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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	bring_v	life_n	world_n	5,785	5	4.4206	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A83667	The saints sacred laver. By Iames Eglesfield, master of arts, minister of Gods word at Knightsbridge. Preached at Padington, September the first, 1645	Eglesfield, James, b. 1601 or 2.	1646 (1646)	Wing E254A; ESTC R231737	12,295	39

THE SAINTS SACRED LAVER By Iames Eglesfield Master of Arts Minister of Gods Word at Knightsbridge Preached at Padington September the first 1645. LONDON Printed by Thomas Harper 1646. To the Honourable Knight Sir William Belfore AS Christ himselfe said sometime to a multitude the like may I taking occasion from this my presumption What came ye out to see a Reed shaken with the winde it may be so but what came yee out for to see a Prophet here I must change the note nay lesse then a Prophet for as among the sonnes of women there was not a greater then Hee of whom Christ spake so among the sonnes of women is there not a lesse then he whose pen now presents that service which his tongue ought in its proper place did not the cloud of a darkenned fortun● eclipse his apparition Lesse in maturity and ripenes for so weighty a busines as touching my selfe lesse in opinion of fitnes as touching the esteeme of many who it may be have seene me sweating in the pursuite of my Recreation fishing but never in serving at the Alter of my God Notwithstanding oh my God I am sent as a messenger before thy face and shall prepare the way before thee For by a fit Metaphor drawne from the art and practice of fishing our Saviour Christ hath shaddowed forth both the calling and imployment both of his first choice Apostles and all other Apostolicall succeeding Preachers saying I will make you fishers of men Mat. 4 19. Such you shall bee because such I will make you to be quorum pars parva fui full twenty yeeres exercising this holy function who although with Peter may say I have toyled all the night and caught nothing for my selfe yet with Iohn Baptist Luc. 3.10 I have some reason to beleeve that my labours have not beene altogether unprofitable among the Mennoes and meaner sort I fished for which were the crowd of common people publicans and sinners very slippery Eeles that had long lien in the mud of their misdoings and sanguinary souldiers the Pike and Water-wolves of the Ocean of this world a people naturally diseased with the bloody issue Encouraged therfore by that inabling spirit of grace which of Priscilla and Aquila poor Tent makers were able to pose that great Clerke Apollos with Ieremy I presume to go to the great ones and with Peter will once more let downe my Evangelicall sweep-net which was not composed by the wisedome of man or woven with the deceitfull words of Sophisters but with the words of the Gospell according to that of St Paul 1. Cor. 2.4 Neither is it any materiall net like that in Suidas which one cast over another while they were in single combate together and when he had ensnared him he slew him nor such a cruell barbarous and bloody spirituall net as the Prophet Micah speaketh of Micah 7. All lie in wait for blood every man bunteth his brother with a net But it is that Sagena that sweep net which our Saviour brought downe from heaven even the glorious Gospel of Iesus Christ preached that wil dragg and drawe out all those that are plunged in the darkesome holes of ignorance and in the muddy cares of this World to the light of Truth and love of supernall things Et faelices illi quos haec sagena de profundo criminum et errorum pertrahit ad lucem Amb. Happy oh thrice happy they if this draw net fasten on them and bring them from darkenesse to light from death to life a faeculo from the sea of this World ad faecula saeculorum to the shore of a better life even the land of the living which as I wish to your Worship specially for my bounden duties sake and to your vertuous Lady the field of whose loving sincerity in the remaining course of your lives being fully charged with deeds of charity cannot but be accomplisht with a Crest of Glory So even from my soule I wish it to all that love to Bathe in Innocency and expect the comming of the Lord Iesus Sir I am your humblest servant IAMES EGLESFIELD THE SAINTS SACRED LAVER Psal 26. vers 6. I will wash my hands in innocencie O Lord and so will I go to thine Altar THis verse containes a holy Preparation a holy Presence and a holy Place The holy preparation is in these words I will wash my hands in innocency The holy presence in this word ô Lord And the holy place in this word Altar and so will I goe to thine Altar In the holy preparation note two things 1 Quis praeparat in this word I David 2 Quo modo in this word wash I David ●ash In the Quo modo note two things 1. The Bath Innocencie 2. The parts bathed Hands In the holy presence note two things 1. The Majesty Domine 2. The Mirror in this particle ô In the holy place note two things 1. The Reverence of his Progresse in this word So not presumptuously but humbly like his Servant 2. The reference of the place in these words Thine Altar And so will I go to thine Altar This is the resolution of the Text which I meane by Gods goodnesse to treat of and first Quis that is David a King by place a Prophet in Spirit and a Saint by calling I will wash A King by place as the image of God is more exprest in Kings then in Groomes and vassalles their power being a resemblance of his divine power and their Majesty a Character of his divine Majesty so ought the flames of this Image to be more conspicuous in them then in the inferiour or darker sonnes of God It is not the beauty of his Throne the riches of his Diadem the guard of his person or any the like Dalilah can cut the hair of David or blow him bigge with a Tympany of selfe righteousnesse he being fully bent for his own salvation and his peoples instruction to bath in the Laver of Holines In Innocency will I wash my selfe sayes he I a God by name will do it for so the Scriptures title Kings that when I come before the God of nature my sacrifice may be well accepted What David doth here in person must be the president of Magistracie or rather of Magistrates then any of meane or perfunctorie calling such a levell hath the shaft of Iniquitie against the breast of the great Ones so many are their pit falls so dangerous their examples so contractive of Sinne their consciences Therefore whisper not in their eares the Magnificency of their places it is a temptation nor the solemnity of their worships it is a Temptation for David knew by woefull experience that all the power of worldly dignity was temptation for hee abused his power in the murther of Vriah 2 Sam. 11. hee stained his beauty in the deffowry of Bethsheba he wronged his Throne in the numbring his people And flatter not then the Great Ones with telling them of their Greatnes puff them not up