Selected quad for the lemma: england_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
england_n	day_n	king_n	lord_n	14,831	5	3.9145	3	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A90894	Christ exalted above all creatures by God his Father or A sermon preached before the Right Honourable, the Parliament of the Commonwealth of England. (At their solemne fast, observed the last day of the last month called February 1649.) By Vavasor Povvell.	Powell, Vavasor, 1617-1670.	1651 (1651)	Wing P3081; Thomason E1332_4; ESTC R209110	26,418	99

CHRIST EXALTED above all Creatures BY GOD His Father OR A Sermon Preached before the Right Honourable the Parliament of the Commonwealth of ENGLAND At their solemne Fast observed the last day of the last Month called February 1649. By VAVASOR POVVELL Esa 2.11.17 And the Lord alone shal be exalted in that day He hath on his vesture and on his thigh a name written KING of KINGS and LORD of LORDS Rev. 19.16 LONDON Printed by Robert Ibbitson for Livewell Chapman at the Crown in Popes-head Alley MDCLI Christ exalted above all Creatures by GOD his FATHER Hebrewes 2.7 8. Thou madest him a little lower then the Angels thou Crownedst him with glory and honour and did'st set him over the works of thy hands Thou hast put all things in subjection under his feet For in that he put all in subjection under him he left nothing that is not put under him But now we see not yet all things put under him BEfore I come to the words of my Text I wil endeavor to shew you the main aime and scope of the Apostle in this Epistle which is to exhort and perswade these Hebrewes to stand fast The Scope of the Apostle in this Epistle is two fold and to persist in the faith and to dehort and disswade them from falling First to perswade them to perseverance and apostatizing from the faith First to perswade them to perseverance and to make both the exhortation and dehortation more effectual he urges severall motives prescribes severall meanes The motives that he uses to perswade them are 4. 1. The first Motive is from Christ (a) Chap. 4.11 Seing wee have such an high-priest saith he that is passed in o the heavens Jesus the Sonne of God let us hold fast our profession The Apostle to make this Argument more taking he shews who and what Christ was as that he was the b Chap. 1.2 5.8 Son of God (c) Chap. 1.2 heir of all things (d) C. 1.2 Creator of the World the (e) v. 3. brightnesse of Gods glory the expresse image of his Person The upholder of every creature the (f) C. 2.3 Prophet (g) C. 2.8 Soveraign (h) C 2.10 Captain (i) 3.11 Sanctifier (k) v. 9. Saviour (l) v. 14. Conquerour (m) C. 4.14 Priest (n) C. 7.22 surety and (o) C. 8.1 substance of all This is the first encouragement And it 's a very great one 2. Another Motive and encouragement that the Apostle uses is taken from the Gospell and new Covenant And this he presses by shewing the (p) Cha. 8.6 Excellency of it above the Law and how it is established upon better promises 3. A third Motive is the cloud of witnesses or the many Saints that did hold out and goe on in the faith Chap. 11. notwithstanding their great trials temptations and sufferings in the world 4. The fourth and last Motive is the wages that they should have if they did continue unto the end And this is called a (q) Ch. 4.9.15 Rest (r) Ch. 10.35 Recompence of reward a (Å¿) Ch. 11.16 city a (t) Ch. 11.14 countrey a (u) Ch. 12.28 Kingdome The meanes that hee prescribes to further them to attain thereunto are foure I will but name them 1. Faith Chap. 4. 2. 6. 12. 11. 2. Diligence chap. 6. 11. 3. A Consider at on of Christ Chap. 12. 2. especially of his sufferings and glory 4. Keeping communion with his Church and people ch 3. 13. 10. 25. Secondly The Apostles scope in the second place is to dehort and disswade them from falling To disswade them from apostacy And herein hee shewes a three fold falling First a falling or coming short of grace Take heede saith hee lest any of you scem to come short of the w i. e. of the promise of grace promise Secondly a falling from the profession of faith called a departing from God x Heb. 3.12 Note there may bee a y See chap. 6. 6. Or from their owne fled-fastnesse as Peter expresses it 2 Pet. 3.17 falling from the profession of grace though not from the truth of grace from the form though not from the power and from the doctrine though not from the state of grace Thirdly a z Chap. 4.11 falling into sin Take heed lest any man fall after the same example of disobedience And that hee might affright prevent them from falling hee puts three things before them 1 The example of the Jewes that were destroyed in the wildernesse Chap. 3. 17. 2 The greatnesse of their sinne if they did fall Ch. 6. 6. 3 The nearnesse and soreness of their punishment and misery Ch. 6. 8. 10. 26 27 28 29 31. Obj. But they might ask how shall we prevent this Answ He resolves them in that by exhorting them to take heed of unbelief and the deceitfulnesse of sinne Cha. 3. 12 13. So then the summe of the whole Epistle is this That those that professe Christ and christianity must be carefull and fearful lest they come short of grace glory lest they return through unbelief into impiety But to come to the Text which I have read unto you which presents it selfe in a three-fold consideration 1 To be divided 2 Explained 3 The main Positions or Doctrines therein to be stated In the words you are to consider three things The Text divided 1 By whom they were spoken And that is either by David who spake them before prophetically or else by Paul the (a) 2 Pet. 3.15 Author of this Epistle who cites these words out of the 8 Psalm 2 Of whom they are spoken The parties therein are either extraordinary or ordinary The extraordinary are God the Father and Jesus Christ The ordinary are (b) I call Angells ordinary in comparison of God and Christ God the father humbling Christ God the father exalting Christ Angels and men 3 What is the subject-matter contained in the words This is two-fold 1 The acts of the Father both in abasing and exalting his Sonne His act in abasing him in these words Thou madest him a little lower then the Angels His act in exalting him in these words Thou crownedst him with glooy honour didst set him over the workes of thy hands thou hast put all things in subjection under him 2 The two-fold state of Christ either his state of humiliation or his state of exaltation In his state of Humiliation you are to consider three things 1 The degree of his humiliatiation a little lower then the Angels viz. in nature for he took as I shewed before mans fraile and fleshly nature upon him 2 The time of his humiliation and in this sense also may those words a little lower then the Angels be understood that is for a little time or for a short space lower then they 3 The nature of his humiliation which is called in the 9th vers his

