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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
city_n	holy_a	jerusalem_n	temple_n	4,467	4	7.9697	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A49515	Three sermons preached at Sherborne in Dorsetshire by William Lyford ... being his last sermons ...; Sermons. Selections	Lyford, William, 1598-1653.	1654 (1654)	Wing L3557; ESTC R3029	24,872	37

and utensills and appurtenances of the Temple were counted and called holy in their kind and in severall degrees Jerusalem was an holy city and every pot in Jerusalem shall be holy to the Lord. The house of the Lord was more then the city and the pots thereof more holy The Altar was more holy then the other parts of the temple Now the Holinesse under the Gospell should thus rise the pots in Jerusalem holy to the Lord like the pots in the Lord's house and the pots in the Lord's house like the Bowles before the Altar The meaning seems to be this that the meanest things of common and ordinary use whether in war or peace should now become holy be holily used in the whole carriage conversation of a Christian whatsoever Christians goe about to doe should be as an acceptable sacrifice to the Lord. 1 Pe. 2 5. The third use how to Judge of a sound Ministry of Christ does it savour of Christ of his doctrine spirit Counsells of his righteousnesse Graces of salvation does it tend to season bad hearts sweeten corrupt tongues and lives To make you rellish of Christ T is one thing to savour of poets of learning of moralitie another to savour of Christ of regeneration Christs perfume must be opened that our faith may stand in his wisdome and in the power of God It is a sad thing to sit under a dead saplesse unsavorie Ministrie But a savorie Ministrie is a choice mercy a pretious blessing and so to be reckoned of One that savours of Christ himselfe and can spread that savour unto others when ye can smell and taste Christ in his doctrine in his words in his life this is a choice mercie because it tends to the salvation of soules and they ought to be unto us as a pretious perfume Second doctrine The faithfull Ministers of Christ are pretious as a sweet smelling savour unto God however the successe of our Labours be unto God we are a sweet savour in them that are saved and in them that perish Paul doth dignifie in this speech this ordinance of God the better to worke in people an high esteeme of it However the world esteemes of our office and persons yet unto God we are a sweet savour To testifie this Esteeme of them God is not ashamed to call us his Embassadours 2 Cor. 5. Labourers together with God 1 Cor. 3.9 Chosen vessells to beare his name before the Gentiles yea even where God is not pleased to worke with our Ministry so far as to make it effectuall to the Conversion of men yet even there our Ministry is acceptable unto God He joyeth and taketh pleasure in it God testifieth his esteeme of them because the injuries done to them God takes as done to himselfe As by the law of nations injuries doneto an Embassadour are taken as done to the Prince that sends him he that receaveth a Prophet in my name receaveth me And he that despiseth you despiseth me and him that sent me And he giveth a speciall charge concerning them touch not mine anointed next unto Kings and doe my Prophets no harme God will revenge the injuries done to them 2 Chron. 36.16 Rev 11.5 He that hurteth my witnesses shall in like manner be killed It is the last sin that goeth before a generall judgment But they mocked the messengers of God till there was no remedy It 's a forerunner of judgments upon an unthankfull people First use is to support us against all discouragements the greatest of which is want of successe what though the world hate us it hated Christ first Paul first was made the off-scouring of the world even by his owne children whom he had converted to the faith 1 Cor. 4.14.15 he might expect better esteeme from such yet he was hated by them What though manie perish and be the worse for our preaching yet our labour is acceptable our doctrine sound God likes us when we preach damnation to the impenitent It 's a savorie doctrine the breathing out of threatnings is the Advancing of Christ The breathing out of threatnings is a savorie doctrine to them that believe it it mortifies lusts it kills nothing but sin it saves the soule it 's unsavorie to a man setled on his lees but savory to believers Second use if it be a sweet savour to God it ought also to be to us if yee be sonnes of God O what a mercy the Gospell is It 's a signe God hath a people there The whole course of saving mercy is comprehended in that one mercy When Paul would summe up the advantages of the Jew above the Gentile he doth it in this one word Chiefly Because unto them were committed the Oracles of God Rom. 3.2 whereas the Gentiles were strangers to the covenants of promises and therefore without hope and without God in the world How commeth it then about that they which are sweet to God are a stink in the no. strills of the world It is a signe our senses are much distempered when those words how beautifull are the feet of them which preach glad tidings shall be turned into how ugly are the faces of them that bring this sweet savour That sense also is much distempered A deceitfull heart hath caused them to erre Let me speake unto England as Paul spake of the Jewes your Chiefly your interest your Crowne your glory lies in this that thou enjoyest the breath of life What advantage hath England above other Nations Much every way You that are Merchants and Travellers knowe it full well we have enjoyed long peace above fourescore yeares that was the longest rest that Israel's land ever enjoyed Judges 3.30 Under Kings and Queenes which clothed us with skarlet made silver as stones and gold as the Sycomores that filled our houses with good things The Riches of other nations were brought into us yea their delights as Solomons Apes Peacocks that which other nations enjoyed single we enjoyed them altogether Our honour and renowne was spread no feare to him that went out or to him that came in every one sate under his own vine c. These advantages hadst thou ô England above other people Yet thy Chiefly lay in this Thou didst enjoy the oracles of God dispensed by a sound boly faithfull ministrie By meanes whereof thy land was as the garden of spices many thousands of thy people are gone to heaven and many thousands yet alive have by their ministrie received and tasted so much of Christ's sweet savour for which they shall blesse God to all eternitie What ayleth thee ô Land that thy Ministers are become hatred in the house of thy God their names a scorne derision What evill have they brought unto thee that thou art weary of them Nay may not the Lord expostulate the case with thee and say wherein have I wearied thee ô Land testifie against me I have not wearied thee with costly sacrifice and incense Why is that slender maintenance become a burden