Selected quad for the lemma: lord_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	apostle_n	day_n	time_n	10,440	5	4.2046	3	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A13014	A forme of wholsome words, or, An introduction to the body of divinity in three sermons on 2 Timothy, I.13 / preached by John Stoughton ...	Stoughton, John, 1593-1639.; Burgess, Anthony, d. 1664.	1640 (1640)	STC 23307.5; STC 23307A_PARTIAL; ESTC S100140	52,852	122

constancie in adhering to him and you may finde this mixture in a double degree 1. In the first place we have praying for him that God should be mercifull to his houshold The Lord be mercifull to the house of Onesiphorus in the 16 verse And with that is mingled 2. The praise and commendation of the constancie and fidelity of Onesiphorus in these circumstances 1. His charity and mercie to Paul in generall in his constancie to him in afflictions often refreshing him in sweetning of his spirits and cheering him he did not do it at other times onely but in his bonds he was not ashamed of his bonds 2. Nay more than so there was yet something more in speciall he did it more tenderly and cheerfully yea and more carefully in his bonds than he did before when he was at liberty when he was at Rome as it is in the 17 verse he sought him out very diligently he did not onely when Paul met him when he did meet him as it were in his dish and then give him a cold complement and salute him but whereas he might have declined Paul he sought him out very diligently very carefully hazarding and ingaging himself in this cause for the comfort of Paul 2. Then there is a second setting of it out for the Apostle could never have done with this but there is a second mixture in the 18 verse There is again 1. A repetition of prayer for Onesiphorus that had so carefully sought him out and never left till he found him viz. That the Lord would grant unto him that he might find mercie when he sought it in the most needfull time in the great day in the day of the LORD And withall 2. There is again a repetition of praise for he cannot take off his hand cannot say enough as a thankfull spirit and an ingenuous spirit will not let fall any good received nor keep back any praise that is due to it and this Paul expresseth in the very last clause and latter part of the verse he comes in there with a new supply of praise What he did in how many things he ministred to me at Ephesus thou knowest very well he remembred his ancient kindnesse and makes mention of it here to his praise And if there were no other thing in the world though a man had no other reward it were enough to incourage a man to ingage the prayers and to deserve the praises of a Paul to be praised by Paul and to have Paul as a Remembrancer at the Throne of Grace to get the prayers of those that are faithfull and to deserve the praises of those that are faithfull were there no other recompence in the world it were enough they that would have a share in the reward of a martyr must have a share in the affliction of a martyr however if there were no other reward it were at least no contemptible thing to be paid in prayers to be paid in prayses especiall from such as are as Paul I now come to the place which I have pitched upon and I shall forbear all observation which might be raised out of the context and passe by also all the particulars which might be severally raised and that naturally enough out of the particular words of the text There is but one thing that I shall pitch upon in that one observation take occasion to explaine so much of the words of the text as may be any way needfull The point or observation which I shall commend to you out of these words it is this It is a matter of high concernment for all to have and keep cautiously as a sacred depositum as a rich treasure a form of sound and wholsome Words especially in Divine and fundamentall truths that shall be the observation which I shall onely propound and prosecute out of the words and I shall so much the rather propound it more fully and largely because I would comprehend in it so much as might give me a hint to explicate all the words that are necessary to be opened in the text I conceive it takes in all the whole substance and scope of that which the Apostle doth here commend to Timothy and that which suits very well with the scope of the businesse we have in hand There be foure things which I shall briefly open for I will not be large in the point 1. The object of the duty specified 2. The act of that duty injoyned 3. The manner of performing the duty intimated 4. The persons who are obliged to this duty And every one of these is couched in the proposition I named and hath some necesity and usefullnesse in the point it selfe 1. The first thing considerable in the point is the object of this duty and we have it propounded in the words of the text and therefore I shall go no further For the explication of the object I shall propound it in a more generall and in a more particular way the whole is generally propounded and particularly circumscribed in the words of the text 1. In the generall proposition there be these three distinct branches observable and I shall give but a brief touch of either of them 1. Words 2. Sound and wholsome Words 3. A form of sound and wholsome Words In a word I shall say so much as is necessary for the understanding of the meaning of all these What is meant by Words What is mene by sound and wholsome Words for so the originall hath it {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} i. e. sound or wholsome Words And what is meant by a form of sound Words {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} as the word is a dilineation or plat form of wholsome Words 1. For the former what is ment by Words a word will serve the turne It is not bare words letters and sillables that the Apostle speak of but divine truths and Doctrines expressed and couched in words I say divine truths and sentences grounds and principles which are here called words because they cannot be expressed but by words and this thing is so familiar among all sorts that I will not adde any thing more 2. But then for those sound and wholsome words that are recommended here to his custody what is the meaning of them In few words for I will not expatiate but circumscribe it in a narrow compasse Words and truths principles and Doctrines they are sound and wholsome when they are so Both 1 For the substance of matter and 2 For the form of them in which they are expressed and conveighed Which I might have taken from the former words but I rather take it in that place 1. There is a soundnes and wholsomnes in respect of the substance of matter which the Apostle doth injoyn every man to take care of especially Ministers that the things which they deliver be sound and wholsome in regard of the matter and that is the main

