Selected quad for the lemma: lord_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	speak_v	time_n	word_n	15,397	5	4.1665	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A57856	Moses returned from Midian; or, Gods kindnesse to a banished king his office, and his subjects duty. As it was delivered in a sermon, preached at Linlithgow, on the day of thanksgiving for His Majestie our Soveraigns happy restauration. By J.R. M.L. and published by A.G. P.L. Published by authority.	Ramsey, James.	1660 (1660)	Wing R222; ESTC R217055	11,311	18

MOSES Returned from MIDIAN OR Gods kindnesse to a Banished KING His Office and His Subjects duty As it was delivered in a SERMON Preached at Linlithgow on the day of Thanksgiving for His MAJESTIE our Soveraigns Happy Restauration By J. R. M. L. And published By A. G. P. L. ACTS 7.34 I have seen I have seen the affliction of My People which is in Egypt and I have heard their groaning and am come down to deliver them and now come I will send thee into Egypt Magistratus est res optima feracissima multorum bonorum operum Bull. Dec 2. Ser. 6. Principio subditorum est sanctè reverenter honorificè non abjectè vulgariter sentire de Principibus suis Exhibeant eis etiam subditi foris honorem cuique regno patriae consuetum Idem Dec. 2. Ser. 9. Published by Authority Edinburgh Printed by Gedeon Lithgow 1660. MOSES returned from MIDIAN OR Gods kindness to a Banished KING His Office and His Subjects duty ACTS 7.35 This Moses whom they refused saying Who made thee a Ruler and a Iudge The same did God send to be a Ruler and a Deliverer by the hands of the Angel which appeared to him in the Bush GOvernment is so necessary for the entertainment of an orderly and comfortable society amongst men that next to the Gospel of Jesus Christ there is no greater blessing can be bestowed by the Lord upon a people then a lawfull and righteous Ruler who will govern for the Lord ruling in righteousnesse and judgement Therefore doth this Protomartyre Steven while he is recounting the great mercies of God to the Church of the Jews stay long in rehearsing the Lords sending of Moses to be Ruler c. unto them as the Churches eminent mercie yea in all this recapitulation he mentioneth none of the sins of the Jews but that of rejecting Moses their Ruler vers 27. and 39. and their black sin of Idolatrie which vers 40. followed upon their rejecting of Moses That we might see that Rebellion against lawfull Authoritie is as unavoidably the forerunner of rejecting God as honour to the King is by the Apostle 1 Peter 2.17 immediatly subjoyn'd to the fear of God My Text seemeth to quadrat well with what is the occasion of this joyfull Day which will the better appear by holding out the severall parts and purposes therein contained They are three The first is the sinful and rebellious cariage of the people to a Ruler sent them of God They refused c. Secondly What the righteous Lord out of compassion to His people did for this oppressed and refused Ruler or King so the Spirit of God calls him Deut. 33.5 God sent him c. Thirdly You have a threefold office to the administration whereof he is sent and commissioned of the Lord viz. Ruler Judge and Deliverer Under which also relatively the duety of people is determined and set within its limits There is also a fourth thing in the words viz. the hand by the which Moses is sent to that office which because time will not allow us to speak of is purposely forborne in the Division For the first The peoples sinfull and rebellious cariage in these words They refused or denyed as the word is most ordinarily translated yea the word is sometimes used for a refusall or a denyall with disdain and undervaluing as Acts 3.13 which also accompanied therefusall in the words as is clear from the disdainfull saying attending it at the back in these words Who made thee e such an answer as we use to give to bussie medlers in matters not belonging to them And vers 39. it s said They thrust him away and would not obey him The second purpose in the text is what the King of Kings did for this refused and thrust away Depute of His concerning which the text holdeth cut First What the Lord did in the time of his exile even kept fellowship with him through Jesus Christ the Angel that dwelt in the Bush comforting and directing him in a wonderfull manner that he might know he was not rejected of God though refused by men Secondly That God sent him after his long so journing as it were renewing his Commission and making him successefull with a mighty hand in this last essay so that without violence the people are conquered to a submission unto him The third purpose in the text as I have said is the parts of that office to the exercise whereof he is sent viz. Ruler Judge and Deliverer under which I conceive is comprehended all that a Soveraign can or ought to claim and no more then should be granted to him since these three are expresly in his Commission from God whose the Kingdom is to the exercise whereof Moses was brought by the hand of Jesus Christ the King of His Church upon whose shoulders the Government lyeth So that the conceding these things to the Ruler so sent can be no Dammage but rather advantage to the Church of Christ But what each of these comprehendeth of the Rulers power shall be shewed afterward Now it followeth that we proceed to the Doctrines and in the entrie I would warn you that this text being so full of weighty matter it will not be possible in the short time allowed us to presse forth the whole substance thereof nor must that requisite acuracie in such points be expected from me Therefore many Doctrines I must passe altogether and such as shall be named must be discharged with greater brevitie then perhaps the matter would require But to proceed I make the first Doctrine to be That Government is in it self a thing so evidently necessary and usefull that even the opposers of lawfull Governours will not speak against Government This is grounded upon these words This Moses whom they refused Where it 's only the person which they question and afterwards Who made thee c Wherein they challenge nothing but his Warrand Commission and Authority for exercising of that Office See also vers 27. It will be supperfluous labour to prove the truth of this Doctrine The necessity and usefulnesse of Government being clear from Hab. 1.14 Where to be without a Ruler is to be as the Fishes of the sea and the creeping things the weaker whereof are destroyed by the greater and mightier as also from that Judg. 17. 6. Where it 's said that in the dayes wherein there was no King in Israel every man did that which was right in his own eyes Which is also repeated chap. 18. verse 1. and 19.1 and chap. 21. vers 25. In which places it is also observable that there is mention made of the wrong which the Levites the Church-men sustained that thereby we might see how usefull even to the Church a right constitution of Civil Government is Without this the Church wants the benefit of that promise Isa 49.23 that Kings should be nursing fathers yea Hos 3.4 to be without a King and to be without a Sacrifice do