Selected quad for the lemma: fire_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
fire_n	cloud_n	night_n	pillar_n	4,723	5	10.5941	5	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A05479	Twelue sermons viz. 1 A Christian exhortation to innocent anger. 2 The calling of Moses. ... 11 12 The sinners looking-glasse. Preached by Thomas Bastard ...	Bastard, Thomas, 1565 or 6-1618.; Bastard, Thomas, 1565 or 6-1618. Five sermons. aut	1615 (1615)	STC 1561; ESTC S101574	96,705	150

cast forth into the Wildernesse into the place of Dragons to haue thy abiding with Zym and Dragons and Ostriches and Ohim c. yet heere God looketh vpon thee The same God which saw thee when thou fleddest from thy Brother I the same God which saw thee when thy Mother which bare thee forsooke thee and shut thee vp in a little Arke of Slime and Pitch and cast thee forth among the Bulrushes and left thee floating vpon the water We see as the littlenesse or vnaptnesse of the persons cannot hinder God in executing by them works of wonder no more can the vnlikelinesse or vnaptnesse of the place He can make as many Springs to flow out of the rocky Desart as from Apenninus the father of Riuers hee can store the waste and roaring Wildernesse with as much prouision as fruitfull Aegypt he can leuye as great an Armie from Sina bushes as from the middest of Pharaohs Kingdome But what is the reason that God appeareth to Moses rather in the Wildernesse then in Aegypt Haue the Aegyptians onely driuen out Moses from them Haue they not also chased God away He cannot abide in Pharaohs Court there is so much hardnesse in Pharaohs hart he cannot abide in their land for their cruelty nor in their Temples for their Idolatry It was a poore entertaynement that the Lord of life when he came to dwell with vs and to inhabite our flesh that hee must be driuen to seeke the Asses cratch and that our vnthankefulnesse did thrust the God of life into a Stable but it was harder that quietly the Babe IESVS could not enioy that but Mary must be driuen to flie by the way of the Wildernesse into Aegypt to hide her Sonne for feare of Herod and the Iewes Why doe we thus banish God from vs and chase him forth into remote and farre Countries from whence he will not returne but to smite vs and iudge vs as he did the Aegiptians heere Why doth hee rather dwell in the thornie bush then in Pharaohs heart He is not in Samaria but he is in the Desart with Eliah he is not with Belshazzar in his Pallace Dan. 5. but he is with Daniell in the denne of the Lyons Dan. 6. He is not in Sodome but hee is in the Mountaine with Lot He is not with Saul in his Tent but he is with Dauid in the caue Oh our vngratefulnesse nay our wretchednesse if where we are most there God is least Now for the third part in order the Place particular It should little boote to set downe the varietie of the opinions of them which haue interpreted this vision but God had doubtlesse his secret heere Some apply it to the Israelites and their peruerse disposition which were alwaies like the thornes which resistes the fire Some take for the Bush the wombe of the blessed Virgin some the bodie of CHRIST I will not maintayne these opinions neyther will I impugne them but we more safely compare this vision with that of Abrahams where God appeared to him in a firebrand out of a darke Fornace The reason is God sufreth not his people to be extinguished in darkenesse The afflicted and oppressed people of Israell we may resemble to the low shrub or bush The tyranny of Pharaoh to the fire burning in the middest which had consumed them had not God miraculously preserued them So by the presence of God the bush scapes the fire as it is written that although the flouds lift vp themselues against the Sanctuary of God yet it shall not be moued because God is in the middest of it Saint Paul saith of God our God is a consuming fire But Moses can say our God is a preseruing fire To the Aegyptians he was a consuming fire but to the Israelites a preseruer from fire He consumed the Captaynes of Ahaziah but he preserued Elijah Hee consumed the Princes of Nabuchodonosor but he preserued the three children in the middest of the fire Isay was preserued by this fire for when God touched his mouth with a coale burning from the Altar he heard Thine iniquitie shal be taken away and thy sinne purged And although the fire be now out of the Bush yet Christ hath brought fire anew from heauen and left it burning in the Tongues and Lippes of his Apostles and made them the Lights of the world Now touching the Vision No doubt but Moses was wonderfully astonished with the miracle he goeth aside to wonder to gaze at this strange sight But these if thou compare Moses with those miracles which God wil worke by thee with those great wonders in Aegypt with his continuall appearing to thee in a Cloude by day and in a Pillar of fire by night This burning flame I say if thou compare with these and with Mount Sinai burning all with fire it shall seeme to be but a little sparke And yet that great deliuerance of Gods people which was wrought by Moses at which all the earth trembled which filled all hearts with astonishment which was done with so mighty an hand outstretched arme compare we it to our deliuerance in Iesu Christ and it will seeme but as shadow to a body and lesse indeede than a little sparkle to a great flame What is their deliuerance from Aegypt to our deliuerance from Death and Hell What the leading of them through the red Sea to our washing in the bloud of Christ What the standing of the Sunne at the praier of Ioshuah to the descending of the Sunne of God into the world What the slaying of the first borne in Aegypt to the crucifying of Iesus Christ the Lord of Life Come we how to the manner of his calling which is the fourth in order Heere wee earne first that this was no dumbe shew to terrifie the holy man For it hath Doctrine annexed to establish his minde And indeede the miracle is great but the calling of Moses is greater And God calleth Moses by name familiarly which telleth him that now hee hath a kinde of fellowship and acquaintance with God that he must now walke with God and forget his father and acquaintance in the flesh and his flocke of sheepe and the world and follow his calling For God by speaking to him in this sort doth enter and insinuate himselfe into his minde and moue him to regard his daily walking as a continuall judging For how must they walke with whom Gods eie doth alwayes walke as an indiuiduall companion Now God by nameing vs when hee calleth shewes that hee knowes vs when he speaketh not He calls vs in time he knowes vs before time when he calleth he is not neerer to vs than he was before but he teacheth vs to draw nearer to him But this is the least we can imagine of God to thinke hee walketh with vs as an indiuiduall companion for hee walketh in our soule and betweene the diuisions of