I say I have ever apprehended would be a very good way and of very much use and purpose Now you shall finde that all the doctrines belonging either to speculative Divinity and to searching Divinity in the Schooles or else to practise Divinity I say you shall finde more of them as I conceive in this platform that I shall now suggest than in any that I yet saw to which premising only one thing more I shall come I premise therefore and I hope that no man will expect or thinke that I presume I shall prosecute it but only I desire to discharge my duty according to that measure of strength and life that the Lord shall vouchsafe me which makes me doe that I now intend viz. to give you a briefe delineation of all But I desire you not to expect that this can bee done with any mixture of pleasure or that it will be over easie or over facile to apprehend only I shall now run briefly thorow the whole as if a man should present you with the Scelleton or body of a man without either skin or flesh there is no beauty or pleasantnesse in such a sight yet there are all the substantials whereof the body is made there are the bones that are the very upholders of the fabricke of the body or as it was in the case of Ezekiels vision when he was carried into a field where there was nothing but dry bones there was no beauty in that sight but the beauty was afterward when those bones began to stir and move and came every one to their place and did close up with the flesh and the spirit of life came on them then it was a beautifull sight So now here in the meere naked demonstration of the thing you must not looke neither indeed is it propounded with that apprehension that it should be very delightfull or that there should be any thing in it to move that way but rather meerly for the profit of it because it may be a good guide for the comprehending and going on with through all As if a man be in a journey and hath his compasse with him by which he may know where he is it is but only for profit and therefore I hope men will beare with that dispense with the other viz. pleasantnesse though it seeme but rough to propound meerly naked bones without any beauty or comelinesse Now briefly to present the frame that I am to goe through I told you that long agoe I made the frame and then I intended to make the frame so to order it so as to bring it within the compasse of fifty two heads that is one for every Lords day in the yeare or if a man would make briefer dispatch of it hee might take two or foure heads at a time and so goe through the whole in lesse time I shall propound it the same way There be but two things by which I shall make the division of the modell or frame 1. There is first of all a frontispice or porch and Secondly there is the fabricke it selfe the whole pile and edifice There be foure things which I desire to propound in the very porch and frontispice in the entrance into all the matters of Religion and things to be knowne because they are of generall importance and use as being the very first and most sensible inquiries that will bee made in the entry into this profession The two former of them lay downe to us the marke that we should aime at The two latter the line or rule by which we must levell at that marke 1. The first inquiry will be concerning happinesse which is the very end and scope to which all that we are taught in the matters of Divinity even all the whole scope of Divinity tends that whereas there be severall arts and vocations in the world for the maintenance of this temporall life Divinity is that art which directs us in the way to get and attaine eternall life and to the true happinesse of a man all the lines of Divinity meet in that center and nothing is taught but for that and therefore this will be the first inquiry wherein the true happinesse of a man lyes And to omit the particulars that will be in that the resolution and upshot of that inquiry will come to this which will draw in the second that 2. However mens thoughts wander about their happinesse yet all the world cannot effect it neither the quintessence of any nor the concurrence of all these worldly things can make a man a happy man the only happinesse that is true and reall is only in our conjunction with God which is attainable only by our knowing worshipping and serving of God according to the true religion which is the upshot of this first inquirie and leads to the second generall thing in the porch And that is the true Religion the first inquirie is of the true happinesse the second is of the true religion But now there be many Religions in the world I will briefly name them There is the heathen religion which doth not acknowledge the true God but worship a false god There is the Iewish religion which acknowledgeth the true God and therefore differs from the heathen but doth not acknowledge him in Christ There is the Mahumetane religion which acknowledgeth the true God and acknowledgeth Christ too but doth not acknowledge Christ as the Messias and Saviour but subordinate to their Mahumet and therefore false in that And lastly there is the Christian Religion and so the upshot of all is there is no other religion true but the Christian religion which is professed in the true Church of God 3. And that leads mee to the third thing in the inquiry The first was wherein lyeth true happinesse the next what is the true religion which will lead to this happinesse and because that is said to be in the Church of God therefore the next inquiry will be which is the true Church of God There be many pretenders to the true Church there is a Greeke Church a great and large Church that professeth the doctrine of Christ there is the Romane Church that professeth Christ there be many other by-slips of Christians as Anabaptists Separatists and all kindes of sects and schismes which all professe Christ But it is none of these not the Greeke Church nor the Romane Church nor any other sect but there is a Church of the Protestants consisting of Lutherans and Calvinists and this will bee the upshot of the inquiry that the Church of God which are either Lutherans or Calvinists though different in some opinions yet both of them are within the compasse of that which is to bee acknowledged the true Church of God and the issue of this inquiry will be How wee may understand and come to descerne which is the true Church and the answer is by their adherence to the Scriptures 4. Which is the fourth head