Selected quad for the lemma: religion_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
religion_n	world_n	worship_n	worship_v	624	4	8.0271	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A15575	Abels offering. Or The earely, and most accepted sacrifice of a Christian Shewing how soone every soule is bounde to begin, & betake himself, not only to the true, but also to the timely service of God. A sermon preached at Hamburg in November 1617. and now published at the instant entreaty of a godly Christian. By Iohn Wing (then) pastor to the English church, there.	Wing, John, of Flushing, Zealand.	1621 (1621)	STC 25842; ESTC S120118	48,552	80

ABELS OFFERING OR THE EARELY and most ACCEPTED Sacrifice of a Christian Shewing how soone every soule is bounde to begin betake himself not only to the true but also to the timely service of God A SERMON Preached at Hamburg in November 1617 and now published at the instant entreaty of A Godly Christian. BY IOHN WING then Pastor to the English church there Hosea 10.20 It is now time to seeke the Lord till he rayne righteousnes vpon you AT FLVSHING Printed by Martin Abraham vander Nolck dwelling at the signe of the Printing 〈…〉 TO THE Right Honorable THE OPHILVS Lord Clinton EARLE of Lincolne And to the vertuous and Right Honorable the Lady BRIDGET his wife AND TO The Right Honorable WILLIAM Lord Say and Seale with the Vertuous and Right Honorable the Lady ELISABETH his wife IOHN WING A poore vnworthy Minister of Iesus Christ wisheth all increase of all true honour and happines with God and men RIght honorable Lords and Ladyes I hope it shall not be any way distastefull or vnpleasing to your honours that a stranger is bolde to salute you from beyonde the seas and to publish your names there where your persons may be as vnknowne to others as myne is to your selves I have not presumed on this double dedication without all reason for why it is famously knowne that you are the worthy examples of this subject wherof I here treat And I cannot but thinke that they are the fittest Patrones of divine bookes whome God hath made the faithfull Patternes of the doctrine contayned in them It is long since I have heard of your early and happy proceedings in piety Having now this opportunity I could not longer contayne in silence but resolved to place you in the beginning of this litle booke that they which reade seeing such gracious and noble presidents of the practise herein pressed might have the more powerfull jnducements to draw them to doe the same The Lord of heaven keepe you all in your most holy course bring you to the end of this happy race that every of you may after all honorable falicityes enjoyed on earth posesse those infinite and endles glories prepared for all that love his name in whome I rest FLVSHING the 30. of October 1621. Yours Honours in all service for the honour of God IOHN WING Pastor to the English church at Flushing in ZEELANT Pag. 18. lin 23. put in and gaue Pag 43. lin 33. put out he Pag. 49. lin 24. for albe read able ABELS OFFERING OR THE Earely and most acceptable sacrifice of a Christian Shewing how soone every soule is bounde to begin to betake himself not only to the true but also to the timely service of God Gen. 4.4 And Abel he also brought of the firstlings of his flock and the fatt therof THE three former chapters of this holy History being spent in the discovery of the worldes creation and of the most wonderfull and glorious workemanship of God as in every other creature soe especially in Man whose happy estate while he stood and miserable condition when he fell and most gracious recovery from his fall with divers other divine occurrents next and jmmediately following being at large related vnto vs. It now pleaseth the holy Ghost to goe further in this sacred narration and in the beginning of this fourth chapter to acquaint vs with the multiplication of man-kinde And here we have the story of the first two that were ever borne into the world to wit the two first sons of their and our first parents I dispute not whether they were twinnes the text seemeth to contradict it though some doe weakely conceit it neither doth it carry or conclude any materiall consequence whether they were or noe concerning whome we have a threefolde description 1. of their birth and naturall being ver 1.2 2. of their busines and civill being ver 2. 3. of their religion and spirituall condition ver 3.4 They were both borne into the world of their parents by them also were they both employed in the world and these two are only named or mentioned without any further discourse But the third thing to wit that which concerneth the matter of religion is that which the Lord doth intend to treat off and insist vpon In the world and affaires of the earth men may lawfully be of divers professions trades occupations and it is needfull they should be soe But in religion it cannot be thus piety cannot admitt a diversity the blessed worship of God will beare no variety at all it must be vniforme as that one God is who is worshipped And soe was this of these two bretheren so farre as the same appeared visiblely to men in the externall act of sacrificing which practise they had doubtles learned of their parents who were without question taught of God how to excercise this duty though the letter of the scripture be silent in both as it is in divers other excellent truthes which yet we stand bound to acknowledg by vertue of such evident and vndeniable consequence as doth clearely conclude the same without litterall testimony in any expresse tearmes to avouch it Now concerning the sacrifice of the sons of Adam Cain and Abell there is a double difference noted 1. of the sacrifices they offred 2. of the effect they found with God to whome they were offred That which is observable in their sacrifices is this that wheras Cain carelesly and without choise offred of the fruit of the grounde not regarding what he offred soe he brought some what contrary to the law of those offrings which required the first of all fruits It is reported of Abell commended in him that he was very regard-full and respective to sacrifice to his God of the first of his flock and among the first the best he could pick and chuse And according to the difference of these acts the effect was also different with the Lord who seemeth to suite and fit his justice to Cain that as he had no respect what offering he brought soe had God no respect to him or that he offered and his favour to Abell vnto whose person and sacrifice the Lord had gracious regard as he was most heedefull to present the choyse and cheife of all he had to the Lord. And in this particuler doth Moses the man of God and pen-man of this part of Gods word insist speaketh much of the things that issued herevpon both on Ahells part and Cains But here it may be some will move a question how Moses who was borne many hundred and some thousands of yeares after the creation could come to know these things and to set them downe in such exact order vnto vs. To moue this question is to make question of Gods truth and to bring into doubt all that he hath recorded in this whole booke of Genesis and all such other things as fell out before his birth and ripe yeares in Exodus for in his infancy we cannot conceive