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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
A70321	A view of the nevv directorie and a vindication of the ancient liturgie of the Church of England in answer to the reasons pretended in the ordinance and preface, for the abolishing the one, and establishing the other.	Hammond, Henry, 1605-1660.; Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649.; England and Wales. Sovereign (1625-1649 : Charles I). Proclamation commanding the use of the Booke of common prayer.	1646 (1646)	Wing H614B; ESTC R2266	98,033	122

gift as under our Liturgy is pretended and so here under pretence of supplying the ships all such idle Mariners in the ship of the Church are supplyed also which it seems was foreseen at the writing that preface to the Directory where they say the Minister may if need be have from ●hem some helpe and furniture 5. That the Preface to this new Work entitled A reason of this work containeth many other things which tend as much to the retracting their former work as Judas's throwing back the mony did to his repentance Sect 2 As 1. That there are thousands of Ships belonging to this Kingdome which have not Ministers with them to guide them in Prayer and therefore either use the Common Prayer or no Prayer at all This shewes the nature of that fact of those which without any objection mentioned against any Prayer in that book which was the only help for the devotion of many thousands left them for some Months to perfect irreligion and Atheisme and not Praying at all And besides these ships which they here confesse how many Land-companies be there in the same condition how many thousand families which have no Minister in them of which number the House of Commons was alwaies wont to be one and the House of Lords since the Bishops were removed from thence and to deale plainly how many Ministers will there alwaies be in England and Wales for sure your care for the Vniversities is not so great as to be likely to worke Miracles which will not have skill or power or gift which you please of conceiving Prayers as they ought to do and therefore let me impart to you the thoughts of many prudent men since the newes of your Directory and abolition of our Liturgy that it would prove a most expedite way to bring in Atheisme and this it seems you do already discern and confesse in the next words that the no prayer at all which succeeded the abolishing of the Liturgy is likely to make them rather Heathens then Christians and hath left the Lords day without any marke of piety or devotion a sad and most considerable truth which some persons ought to lament with a wounded bleeding conscience the longest day of their life and therefore we are apt to beleeve your charity to be more extensive then the title of that book enlarges it and that it hath designed this supply not only to those ships but to all other in the like want of our Liturgy Your only blame in this particular hath been that you would not be so ingenuous as Judas and some others that have soon retracted their precipicous action and confest they did so and made restitution presently while you rather then you will to rescue men from heathenisme caused by your abolition restore the Book again and confesse you have sinned in condemning an innocent Liturgy will appoint some Assembler to compile a poor sorry piteous forme of his own of which I will appeale to your greatest flatterer if it be not so low that it cannot come into any tearmes of comparison or competition with those formes already prescribed in our book and so still you justify your errour even while you confesse it Sect 3 2. That 't is now hoped that 't will be no griefe of heart to full Christians if the thirsty drink out of cisterns when themselves drink out of fountaines c. which is the speciall part of that ground on which we have first formed now labour'd to preserve our Liturgy on purpose that weaker Christians may have this constant supply for their infirmities that weake Ministers may not be forced to betray their weaknesse that they that have not the gift of Prayer as even in the Apostles times there were divers gifts and all Ministers had not promise to succeed in all but one in one another in another gift by the same spirit may have the helpe of these common gifts and standing treasures of Prayer in the Church and because there be so many of these kinds to be lookt for in a Church that those which are able to pray as they ought without a forme may yet in publick submit to be thus restrain'd to the use of so excellent a forme thus set before them rather then others should be thus adventur'd to their own temerity or incurre the reproach of being thought not able and then this providing for the weak both Minister and People will not now I hope be charged on the Liturgy by those who hope their supply of Prayer will be no griefe to others Sect 4 3. That these Prayers being enlivened and sent up by the spirit in him that prayeth may be lively prayers and acceptable to him who is a spirit and accepts of service in spirit and truth Where 1. It appears by that confession that as the place that speaks of worshipping in spirit and truth is not of any force against set prayers so neither is that either of the Spirits helping our infirmities belonging as it is here confest most truly to the zeale and fervor and intensenesse of devotion infused by the Spirit and not to the words wherein the addresse is made which if the Spirit may not infuse also in the use of our Liturgy and assist a Minister and Cnngregation in the Church as well and as effectually as a company of Mariners in a ship I shall then confesse that the Directory first and then this Supply may be allow'd to turne it out of the Church Sect 5 Lastly That in truth though Prayers come never so new even from the Spirit in one that is a guide in Prayer if the Spirit do not quicken and enliven that prayer in the hearer that followes him it is to him but a dead forme and a very carcase of Prayer which words being really what they say a truth a perfect truth and more soberly spoken then all or any period in the Preface to the Directory I shall oppose against that whole Act of abolition as a ground of confutation of the principall part of it and shall only adde my desire that it be considered what Prayers are most likely to be thus quickned and enlivened by the spirit in the hearer those that he is master of and understands and knowes he may joyn in or those which depend wholy on the will of the Speaker which perhaps he understandeth not and never knowes what they are till they are delivered nor whether they be fit for him to joyne in or in plainer words whether a man be likely to pray and aske most fervently he knowes not what or that which he knowes and comes on purpose to pray For sure the quicking and enlivening of the Spirit is not so perfectly miracle as to exclude all use of reason or understanding to prepare for a capacity of it for then there had been no need to have turn'd the Latine Service out of the Church the spirit would have quickned those Prayers also CHAP. III. HAving thus