Selected quad for the lemma: peace_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
peace_n	jerusalem_n	pray_v	prosperity_n	2,298	5	9.5696	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A30640	Englands bondage and hope of deliverance a sermon preached before the honourable House of Parliament at St. Margarets in Westminster / by Mr. Henry Burton ... Iune 20, 1641.	Burton, Henry, 1578-1648.	1641 (1641)	Wing B6162; ESTC R5904	17,112	32

be silent untill the Righteousnesse thereof breake forth like a morning Lampe And beloved this is indeed the naturall affection of the people of God it is naturall and proper unto every child of God thus to bee affected and ravished with the Church of God as above all things in the world to wish the good and welfare of it when it lyes under the waves and billowes of Affliction as the Apostle saith we must weepe with them that weepe rejoyce with them that rejoyce to be of like affection and surely beloved we have many motives and reasons to induce us and incite us to the love of the Church of God we have besides the example of the Saints First the example of God himselfe the Father who from everlasting hath so loved the Church that he did from everlasting choose it for his owne Predestinated them to salvation gave Christ for them gave him up to death for them as the Scripture saith Hee so loved the world that hee gave his onely begotten Son that all that believed on him should not perish but have Life everlasting hee would not have any of his perish but all saved though it cost him the death of his owne sonne such was his Bowels of Mercy and compassion towards them Secondly of the Love of Jesus Christ the sonne of God though hee was sent of the Father yet it was his owne good will that he gave his life for the Church shed his blood for it when hee put our humaine nature upon him that he might learne to have compassion on our infirmities and out of that compassion save us yea there was so much of that Philanthropos love of man in Christ that hee wept over the Jewes because of the hardnesse of their hearts because they would not give eare to his word nor believe in him hee wept for the destruction comming upon them Againe in the third place a third reason may bee taken from the consideration of the Church of God why we should love her and be well affected to her when we behold the Church cloathed with the righteousnesse of Christ shining out in those many battailes of Heaven and if we consider our relation to the Church of God in relation to Christ himself being his members his spouse his sister and every way so beautifull even so as Christ himselfe is ravished with her love as yee may read Cant. 4. And so in her Innocence it is Christ in her selfe it is none of her owne but by Christ the Church of God is made so innocent that she is without spot or wrinckle so noble so excellent and so glorious so highly in favour with God and with Christ now to see her lye under bondage and captivity that she that is freed by Christ should bee a Captive or a slave who can but bee affected therewith Wee doe compassionate those that are great men especially the high borne that are in bondage we pitty the very Lamb that is among Wolves the Dove among dogs and the Lilly that is crushed with Thornes more then all these is the Church of God a poore Lamb an innocent Dove a spotlesse Lilly when therefore shee is in this case it should move us to compassion Again another reason is taken from our selves we all desire to be of this Church of God to be in the very midst of this Assembly of the Church then beloved wee must bee of the same mind and affection with the Church of God of the same spirit to weep for it when occasion serves and herin stands our happinesse when we affect the Church of God Psal. 122 Pray for the Peace of Ierusalem that is the Church of God they shall prosper that love her see how the spirit turnes to those that love her pray for the Peace of Ierusalem peace be within thy wals and prosperity within thy Pallaces and surely beloved if the voyce of euery Christian should thus resolve with it selfe I desire to enjoy no liberty no mercy of God my selfe which I do not enjoy in common with the Church of God this is that makes every blessing to bee indeed a blessing when we doe injoy it not alone with our selves in particular but with the Church and when such a Land hath bin in Captivity as here in my Text when they are restored to their land and to their liberty and see the Land rejoyce with them also what a great Mercy is this of God and what abundant matter of Joy doth it afford unto those that are thus well affected that 's the fourth reason A fifth motive why wee must love the Church of God may be taken from the consideration of the captivity and bondage which here my Text hath relation to The Psalmist doth rejoyce at the deliverance of the Church of God because they were in captivity Captivity It takes away a mans heart and whatsoever is good in him we see what it hath done in other Countries in Turkie and many other places where men lye under Captivity what slaves are they and in what miserable cases are they Againe if we consider Captivity in the kinds of it either of the body or of the soule or of the conscience It is a miserable thing in any of these to be in bondage indeed we are all by nature borne slaves under the bondage of Sin and Satan but from this Christ hath delivered his people there is also a bondage of cōscience even many times of those people that are the children of Christ and that is under the servitude of humane inventions if it be a bondage of the body it may have a dependancie upon the bondage of the consciēce when the godly doe refuse to subscribe to mens devises in the worship of God then they are sent to Captivity of their bodies or else when men doe suffer their goods to be lost for it either of these kinds of bondage are the worst kinds in the world how many thousands of christians since England hath fallen out with God have bin devowred by these lyons as it is in the Chronicles when the Children of Israel set up their Idols then Gods sent lyons amongst them to devowr them and destroy them when England began to set up humane devises to corrupt the worship and service of God God sent lyons amongst us but thanks be to God at this time they are obiects of our pitty and compassion and it hath pleased God to move this honourable assembly to take into their harts the miserable condition of those that were thus captivated even so when wee see Gods Church in Captivity it should make us be affected with it it should make our Bowels earne over them with a desire of their freedome And then againe in respect of the deliverance it is glorious and honourable as in all times when God delivers his people he doth it with honour so when God delivered his children out of Egypt it was with honour in the face of all the World and so