Selected quad for the lemma: lord_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	abraham_n	people_n	zion_n	136	3	8.7803	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A17259	A suruey of the Popes supremacie VVherein is a triall of his title, and a proofe of his practices: and in it are examined the chiefe argumentes that M. Bellarmine hath, for defence of the said supremacie, in his bookes of the bishop of Rome. By Francis Bunny sometime fellow of Magdalene Colledge in Oxford.	Bunny, Francis, 1543-1617.	1595 (1595)	STC 4101; ESTC S106919	199,915	232

might and in his vpright and faultlesse iustice did take from them that which they might as assuredly haue claimed to themselues and their posteritie as euer Peter might claime such soueraigne iurisdiction to him and his successours so that they haue their light put out and their candlesticke remooued how much lesse may they claime any perpetuitie to rule ouer Gods people that can pretend almost no colour of title for the same What is Rome any better then Silo It pleased God there to dwell many yeeares he made it as it were his tent among men God calles it his place where hee set his name at the beginning And yet was it in the ende made a by-word among the people that God when hee will threaten his grieuous wrath saieth hee will doe as hee did to Silo. And againe I will make this house like Silo and will make this city a curse to all the nations of the earth because he forsooke the habitation of Silo the tabernacle where he dwelt among men Let them that would so faine tie vs to that Romish chaire shew that euer God sate so in it or said so much of it as hee hath spoken of Silo and when they haue so done yet can they haue no greater interest in God than Silo had from which God departed for the wickednesse of the people of Israel And shall we thinke that hee will rest in that polluted nest or dwell in that vncleane denne where Gods name is most horribly blasphemed with superstitions and idolatries aboue measure If hee haue forsaken Israel can hee delight in Italy If hee haue left Ierusalem will hee tarry at Rome For euen Ierusalem that holy citie nay the Temple there which was the glory of that people and the wonder of the worlde which had so many promises of Gods fauour so many tokens of Gods good liking of it for the Lorde had chosen Zion and loued to dwell therein saying This my rest for euer heere will I dwell for I haue a delight therein Psalme one hundred thirtie two the thirteene and foureteene verses euen that Temple I say which God himselfe commaunded to bee made and chose for his ownne house was not only destroyed by the Babylonians and afterwards being built againe by the Romaines so that not one stone was left vppon an other but also God left the place it selfe and cast off that people for being a people vnto him as the Apostle Saint Paule to the Romanes in the eleuenth chapter telleth vs and experience proclaimeth it Yea where is the promise concerning the flesh that was made vnto Abraham I will bee thy God and the God of thy seede Genesis the seuenteenth chapter and seuenth verse What is become of that peculiar people of God the Lordes owne inheritance the people that he chose to set his name among them the vine that hee brought out of Egypt Were they not many times for their sinnes a pray vnto their enemies a reproch among the people Hath not the wild bore out of the wood so deuoured the same that not so much as one roote of it is knowen to grow there In so much as the prophet Esay in their names maketh a iust and true complaint saying The people of thy holinesse haue possessed it but a little while for our aduersaries haue troden downe thy sanctuarie We haue beene as they ouer whom thou neuer barest rule and vpon whom thy name was not called Esay the sixtie three chapter and eighteene and nineteene verses What then is the promise of God of none effect Will not God be as good as his word Yes doubtlesse he can not lie hee will not deceiue vs. But all such promises haue a secret condition of seruing God to be vnderstoode And if we on our part I will not say performe the condition for we can not doe it but if we will striue and indeuoure earnestly to fulfill it no doubt but hee will assist vs with his good grace and embrace vs with his endlesse and infinit mercies But if we hearken onely to that he promiseth and regarde not that which he requireth we deceiue our selues with a vaine expectation of that that belongeth not to vs. God dealeth with vs as a good maister dealeth with his seruant First hee hireth him to be his seruant and whatsoeuer promises of good turnes he afterwardes maketh vnto him they depend vpon that first couenant if he serue him diligently If then a master promise to his seruant to do him some great pleasure may that seruant neglect his dutie loiter linger about his worke leaue his businesse vndone despise his maisters commaundement and yet say within himselfe my maister oweth me a good turne He may not there is no reason to moue him to it If then the church of Rome claime such promises and priuiledges to belong to them as they pretend they haue yet they might long since by the abusing of their authority and other good graces and gifts of God haue forfeited and lost the same As we haue to see most plainly in the example of the Leuits who were of Aarons time to whom it did belong by right of inheritance as it were and succession to be priests vnto God And yet when they sinned against the Lord and had no regard to keepe couenant with him of them he saith I haue lift vp my hand against them and they shall beare their iniquity and they shall not come neare vnto me to doe the office of the priest vnto me neither shall they come neare vnto any of my holy things in the most holy place but they shall beare their shame and their abominations which they haue committed The like depriuation from their charge and disgrading them of their priesthoode we reade of in Hosea the prophet Because thou hast refused knowledge I wil also refuse thee that thou shalt be no priest to me and seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God I will also forget thy children May he cast off his priestes whome himselfe appointed to be his priestes who had that office by succession and therefore we cannot doubt of their calling And yet must hee be tied to them that by briberie violence and many vile practises as poysenings couenantes with the Deuill and such other lewde meanes doe possesse that seate and therefore haue noe shewe of lawfull calling and when they are in it doe nothing lesse then set foorth Gods trueth maintaine his glorie or thinke of Gods lawe No no he is nowe as free as euer he was to chuse him such seruantes as are according to his owne heart he is no more bound to dwell still at Rome then hee was not to remoue from Ierusalem The one place is alreadie destroied with a perpetuall destruction For the other vnlesse it amend there is reserued a more heauie iudgement And vpon this point I haue staied somewhat the longer not onely for their sakes that imagin the pope