Selected quad for the lemma: lord_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	blood_n	body_n	soul_n	10,399	5	5.2639	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A36875	The glory of Chelsey Colledge revived by John Darley.	Darley, John, 1622?-1699.	1662 (1662)	Wing D259; ESTC R24871	34,540	59

lovely and of good report If there be any vertue any praise think upon these things Phil. 4. 8. Lastly for satisfaction of those that desire to know why this College is erected at Chelsey and not in one of the Universities this we thought fit to add That this place was thought fittest to receive directions from our Superiours to consult with men of best experience to obtain intelligence from foreigne parts to print books and to disperse them and lastly to obtain the favour of the State and City Farther hereby as all emulation may be avoided so the help of both the Universities may as well be had by intercourse as if the College stood in either of the Universities Thus all things now stand God bless the proceeding of this College c. and give Grace Grace unto it Thus have you by the Author of the remarkable Monuments of and in and about London a just and full Narrative of Chelsey College in the Constitution Cause moving and promoving sovereign care and sollicitation the use and ends of it with some fair and forward Provision for it and great and gracious motives of perswasion to stir up mens hearts to contribute and that not in a sparing but liberal way unto it and not to let the Gates sink in the foundation of it Lament 2. 9. The Affair not only auspicated by King James his wisdome but forwarded by his zealous care in writing unto and calling upon the Archbishop and in his writing to the Bishops and the Chancellor of England and the Lord Mayor of London as also the Pithananches of vulgar prudence either from the grave Archbishop himself or some one of the Reverend Fellows as I gather from the latter words of his goads of his wise words where he saith that the reason of this College it's fitness to be more respectively at Chelsey is because of receiving directions from our Superiours In which exhortation even in the whole carriage of it I appeale unto the Godliest Judgements whether he has not spoken as with the tongue not only of men but as of an Angel of God so that now nihil supra And yet to him let me joyn or adde another Angel of our Church Doctor Joseph Hall sometimes our Diocesane Bishop of Exceter afterwards of Norwich who upon this Commencing of Chelsey College may well come after and second the business as Nathan after Bathsheba who in his Peace-maker wherein he most truly saith one of the principal means of Peace-making in the Church and State for ever is by absolute silencing of Schismaticks and Heresies is pleased in his prudence to shew and say and set down at full his Judgement of this Chelsey College suppositively if promoted and perfected and so according to the end prosecuted and adorned as to be the undoubted and blessed means both to purifie Truth and to set up Peace for ever not Peace alone without Truth nor Truth alone without Peace but both Peace and Truth together as the two Chapiters upon Solomon's two pillars with their carved works called Jachim and Boaz that Establishment and this Strength 1 Kings 7. 21. For the most reverend Bishop and Father in God as I must ever in honour mention him in that precious piece of his Peace-maker for which he must of future Generations be blessed O that he had not had the fate of Cassandra to prophesie truth but not to be believed and obeyed For upon rich grounds his divinely-illuminated heart foreseeing the Calamities which turbulent spirits in malecontents would bring by storm through Civil Warrs and intestine Contentions bethought himself as a true Prometheus of this Remedy shewed to K. James and to his Parliament whilst God's Good Spirit was with them and in them and before he suffered the Evil spirit the foul and Rebellious spirit to possess the hearts of Belials to open the postern to act his horrid deeds of darkness He foreseeing I say yea presuming that if the design of Chelsey College had been advanced into a forwardness and faithfully effected so as to have made choice of and placed these 20 Colleagues with two Historians sworn to defend the publick professed Truth of our Church according to the Articles they might have effected so much by their wisdome as with a Caduceus to have stilled the furious spirits of very many bad ones and so charmed them to have worshipped the blessed Peace of God and so prevented a world of Blood Mischief and Confusion and Misery and still pestilent Conspiracies to souls as well as bodies on all sides that we might have enjoyed to this day the blessed of the Lord and so only have fed and feasted with the banquet of the Peace of the kingdom of God in our Consciences and they have had all their Donatives and Honours blessed unto them The Bishop representeth his Judgement respectively about Chelsey College thus It is Great pitty saith he that the late Chelseyan Project was suffered so foully to fall to the ground whereof had not the Judicious King seen that great use might have been made of it he had not condescended to so gracious Privileges as his Majesty was pleased to inrich it withall The wise and Learned Prince well observed how great an advantage our Adversaries have of us in this kind who come with conjoined forces on every side being ready to be ingruent upon us with preparations as flood-gates set open and inlarged whilst we stand upon single resistance And therefore without a marvellous providence of Almighty God we might have verified the old word Dum singuli pugnant universi vincuntur Blessed be God the world hath had ample proof of single yet singularly learned Champions and seen and heard such learned Advocates to plead for the Protestant Profession such Stephens such Jewells such Mortons such Fields Whites Abbotts Reynolds Featlyes who that is Featly especially alone as in single duell incountred abroad in France Dr Bagshaw and Smith and at home in England alone also sustained and incountred Fisher Sweete Eagle-stone Everard Muskett and ever came off from all intaminatis honoribus as also University Professors Peter Martyr Holland Prideaux Whitakers Collins so as one has been able in Spiritual Polemicks to resist a thousand But if these heads and hands have been so powerfull what would they have done if united together Ne Hercules contra eorum Duos Certainly none of these upstarts pernicious prodigious late Heresies would have stood before them For the Associating Divines of the Province of London in their testimony to the Truth of Jesus in detecting and detesting the Errors and Heresies have given them their deadly wound nor have breathed so long under their hands to have brought such Disturbances yea such Distractions Schisms Factions Divisions as of late we have seen to have crept in with their infestings amongst us and to be lamented if not possible by single hands to be amoliated making our present England an African Scene of new Heretical swarming Monsters threatning an hellish

