Selected quad for the lemma: lord_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	day_n	holy_a	sabbath_n	45,615	5	10.2433	5	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A44741	A letter of friendly admonition to a divine of the Synod, upon occasion of a sermon preached by him, Octob. 18, 1647 together, with certaine quæres presented to the Synod : wherein the maine objections against the Common-prayer set forth in the preface to the late Directory are examined : together, with other acts that have been done against the suffering party of this kingdome : and the answer of the Synod desired thereunto / by a hearty wel-wisher to truth & peace, T.W.	T. W.; Halifax, George Savile, Marquis of, 1633-1695.	1647 (1647)	Wing H310; ESTC R14726	12,807	25

consent of all the Churches in those things that containe the substance of the Service and Worship of God And the Ministers may bee hereby directed in their Administrations to keepe like soundnesse in Doctrine and Prayer and may if need be have some helpe and furniture And yet so as they become not hereby slothfull and negligent in stirring up the gifts of Christ in them But that each one by meditation by taking heed to himselfe and the flock of God committed to him and by wise observing the wayes of Divine Providence may be carefull to furnish his heart and tongue with further or other materials of Prayer and Exhortation as shall be needfull upon all occasions Concerning Buriall of the Dead WHen any person departeth this life let the dead body upon the day of Buriall be decently attended from the house to the place appointed for publique Buriall and there immediately interred without any Ceremony And because the customes of kneeling down and praying by or towards the dead Corps and other such usages in the place where it lies before it be carried to Buriall are Superstitious and for that praying reading and singing both in going to and at the Grave have been grosly abused are no way beneficiall to the Dead and have proved many wayes hurtfull to the living therefore let all such things be laid aside Howbeit we judge it very convenient that the Christian friends which accompany the dead body to the place appointed for publique Buriall doe apply themselves to meditations and conferences suitable to the occasion and that the Minister as upon other occasions so at this time if he be present may put them in remembrance of their duty That this shall not extend to deny any civill respects or differences at the Buriall suitable to the ranke and condition of the party deceased whiles he was living Concerning Dayes and Places for Publike Worship THere is no Day commanded in Scripture to be kept holy under the Gospell but the Lords day which is the Christian Sabbath Festivall daies vulgarly called Holy dayes having no warrant in the Word of God are not to be continued Neverthelesse it is lawfull and necessary upon speciall emergent occasions to separate a day or daies for Publique Fasting or Thanksgiving as the severall eminent and extraordinary dispensations of Gods prouidence shall administer cause opportunity to his people SIR I Have been severall times your Auditor and cannot but confesse that I have heard many Truths from you Truths imployed in their right Offices Truth vindicating Peace from the bane of Division and Truths vindicating truth from the liberty of Corruption I shall not now question with you whether you have guided the Truth unto its right end as well as you have employed it in its proper Function I have heard you mourning for the miserable condition of this Church and Nation and I thinke every good Christian should joyne with you in the lamentation of these great evills For who can think or speake it without a heavy and groaning heart That we have lived to see the Paradise of the world become a rude and desolate wildernesse The glory of the whole Earth to become the shame and reproach of all Nations The Temple of God for so I may well say this Kingdome of ours was if any of late dayes in the World turned into a great Den of Theeves and Robbers The earst enclosed Garden of the Almighty once full of the fragrant Flowers and wholesome Herbes and Plants of Divine Truths not lesse amiable in their beauty and ornament then profitable in their Soveraigne vertues and operations hedged about with an orderly discipline or governmēt though some thought it grew too high transformed indeed not reformed into a horrid brake of Weeds and Bryers and become a free harbour for Toads and Serpents every noysome and poisonous creature whilst falshoods and those none of the meanest additions doe not as heretofore steele in as Theeves by night or dwell obscurely as stranger amongst us but are even naturallized and made free Denizens in this wretched Nation and as if our Age were the refuse and dregges the very last off all of all the former winnowings of the floore ers of time and our Nation the sinke to receive the Congeries of all that Corruption that ever any Nation hath brought forth whether in depraved Doctrines or debauched Conversation All the Articles of the Creed almost the great {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} heretofore to distinguish between Christians and Jewes and Infidels and all the holy Commandements of God The great and holy Mounds and Ramparts between the pastures of the Sheep and the wildernesse of the Wolves or Goats between the road of life and the broad way of death and damnation are not onely shut out of your Directory for Worship when as yet they themselves are the great Directory of God for the main parts of his Worship which should have been better considered of but are as commonly trampled upon as the durt in the streets Quis talia fando Mirmidonum dolopumve aut duri miles Vlysses Temperet a lachrimis I cannot blame you to lament these things I thinke we should all take up the wish of the Prophet Ieremiah O that my Head were waters and mine Eyes a fountaine of teares that we might weep day and night for these things and for the slaine of the daughter of my people For those many thousands that have been slaine by the violence of the sword and that farre greater number which we may justly feare have beene and are dayly slaine by the famine and corruption of the Word when we doe but thinke how the glorious Maximes of truth the very foundations of Christianity are shaken and demolished How the Beauty and Order of Gods Worship together with the peace and unity of the Church is defaced and confounded What continuall incroachments and inroads Sathan makes upon the Lords Inheritance to the ravishing and worrying of so many thousands of soules the bloud whereof must be one day accounted for by some body How the Lamps of the Temple together with the fire of the Altar sincere knowledge and holy zeale seems by the twinkling to be even almost ready to goe out amongst us The former being turned for a great part into frantick fancies and the latter into unsanctifi'd furies How the new nightly Lights or ignis fatui that appeare to the seducing of the people whilst they promise to guide them doe seeme to be sad Messengers of the declination of the Sunne of the true and saving knowledge of the Gospel and to threaten us with the sad lot of Antioch and Ephesus and Smyrna and those other famous ancient Churches which for lesse unthankfulnesse it may be feared then we have shewed have been stripped of their ornaments of the Jewels and precious graces of the Gospel and have had the Candlestick removed from them How can we but feare the fearefull sentence that