Selected quad for the lemma: lord_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	answer_v	zeal_n	zealous_a	26	3	9.4503	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A81240	Eliah's abatement: or, Corruption in the saints. Discovered and distinguished in a sermon, preached at Chatham in Kent, at the Funeral of that faithful minister of the Gospel, Mr. Gaulter Roswell, M.a. late preacher there. / By Tho. Case, M.A. and rector of Giles in the Fields.	Case, Thomas, 1598-1682.	1658 (1658)	Wing C828; Thomason E1882_1; ESTC R209895	50,345	165

in other places to whom he might say 1 Cor. 9.2 The seal of my Apostleship are ye in the Lord and that may say again of him 2 Cor. 9.15 My Father my Father who drew their first spiritual breath under his Ministry Thanks be unto God for his unspeakable gift Fifthly Elias was faithful in standing up for the Lord even when he thought himself alone against the tide and torrent of the Apostacy of that generation which might justly wonder to see it self turned Baalist But the holy Prophet wanted neither zeal nor courage to appear 1 King 19.14 Ingemuit terrarum orbis se Arrianum invenisse As it was in Athanasius his time 1 Kings 8.22 and protest against them and their Idolatry to their very faces I say alone The prophets of Baal are four hundred and fifty men but I even I ALONE am a Prophet of the Lord let them therefore give us two bullocks c. His zealous spirit could not bear their halting between two opinions and therefore provokes them to the dispute before all the people the God that answeareth by fire let him be God And his courage was rival with his fidelity and zeal vers 21. He feared not the face of Ahab vers 24. though a potent and a cruel King He spares not to tell him vers 18. I have not troubled Israel but thou and thy fathers house He feared not all the false prophets of Jezabel though they had the people to back them Take the prophets of Baal vers 40. let not one of them escape What a mighty spirit of God was that upon him that he a single unarmed man should not be afraid to command and see execution to be done upon four hundred and fifty Idolatrous prophets under the wing of an Idolatrous Queen and before the very face of a wicked King Thousands of their subjects standing by who but now were so cow'd with fear that they had not a word to say for the true and living God! here was courage to a Miracle Our reverend brother had his proportion of this fidelity zeal and courage He was faithful to Jesus Christ his truths and ordinances In all the Changes that went over his head in all the Controversies of the times wherein he exercised his Ministery he he was a most strenuous Assertor of the truth and amost couragious opposer of Error and Innovation and that even while some higher then other by head shoulders in their own eyes did basely and unworthily betray their Cause Hee feared not the face of man in the Cause of Jesus Christ He durst tell the greatest person he had to do with of their faults Malleus haereticerum Anabaptists and Antinomians Arrians Quakers Antiscripturists c. upon just occasion in the worst of times He was an hammer to beat down error and blasphemy where ever it met him he could not bear with them that preach down Poedo-baptisme the Christian Sabbath Vniversities Schooles of Learning ordination and other ordinances and institutions of Jesus Christ The Apostle prophesieth to us of some and in the latter times that will not endure sound doctrine it was the zeal and fidelity of our brother that he could not endure unsound doctrine 2 Tim. 4.3 no not the lispings or likenesse of it knowing the dangerous tendency thereof False opinions do insinuate themselves by the use of dark dubious expressions and it is the policy of seducers and men of corrupt principles when they dare not speak out to shun the form of plain and wholesome words 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 2 Tim 1.13 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Plaistred coyned words 2 Pet. 2.3 Rev. 2.2 and hide themselves under the masks of suspitious and doubtfull phrases or feigned words as Saint Peter calls them and so by new lights and new language they do insensibly undermine the truth and introduce their loose and rotten opinions This he could not bear with seducers nor they with him so that by this means he became a man of contention 2 Pet. 2.8 his righteous soul was vexed from day to day in seeing and hearing Sixthly Paral. 6 Elias was a man of a very tender spirit tender of the glory of God I have been very jealous for the Lord of Hosts Tender of his Saints and servants and ordinances so he continueth his complaint The children of Israel have forsaken thy Covenant 1 King 19.10.14 destroyed thine altars and slain thy Prophets with the sword his soul bled within him over the precious things and servants of God though he had his own life for a prey I onely am left this could not satisfie his zealous spirit Our honoured Friend now with God was a man in his degree of such another spirit He was jealous for God and for the interests of Jesus Christ they lay upon his heart with a great weight and made deep bleeding impressions His word was oft with Joshua And what wilt thou for thy great name Josh 7.9 Very tender towards the people of God his bowels wrought and melted within him towards poor perishing souls Chattam in Kent The Inhabitants of this place are his witnesses before God and man For your sakes that fear God here What offers hath he refused What affronts hath he sususteined What temptations hath he endured What opposition and reproach hath he born With what difficulties and straits hath he conflicted for many yeares together Phil. 2.30 not regarding his own life or the concernments of a numerous and necessitous family to supply your spiritual necessities He did spend and was spent he even offer'd up himself upon the sacrifice and service of your faith Verse 17. truly he was not only your Minister but even a Martyr among you What love and honour and mercy and liberality you owe unto his Name and poor Orphanfamilie left with you judge ye Surely if he sowed unto you spiritual things it is no great matter if his poor family reap your carnal things through his poverty you were made rich in the midst of your riches let not his Relicts remaine poor But to proceed Elias Paral. 7 was a mortified man He was so far from living to the world that he hardly lived in the world like his successor and anty-type John the Baptist he lived separated from the world while he was in it Matth. 3.4 choosing rather to live among bruit beasts then among bruitish men 2 King 1.8 his fare hard and his raiment course both suitable to a wildernesse not to Court or City This man of God now with God was a man dead to the world while he lived in it He was not a man of the mode his habit and diet spake a mortified frame of heart He was not given to juncating and feasting and ranting with vain and wanton persons as the manner of some is to the infinite scandal of the Gospel He sought not great things for himself nor laid about him to fether