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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	world_n	worship_n	worshipper_n	328	4	11.8287	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A30523	A faithful testimony concerning the true worship of God what it is in it self, and who are the true vvorshippers : in opposition to all the false worship in this nation, which is idolatry, which is discovered in its foundation, and in its manifestation, not to be ever commanded of God, or practised by his apostles and saints, but it is declared to consist chiefly of such things and practises as had their first beginning and ordination in the Church of Rome ... and this is written for a general good to all such as are worshipping in temples made with hands / by E.B.	Burrough, Edward, 1634-1662.	1659 (1659)	Wing B6002; ESTC R36302	11,877	16

A Faithful Testimony Concerning the true WORSHIP OF GOD What it is in it self and who are the true VVorshippers In opposition to all the false worship in this Nation which is Idolatry which is discovered in its foundation and in its manifestation not to be ever commanded of God or practised by his Apostles and Saints but it is declared to consist chiefly of such things and practises as had their first beginning and ordination in the Church of Rome whereby the hypocrisie of this generation doth appear in denying and crying against the Papists Idolatries and yet are found in the practise of the same thing in their Church Ministry and Worship which were first instituted by the Pope's Authority And this is written for a general good to all such as are worshipping in Temples made with hands By E. B. LONDON Printed for Thomas Simmons at the Bull and Mouth near Aldersgate 1659. A faithful Testimony concerning the true Worship of God what it is in it self and who are the true Worshippers c. FOrasmuch as there is in the world a great controversie among people concerning the Worship of God one crying This is the right Worshp Another That is the right Worship and People in these Nations are divided about the Worship of God and divers one from another in their performances and practices of Worship one sort worshipping after this manner another after that and there is great strife through the whole Nation about this matter and a great dis-satisfaction among people which is the right Worship and who are the right Worshippers and thousands are desiring after the right Worship of God and to become Worshippers of him as he requires Therefore now it is upon me to shew unto all the World what the true Worship of God is in it self and who are his true Worshippers First The Worship of God in it self is this It is a walking with God and a living with him in converse and fellowship in spirit and truth for he is onely worshipped therein and to do the truth and speak the truth This is the true Worship of God where the mind is guided with the spirit of Truth and the presence of the Lord felt at all times and his fear in the hearts of people and his Councel stood in and his Covenant felt which unites to the Lord in spirit This is the true Worship of God and it is without respect of times or things And now none upon earth can thus worship God but who are changed and renewed in heart and mind and born of the spirit and led thereby where the body of sin and death is put off such as are redeemed out of the world and out of all its wayes and nature such onely can worship God in the spirit and in the truth and such is the Father seeking to worship him now in this present age and there is never a one upon Earth that can worship God as he requires who remains unchanged and are in the transgression unrenewed and unconverted such cannot worship the true and living God but that which they perform and practise as the pretence of his Worship is idolatry and abomination and the Lord hath not required it at their hands for none can walk with God nor have unity with him but who are renewed and changed nor none can do the truth and speak the truth in all things but such who are led by the Spirit of Truth and such are in the Covenant of God and true Worshippers of him and all that is contrary is not the Worship of God but Idolatry as I have said And now as concerning this Worship practised in England in these Steeplehouses Churches so called it is not the worship of the living God but Superstition and Idolatry for people hath not learned it by the teachings of the Spirit neither doth the Spirit lead them therein but it stands in form without power and in the inventions and traditions of the Fathers and there is not in it the manifest presence of God neither do you Worshippers meet with the Lord nor enjoy his pure life and presence in your practises and the substance of your Worship as it is now practised is made up of Inventions some part of your own and some part brought along from the Church of Rome And is it not great hypocrisie in you to profess a denial of the Church of Rome and yet be found practising some of the same things as your Worship which the Church of Rome first instituted and practised as her Worship Shall we instance unto you some particular things Was it not by the Authority of the Church of Rome that these houses in which you worship which you call Churches were first set up and made worshipping places for them and is it not a little while since that the Mass and the old Popish stuff was therein exercised with as great zeal towards God if not with as good sincerity as you practice yours at this day And are there not the very signs and symptoms of the Romish Idolatry yet upon these Houses being full of Images on the Walls and on the Pillars and on the Glass-Windows and Crosses about them and many other things which were Popish inventions as also the names given unto them and consecrated Bells in them and such like stuff And was it not a little while since that there was the Altars and the Rails and the Font and other such like things which lately were broken down But however though something there may be altered and changed and converted to another use and something taken away and other inventions brought in instead thereof yet still they are the same Houses which you worship your God in which Houses were set up by the Authority of the Pope and there remains yet the Popes sign and symptome of the Romish Church upon them and these Houses you call your Churches and thousand of thousands of blind ignorant people esteeming and respecting in their minds of these places more then of any other supposing them to be more holy and that other places are not so good to worship in alas poor blind ignorant people that deceives your own souls in the traditions inventions of man which you live in the practise of supposing it to be the very Worship of God which is no other in it self but Idolatry and you Idolaters for doth not all unconverted people and unrighteous people such who are not taught of the Lord nor led by his Spirit but daylie rushes into iniquity and into evil are not such found Worshippers here in Steeplehouses conforming themselves to these things and these practises And can such worship God Or is God worshipped by such I tell you nay the Lord God is pure and they that worship him must be sanctified and led by his Spirit which leadeth into all truth But now as concerning your present practises which your Worship consists of they are not such as ever the Lord instituted but such