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fire_n	day_n	night_n	pillar_n	4,391	5	10.4587	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A45536	Prossō kai opissō a sermon eqvally pointing forvvard & backward, as it was deliver'd in the Vniversity Church of Saint Maries in Cambridge / by P.H., B. of Divinity, and sometime fellow of Queenes Colledge in Cambridge, in his forenoone course before that universitie, upon the 22 day of November, in the yeare 1640, being the beginning of this present parliament.	P. H.; Hardres, Peter.; Heylyn, Peter, 1600-1662.	1647 (1647)	Wing H702; ESTC R38787	23,179	42

who is his and who is Holy i. e. in office and function as the next words plainly declare and who ought to approach near unto him i. e. as a Priest to offer Sacrifices burne Incense and performe other Sacerdotall Functions And indeed the Lord shew'd it with a vengeance by the dismall destruction of these unhallowed Rebels and so you see how these Rebels here most prophanely pervert and abuse Gods sacred word because all the Congregation were Holy as being separated from all other people by the choice of Almighty God to keep his Commandements and Ordinances therefore by this aequivocating tricke and shift they would have set up this whole Congregation to stand in competition with Aaron for the Priestly office and so have thrust him out of that eminent place in the Church to which God had called him And by another Religious tricke not unlike this they give an heave at Moses their Prince and Governour for the Lord was amongst them therefore there must be no Moses pretending here the honour and glory of God for therein lies the force of their argument The Lord was amongst them by day in a cloud by night in a pillar of fire and at other times in glorious appearances upon speciall occasions and therefore it was a derogation from the honour of Almighty God that such an inferiour as Moses should take upon him and exercise authority when the King of Heaven and Earth was present and here most impudently they abuse God's honour to cover their unworthy and base practises for they could not be ignorant that God himselfe had imposed this office of Government and Superioritie upon Moses and that with great reluctancy on his part and had seene it confirm'd to him by many signes miracles and wonders In AEgypt at the red Sea and in the Wildernesse usque ad stuporem naturae and what though God were present amongst them as he is every where and can command the whole world solo Nutu yet 't is very well knowne that it seemed good to the wisedome of Almighty God to governe this inferiour world by second causes so that as he disposes and orders the vegetative Natures as Herbes and Plants and other Fruits of the Earth by the notions and influences of the Heavens and Elements and the animall or sensible creatures by the power and wisedome of man so he orders and governes Humane Societies by Kings and Princes whom he cals Nutritios and therfore it being God's Ordinance and pleasure it could be no derogation from his honour or glory that Moses was lifted up above the Congregation of the Lord for had it beene praejudiciall to his honour the wisedome of God could have disposed otherwise of the Government of this world but yet Religion and God's honour were glorious shewes to dazle the peoples eyes that they might not pierce into the depth of their ambitious designes and therefore they cryed out All the Congregation are holy and the Lord is among them and so no Moses no Aaron And see here the corrupt nature of Rebellion There is nothing so Holy nothing so Sacred nothing so Pure but 't is prophaned polluted and defil'd by her abminations Religion that sacred bond tying God and man together is made an instrument by Rebellion to undoe all Humane Societies and the fairest vertue in mans soule is made a Maske to hide the deformities of the foulest Sin When ambition swells or discontent breakes out or fury rages then Religion must be used as decayed faces doe Fucus and Cerus for the basest offices to cozen and delude the world And those who before like the unjust Judge Neither feared God nor regarded man can now fawne upon those whom before in their pride they scorn'd and to advance their owne ambitious ends force themselves against their owne nature and disposition to seeme Religious Nay and make shift to wrap out a place of Scripture too as the Devill did to our Saviour but most miserably wrested and abus'd to serve their owne lusts as we must obey God rather than man Whatsoever this or that particular man or this or that particular Congregation shall conceive and interpret to be the Word of God though this Conception and Interpretation be against the authoriz'd doctrine and discipline of the present Church and the Consent and Practise of the ancient and Primitive Church yet this must be obeyed as the Word of God and that too with rising up and rebelling against their Soveraigne contrary to the expresse Word of God himselfe but let them take heed they doe not venture too far least they be numbred in the list of that unlearned and unstable company of whose doome S. Peter speakes that wrest Saint Pauls Epistles as they doe also the other Scriptures unto their owne destruction The Practice of these Rebells here shew this devilish device to be a great deale more ancient then S. Peters time for they could produce a place of Scripture and Gods honour too for the maintaining of their Rebellious actions when ambition was the true Cause and Ground of their Rebellion And that 's the 7th Part. Korah was ambitious of the highest place in the Church Dathan and Abiram in the State and therefore they were gather'd together Korah it seemes in place eminency was next to Aaron and his sons as being Prince and head of the Kohathides whose office was to beare the Sanctuary a charge of greatest Honour and Note among the Levites so that he could not endure to see his Cousin Aaron enter into the glorious Sanctuary whil'st he stood without or that Aaron and his sonnes should cover the Sanctuary and all the Vessells thereof and he must not so much as see when the holy things were cover'd or touch any holy thing lest he dye this was that discontented him and therefore his aime was against Aaron Dathan and Abiram were Princes and Heads of the Rubenites who came of the Elder-house even of Ruben the eldest son of Iacob they could not endure to be over-topt by the yonger-house by Moses Aaron that descended from Levi the younger sonne of Iacob this was that they stomack't and therefore though their chiefe aime was against Moses yet perhaps Aaron's eminency was an eye-sore to them they could not endure to see the Miter and the Scepter in the younger-house and therefore they are gather'd together against Moses and Aaron And indeed all the world may perceive and so might this whole Congregation too had not they beene most miserably blinded and besotted by the weaknesse and sillinesse of these mens Reasons that their owne ambitious hopes and not the peoples Good was their maine drift and end for can any man with reason thinke or imagine that all the Congregation should have beene Aaron's and Priests because they were all Holy or that they should all have bin Governours Princes and Rulers and do what they lift because the Lord was amongst them This were a mad conceit to