Selected quad for the lemma: heaven_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
heaven_n	beast_n	earth_n	fowl_n	2,016	5	9.9276	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A69195	Certaine demandes with their grounds, drawne out of holy writ, and propounded in foro conscientiæ by some religious gentl. vnto the reverend fathers, Richard archbishop of Canterbury, Richard bishop of London, William bishop of Lincolne, Garvase bishop of Worcester, William bishop of Exeter, & Thomas bishop of Peterbourough wherevnto the said gentl. require that it would please their lordships to make a true, plaine, direct, honest and resolute aunswere.	Bancroft, Richard, 1544-1610.	1605 (1605)	STC 6572.5; ESTC S112734	57,418	70

ministeriall garment for the ministers of the Gospell then we demand whether by authoritie of holy Writt he may ordayne and appropriate such a ministeriall garment as in matter forme and specie differeth not from that ministeriall garment which by the high Priest chiefe Prince of idolatry hath bene and still is ordeyned and appropriated to be a necessary priestly garment for his idolatrous Priests in their idoll service And to the end your Lordships may perceave our demands to bee made cōscionably not humorously or novelously we have thought necessary to lay downe and annex certaine principles or canons out of holy Writ whervpon our Demands and reasons are grounded which grounds and reasons also we extend against crossing in Baptisme and Kneeling in the acte of receving the Communion The first ground The graven images of their Gods shall ye burne with fire and covet not the silver and gold that is on them nor take it to thee least thou be snared therewith for it is an abhomination Bring not therefore abhomination into thine house least thou bee accursed like it but vtterly abhorre it and counte it most abhominable for it is accursed There shall cleave nothing of the damned thing to thine hands All they that make any image are vanitie and their delectable things shall nothing profite And shall polute the covering of the images of silver and the riche ornaments of gold and cast them away as a menstruous cloth and thou shalt say vnto it get thee hence Neither be ye idolaters as some of them were Babes keepe your selves from idoles From these grounds of the Law the Prophets and the Gospell wee demand whether your Lordships against these can oppose any other rules of holy Writt to prove that any Christian Magistrate Christian Minister or Christian people may be blamelesse and without fault in foro conscientiae if in the publike and outward worship of God either he shall command or they shall vse any the relickes monuments or memorialls any the delectable vaine and vnprofitable things some times or now apperteyning to the idolatrous sacrifice of that great and knowne idole the Popish Masse For if every commandement of the first Table of the Law be a way and bee a path out of the which no Christian ought to turne a side either to the right hand or to the left but in the which every Christian is bound aswell in the time of the Gospell as every Israelite was bound in the time of the Lawe to walke then not onely that great Idoll of the Popish Masse it selfe sett vp and worshipped in the time of the Gospell but then also all relickes monuments memorialls and delectable things with their accessaries appendices and appurtinances as a menstrous cloth ought to be cast away and to bee bidden get ye hence especially we say in the publike service and worship of the true God For by how much more the glorie of the Sonne who spake from heaven doeth farre excell the honour of a servant which spake on earth by so much the more ought that Idoll that Idolatrie which is set vp and committed in the time of the Gospell be esteemed more vile and detestable then was that Idoll and that Idolatrie set vp and committed in the time of the law The reasons of the prohibition of coveting and of taking any the images their coverings their ornaments their golde and their silver vnder the Law were in number foure Namely First they were an abhomination to the Lord. Then A feare of the peoples being snared Thirdly a threat of being accursed And lastly for that they were vaine and could nothing profite If then that great Idoll of the Popish Masse with all the Copes Vestiments Surplices Crosses Kneelings Candles and other memorialls and delectable things invented for the adorning and pompe thereof be abhominable and accursed in the sight of God bee also vaine and can nothing profit men If also the Magistrate the Ministers and people beleeving the Gospel may be snared and shal be accursed after the maner of the Israelites if so be without warrant from holy Writt they shall vse these things in the worship of God we demand whether from the doctrine of the Law the Prophets and the Gospell we may not conclude thus With whatsoever things either Magistrate Minister or people may be snared and for the vse of whatsoever things they may be accursed those things may not lawfully be commanded or vsed in the publike worship of God But aswell the Magistrate as the Ministers and people may then be snared and shal be accursed with and for the command and vse of Copes Surplices Crosses c. when in the publike worship of God they be commanded and vsed without warrant of his word Therefore Copes Surplices Crosses c. may not be commanded nor vsed in the publike worship of God without warrant of his word If your Lordships denie the assumpt and answere that Copes Surplices Crosses c. commanded and vsed for the adorning and bewtifying of that great Idoll the Masse bee in their owne nature thinges indifferent and none other otherwise can be accursed or be a snare to any Christian Magistrate Minister or people then as they bee imployed to the vse and service of that Idoll and in this regarde their free and liberall vse is no more now forbidden then is the eating of meates sacrificed vnto Idolls and that therefore all feare of being snared and accursed doeth cease because wee have free libertie by the word for the eating of meates sacrificed vnto Idolls then herevnto wee replie that your answere is very vnsufficient and vncertaine and without any strength of reason drawne from holie Writt For though wee grant that nothing is vncleane of it selfe and that we ought not to accompt that polluted which God hath purified neverthelesse we pray your Lordships to resolve vs by holy Writt that God hath by his worde aswell purified Copes Surplices Crosses c. for the outward vse of his publike worship as by his word hee hath purified meates sacrificed vnto idols for the private vse of mans life When Peter had fastened his eyes vpon the sheete let downe from heaven by the foure corners he cōsidered and saw foure footed beasts of the earth and wilde beasts and creeping things and foules of the heaven which were all the good creatures of God and which also in the beginning were created for the foode of man only for a time while Israell was vnder the Schoolmaistership of the Lawe certayne of these creatures were forbidden to be eaten not because they were in their owne nature evill or vncleane but only because they were made vncleane for a time by prohibition And therefore when the fulnesse of time was come and that Christ the ende of the Lawe was rysen from the dead the law of not eating meates forbidden ceased And by letting downe the sheete and commandement given to Peter to slay and to eate Peter was