Selected quad for the lemma: glory_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
glory_n	cloud_n	lord_n	tabernacle_n	2,365	5	10.9748	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A45545	The choicest fruit of peace gathered from the tree of life presented to the Right Honourable the House of Peers, in a sermon preached before them at the Abbey church of Westminster, on April 30, 1660, being the day of their solemn humiliation / by Nath. Hardy ...	Hardy, Nathaniel, 1618-1670.	1660 (1660)	Wing H713; ESTC R17334	18,790	38

Die Martis 1. Maii. 1660. ORdered by the Lords in Parliament Assembled That M. Nathaniel Hardy is hereby desired to print and publish the Sermon that he preached the 30. of April 1660. in the Abbey Church Westminster before the Lords of Parliament for which he hath their Lordships thanks and that no person shall presume to reprint or publish the said Sermon without his privity and approbation Jo. Browne Cleric Parliamentorum THE CHOICEST FRUIT OF PEACE Gathered from the TREE of LIFE Presented to the Right Honourable The HOUSE of PEERS IN A SERMON Preached before them at the Abbey Church of Westminster on April 30. 1660. being the day of their Solemn Humiliation By NATH. HARDY Preacher to the Parish of S. Dionys. Back-Church Isaiah 4. 5. 6. And the Lord will create upon every dwelling-place of mount Zion and upon her assemblies a cloud and a smoak by day and a shining of a fire by night for upon all the glory shall be a defence And there shall be a Tabernacle for a shadow in the day time from the heat and for a place of refuge and for a covert from storm and from rain LONDON Printed by A. M. for Joseph Cranford at the Castle and Lion in S. Pauls Church-yard 1660. TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE THE House of PEERS My Lords SHort warning is some Apology for slender Performance however what I cannot further fairly excuse I hope your goodnesse will freely pardon It was enough you were pleased to put your ears to the penance of hearing but much you should put your eyes to the expence of patience in reading this unpolished Discourse Such as it is in obedience to your Honours command I humbly tender to your acceptance The great hopes which divine providence hath given us of an happy settlement by your Free Convention prompted my thoughts to this Subject and it fell out very sutably that after my Reverend Brother had minded you of the duty of humbling your selves the comfortable Message of Peace should be presented to you The day of your Fast was according to Ecclesiasticall denomination the Eve of a Feast and that a Conjunction of those two Apostles of Christ Philip and James and blessed be our gracious God it was the eve of a day truly festivall upon a civill account on which that knot between his Majesty and his people began to be tyed which I trust shall neither be untyed by subtlety nor cut asunder by violence From this May-day we promise our selves through Gods mercy a pleasant Spring yea a joyful Summer of prosperity after a cold Winter of tribulation especially since we finde it seconded with another day of a free and full publique and peaceable Proclamation of our Soveraign Lord King Charles his undoubted Right to these Realms of which he hath so long no lesse unjustly in respect of him than unhappily in respect of us been deprived a day wherein the fruit of almost all mens lips was that joyfull acclamation and hearty supplication God save the King And now My Lords be pleased to go on resolutely unanimously in finishing this blessed work Be zealous for the glory of God the honor of his Majesty the prosperity of the Church and tranquillity of the kingdom so shall you be dearly beloved of God and highly honoured of men Commending your pious and loyall endeavours to the blessing and your noble Persons to the grace of God I take leave subscribing my self Your Honours most humble Servant NATH. HARDY THE CHOICEST FRVIT Isaiah 57. Part of the 19. verse I create the fruit of the lips peace peace to him that is far off and to him that is near saith the Lord THis day is a time of Humiliation and this Text a word of Consolation That for which we are this day to be especially humbled is the sin and misery of our former Warre That which this Text comfortably assureth is the blessing of a future peace This day is not only a day of humiliation but supplication of tears but prayers and this Text teacheth us what should be our principall Petition namely Peace Peace Finally I am this day in a peculiar manner to addresse my self to you Right Honourable who are all of you Proceres Regni Peers of the Realm and some of you have been and in Gods good time may be again Comites Regis Attendants on a King and this Text is the saying of him who is King of Kings and Lord of Lords Well may the greatest Lords be Auditors when the Lord Jehovah is the Speaker I create the fruit of the lips peace peace to him that is afar off and to him that is near saith the Lord In the discussion of this Scripture I shall briefly touch upon the Author mentioned in those words saith the Lord and chiefly insist upon the matter in the rest of the verse 1. This phrase and form of speech saith the Lord is frequently used by all the Prophets sometimes with additions the Lord God the Lord of hosts the Lord thy Redeemer sometimes with variation saith the high and lofty One saith my God the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it and thus sometimes in the beginning sometimes in the middle sometimes in the close of their Prophecies nay once we finde the beginning the middle and the end of one verse to be Thus saith the Lord of hosts If you shall ask Why the Prophets were so bold as to affix Gods Name to their Messages The Answer is easily returned Because they received their message immediatly as it were from Gods mouth The Hebrew word which we reade report properly signifieth hearing to intimate that what the Prophet reported to the people was no other then what he first heard from God with which accords that of the Apostle Paul I have received of the Lord that which I delivered unto you When an ambassadour delivereth nothing but what the King himself hath given him in charge he may truly say Thus saith the King well then might the Prophets use this form Thus saith the Lord whenas their Predictions are no other then divine Revelations Indeed there were then many false Prophets of whom God himself saith They prophesie lies in my Name I sent them not neither have I commanded them neither spake I unto them But this hinders not why the true Prophets should make use of Gods Name in delivering their messages As for us who are not extraordinary Prophets but ordinary Pastors and therefore lay no claim to immediate Revelations we do not dare not attribute any such authority to our discourses any further then they manifestly agree with and are clearly grounded upon the holy Scriptures and accordingly we desire you to prove our sayings and only so far to approve them as they are concordant with the Propheticall and Apostolicall Writings But withall inasmuch as we are duely called to the office of preaching Gods Word to the people and so long as it is no other then his word which we preach