the publique good for their own private Act. 19.24 25. and personall interests and of this sort there is not a few who like Demetrius and his fellow Tradesmen cry out that their Trade and Profession is gone if such things shall be tolerated and such and such Acts passed But wofull is that Profession or occupation that is maintained by the corruptions of the people Having put Magistrates and Ministers upon selfe-examination let us now come to speake a word to the common sort of people Nay what I shal further speake in this Use concerns all Consider then 1 Whether you do prefer your owne righteousnesse before the righteousnesse of Jesus Christ for of all Selfes this is the most dangerous and that rocke which most men split and undoe their soules at This was that which did undo the people of Israel of old Ro. 9.31 32. and this is that which is like to be the bane of many professors Oh! therefore I beseech you consider the impurity imperfection and insufficiency of your own righteousuesse to justifie or save you and looke upon that free and full righteousnesse of Jesus Christ and exalt it by beleeving on it And submitting to it 2 Examine your selves whether you doe preferre Christs will or your own wills Oh how eager are many in these dayes for things that are not in the Scriptures and to set up Institutions which Christ hath not appointed Aske what is the wil of God and then what reason you have to obey it Gods will carries reason with it why it should be obeyed for it is good because God commands it Oh say then as Christ said not my wil but thine be done and as Paul Lord what wilt thou have me to do Thus much for the second Use Use 3. The third Use is an use of Incouragement to althose that endeavor to exalt Jesus Christ more particularly to you that are in Authority who may say as Samuel hitherto hath the Lord helped us 1 Sam. 7.12 and with David 2 Sam. 7.18 Oh Lord God what is my house that thou hast brought me hitherto You may call England Jehovah shammah as the Church in Ezekiel the last verse the Lord is there Hee that will rightly and impartially looke may see that the Lord is not yet departed and so long as he abides among a people there is no fear but great hopes notwithstanding the greatnesle of their sins that hee will prosper and carry on his own work in their hands Object But you will say How shall we know that the Lord is yet with us and not departed from us Answ Among many other signes of the Lords presence with you Consider these few 1 That you yet doe those things which are for his glory your late actions and your very late Acts testifie this however prejudiced and discontented men would make those things your sins which God I beleeve accounts and approves of as acceptable services done for his glory 2 Surely God is with you for his people are with you You have all or most of the Congregations of Saints in the Nation with you and for you And note this that whensoever God doth depart from any Authority Power or People God doth first take away the hearts of his people from them that they neither approve of them joyn with them nor pray for them This we find in Samuel who left Saul and came no more to see him 1 Sam. 14.35 and what followed within a very little time after 1 Sam. 28.16 the Lord also departed from Saul and became his enemy I hope I may say of you as it was said of Judah Hos 11.12 That you yet rule with God and are faithfull to the Saints 3 This is a signe that God is with you that the Lord puts a spirit of zeal in some of you for a perfect Reformation and also a spirit of assurance that God will carrie on the Worke of your hands 4 The concurrence of Gods Providence in effecting those great things which you have undertaken both in this land and in Ireland doth bespeake the Lord to be with you The heavens smile and the earth laughs and rejoyces at the execution of Justice yea some do observe that the Lord hath shewed himself more gracious to this land in externals since you have appeared and acted for him of late so impartiallie and couragiously however some as the Prophet speaks will not see the hand of the Lord that is so evidently lifted up Esa 62.11 5 And lastly This is a sure sign that the Lord is yet with you because you have decreeed and don nothing against the Saints of God nor imposed any thing upon their consciences though you have beene frequentlie moved thereto Remember stil those many Sermons that you have had to stir you up to be kind to the Lords little ones they are as you once excellently heard the interest of Nations and God wil deale well or ill with you as you favor them or frown upon them therefore look upon the Saints next Christ as your safest and strongest sanctuarie Give me leave I beseech you to put you in mind to be tender also to some tender consciences who peradventure cannot subscribe and submit to your power and authoritie favor them and be not provoked against them though some would stir you up thereto who peradventure have no other ends but to weaken your hands and to make you more odious to the people Object But some will say though God hath been hitherto with us and yet abides amongst us yet we have many grounds to fear that the Lord may leave us and that there wil be a stop in the work now in our hands Ans Sure the Lord hath not put you upon a worke that hee means to lay aside for it is temple-worke and such a Temple-work as hath not bin undertaken by any before The work you are upon tends to set up Jesus Christ to pul down Antichrist fear not therefore but go on for the Lord wil prosper you Obj. But peradventure some others wil say sin remains stil among us and God is provoked now as much as ever how then can the work go on Ans God sometimes takes occasions from the sins of men to shew mercie to them and to spare them I have time onely to name you a few places Gen. 8.21 Esa 57.17 Hos 2.13 14. Joh. 20.25 Obj. But that which doth most trouble us herein is to know whether the witnesses be slaine yea or no Ans 1. Suppose the witnesses were not slaine yet it is an honor to be a witnes to Christ and to suffer Martyrdome for his sake and in his cause 2 If they be not slaine yet the time of their slaying and being dead is but short but 3 It is more then probable yea I am very confident that they are slaine and have been a slaying all the time and reigne of Antichrist now Christ begins to take his great power