Selected quad for the lemma: peace_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
peace_n	beseech_v	hear_v	please_v	2,403	5	9.3456	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B00055	Love and obedience or, Christs precept and promise. Being a sermon preached on Whitsunday last, 28 of May, 1637. in Guild-hall chappell, before the right honorable the Lord Major of this city of London.	Freake, William	1637 (1637)	STC 11347; ESTC S123109	14,888	23

supplications to almighty God we shall finde our hearts to be straighted and our tongs defective in expressiō of our desires to fly for assistance to this heavenly advocate and to invocate him for he it is alone that helpeth our infirmities he maketh requests for the Saints according to the will of God saith St. Paul Rom. 8.26 27. And in this case doubtlesse shall the faithfull soule finde the benefit of this promise of our blessed Lord in my Text Ego rogabo patrem when the blustring stormes of adversity or affront of temptation shall winnow us as wheate as our blessed Lord told St. Peter Luke 22.31 Let us adhere in faith and obedience to this heavenly advocate as remembring that he which prayed for St. Peter hath prayed also for us and this his holy advocate shall speak in us and with us and for us fides non deficiet our faith shal not faile when that accuser of the brethren which is cast down into the earth shal serve thee with a subpoena in the court of thy owne conscience and shall set all thy sins in order before thee thereby raising within thee those tempestates mentis as Nazianzen stiles them those tempests in thy soule which shall shake the very foundation of thy faith religion cast out this shoot anchor thou maist ride out this storm have recourse to this heavenly advocate the comforter in my Text and thou shalt overcome all oppositions by the blood of the Lamb Rev. 12.10 11. He that said rogabo patrem I will pray unto the Father even he shall send thee helpe by this holy comforter whose presence shall appease all stormes as it was sayd of our blessed Saviour Mark 4.39 He shall rebuke the winde and say unto the waves peace and be still and the storme shal cease and a great calme shall follow Et ille dabit alium paracletum and he shall give thee another comforter that he might abide with thee for ever But may some man say quare aliuu● paracletum why another comforter for is not this the same Spirit of God whereby the Patriarchs were taught to beleeve the Prophets were inspired and the Apostles guided in their Ministry while our Saviour lived amongst them I answer hee is doubtlesse the very same for He is the Lord that changeth not Mal. 3.6 But this distinction is added as the Fathers have well observed as to distinguish the Persons in Trinity so to proove the Deity of the Holy Ghost He is Alius Paracletus another Comforter because he is not the Father nor the Sonne but the Holy Ghost the third person in Trinity And yet it is also added to proove the Vnity of the Deity God equall with the Father and with the Son therefore it is said in the last words of my Text Manebit in aeternum He shall abide for ever But it is also said Vobiscum manebit He shall abide with you for ever ut intelligant Discipuli saith Musculus upon this place esse eum Consolatorem non temporarium sed aeternum That his Disciples might conceive of him as a Comforter not to abide with them for a while but with the Church of Christ for ever Ecce ego sum vobiscum omnibus diebus usque ad consummationem saeculi as Saint Jerome renders it Behold I am with you unto the end of the world Matth. 28. last vers What alwayes art thou with us even unto the end of the world blessed Saviour Oh suffer us to speake unto thee who are but dust and ashes Thy Apostle St. Peter hath taught us that the Heavens must containe thee untill that all things be restored Acts 3.21 It is true Oh blessed Iesus as thy holy Apostle hath taught us and Lord teach us ever to beleeve and retaine this truth that the Heavens shall containe thy body till the restauration of all things that so we may be preserved from that Antichristian errour of adoring thy bodily presence in a Wafer-cake But thou art still with us we acknowledge it and makest good thy promise untill this day For except thou oh Lord hadst beene present with me to inspire my weake meditations in the preparation of my selfe for the weighty imployment of this day and houre through the gracious influence of that blessed Comforter in our Text neither had my heart beene able to conceive nor my tongue to utter any thing for the glory of thy great Name the edification of thy people or the discharge of my duty And hadst not thou by thine especiall providence and mercy assembled these thy people in thy Name by the powerfull perswasion of the same most blessed Comforter Neither had they beene hearers of thy Word at this time We humbly praise thy holy Name for all thy mercies and particularly for that of this day and houre beseeching thee to adde the operation of thy blessed Spirit to these outward meanes in such free favour affoorded us and to perswade all our hearts that as we professe to love thee as thy Disciples so we may ever be carefull to expresse our love unto thee in a conscionable observance of thy holy Commandments that so we may be partakers of the comforts of thy gracious promise thy blessed Spirit of grace which may abide with us for ever Amen Even so come Lord Jesus And so I have done with the Text one word onely for the occasion of our meeting and so an end The memoriall of the just shall be blessed saith the wise man Prov. 10.7 as whose good deeds deserve to be had in everlasting remēbrance I can not therfore in this grave and honored assembly without a sinfull over-sight and neglect of my duty omit the memoriall of that Honourable and worthy Citizen Sir Thomas Rowe whose piety and religious care occasioned this Sermon and this meeting this day For in the Chronicles of this City I read lately that in the yeare 1569. Sir Thomas Rowe Cittizen and Merchant-taylor and at that time Lord Major of this honourable City in a pious care to accommodate a great number of Parishes then in his government touching the decent and orderly buriall of their dead did of his owne free charge and bounteous liberality inclose a parcell of ground neare the Hospitall of Bethlem and caused the same to be consecrated for a place of Burial for such Parishes as in that case were straitned A motion doubtlesse proceeding from the sacred direction of this heavenly Comforter For seeing the men of Iabesh Gilead have that pious act of theirs registred by the Pen of the Holy Ghost in that they took with much danger the body of Saul and the bodies of his Sons from the wall or streete of Bethshan and were careful to bury them in the land of Israel 1. Sam. last Chap. 3. last verses I see no reason but why this pious Act of this honourable Citizen should be yeerely remembred as upon this day and occasion by such as shall bee called to the duty of this Day to the glory of God whose holy Spirit moved him to this worke of mercy for the honour of this City and of this grave Senate that among innumerable others hath beene honoured with this religious example and for the incouragement of others to follow his steps in good workes of this nature which that it may be so it is and shall be my dayly prayer as your unworthy Chaplaine that God will continue his mercies to this honorable City in a happy succession of good discreete and religious Governours under whose pious and godly care wee may enjoy in succeeding times the comfort of a quiet and happy peace and live thereby before him in all godlinesse and honesty and that it may please our heavenly Father to blesse the present Magistrates and all that shall succeed them giving them grace to execute Justice and to maintaine truth and heerein Wee beseech thee to heare us good Lord. And to this end let us pray as the Church hath piously instructed us in the Collect for this day Almighty God which as upon this day hast taught the hearts of thy faithfull people by sending unto them the light of thy holy Spirit grant us by the same Spirit to have a right judgement in al things and evermore to reioyce in his holy comfort through the merits of Jesus Christ our Saviour who liveth and reigneth with thee in the Vnity of the same ever one God Laus Deo FINIS