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	soul_n	zion_n	24	3	8.1724	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A45115	Bios epoyranios, or, The character of an heavenly conversation being the substance of a sermon lately preached in Yorkshire / by John Hume ...	Hume, John, 1634 or 5-1692.	1670 (1670)	Wing H3661; ESTC R20200	22,249	34

and not dote on those that are transitory and temporal Let us not content our selves with the prodigals husks when as we may eat of the tree of life in the midst of the paradise of God Let us not adore the broken Cisterns and despise the water of the heavenly Bethlehem Let us with Moses have an eye to the recompence of reward to the Crown of Righteousness and to the exceeding eternal weight of glory and though we must use these worldly things yet let them be onely as a necessary viaticum in our journey towards our desired home Lastly the Angels in heaven lead a Conversation eminent for praise and thankfulness This is the Saints everlasting work they make up a heavenly quire and are ever ecchoing out their melodious notes There the sons of the morning shout with joy David tunes his harp and Moses and Deborah sing their songs of deliverance Were we but a while rapt with Saint Paul into the third Heaven what praises should we hear them give to the Father of Spirits who hath settled them in eternal bliss ransomed them from the flames of the infernal Tophet and hath made them Kings and Priests unto himself The Scriptures record some of their Anthems how they say Holy Holy Holy Lord God Almighty Thou art worthy to receive honour and glory and power for thou hast created all things and for thy pleasure they are and were created Revel 4.11 So we let our Conversation be Heavenly in respect of our continued praises Vid. praeconia Constant mag in ejus vita reforent Euseb cap. 56 57 58. lib. 2. they are a special sacrifice we owe to God he ought to have the Calves of our lips and most rightly doth inherit the praises of Israel hence the Jews had this godly usage that in their writings when they named God they did insert this abbreviature the holy or the blessed one and when they celebrated the passover at the end thereof they had the great Halelujah consisting of several Eucharistical Psalms Let us in like manner speak good of his name with Jacob Quisquis es mortalium hoc mihi extremum calamitatis genus accidit ut pro tanto beneficio dignas tibi grates referre nequeam at referat Alexander Alexandro verò dii pro ejus summaá in meos humanitate clementiá Justin lib. 2. Gen. 32.10 and with Abraham ever and anon erect an altar to the Lord the everlasting God Plato thanked God he was a man not a bruit a Grecian not a Barbarian How highly did Darius resent the kindness of Polystratus who brought him a little water before his departure Let not the heathens out-vie us who have a nobler and diviner light to guide us and more rich and glorious priviledges Let us praise our God for the formation of our bodies which are fearfully and wonderfully made which are animated with rational and immortal souls when as we might have been as the horse and the mule in whom there is no understanding as also for the redemption of us that he hath kept us from sinking in that sad abyss of sin and misery whereinto we were plunged that when by our prevarication we had made our selves children of wrath that he gave his Son to make an atonement for us and to reconcile us to himself through the Bloud of the everlasting Covenant Let us bless him for our preservation that we are secured from sad mischances and direful casualties that we escape the snare of the fowler and the net of the hunter that he protects us from the rage of bruits the fury of Elements the rod of the oppressour and the hand of the enemy Bless we him likewise for the conservatives of life that we have bread to eat and raiment to put on that the gates are not black with famine nor the wells dry without water but that we have the dew of heaven the fat of the Earth the kidneys of wheat and the pure bloud of the grape that the clouds drop fatness affording us the former and later rain in their seasons that he makes peace within our borders that our swords are turned into plowshares and our instruments of war into pruning hooks so that we sit peaceably under our vines and fig-trees having none to make us afraid Let not the stains of a base ingratitude cleave to us that we lightly esteem the Rock of our salvation Let us not be as the Athenians who banished most of their noble Philosophers after they had done such worthy atchievements for them or as the Romans who exiled Scipio Africanus after he had made their City the mistress of the World this is not handsom carriage towards so good a Benefactour But let us say Dens nobis haec otia fecit the Lord hath done great things for us whereof we are glad and therefore bless the Lord O our souls and all that is within us magnifie His holy Name Bless the Lord O house of Israel bless the Lord O house of Aaron blessed be the Lord out of Sion who dwelleth in Jerusalem Psal 135.19 These gratulations will be acceptable to the Almighty and speedily enter the ears of the Lord of Sabbaoth these are 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Chrysost a foretast of Heaven and a sweet preludium to our everlasting duty Use 1 All which by way of improvement and Application may teach us to learn this great lesson of imitating the holy Angels and to follow their divine example Conformity to the Church Militant is the scruple of many and is yet the dispute of our times but none I hope will be so bold as to quarrel with the Church Triumphant they above can pretend to the doctrine of Infallibility in a higher measure then the Papal chair and so we may safely be their imitatours Therefore as the Israelites in their passage to the earthly Canaan had an eye to the Cloud and Pillar of fire thus we in our journey to the heavenly ought well to heed those glorious Seraphims those burning lights for so their name imports the Septuagint rendring them 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 comburentes vel incendentes because they were inflamed with the fire of the Divine love Seneca used to say wheresoever I go I carry Demetrius along with me and writing to his friend Lucilius Elige Catonem vel remissioris animi virum Laelium illum semper tibi ostende vel custodem vel exemplum Senec. Epist 11. he bids him set before him Cato or Lelius or some person that walked most exactly according to the Canon of Morality So let us set before us these Angelical Beings tread in their steps that our Conversations may be regular and we may take the right road to Eternal Glory Neither let us object and say alas how can we imitate them they are spotless and perfect Creatures not composed of contrary qualities but we are kept down with the poize of the body the tyes of sense and the solicitations of a carnal appetite Well if