Selected quad for the lemma: peace_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
peace_n	bring_v	good_a	tiding_n	2,863	5	11.4428	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02054	Heauen and earth reconcil'd A sermon preached at Saint Paules church in Bedford, October. 3. 1612. At the visitation of the right Wor. M. Eland, Archdeacon of Bedford. By Tho. Adams ...	Adams, Thomas, fl. 1612-1653.	1613 (1613)	STC 122; ESTC S100418	32,838	52

Thunder we were not able without him to turne your heartes to Righteousnesse Indeed the Word is strong in operation diuidyng the marrow and the bones and our ministrie is not of the Letter but Spirit sayth S. Paul thus farre exceeding the externall commaundement of Moses wherevnto he could not conuert his owne soule that it shall not onely require Fayth but giue it yet still Virtus a Deo the vertue life spirit is from God This cleares vs from that Popish imputatiō that we build our Fayth on a silly Minister we build it on the testimonie of the Spirit the Word of eternall truth deliuered to vs by such an organ The trueth examined they rather build their saluation on a silly Minister Thus farre they and we goe hand in hand we agree that Fayth conuersion is wrought in the heart by an especiall grace of Gods spirit But heere wee part They say the holy Ghost vseth the authoritie of the Church to beget Fayth in our heartes Wee say hee vseth the Ministrie onely not the Authoritie Thus whereas they rayse the credite of the Doctrine from the Minister wee rayse the credite of the Minister from the Doctrine so that of both Papistes may be trulier sayd to build their Fayth on the credite of Men yea and such men as some of them haue been Sodomites some Coniurer● some Murderours and scarce inferiour to Deuils vnlesse now perhaps they lie as deepe and low in Hell Thus are their blinded soules bound to beleeue not by their Ministrie as Christians but by their Authoritie as Pythagoreans I confesse the Word caryes Authoritie with it in any lippes which God hath touched with a Coale frō his Altar and woe to the soule that disobeyes it There is an easie Distinction sayth that excellent P●still betwixt the Lawyer the Physitian and the Diuine The Lawyer begins with Reason and so descends to common Experience and Authoritie The Physitian begins with Experience and thence proceedes to Reason and Authoritie The Diuine begins with Authoritie and so to Reason and Experience Our personall Authoritie then is nothing the Authoritie of Gods word not to be withstood These then are the Copulatiues and this the meanes to bring you to Righteousnesse or else despaire it If thou liuing within the sun-shine of the Gospell wilt not be enlightned by it thou must perish in darknesse If the Preacher conuert thee not to Righteousnesse God must worke Miracles or thy soule is in hazard Wee should now come to our Reward our Blisse our Heauen Shall shine as Starres for euer and euer But I find it Reu. 1. The seauen Starres are the Angels of the seauen Churches Ministers shall be Starres hereafter sayth the Prophet Daniel they shal be Starres heere too sayth S. Iohn Without question both speake trueth and there is a shining of this world goes before that Heauen Wee must be Starres in Grace that looke to be so in Glory It was directed to the Apostles Vos estis lux mundi you are the light of the world And Let your light so shine before men c. So God hath disposed that Lumen gracia antecedat Lumen gloria the light of Grace shall preceed the light of Glory And none shall shine hereafter that haue been darke heere First then consider what kind of Starres we are then what we shall be Ministers are sayd to be Starres in fiue repectes in Name Substaunce Sight Motion Effectes 1. In Name Stella astando dicitur a Starre quasi not stirre further then the Orbe carries it God hath fixed them in their Spheares and confined them to Stations like good Souldiers they know their Rankes and their Orders and obserue their Non vltra The Sunne knowes his rising and his going downe Ministers must be like Starres fixed in their orbes ours is a stable profession not a gadding Ministry It was S. Peters counsell or rather the holy Ghosts charge Feed that flocke that dependeth on you He spake merely the Tribe of Leuj must haue no minde to the Tribe of God The Apostles indeed went through the world but they had their Pasport for it Goe teach all nations c. It must not be so with vs not that you which are full should grudge the hungry soules some Crummes from your Tables How many are yet in this Land that would be heart-glad of those Sermons which you sleepe out and despise How many would close the Minister in the armes of ioy whom you contemne So easie is it for a full stomacke to forget the benefite of Meate The feete of those that bring good tidinges of peace are no where lesse beautifull then in their most frequented streetes Neuer found Prophet lesse honour lesse welcome then where his perpetuall paines haue best earned it Like pamper'd children you play with your Meate Giue vs leaue to gratifie with some comfortes I say not with our Sauiour the Dogge● but the Children of our owne Father which want them Theod●r●t writes that when Valent with his Arrian heresie had bepesterd the Christian world and stroke a deepe wound in the white boosome of the Church Aphr●●d●● a certaine Monke contrary to his order came foorth of his vowed and confining Monastery to succour the endangered trueth being asked by the offended Emperour What he did out of his Cell I did keepe it sayth he so long as Christes Sheepe were in peace I can not be coop'd vp and suffer them in hazard of ruine If being a Virgin I were confined by my Father to a Closset yet seeing the House on fire I were bound to come foorth to quench it Thus it is when the affayres of the Church call vs foorth our owne may not finde vs so ready They are wretched Starres that will be fixed in no Orbe admit of no certaine Charge nay not Starres but meere Meteors Exhalations Ignes f●tuj Commets portending delusion to others confusion to themselues vnstable Lightes C●r●ed about with euery wind of doctrine Wandring Starres as Jude sayth for whom is reserued not this shyning in glory but the blacke darknesse for euer They were such Starres that the redde Dragon with his tayle swept from Heauen and cast downe to the Earth that had no true location in the Orbe of the Church Stellae errati●a following their owne phantasies Let vs beware of such wandringes least it be sayd of vs as the Poet of that Starre Etsi non c●cidit poterit cecidisse viderj though we haue not fallen away yet we haue seemed so Let no stormes blow vs from our Charges Menaces Miseries Gustes Waues shall beat vpon vs yet S● fract●s illabatur orbis impauidum ferient ruinae let vs sticke closse fast to our Spheres when Gods general afflictions of plague famine mortalitie are most frequent our councels are most seasonable Oh when wil the iron heartes of men bow if not when they are heat in the flame of iudgements They are wretched Starres then and vncapable of this