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city_n	call_v	part_n	river_n	5,066	4	7.1207	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A72993	A Romane centurion becomming a good souldier of Iesus Christ In foure sermons, preached in the cathedrall church, and in Saint Thomas Church at Sarum. By Bartholomevv Parsons, B.D. and rector of Ludgershall, in the county of Wiltes.	Parsons, Bartholomew, 1574-1642.	1635 (1635)	STC 19350.5; ESTC S124821	64,942	95

circumstance of his civill state whereby he is set out unto us the place of his dwelling at Cesarea There were two famous Cities of this name amongst the Iewes one the elder which was called Turris Stratonis but being amplified by Herod the Great and adorned with many workes worthy the sight was called by him Cesarea to winne the favour of Augustus Caesar as reporteth Iosephus lib. 1. de bello Iud cap. 16 and lib. 15. Antiq. cap. 13. As also from the Emperours daughter Iulia this Herod built Iulias on the farther side of Iordan Hiero. in Matth. 16. And it was scituate on the coast of the Mediterranean Sea betweene Dora and Ioppa The other being later was scituate in Iturea in Trachonitis a Countrey of Galile or Phoenicia at that part of Mount Libanus where the two Rivers Ior and Dan meete together and make the River Iordan Hier. vbi suprà It was anciently called Paneas of a River of that name which ranne by it and reckoned in the number of the famous Cities of Decapolis but being afterward increased and beautified by Philip sonne of Herod the Great and Tetrarch of Galilee Luke 3. it was called by him Cesarea in honour of Tiberius Caesar and for distinction sake Cesarea Philippi Afterwards Agrippa to flatter Nero called it Neronias Ioseph lib. 20. antiq cap. 8. Of these the former is here meant Now this rocke is not so stonie but if we strike it the waters will gush out from the verball denomination of this place we may haue a reall observation to note the vaine pride and proud vanitie of the sonnes of men the Princes of this world and their followers and flatterers in calling houses and Cities after their owne names And I speake not this according to man In terminis terminan tibus it is the Holy Ghosts censure of them in expresse termes They call their lands after their owne names Psal 40.11 And this pride is none of the new upstart fashions of yesterday it is as old as the ancientest Citie that was built Cain the first builder of a Citie for Seth and Enoch built none but lived in Tents to shew that they had none abiding City here called the name of it after the name of his sonne Enoch Gen. 4.17 That one Citie Constantinople sometimes Heathen afterward Christian now Turkish hath changed its names as often as Laban did Iacobs wages to flatter the great ones of the earth at first it was called Lygo then Byzantium Plin. lib. 4. cap. 11. afterwards new Rome In the time of Severus the Emperour and his sonne Antonius Antonia afterwards of Constantine the Great Constantinopolis till it came to the Turkes possession who tooke it Ann. Dom. 1453. Philip of Macedone as Diodorus Siculus relateth of him increasing the City Crenidae with store of Inhabitants 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 changed the name of it into Philippi so calling it of himselfe And Alexander the Great his sonne in divers places where he obtained victories erected Cities calling them by his name Alexandria or Alexandropolis the famousest of all which was Alexandria in Egypt But I cannot waste time in running into particular instances in this kinde and they would make me keepe silence for better matter If any one aske to what end The Holy Ghost that censures their fact Cui bono sheweth their end in it It was that they might be as an Absoloms piller to keepe their names in remembrance 2 Sam. 18.18 Their inward thought is that their houses shall continue for ever and their dwelling places to all generations they call their lands after their owne names Psal 49.11 And as the Holy Ghosts imputation layeth this upon them so their owne profession expresseth such an intention Let us say the first builders of the towne of Babel build us a Citie and a Towre whose top may reach unto heaven and let us make us a name least we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth Gen. 11.4 And such a spirit will be found in Nebuchadnezzar a successor of theirs in Bab●l one that had made it great Is not this great Babylon that I haue built for the house of the Kingdome by the might of my power for the honor of my majestie Dan. 4.30 Howbeit this their way is but their folly Psal 49 13. In vaine doe they labour to eternize their names in this world which passeth away the figure therof 1 Cor. 7.31 that which now is in the dayes to come shal be forgotten Eccl. 2.16 they must depart in darkenesse and their names be covered with darkenesse Eccl. 6.4 The builders of Babel are confounded in language and scattered upon the whole earth before their tower could be erected Gen. 11. and Babylon it selfe growing afterwards to be the glory of kingdomes and the beauty of the Chaldees excellency must be ouerhrowne as when God ouerthrew Sodom and Gomorrah it shall neuer be inhabited neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation Isaiah 13.19.20 Nebuchadnezzar for his pride must be put from his Kingdome and made know that the Lord is able to abase them that walke in pride Dan. 4.28.37 And those great houses that are built that men may dwel alone in the earth haue either this curse upon them that they shall be desolate and without inhabitant Isa 5.8.9 or else to be smitten till they be consumed I will smite the winter house with the summer house and houses of Iuory shall perish and of the great houses there shall be an end saith the Lord Amos 3.15 But on the otherside the generation of Gods children even in these denominations of places haue not sought their owne glory but Gods they whether they eate or drinke or whatsoever they doe doe all to the glory of God 1 Cor. 10.31 have rather desired to build to his name then to get themselves a name When God looked upon Abraham and prouided him a Ramme to Sacrifice in stead of his sonne he called the name of that place Iehova yreh the Lord will see or provide Gen. 22.14 Iacob called the place where the Lord appeared unto him in a dreame at his going into Padan-Aram Bethel the house of God Gen. 28.19 and where he wrestled with him at his comming backe from thence Penuel the face of God Gen. 22.30 And David the first thing that he thought upon after God had given him rest from his enemies round about was to build an house to Gods name 2 Sam. 7. insomuch that he voweth that he would not come into the tabernacle of his house nor goe up into his bed that he would not give sleepe to his eyes or slumber to his eye-lids untill he had found out a place for the Lord an habitation for the mighty God of Iacob Psal 1.32.2.3.4.5 Oh how farre have oursacrilegious times degenerated from the ancient and primitiue zeale of those worthies For now we are so farre from erecting consecrating and conferring any thing to Gods name and worship that