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lord_n	daughter_n	father_n	son_n	10,765	5	4.8829	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A61497	The English case, exactly set down by Hezekiah's reformation in a court sermon at Paris / Dr. Steward ...	Steward, Richard, 1593?-1651.	1687 (1687)	Wing S5521; ESTC R3486	21,870	37

runs with this abatement He walkt in the ways of David his Father but the High Places were not taken away the People still offer'd Sacrifice in the tops of the High Places It 's thus said of no less than Seven Solomon and Asa Iehosaphat Iehoash Amaziah Azariah and Iothan Cardinal Cajetan thinks this gross Corruption was as general as if the Iews resolv'd to make null Moses Law by an Hebrew Custom to the contrary and they had don 't without doubt were our Sins as well able to abrogate a Law as we well know they are to break it This is plain that the Cardinal conceiv'd this Abuse was grown into a Custom National which had there spread it self over all sorts and kind of Persons So that it found no open no constant Opposition at all from any body of men then considerable Had it 't is clear enough That Customs thus oppos'd can put Humane Laws in no danger But I need not quote such Authorities the very word there us'd where the Text speaks of those Kings infers this Truth strongly enough But the High places were not taken away the People still offer'd Sacrifice in the High Places For that Word the People when it 's put singly and without opposition implies without doubt the whole Nation which it points at Thus when God commands Moses Speak now in the ears of the people Or in those Words to Pharaoh Let my people go No doubt but that Word did point at each several Iew and though sometime it may well bear a sence less general yet it then implies so much the far greater Number that commonly what remains is neither a part eminent nor considerable Nay to go no farther than my Text 't is plain enough from these Words of Rabshakeh who having taken so many Cities had now spent some good time in Iewry that this Corruption was so universally spread without any visible any noted part to oppose it that he conceived it the only true Service of the God of Israel With what Face else could He have told the Iews They had no hopes in their God because their King had quite overturned his Religion Had there indeed been any Number of Note that had oppos'd this Corruption is 't at all probable it would have been conceal'd in these Hebrew Histories Their Pen men we know were all Zealous enough to preserve the Honour of Iudea and yet in this particular we find a still total silence And if any man will needs hold the contrary they who call so much for Catalogue of Names might in Justice demand of this grand Undertaker to shew a List of those Iews who from Age to Age whilst this Corruption held did not at all worship in High Places But you 'l demand perhaps For how long a time was the Hebrew Church thus corrupted And indeed Learned Men differ here Some think this abuse began in the times of Othoniel and Ehud Judges Others plac'd it in the days of Gideon admit either of these conjectures and 't will be plain in Chronology that this forbidden worship held no less than six hundred Years for all agree Hezekiah was the first who durst be so good in those bad times as to reform this corruption But grant we do abate of this since great Clerks conceive that from the time that the Ark was parted from the Tabernacle which was no less than ninety years from the days of Eli the Priest when the Ark went Captive to Philistia until they both met again in the Temple of Solomon 't was lawful to sacrifice at more than one only altar because God had promised his more immediate Presence as well before the Ark as before the Tabernacle For this reason I say though perhaps it hold not grant we abate of that time what I find established by common consent will prove large enough to support all my whole intention For no man dares deny the Text is so plain in that Catalogue of Kings I related that this corruption held from the days of Solomon unto the Reign of King Hezekiah and so no less than upon the Point of three hundred years as is plain by the computation of Arias Montanus and by the most exact in Chronology So then three things are here very considerable first the Nature of this Corruption 't was in the Censure of Gods Law no less than the sin of Murther and in the Censure of the Iews it deserved no less than the Revenge of a plain Civil War. Secondly the Extent of this Corruption it had spread it self throughout the whole face of Iudea so that all that was at that time God's Visible Church was at once involv'd in this Error For I need not now speak of the Ten Tribes their high places were made waste as is plain enough from the Calves of Dan and of Bethel Thirdly the Continuance of this Corruption it held probably for six but no man can deny that it remained in the Church of Iewry upon the point of three Centuries of years Hence 't will follow clearly the whole Visible Church may be so far corrupted that though she forsake not God and so run in Non Ecclesiam to be no Church at all yet for a long time she may do Publick Worship in a most gross forbidden manner and this kind of Abuse may be so dangerous that upon its full discovery both Prince and People may be in conscience bound to embrace Reformation Has God's Church of the Law been so foully blemished and may that of the Gosyel boast of a more constant Beauty Are the Promises of this kind more large to us than they were to that Church wherein God's own Son was born She in as plain Terms was then call'd the Spouse of God I will betroath thee unto me for ever saith the Lord Hos. 2. His People and his Flock We are the people of his pasture and the sheep of his hands Psal. 95. Yea his Sons and his Daughters Thou shalt call me my Father saith the Lord and shalt not depart from me Jer. 3. 19. True the Gates of Hell shall not so prevail but Christ will still have a Church and could the Gates of Hell prevail against her that was betrothed God's own Spouse for ever That is at least till Christ came No they could not prevail to make her run in non Ecclesiam to become no true Church at all and yet they might prevail to make her run in Corruptam Ecclesiam into a Church so much corrupt in her Publick Worship that she might much need a Reformation And indeed 't is a strange thing that any Christian Church which God has plac't among Gentiles should be so puffed up with a thought of her own strength that she cannot fail in this particular For 't is a Truth clear in the Text that there 's no Church of Gentiles but like a Branch from the Vine it may be quite cut from Christianity And which is worth observing St. Paul has indited this self-same Truth