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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
book_n	hear_v	read_v	word_n	4,905	5	4.6052	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01234	Ezras pulpit. Or, A sermon lately preached in Southwarke, before a worshipfull assembly Very necessary for these times. By William Freake, minister.	Freake, William.	1639 (1639)	STC 11346.7; ESTC S120858	9,804	29

Ezras Pulpit OR A Sermon lately Preached in Southwarke before a Worshipfull Assembly Very necessary for these times BY WILLIAM FREAKE Minister Luke 7. 4 5. verses And when they came to Iesus they besought him instantly saying that he was worthy for whom he should doe this For he loveth our nation and hath built us a Synagogue LONDON Printed by Tho. Harper for Richard Harper and are to be sold at his shop at the Bible and Harp in Smithfield 1639. To the right Worshipfull Sir Nicholas Rainton Knight President the Worshipfull Martin Bond Esquire Treasurer with the Governours of the Hospitall of little S Bartholomewes W. F. wisheth that Grace and Peace may be multiplied WHat I studied for your private Chappell and there delivered before some of you on Tuesday the 19. of Iune last past I have been importuned to make publick as for a common good If it be good then quò communius eò melius the more publicke it becommeth the more good it may doe I wisht well in the study and delivery of it to as many as desire the prosperity of our royall foundation In the publishing of it I would gladly have it conceived that my zeale is the same for the publicke welfare If that memorable act of your piety which occasioned this Sermon shall provoke some well minded ones to imitate your example elsewhere or incite the able handed to promote such charitable undertakings for the comfort of so many sick and distressed soules daily by your care refreshed it may redound much to Gods glory your owne comforts and the happinesse of those whom God shall move hereby to tread in your steps If no such thing succeed yet it shall be your honour to have lighted up the candle of so good an example for the times to come as it is and shall be for you all that God may long continue to our Hospitall your pious care for the happy and orderly government thereof the daily prayer of Your Hospitaler William Freake From my Study in your Hospitall the 12 day of Feb. 1639. Ezras Pulpit Neh. 8. 4 5 6 7 8. verses And Ezra the Scribe stood upon a Pulpit of wood which they had made for the purpose c. to the end of the 8. verse BEloved I finde it to be the observation of a Father that the two Cherubins which by Gods appointment were to be placed at the two ends of the Mercy-seat Exod. 25. 18. as they should be of beaten gold so they should bee so placed that they might face each other as an instruction for all Ministers and Preachers of the Word and Gospell saith the learned Zanche to take this care and course that as their Doctrine should be purely the word of God and not their owne so they should be ever studious to make their Texts to suit with the occasions of their Sermons facing each other as the Cherubins over the Mercy-seat that so being a word in due season they may be like Apples of gold in pictures of silver Proverbs 25. 11. And this I confesse as it is my duty so it hath beene my study in the preparation of my meditations for this place and occasion to reconcile the text of Scripture which by Gods blessing I have made choice of to the occasion of this day and our present meeting A worke which if you please to vouchsafe your favourable attention will aske us no great labour 1 Because here is Ezra the Scribe requested and appointed to bring forth the booke of the Law of Moses which God commanded Israel as ye have it in the first verse of this chapter 2 Because here is a Congregation lawfully assembled for all the people had gathered themselves together as one man in the street that was before the Water-gate in the first part of the first verse of this chapter And there was a congregation both of men and women even as many as could heare with unde rstanding in the second verse 3 Because here is Ezra the Scribe reading in the booke of the Law before the congregation from the morning even till mid-day in the third verse 4 Because here is the manner of this religious duty with silence and attention for the eares of all the people were attentive to the booke of the Law as you may reade in the last words of the third verse 5 Because here is the place and posture of the Minister He stands upon a Pulpit of wood which they had made for the purpose as our last translation reades it or which they had prepared for the preaching as the former transla●ion hath it And Ezra the Scribe stood upon a Pulpit of wood c. So that all things you see are fitted for the occasion of our present meeting except in this one thing there prove a defect that now there be a want of a learned Scribe to reade unto you And in this case I beseech you give me leave to make my prayer and I desire your charitable assistance therein O Lord God c. and so in a confident assurance of Gods gratious assistance I prepare to the words of my Text. And Ezra the Scribe c. And thus have I led your understandings to the words of our Text which before I enter upon give mee leave I beseech you to stoop and gather for you a flower or two that grow in the way to our Text by considering the context and the coherence of these words with the former verses of this chapter Wherein I observe thus much 1 This people was newly returned out of captivity into which they had been delivered for the great and grievous sinnes of that nation in generall as you may reade in the last chapter of the second Booke of the Chronicles from the 14 verse to the end of the 16. And being now by the mercifull hand of their good God brought backe to their owne land and ruined City they are setting a new governement among themselves by way of reformation both in their Ecclesiasticall and civill State being assisted in the one by Ezra rhe Scribe and in the other by Nehemiah their religious and prudent Governor Wherin that they may procure directions from heaven and conceive the fairer hopes of happy successe they are assembled as one man into a great and famous street of the City there by fasting and prayer to call upon God in humiliation of soule and there Ezra the Scribe standeth upon a Pulpit of wood which they had made for the purpose and reades the Law unto them Doubtlesse if there had beene this true devotion in them while their Temple was standing and Ierusalem in her prosperity they might have esceped the fiery furnace of the Babilonish captivity But they have beene cast into it for the space of seventy yeeres and are now but newly delivered out of it And now ye see they are become penitent and wee finde them at their devotion in prayer fasting being assembled for that purpose in a publicke street 1