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	authority_n	disobedience_n	23	3	9.7844	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A61284	Christianity indeed, or, The well-disciplin'd Christian the delight of Christ shewing how believers in Christ ought to go in and out each before other in gospel-order, governing and being governed as the children of one Father / by Fr. Stanley.	Stanley, Fr. (Francis), d. 1696.	1667 (1667)	Wing S5234; ESTC R37591	67,935	176

outward supplies and according to the justness of their necessity and equallness of their poverty to relieve them and prepare portions for them sutable to their conditions even to feed the hungry cloath the naked visit the sick house the harbourless This hath the repute of pure Religion even to visit the fatherless and widdows in their affliction Let all be done according to those good laws of piety equity and charity and of doing as a man would be done by And as the burden of the Office is cast upon you see that you discharge your trust faithfully And in all this the Deacons are to be assisted and enabled by the Churches collections distributions and communications Now what power and order there ought to be among Officers themselves what power the Messengers have over the Elders what power the Elders have over the Deacons what power the Deacons have over the Members which doubtless there is some order and that among such as have power even among Governours as well as in Governments But I shall refer this difficult point to some abler head and more skilfull hand to determine it But thus I will conclude to wish That as God hath called you to places of order and honour here so you may be rewarded and crowned with dignities and honour hereafter To end this point I desire that both Officers and Members may learn a lecture for government and orders from the Firmaments and by the Sun Moon and Stars They be like the Sun for light and heat like the Moon for declaring seasons and constancy in circuit and like the Stars for holding on their course and keeping order and place Now if you think these few lines especially spoken to Officers be worthy of acceptation and may deserve the place of counsell and direction consider of them and the Lord encrease all your wisdome and understanding 4. Concerning the duties of Church-members to their Officers MEmbers of Churches as they stand in relation to their Officers it concerns them to acquaint themselves with Scripture-obligations what is required of them in submission to Officers laws and orders that they may clearly know and chearfully do what respect them on their part to preserve true order and support right government First 'T is the mind and also command of God that Christians should obey such overseers as are set over them in the Lord and whosoever refuses to be obedient resist Gods appointment alwayes provided they exercise rule according to the direction of his Word not to their persons as they are men but as they are the Embassadors and Stewards of Christ for they act by vertue of the Lords Commissions and 't is written the holy Ghost appoints overseers and 't is the Lords message they are upon Heb. 13.17 and the Lords work they labour in and God is a God of order and not of confusion who hath ordained government and required your subjection Officers rule for him therefore members ought to submit to them for the Lords sake for conscience sake for the Gospels sake and your own souls sake That they which watch for your souls may give an account with joy 1 Pet. 5 5. and not with grief for that will be unprofitable for you for indeed your obedience is not to man but to God My dearly beloved Brethren I beseech you beware in this weighty matter for there is no fin in the world which the Lord hath punished with greater severity than he hath disobedience to Authority neither was it ever heard that the earth opened her mouth wide to swallow up man as it did Corah Dathan and Abiram for their resistance and contempt to Moses and Aaron The Apostle Peter and St. Jude do both aggravate this crime as a grand transgression for To speak evil of dignities and to despise dominion St. Peter one of our ancient Fathers in his Epistle to the scattered Christians he is a very full Author and that to this very matter who pleads for submission to Authority both in Nation Church and Family first to honour God and to obey such as are appointed by him to submit to supreme Governours and such as are sent by them wives are to be in subjection to their own husbands servants are to be subject to their masters not only to the courteous and good but also to the discourteous and froward and this obedience must be for the Lords sake alwayes to make true distinctions betwixt spirituall and temporall services to give to man their dues and duties and to God his honour and praises 5. And as the Lord hath required submission to his Ministers so he hath enjoyned his people to honour them that rule over them 1 Thes 5.12 13. and to know such as labour among them and admonish them and to count such worthy of high respect for their works sake Phil. 2.29 because God himself hath dignified them and hath commanded the Saints highly to esteem them St. Paul gives this high commendations of the faithfull and painfull Elder that he deserves the priviledge of double honour and because their work is labourious and dangerous the people ought to countenance them by being courteous The meanest instrument imployed by the Lord in his service the Saints ought to receive and accept with readiness and chearfulness Doubtless he that loves God his truth order and ordinances will naturally respect such as act in them as instruments I speak not of needless customes or idolizing persons but to honour God in them and to honour God by them and to reverence them because the image of God is upon them for God was angry with the Jews because they despised his messengers and it mounted their sins untill there was no more remedies And to some the Lord saith in the Lamentations He would divide them and no more regard them because they respected not their Teachers nor reverenced the face of the Elders For what kindnesses or injuries are done to them the Lord takes it as done to him and Christians are to hold such in repute and to endeavour as much as they may to preserve their credit for Gospel-reputation is the life of spirituall trading Therefore none are to receive an accusation against an Elder under two or three witnesses because in defaming an Elder the truth suffers treble damages but the same and eminency of Christs Ministers is a glory to Christ and an honour to his Churches 6. 'T is a duty incumbent and a matter of high concernment to present humble and fervent prayers for such as are called to be Gospel-governours that they may rule for God agreeable to his counsell contained in his Word with all justice and righteousness towards all degrees of persons and to pray being earnest that God would send more faithfull labourers into his harvest Mat. 9.38 that the ignorant world may be converted and that there might be daily added unto the Church of God such as should be saved And as for those instruments the Lord