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
A90263	The branch of the Lord, the beauty of Sion: or, The glory of the Church, in it's relation unto Christ· Opened in two sermons; one preached at Berwick, the other at Edinburgh. By John Owen, minister of the Gospel.	Owen, John, 1616-1683.	1650 (1650)	Wing O715; Thomason E618_2; ESTC R203084	26,947	47

shoulders under the burden due to it and his back to the stripes prepared for it A hard Task But Jesus Christ being the Heir the Right of Redemption belonged unto him It was not for his Honour that it should lye unredeemed Full well he knew that if he did it not the whole Creation was too beggarly to make this Purchase 'T is true that Nature of ours which He assumed to pay that by which He never took was startled for a while and would have deprecated this grievous price crying out If it be possible let this cup passe from me but he recollects himself and sayes I am content to do thy will O God and so through the eternall spirit offered himself up into God for a Ransome He likes the House and will have it to dwel in what ever it cost him Here saith he shall be my Habitation and my dwelling for ever Psal. 133. Know you not saith the Apostle that you are the Temple of the Spirit of Christ Well and how come we so to be you are bought with a price 2. Cor 6. 19. They who affirm that he also thus purchased the unclean styes of the Divel wot not what they say 3. Unto Purchase He must also adde Conquest An unjust Usurper had taken possession of this House and kept it in bondage Sathan had seized on it and brought it through the wrath of God under his power He then must be conquered that the Lord Christ may have compleat possession of his own House For this purpose then was the Son of God made manifest that he might destr●y the works of the Devil 1. Joh. 38. And how doth he do it 1. He overpowers him and destroves him in that Through death he destroyed him that had the power of death that is the divel Heb. 2. 14. 2. He spoyled him having overcome him He bund the strong man and then spoyled his goods Math 12. 27. All that darknesse unbelief sin and hardnesse that he had stuffed this House withall Christ spoyles them and scatters them all away 3. To make his Conquest compleat He triumphs over his Enemy and like a mighty Conquerour makes an open shew of him to his everlasting shame Col. 2. 15. Having spoyled Principalities and Powers he made a shew of them openly triumphing over them in his Crosse And by this means strengthens his Title to his Inheritance I m●ght also farther insist on the Donation of his Father and the actual possession he takes of it by his Spirit but these are sufficient to prove this House to be Christs I shall take some Observations hence 1. Is this the House of Christ is he the Owner of it let men take heed how they spoyl it for themselves The Psalmist makes this a great Argument in his pleading against opposers that they came into the Lords inheritance Psal. 79. 1. The Title of Christs purchase was not then so clearely known as that of his Inheritance and therefore they of old pleaded chiefly by that Title Now he hath proclaimed to all his other Titles also the whole Right he has to this House to his Saints Who then shall meddle with it and go free Amongst men every one with all his might will defend his own possession And shall we think that the Lord Christ will suffer his to be spoiled at an easie rate shall not men pay dear for their encroachment How hath he in our dayes frustrated all attempts for the persecution of his Touch not saith he mine Anointed Men may upon various pretences claim this priviledge to such a Land Nation or Faction it will in the end appeare to be theirs and only theirs who are living stones of this House doggs may scramble for their bread but shall not injoy it It is Christ in this House that will make every stone of it a burdensome stone He hath done it that men may learn {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} do not think it will excuse thee to say thou wast mistaken 2. Is Christ the Owner of this House let the Order and disposall of it be left to himself Men are apt to be tampering with his House and Houshold They will be so kind and carefull as to say out their wisedome and prudence about it Thus and thus shall it be these are parts and members of it Christ is exceeding jealous of his Honour in this particular He cannot bear it that men pretending to his Glory should think him so wanting in Love or Wisedome towards his own as not exactly to dispose of all things that concern the Reiglement thereof Men would not be so dealt withall in their own Houses as they deal with Christ in his We have all Wisedome enough as we suppose to order our own houses Only the Wisedome and Love of the Father leaves his to the discretion of others these thoughts are not from above 3. Hath Christ taken his own House to himself upon so many Titles let not men put those buildings on him for his which are not so which he holds not by these Titles Go to a man that dwells in a stately Palace of his own show him a hog sty tell him this is your House here you dwell this is yours can you put a greate indignity on him No sayes the man that is not mine I dwell in yonder sumptuous Palace And shal we deal thus with the Lord Jesus He hathbought adorned his own House a glorious House it is I ●now men shall hold out to him a sty of swine a den of unclean Beasts a ruinous Heap whereof the far greatest part are dead stones and tell him this is his Church his House will it notexceedingly provoke him will he bear such a reproach Nay he will reject such Tenders to their Ruine 2. Jesus Christ is the Builder of this House This man is counted worthy of more Honour then Moses inasmuch as he that buildeth the House hath more Honour then the House Heb. 3. 3. I saith he will build my Church Math. 16. 18. This is not a Fabrick for any workman but Christ It is true there are others imployed under him and some so excellent that they may be said to be w●se master-builders 2. Cor. 3. 10. But yet all the Efficacy of their labour in this building is not from themselves but meerly from him by whom they are imployed Except the Lord build this house they labour in vain that go about to build it Now this House receives a two fold building 1. Spirituall of all the stones thereof into one mysticall House of this I chiefly treat 2. Ecclesiasticall of some particular stones into severall Tabernacles which are usefull Partitions in the great mysticall House called Assemblyes and dwelling places of mount Sion both these it hath from Christ alone 1. For the first If all the most skilfull Workmen in the world should go to the pit of Nature by their own strength to hew out stones for this building they will never with all their skill