in Contributing towards the Erection and Donation of Chelsey College We have thought it very fit together with his Majesties Letters seconded by my Lord Archbishop of Canterbury to declare the Reasons that caused this work to be undertaken and to adde such Motives as we have supposed may be most effectual to give satisfaction to his Majesties desire and perfection to this Honourable Design First It was considered That the Popes Agents travelled Sea and Land wrote Books in favour of their Faction devised Lyes and Slanders to bring Religion and Professors thereof into hatred and not sparing any standing in their way by falshood and Treachery oppugned Kings and Princes that could not endure the Popes Tyrannical Government and to this end men of ready Wits good Speech long Experience and competent Learning have been maintained in Colleges furnished with Books holpen with Counsell and Direction bound with Laws and Oaths to uphold the Papal Hierarchie and Heresie and which moveth most with most men encouraged with great Promises and large Rewards Whereunto albeit private men piously affected have from time to time opposed themselves yet because they wanted incouragement to undertake so great a labour Counsels of the Ancients to direct them Books and Libraries to instruct them Forms of proceedings to keep them in compass and Rewards to maintain them those excepted that are due for Ecclesiastical Cures it was further advised That to make a sufficient defence for the Truth of Religion and Honour of the State and a strong and continued opposition against the continued Lyes Slanders Errors Heresies Sects Idolatries Blasphemies of our Adversaries that it was necessary to unite our forces and to appoint special men that without other distraction might attend the Cause of Religion and of the State being furnished with Directions Instructions Counsels Books Presses competent Maintenance and other necessaries This then was the reason why this College by his Majesty and the State was first designed and a Corporation granted with large Privileges viz. That a select number of Divines and others should be gathered together into one body and united with one form of Laws and there maintained who being furnished with Books and directed by men of experience and action might alwaies be ready to maintain our Christian Faith to answer the Adversaries Calumniations as wel against Religion as the State to defend the Majesty of Kings and Princes against the Vsurpation of Popes the Liberty of Christians against the yoke of Superstition to supply the defect of Teaching where Appropriations have devoured Ministry by Teaching and Conference to convince the obstinate Papist and Atheist and by all means to maintain Truth and discover Falshood This is the College commended to his Majesty and intended by the State and easie to be perfected if it please all true Christians to further it with their help and favour according to some proportion of their means His Majesties Letters directed to my Lord of Canterbury follow in these words Right trusty and welbeloved Counsellor We greet you well Whereas the Enemies of the Gospel have been forward to write and publish Books for confirming of Erroneous Doctrine and impugning the Truth and now of late seem more carefull then before to send daily into Our Realms such their Writings whereby Our loving Subjects though otherwise wel-disposed may be seduced unless some remedie thereof should be provided We by the advice of Our Councel have lately granted a Corporation and given Our allowance for erecting a College at Chelsey for learned Divines to be imployed to write as occasion shall require for maintaining the Religion professed in Our Kingdoms and confuting the oppugners thereof Whereupon Dr Sutcliffe designed Provost of the said College hath now humbly signified unto Vs that upon divers promises of help and assistance towards the erecting and indowing the said College he hath at his own Charge begun and well preceeded in the building as doth sufficiently appear by a good part thereof already set up in the place appointed for the same We therefore being willing to favour and further such a Work will and require you to write your Letters to the Bishops of your Province signifying unto them in Our Name that Our Pleasure is they deal with the Clergy and others of their Diocese to give their charitable Benevolence for the perfecting of this good work so well begun And for the better performance of Our desire We have given order to the said Provost and his Associates to attend you and others unto whom it may appertain and to certifie Vs from time to time of their Proceeding Thetford the 5th of May 1616. These Letters the Lord of Canterbury Archbishop sendeth abroad to the Bishops of his Province and secondeth them in these terms Now because it is so Religious and Pious a work conducing both to God's Glory and the saving of many Souls within this Kingdome I cannot but wish that all devout and well-affected persons should by your self and the Preachers in your Diocese as well publickly as otherwise be excited to contribute in some measure to so holy an intendment now well begun And although these and the like motions have been frequent in these latter times yet let not those whom God hath blessed with any wealth be weary of well-doing that it may not be said that the Idolatrous and Superstitious Papists be more forward to advance their Falshood then we are to maintain God's Truth Whatsoever is collected I pray your Lordship may be carefully brought in to me partly that it pass not through any defrauding hand partly that His Majesty may be acquainted with what is done in this behalfe Your Lordships very loving Brother G. Canterb. The like Letters are written to my Lord Chancellor and my Lord Maior of London So that by this that has been said it must manifestly appear that Chelsey College has not only King James his Majesties and his first full Parliament's and Convocation's the intire representative body with the Head of Church and State but that of the prime Powers and Prudencies of both of them the Archbishops the Chancellour and the Lord Maior of London the acclamation of their Energetical Prudence and Zeale By these Letters it may appear that this College is not an idle Project merely of any private man but a most Pious Work projected or rather approved and applauded by the King and State for Dr Sutcliffe must have the eternal Honour in that his most pious and sedulous wisdome moved the first stone as from God about it and that all that profess Religion and desire the continuance and advancement thereof yea all that honour his Majesty and wish the prosperity of the State and desire the increase of Learning have Interest therein and I hope shall receive comfort content and good satisfaction by the same if they put their hands and hearts unto it Being then such a work of Piety for the maintenance of true Religion who can be accounted truly Pious and