Selected quad for the lemma: land_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
land_n	egypt_n	great_a	pharaoh_n	1,710	5	9.7164	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A77846	Publick affections, pressed in a sermon before the Honourable House of Commons assembled in Parliament: Upon the solemn day of humiliation, Febr. 25. 1645. / By Anthony Burgesse, pastour of Sutton-Cold-field: now minister at Laurence Jewry London, and a member of the Assembly of Divines. Published by order of that House.	Burgess, Anthony, d. 1664.	1646 (1646)	Wing B5653; Thomason E325_5; ESTC R200622	19,054	30

Die Mercurii Febr. 25. 1645. ORdered by the Commons assembled in Parliament that S. Robert Harlow and Col. Purfrey do give thanks to M. Burgesse and M. Goodwin for the great pains they took in the Sermons they preached this day at the intreaty of the House of Commons at S. Margarets Westminster it being the day of publick Humiliation and to desire them to print their Sermons It is also ordered That none shall presume to print their Sermons without licence under their hand-writing Hen. Els Cler. Parl. D. Com. I appoint Thomas Underhill to print my Sermon and no man else ANTHONY BURGESSE Publick Affections PRESSED IN A SERMON Before the Honourable House of COMMONS Assembled in PARLIAMENT Upon the Solemn day of Humiliation Febr. 25. 1645. By ANTHONY BURGESSE Pastour of Sutton-Cold-field Now Minister at Laurence Jewry London and a Member of the Assembly of DIVINES Published by Order of that House LONDON Printed by J. Y. for Thomas Vnderhill at the Bible in Woodstreet M.DC.XLVI TO The Honourable House OF COMMONS Assembled in Parliament at WESTMINSTER Worthy SENATORS THE Vicissitude of Gods Providence to men in great place somtimes pulling down those who are lifted up on high and again raising up those who were laid prostrate may justly provoke all Magistrates to walk with fear and trembling knowing there is a greater then they are All earthly Potentates and Principalities are before God but as so much pin-dust which when hee breatheth on is soon scattered away Hence Psalm 2. the great Ones of the earth are exhorted to kisse the Sonne lest hee be angry and a little of his anger is too heavie for the shoulders of any mortall men Be affected therefore with your own nothingnesse comparatively to Gods greatnesse and advance his Truth Worship and Government Many States have stumbled upon Christ as a Stone of offence and hee again hath fallen upon them grinding them to powder The Lord make you so blessed that you may not be offended at any thing which is Christs and fill you so with faith that you may be fully perswaded in your hearts that the surest posture of defence for the Kingdome is when it is put into a submission unto the Scepter of Christ Jesus Although God hath done much for you yet great is the need you still have of his Goodnesse Wisdome and power to you The shippe coming into the harbour may miscarry as well as that in the wide Ocean And certainly the businesses of your Warre and Peace of the Church and State of Divisions and Reconciliations are of so great concernment that hee seeth nothing at all who doth not judge you in as great a necessity of Gods good Providence as at the very first Therefore after all the great successe which God hath vouchsafed unto you be not high-minded but fear keep a sure interest in God and provoke him not by any sinnes but so manage all things belonging to God and men with piety and justice that God from heaven may prosper you and men on earth praise you Your humble servant in CHRIST ANTHONY BURGESSE A SERMON PREACHED Before the Honourable House OF COMMONS At the publick Fast Febr. 25. 1645. NUMB. 11.12 Have I conceived all this people Have I begotten them that thou shouldest say unto mee Carry them in thy bosome as a nursing father beareth the sucking-childe unto the land which thou swarest unto their fathers THe Deliverance of the Israelites out of Egypt that iron furnace and the conducting of them through the wildernesse unto the land of Canaan is so famous and remarkable an history that many after-deliverances given unto the Church of God are described allusively to this Thus the bringing out of Babylon temporall The rescuing of the Church out of Babylon spirituall is set down with words relating to this grand mercy yea it is made typicall of that great redemption purchased by Christs bloud For this is a peculiar thing to Gods word that not onely words but things themselves do signifie onely we must not make a type or allegory but where the holy Ghost giveth ground lest wee should have tot sacramenta quot ingenii acumina as was said of Origen as many mysterious notions as men have fancies This History therefore will serve for our Meridian and there is scarce any Kingdome or Church but they have had their Egypts their Pharaoh's their bricks to make and God in great mercy doth sometimes raise up some Moses's and Aarons for them providing a land of Canaan as the comfortable issue of their former labours The slavish and miserable condition of the Israelites is related Exod. 2. as also Gods pitie to them in most emphaticall words ver 24 25. hee heard their groaning remembred his covenant looked upon them and had respect unto their cause This heap of words doth expresse after the manner of men the great affection and bowels of God to help though this was delayed to very extremity according to that known saying Quando duplicantur lateres venit Moses Now after the people of Israel had been freed from this bondage instructed in the will of God covenanted obedience with him seen his wonderfull power injoyed his mighty presence so that they could not be more safe then they were under his protection not more free then they were under his lawes not more rich then they were under his provision yet in this Chapter begins a narration of their manifold mutinies against God and their faithfull governours so true is that Subditis semper gravis est praesens status and Vulgus est semper querulum not knowing how to bear either their miseries or their remedies The first mutiny seemeth to be for their long march ver 1. whereupon a fire from the Lord consumed them It is to be observed that in all their former rebellions before the Law was given except that of the Calfe God never punished them but since the Law given hee punished them severely This was say some to shew the nature of the Law that it worketh wrath or because their sins committed after the Law given were against greater knowledge and ingagement The second mutiny begins ver 4. for I cannot be of their minde that make the former and this all one and this was occasioned first by the mixed multitude that was with them viz. the Egyptians and other nations and the plague upon them did quickly infect the Israelites They murmure because they have nothing but Manna and because this was a sacrament and a type of Christ and his graces their sin was spirituall as well as corporall whereupon Moses to shew their ingratitude taketh occasion to describe this Manna what it was The peoples rage and ingratitude putteth Moses into a sinfull passionate distemper though there was also good zeal in it The popish Interpreters make this zeal of Moses pure fire but that cannot be and instruunt Patriarchae etiam errantes the errours of the godly may teach as well as their piety That Moses his