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
A57328	Elias the Second his coming to restore all things, or, God's way of reforming by restoring ; and, Moses the peace-maker his offers to make one of two contending brethren in two sermons : the former preacht in Warwick at the Generall Assize there held August 19, 1661 : the other in Coventry at the annuall solemnity of the maior's feast on All-Saints Day following : both publisht at the importunity of divers of the auditors being eminent persons of quality in that country / by John Riland ...	Riland, John, 1619?-1673.; Riland, John, 1619?-1673. Moses the peace-maker his offers to make one of two contending brethren.	1662 (1662)	Wing R1519; ESTC R11927	45,131	119

which St. Paul hath given us Awake to Righteousnesse and sin not 1 Cor. 15. 34. So much for the third Inference Now for the fourth and last Since good Governours Judges and Counsellors c. are here given of God as meet Instruments to make a 4. Inference good People Then sure those People must needs beexceeding bad whom such good Government and Governours as aforesaid can make no better And here because my remaining Task and what I have to do therein is you see with evill very evill Persons and since also that in Scripture Luk. 6. 35. Evill and Unthankfull are Synonymous and that Mis-thankfulnesse may I be allowed so to speak is a kind of Vnthankfulnesse what I have to say upon this last point I 'le share betwixt those two sorts of Persons the Unthankfull and the Mis-thankfull I mean such who though they have some kind of Thankfulnesse within them yet they make choice of very untoward and unlucky expressions thereof First to the Vnthankfull who albeit that Government be a mercy of God's own promising and performing I will restore to the Iews he bath restor'd to us though it be like that Vessel let down from heaven to earth as was shewn in in the first Generall that Government is from God and this Vessel also as that was full of all Variety and Satisfaction yet many like S Peter will not with thanksgiving partake of any of those Blessings therein laid before us yea notwithstanding their present necessity and hunger as I may say like his be never so instant and urgent For if as some misled Scruplers will say they are Damn'd if they Eat sure they are Starv'd if they do not eat and heartily joyn in those common causes we all have of Rejoycing Yet for all this Now the satted Calf is killed I mean Rebellion is Luk. 15. 23 slain and there be now as then there were some more then ordinary shews of Ioy the Elder Brother will not come in though never so ib. 28. much wooed and intreated by all the Importunities of a most tender Father whose meer Rogamus with good natures should be the strongest Mandamus And all because he seems to shew too much kindness as they think to this lost child the Government now established which was lost and is found was dead and now begins to live ib. 32 Besides The Gold ring and the best Robe the new Shoos they conceive at first tread awry toward Superstition As for that I could heartily wish that Learned men were fully agreed a-about the Length Breadth and other Dimensions of that which indeed is Superstition then I am verily perswaded those who do cry out of it in others would find it mostly amongst themselves But I can't stay now to Define or Dispute only I 'le tell you my fears since so many of God's houses have of late been turn'd into Stables this Age I fear may have enough to doe to farme the Churches Which work since our Royal Hercules hath begun the God of Heaven grant he may live to finish then no doubt but he will do as Moses there neither turn to the right hand nor to be left but go by the King's high-way I say since like another Num. 20. 17 Hercules his Sacred Majesty hath begun this cleansing work let not any say the Place smels of holy water because it doth not scent so rank of Horse-dung nor let any give out that Popish Altars are going up when only Racks and Mangers are taking down This is the wretched Perversenesse of some unreasonable men as indeed the world is meerly made up of strong prepossessions as to our selves and the Spirit of unkindnesse and contradiction as to others Though we have been newly drawn up out of the Dungeon as Ieremiah Jer. 38. 12. was with rags and clouts in the account of the Enemy the most unlikely means nor is it so long since our shoulder have been eas'd of our burdens but that the marks of the Iron-furnace are still upon us And yet how many are there whose Fingers itch to be making Brick and Morter again though temper'd with the blood of Christians only to build houses for a company of Egyptian Lords to dwell in Those I speak of who long to be offering up their reasonable service indeed by presenting bumane bodies and soules too if they could a living dying Scarifice upon the Sword 's point and so they may but consecrate themselves Bellona's Priests no matter though by the blood of God's own Clergy Have ye not read what David did when he was an hungred faith our Saviour And give me Mat. 12. 3. leave to aske one Question not much unlike it Have ye not read what David did when he was thirsty He longed indeed for some of the water of Bethlehem but yet when he perceiv'd 2 Sam. 23. it look'd like Blood he is content to loose his longing and will not so much as once tast of it and why because thinks he 't is the blond of these three men For my part I am not yet covinc'd best water in Bethlehem I mean the pretended clearest Reformation that would make us never so clean is sit to be bought with the blood of one man much lesse should we offer to purchase a little we know not what Puddle by the bloud of thousands Tell me Oye lowring and discontented souls is it nothing that God should please so unexpectedly to send us another Elias to restore all things Math. 17. 11. and He not by might nor by power but meerly by his long wrapt-up Mantle Prudence and 2 King 2. 8. Reservednesse to smite our angry Iordan so that the Waters thereof dividing hither and thither he and his Army marcht through on dry ground without dipping their foot in one drop of bloud And when for a time we were all quietly inclos'd clean and unclean in one Ark of Government such as it was not made of Gopher wood but Bull-rushes the best that then could be gotten where one might behold our infant Kingdome like the Babe Moses floating upon the waters what was it nothing that neither the blustring winds nor boisterous billows from without no nor all those wild unruly Creatures from within should be able to overturn that Ark of Bull-rushes wherein for a while we were contain'd Yea one thing more when either by Acts of open Hostility or close Neutrality the most among us had forfeited his Majesties protection and so made a sad Shipwrack of life and livelihood all at once What was his Majesties gracious Pardon the Act of Oblivion nothing whereby after so universall a shipwrack some on boards and planks like those with St. Paul others on broken pieces of the Ship almost all escaped Act. 27. 44. to land by the mercifull support of those Lethaean Waters And for all this should we again leave the shadow of the Royall Oke and adventure a second scratting and tearing by

