Selected quad for the lemma: honour_n

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
A64622	A body of divinitie, or, The summe and substance of Christian religion catechistically propounded, and explained, by way of question and answer : methodically and familiarly handled / composed long since by James Vsher B. of Armagh, and at the earnest desires of divers godly Christians now printed and published ; whereunto is adjoyned a tract, intituled Immanvel, or, The mystery of the incarnation of the Son of God heretofore writen [sic] and published by the same authour.; Body of divinity	Ussher, James, 1581-1656.; Downame, John, d. 1652.	1645 (1645)	Wing U151; ESTC R19025	516,207	504

above and his Israel lying here below are conjoyned together and the onely ladder vvhereby Heaven may bee scaled by us is the Son of man the type of whose flesh the veile vvas therefore commanded to bee made vvith Cherubims to shevv that wee come to an innumerable company of Angels when wee come to Jesus the Mediatour of the New Testament who as the Head of the Church hath power to send forth all those ministring spirits to minister for them who shall bee Heirs of salvation Lastly wee are to take into our consideration that as in things concerning God the main execution of our Saviours Priesthood doth consist so in things concerning man hee exerciseth both his Propheticall Office whereby hee openeth the will of his Father unto us and his Kingly whereby hee ruleth and protecteth us It was indeed a part of the Priests office in the Old Testament to instruct the people in the Law of God and yet were they distinguished from Prophets like as in the New Testament also Prophets as well as Apostles are made a different degree from ordinary Pastours and Teachers who received not their doctrine by immediate inspiration from Heaven as those other Holy men of God did who spake as they were moved by the holy Ghost Whence S. Paul putteth the Hebrews in minde that God who in sundry parts and in sundry manners spake in time past unto the Fathers by the Prophets hath in these last dayes spoken unto us by his Son Christ Jesus whom therefore hee stileth the Apostle as vvell as the High Priest of our profession who was faithfull to him that appointed him even as Moses was in all his house Now Moses wee know had a singular preheminence above all the rest of the Prophets according to that ample testimony which God himself giveth of him If there bee a Prophet among you I the Lord will make my self known unto him in a vision and will speak unto him in a dream My servant Moses is not so who is faithfull in all mine house with him will I speak mouth to mouth even aparently and not in dark speeches and the similitude of the Lord shall he behold And therefore wee finde that our Mediatour in the execution of his Propheticall office is in a more peculiar manner likened unto Moses which hee himself also did thus foretell The Lord thy God will raise up unto thee a Prophet from the midst of thee of thy Brethren like unto mee unto him yee shall hearken According to all that thou desiredst of the Lord thy God in Horeb in the day of the assembly saying Let mee not heare again the voyce of the Lord my God neither let mee see this great fire any more that I dye not And the Lord said unto mee They have well spoken that which they have spoken I will raise them up a Prophet from among their brethren like unto thee and will put my words in his mouth and hee shall speak unto them all that I shall command him And it shall come to passe that whosoever will not hearken unto my words which hee shall speak in my Name I will require it of him Our Prophet therefore must bee a Man raised from among his Brethren the Israelites of whom as concerning the flesh hee came who was to perform unto us that which the Fathers requested of Moses Speak thou to us and wee will heare but let not God speak with us lest wee die And yet that in this also wee may see how our Mediatour had the preheminence when Aaron and all the children of Israel were to receive from the mouth of Moses all that the Lord had spoken with him in Mount Sinai they were afraid to come nigh him by reason of the glory of his shining countenance so that hee was fain to put a vaile over his face while hee spake unto them that which hee was commanded But that which for a time was thus made glorious had no glory in respect of the glory that excelleth and both the glory thereof and the vaile which covered it are now abolished in Christ the vaile of whose flesh doth so overshadow the brightnesse of his glory that yet under it wee may behold his glory as the glory of the onely begotten of the Father yea and wee all with open face beholding as in a glasse the glory of the Lord are changed into the same Image from glory to glory even as by the Spirit of the Lord. And this is daily effected by the power of the Ministery of the Gospel instituted by the authority and seconded by the power of this our great Prophet whose transcendent excellency beyond Moses unto whom in the execution of that function hee was otherwise likened is thus set forth by the Apostle Hee is counted worthy of more glory then Moses in as much as hee who hath builded the house hath more honour then the house For every house is builded by some one but hee that built all things is God And Moses verily was faithfull in all his house as a servant for a testimony of those things which were to bee spoken after but Christ as the Son over his own house This house of God is no other then the Church of the living God whereof as hee is the onely Lord so is hee also properly the onely Builder Christ therefore being both the Lord and the Builder of his Church must bee God as well as Man which is the cause why wee finde all the severall mansions of this great house to carry the title indifferently of the Churches of God and the Churches of Christ. True it is that there are other ministeriall builders whom Christ employeth in that service this being not the least of those gifts which hee bestowed upon men at his Triumphant Ascension into Heaven that hee gave not onely ordinary Pastours and Teachers but Apostles likewise and Prophets and Evangelists for the perfecting of the Saints for the Work of the Ministery for the edifying of the body of Christ. Which what great power it required hee himself doth fully expresse in passing the graunt of this high Commission unto his Apostles All power is given unto mee in Heaven and in Earth Goe yee therefore and teach all Nations baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you and lo I am with you alway even unto the end of the World Amen S. Paul professeth of himself that hee laboured more abundantly then all the rest of the Apostles yet not I saith hee but the grace of God which was with mee And therefore although according to that grace of God which was given unto him hee denyeth not but that as a wise Master-builder hee had laid the foundation yet hee acknowledgeth that they upon whom hee had