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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
A51062	The moderate Independent proposing a word in season to the gathered churches, the Episcopal and Presbyterian parties tending to their humiliation for what is past, to be reconciled to each other for the time to come, and joyntly to acquiesse in the determinations of this present Parliament, as to the government of church & state / by Salem Philalathes ...	Philalathes, Salem.	1660 (1660)	Wing M2325; ESTC R16471	30,990	34

grievance of Church-Government than my self nor whose affections are more keen to the clipping of those wings of the Prelates whereby they have mounted to such Insolency nor whose zeal is more ardent to the searing of them that they may never spring again I suppose you are so eaten up with the sense of your own sufferings that you have forgotten the occasion you gave to many of Gods people to cry out to God against you their hard Taskmasters Let my Lord Digby be your Remembrancer p. 70. Me thinks the vengeance of the Prelates hath been so laid as if it were meant no Generation no degree no complexion of mankind should escape it Was there a man of a nice and tender Conscience him they afflicted with scandal in adiaphoris imposing on him those things as necessary which he thinks unlawful and they themselves know to be but indifferent Was there a man that made the Establishment by Law the measure of his Religion him have they netled with innovations with fresh introductions to Popery Was there a man of a meek and humble Spirit him have they trampled to dirt in their pride Was there a man that durst mutter against their Insolencies he may enquire for his Lugs they have been within the Bishops Visitation As if they would not only derive their Brandishment of the Spiritual Sword from Saint Peter but of the material one too and the right to cut off Ears Now as it was thus with the Governours of the Church who usually did exercise their Severity in all their Visitations upon such as could not upon Conscientious Grounds conform to their superstitious Ceremonies c. as my Lord Digby witnesseth against them So the subordinate Clergy for the most part were of ambitious and superstitious spirits and of such vicious lives and conversations that like the prophane Sons of Eli they made many to adhor the Offerings of the Lord. And in stead of pressing upon the people the necessity of regeneration and holiness without which no enterance into the Kingdom of Heaven to that holy Singularity and preciseness which the Word of God requires the most of their zeal vented it self in close Sarcasmes at Purity in the Pulpit though it was their Common Prayer in their Desks that the rest of our lives hereafter might be pure and holy To all which do but call to mind that general Prophaneness that had overrun the Kingdom in Court City and Country and you will find that you have no great cause to look upon your selves as innocent Martyrs in what you have suffered from God and man Surely that Flood of Prophaneness that now again begins to arise and that extream violent Spirit that appeareth still among many of you doth evidence that though God hath humbled you and brought you low that yet you have not humbled your selves under the Almighty Hand of God nor have yet repented to give him Glory Be wise therefore O ye Kings be instructed ye Judges and Rulers of the Earth Kiss the Son lest his anger which he hath made to smoak against you be further incensed to your Ruine And you of the Episcopal Clergy If you have no zeal for the Honour of your Master Christ Jesus whose Ambassadors you pretend to be or pitty to the precious Souls of men yet if there be in you any real respect to the restoring of your Soveraign to the Government of the Land and his prosperous and peaceable Government preach down that horrid prophaness that still appears in the most of those that espouse his * I mean the prophane Phanatick who in this juncture of time that they have but a litle hope of peace fall to such revelling roaring drinking and other waies of wickedness that we may justly fear may provoke the Lord to repent of the Good he hath begun amongst us Dr. Jackson hath drawn the Character of our present condition in the City of London and other places to the life Fol. 3660. Comparing us to the City of Trireres one of the most flourishing Cities amongst the Gilles who were so intemperatly set upō their wonted delights that after the City had been sacked 4 times and did not retain so much as the likeness of with it had been yet they were still the same No sooner was this storm of Blood War broken up and the Beams of Peace restored again but they erected their Stages even in the fresh sent of deadly Vapours from their murdered Citizens buried in their City Ashes Interest press them to follow as much after Holiness as they do Peace without which they shall never see God Exhort them to Repentance for their present incorrigibleness under Gods Hand Urge them to a Spirit of Love and Moderation And be ye exemplary to them in all these things And do not still discover your pride and obstinacy by a violent pursuit of a restoration and return to your former worldly Pomp and Greatness your Domineering Dominion as to Government your former splendid superstitious and ceremonious Service of God Why should either Clergy or Laitie imagine that what pleaseth their own carnal Fancies in Gods Worship and Service is pleasing to him who is a Spirit and will be worshipt in Spirit and Truth Our Blessed Saviour is of another mind and tels us Luke 16. 15. That which is highly esteemed amongst men is abomination in the sight of God And so also is one of your Judgment Learned Mr. John Hales in his Works set forth by Mr. John Pierson Page 172. Saith he Quid juvat hoc nostres Templis admittere mores Why measure we God by our selves and because we are led with gay shews and goodly things think it is so with God Seneca reports that a Pantomimus a Puppet-Player and Dancer in Rome because that he pleased the people well was wont to go up every day into the Capitol and practised his Art and danced before Jupiter and thought he did the god a great Pleasure Beloved In many things we are like this Puppet Player and do much measure God by the People by the world Because that your gay and guilded Churches your golden Copes and Organs your square Caps Rochets Lawn Sleeves and Sirplices your Cringing and Bowing your Dopping and Ducking to the High Altar your Dancing up and down from place to place to read the first and second Service with many frivolous superfluous and Superstitious Ceremonies pleased your selves and the ignorant People therefore you thought God was pleased therewith also But if you consult with Mr. Hales he tels you P. 170. That to add to the Church outward Stateliness and Pomp is nothing else but to make a Centaure marry and joyn the Kingdom of Christ with the Kingdom of the world a thing which I do the rather note saith he because the long continuance of some Ceremonies in the Church having occasioned many especially of the Church of Rome to think that there is no Religion no Service without these Ceremonies c. How far