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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
woman_n	head_n	pray_v	uncover_v	1,411	5	12.8622	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A26751	Corporal vvorship discuss'd and defended in a sermon preached at the visitation April 21, 1670, in Saviour's-Church Southwark, and published to prevent farther calumny / by W.B.	Basset, William, 1644-1695.	1670 (1670)	Wing B1051; ESTC R37086	18,178	37

perpetual prohibition Thou shalt not bow down to any graven Image so it is a perpetual obligation Thou shalt bow down to the true God for so long as corporal adoration of Images remains forbidden so long corporal adoration of the true God is a part of divine worship and so remains our duty and I hope you will be unwilling enough to take away this command when you consider the consequences of it for the command being taken away that which is forbid by it will become lawful and so we may worship Images They cannot possibly wind off this by saying they do it sufficiently in kneeling to him in prayer for this is but a part of corporal adoration but to come so far to them should they answer thus they must allow kneeling to be a duty and if so why I wonder should it be a duty in their private families and none in the publick Congregation where their practice shews that they think it enough forsooth to sit upon their tails with their hats it may be half on their heads We read of such manner of adoration before there was any law in the world beside that of nature and special revelation for Abraham bowed himself before God and the Gentiles in all parts of the world did the same to those things which they own'd as Gods which shews that this is natural and consequently perpetually obliging for as reason and conscience tells us that there is a God so they oblige us to worship that God with all reverence and adoration imaginable and as many Authors build an argument upon the former to prove the existence of a Deity so we may build as strong an argument on the latter to prove corporal adoration for the law of nature binds as strong in the one as in the other and though in that first age of the world God appeared by created Angels or otherwise in visible shapes which some possibly may think required such special reverence and adoration yet we have his promise that when two or three are gathered together in his name he will be in the midst of them and the Apostle likewise 1 Cor. 11.10 tells us that Angels are present in places and times of divine worship and therefore we are as much oblig'd to pay this reverence and adoration as if God by those Angels or any otherwise was visibly amongst us being undoubtedly assured both by his promise and the Apostle too that he is present especially in consecrated places at such times of worship As this is a part of worship and therefore necessary in it self so it is necessary not only as it speaks the internal devotion of the soul for how can I declare this or any awe or fear of God without reverence and adoration words are not sufficient for many will hardly believe words unless they see suitable actions nor yet is a sober virtuous life enough for some of the Heathen were eminent for moral virtues and yet were very slack or no worshippers of any God at all and we find it no great rarity to see virtue shine very bright in some whom the Presbiterians themselves confidently brand for carnal men but also as it heightens that internal devotion for a being bare standing kneeling bowing and the like must needs affect man with thoughts of his own vileness and the awefulness of that Majesty he is before like Abraham who falling on his face said I am but dust and ashes it being natural to man to ascend from things sensible to those that are purely intelligible and certainly 't is a part of prudence as well as duty to use all means possible of raising our devotion as high as we can That men may not still think this a late invention of our Church or an old error of Rome from whence they fancy we have whatever is decent and comely they may see the Apostle himself very pressing to this purpose 1 Cor. 11. where he both tells the men their duty in Churches and likewise reproves the women's irreverence there verse 4 5. Every man praying or prophesying with his head covered dishonours his head and every woman that prays or prophesies with her head uncovered dishonours her head where by prophesying we must understand singing which hath commonly that term put upon it not only in the Old Testament but amongst the Heathen too who sometimes call'd their Poets Prophets as the learned Mede doth very largely shew for women were not suffered to speak in the Church in a way of teaching now the fault was the same in the women to be uncovered or the men to be covered and the argument he uses to disswade them from those undecent customs to this more reverent behaviour is because of the Angels verse 10. they being present in places and times of divine worship we ought to behave our selves reverently and as they are there all the time so should we be reverent all the time too which is very poorly practis'd by those who are willing to be so far reverent as to be uncover'd at the singing Psalmes which are almost spoyl'd in Hopkin's Poetry or as one speaks in Meeter and good meaning but are unwilling to be uncovered at the reading Psalms or any other parts of Scripture which they have purely from the original which being cover'd and uncover'd we may extend to other parts of external reverence and corporal adoration for it is impossible there should be too much of decency reverence and adoration where God is present by his Angels as Jacob having seen them ascending and descending in a vision said when he wak'd how dreadful is this place it is no other than the house of God! so methinks their presence in such places should awe us into the greatest of internal devotion and external reverence too for how dreadful are such places because of the Angels It is very strongly held by some the fore-quoted Author in particular that some or other of the Angels are constantly in consecrated places and therefore when ever we enter into or pass through those places we ought to shew something of reverence whether it be at time of Service or no and that upon the same reason because of the Angels Suppose we cannot undoubtedly prove this so yet I am confident we can bring far better arguments toward the undenyable proof of it than can possibly be brought against it therefore this must needs be the safer way and certainly except men out of a spirit of contradiction were grown fool-hardy in matters of Religion they would never run the hazard of irreverence and contempt of holy things and places but in time of service it is undenyable from the Apostle's words that we ought to be reverent because of the Angels I may urge farther Churches ought not to be prophan'd or put to common uses as the Apostle shews by an allusion in the next preceeding verse viz. know ye not that your bodies are the Temples of the Holy Ghost which he urges as an argument to