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	golden_a	incense_n	3,134	5	12.0529	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A12793	The sale of salt. Or The seasoning of soules Namely such, as for whom the chapmen here doe come, and whom the author, which taketh the name of a salter, is willing, what in him lieth, to season with the salt of the Word, leauing the successe to the Lord, without whose blessing in such works we can do nothing. Written by Iohn Spicer, minister of the word of God at Leckhamsteed in the county of Buckingham.	Spicer, John.	1611 (1611)	STC 23101; ESTC S117790	175,913	412

those Posts in the the land of Ephraim Manasseth and Zabulom Salt Some laughed them to scorne and mocked them and some submitted themselues and came to Ierusalem Chap. And what did they of Iudea Salt The hand of God was in Iudah so that he gaue them one heart to do the commandement of the King and of the Ruler according to the word of the Lord and when it shall please the same God that gaue them one heart to giue vs in this land one heart also wee shall doe the Commandement of our King and Rulers according to the word of the Lord for if wee had all that heart if there were vnity then as they in Iudea came into the house of the Lord to serue him and to kéepe the Passouer vnto him so should all wee in this land go to the Church serue God and in communicating shew forth the death of our Sauiour with thankes-giuing vntill hee come 1. Cor. 11.26 Wee should not be some in the Church and some in the chamber Some doing that which Christ commanded to bee done in remembrance of him some knéeling before some worke of Mans hand Luke 22 1● Some hearkening to the preaching of Christ crucified some contenting themselues with hearing a Masse and looking on a Crucifixe Some through faith féeding in Christ which is aboue sitting as Paul saith at the right hand of God Col. 3.1 Heb. 1.3.8 Ca. 8.5.1 which to the Hebrues is called the right hand of Maiesty in the highest places and other some after certaine words spoken and grossely vnderstood séeking for him in forme of bread as if our Sauiour when hee said This is my body had either two bodies or else one and the same body at one and the same time seene and heard at the Table and hid and silent in the bread Chap. I wonder that they holding a bodily presence will themselues bee bodily absent Salt They absent themselues from our Church not only in body but also in Spirit they haue no minde to vs nor to our congregations Chap. It may be they thinke there be as many things that need clensing as needed clensing in Ierusalem when Hezechiah began to reigne at which time as I haue heard there were many things amisse Salt Indéed that godly King found high places images and groues all which hee tooke away and when hee had brought the Priests and Leuites into the east stréet hee said vnto them Heare me you Leuits sanctifie your selues 2 King 18 4 3. Cro. 29.5 and sanctifie the house of the Lord God of your Fathers and carry forth the filthinesse out of the Sanctuary For our Fathers haue trespassed and done euill in the eyes of the Lord our God and haue forsaken him and turned away their faces from the Tabernacle of the Lord and turned their backes 7 The haue also shut the doores of the porch and quenched the Lampes and haue neither burnt Incense nor offered burnt offerings in the Sanctuary vnto the God of Israel Chap. I thinke our Recusants haue Lamps and Incense still Salt They haue or would haue and Images too but they forget that those lamps and those offerings were signes of our Sauiour Christ which is called the light of the world and was once offered to take away the sinnes of many Heb. 9.28 as they may reade in the Epistle to the Hebrues where also they shall finde that the Priests Heb. 8.4 according to the Law offered guifts which serue vnto the Patterne of heauenly things Reu. 8.3 And in the Reuelation they may reade of an Angel that had a golden Censer much odours were giuen vnto him that hee should offer with the praiers of all Saints vpon the golden Altar c. Whereby wee are giuen to vnderstand that euen the prayers of the faithfull are no other waies accepted then through the sweete smelling merits of our Sauiour Christ who hauing brought the light of the Gospell giuen himselfe to death for vs and finished whatsoeuer in the Law was figured Lamps incense and burnt offerings and such like must now cease Chap. May not the Preachers of the truth be called Lamps and Lights Salt Yes so long as they leade vs to Christ which is the true light of the world and many such Lampes were put out not quenched with water but consumed with fire in the Bonerian daies God grant all Princes to take héed how they put out such lamps as shew the way to life eternall The same Spirit that said Touch not mine annoynted said also Do my Prophets no harme Psa 105.5 the learned know who are meant by annoynted in that place Chap. Doe not you thinke that many of the superstitious Catholickes for by that word I distinguish them from such Catholickes as are sincere did not murmure in the daies of our late Soueraigne when they saw the pictures of Lions Dragōs painted where they were wont to see such pictures as bare the names of Christ Mary and Iohn Salt I know not whether they did or no but if they did they had no reason for it sith the Armes of Princes which professe the Gospell with the supporters whether they be Lyons Dragons or Vnicornes being painted in Churches do signifie that the Prince whose Armes those are is a defender of the faith and of the pure worship of the liuing God and that hee is supreme Gouernour in all causes and ouer all persons not onely Ciuill but also Ecclesiasticall next and immediately vnder Christ in his owne Dominions who knowes not the simple people are more easily drawne to make Idols of the pictures of Saints then of beasts and therefore the remouing of their pictures and the placing of Arms in their roome is no sufficient cause to kéepe them from Church as if Christian Princes were to be reckoned amongst those that set vp their banners for tokens Psal 74.4 Chap. Sure I thinke some of them could frame themselues to come to Church notwithstanding the want of Images but that they haue beene away so long Salt This is no good excuse for a man to say I cannot doe this or that because I haue not done it in a great time for then Israel and Iudah might haue made that excuse for not comming to Ierusalem to keepe the Passeouer in the second Moneth for that it is said they had not done it in a great time as it was written 2 Chro. 30 Chap. I will trouble you no more about this matter Salt My good friend talke not of troubling mee it is the King and those that gouerne vnder his Maiesty that are troubled they see there be sundry opinions and that the fauourers of each would bee tollerated to haue their owne way which if it should be granted then the land though it haue a godly King should appeare as if it had none But wise and godly Kings which make much of them that are knowne to feare the Lord suffer not euery man especially