Selected quad for the lemma: glory_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
glory_n	exceed_v	glorious_a	ministration_n	2,427	5	13.0061	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A36970	Ecclesia Anglicana, or, Dartons cleare & Protestant manifesto as an evangelicall key sent to the governour of Oxford for the opening of the church dores there, that are shut up without prayers or preaching.	Darton, Nicholas, 1603-1649?	1649 (1649)	Wing D272; ESTC R10084	10,836	15

ECCLESIA ANGLICANA OR DARTONS Cleare Protestant Manifesto AS AN Evangelicall Key sent to the Governour of OXFORD for the opening of the Church Dores there that are shut up without Prayers or Preaching Open me the Gates of righteousnesse that I may goe into them and give thanks unto the Lord. Psal 118. 19. Liftup your heads O yee gates and be yee lifted up yee everlasting dores and the King of glory shall come in Psal 24. 7. It is written my house shall be called the house of prayer but yee have made it a Den of theeves Mat. 21. 13. Printed in the Yeare 〈◊〉 ECCLESIA ANGLICANA Or Dartons Cleare Protestant Manifesto SIR ANtipater King of Macedon being presented with a Treatise of happinesse and that most sublime and for his contemplation answered the Philosopher the composer of so sweet a pandect notwithstanding the superexcellency and rarity of such a transcendentall Systeme Ego non sumotiousus I am not at leasure c. And truly Sir I read of Felix as bad or worse and therefore merited the most hideous and dismall character of a most extreame unhappy man that he did most incomparably dishonour the glory of that his place and function when after that S. Paul had made his heart to tremble with his Gospell-Logfek yet to doe the Jews a pleasure would needs leave him bound Act. 24. 27. Application Sr I shal make none at present Act. 24. 27. For if the innumerabilitie of your warlike actions and your exceedingly preoccupated time and leasure be so extraordinarily preingaged with necessitated militaries as that they cannot Necessitated Militaries seasonably admit of a little view upon so small a tender I shall sorrowingly doome these my paper overtures which indeed ate but a naked prologue or an innocent and a conscientious Apologie for the sincere preaching of the pure word of happinesse to be a very Apocrypha with your more Vera predicatio ve●b● verè venetanda Bern. then serioas negotiations and my selfe a nothing However Sir leave not Paul bound Oh let not your unusuall power to that scare Christs holy ambassadours into an unwilling slothfulnesse and like wether beaten Marriners enforce them to run aground the now wrack't and torne Constantine of all their indefatigable studies upon the barren sands of most hatefull and contemptible silence when rather with a promised sun-shine most radlantly beaming forth from You have accounted many to be dumb doggss heretofore and will you not suffer them in promised times of libertie to bark now your new enlightned Zodiack libertie of conscience in Gods service being a kinde of an Elisium here in your judgement they should launch out into religions deep for the discoveries of Gods wonders there Truly Sr the Temple dores of the perishing Law were alwaies open upon Gods holy Sabboths and shall the Gospelo gates in these illuminated daies of yours be secured and shur up with a seeming Evangelicall Percullis and the preaching sword Certainly Sr Peters faith Sir is far more considerable and of a greater unproportionable value and consequence then Aarons holiest of holies the dispensation of the Gospell then the promulgation of the Law Now Sir if that the Temple of the Jews which indeed was but a meere type and shadow Templum apertum Evāgelium oper●ū absit S. Peters church dores shut up in Oxfard and S. Thomas without a preachrr as I conceive of our Gospelline Protestant Church and which is as we usually say in the West namely at her sun-set and gon I say if that this Temple was free and open for and to all religions sacrificers shall S. Peters Church in the East and S. Thomas in the West be irreligiously barracaded and lock-up from Christs painefull GosPellers Oh remember Sir that most holy expression of the most holy spirit in this very case provided to wit The Ministration 2. Cor. 3. 7. 8. of the Gospell must exceed in glory now sith the ministration of the Law was most glorious then And againe Sir t is most infallibly true and beyond all contradiction that should some most holy and most piously minded men who in my conscience rather then they wil turne Apostates and for sweare themselues will indure were it possible Reliquerunt domicilia hereditamenta omnia sibimetipsis tantum modo conservaverunt conscientias a thousand deaths for their conscience sake I say should such most orthodoxe and most profound Divines be coercivelie tongue-tyed and unchristianly constrained in this age of pretended liberty to lye irreligiously kenneld up amongst the most abhominable litters of our unpreaching dumb dogs and S. Pauls most holy obedientialls and S. Peters most holy supreame subjection two speciall garlands of the Gospel's peace would consumption themselves into a meere Anatomy and that rare gift and grace of God so much spoken of Obedientia through the whole * scriptu●es and beyond all the sacrifices of our actings and pretentions would dwindle away and bee cleane forgotten Many Sir I confesse of our owne cloth and calling and more too than a good number doe preach t is true and that out of season as well as in but what doe they preach Is it Christ and him crucified Is it the Gospels golden rule qua mensura quo judicio Mat. 7. 2. With what judgement you judge you shall be judged and with what measure you mete it shall be measured to you againe Doe they preach that Or Patria amissa laribusque vagari mendicum tinnida voce rogare cibos c. Cum ●a iter are suis conjuge moestâ cumque piâ ma●e cumque ●arente sene B Prideaux D. helden D. Ha●mond D. Heywood rare men with hundreds more outted for I know not what doe they presse this home unto the erroneous conscience and apply this oh this sacred cataplasme unto the poore and weak and extreamly wounded soule Oh Sir they dare not so much as once harp upon that dissonant that eare-tingling and con●ounding string to them seeing with Ahab they have taken possession and Naboth is dead and gone I meane their unperjur'd and incomparably learned Betters either dead or as bad or worse that is to say in plaine English Dispossest and out of dores a begging No no Sir their preaching I meane the aspiring labours of some of our Diotrepheses and as you clearely ken already is to preach themselves into power and government into an authoritie I dare be bold were but Ecclesiasticall Iurisdiction their desired freehold that hath an intended capacitie not only to correct the scepter were it in Cesars hand but to cramp the souldier too in his greatest victories though of late yeares t is confest the huge and unlimited bug-beare as they said of prelaricall jurisdiction was the only tyrant that they seemingly covenanted against whereas a little before with their most learned and then authorized several Diocesans they swore directly I would entreat such liberall swearers to read Z ch 5. 3.