Selected quad for the lemma: saint_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
saint_n	body_n	member_n	mystical_a	1,656	5	10.4255	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A45115	Bios epoyranios, or, The character of an heavenly conversation being the substance of a sermon lately preached in Yorkshire / by John Hume ...	Hume, John, 1634 or 5-1692.	1670 (1670)	Wing H3661; ESTC R20200	22,249	34

intailed his grace and favour upon two or three individuals There is a fountain set open for Judah and Jerusalem and in every nation he that feareth God and worketh righteousness is accepted by him And surely I should most distrust those persons that boast they are so cock-sure of salvation that brag in every company of shinings and sealings of sonship and adoption certain I am the truest Christians work out their salvation with fear and trembling and walk humbly with their God That traveller always makes the least noise that hath the greatest charge of treasure Therefore let us be cloathed with humility let us confess with Abraham Vera pietas nescis supercilium simulata sanctitas gravis est asperitate morum Erasm in 1 Corinth 13.4 we are but as dust and ashes before the Lord and learn of Christ to be meek and lowly in Spirit uttering the Publicans miserere God be merciful to us sinners And let us have an affectionate carriage towards our brethren let the law of kindness be in our tongue accounting our selves rather with the holy Apostle the greatest of sinners and the least of Saints and owning all the professours of the truth as members of the same mystical body whereof Jesus Christ is the head There be several other particulars in which we may imitate Satan Quamobremhoc tene differri aliquando impios non dimitti nec crimen quenquam i●pectore 〈…〉 are qui non ●●●m N●l●●●in in tergo Lips de Constant lib. 2. cap. 13. as in his Apostacy envy and malice lusting to do mischief which I shall not now insist upon all which we are to avoid as so many rocks and precipices in our passage to the land of promise knowing this that hose that are fellows with him in sin shall be co-partners with him in punishment and shall take up their lodgings with him in the infernal dungeons where they shall do severe penance for their impieties till eternity confess a period Use last But rather be we exhorted to follow the best examples and to choose the safest road even that path which the blessed Angels have chalked out unto us Every noted Philosopher of old had his train to whom his dictates were as so many Oracles and who received his precepts with the highest reverence and veneration let us not then slight these noble Heroes who do afford us an exact method and lively representations of our incumbent duty Si necessariam habemus familiaritatem dignationis Angelicae cavenda est nobis eorum offensa in his maximè exercendum quibus novimus eos oblectari Bernard Let us not sit and pore upon the earth make circles in the dust and tye our selves to the modes and forms of depraved mortals when we have such a rare copy and exemplar given us by those Divine intelligences Let not our untamed passions hurry us out of the strait road of piety and vertue lest we vex their ingenuous natures and cause them to deplore our sad excursions and eccentrical motions But let it be our care and study to perfect holiness in the fear of the Lord that they may rejoyce over us and congratulate our proficiency In a word to wind up all let our Purity be conspicuous and our Unity be obliging Let our Order be exact and our obedience Universal Let our abstractedness from the world be through and real our praises large and persevering then shall we truly be 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 like to the Angels as in duty so in glory then shall we be taken up to them to mount Sion and the new Jerusalem which is above where we shall see God face to face and know even as also we are known where our heads shall be environed with glorious Crowns our hands dignified with graceful Palms our bodies clothed with garments of light and immortality our tong●●● also shall always sound out Canticles of Triumph to the ever blessed and adored Trinity R●●● 13. even that of the Saints and Angels Blessing honour glory and power be unto him that sitteth upon the Throne and to the Lamb for ever and ever Amen FINIS