Selected quad for the lemma: glory_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
glory_n	face_n	moses_n	shine_v	2,681	5	9.0852	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A90132	An ould ship called an exhortation to continue all subjects in their due obedience, or the reward of a faithfull subject to his prince. To the bishops and clergy. To the true nobility. To the civil magistrate. To the true and faithfull subject. What a faithfull subject is? The discription of loyalty. / New riged by a well-wisher, to his prince and countrie, never more need to be set forth to sea, then in these distracted times.		1648 (1648)	Wing O216; Thomason E422_29; ESTC R16076	7,485	16

AN OULD SHIP CALLED AN EXHORTATION To continue all Subjects in their due Obedience or the reward of a faithfull Subject to his Prince To the Bishops and Clergy To the true Nobility To the Civi●l Magist●a●e To the true and faithfull Subject What a faithfull Subject is The discription of Loyalty New Riged by a Well-wisher to his Prince and Countrie never more need to be set forth to Sea then in these distracted times Behold your King THE I LE OF WAIT Printed in the Yeare 1648 To the Reverend Bishops and Clergie FOr asmuch as your Eclesiasticall office is given you from God as the next Principall members under the head to governe the Common wealth of this misticall bodie And that their is required at your hands an Extraordinarie dutie touching the Function of the soule Let mee entreat you to be as vigilant as the five wise Virgins having oyle alwaies in your lamps against the Bridegrome comes forth of his Chamber your office is the soul of the Laitie the heart of Government and the very Epitome of all obedience from you as the Moone boroweth her light of the Sunne all inf●riour ministers take their Order of perfection let then your doctrine be pure and stedfast like Moyses Bush that alwayes burned but never Consumed your preaching in Season and out of Season and your Conversation as spotlesse as the sacrifice of ●urtles You best know what plentie of Manna hath rained in Israel and how many omer full every man ought to gather be not any of you the first that gather more then is commanded and in mistrust of Gods benefits in f●ct the whole Land with the vice of Avarice You ought rather to be like Pelicans in the wildernesse who in tender love peck the blood from their Breast to feed their young one you see with your visible eye how wonderfull Almightie God hath alwayes preserved the Kings Majestie from the snares of his manifould Enemies And in you principally lies the sacrifice of thanks giving it is you that ought to daunce before the tabernacle Num 17. 8. v. and to go with the people to the Arke of the Covenant that your righteousnesse may bud like Arons ro● it is you that ought to flie forth from this tossed Arke and like the doue bring the olive branch Gen. 8. 11. of peace in your mouths and tell the p●ople that if they returne God will be their God and send a truce to their distressed soules by you his Ambassadors Fly not to Tharsis when you are sent to Niniveth least devouring destraction attend you nor with the man of God goe not out of the way Least a Lion tare you in peices but still be conversent with the Lord that Exod. 34. 30. your faces may shine with Moses when he came from the mount and bring the Image of Gods glory to the People in your foreheads you must beare with Aron Exod. 38. 3. the brest plate of Judgment upon your hearts there must be graven upon your forefronts holinesse to the E●●d 35. 39 Lord and your sounds must be heard when you goe into the Holy places before him So shall yee stand like Mount Sina never to be removed and your Golden candle stick shine in the Temple of the Lord remember the charge your Mr. Christ gave to his servant Peter binding him three times above all things by his fervent love and the deare affection he bare to his Mr. to feed his sheep to be with Paul the faithfull Ambassadors of Jesus Christ as though God did besech you through us we pray you in Christs-stead 2 Cor. 5. 2. that ye be reconciled to God with Paul likewise to Phil. 3. 14. be an example of life and doctrine as in these words and follow hard toward the marke for the price of the high calling of God in Christ Iesus let us therefore as many as be perfect be thus minded if ye be otherwise God shall reveale even the same unto you Ye are Mat. 15. 13. most Reverent the salt of the earth which wanting savour is to be troden under foot yee are the light of the world a Ci●y that is set on a hill cannot be hid let your light therefore shine that they that see your good workes may glorifie your father which is in Heaven This unworthy to councell so grave advisements as if the body should instruct the soule I only like a traviler in his pilgrimage seeing a King go out of his way tell him there is a better a more perfect and a straighter so referring you to your masters reward who hates a hidden tallent I beseech that God who Exod. 13. 21. guideth Israel by day in a pillar of cloud by night in pillar of fire to direct your earthly bodies and spirituall soules to his service Amen To the true Nobility of this Realm TO yee Right honourable that are the props and supporters of a Kingdom that like Atlas should beare the weight of heaven one your shouldiers give me leave to stretch forth the atires of my heart and as in these tempestious times unite yourselves togeather in peace like one body obedient to one principall head in the worthy member the heart the Monarch seate of our Microcosmos should be your residence within whose center as in a Princes Court are diverse receptailes for you to inhabit in then as branches extending from the lofty Cedar being sed by one root doe notwithstanding cherish one another wi●h their naturall sap so like the true stock of Nobility discended from your worthy ancestors be you combined in a conjunction of unseperable aide that the body of the tree may be comforted in so happy an Issue and in the proudest blast of conspiracy keepe you still unremovable be you like faithfull Mardocheus spotles in your waies when traytors like proud Haman shall perish in their own complo●s For if you please to peruse our Histories both Eclesiasticall and prophane yee shall find that never traitor to his native Prince but had his reward threefold returned into his wicked bosome and though it hath pleased God somtimes to suffer them the cause best known to his sacred pleasure to bring to passe their hatefull purposes yet as a woe pronounced to them by whom such evils come their mischiefe hath not past without great mischiefe reguerdond their is none of your honourable society but knowes that treason is the devider and seperater of all good things and a fatall disjoyner of perfection bringing with it ruin and the mercilesse substitutes of war where one the contrary obedience is the finewes of the State and glewes the hearts of Nobility togeather like one indivisible substance and as the seaven leane ●ine in Pharaohs dreame devoured the seaven far yet themselves not the fatter so stands it with treason like a cormerant it devours all yet is it self the better by nothing What greater paterne of misery can there be then a Kingdom devided in it self