Selected quad for the lemma: lord_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	aaron_n	appear_v	consecration_n	37	3	10.2631	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A43805	The necessity of heresies asserted and explained in a sermon and clerum / by the author of the Catholic balance and published as a consolatory to the Church of England in the days of her controversie ...	Hill, Samuel, 1648-1716.	1688 (1688)	Wing H2010; ESTC R32969	19,436	34

is our Sanctity The Glory of which is indeed preferible to all the secular Splendor and Power upon Earth And had I time to describe it not only from the Charge and Charter of the Apostles but from the Mystical Resemblances thereof in the Institutes of Consecration Portions Offices and Authorities of the Sons of Aaron and Levi it would appear that our Order is no mean part of the Divine Care in which he hath cloathed us with so much Holinoss and Glory to stand before the Lord our God and to be instead of God unto the People and Mediators for the People in things pertaining unto God. The White Robe of our Solemnities represents an Angelical Purity even here since the Angel that attended our Lord's Resurrection appeared in Raiment as white as Snow and an Angelical Glory hereafter when he that overcometh shall be cloathed in white raiment In which emblematick Colour St. Hierom tells us That the Bishops Priests and Deacons and all the Ecclesiastical Orders were of old adorned a Colour recommended by Plato as representative of Men peaceable and illuminated agreeably whereunto St. Clemens Alexandrinus observes of the white Vestments used by the Clergy in his time That they recommended the habit of their mind Which I here urge with so much remark not that we should think our selves the more sacred for the habit which in it self indeed is senseless and indifferent but to stop the mouths of those that declaim against the solemn use of the white Robe in our Religious Rituals which was so early received in the most Primitive Ages as a symbol of our present Holiness and our future Glory And not only to reprove them but to advertise our selves of that great internal purity of Soul which not only the weight but the very Pontificalia the solemn Ornaments of our Calling recommend to our tenderest care and culture For instead of gazing on our Phylacteries or Plumes of outside Honour it is more necessary to dread the danger of our Calling and to tremble at the Precipice from on high He that reads the Apology that Nazianzen made for flying from the Episcopal Seat at Nazianzum will be moved long to experience his own Graces before he enters upon an holy Charge closely resenting that pressing Question Who is sufficient for these things And when he is initiated into the Services of the Sanctuary will cloath himself with fear and humility and subdue his Body lest after he hath preached to others himself become a castaway The Sons of Aaron that were the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Judges of the Blemishes both of the People and their Oblations were themselves to be without blemish Spea kunto Aaron saying Whosoever he be of thy Seed in their Generations that hath any blemish let him not approach to offer the Bread of his God. For it is but natural that we first act the Levite and the Priest upon our selves before we administer these Liturgies or Operations unto others That which our Saviour saith of his Kingdom The Kingdom of God is within you is also true of the Priesthood Now the Levite was to cleanse and keep holy the Temple and Utensils of the Sanctuary and the Priest therein and therewith was to make the Oblations to the Most High. The Stoicks have rightly set it That every wise Man is a Priest in whom sobriety like the Levite cleanses the Temple Vessels and Affections of our Body and Devotion is the Priesthood that hallows and dedicates us and all our Actions to the Living God. If then we are Priests and Levites only by an Hierarchical and External Character and not inwardly so by Purity and Grace what are we but whited Walls and Sepulchres whose surface is indeed gay but the inside nothing but rubbish and rottenness and the Bones of dead Men whom we have murthered and devoured by our Sins and which will appear in Judgment against us at the General Resurrection of the Body Since then we are descended into the Field to fight before the Armies of God against Principalities and Powers and Spiritual Wickednesses in high Places Let us follow after righteousness godliness faith love patience meekness fight the good fight of faith and thus lay hold on that eternal life whereunto we are called And now my Reverend Brethren it is time to scatter some Religious Offers to the Laick part of this Assembly And you Good People remember carefully that you are in the Station of Disciples and are as much bound to learn as we to teach and in order thereunto to be humble diligent and tractable without which no Scholar thrives under the best Tutors Obedience therefore to our Religious Methods and Directions is your indispensable duty as well in order to your own improvement as our consolation Thus the Author to the Hebrews teaches you Obey them that have the rule over you and submit your selves for they watch for your Souls as they that must give account that they may do it with joy and not with grief for this is unprofitable for you For the neglect of this plunges you into all manner of Sins Schisms Heresies and Impieties The general mistake of common People is to despise the Doctrine that leadeth unto Practice and their ears itch after strange and empty Novelties that they may seem to know much But a good old Father Saint and Martyr giveth you his Sense That it is better to be plain Men and to know but little and by charity to come near unto God than by fancying to know much to blaspheme against him to know nothing but Jesus Christ and him crucified than by subtlety of questions and much babling to fall into impiety Think not that we envy you the glory of an excellent Wisdom I can freely say with Moses Would to God all the Lord's People were Prophets and I embrace knowledg heartily in every one whom it puffeth not up into vanity and insolence To this the Wisdom of God calleth to this the serene Spirit of God continually invites the wandring and inobservant Sons of Men. But if you then will be wise indeed learn that Wisdom that is substantially such that leadeth unto life and teacheth you the things that belong unto your peace The importunate Appetite of an unseasonable Knowledg of Good and Evil had at first such an issue as should for ever affright us from the like wanton and precipitous Adventures The Corinthians coveted the extraordinary Gifts of the Spirit and St. Paul in some measure corrects and in some degree allows the Appetite but yet he teacheth them a more excellent way What then is that Follow after Charity For Charity never faileth though all other Graces cease Charity suffereth long and is kind Charity envieth not vaunteth not it self is not puffed up doth not behave it self unseemly seeketh not her own is not easily provoked thinketh no evil rejoyceth not in iniquity but rejoyceth in the truth Beareth all things believeth all things hopeth