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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	spirit_n	worship_n	worshipper_n	5,508	5	12.7528	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A94736	Iehovah iireh: or, Gods providence in delivering the godly. Opened in two sermons in the citie of Bristoll, on the day of publike thanksgiving in that citie, March 14. 1642. For the deliverance of that citie from the invasion without, and the plot of malignants within the city, intended to have been acted the Tuesday night before. With a short narration of that bloody and abominable plot. Preached by Iohn Tombes, B.D. It is this two and twentieth day of Aprill, Anno Dom. 1643. ordered by the Committee of the House of Commons in Parliament concerning printing, that this booke intituled, Johovah Jireh, or Gods providence in delivering the godly, be printed. John White.	Tombes, John, 1603?-1676.; England and Wales. Parliament. House of Commons. aut	1643 (1643)	Wing T1809; Thomason E100_31	25,023	33

is not right worship though men bee never so devout in it yet they are not godly persons when the Priests of Baal called on the name of Baal from morning even till noone saying O Baal heare us though they cryed aloud and cut themselves after their manner with Knives and Lances till the blood gushed out upon them 1 Kings 18. 26. 28. yet there was no godlinesse in all this In like manner though the Papists and other superstitious persons are very devout in their way spend much time in prayer after their manner fast often and doe many laborious works for satisfaction of their sinnes yet because they worship not God aright they are not godly persons If it be then asked who are they that are Right worshippers I answer To right worshipping these things are requisite First they that are right worshippers worship onely the true God whosoever he be that gives religious worship of any sort to any other besides the Lord Jehovah whether it be inward worship of the soule as trusting in it loving it fearing it magnifying and extolling of it in their hearts or outward worship as by gesture of the body kneeling falling downe before it bowing lifting up the hands or eyes kissing or by offering of gifts bringing oblation incense sacrifice first fruits tithes or by swearing by them praying to them making vowes to them blessing them singing Hymnes in their praise consecrating Temples making Priests keeping holy dayes to them for all these are religious worship whosoever I say gives any or more of these or any other sort of Religious worship not mentioned to any besides the true God is an Idolater and therefore not a right worshipper for this is the true definition of an Idolater Whosoever gives Divine worship to a Creature is an Idolater as may be gathered from the Apostles description of Idolaters Rom. 1. 25. where it is charged upon them that they changed the truth of God that is the invisible Power and Majesty of God which they knew by the things that are made Vers 18 19 20 21. into a lie that is into a lying resemblance and worshipped and served the Creature {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} more then the Creator so our last Translation hath it but the better and true reading is Besides the Creator For it is plaine by the words Vers 23. That they changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an Image made like to corruptible man and Vers 25. that they changed the truth of God into a lie and therefore they worshipped the Creature more then the Creator But this was their Idolatry that they worshipped the Creator by a lying resemblance and so worshipped the creature besides the Creator So then this is the first note of a right worshipper that hee worships with Religious worship none but Jehovah the true God Secondly they that are right worshippers as they worship onely the true God so they direct this worship only by the true Mediatour which is Jesus Christ the Son of God He onely is a right worshipper that worships God in Christ whosoever he be that makes any other mediator unto God let him be called mediator of redemption or of intercession it is against the true worshipping of God and an high violation of the glory of Jesus Christ For as the Apostle tells us 1 Tim. 2. 5. There is one God and one Mediator betweene God and man even the man Christ Jesus no more Mediators are acknowledged by the Apostle then there be Gods To us there is but one God the Father of whom are all things and we in him and one Lord Jesus Christ by whom are all things and we in him 1 Cor. 8. 6. Therefore the true worshippers are described to be such as rejoyce in Christ Jesus Phil. 3. 3. that glory in him as their Lord and Mediator Thirdly they that are right worshippers worship the true God by the true Mediator according to the true rule that is they worship the true God according to his owne prescription and appointment not according to mens devices and inventions For as our Saviour tells us Matth. 15. 9. In vaine doe they worship God who teach for Doctrines the Commandements of men Hee that shall goe as far as Hierusalem to visit Christs Sepulchre that shall sprinkle himselfe with holy water keepe reliques of Saints observe old customes of former Christians abstaine from eating flesh if he could keepe all the traditions of men not faile in any point of ceremony and thereby thinke to please God as if hee did him honour thereby shall not onely misse of his end but also instead thereof provoke the wrath of God against himselfe through his superstition Let all superstitious persons who are very devout in their way know this for a certaine truth that God doth not esteeme them as godly persons because they are not right worshippers of God The godly have the Law of God in their heart Psal. 37. 31. and according to it endeavour to walke in all duties of his worship Fourthly right worshippers worship God for a right end that they may honour him and exalt him in their soules and give him glory The Pharisees Matth. 6. 5. prayed to God gave Almes and no doubt also brought their sacrifices to Gods Altar yet neverthelesse they were adjudged Hypocrites because they did these things that they might bee seene of men And the same censure belongs to all others that shall pray preach heare or performe any other duty of Gods worship that they may gaine a name of Religious persons and not chiefely for the glory of God that his name may be sanctified whosoever misseth the right end of worship loseth the title of a Godly man Fiftly Right worshippers worship God from a right principle Two principles of our worship are necessary that our worship be right First the Spirit of God no man can worship the Lord in truth unlesse the Spirit of God dwell and act in him 1 Cor. 12. 3. No man can say that Jesus is the Lord but by the Holy Ghost Secondly a right faith without which a man cannot worship truely for the doctrine of our Lord Jesus is the doctrine which is according to godlinesse 1 Tim. 6. 3. The mystery of Godlinesse 1 Tim. 3. 16. the faith of Gods elect the acknowledging of the truth which is after godlinesse Tit. 1. 1. whence I inferre that to godlinesse is requisite an acknowledgement of the truth and that onely the true faith is that which begets godlinesse Wherefore all Hereticall persons that hold falsehoods against the fundamentall truths of the Gospell cannot be right worshippers a corrupt faith doth beget a corrupt worship Sixtly right worshippers must worship God with right affection They that worship God truely must worship God in spirit and truth Joh. 4. 23 24. We are the Circumcision which worship God in the spirit Phil. 3. 3. that is that worship God not onely with the outward man but also in the inward