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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	service_n	spirit_n	worship_v	1,834	5	8.9813	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A29388	Religio bibliopolæ in imitation of Dr. Browns Religio medici, with a supplement to it / by Benj. iBrgwater [sic], Gent.	Dunton, John, 1659-1733.; Bridgewater, Benjamin.; Browne, Thomas, Sir, 1605-1682. Religio medici.	1691 (1691)	Wing B4486; ESTC R19049	55,380	118

the Name of Christ all addresses should be made to God the Father For if it were to be literally taken why do they who so receive it bow the Head instead of the Knee Besides I see no Reason why I shou'd not also bow at the Name of Messias Christ Emanuel since the Redeemer of the World is called by all these Names Nay why should not I pay the same Reverence to all the Names of God in all Languages especially to that tremendous Name Jehovah which the Jews think it unlawful to utter 'T is true indeed I can comply with the Custom of the Church in a thing not directly opposite to any positive Command but I protest at the same time my wishes ●re that a Custom acknowledg'd to be indiffe●ent even by those who most zealously plead for ●ts practice were rather disus'd than impos'd on men of tender Consciences since it gives so much Scandal and has no Authority but that of Tradition to back it I am naturally a Lover of Musick and believe it has an efficacy in composing or ruffling the Spirits according to the various kinds of it But I find its most immediate Operation is on the Phancy and sensual Affections not on the Superiour Faculties of the Soul And therefore I see no use of it in the Church where we come not to pay Homage to God in the strength of an exalted Imagination or to present him with the First-Fruits of our Passions tho' never so refin'd but to offer up our selves a Living Sacrifice which is our Rational Service since God is to be worship'd in Spirit and Truth and not with aiery Notions and carnal Raptures Tho' the Ear is a Member consecrated to the Service of Religion since Faith comes by Hearing yet I cannot observe that my Faith is a● any time encreas'd by the most Harmonious Lessons on the Organ or other Instruments of Musick used in Divine Service Neithe● do I admire at the Country-man's Freak who the first time he had ever been in a Cathedral hearing the Organ strike up fell a dancing a● tho' he had been in a Musick-house To spea● freely I know not why we may not praise Go● as acceptably in a Dance as with Musick since the Jews from whom we borrow our Arguments for the latter did as usually practise the former there being but little use of th● one without the other To me a Chapter in the Bible is the best Musick in the World and no Melody like that of a good Sermon where the Preacher like a skilful Artist reconciles the Discords of the Law and the Gospel and between the Emblems and Types of the one and the Substantial Truths and Mysteries of the other strikes up such a grateful Harmony as far exceeds the best Consort in the World tho' it were as charming as Nebuchadnezzar's and made up of the whole Family of Musick So I am a great Admirer of good Painting and Sculpture yet can never find them Helps but Hinderances to my Devotion since it is impossible for the greatest Master that ever profess'd those Arts to draw or carve to the Life what was never expos'd to any of his Sences or to contrive a Figure of that which has no Resemblance the Invisible Divinity Indeed a Man 's own Phancy in such Cases is the best Painter and if it be lawful to make use of any Pictures or Images 't is of such as our own Imagination frames yet this is the way to become Anthropomorphites and worship God under the Similitude of a Man or to follow the Pagan Vanities and adore Him under the likeness of a Beast or some other sensible Figure since all the Ideas of that Mimick Faculty are but the Transcripts of External Objects Aristotle's Maxim being truer of this than of the Intellect That there is nothing in it which was not first in the Sence The only way to have a true Idea of God is to suppress the Operations of this busie Faculty and by withdrawing into the most inward Recess of the Mind there as in a Mirrour to contemplate that Infinite Essence who is hid behind Himself if ● may so speak and cannot be discover'd but by his Back-parts It is with Pleasure that I behold Him in his Rays which shine in all his works and he has cast his shadow throughout the Vniverse but I should be oppress'd with Glory were I capable of fixing my Eyes on that Abyss of Splendors before which the most Illustrious Spirits in Heaven cover their Faces as if they were asham'd of their comparative Imperfections and were not able to behold that Original and Increated Purity without a Blush I have no ambition to become an Eagle in Divinity neither do I emulate the towring Flights of such as pretend to extraordinary Revelations I had rather walk under the Piazzas of Gods Church than on the Battlements of the Devils Chappel lest my Head should grow giddy with Enthusiasms and I be blown off from those Heighths and Pinnacles with some wind of vain Doctrine That Father of the Arrian Heresie was an Icarus in Religion he had lofty Thoughts and soaring Speculations but he flew without a Guide he forsook the Path of his Mother the Church his Wings melted and he had a terrible Fall which at once bereft him of his Life and 't is to be fear'd of his Salvation I take great Pleasure sometimes to find my self entangled in Difficulties and Dangers out of which I have no Skill to extricate my self I never think my self safer than in such a Labyrinth of thwarting Events as no Clue of my own Reason or Experience can lead me out 'T is then I can be chearful and triumph knowing my Deliverance is near at hand And herein lies the quintessence of my Comfort that I am thus particularly and demonstratively assur'd of the Divine Favour and Protection since nothing below a Miracle of Providence could untie so knotty a juncture of Misfortunes Were all the Passages of my Life publish'd it wou'd be taken for more than a Romance It is so full of Adventures which surpass the stories of Gyants Monsters Enchanted Castles and the whole System of Knight Errantry Such strange and unexpected Escapes as I have made from the very Jaws of Death exceed the Fables of Poets And had I no other Reason but the Remembrance of my own Perils and Deliverances it were more than enough to convince me of an unerring Eye that watches over Mankind This makes me chearful and easie in all humane Circumstances and reconciles me to the Stoicks I look on all things to be govern'd by a fix'd Law and Eternal Destiny and therefore cou'd quietly sit down with George Withers and say Nec habeo nec careo nec curo I con●ider my self as a Part of the Vniverse and ●herefore am never troubl'd at any thing which happens to me since it comes not to pass without the Knowledge and Will of him who in all his Dispensations has Regard to the Good