Selected quad for the lemma: death_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	aaron_n	blood_n	moses_n	88	3	6.6408	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A92321	England's restitution or The man, the man of men, the states-man. delivered in several sermons in the parish church of Waltham Abbey in the county of Essex. / By Thomas Reeve D.D. preacher of Gods word there.	Reeve, Thomas, 1594-1672.	1661 (1661)	Wing R689; Thomason E1056_1; ESTC R208033	132,074	175

Abihu's death there had like to have been another Funeral for Moses was even ready to have executed severe Judgment upon Eleazer and Ithamar for not eating the Goat the Sin-offering where God had commanded and for not bringing the Blood into the Holy-place and Aaron though he pleaded hard and Moses connived at the Trespass yet by Divines it is concluded that Moses was too Humane in the relaxation Some Judicious Expositours think there was too much natural infirmity in Aaron and too much condescension in Moses to pass by the aberration It is left as no precedent for them that sin pervicaciously It is a dangerous thing to innovate any thing in Church-rites That which is Apostolical is Apophthegmatical and ought to be taken up as Valueable and immutable If the Church be Built upon the Foundation of the Prophets and Apostles then I can Pronounce nothings well grounselled which do want their Fundamental Institution A Foreign Church may have something that pertains to the building but I doubt there is something defective therefore I must say as it is in Ca●… viii 9. If she be a Wall we will build upon her a silver Palace and if she be a Door we will keep her in with boards of Cedar but 'till I finde in her a Wall and a Door I can bestow no great cost upon her to enrich her or adorn her Miriam may have breath in her but if she be stricken with a sore Leprosy she is half-dead whiles she liveth Sic ego sentio si alii non consintant unusquisque abundet sensu suo I do not say but that there are rare parts and singular endowments there but I cannot call any thing perfect without a just calling I am not certain whether th●…e can be right Baptism lawfull Preaching a due Administration of the Lord's Supper without a true Priesthood I fear it much and I have just grounds for my jealousie I like her Profession well I would I could like her Polity aswell that I might say with the Apostle I rejoyce beholding your order together with your stedfast Faith Col. 11.5 Privileges Principles an accurate Wit Fancies of men confederacy with them that seem holy will not do all no the law is strict God is a Jealous God a little Leaven may corrupt the whole lump he that is unjust in a little hath his disparagement there can be no exactness without a general Perfection Loth's Wife was turned into a pillar of Salt for the cast of an Ey Moses was debarred entrance into the Land of Canaan for striking the Rock when he should but have spoke to the Rock The High-places were enough for a grievance Oh! if we feared the opening of the Books or the appearance before the white Throne we would leave palliating and descanting and conform to the Rule Yea cry out To the law To the testimony for Every plant which my Heavenly Father hath not planted shall be rooted up Therefore if the Foreign Church can shew her Consanguinity of Government from the Blood of the Apostles I shall acknowledg the kindred but otherwise my heart may shake rather then I can shake Hands with her I may piety her but I cannot embrace her I may pray for her but cannot magnify her I cannot pronounce her sound but onely send her to the Physician and she must be cured by the right Party I cannot allow her a College of Physicians to consult with for then she may spend all her mony upon Physicians but her Bloody issue will never depart from her till she hath touched the hem of Christ's garment In the state she is in I have no Vindication for her let other Advocates if they will justify her but I have thus much charity to wish her to repent and reform and if counsel do not prevail my bowels shall yearn for her but my toung cannot say to her All-hayl But for the forreign Church sick or sound we will leave her to her self and to her medicinal Artists about her which warrant her good constitution for our selves let us praise God for our health and seek to preserve it Let us assure our selves that there is nothing more requisite in a visible Church then a just government without this there is neither peace beauty order or purity of the Ordinances If every calling of the Nation ought to be justifiable how much more the Ministery Else a man shall suspect every Church Duty which he doth communicate in and be afraid whom to acknowledg as a true Messenger from God Almighty A great matter to sanctify a Nation is a sanctified Ministery I mean a sanctified Function for all Sanctification is but sorcery in respect of the external conveyance of it which doth not flow from a right Spring-head The wind I know bloweth where it listeth and I have nothing to do with the secret motions of God's spirit but for a publique assurance right Ordination is the best confirmation yea the most Orthodox ratification Away with Topical reasonings give me a Demonstrative argument that which is Apostolical to men is Characterical Jannes and Jambres had an art of inchantment Prophets that cause the people to err and bite them with their teeth can cry A Vision though it be a lying divination False Apostles can transform themselves into Angels of light The star called Wormwood hath a brightness in it The beast that came out of the earth had two horns like 〈…〉 There is no trusting to appearances and pretences the high satisfaction must be a justifiable undoubted commission Oh! that the King's Daughter who is to have her rayment of Needle-work should wear any thing about her that is not True-stitch that the Temple should be overlaid with any thing but pure gold What is comfortable in any Church where the Squinancy is in the throat where the Sermon-Bell is riven where there is a suspicious supposititious Ministery a lawfull Heir a lawfull Spouse a lawfull Officer are not more necessary then a lawfull Ministery Was God angry with them which went and were not sent and will not fury arise in his face against unauthorised Messengers Men must be put apart and separated for this Calling Rom. 1.1 and be allowed of God which are put in trust with the Gospel 1 Thes 2.4 And be Ordained Preachers 1 Tim. 2.7 Are the Keyes of the Kingdom of Heaven to be put into all hands is every one to be a Steward in God's Family no Unto me is this Grace given to Preach the unsearchable Riches of Christ 3 Ephes 8. How else is the Gospel a Mistery or this Function an Ordinance The sons of Scaeva met with claws and were rent to purpose because they would be dealing with that which they had no Authourity to meddle with And do these scratches terrify none though the Devils be quiet for a while are not their Talons to be feared in another World Is the Gospel a Feast and may every one invite Guests no Wisdom hath her Maidens to send