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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
city_n	aaron_n	lord_n	moses_n	107	3	6.9482	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A62373	A sermon preached in the Church of Putney in the County of Surrey upon the 24th of April, 1681, His majesty's declaration being read that day by Edward Sclater ...	Sclater, Edward, 1623-1699?	1681 (1681)	Wing S912; ESTC R16222	18,453	31

own Houses in corners and private Conventicles it is otherwise those often prove the Schools of Rebellion But is it not a matter of sad consideration that when the Temples of God are those stately Edifices that make Civitatem Dei a whole Land the City of God our own Houses should be that Babylon or City of Satan inhabited by Fiends raising Rebellion against and designing the ruine of it And yet you see Corah and his Complices have their Seditious Meetings in the Tents in which the Conspiracy is hatcht against Moses God's Vicegerent and Aaron the Saint of the Lord. Veritas non quaerit Angulos Truth and Honest dealing dares stare the Sun in the face onely Treachery and Rebellion have their lurking holes and secret places till they are hatcht up and grown big enough to break forth These are the fittest places for such Children of the Prince of disorder and darkness for he that doth evil saith our Saviour hateth the light If Thoodosius the Emperour be in a fault never was there Prince without but the Prince of Peace St. Ambrose does in the spirit of meekness admonish him of it Nathan a Prophet of the Lord reproves David Saint John Baptist tells Herod his duty Nor these nor any Saint of God did ever creep into corners and secret holes to lay their heads together with the discontented spirits of the Times to raise a Rebellion against a Moses or a David or a Manasses c. to bring them to their demands by open violence and those that did received to themselves damnation Corah if Rebellion be but as the sin of Witchcraft will not have wrong done him if he be call'd the Conjurer that raised those evil spirits the Ground opens in his own Circle and devours him and his Complices Saint Jude tells us there were them in his time that perish'd in the gainsaying of Corah and then it seems that sin of his may be acted over again And therefore having as well as I could describ'd the sin and shew'd its punishment I shall keep you no longer from your Prayers that God would please to make your own Houses partake of the service and blessings of his That as you ought to learn Obedience here you may practise it at home and as you pray for all men especially for Kings and all in authority in the Temple you may frequently and honestly repeat the same Petitions in your private Closets To encourage you to Obedience the most thank-worthy Duty that man can pay unto his God the onely quality that is Sacred in man consider they are the words of God Obedience is better then Sacrifice and in the performing this most acceptable Service assure your selves Our God who is the King of Kings who has deliver'd our Moses our David The Breath of our Nostrils the Anointed of the Lord so often from the peril of the Sword and so miraculously and peaceably a Blessing never to be forgotten but by wicked men brought him again to his People and set him on the Throne of his Forefathers will make him a Patron of his People a Nursing Father to his long-afflicted Handmaid the Church of God amongst us And he that has preserved us formerly from the gathering together of the froward and the insurrections of those wicked doers that were confederate against God and his Anointed will still defend us from all evils they shall contrive against us and make us hereafter Kings and Priests to live with him for ever through Jesus Christ our Lord To whom with the Father and the Blessed Spirit be ascribed as is due All Honour Glory Praise and Dominion now and ever Amen THE END