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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
book_n	king_n	lord_n	people_n	3,378	5	4.9550	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A18708	Two fruitfull and godly sermons preached at Dorchester in Dorsetshyre, the one touching the building of Gods temple, the other what the temple is.	Chub, William.	1585 (1585)	STC 5212; ESTC S109852	23,458	64

on a shéepes skyn may the rather haue accesse to the flocke to murther and deuoure at his pleasure After the same sort dyd Iudas salute and kysse hys maister Christ which kisse and salutation was a signe and token of loue but it hatched hatred and treason (a) The gest without a wedding garment that thrust in among the bidden gests shewed the like effect I may very well liken them to a great many in these dayes which vnder the colour of comming to the Church and frequenting the company of good men with fréendly faces and bountifull gifts doo further theyr wycked pretences in ouerthrowing the estate and confounding religion In whom hath treason appeared strongest of late yeeres here in England but in those that haue béene admitted into fauour After that they had protested great loyalty and fréendship the old saying is verified In trust is treason and in the fayrest rose is soonest found a canker Vnder the coloure of a fréendly quaffyng King Iohn was poysoned by pledging a Fryer such are colours of dissemblers whose affections are farre from their outward shew Pylate in a fayre shew of Iustice fauoure could wash his hands from condemning the giltles blood of Christe and yet gaue sentence on him such counterfeyted fauor is ioyned in stéede of fréendship and such abhomination in stéede of holines that we may say the wood which they bring is wormeaten and the stones they builde withall is as rubble not fit for so glorious a sanctuary as the Lords Temple They haue made estimation of their owne houses more then the Temple of the Lorde Agge 1 9 which lieth waste and yet they say they will ioyne with the true and godly builders furdermore they say that they sought the Lorde but as they did after a dissembling sort ioyne with the godly offering to build with them purposing nothing lesse euen so now do they say that they haue sought the Lorde whose diligence and industry is iudged the weaker because they haue not founde him for no doubt the Lorde is not so doubtfull to bée found nor so strange to be spoken withal but that if they had sought him with faith and with a harty desire they might haue found him As our sauiour Christ hymselfe sayth Querite et inuenietis séeke and ye shall find and as the Prophet Dauid fayth Psal 119 2 Blessed are all they that keepe his testimonies and seeke him with their hole hart Deu. 4 29. and as Moyses sayth If from thēce thou shalt seeke the Lord thy God thou shalt find him if thou seeke him with al thy hart but peraduenture if they sought him it was as Christe saith with their lips but their hart was far of wherfore if we behold both their actions that is to say to ioyne with the builders and to bring nothing to the buidling and to seke the Lorde and not to finde him sheweth their bad pretences Their religion But now sée further and behold their profession and relygion which was that they had doone sacrifice vnto the Lord in the which profession and religion of theirs they expresse howe deuoutly and orderly they shewed themselues in as much as they take theyr originall from Esar Haddon otherwise called Sardanapalus who was Senahcrib his sonne who worshipped the Idoll Nisroch as his God 2. Re. 17.26 It doth appeare in the booke of the Kyngs how this people at their first enterance into Samaria and possessing the Citties thereof they feared not the Lorde wherfore God sent Lyons to deuour them Then they told the Kyng what happened who commaunded that one of the priestes of the country shoulde teache them what to doo how be it euery nation made them their Gods and put them in the houses of the high places And this séemeth was their sacrifice vnto their Gods that they thēselues had made euen a sacrifice agréeable to their profession which was altogether as I said before in dissimulation they were glad that they had caught the verye bare worde sacrifice because it was the profession of the priests of the law instituted by God as a figure of Christes priesthoode which signification was as farre from their knowledge I meane of the true vse of the sacrifice as their religion was from good deuotion or as farre as Iudas differed from an honest disciple yet as Iudas gloried of the title of a Disciple though he vsed not him selfe as a Disciple so these spake of sacrificing 2. Kin 17. Esra 4 4 yet knew not the vse thereof as appered by theyr Idolatrye and dissimulation enuy interruption trouble and hindering the godly buildings but as I sayde before so I say still all the vngodly from the beginning haue had some shewe of godlines the rather to vtter theyr deuilish purposes The maner of the Scorpion is to smyle and shew a louing countenance to them that he wyll sting vnto death Honny many times beguileth hym that is poysoned so it happeneth alwayes with double consciences whose conscience is wicked and profession good The priestes of Baal and Elias dyd both sacrifice but not alike nor with the like conscience for the priests of Baal dyd it in Idolatry and superstition Elias did it in good deuotion and with a pure hart vnto the almightie therefore the old saying is true The hoode maketh not the Monke Hence is it that pure religion is grounded vppon a spirituall profession and not a ceremoniall shew and hence is it that we shoulde beholde the Lorde in trueth and vnderstand him in righteousnes not in a profession whose signification we know not otherwise we might reason well to say the papists did well to vse the worde of God in the Latine tongue because it was the worde of God but that could not be because the knowledge and vse and necessity therof was hidden from men But so is the sleight and subtilty of the deuill to colour in the wicked theyr wickednes and deuilish pretences wyth godly titles or godly names or godly ceremonies without the true vse and signification of them The Ammonits Ammonits did offer and vse sacrifice but howe moste filthily and abhominably when they offered their sonnes and daughters to Moloch 1. Kin. 11. The Iewes did put their truste in their Temple saying Templum domini the Tēple of the Lord and not in the liuing lord himselfe and that with a faithfull harte as Dauid did in many places and as is required of all the godly This is to be noted that betwixt the godly and the vngodly the matter is all one but the manner differeth for trust being required of all is found in all but not alike for the vngodly trust in their Idols and in stocks and stones and the godly in the lyuing Lord who is theyr maker preseruer and gouernour Israelites Iere 7 18 Likewise the Israelites did worship but whom did they worshyp not the hygh and mighty Iehouah but the Quéene of heauen that is the Sunne