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
A85551	Truths victory against heresie; all sorts comprehended under these ten mentioned: 1. Papists, 2. Familists, 3. Arrians, 4. Arminians, 5. Anabaptists, 6. Separatists, 7. Antinomists, 8. Monarchists. 9. Millenarists, 10. Independents. As also a description of the truth, the Church of Christ, her present suffering estate for a short time yet to come; and the glory that followeth at the generall resurrection. / By I.G. a faithfull lover and obeyer of the truth. Imprimatur, John Downame.	Graunt, John, of Bucklersbury.	1645 (1645)	Wing G1597; Thomason E277_7; ESTC R200005	70,586	79

is true Moses is said to be faithfull to make and do every thing according to the plat-form and pattern which he saw that was shewed him in the Mount and his work was to make a temporall resemblance of the eternall Tabernacle which in a vision was shewed him and therefore he made the Tabernacle or moving Temple and every particular that concerned the materiall things both for substance and circumstance which were all figures and shadowes of that to come and will you make that to come the Apostle speaks of outward materiall externall things and circumstances and the Church of Christ under the Gospel answerable in outward materiall externall things and circumstances prescribed to the Jewes by the Law of Moses then you must have a word for the form and matter of Churches or houses of meeting a word to direct us who and how shall be Ministers who for what sort of men and how they shal be ordained and a word for the bels for calling the congregation together a word for the Ministers actions in the administration of all holy services a rule for dismissing the assembly with a blessing a word for childrens baptisme as for circumcision a word for the time matter of the Lords Supper as which of all grapes for wine and which of all grains for bread and for the manner and gesture for communication as for the Passeover and the severall other circumstances about Gods publike worship which Moses by a plain word prescribed to the people Now if Christ by himself or his Apostles have left no such particular word or direction for the externall manner of his Churches publique services and order as before are exprest then by your argument Christ the Lord is not so faithfull as Moses the servant which is blasphemy in any one so to speak Wherefore it appeares plainly you do not understand the Apostles meaning And that you may consider the Text look again and it will teach you which saith this man was counted worthy of more glory then Moses in as much as he who hath builded the house hath more honour then the house and again Christ is faithfull as a son over his own house to purchase and redeem to call to make to blesse to sanctifie and save it eternally and this spirituall house this heavenly Tabernacle is that which the Apostle proves Christ to exceed Moses in even in the substance it self which all Moses work did but witnesse to and figure forth and therefore the Apostle makes the Sons house to be the Saints the called and justified of God whose house are wee c. that is all Gods elect regenerated ones wherefore as the Holy Ghost saith To day saith he if you will hear his voyce harden not your hearts that is repent that your sins may be done away this is Christs way and method to build his House his Church to make them spirituall by regeneration and of these spirituall sons to build his everlasting Tabernacle and thus Christ the Lord the Son the great Master-builder is the high Priest and Minister of the holy sanctuary the true Tabernacle which God doth build or pitch and not man Heb. 8. 2. and in this sense every where doth the Holy Ghost understand the Sons House or Church of Christ the Temple of God is holy saith the Apostle which Temple yee are 1 Cor. 3. 17. and again Yee are the Temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you which you have of God and not of man 1 Cor. 6. 19. and in the 20th verse that it is the purchase of Christs blood and the faithfulnesse of the son of the House and again saith hee Christ loveth the Church and gave himself for it that hee might wash it and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word Ephes. 5. 25 26. this is the body that is of Christ which the whole ceremoniall law of Moses were but shadowes of and the faithfulnesse of Christ in his house consisting of such spirituall substances as hath been before described take heed how you affect outward externall forms rules and order for we find in Scripture that such as have been of your mind to promote and advance resting and glorying in the outward observation and common things of the Church that they have been the worst of Christians and the persecutors of the Saints wherefore take heed of popularity and externall dignity for the outward state of the Church of the Jewes killed the prophets and stoned them that were sent unto them and yet their outward state was of Gods ordinance and yours of your own inventions like the case of the Scribes and Pharisees in our Saviour Christs time whose fair speeches pretences and colourable shewes were high in esteem amongst men yet an abomination before the Lord Luke 16. 15. And the Prophet Jeremiah saith the Pastors that should have gathered and fed Christs sheep did destroy and scatter the sheep of Gods pasture and tread down the faithfull like the dirt of the street Isa. 51. 23. Prophesie against the Shepherds saith the Lord to the Prophet Son of man prophesie against the Shepherds of Israel and say unto them Wo be to the Shepherds of Israel who feed themselves and not the flock c. the diseased have they not strengthened neither have they healed that which was sick neither have they bound up that which was broken nor brought that which was driven away nor sought that which was lost but with force and with cruelty have you ruled them Ezek. 34. 2 3 4. How many of you Independents is there that deny the food of life to the Lambs of Christ and will neither preach to them the Word nor deliver to them the Sacraments except they submit to your devised fancied covenant and yeeld to such a confession of your own devising or else to be excluded your Church and communion in Gods ordinances which God himself freely offers to all that receive the common faith this new Independency is but old Popery who laid as fair claims to the name Riches and Treasurie of Christs Church as you can do by what ever I have found published by any of your leaders and your humane church constitution no better then that of Babylon wherefore omit not to procure oil for your Lamps while the market lasteth lest your indeavour be too late when you cannot purchase it You that talk so much of Gods Word and understand so little of it I pray you tell me where the name that most of you call your selves by is to be found in the Scriptures I am sure the term Independency is not once mentioned in all the Churches of the Saints yea of and by them the quite contrary is affirmed For saith the Apostle the eye cannot say to the hand I have no need of thee nor again the head to the feet I have no need of you for as the body is one and hath in my members and all the members of that one body being many are one