is put in the Counterballance to weigh against a seaven years Famine And sure we that now but seem to behold the Ghastly looks of one year may thereby think how it would be should we feel the hard pinches of a seaven years famine and thence imagine what hath been and what would be a seaven and seaven years war T is recorded of the Civill Wars in France that they produced 30000 witches and above a Million of Atheists what the Effects of ours hath been upon us in particular we know not but 't is much to be feared there hath been a greater increase of such Monsters then good Christians For as it is with that of Nilus so with those Overflowings Diod. Sic. of War these are the vermine and half-made Creatures that use to Crawle out of the Slime and Mud of those Over flowings And generally we find that 's shrewd Proverb When War begins Hell opens for be sure then some Customers will be coming but especially if they be Civill Wars those being Hell's huge Fair daies when others are but ordinary Markets I have heard indeed how that Woolves if they vvant Prey vvill devour one another But vve are in no such want I wish vve were nor are likely to be so long as the Turk that circumcised Heathen defies all the armies of the living God There we may go and shevv our Zeal Skill and Courage and be confident vve fight against Anti-Christ and if not the Whore yet the great Ravisher of Christendome But vvhat saith old Galdas Englishmen are strong at home but little doers abroad If we should adventure upon another Grapple within our selves I much fear the Morall of that Fable vvhich tells us that vvhile two smaller Birds are tugging and pecking one another dovvn comes a third that is greater and at one swoop both are taken Therefore as Origen observes of the Dove vvhen ever she drinks at the rivers she looks not only up into the Air but down into the Water and even there doth plainly discern the shadow of the hawk approaching And if we vvill be sipping at the Waters of Strife and Bitternesse let us look well about us and we can't but see not meer shadows but many substantiall enemies without us and within us both hovering over us and ready to prey upon us devour us And hovvever the Israelites may differ as here they do I am confident these Egyptians will never quarrell unlesse it be which of us shall afford them the first and fairest Morsel There 's the Danger 2. Now for the Deformity of this Striving As the danger thereof we see is great so were there no danger at all yet its meer Deformities are so exceeding great that to all who have but their Sences exercised it must needs be very odtous and abominable None ever hated his own flesh saith the Apostle and is it not a dreadfull spectacle to see a Eph. 5. 29. man catch on this hand and snatch on that and tear off the flesh of his own Arms Do but look again into the Text and you will go neer to see as ugly a sight as that is Behold here two Brethren hewn out of the same Rock deriv'd from the same Fountain of Israel so that if one had said Thou art flesh of my flesh the other might have reply'd And thou art bone of my bone These two in a strange Land under hard labour in the midst of Enemies and in the presence of Moses a man sent from God to be their Deliverer yet for all these outward Circumstances and obliging Relations they can a while thus to mannage an inward Quarrell and so fall on tugge and tear one another that is their very selves as if both had not been their own but each the flesh of some other and all this done in despight of Moses who stood by unregarded This I am sure and in some regard more then this hath been our Condition For albeit Moses here saw this sad Combat yet 't is likely the Egyptians did not which if they had Moses durst not because of his yesterdaies slaughtering one of their Brethren as before was observed but suppose they had stood by and beheld the Conflict O what sport and rejoycing had this been unto them Now this is the transcendent and peculiar unhappinesse of these our Duellings we perform them not only in sight and despight of this our Moses who may fitly be so called not so much because he was drawn as that hestrangely drew us out of the waters but also in the presence of the Egyptians those many enemies round about us who will most gladly make us a Ring so we will but make them Sport especially if it be such a sport as Abner's was Come let the Young 2 Sam. 2 14. men arise and play before us I neverlov'd to see the Butting some call it the Playing of Sheep But to behold a Flock well fed and safely guarded by their own Shepheard I say to seethem run and dash one against another while a company of woolves and fleering Foxes look on and laugh this me thinks is one of the most unpleasing sights in the World And since there are seaven things which are abominable to the Lord this I am perswaded may be the eighth thing which his Soule hateth Which also is the more hatefull because mostly 't is your smaller matters which chiefly uphold and maintain these vast distances We agree well about Iudgment and Mercy-matters and only differ in Mint and Cummin-concernments As if Abraham and Lot should be well accorded about the whole Countries they were to go into and only wrangle about their severall Inches And here besides diverse other dismall consequences I might speak and shew how this Disuniting weaknes and unravells us as 't is observ'd when those two huge Armies of Hannibal and T. Liv. Scipio came neer to joyn Battell Hannibal's Forces being rakt and pitckt up from severall Nations and parts of the World the Showt which they gave upon the Onset was but ragged and contemptible whereas Scipio's Souldiers being all Romanes having all the same language their Showt being uniforme was more Majestick and Formidable I leave the History to your Application But to omit severall other Disswasives of that nature me thinks a Sin that is so much its own Punishment as is Contention should in it self have Amulet enough to unpoyson the minds of men and dis●enamour them of those other super added Deformities which now we are speaking of for if there be any Hell above ground sure this Strife and Contention is part of the Suburbs thereof yet take it with all its faults some are still most paffionately in love with it but especially the wrong-doers as we say of some they never forgive whom once they injure and here if we observe he that did the wrong ib. 27. v. thrusts Moses away and talks of killing when Moses speaks of reconciling Wilt thou kill me as thou didst