enemy to the True Churches Peace a Hinderance to the Prosperity of Truth and a limiting the Spirit of the Lord Whether Vniformity and Vnity in outward Gestures c. is not Imposed when required as a thing necessary and they that dissent to be reputed Erroneous Heretical c. and to be likewise excommunicated for being out of the comely order And is there any example either from Christ or his Apostles for such procedures But did not they rather judge those that laid a necessity upon such things Whether this kind of Vniformity c. hath not made many through fear interest and necessity to conform and will it not retain and let in those that should be cast and kept out to wit the complying Hypocrite who is destitute of the Spirit and cast and keep out those that should be kept and let in even those that wait in the manifestation of the Spirit Whether the keeping off the Hat in time of Prayer is not an outward Ceremony Gesture or bodily Exercise and whether to deny me and others the benefit of Marriage and Burial having a propriety therein only for the omittance of this and to lay such an Injunction upon so small a matter that draweth after it so deep a Censure as to be excommunicated doth it not savour more of Cruelty in you than in us Disobedience or Contempt either to God or you Whether the giving way unto such Imposers is not an In-let unto an Arbitrary Government and when once they have gained so much reputation as to be esteemed Religious and Zealous Reformers Ancient Friends and Elders in God and that it is our Duty to submit unto such whether they may not in a short space under these Pretences establish an Arbitrary Judicature Whether it hath not been experienced how difficult it is to root out such when once they have reduced a People to this Belief and they in the exercise of this Authority because the honour of being invested insuch a Capacity doth oblige men to secure themselves in this Superior Orb and stirs up men of Parts and Ambition to support such an Hierarchy in expectation that it will at last fall unto themselves Whether some Persons that are accounted Famous and Renowned in the Congregation at London have not reduced the People in some degree under this Yoke of Bondage because they give that Meeting this Appellation The Body a high Title and make it to be the Trial of Motions and Vnity c. when a few Principals shall sway the Meeting as they please unless themselves divide Now those Members that exalt themselves above their Fellows and equal Members what do they else but usurp the place of the Head and so break in sunder the Vnity of the Body which stands in the Vnity of the Head and set up another Head besides Christ Did not Rome obtain their unlimited Power by such kind of Appellations Principles and Pretences If so let a Mark be set upon all those that seek the Prebeminence Whether some of you have not been filled with Prayer and Praises to the Lord in silent Meetings without either Words or Gestures to demonstrate the inward Reverence and yet approach'd to the Throne of Grace in the deep Humility of your Souls and with unvailed Spirits Have not some of you walk'd by the way and prayed been at your Labours and prayed together and asunder without pulling off your Hats and hath it not been as a street-smelling Savour unto the Lord Have not many of you given Thanks for his Goodness and Mercy before Meat in silence without its use in a living sense of his Power Have not some kneeled sate and stood in Publick Assemblies and yet prayed in sincerity and the Vnity kept But if you go to impose any of these Postures upon your Fellow-Members whether the Effects will not then be Division Whether it is not as lawful to keep the Hat on in Prayer as well as in Praises to the Lord And whether a Cap is not as real a Covering to the Head as a Hat If so why is the one condemned and the other practised Why is the Cap in the Comely Order and the Hat out of it Whether the Head mentioned in the 11th Cor. may not be covered with the Hat off and uncovered with the Hat on Whether If it be a true Argument that we are out of the Spirit in which the Apolstes were because we forbear the use of the Hat in Prayer contrary to that Saying He that prayeth or prophesieth with his Head Covered c. Then why not also in Prophesying Besides Whether others may not more justly judge the same of you you being out of many of their Practices and Commands The Apostle saith in the same Chapter I permit not a Woman to speak in the Church and yet what is more frequent So that when you can pretend that the Scriptures prove your Practices then they shall be your Rule and Touchstone c. but when you are out of their Practices and Commands then the Spirit and not the Scriptures is your Rule Whether if pulling off the Hat in time of Prayer were to pay Honour or Reverence to the Holy God who so vile that conld nor do it This is to make Religion to consist in some External Appearances as William Penn saith Superstitious men do and in invented Gestures and in a Shadow void of the Thing it self which it must necessarily do in case the Ceremony of the Hat saith he be an Honour or Reverence but True Reverence c. is an Holy Reverence to what is Holy demonstrated by some Substantial Good Whether First Those that have no Impulse unto Prayer Secondly Those whose Hearts are far from the Lord And Thirdly Those that do believe that Service is not required ought to pull off their Hats when Prayer is performed in your Assemblies either in the Spirit of Life or out of the Spirit of Life And also Whether those that have a true Sence of the latter ought to be uncovered If yea to all the said Particulars is not this a Worship in Form rather than in Power in Shew and Imitation rather than in Spirit and inconsistent with a Spiritual Worship and contrary to the Vnity in Spirit and Principles of Truth which is to wait to feel the Openings and Leadings of the Spirit of Life in the Particular unto every Religious Performance but a setting up of the Outward Court again Doth not this make many Hypocrites Whether are we to mix our own Works in the Worship and Service of