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peace_n	jerusalem_n	pray_v	prosper_v	2,247	5	10.2214	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A94152	A pious president to both kingdomes for a sacred covenant. Being an abstractive exposition by way of paraphrase upon the tenth chapter of Nehemiah, the 28, and 29 verses / by Daniell Svvift, Minister of the gospell of Iesus Christ.	Swift, Daniel.	1643 (1643)	Wing S6255; Thomason E71_3; ESTC R7337	45,715	58

dreadfull vengeance through want of concord amongst our selves Let us pray yea contend with God in prayer for the peace of Hierusalem we may know that none shall prosper but they that love her and can we love her and not pray for her For our brethren and companions sake let us say peace be within her walls and because of the house of the Lord our God let us seeke to doe her good Now that we may doe thus we all can tell how that united forces are the strongest and that a three-fold cord is not easily broken Vis unita fortior therefore let us endeavour to keepe the unity of the spirit in the bond of peace If the prayers of one Moses could suppresse the Amalekites O how soone then would a Land of praying Christians penetrate the Heavens and cause our enemies to fall before us Cant. 6.9 why doe we stand still divided let us like Christs Dove become but one that the daughters that see us may powre out their blessing upon us Give me leave to make use of Pauls request to the Church of Corinth and beseech you brethren by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ that we may once all speake the same thing and that there may be no schismes amongst us but that we may be perfectly joyned together in the same mind and in the same judgement Concordiâ paruae res crescunt concord will cause a growth not onely of strength but of many other good things amongst us Unanimously now let us concurre together let us every man for himselfe and all of us one with another ingage our spirits by promise and oblige our soules by a solemne vow to the Lord of Heaven thus doing we shall establish a blessed communion and this wee cannot doe unlesse in covenant with these repenting Israelites wee adhere unto our brethren our Nobles The Priests and Levites Observat These Priests and Levites were chiefe officers in the Temple they stand not upon their tip-toes pleading immunity from civill authority they apprehend not themselves discharged of The Clergy not exempted from civill authority and exempted from their due allegiance God hath not said by them Princes rule but by him they reigne and decree justice It was but fitting they should expresse submission for as every soule must bee subject to the higher powers so I am sure it is not safe for a Kingdome but dangerous to a state where the Crosiers receive not power from the Regall sword These worthies of Israel having set forth their Ordinance for a covenant with God this Leviticall Clergy like the Romish faction cry not up freedome and forthwith declaime against them they expresse their yeilding by their present obeying they contradict not these you see aswell as others cleave unto their brethren the Nobles Observat A good Clergy a Kingdomes felicity Ministers should be Ring-leaders not to rebellion but submission not to prophanenesse but to conscientious and sincere observance these Priests and Levites are in their due posture they are not Incendiaries to the Land of Iudah they are not fomenters of jealousies in their peoples eares they condescend in their owne persons to prevent suspitious betwixt the Nobles and the Commons for what is jealousie it is as unsatiable as the grave it is the greatest evill to a Common-wealth and the deadliest enemy as to affection so to submissive obedience The Priests in the time of the Law presented oblations 1 Sam. 2.28 and burnt incense before the Lord these considering that obedience is better than sacrifice and that God layes more clayme to the living than to the dead joyne with their worthies observe the Ordinance take the Covenant and in these as a living burnt offering give up themselves to God The Levites expounded the Law displayed the sacred Oracles in things spiritual instructed the congregations secular affairs were not the subject matter of their imployments they studied Theologie not policy the Art of teaching rather than the Art of ruling I am sure that thus it was with these of the Tribe of Levi for they brake not the Covenant Malach. 2.8 They teach holinesse and they practise piety they are not like wolves in sheepes skins palliating cruelty under the habit of meekenesse their doctrine is a light and their lives are a lampe that like wise builders they set up godlinesse and like savoury salt season the hearts of their hearers O Israel it was thy happinesse to have such Levites it hath bin and I feare me in some measure yet is our misery to want such Leaders darknesse discovers no dangers and if the blind lead the blind they both fall into the ditch Application The time was when old Ely heard of evill dealing in the Priesthood how Hophni and Phinehas his sacrificing sonnes made the Lords people to transgresse 1 Sam. 2.23.24 Thus did the watch-men of Iudah in stead of knocking of the fingers Quantum pernitiosa est ad sequentium lapsumuina praepositi in tantum contrà uti le est et salutare cum se Episiopus per firmamentum fi●e fratribut inultandum praebet Cyprian Lib 3. Epist 21 Omnium felrum promittunt licentiam et quasi vexillum gerunt ad probandam omnem speciim nequiti● Calvin Cur pec●ata populi commedere à cuatur nisiquia pecca a delinquenitium sove●t Grego Homel 17 Omnino proditorem se esse noverit quicunque est ille qui vitae quae libet in ia hanc domum conatur inducere Bernard strengthen the hands of the wicked when by their owne example crying wee will powre forth wine and fill our selves with strong drinke Esay 56.12 They gave them incouragement in their nefarious courses And was it not because of this that they prophesied in Baal caused Israel to erre committed adultery walkt in lies confirmed men in their hellish practises and not suffering them to returne made them as Sodome and as the Inhabitants of Gomorrah before the Lord. That made Ieremy in a dolefull lamentation give out this expression that his very heart was broken Ier. 23.9.13.14 But these mentioned by Nehemiah are of another temper they doe not eate of the sins of the people by being foster fathers to their filthy vices these doe not build with their doctrine and pull downe by their practise the light of their conversations is now become so fulgent that others may behold them for their imitation they doe not seeke to innovate Religion erect novelties and advance superstitious vanities as sometimes Vrijah the Priest did who built an Altar according to all that Ahaz had sent from Damascus 2 Kings 16.11 nay these resolve too to bid adue to Idolatry to demolish superstition and not to stand any longer guilty of spirituall treason by upholding wickednesse in Gilgall I might have said Bethel the house of the Lord. For as they goe before the people in the covenant affording them their examples for their incouragement so by covenant they bind themselves for