Selected quad for the lemma: prayer_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
prayer_n	altar_n	angel_n	incense_n	2,319	5	11.9250	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A84337	The axe, against sin and error; and the truth conquering. A sermon on Matthew 3. 10. Now also the ax is laid to the root of the trees, therefore every tree, that bringeth not forth good fruit, is hewn down, and cast into the fire. At which, a Christian confessed, she was converted; and because it did good to her, desired it might be preached again at her funerall, that it might do good to others, ... wherein are shewed the causes of the sword upon England, and on the Lutherans, and the remedies that must be used, before the judgements cease. / Written by John Eachard, M. A. of Trin. Col. Camb. and pastor of Darsham in Suffolke. Published according to order.	Eachard, John, 17th cent.	1646 (1646)	Wing E46; Thomason E322_26; ESTC R200585	51,668	51

seditions that nation rise against nation and kingdome against kingdome Ergo there shall be great earth-quakes {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} i. in according to or through those places and famine and pestilence these are the beginnings of sorrows of which I have writ more fully in the Counsell of Christ to England Now as Moses when a pestilence was comming counselled the Israelites a way to escape the destroying Angel by sprinking the blood of a Lamb upon the two dore-posts and the upper dore-post of their houses that when God saw the blood he said he would passe over them and the plague shall not be upon you to destruction so ● counsell you the Israel of God buy one of them books for every house and sprinkle the faith of the blood of the Lamb upon your two dore-posts of your bodies and soules and the upper dore-post of your spirits that when the destroying pestilence shall come God may see the blood of the Lamb upon your consciences he may cause it to passe over your houses where the Israelite of a good conscience is within and whatsoever comes to your bodies yet your souls shall be safe for as the Angels of heaven went up and down on Jacobs ladder so they shall ascend and descend for your protection that believe your bodies were washed with pure water in Baptisme and your hearts sprinkled from an evill conscience by the blood of the Lamb you may keep your profession without wavering of deliverance Heb. 10. 22 23. For he that dwelleth in this secret of the Lord shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty Psal. 91. 1. and he shall give his Angels a charge over thee to keep thee in all thy wayes to beare thee in their arms that thou dash not thy foot against a stone v. 11. and peace shall be upon them that walk according to this rule of a new creature and upon the Israel of God Gal 6. 16. Thine in the Lord Jesus JOHN EACHARD JUDGEMENT Denounced against Unfruitfulnesse in grace MATTHEVV 3. 10. And now also is the ax put to the root of the tree therefore every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewne down and cast into the fire IOHN the Baptist the forerunner of Christ was prophesied of by two famous Prophets Isaiah and Malachi For this is he of whom it is spoken by the Prophet Isaiah saying The voyce of him that cryeth in the Wildernesse Prepare ye the way of the Lord make his paths streight And Malachi calleth him the Prophet Eliah that should turn the hearts of the fathers to their children and of the children to their fathers He exhorteth them to prepare a way in their hearts for Christ that they may receive him for so many as receive him he gives them prerogative to become the sons of God That as Princes and great Kings have forerunners that prepare their wayes and foretell of a kings coming to prepare him lodging so did John prepare the way for the Lord by shewing their lost miserable and cursed condition by sin The Vallies are exalted when men escape out of the mire of sin and go to Christ the Mountains and Hils are brought low when men cast away all pride of their own righteousnesse and trust in their merits and imbrace Christs and then crooked things are made streight when men cast away hypocrisie and simulation and receive the Gospel sincerely And he shall turn the hearts of the fathers to the children i. as Elias did when there was such a dissention in Religion that some fathers were for Baal and the children for God so on the contrary But Elias brought them all to acknowledge the true God So John the Baptist seeing the dissention of so many sects the fathers Sadduces and the children Pharisees or Esses he by a divine zeal thundring out the Law did convince them all of sin that they were great and damnable sinners and needed to be baptized and confessed their sins and were baptized in Jordan and was a true pointer for he pointed out Jesus Christ to be the Lamb of God that taketh away the sins of the world that men should receive him and this he was fore-prophesied he should do lest the Lord should smite the earth with cursing i. to bring a destruction upon the whole land for their dissention for when one part of a Common-wealth opposeth another Ipsa Salus non potest talem Rempublicam conservare Salvation it self cannot preserve such a kingdome for a kingdome divided cannot stand God hath smitten our land with this cursing that the hearts of the fathers were not towards the children nor the hearts of the children towards their fathers in the true Religion Fathers are for an Episcopacie and children for another way fathers for one sect and children for another none of both for Christ O that the Lord would raise up some prophet or John the Baptist that might thunder out the Law and Judgments of God against all the sects and divisions both of Cavilleers and all others to shew them they are all cursed and damnable sinners the best of all but luke-warm Gospellers and therefore wretched and miserable and poor and blind and naked that they may seek the remedie in Christ for their sins and buy of him gold tried in the fire that they may be rich which is the lively faith in the merits of Christs death received in baptisme which makes men rich members of Christ children of God and inheritors of the kingdome of Heaven which would make them leave fighting if they did believe it and white rayment that their filthy nakednesse might not appear they would then leave stripping one another of their garments and eye-salve that they might see how the Papists set them together by the eares and laugh at them when they kill one another they would then leave fightinng one with another and both sides fight only against them for murthering of their brethren in Ireland Now Christs testimony of John was this that he was that Elias that was to come and is come already and they knew him not but have done to him whatsoever they would Mat. 17. 12. i. many of the Jews knew not the Majesty and office of John the Baptist but said he had a devill Herod added this to his sins that he cast John into prison and beheaded him his birth was foretold by an Angel which appeared at the right hand of the Altar of incense saying Fear not Zacharias for thy prayer is beard signifying that he had prayed for a son for thy wife Elizabeth shall bear thee a son and thou shalt call his name John which signifies the grace of God signifying he should be a Preacher of the free grace of God to wretched sinners pointing with the finger at the Lamb of God for whose sake we are received into free grace and favour of God And thou shalt have joy and gladnesse and