Selected quad for the lemma: life_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
life_n	aaron_n	head_n	zion_n	58	3	8.3900	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A27411	Basileus basileon, or, The regality of Jesus Christ, King of Zion opened, vindicated, advanced in a sermon preached at St. Maries, Oxon, Jun. 26, 1659.	Bentall, Edward.	1660 (1660)	Wing B1907; ESTC R23683	20,855	48

avarus sufficit tibi Deus etenim vult avaritia terram possidere totā adile coelū plus est qui fecit coelum terram August in Psal 55. earth and the fullnesse of both and the good will of him that dwelt in the bush This blessing shall come upon the head of every one of his Josephs and upon the top of the head of him that is separated from his brethren and loved with an everlasting love Even here your King Jesus will make you * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Naz. de Pace Quid tibi videbitur divina lux cum illam suo locorideris tum in tenebris vixisse dices cū totam lucem totus aspexeris quam nunc per angustissimas oculorum vias obscur e intueris tamen admiraris tam procul Sen. Ep. 102. Aliud est secundum opera reddere aliud propter ipsa opera reddere Greg. Neque enim ea rimus otiosi spectatores sed participes gloriae Bern. Gaudium in re gaudiū in spe gaudium de possessione gaudium depromissione gaudium de praesenti expectatione gaudium de futura exhibitione Bern. de temp 15. Kings and Priests to God Rev. 1. 6. he lookes upon you as a chosen generation a royal priesthood an holy nation a peculiar people You have a potent King and carefull Protector who will take your part and revenge your wrongs whilest you keep close to him and walk in his wayes and when you have done and suffered for him a while and overcome by his strength you shall sit down with him in his Throne even as he overcame and is sate down with his Father in his throne this is the portion of their cup who are the followers of the Lambe this is the blessedness of those who kiss the sonne and trust him they shall not sit under the shadow of a Bramble but every one under the shadow of his own Vine Figtree and Olive In a word you that kiss him shall be kissed of him you that embrace him shall be embraced by him you that love him shall be loved of him and his Father you that cordially obey him shall be everlastingly saved by him and rewarded with all that good he hath purchased for and promised to his people And what will draw you in if neither the danger of ruin nor the certainty of a blessed reward I 'le trouble you but with one thing more and then conclude and this also at least by consequence ariseth from the Psalm See you not here what combinations and unions of enemies there are against this King that God hath set up to hinder the settlement and enlargment of his kingdome and is it not then fit nay equall and just that the subjects of this King should joyn and unite hearts heads and hands for their King against their common enemy Shall Herod and Pilate be made friends to oppose Christ and shall not Paul and Barnabas unite to advance Christ doth not our Saviour tell us that a kingdome divided against it self cannot stand would then Christs own subjects so delight in divisions and maintain animosities among themselves if they did seriously consider how much they did hereby strengthen Sathans and weaken their Soveraignes Kingdome what an honour was it for the primitive Christians when the heathens could look upon them and say Behold 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Chryst in Heb. Non potest concōrdiam habere cum Christo qui discors esse voluerit cum Christiano Aug. Charitas tolerat quos amat amat quos tolerat Greg. in Ezech. how the Christians love one another and then how was Religion in credit and did flourish but alas what a shame is it that enemies should see and say Behold how these Christians hate one another and that often for petty differences and how is Religion scorned and decayed Fathers and Brethren ought not this to be a lamentation and what hope have we to find a remedy for this ruining malady when those very many Irenicums that both Presse and Pulpit have lately sent forth have proved Polemicums Oh! that our reflections in this particular might be serious and our amendment visible But perhaps some may say to me as one once said to Luther in an other case Abi in cellam dic miserere nostri truly I shall willingly obey and say as the Psalmist I will give my self unto prayer only first give me leave to Psal 109. 4. mind you of a few Sriptures and then I have done 1. Cor. 1. 10. I beseech you brethren by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ that yee all speak the same thing and that there be no divisions among you but that ye be perfectly joyned together in the same mind and in the same judgment And that of the same Apostle to the Philipians chap. 2. 1 2 3. If there be any consolation in Christ if any comfort of love if any fellowship of the spirit if any bowells and mercies fullfill ye my joy that ye be like-minded having the same love being of one accord of one mind let nothing be done through strife or vain glory c. I shall shut up all with that high praise of peace and union Psalm 133. Behold how good and how pleasant a thing it is for brethren to dwell together in unitie it is like the precious ointment on the head that ran down on the beara even Aarons beard and went down on the skirts of his garments as the dew of Hermon and as the dew that descended upon the mountaines of Zion for there the Lord commanded the blessing even life for evermore FINIS