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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	seek_v	worship_n	worship_v	2,731	5	9.3155	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A91610	A short discovery of the mystery of iniquitie. To which is added also, a brief discovery of the falso holinesse of nations, their instituted or church state, and what appertains thereunto: set forth for the good of all that love truth in the inward parts. / By Mich: Quintyne.	Quintyne, Michael.	1645 (1645)	Wing Q228; Thomason E307_9; ESTC R200341	11,454	15

being which is spirituall according to a divine instinct and choice so to be not by a power magisteriall or inhumanely compulsive forcing humance nature above or contrary to its present light this truth is proved in gathering the Church in making disciples not slaves and by casting out of fellowship no farther then whence received nor into any worse condition for matters of the world in any due course and this agreeth with the holinesse of Divinity which was manifested in himself by all that he did or commanded to be done for the good of man The nature of the members and subject or materiall part of the constitution of this divine instituted bodie Christ visible Church Gods worshippers is divine and spirituall sutable to that of the Trinitie and the Law thereof which according to measure bringeth forth all goodnesse in truth of love of God in all his wayes towards him and men and therefore Christ declares that those that worship God shall do it in spirit and truth for such the Father seeketh to worship him Joh. 4.23 Phil. 3.3 you may see what the Apostles gathered and indeavoured to incorporate into that fellowship and bodie by the severall Epistles to the severall Churches in their times you may see likewise what Law of the Sanctuary leadeth them to and declareth them to be or not to be that read Ephes 4. besides many other Scriptures which are numberlesse and needlesse to cite to prove the truth hereof this is sutable to the new man which after God is created in righteousnesse and true holinesse Ephes 4.24 Now look upon the false divine Institutions the false Church States which are most divellish in the nature of the parts of constitution and ye may soon judge what the devill hath done where he is and how he hath doth and will if not looked unto use the sons of men as he did their Father Adam and their Mother Eve undo them in their being men whilest with delusion they seek to be as gods in this seeming divine government whether papistical Episcopall or Pretbyteriall changing of termes and shapes is nothing without change of natures a woolf is the same in a sheeps skin and at the same time as truly as without it if you shall find in either Church the nature of the first part of the constitution wholly short of or contrary to the preservation of mankind and the motion thereby in the Church sutable to that whereby it is or hath its being with all power of violence and lying belowe civility which truly is so that abuseth it threatning people in to the Church and keeping them in with a Babylonish Proclamation fineing imprisoning murthering in to it in it and so to cut off from it you may easily conclude what it is in point of holines is it not a power of gallant holinesse that can proclaim Gentiles into Jews and both into Christians in the expression thereof or render people for dead and undone and can likewise change the Gentiles hands alwayes under civill use into spirituall hereticall glibes and tythes Artists and Linguists into Hevites and Priests and make and marre people in life and estate without relation to Christian or Civill trespasse Magistracie is gloriously honoured to serve such Church power helpeth well to propagate the Gospel and Christianity the clean contrary way your exercised senses herewith needs no proof t is enough for this part Look into the nature of the second part of the constitution and you will find the nationall lamps of the Gentiles spirituall divine persons so guided and led by the Spirit of Christ and Christian principles that they can scarse give time to hang or murther one the other for the weight of a farthing t is more proper to tell of their uncivillized natures then of their Divinity witnesse daily experience of the holinesse of the members in generall the holy Ghost in the Prophets and Revel 13. hath fully described it but change temporall Aegypt and Babylon for slaves and slavery in to spirituall and t is the very image of the holinesse of this part of the constitution of the Nationall Churches of Europe what difference between the Church of Christ and the worlds If Nations be the companies of Saints the generality of Nations are gallant peeces for holinesse in knowledge and obedience of the will of God either morall or instituted Witnesse experience of least reason and what more can be expected from a people sanctified with a great word and a blow Truth I perceive must bring forth fullest evidence though her witnesses die in Gaole or hang for it before the earth I mean Civility will incline to execute judgement upon the great Whore by whom it was and is defiled to the shedding of a world of innocent blood and notwithstanding her continuall blaspheming against God his Name his tabernacle and them that dwell in heaven Revel 13.6 All which is accomplished with mysterious Iniquitie and false holinesse Well saith Wisdome and most properly in this case A whore is a deep ditch Prov. 23.27 ye may do well to examine also what is said of her parties which if true in the naturall sense much more in the spirituall Prov. 5. Concerning Ordinances circumstantiall Institutions belonging to the Church of Christ which false Churches catch at and profane as the Babylonians did the vessels of the Temple in the Jews time I shall omit to spent time about at present and onely touch upon the holinesse of times and places which are ended in Christ Times and places are necessary adjuncts to every action both Civill and Divine without them nothing hath being and I know not why Christians which may pray every where 1 Tim. 2.8 and alwayes 1 Thes 5.17 in respect of either injoyned they should not agree as well as Civill wise men upon the best advantage in use of both concerning the worshipping of God Morall commands of the first Table are obeyed now in the drift and intention of them not in the literall expression or else we have not to do with them but the Jews onely In the use of these Discoveries all former and that shall be by whomsoever of any truths of God all which tend in their right use to the good of man suffer me O Nation King Parlaments and People this once more with my life in my hand for artificially holy and butcherly uncivill murtherers are now plenty in the Land freely to speak to you as one man for so ye are in Civill policie in the propheticall expression of Mich. 6.8 he hath shewed thee O man what is good and what doth the Lord require of thee but to do justly love mercie and walk humbly with thy God make good your justice and tendernesse towards men and walk towards God in your own innocent knowledge and use of his Institutions as he revealeth himself to you not in vain conceits with delusions of getting or being higher then is your due remember what Adam got thereby the Jews by