Selected quad for the lemma: honour_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
honour_n	house_n	moses_n	worthy_a	1,325	5	9.5795	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A70803	A decad of caveats to the people of England of general use in all times, but most seasonable in these, as having a tendency to the satisfying such as are not content with the present government as it is by law establish'd, an aptitude to the setling the minds of such as are but seekers and erraticks in religion an aim at the uniting of our Protestant-dissenters in church and state : whereby the worst of all conspiracies lately rais'd against both, may be the greatest blessing, which could have happen'd to either of them : to which is added an appendix in order to the conviction of those three enemies to the deity, the atheist, the infidel and the setter up of science to the prejudice of religion / by Thomas Pierce ...	Pierce, Thomas, 1622-1691.	1679 (1679)	Wing P2176; Wing P2196; ESTC R18054	221,635	492

People Israel To hear the voice of God speaking from out the midst of the Fire Did ever People hear the like in any Time or at any Place First for Time Ask the days that are past since the day wherein God created Man upon the earth Secondly for Place Ask from the one side of heaven unto the other whether there hath been any such thing as This or hath been ever heard like it In the two next passages Moses strictly injoyns the People to addict themselves wholly to the words of God's Law to be conversant with them both Day and Night to have them always upon their Hands and in their Mouthes between their Eyes and in their Hearts Whereupon we are to argue à minori ad majus If such attention was to be given to what was spoken onely by Moses to all the People how much more to what is spoken by Jesus Christ for Christ was counted worthy of more glory than Moses in as much as He that built the House hath more honour than the House Heb. 3. 3. And by how much a Son is above a Servant v. 5 6. And therefore if the Words which God had spoken by his Servant much more are the Words which He hath spoken by his Son very fit to be written upon our Gates and our Door-posts to be fixt as Frontlets between our Eyes to be set as a Seal upon our Hands and as a Signet upon our Hearts We ought to teach them unto our Children and to be ruminating on them on all Occasions in season out of season when we sit in our Houses and when we walk by the way when we lie down and when we rise up And thus we have the first of the four Inforcements by which the Warning of our Apostle may be set home upon our Souls § 5. Secondly Let us consider after the Quality of the Speaker the Nature of the Things that are spoken by him They are not any such hard and insupportable sayings as once were heard from Mount Ebal Cursed is he that continueth not in all things which are written in the Book of the Law to do them no nor such as were spoken long before at Beersheba and to be put in Execution on Mount Moriah Take now thy Son thine onely Son whom thou lovest and offer him for a Burnt-offering upon one of the Mountains which I shall tell thee of No he does not require of us any such Terrible Expressions of our Obedience He commands us to kill and slay not our Children but our Sins And yet our Sins are our Children too the fruit of our Bodies very often and still the fruit of our Souls Nay many times these ugly Children I mean our Sins are dearer to us than Sons or Daughters Agamemnon found it easier to kill a Daughter than a Lust But they are viperous Darlings we so much doat on such miscreant Children as will kill their own Parents if not prevented by being kill'd And these alone are the Children which God requires us to sacrifice to his Displeasure Not our Isaacs but our Ishmaels I mean our wild and furious illegitimate Off-spring are to be slain We must sacrifice our Dishonesty by doing Justice we must sacrifice our Avarice by shewing Mercy and we must sacrifice our Pride by walking humbly with our God Mic. 6. 8. Well ye have heard what it is not will ye now know what it is which God in Christ doth speak to us he speaks the best and the happiest Tidings that any wounded or broken Spirit can hope or pray for So God loved the world that he gave his onely begotten Son that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish but have life ever lasting Joh. 3. 16. God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world but that the world through him might be sav'd v. 17. If any man thirst let him come unto me and drink Joh. 7. 37. He that believeth in me there shall flow out of his Belly Rivers of living water v. 38. If a man keep my saying he shall never see Death Joh. 8. 51. Come unto me all ye that travel and are heavy laden and I will give you rest Mat. 11. 28. And if ye ask any thing in my name I will do it Joh. 14. 14. Thus we find God the Father speaking to us by his Son Now observe how God the Son is speaking to us by his Servants If any man sin we have an Advocate with the Father Jesus Christ the righteous who is the propitiation for all our sins 1 Joh. 2. 1. He that spared not his own Son but delivered him up for us all how shall he not with him also freely give us all things Rom. 8. 32. And here I cannot but call to mind what was said unto Naaman the churlish Syrian Who coming to Elisha to be cured of his Leprosie was prescribed by the Prophet no harder Medicine than to wash seven times in the River Jordan When He being Angry in stead of Thankfull ask'd if Abana and Pharpar Rivers of Damascus were not better than all the Waters of Israel An Ingratitude so excessive that his own Servants took him up I know not whether with a more melting or a more cutting kind of Rebuke saying to him My Father if the Prophet had bid thee do some great thing wouldst thou not have done it how much rather when he saith to thee wash and be clean After the very same manner may I say here If God had sent us a Message by his Arch-Angel Michael who is said by the Rabbins to be the Messenger of his Justice and so to bring news of the saddest nature should we not have entertain'd him as a Messenger from Heaven with Fear and Reverence And then with a greater force of reason when a Messenger so glorious and one withall so obliging is sent unto us as God manifest in the Flesh and sent unto us in such a Message as is not onely the word of God but the word of Reconciliation sure the least we can render for so much Mercy is not onely very willingly but very thankfully to receive it And therefore as for the former so for this reason also 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 See that ye refuse not him that speaketh § 6. Thirdly let us consider after the Quality of the Speaker and the Nature of what is spoken the Condition of the Persons to whom he speaks Even to us who were Gentiles that had long sat in Darkness and the shadow of Death To us who were so diseased and sick of sin as that we could not be cur'd but by the Death of our Physician this Sun of Righteousness did arise with healing in his Wings and translated us out of Darkness into his marvellous light We had nothing but Sin and Misery to make us capable of his compassion and nothing more than his own compassion to make us capable of his Love For had he not lov'd us whilst we were