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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
religion_n	false_a	true_a	worship_n	4,780	5	7.8086	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A69802	The Lancashire Levite rebuk'd, or, A farther vindication of the dissenters from popery, superstition, ignorance and knavery unjustly charged on them by Mr. Zachary Taylor in his two books about the Surey demoniak in a letter to himself.	Carrington, John, d. 1701.	1698 (1698)	Wing C642A; ESTC R173402	30,143	34

P. 22. I have a fling at the Largeness of Dioceses in Lev. P. 18. To this you say But he would do well to consider whether he doth not by this spit in the Face of Christ God forbid and his Apostles whose Oecumenical Provinces were something larger than the largest of our Dioceses Mr. T. are you here in earnest Or you thought to try whether you could put a Trick upon your ignorant Friend if this latter you should not have jested at the Name of Christ when you bow at the Name Jesus But if you are in earnest to justify your large Dioceses by the Examples of Christ and his Apostles then you have spun a fine Thread for your self and many of your worthy Brethren For if B's must have as large Dioceses as Christ and his Apostles as a H. 8. would make merry with a great Revenue of B's Lands and have something to say One B. in England is enough and more than needs when Thirteen will serve all the World And then you and many of your worthy Brethren are like never to wear Lawn Sleeves Yet I am not so wedded to my own Opinion but if you can find One to succeed Christ in his Oecumenical Province of the same Natures Gifts Wisdom Abilities and Authority for the Performance of the Function I will not spit in his Face but submit And if you can find 12 Men with the same Commission endowed with the same extraordinary Gifts and so filled with the Spirit of GOD as the Apostles I 'll submit and we 'll be Friends still In the same P. 22. you are in a Huff and I observe where I need most of your Help you are most out of Humor I told you Lev. p. 18. I had a Scruple about a Prayer in the Litany used generally in K. J.'s time who was a Papist viz. That it may please thee to keep and strengthen in the true worshipping of thee in righteousness and holiness of life thy Servant our most gracious K. and Governour And the Reason of my Scruple was because Popish Worship is Idolatrous and it seemed hard for Protestants to Pray that he might be kept and strengthened in Idolatry To this you say Is Popery such a mass of Idolatry that there is no piece of true Worship in it Do they not worship God c. And was not this that True Worship we prayed God to keep him in Here you are in haste again but I must tarry by it for my Scruple is increased by multiplied Thoughts of some Things following 1. By the by I observe how tenderly you deal by the Papists their Worship is true when Dissenters is erroneously Religious Worship But let that pass 2. I have been told but not learned it from Mr. Frankl that the Popish Worship is Idolatrous 3. I have been told also by more than Dissenters that Idolatrous Worship mixed with something of True Worship doth defile the whole And their Liturgy is Idolatrous as denominated from the worst Part and perhaps the greatest as a Drop of Poison in a Cup of Wine 4. Doth not the Church of Rome Worship by their Breviary and Mass-Book as the C. of E. by their Common Prayer which they call Divine Service And is not their Missal and Breviary Idolatrous Worship Tho' in some part of it they pray to God in the Name of Christ tho' it may be oftener to Saints and Angels or to God through their Intercession And is this a sufficient Reason to justify Protestants Praying to keep them and strengthen them in the true worshipping c. Yes when it 's safe for you to drink a Glass of Wine with Poison in it because it 's but a Drop but there is a great deal of Good Wine 5. Do you think this of yours was the Sence of the first Composers of this Petition that it might be Prayed for a Popish K. or Q 6. But here is implied a positive Assertion that K. J. worships God truly and not a bare Supposition But if it were but upon Supposition that you Pray thus for him then it 's Superstition at the best according to your own Doctrine 7. A Papist will say If our Worshipping God be such that you can lawfully pray God to keep and strengthen us in it why did you separate from our Worship You 'll say We separate not so far as it 's true And so will Dissenters say We separate not from Ch. of Engl. so far as their VVorship is good only from uncommanded Rites and Ceremonies 8. Did you not mean when you Prayed for C. II. best of K's said many a Protestant K. that he might be kept and strengthened in the true Protestant Worship or the Common Prayer Worship and not turn from it And must not the words still have the same sence Ob. But farther you say Was not thus Praying for him the best means to reclaim him from his false Worship A means the best means thus to Pray Sol. 1. This might be pretended a means to keep him from turning Turk or Infidel if the Prayer had been to keep and strengthen him in the Christian VVorship and Religion 2. Was not this liker to harden him in his false Worship when you at the same time acknowledge his VVorshipping without Ifs or And 's to be true and pray that he may be strengthened in it 3. VVould not this be an odd way to convert a Papist by praying thus with him and for him Lord keep him in the true worshipping of thee might he not say I thank you Sir for your good Prayers for I perceive I am already in the true Worshipping of God and so have no need to change my Church 4. But was this the best Means verily I think you are not so ignorant but you can readily think of many better Means And in my Mind the one honest Priest of the C. of E. found out a much better Means when he changed those words into such as these That God would direct and bring him into and keep and strengthen him in the true worshipping of him In a word Would it not be a strange hearing for Men in the Liturgy to Pray for the Pope that God would keep and strengthen him in the true worshipping of him and to say this is the best means to reclaim him The Israelites might thus have prayed for Jeroboam for Ahaz c. yea may you not thus pray for the Turk that God would keep and strengthen him c. If you say he doth not worship God truly yes may it be answered he owns the true God and worships him And this is the best Means to reclaim him from that part of his Worship that is false The Sum of all is If Men have but the Conscience to Subscribe to they know not what that they never read or may have the liberty to put their own fancied Meanings upon things commanded and subscribed to they may subscribe to the Alchoran and make a shift to put a plausible Sence upon