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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
saint_n	body_n	church_n	mystical_a	1,460	5	10.3110	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A06676	Paraphrasticall and devout discourses vpon the Psalme Miserere, composed by Ch. M.	Kellison, Matthew.	1635 (1635)	STC 17130; ESTC S102830	80,842	304

of this last house more then of the first This vvas that at vvhich Dauid did ayme this vvas the butt of his desire to vvit God his honour and glorie not any his ovvne interest as appeareth by these his wordes which begin the next verse Tunc acceptabis sacrificium iustitiae c. Thou shalt then accept sacrifice of iustice oblations and Holocaustes then shall they lay calues vpon thine Altar For although the sacrifices of the old law did not iustifie of themselues yet when they proceeded from a liuelie faith they did iustifie as other good vvorkes doe and so might be called in this sence sacrifices of iustice 7. By this ô my soule thou maist learne a godlie lesson that is to be zealous vvith Dauid for God his glorie to prefer that before all priuate interestes to spare no cost nor labour that God may be honoured And if thou haue not the meanes to build a spirituall temple to his honour that is either to conuert a soule or thy countrie to true faith and holie life by teaching preaching or vvriting of bookes then to set others on that can to encourage them to ayde and assist them by thy meanes as Dauid encouraged and assisted Salomon to build that materiall temple for so though thou thy selfe doe not build this temple yet thou shalt vvith Dauid prepare the materialles and giue the meanes as he did to Salomon his sonne and so shalt be partaker vvith them vvho conuert soules and so build to God a spirituall temple in vvhich he may be honoured vvith the spirituall sacrifices of thankesgiuing prayer praises of his name the like England is English mens Hierusalem vvhich they must neuer forget in their prayers Psalm 136. but they must say as Dauid did If I forget thee o Hierusalem ô England let my right hand be forgotten And the true church of England heretofore great and glorious novv litle and obscure in the eyes of men by reason of the change of state and former persecution must be their temple to the restoring where of some must cooperat by preaching teaching writing and good examples others by encouraging their preachers and teachers and by ministring meanes vnto them and both must vvith Dauid prefer this common good flourishing estate of the Church and Countrie of England before all priuate respectes and commodities 8. But Dauid no doubt in an Allegoricall sense had a farther ayme to vvit at the Church and temple of CHRIST the second Salomon and the veritie of that figuratiue temple for Dauid hauing a more explicite faith then the ordinarie Iewes had beleeued explicitelie that the Messias CHRIST IESVS God and man was to come to saue mankind to that end was to build a farre more Auguste tēple then he his sonne Salomon could build out of this zeale he praieth to God to build the walles of this Hierusalem and to plant this temple of his church knovving that this Hierusalem and temple farre excelleth that 9. The founder and Authour of the first temple vvas the first Salomon the founder and architect of the tēple of the Church was Christ Iesus who feared not to say of himselfe behold more then Salomon here Luc. 11. because he knevv himselfe not onelie to be wise but also wisdome it selfe that temple vvas confined in Hierusalem this is greater then Hierusalem and all Ievvrie yea hath no other limites then the limites of the vvorld that temple and Synagogue comprehended onely the Ievves the issue of Abraham Isaac and Iacob and therefore God vvas onelie knowne in Iewrie Psal 75 and in Israel his name was great this tēple of Christs Church containeth Iew and Gentile and all the vvorld and therefore few were saued by that temple thousands and milliōs by this that temple vvas built of materiall and inanimate stones this of liuing stones 1. Pet. 2 according to that of S. Peter be ye also your selues superedifyed as it were liuing stones That temple vvas not built by Dauid the vvarriour but by peaceable Salomon this not by Alexander the great or Iulius Cesar nor any such warlike prince but by the peaceable Messias Christ Iesus the Prince of peace Isa 9. 3. Reg. 5. there vvere manie workmen vvho trauailed in the building of Salomons Temple seuentie thousand vvho carried burdens 3. Reg. eightie thousand hewers of stone in the mountaine besides the ouerseers which were ouer euerie worke in number three thousand three hundred The vvorkemen vvhich concurre to the building of Christ his Church are some Apostles and some Prophetes and other-some Euangelistes and other-some Pastours and Doctours and those Ephes 4 millions in number by preaching and ministring sacramentes shall vvorke in the temple to the vvorlds end to the consommation of the Sainctes vnto the worke of the ministerie vnto the edifying of the body Mysticall of christ vvhich is his Church There vvas heard no noyse of hammer or hachet and tooles of iron 3. Reg. 6. vvhen that tēple vvas built because the stones vvere hevved before they vvere brought to the building And in the foundation and building of the Church there vvas no noyse of armes or engins or instrumentes of vvarre by vvhich the Empires of the Chaldeās Medes Persians and Romās vvere built onely the preaching of a fevv vnarmed fishermen vvas heard and by vertue of that this goodlie temple vvas raised and dailie augmented notvvitstanding that Ievves and Gentiles Phylosophers Tyrants and all the vvorld stood in armes against the builders did all they could to hinder the building 3. Reg. 6 That temple vvas vested vvith gold this with a more precious gold charitie In that vvas a great lauer in this Baptisme 2. Par. 3. 4 which washeth the soule In that vvas the Altar of holocaustes of incense in this as S. Paul saith Heb. 13. we haue an Altar whereof they can not eate which serue the tabernacle In that temple vvere places separate 2. Par. 3 one called Holie an other Holie of Holies others called courtes In this there are diuers orders and degrees of Primates Archbishops Bishops inferiour Pastours many Religious orders 2. Par. 4. In that were tenne goldē cādlestsicks on vvhich vvere lightes to illuminate the Temple In this are the Apostles and their successours vvho are called the light of the world Mat. 5● and they are candlesticks also vvhich shew the light of the faith to others In that vvas a cloud called the glorie of God 2. Par. 7. because it vvas a signe and figure of his Diuinitie In this the sonne of God Christ Iesus God and man was offered once bloodilie on the Crosse and euerie day vnbloodilie on the Altar Optatus Mileuitanus l. 6. contra Donatistas Agg. 2. which Optatus calleth Sedem corporis Domini the seate of the bodie of our Lord by vvhich it is manifest that as Aggeus long since prophecied Great is the glorie of this last howse temple and