Selected quad for the lemma: peace_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
peace_n	burn_a	offer_v	offering_n	2,152	5	11.4315	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A94074	The vvay to the highest honour. Presented in a sermon preached before the Right Honourable House of Peeres, in the Abbey Church at Westminster, at their late solemne monthly fast. Feb. 24. 1646. / By William Strong, one of the Assembly of Divines. Published by order of the House of Peeres.	Strong, William, d. 1654.	1647 (1647)	Wing S6013; Thomason E377_24; ESTC R201368	39,205	58

delivered that City yet no man remembred that same poore man But if a man serve a State surely they give better pay See it in Moses Num. 11.12 as faithfull a servant to the State of Israel as ever any people had Who carryed them in his bosome as a nursing father doth a sucking child for forty yeeres Yet what murmurings at him What jealousies of him What partyes made against him upon every sleight occasion And if any crosse accident fell out as a punishment of their own sin yet by by they must stone Moses he had undone them had a plot upō them in their deliverance out of Aegypt to destroy them in the Wildernes I know men in all their services love something in hand cannot be easily drawn to undertake any thing which doth not carry its reward with it and in such things they are very forward Hose 3.1 It s noted of the people of Israel they loved Flagons of Wine This is spoken of their Idolatrous worship which was done by feastings in the house of their Gods Judg. 9.27 1 Cor. 10.21 this service which they thought would bring them in a reward hereafter and yet suited with the present sensuality of their spirits here this they loved and much delighted in Hosc Propter voluptates colu●● idola magis de victu quem de cultu solliciti Tarn Drusius in loc 8.13 They sacrifice flesh for the sacrifice of mine offerings and they eate it The sacrifices of God were of two sorts expiatory or gratulatory the one in the burnt offering and the other in the peace offering and this last some conceive to be here meant the burnt offering was wholy to be consumed Weemse vol. 3. cap. 13. except the skin and the intrals therefore nothing of this did remaine to be eaten Populus volu●rit cutem suom cutare habere pingue convi●ium cum Dominus postularet offerri sibi ●o●otausta Cal. But in the peace offering only the fat was the Lords the rest was divided between the Priest and the Sacrificer and to these sacrifices there was a Feast adjoyned of great joy and gladnesse Deut. 16.15 1 Sam. 20.6 Prov. 7.14 In these sacrifices they did seeme much to delight but in burnt offerings in which God must have all they tooke no such pleasure But wee then honour God indeed when wee shut our eyes against all honour and reward from men and can be content to plow in hope knowing that light is sowne for the righteous and they must from God expect the harvest Thus wee see the first branch opened how wee may be sayd to honour God Wee now come to the second thing propounded in the opening of the point which is how God doth honour those that honour him which also is seene in these six particulars 1. God doth honour men by giving them honourable imployments The Angels have an order among themselves and some are conceived to be exalted above others in honour Zanth de eperibus Dei l 2. c. 14. Thes 5. but this is not a dignitate na turali for so they are all equall but a diversitate of ficiorum from the different imployments that the Lord is pleased to exercise them in Even Christ himselfe though he be the Churches Lord yet he is God the Fathers Servant and his service is his honour now he is in heaven for he weares his Priestly garments there being cloathed with a garment downe to the feet and girt about the paps with a golden girdle Rev. 1.13 Surely they that are most serviceable are most honourable Those honourable titles carry in them great services Psal 82.5 Psal 47.9 Hose 4.8 Esay 32.2 Sam 4.20 Job 34.17 Esay 19.13 to be the foundations and the shield of the earth the hiding places from the wind and refuge from the storme the breath of our nostrils the healers of our breaches the stay of our Tribes and whatsoever may set forth a man usefull in Church or Commonwealth That any of you right Honourable should be so far used and honoured as with Moses to deliver an enslaved people with Joshah to fight the Lords battels and to give them possession of the promised Land Esay 14.12 34.4 Stellae de ceela cadentes de principum summatum ruinâ intelliguntur Cauda potestatis comites pedissequos significat In terram abjicer● est p●incipes Dynastas imperio suo subjeicere Mede in Apoc. which Elijah to restore the worship of God decayed and with Zorobabel to cast out the rubbish and to build the Temple these are the greatest and the most honourable services that any men in the world can be imployed in 2 God honours men by keeping them unblemished that they retaine their integrity and doe not warpe in the most trying times whether the tryals be by prosperity or adversity In the time of adversity the Stars doe often fall there is a Cauda Draconis which sweepes downe the third part of the Stars of Heaven and casts them unto the earth Rev. 12.4 And all the world wonders after the beast and receive his marke in their forehead a token of their subjection because they say who is able to make war with the beast Rev. 13.4 Then shall those that God will honour be preserved as a morning without a cloud And they shall stand with the Lambe upon Mount Zion having his Fathers name written in their foreheads And of them it shall be sayd these are they who were not defiled with women for they are Virgins these are they who follow the Lamb whither soever he goeth these were redeemed from among men being the first fruites unto God 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. Naz●an orat 1.9 and to the Lambe Rev. 14.3 They shall not appeare to be chaffe in winnowing times though they be emptied from vessell to vessell God doth honour them by not suffering their lees to arise But they are resolute for God and beare witnesse to the truth and doe not carry themselves in a reserved middle way which is the policy of the world that they may preserve a favourable esteeme with both parties though they be loved and trusted of neither And in tryalls also in the times of prosperity which commonly prove the most dangerous snares Austin deverb Dom. ser 13. Magna est faelicitas non a faelicitate vinci Joseph is the same in Prison as a slave in Potiphars house as a servant and in Pharaohs Court as a Prince the second in the Kingdome A godly man is resembled to a Rock Ezech. 3.9 Licet m●●tor frangit ●●versitaes mu●●ò ●●●res ex●o●●r prosper●●as Be●n de temp s●r 52 in a storme the Rock shakes not shrinkes not and if the Sun shine the Rock melts not Prov. 27 21. As the fining pot for silver and the furnace for gold So is a man to his praise There is not a surer and more effectuall tryall in the fining pot to discover the drosse of