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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
honour_n	build_v	house_n	moses_n	1,832	5	9.9525	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A57132	The brand pluck'd out of the fire a sermon preached before the lord major, aldermen, and companies of London on Novemb. 5 at Pauls by Edward Reynolds.	Reynolds, Edward, 1599-1676.	1659 (1659)	Wing R1240; ESTC R32283	17,217	44

gift of the Righteousness of Christ bestowed upon us The next foundation of this Victory is Joshua's past deliverance Is not this a brand pluckt out of the fire Whence we learn 1. That Past-Mercies are pledges of more The work of God is perfect especially his work of Mercy Deut. 32. 4. If he snatch out of the fire he will bring unto his Temple If he lay a foundation he will bring forth the Head stone Zach. 4. 9. He will perfect that which he hath wrought If he begin a good work he will finish it Psal. 138. 8. Phil. 1. 6. He who will not have us be weary of wel-doing wil not be weary of wel-doing himselfe His mercy is from everlasting to everlasting upon those that that fear him Psalme 103. 17. Satan can no more hinder the continuance of it unto Eternity then he can cause it not to have beene from Eternity 2. No condition is so sad or desperate out of which the Lord cannot rescue his people He carries them through the fire Zach. 13. 9. he preserves them in the fire Dan. 3. 25 27. He brings them through fire and water into a wealthy place Psalme 66. 12. And this he doth suddenly in the very nick of danger In the Mount will the Lord be seen Gen. 22. 14. and hastily laying merciful hold on us while we linger Gen. 19. 16. He repenteth concerning his servants when he seeth that their power is gone Deut. 32. 36. and when they are as very out-casts whom no man looketh after Jerem. 30. 17. In our greatest perplexities and feares if we could glorifie God by believing and stand still without sinful doubts disquiet murmurings and diverting unto sinister and perverse meanes carnal Sanctuaries and a refuge of lies we might comfortably expect to see the salvation of God 3. This Brand God will not only save but Honour turn it into timber to build his house withal When the Lord rescueth a Great and a Good man out of great troubles and temptations which were ready to consume him usually he maketh him an Instrument of great and special service Moses drawn out of the water Joseph out of prison Daniel out of the Lions den David from a world of persecutions and dangers Mordecai out of the pit of Hamans malice and here Joshua out of the furnace of Babylon and all afterwards eminent Instruments of great and honourable services for the Church of God This is a worthy fruit of afflictions when they season and prepare us to be beames in Gods House As the greatest Timber hath the most seasoning Luther was wont to say That Prayer Meditation and Temptation are excellent preparations for the Ministry 4. God can use weak improbable despised Instruments unto great and excellent works He that could make one Loafe of bread enough to feed thousands can make one Brand Timber enough to build Temples He that drew the Prophet out of a pit with rotten ragges can erect a glorious Temple out of the dust with burnt fire-brands He blew downe the Walls of Jerico with Rams hornes discomfited an huge Host of Midianites with a few broken pitchers converted the world with twelve fisher-men and chooseth the weak and base and foolish things things which are not to bring to nought things that are 1 Corinth 1. 27 29. He hath more regard to the lowlinesse of those that are weak then to the abilities of those that are proud To teach us not to despise Truth or Comfort or any mercy by what hand soever brought unto us no more then the Prophet did his meat when God sent it unto him by Ravens 1 Reg. 17. 5. God hath purposely put rich treasure in earthen vessels that the excellency of his power might the more shine forth in the infirmity of his Instruments That no flesh might glory in his sight And now as on this day hath this Scripture been exactly parallel'd in this Nation in the glorious deliverance we now celebrate Joshua his work was to build a Temple Satans to hinder and oppose it He is an Enemie to all such Building but that which Tertullian calls Edificatio ad ruinam He is all for pulling downe Work And are not Religion and Lawes the best part of a structure the foundation Are not Princes Peers Nobles Fathers of their Countrey choise Stones in a building Demosthenes tells us {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} That men were Towers and Cities and not Walls doth not the Apostle say of the Church ye are Gods Building 1 Cor. 3. 9. Of this Temple it was that these wicked men said Raze it Raze it to the very ground down with it down with it into ashes up with it up with it into fire They would have turned things up-side down Isa. 29. 16. downe with Laws u● with Confusion down with Jerusalem up with Babylon down with the Arke up with 〈◊〉 down with Religion up with Superstition make Princes and Peeres and Gentry and Ministry the flowre of a Nation who were wont to be like polished Saphires very fire-brands blacker then a coale Lam. 4. 7 8. Tell me whether any but heads and hearts filled with the Devil could ever have invented or executed so bloody a designe King and Parliament Peeres and People were standing before the Lord for God standeth in the Congregation of the mighty he judgeth among the Gods Psalme 82. 1. And Satan will be thrusting in to withstand them No place so sacred whether he will not intrude He crawles into Paradise we finde him standing before the Lord amongst all the Hoste of Heaven in the midst of an Angelical consessus 1 Reg. 22. 19 21. But he can do no good at the hand to hinder that from working he cannot introduce superstition and ignorance at that doore He tries therefore what he can do under the feet He croucheth he digges through a wall he springs a mine and gets a den findes out an hell from whence to murther the innocent Psalme 10. 8 9 10. And this not to resist or accuse onely but utterly to destroy to turne head and hand and feet and the whole body into very fire-brands And he hath been at this work once and againe This was not the first time he had been resisting or rebuked He tryed by water in that invincible Armado in 88. And now by fire more terrible then that of Babylon which would not have left so much as a Brand remaining which in the twinkling of an eye would have done more mischief then threescore and ten years captivity in Babylon But God be blessed we were not as a Brand in this fire but as Moses his Bush not consumed as the three children not so much as singed by it That out of this fire not a few Brands but many goodly Cedars and the Vine the weakest of trees the poore Church of Christ amongst us were not plucked but preserved from it Gods mercy preventing Satans malice and making their own tongue to fall upon themselves and by that