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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
city_n	aaron_n	people_n	temple_n	24	3	6.7544	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A25459	Dualitas, or, A two-fold subject displayed and opened conducible to godliness and peace in order, I. Lex loquens, the honour and dignity of magistracy with the duties thereupon depending and reverence thereunto due, II. Duorum unitas, the agreement of magistracy and ministry, at the election of the honourable magistrates of Edinburgh and the opening of a diocesan synod of the reverend clergy there / by Will. Annand.	Annand, William, 1633-1689.	1674 (1674)	Wing A3217; ESTC R27190	51,279	83

are now by them constant in mischief called Turn-coats Let this mind you of that Proverb of the three great Travels and Labours in the world 1. Of a Woman in a Child-birth which is great 2. of a Magistrate for a Cities good which is greater 3. Of a Minister for his peoples Benefit this is the greatest in regard it may be most opposed by hands and tongues Yet go on R. R. and prosper many have laboured in Sword and Fire and would have others do so to eschew the Method such walked in and let me advise you and let none despise my youth to labour in your own Vineyeard It is a fine saying that there are three things necessary for a Preacher 1. Knowledge noted in the book sent to Ezekiel 2 Eloquence in the hote coal that purged Isaiah 3. ●olinesse of life in the hand sent to Jeremiah wanting Utterance he is an Insant Wanting Holiness he is a Devil whose great Employment is going too and froe making Division and stirring up medlers in other mens businesse for strife and debate Aarons Linnen garment by some Moralizing signified Purity his Breeches Chastity his Shoulder-pieces Strength the Purple in his Robe Patience the Scarlet Love the Blew Heavens Contemplation the Gold Wisdome with Discretion the Miter Devotion and his Plate Reverence to God his Bels and Pomgranats Prayer and good Works Now how unsuteable is such cloathing for the assisting at the making of a golden Calf How unfit is it in our Saviors eye to wash his Apostles feet a servile office with his upper Garment a Teachers Habit Let 's therefore follow our Father in these his Perfections leaving our vertue an Inheritance to our Posterity I mean his Sons I might urge our Savior whose name is writ upon his Thigh declaring he hath a posterity by lawful ordination begotten by himself whose White garments are not to be stained with the ink or soil of beastly conversation and whose Girdle is not to be loosed by following each fond principle or nice opinion neglecting the greater matters of the Law Let therefore your Priestly Office your Ministerial Habits mind you of your Pedigree and endeavor Sempiternally to minde your Sacerdotal Descent To come to fancy In Vtopia the Prince is said to be known in the Streets by nothing but by a little sheave of corn carried before him and the Bishop by a ●aper of wax Imagination concluding they ought to be known who are Guids and Lights to the people and this use except in our unhappy age we may deduce therefrom that as in the Kingdom of Israel their six Cities of Refuge sheltred 〈◊〉 from all ports yet three of them were poss●ssed by the Levits in the little spot beyond Jordan that the flo●k in the smalest Items of danger as knowing us their Shepherds afar off might run for Gospel Consolation assuring themselves thereof by venerable cloathing There were three famous men and worthy in the Congregation Moses and he had his Rod Aaron he 〈…〉 Samuel and he had his Coat clearing an expe●ienc● of s●me extern●l thing signifying their Office and Calling But who hath believed our Report for though in this we lift up our voice as a Trumpet we cannot perswade some otherwise resolved to confess this irregular That Church-men should not be Church-like and yet would be angry if the Bible were bound up in the fashion of a Song-book or a Pulpi made in the form of a Fiddle yet themselves walk as Ministrels that is not as Ministers in the Streets But to such who refuseth Aaron's I shall only wish them Adam's Girdle that a covering of Fig-leaves may conceal their shame that it be not exposed to the mockery of their Order and Office in others more true and faithful to their Colours For 3. His failing● giveth Caution It is not intended to pry into each Punctilio of escape whereof Aaron might be guilty leaving that Office to him who accuseth the Brethren And even Moses spake unadvisedly with his lips But I shall mention such as were more sc●ndalous and to which he was provoked 1. By Men. 2. B● Woman 1. By Men. This was occasioned by Moses absence and it was a beastly mistake for fearing the people he melted Mettal and framed a Golden Calf and gave to Moses a leaden excuse for so doing And I said said he Whosoever hath any Gold let them break it off and they gave it me then I cast it into the Fire and there came out this calf as if there had never come a graven Tool upon it but as the figured Calf had come by Chance by Miracle by he knew not which way Exod. 32. 24. Indeed the Churches weakness in Moses's absence when the Magistrat is not present hath many dangerous Symptoms of a Decay which should make both Moses diligent in attending his Charge and Aaron Couragious if Rebellion it self should divert a Magistrat it is never well with the Temple of Jerusalem when the Gates of the City are not watched not with the City when the way to the Temple mourns Make this Question in the worst of times Whom should the Priest of the moct High GOD please GOD or the People If GOD why then will he make a Golden Calf to please them if the People why do ye call your selves Gods Priests In short not desiring to rub old fores and being obliged to protest against future evils we have too many Calfs of the people made among us and therefore there is cause to fear the Wolves of the Evening for a punishment be commissioned to devour and destroy I have long ago half adored that Expression of a most Reverend Father when cast into the Furnace of popular fury in our late War in his own Funeral Sermon before Malice and the Axe had cut off his head Nor shall I worship the Imaginations which the people are setting up nor will I forsake the Temple and the Truth of God to follow the bleating of Jeroboam's Calfs in Dan and in Bethel c. But not to pursue the Metaphore in hardest Seasons let 's have recourse to Bethphage a Village of Priests signifying D●m●s Buc●ae Trumpeting to encourage each other and not be made to blush by frivolous because sensless Excuses from fear of the People For if we please Men we shal not be the Servants of Christ. But the second is more base because it was 2. By a Woman Miriam Moses's Sister fell quite out with Moses's Wife her Sister in Law and what in Gods Name had Aaron to do to interest himself in either except to agree them Yet this is somewhat Honourable that he is not the beginner of the plea For it is said Miriam and Aaron spake against Moses because of the Ethiopian woman he had married not the Ethiopia in Africa but a Country bo●dering upon the Red-sea and the same which is called Midian It was an old fault if any and newly riped up by Miriam who being first named seemeth to have led on