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	incense_n	saint_n	2,851	5	6.8903	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A94072	The trust and the account of a stevvard, laid open in a sermon preached before the Honourable House of Commons, at Margarets Westminster; upon Wednesday the the [sic] 28. of April 1647. being the day of their publique humiliation. / By William Strong.	Strong, William, d. 1654.	1647 (1647)	Wing S6009; Thomason E385_12; ESTC R201462	31,291	38

will not be honourable for the Commanders who should rather say as Themistocles did after a great victory wonne against the Persians walking up and downe among the slaine and seeing many agreat ●ooty which he disdained to stoope for but calling to them that stood by said T●●e hec 〈◊〉 qui Th●mist●cles 〈…〉 Ammia● Mar●●l l. 30. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Et involast● ad spolium Sh●●dl Luc. 12.42 It is recorded to S●●s eternall disgrace after his victory against Amalecke that he did fly upon the spoile 1 Sam. 15.19 Secondly give every one in the Family his pertion i● d●● season Let Justice be as common as the Ayre wee breath in Eccles 4.1 Now to heare the cryes of the oppre●●ed that have no Comforter would 〈…〉 to praise the dead that are already dead ●●●les 4.1 rather then the living that are yet alive It may be justice may be done where a publique advantage may come in another way upon men that have no great relation to some in high place but if they have any of these references be the person never so vile be the matter never so foule he shall finde friends to plead his cause and justice against such an one shall finde many a stop Briss●● de for●● 〈◊〉 3. Constantine's Edict would befit a Parliament in this respect who published to the people If any of my Friends Courtiers Servants have wronged any man let him come to me without feare and I will not only right him but reward him Oh what account will Magistrates give in this particular for honouring friends above justice and above God Thirdly nourish not divisions and parties in the Family which is a great evill in a Steward Quia tempub fu●●●●ent ●●leiunt par ●●es 〈◊〉 Tarn in Z●ph 3.6 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. Na●●n orat 21. Zach. 10.2 You are called the corner which joynes the building and by joyning strengthens it It was Athanasius his honour to be percutient bus Adamas dissentientibus Magne● God hath honoured you in the one the Lord grant yee may be like him in the other For your differences will occasion or at least foment divisions in the whole Kingdome Blessed be God our breach is not so great with those that agree with us in matters of Doctrine but that a little love would cover it doe not you widen it Wee have the example of Christ who hath therein left us a copie to write after He cared not for giving offence in matters of Piety When they told him the Pharisies were offended at him he answered Math. 15.14 let them alou● they be blind leaders of the blind Yet he was very carefull not to give offence in matters of liberty Math. 17.29 he payes tribute though it were not due lest he should offend them It was a just reproofe that the Marriners gave to the Phylosopher in a storme propounding questions of no moment 〈◊〉 l. 1. c. 2. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 while wee are sinking thou art trifling And wee may well apply it to our selves Wee are wrangling about curiosities when this and the neighbouring Kingdome are perishing And it may justly provoke the Lord to give us up into the hands of our enmies to bring us to an accord And if I may have liberty to professe my feares I feare our present divisions may make way for the saddest perfecution that ever was knowne in England For Christ shall have the bitterest enemies in the last dayes The fourth beast is divers from all those that were before it exceeding dreadfull his teeth of iron and his nailes brasse which devoured and brake in peeces and stamped the residue with his feete Dan. 7.19 The Witnesses that did formerly prophesie in sackcloth and ashes Rev. 11.3 ● an expression of an afflicted and suffering condition in the latter dayes they shall be slaine and their dead bodies cast out and not allowed a buriall the most barbarous inhumanity And this bitter emnity shall be coloured over with the greatest shewes of holinesse Antichrist fights against Christ under his own banner he is compared to a whore whose lips drop as the honycombe Rev. 17.4 and she gives the wine of her fornication in a golden cup under so much flattery and shew of love and profession of zeale for Christ that many an honest and plaine hearted man who have not knowne the depths of Satan may be blinded with such delusions and may put forth their hand in the persecution with scorners Satan can creepe into Peter and for a private end cause him to dissemble and then Barnabas also may be carried away by the same dissimulation Fourthly use your Authority to engage the Saints to you who are the best of the Family and in them your strength lyes Zach. 1● 5 Take heede how you grieve them that you doe not 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 1 Cor. 8 1● Verberare Percutere M●● Vulnerare T●●m which are the sharpest stroakes and the deepest wounds It had beene but to little purpose for Joshua to have fought in the Valley had not Moses his hands beene lifted up upon the Mountaine and the successe varies not according to Joshua's fighting but Moses praying Revel 8.5 Judgements are executed upon the enemies by coales that are taken from the Incense Altar and are poured out in the same Censer in which the prayers of the Saints were offred And from thence came the earthquake the thunderings lightnings and voices Take heede of disobliging the Saints in truth I speake not for any that doe proudly appropriate to themselves the name losing their hearts and their prayers and all this for matters circumstantiall wherein our owne light is not fully cleere Indeed there will come a time when Ezekiels Temple shall be built and the Lord will shew his people the Paterne of his House and all the formes of it When New Jerusalem shall be built upon the foundation of the Apostles Doctrine Rev. 21.14 and men shall cleerely see how every thing is grounded thereupon But meane while agreeing in fundamentalls till the Lord cleere these things to us wee should pity on another pray one for another as comming all forth ex eodem utore ignorantia Tertul. Fiftly improve your Authority to perfect the Reformation begun Take care of your Masters goods lose not what is already wrought Hose 13 13. Doe not with Ephraim as an unwise stay long in the place of the breaking forth of children Yet thinke not that wee are already perfect looke unto that paterne which the Lord hath set forth in the latter dayes and see how far wee come short 2 Kin 13.18.19 and let us presse hard unto that marke to be content with low things is an Argument of low spirit and to write a nil ultra upon every new degree attained 〈◊〉 6.10 The Church indeed in this world will be only faire as the Moone which hath some spots and is