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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
A43842	Pithanelogia, or, A perswasive to conformity by way of a letter to the dissenting brethren / by a country minister.	Hinckley, John, 1617?-1695.	1670 (1670)	Wing H2047; ESTC R29478	103,888	196

of Inchantment and Popery But methinks since 't is most plain the Cross was us'd in the Church when there was no such thing as Popery heard of in the World it should be clear'd from that aspersion for proof hereof we have the evidence of Tertullian de Resurrec Carnis Origen Homil. 8. Cyprian Epist 70.72 73. Jerom de Hillarione p. 241. 245. CHAP. XIII It is no enormity to have Ceremonies about Gods worship AS for the other Rites and Ceremonies retained in our Church which are as few as in any Church in the Christian world were you at the stern dictating to us the Idea's of your own heads I nothing doubt but we should have more circumstances in Gods worship than now we have but perhaps Cultus divinus non potest osse sine ceremoniss licet Ceremoniae non sint pars cultus Bald. 1138. neither so apposite nor ancient as these we have already I pray wherein are these contrary to Gods word or declared to be any part of Gods worship Bishop Gauden in his preface to Bishop Browwigs Sermons or taught for doctrines They are neither the meat nor sauce of Religion but only as the garnish of the dish to use the words of a reverend Bishop Sires agatur non modo frivole sed eliam iniqua quâ nob●… detrimentum adfertur tamen sipater out Magistratus preseripserit id faciendum est Camer de Eccl. p. 370. Epist 120. They are indifferent you yield in their own natures we say so too Neither doth the injoyning of them alter their intrinsecal condition but only as to their outward use we are not so free to use or not to use them as we were before As those things mentioned Acts 15. were some of them lawful in themselves to be used or forborn yet after the Synode had determined the controversies about those indifferent things then they are called necessary vers 28. of that Chapter That good man Bishop Hooper did for a time scruple the Surplice but after that Bucer Peter Martyr and Calvin in an Epistle of his had discovered his weakness unto him he was not so tenacious of his own conceit but he yielded to preach in his Episcopal habit before the King Book of Martyrs p. 1367. If you shall still say these things are indifferent as to their use Conscentia obligatur p●aeceptis Ecclesiae ij●quae spectant ad ordinem ad vitanda scandala indire Ele quanquam corum materia non est in varbo Dei tamen finis ordo est Camers de Ecl. p. 371. after they are commanded 't is all one as if you should say 't is indifferent whether we obey the King nay whether we obey God who commands obedience to the King Since God hath left us such a latitude to our Superious of setting things in order in the Church and determining what is decent so long as they intrench not upon divine Authority and so by consequence wound not the Consciences of men wherein shall we manifest our obedience unto them As King James was wont to say if not in things of this inferiour nature Especially where they are so suitable that good men would not refuse them were they left to their own choice as to kneel at prayer or at the Sacrament which is delivered by the Minister praying To stand at the Creed and Gospel to shew that we will stand for the maintenance of them both To stand at Praises Himns Songs of Thanksgiving which are branches of prayer and at that lesser Creed Glory be to the Father and to the Son c. Must not God be served with our bodies as well as our souls Can those that serve him in spirit choose to express the zeal of their hearts in the reverential postures of their bodyes As out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks so where there is the heavenly fire of true devotions in the pantings and regular motions of the Soul there it will sparkle out at the eyes break out at the knees elevate the hands and put the whole body into such a frame that it will keep time with those secret wheels and floatings of the soul Inward and outward worship are but the integral parts making up the same worship one without the other is but lame Jam. 2 26 imperfect defective The body without the spirit is dead and spirit without the body is but a meagre ghost Bodily service without the actings of the soul is but hypocrisie and these without the other are oftentimes a spiritual delusion Though God calls for the heart will he have nothing else Though we must worship him in Spirit must not he be worshiped too in truth because some superstitious persons lay the greatest stress of Gods service upon bodily adorations must we place none at ●t all therein lest we should be accounted superstitious Will a wise man forsake his mear because a fool calls it by some ugly nick-name When I see men rude careless slovenly inflexible like statues in Gods service am I uncharitable in judging their offerings to come from a cold Altar and to be no better than dead sacrifices Learned men tell us that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which signifies Gods worship comes from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a dog because as a dog crouches to his Master so must we humble our selves in our devu●addresses unto God I find Abraham falling on his face and worshipping God before the Law And I find the Meathen Romans by the very light of nature Livie l. 3. sweeping their Temples with the hair of their heads in their applications to their Gods And shall not we give God that respect which we would give to some noble personage or carthly Prince Go and offer it to thy Prince was once an Ironical check and may not God still use the same far casm expostulating with as much bitterness would you carry your selves so unmannerly if you were either to petition for or receive a favour from the hands of a King Mr. Torshal on Mal. 1.7 There is less danger in superstition overvaluing Gods worship than in profaneness I must refer you to my Authors in the Margin Baldwin p. 174. else I shall bear the blame The exercise of true piety lies in external worship and this is called Religion 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Hence it is that Salvian so sadly complains Minori Reverentia introimus templum we shew less respect in Gods house than we would in a Judges Hall Or we go with as little reverence sayes the Martyr'd Arch-Bishop into the Temple as a Tinker and his dog into an Alchouse Were our Church cumbred and even oppress'd with so pompous liveless and numerous train of Ceremonies as that of the Church of Rome which might either distract or divert our devotions Were it with us as Saint Jerome sayes it was per totas Orientis Eccle●●● throughout all the Eastern Churches 〈◊〉 they read the Gospel Adversus Vigildation p 121