Selected quad for the lemma: nature_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
nature_n	aaron_n	beard_n	ointment_n	15	3	10.3501	5	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A10051	Maries memoriall A sermon preached at St. Maries Spittle on Monday in Easter weeke being Aprill 1. 1616. By Daniel Price Doctor of Diuinitie, and chaplaine vnto the Kings maiestie.	Price, Daniel, 1581-1631.	1617 (1617)	STC 20297; ESTC S113685	49,518	72

much honourable in entertaining as Martha as shee was in hearing as Mary shee hath chosen our Sauiours head to anoint she hath chosen the better part which shall not be taken from her For wheresoeuer this Gospell shall be preached c. I finde good workes ranked into two files the offices of Deuotion as Almes and such like which be opera misericordit and the duties of Religion as Praiers Repentance sanctitie of the heart mortifying of the members cleering of the conscience from dead workes to serue the liuing God furthering by all our endeuours the glory of God these be opera iustitiae The former bee manuum sacrificia the latter cordium sacrificia In the first the withered hand is only healed but in the second the dead is raised the first seedeth Christ in the members of his manhood the second yeeldeth Christ the honour of his Godhead the first is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the second 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the first is the washing of Christs feet the latter the annointing of his head Magdalen a sinner may annoint his feet but Mary a Conuert only may anoint his head The first is as the Widowes mite a good worke and not vnrewarded but the second is Salomons offering honoured and proclaimed the first as the dawning of the day the second as the snining of the Sunne Both these haue gloriously appeared in this your Citie and the former the anointing of Christs feet the feeding cloathing healing of his hungrie naked sicke and weake seruants hath beene often vrged in this place and well it is that so it is for farre be it but wee anoint Christs feet seeing he washed his seruants feet a Ioh. 13.5 farre be it but Almes should euer haue their honour Paul was Collector for the poore b 1 Cor. 16.1 and our Sauiour was Ouer-seer for the poore c Luk. 21.4 Almes are the fruit of the Saints d Rom. 15.28 and an odour of a sweet smell a sacrifice acceptable well pleasing vnto God e Phil. 4.10 These ought you to haue done and not to leaue the other vndone Matth. 23.23 for as Peter said to Christ so Christ saith to vs not my feet only Ioh 13.9 Chrysost●m Augustin Ambr●s Orige● Chriso● but my head for as the starre of my Interpreters leadeth mee though by diuers lines yet in all of them there is but one and the same light the anointing of Christs head is veneranda meditatio diuinitatis deuota contemplatio passionis resurrectionis a reuerend awfull meditation of Christ his diuinitie and a deuout contemplation of Christ his blessed yet bloudie Passion and of his great and glorious Resurrection Aarons head was anointed with bloud and oile f Leuit. 8.30 wee must anoint our Sauiours head with our oile seeing he hath anointed our heads with his bloud for the blessing of his bloud is vpon vs and vpon our seed for euer It is Christs speech to the Church in the Canticles Dul●iora vnguenta quàm aromata Cant. 4.10 Thy ointments are sweeter then thy spices Of all the ointments in the whole Booke of God none so sweet as this The holy ointment appointed by God continued but till the Captiuitie then the holy fire went out the holy Arke was spoiled and the holy oile spilt Nihil tam diffusivum Beru ac oleum nothing of so spreading a diffusiue nature as oile no oile euer so diffusiue as this Aarons ointment was odoriferous and diffisiue but from the head to the beard and so to the body as it was vsed so it wasted Elias oile diffusiue and miraculous was spent and wasted not spread ouer all the house for the sustenance of a Prophet Kings 17.15 a Widow a childe a whole familie a whole yeere so long continued but then confined Elishaes oile was diffusiue and pretious and the more powred out the more increased it filled all the widowes vessels all her neighbours vessels filled all the vessels shee could borrow and paid all the debt that her husband had borrowed but when it had supplied the widowes want the fountaine failed But neither Aarons holy vessell of oile nor Samuels viall nor Dauids horne nor the widow of Zareptas cruise nor the Prophets Widowes Pot of oile nor the Alablaster box of the sinfull womans ointment so pretious so permanent so odoriferous as this Saints ointment which as the Orient Sun is euer in the full S. Iohn tels vs Iohn 12.5 that the house was filled with the odour of the ointment but our Sauiour tels vs the whole world shall bee filled with the odour hereof for wheresoeuer this Gospell is preached through the whole world c. It is sweet in all nostrils not in Bethany only or Galilie but 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 wheresoeuer nor as a Storie or Parable but 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a Gospell nor as a Rubricke or title of a Gospell but 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a Gospell of it selfe this Gospell nor a Gospell as the talent hid in the banke or the candle vnder the bushell but 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a preached Gospell nor a Gospell preached only in Canaan or on the other side Iordan but 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 throughout the whole world nor so preached as that the Act shall bee remembred and the Author neglected but 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 this that this woman hath done nor so preached as that the memory of this that she hath done should euer be forgotten 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 shall bee told for a memoriall of her This were enough The oile was pretious but the box of ointment could not be so pretious as now it is famous a stranger increase then the growth of a graine of mustard seed that is least of all seeds Matth. 13.32 yet greatest of all herbes but this miraculous ointment farre beyond that it shall spread so farre as the Gospell shall bee preached through the world and shall be preached as long as the world shall be continued Ecce Prophetiam Prophetam Euangelistam Euangelium it is a Prophecie and a Gospell spoken by a Prophet and an Euangelist All the Prophets prophecied of Christ and behold Christ prophecieth of Mary All the Euangelists wrote the Gospell of Christ Christ preach●th and prophecieth and proclaimeth thi● Gospell of Mary and sealeth his prophecie and preaching with an oath 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Verily I say to you Wheresoeuer c. She brought a box of Alablaster her box not emptie not mustie Boxes of Alablaster may be like the Pharisies Sepulchers carrying faire titles without corrupt carcases within The box might be pretious the ointment poisonous but as her box was no stained Alablaster for the box was pure so the ointment pretious As the oile was enough in that little box to anoint her Sauiours head and body so the Alablaster was enough to build a monument for her body and memory Babylon thought to be famous for a Tower the R●ubenites