Selected quad for the lemma: saint_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
saint_n	incense_n	prayer_n	smoke_n	1,391	5	11.4786	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A16526	Medicines for the plague that is, godly and fruitfull sermons vpon part of the twentieth Psalme, full of instructions and comfort: very fit generally for all times of affliction, but more particularly applied to this late visitation of the plague. Preached at the same time at Norton in Suffolke, by Nicholas Bownd, Doctor of Diuinitie. And now published for the further good of all those that loue and feare the Lord. Perused, and allowed.	Bownd, Nicholas, d. 1613.	1604 (1604)	STC 3439; ESTC S106817	259,956	314

Leuit. 2.1 When any shall offer a meat offering vnto the Lord his offering shall be of fine flower and he shall powre oyle vpon it and put incense thereon and shall bring it vnto Aarons sonnes the Priests and he shal take thence his handfull of the floure and of the oyle with all the incense and the Priest shall burne it for a memorial vpon the altar Which was to teach them according to the dispensation of those times that as incense perfume doth delight the senses of men so God would be well pleased with that which they offered according to his word for Christs sake in whose mediation it should be as it were perfumed For he is that Angell that S. Iohn speaketh of who stoode before the altar Reuel 8.3 hauing a golden censer and much odors was giuen vnto him that he should offer with the prayers of all the Saints vpon the golden altar which is before the throne and the smoke of the odours with the prayers of the Saints went vp before God out of the Angels hand Prayers compared vnto incense whereby was shewed that in his mediation and in the vertue of his prayers all the prayers and seruices of Gods Saints are accepted incense then was vsed to confirme nourish in them the faith of this doctrine which was not so cleerely reuealed to them as it is to vs now in the Gospell where we haue many gracious promises made that whatsoeuer we aske in the name of Christ according to his will he wil grant it vnto vs. Whereunto now they haue respect in these words of their prayer when they pray that God would smell his gifts that is fauourably accept the seruice done And according to this phrase of speech it is said of the sacrifice of Noah that he after the flood built an altar vnto the Lord Gen. 8.20 and tooke of euery cleane beast and of euery cleane foule and offered burnt offerings vpon the altar and the Lord smelled a sauour of rest the Lord said in his heart I will henceforth curse the ground no more for mans cause The Lord did smell that is he did accept the sacrifices that were offered and so he was pacified and his anger did cease which for the sinne of man was kindled iustly before and caused the world to be drowned but now his anger being staied he said that he would no more smite all things liuing as he had done According to this kind of speech vsuall in the Scripture they pray that God would bee well pleased with his prayers and seruice done vnto him By this then we see God remembreth all our seruices done to him that the prayers that we make to God at any time and the seruices which wee owe vnto him are not for the time present only whilest they are a doing as some other things which perish with the vse of them but they are also for the time to come and God doth remēber them when they be past and will blesse vs for them thereafter and we may pray to God in faith that he would so doe and are by this example taught to doe it with comfort So that as incense burnt or a perfume that is made leaueth a good smell behind it and the sweet sauours of it may be felt in the place where it was made a good while after so our prayers and seruice done in faith are so acceptable vnto God for Christs sake that they leaue a sauour of rest behind them before God for vs that hee may remember them and vs for them So that many dayes after we may think of it with ioy and delight that we haue done so and so vnto God and pray him to remember it and be assured that hee will doe so This is a great mercy in God that hee wil thus vouchsafe to remember vs and our poore seruices and a great comfort to vs to know that he doth so Therefore euen as the sinnes of men that haue been done long since As he remembreth all the sinnes of men to punish thē in time God remembreth them and will punish them in time and though men when they haue done them forget them and so make no account of them to repent them of them in time but go on securely and carelesly as it is said of prophane Esau when he had sold his birth-right and so to satisfie his appetite for the time present had departed from the greatest testimony of Gods fauour that he had Gen. 25.34 he did eate and drinke and rose vp and went his way so he contemned his birth-right he was as merry as euer he was before and forgat what he had done yet God did remember it well enough and did punish him for it for he was afterwards depriued of the blessing of his father and of God So it is said in the Psalme of al those that are companions with theeues and with adulterers and of all the wicked These things hast thou done Psalm 50.21 I held my tongue therfore thou thoughtest that I was like thee because God did not presently punish them they forgat their sins and thought that God did so too but he answereth I will reproue thee and set them in order before thee that is hee doth both know and remember euery thing that they haue done for he will set them in order before them and punish them for them and so cause them also to remember them in time as wee see here it is said of the crie of Sodome Gen. 18.20 that it was very great and that God did heare it and remember it and sent his Angels to destroy them for it They continued in their sinnes and God did patiently suffer them but at the last in sending fire and brimstone from heauen vpon them to consume them hee did sufficiently declare to the whole world that he did remember them If God deferre to help we are ready to think that he hath forgotten vs. So doth he remember all the seruices which men doe vnto him at any time and they are euer present before him and he neuer forgetteth any and wil blesse them for the same in time And though he defer this blessing of his and do not presently reward vs for our seruice or deliuer vs when wee haue prayed vnto him yet we must not thinke that therefore he forgetteth vs and what we haue done as though we had lost our labour which the diuel through our vnbeleefe is ready to suggest vnto vs Psalm 13.1 as we see how Dauid breaketh out into such words How long wilt thou forget me O Lord for euer How long wilt thou hide thy face from me Where he complaineth that because God did not presently deliuer him from his enemies according to that that he prayed for therefore God had forgotten him and did not see him For we by reason of infidelity are ready to iudge of God as of mortall men if we haue put vp any