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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

a common use of this precise policy that it grew into a Proverbe In Nomine Domini incipit omne malum God knowes how long it will last I am sure it begun betimes for these Rebells here could make use of this Vermilion to colour their foule facts and prophanely insert the Name of the Lord to set a faire glosse upon their adulterate Wares and therefore they cry Super Congregationem Domini But here by the way you may discerne a grosse error in their mannaging of this part of their Rebellion for here they fall too bluntly upon the businesse and oppose themselves too broad and directly against Moses and Aaron they carried it with better sleight and more art In the 14 ch. there they used some circuition winding about to get advantages before they came to this maine on-set there they fell first upon some of Moses his servants as Ioshuah the sonne of Nun and Caleb the sonne of Iephunneh who had done Moses and the State good service by their fidelitie and faithfulnesse in their publique employment for the common good Those they sought by Calumny clamorous Accusations and Forgeries of the number and strength of their enemies and barrennesse of the Land to disgrace and ruine I utterly to put them to death for all the Congregation bad stone them with stones vers. 10. Here had they gone so to worke and begun with Caleb and Ioshuah and if Moses for his honours-sake or publique safetie should refuse to sacrifice those Loyallists to God and their Countrey then they might with a more plausible colour of manners have gather'd themselves together for the dis-placing of those supposed disturbers of the publique peace and for the judgement and censure of those pretended Delinquents against their Countrey who by evill counsells sought to bring both their Prince Moses and themselves his people upon a most barren Land and a most dreadfull and invincible enemy And thus by degrees they might have proceeded till they had had a fairer way to a Nimium arrogatis and a Quare ele vamini Now eò incipiunt quo incredibile est pervenisse They begin at that height of wickednesse to which it is almost incredible that any subject should ever ascend or aime at In this particular sure they are much over-seene but yet Fortem animum praestant rebus qua● turpiter audem They set a good face upon their foule enterprises would make the world believe they have good grounds and reasons for what they doe and so I come to the 6th part Gravaminum ratio the pretended grounds or reasons for these their grievances All the Congregation is Holy every one of them and the Lord is among them All the Congregation is Holy every one of them and therfore no Aaron c. No High-priest and here they maske their hellish purposes under the sacred vaile of Religion drawing an absurd consequence that there must be no chiefe Priest from a wilfully misconceived interpretation of Gods owne word because all the Congregation was Holy for the better understanding answering and considering of this their sophisticall argumentation we must know what holinessee is as it relates unto the Creature and of this the Holy-Ghost gives us a full description Omne consecratum sanctum sanctorum Domino The Old Bible renders it thus Every thing separate from the common use is most Holy to the Lord whatsoever is separate either by the institution of Almighty God or the vow and free Dedication of man from the common use of men in secular and worldly imployments for the service and honour of Almighty God is term'd in Gods owne phrase Holy unto the Lord and therefore as you may read in the same Chapter if a man did dedicate an house or a piece of ground or a field separating the propriety and use of it from the rest of his temporall estates unto the use and service of Almighty God it is there called and accounted as a thing Holy unto the Lord also the tithe or tenth both of the seed of the ground and of the fruit of the trees and the younglings of the cattell after it was separated from the nine parts which might be applyed to common use for the maintenance of the owners was called Holy unto the Lord and the Sabbath day because it was separated from the other six dayes wherein men might labour and doe all that they had to doe this being set apart for the service of Almighty God therefore it was called Holy unto the Lord and the whole Congregation of the children of Israel because they were separated from the Gentiles to keep those Lawes Precepts and Ordinances which God hath appointed for them whereas hee suffer'd other Nations to be defiled with their own vaine imaginations therefore the whole Congregation are called an Holy people to the Lord and this seems to be that part or portion of Gods word which these Rebels here use or rather abuse for the inducement and bringing in of a puritie into the Church of God and as a reason why Aaron should not be lifted up above the Congregation of the Lord But here they use a palpable equivocation in the word Holinesse for in regard that Holinesse is a separation of a person or thing from common use to and for the service of Almighty God in regard of severall services of and to Almighty God there are severall and distinct kinds of Holinesse as in respect of persons there is sanctitas Conversationis sancritas Functionis of Conversationis when men are separated from the vanities of this wicked world as the lust of the flesh the lust of the eyes the pride of life devoutly dedicated to the obedience and observance of Gods holy will and Commandements and then there is sanctitas functionis when certaine men are separated by divine institution from the rest of the Congregation to wait and attend Gods service and to officiate at his Altars in the Priestly function Now though it be granted that all this Congregation were holy the first way as well as Aaron i. e. separated from all other people by the gracious choice of Almighty God to serve him in their lives and conversations by obedience to those Lawes Commandements and Ordinances which God had appointed for them yet they were not Holy by way of Function and office as well as Aaron i. e. separated and set apart by the call and election of Almighty God to officiate at his Altars and to Minister before God in the Priestly office for thus Aaron and his sons alone were Holy as being but a little while before set apart for the Priestly office by the vocation of Almighty God himselfe and consecrated by Moses to that Holy Function in the view of the whole Congregation as is plaine to be seen And therefore in the fift vers of this Chap. Moses told Korah and all his company saying To morrow the Lord will shew