Selected quad for the lemma: lord_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	able_a	heart_n	zion_n	63	3	8.8649	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A04605	Londons looking backe to Ierusalem, or, Gods iudgements vpon others, are to be obserued by vs	Jones, John, minister at St. Michael Basenshaw, London.	1633 (1633)	STC 14722; ESTC S119135	33,692	66

They betray it into the hands of the enemies and instead of Gods house they make it speluneam daemomorum a denne of Divells saith Bernard Nil dissociabile firmum est * Prudent Psychom S. Bern. in de dicat Eccles Ier. 1. A Kingdome divided against it selfe cannot stand Stones of one building that jarre one with another will ruine the whole house Sola conjunctio facit domum * Ia. Ier. 2. It is vnion that makes a house wood and stones disvnited cannot doe it Let those violent and turbulent spirits consider and thinke on this by whome division and discord is fomented in the house of God they goe about to ruinate this house and to drive God himselfe away from it For as Bernard noteth he will not abide in such a Kingdome where there is division nor in such a house which is neere to desolation To these factious spirits I propound for an example Corah and his accomplices so severely punished for this sinne because they had made a Schisme in the Church God made a Schisme in the earth the ground clave asunder the earth opened her mouth and swallowed them up Num. 16.31 But not onely by Schisme by Sacriledge also is violence offered to the peculiar place of God when the goods of the Church things sacred and sequestred from common use are alienated and taken away by the felonious hands of sacrilegious catchpolles A sinne too common amongst us the region of it being white and ready for harvest and calling for a sickle from heaven to cut it downe As * Epist 1● Anno 1088. cited by D. Tillest● in his Animadversions upon Selden Ivo Carnotensis once complained so may every Godly man at this day Multa inordinata video in domo Dei quae me torquent maxime quod apud nos qui altari non serviunt de altari vivunt I see many things out of order in Gods house which doe perplexe me especially this that they doe live of the alter who doe not serve at the Altar Church-locusts whose lips no lettice likes but sacred Manna and they in the the meane time that serve at the Alter may starve at the alter I cannot here passe by the words of a Reverend Bishop of this See D. King in his Lectures on Ionas Time was religion did eate up pollicie and the Church devoured the commonwealth but now pollicie eates up religion and the Commonwealth devoures the Church Men are profest Polititians let the Commonwealth florish and what care they for the Church Now Munus offerendi is turned into Munus auferendi and old Oblation is turned into Ablation Our Gentiles Heathens I had almost said doe breake into Gods house and like bold theeves doe ransacke and pillage it and with more then heathenish petulancie trample underfoote the Ministers of the Gospel We need not with that order of popish Priests pul on ourselves a voluntarie beggery for Gentlemen have enforced us to it of necessity We may now cease studying of sermons and study for bread to put in our mouthes like the Iewes under the oppression of Pharaoh when we should make bricke we are forced to gather straw when we should worke in our vocation wee must looke out for sustenance wee must set our heads and our hands to worke together we must be Orators and Arators Preachers and Plow-men teachers and tent-makers as if wee had the extraordinary dispensation of Preaching which S. Paul had when he laboured with his hands and lived by his worke Dionysius tooke from an Image a golden covering pretending that it was too hot for summer and too cold for winter and gave one of wooll saying that that was fit both for summer and winter So deale the sacrilegious persons of this age cursed Impropriators corrupt Patrons Barterers and purloyners of holy things all those that under pretence and colour of Law custome composition prescription doe cut short the Minister of his proper portion they take from the Minister his gold which say they would make him proud idle covetous Cicero pro Ros●io Amarino and give him wooll that will make him humble and laborious Yet can they themselves without pride sure weare gold on their spurres who will not indure a Minister to have gold in his purse The Orator tells the grave Iudges and Senators in the Guild hall at Rome of a fellow called Fimbria intolerably audacious who stabbing Quintus Scaeuola at the funerals of Caius Marius boasted of the favour that he shewed unto him Quòd non totum telum corpore suo receperit that he had not thrust his dagger up to the hiles in his body This fellow hath scattered his broode among us there being too many that have beene spawned of him who having seized upon a great part of the Churches Patrimonie think it no smal kindnes they have shewd us that they have not shred us of altogether God is beholden to them for letting his house stand though for the maintenance of his house and of his worship in his house they have beene so bold with him as either to share halfe or leave him none Now as the Eagle in the Fable that was shot flying in the ayre did much lament when shee saw her selfe to be shot with an arrow that was feathered with a plume of her owne wing so may Religion mourne when shee sees her selfe thus wronged by such as will seeme most to bee of her owne side They pretend purging but intend pilling they * D. Pridcaup ser● on Rev. 2.4 are sweeping Gods house and prying into every corner not to restore the groat that is lost but to take away the penny that is left To whom I may speake in the words of Damasus Quâ fronte Damas Decre● 3. quâ conscientià oblationes vultis accipere With what face or conscience can yee receive tythes and oblations that discharge no part of the Ministeriall function in Gods house You say that they were taken from idle drones and fatte bursten-bellied Monkes and Fryers But why are they now detained and kept backe from laborious painfull Pastors The foundations are cast downe but what have the righteous done Psal 11.3 The foundations of the Church which should support religion tenths and maintenance are cast downe because of supersticious abusers but what have the righteous done that these things should be taken from them but alas why should I touch that sore which is all dead flesh you may say to me as on did to Luther when he began to preach against the Popes Supremacie and tyrannie you had as good hold your peace This wickednesse is so powerfull that you will never be able to prevaile against it Get you to your study and say Lord have mercy on us and procure your selfe no ill will But be it good will or be it ill will wee come hither to speake the truth and for Sions sake I will not hold my peace Who knowes whether the Lord may be pleased to open the heart of