Selected quad for the lemma: honour_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
honour_n	abundant_a	body_n	member_n	1,662	5	10.0159	5	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A17571	The altar of Damascus or the patern of the English hierarchie, and Church policie obtruded upon the Church of Scotland	Calderwood, David, 1575-1650.	1621 (1621)	STC 4352; ESTC S107401	125,085	228

infection of the plague and indeed it renueth the memorie of the Leviticall priesthood which did with-draw himselfe from the people into the place called the holiest place where he talked with God and offered for the sinnes of the people The chauncel distinguished from the body of the Church is their holy place for the Priest and He hath a peculiar dore to this chancell through which none might passe but himselfe saith Borrow For the ch●piters and letanie there is commandement given that they should be read in the body of the Church saith M. Cartwright in his first Reply In his second Reply he saith I am assuredly perswaded that the tenth Church in England hath not all the service said in that place where the whole Church may heare it They will rather stick to the Iewish or popish rites and imitate Masse priests then edifie Gods people For mariage he commeth to the bodie of the Church for Baptisme to that part which is over against the Church-dore and so trudgeth from place to place The Letanie must not bee used but upon Sundaies Wednesdaies and Fridayes except the Ordinarie appoint other dayes the Minister propoundeth things to be prayed for or against the people performe the prayer saying with a lowd voyce Good Lord deliver us we beseech thee to heare us good Lord and this they often repeate And yet one suffrage is put out of the letany which was in it before to wit From the tyrannie of the Bishop of Rome and all his detestable enormities good Lord deliver us They say certaine Psalmes and prayers over the corne and grasse and certaine gospels at crosse-waies saith Barrowe In the service booke the Curate is thus directed anent Homilies After the Creed if there be no Sermon shall follow one of the Homilies alreadie set forth or after to be set forth by common authoritie Who knoweth what is hereafter to be set forth The Survey of the booke of common prayer doth relate that many points of Poperie and Lutheranisme are broached in Court and citie pulpits and yet not called into question as be Doctrines tending to the Reformation of Popish ceremonies Iudg then what corrupt Homilies may be set forth And yet Ministers are urged to subscribe to the book of common prayer notwithstanding of the foresaid Rubrickes It is the office of a Pastor to preach and not to reade Homilies Hee ought to cut and divide the word aright and apply it to particular sores which cannot be done by homilies What was said against Apocripha bookes may be throwne against them The reading of homilies is a cushion for idle or blind Priests to rest upon What say you to the Vicar of W. who upon an holy day in stead of preaching the Word which he could not or reading of homilies which he would not to terrifie his Parishoners with the judgements of God and to move them to repentance solemnly read and published a counterfeit fable out of a little pamphlet intituled Strange newes out of Calabria pretended to be prognosticated by M. Iohn Doleta The parts of the Liturgie which concerne onely certaine persons are ●nens 1. Celebration of matrimonie In the first words uttered to the married persons by the Priest it is said that Matrmonie signifieth unto us the mysticall union which is between Christ and his Church Then againe in a Collect after the conjunction it is said O God which hast c●nsecrated the state of matrmonie to such an excellent mysterie that in it is signified and represented the spirituall marriage and unitie betwixt Christ and his Church Is not this to apply these words Ephes. 5. 32. This is a great Mysterie to the conjunction of man and wife which the Apostle uttereth of Christ and his Church by which interpretation the papists have made mattimonie a Sacrament and the band betwixt the married persons inseparable and not to be dissolved but by death In the first part of their homilie of Swearing Baptisme and Matrimonie are called Sacraments The minister receiving the woman at her fathers or friends hands is to cause the man to take the woman by the right hand and give his troth to the woman Then are they to loose their hands againe and the woman taking the man by the right hand giveth her troth Then shall they againe loose their hands and the man shall give unto the woman a Ring laying the same upon the booke with the accustomed duty to the Priest Clerke And the Priest taking the ring shall deliver it unto the man to put it upon the 4 finger of the womans left hand And the man taught by the priest shall say with 〈…〉 thee wed with my bodie I thee worship 〈…〉 worldly goods I thee 〈…〉 name of the Father Son and H. ghost Then the man leaving the ring upon the fourth finger of the 〈◊〉 left hand the minister shall say set us pray O eternall God c. In the prayer the ring given and received is said to be a token and pledge of the vow and convenant made betwixt them Is there not heere an heap of toyes and yet never one wanteth a signification The ring must be put upon the fourth finger of the left hand because say they there is a nerve which runneth from that finger straight to the heart The ring must be layed on the service booke I know not to what end except it be to sanctifie it in stead of that blessing and sprinckling with holy water which the Popish Priest used as may be seene in the Romane Rituall Then againe what sense can be made of these words with my body I thee worship One of a thousand doth not understand them their P●elats have not explaned them The words of the Apostle Peter 1. Epi. 3. 7. giving honor to the wife as to the weaker vessell doe signifie onely honest care and follicitude and to beare with her infirmities she being the weaker vessell For honor after the Hebrew phrase is largely taken To give honor as to the weaker vessell and to worship her with the body is farr different as the word worship foundeth in our Language The Apostle 1 Cor. 12. 23. saith And those members of the bodie which we thinke to be lesse honourable upon these we bestow more abundant honour that is with greater carefulness we cover then wee doe other members But we are not to worship the members which are lesse honourable The Priest is appointed to say to God in his prayer that the ring is a token pledg of covenant made betwixt them If the ring had beene used onely at the contract as a civill rite it might have been comported with but to bring it into the Church I meane to divine service is either to prophane the same with civill ceremonies or pollute it with Popish and superstitious rites rather as these are For they were counted in time of poperie holy and religious rites of a holy Sacrament The married persons must