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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	aaron_n	priest_n	zion_n	51	3	8.5960	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A42062	Teares and bloud, or, A discourse of the persecution of ministers, with motives to martyrdom and cautions about it set forth in two sermons, both lately preached at Saint Mary's in Oxford / by Francis Gregory ...	Gregory, Francis, 1625?-1707.	1660 (1660)	Wing G1905; ESTC R13097	43,961	52

matter of Mourning need we act like him that should put out his own right eye that his left might have something to weep for one would think we have enough to weep for already sins enough calamities enough we need no further losses Surely England may vent her Sables some other way England may sell of her mourning blacks without the funeral of the Gospel but should our Churches Funeral be to day I fear our Nations would be to morrow t is a miracle of mercy that a Nation which hath lain gasping so long hath not yet breathed its last t is a miracle of mercy that a Nation which hath been so long a dying should not yet be dead that a divided Nation should be a Nation still you will say the hand of England must needs be red through the bloud it hath spilt yea but the face of England the body of England may well look pale through the bloud it hath lost and yet Behold there is bloud in our veins our vital spirits are still alive but now when our jealousies our schismes our divisions have cracked our Vessel already the loss of our Ministers would be such a stroke as would break it all to shatters shall I speak to this in four particulars 1. The loss of the Gospel would prove an undoing loss to the Nation in general do you ask me why I answer 1. The loss of the Gospell is the loss of that which is the onely token of love which we have from God Outward mercies are not Gods love-tokens were Gold a token of love who more the darlings of God then poor Indians were successe and dominion a token of love who so beloved of God as the Turks this day outward mercies are but the common gifts of Gods hand his Ordinances are the kisses of his mouth Such kisses as God never bestoweth but where he hath a spouse and were it not sad to be without them 2 The loss of the Gospel is the loss of Gods special presence under the Law God dwelt between the Cherubims God is come into the Camp T was the Ark that came but the Ark was Praesentiae divinae Testimonium a Testimony that God himself was there under the Gospel Christ is said to walk in the midst of the golden Candlestick his Ordinances are the Galleries where he walks his Church is the garden where he delights to be I am the light of the World but alas lose your Candlesticks and lose your light and what a loss would this be the loss of the Sun would ruine the world the loss of the Gospel would ruine a Nation T is said when the Sun begins to dart its Rayes upon them that half the year lie in the dark they meet it with an acclamation of joy {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} behold the Sun behold the Sun Surely if the presence of the Sun be of such concernment what then is the presence of Jesus Christ what then ist he presence of God amongst us the Heathens were wont to chain their Gods within their City gates if the loss of an Idol were judged considerable what then is the loss of a God indeed 3. The loss of the Gospel is the loss of our strength and safety T is said of Jehosaphat the Lord established his Kingdom why so why Jehosaphat had restored the pure worship of God our establishment doth not lye in the lawes of men but in the institutions of God our safety doth not lye in an Army but in a Church my Father my Father the Chariots of Israel and the Horsemen thereof The defence of Israel was not Ahab the King but Elijah the Prophet our strength doth not lye in an Ordinance of Parliament but in an Ordinance of Christ lose the Gospel and lose our royal fort and if once we lose our strength where is our Nation Sampson loseth his hair and dyeth for it let but England lose her Gospel and the next newes is this England is dead England is ruined 4. The loss of the Gospel is the loss of our glory Glorious things are spoken of thee thou City of God Jerusalem was once a glorious City well but what made her so Surely not her Treasures not her Towers not her Bulwarks not her Princes ô no t was the Temple at Jerusalem t was the worship of God that was there to them pertained the glory and why to them the reason followes to them pertained the Covenants and the service of God when once Jerusalem lost her Religion she lost her glory too from the Daughter of Zion all her glory is departed Why so what is the matter with Zion the Lord hath caused the solemn Feasts and Sabbaths to be forgotten in Zion If Zion lose her Sabbaths if Zion lose her worship Zion must lose her glory too here is our case if England lose her Gospel if England lose her Ordinances ô then Ichabod Ichabod where is our glory should it come to this we might say with them fuimus Troes fuit Ilium ingens Gloria Teucorum England was a glorious Nation England was a glorious Church but alas our glory is gone we have lost our Crown 5. The loss of the Gospel would likely prove the loss of our Lawes if the Church fall the State will hardly stand Magistracy and Ministry are twins that usually stand or fall together thou leadest thy People by the hand of Moses and Aaron t is observable that in Scripture Moses and Aaron have but one hand between them do but cut off that hand and by one stroke you lame them both Moses was the Magistrate of Israel Aaron the Priest and surely 't were a pertinent note to consider that after Aaron was dead Moses lived but a while they both died the same year Surely where Ministry dieth Magistry will not long survive The Lord hath despised the King and the Priest the Priest lost his Miter the King lost his Crown They shall abide without a King and without a Sacrifice the King and the Sacrifice the Magistrate and the Minister go together Now here 's our case should our Ministry fall we have cause to fear that our Magistracy would down too men that will not spare the Temple of Sion will hardly spare the Walls of Jerusalem Men that now pretend they can teach themselves without a Minister may pretend ere long that they can rule themselves without a Magistrate 't is that which some men whisper already they own no teacher but the spirit they own no King but Jesus alas what would the Issue of these things be but confusion and ruine lose your Ministry and undoe your Nation it must lose its strength it must lose its glory it must lose its God it must lose its self if so why should you act against the Ministers of God why should you burn that nest wherein you were hatched why should you be as the horse that muds the stream where he drinks