Selected quad for the lemma: scripture_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
scripture_n	according_a	doctrine_n	word_n	3,266	5	3.9423	3	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A68415	A sermon preached at Cern, in the county of Dorset, the 18 day of September 1623 at the visitation of the right reuerend father in God, the Lord Bishop of Bristoll by Robert Lougher pastor of Mapowder.	Lougher, Robert.	1624 (1624)	STC 16828.5; ESTC S103251	21,198	40

Apostles 1. Tim. 3.15 Christ Iesus himselfe being the chiefe corner stone in whom all the building coupled together Eph. 2.20 21. groweth vnto an holy Temple in the Lord. And this is that spirituall Temple whereof this materiall temple was a type and a figure here spoken of in my text And the building of this spirituall house we are then said to promote as good Christians generally when we endeauour to liue soberly iustly vprightly and in the feare of God Abstaining from all appearance of euill and keeping our selues vnspotted of the world when we doe follow peace with all men and holinesse without which no man shall see the Lord when we all of vs indeauour to liue euery man in his vocation painefully and honestly and that with a cleere conscience both toward God and towards all men More particularly Then is Zerubbabel and the Magistrate said to further this worke of the Lord when they doe execute iudgement and iustice vprightly for the punishment of euill doers and the praise of them that doe well when they doe execute iudgement rectè sententiando and when they doe execute iustice debitè exequendo When according to Illyricus Illyricus they doe execute iudicium iustitia iustitiam iudicij semper iustitiam in iudicie Et sit verbum sapienti sat And then are Iehoshua and Gods Ministers said to set forward the building of Gods house which is the Church of Christ when wearing Vrim and Thummim vpon their heart they doe preach the word of God instantly when they doe improoue and rebuke and exhort with all long suffering and doctrine When they are ready according to the Scriptures to teach the ignorant to confute the repugnant to reprooue the euill mannered and to instruct and frame the well disposed Among the rest speciall workemen are yee the Sworne-men Church-wardens and Side-men on whose shoulders a weightie burden of this building a weightie burden of this businesse lyeth Peruse then seriously your bookes of Articles weigh well the dreadfull oath you take Reade it ouer againe and againe as it is set downe vnto you in the forefront of your bookes Consider the Maiestie of that great God whom you inuocate as a witnesse of your integritie and vprightnesse And if you would be as indeede you should be then must I tell you that you should in some sort be like vnto Melchisedech Heb. 7.3 who in the 7. of the Heb. is said to be 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. without father without mother without kindred that so yee may say as Cassidore noteth non nouimus Patrem We know not father we know not mother we know not sister we know not brother we know not friend we know not foe we know not rich we know not poore veritatem nonimus We know the truth and the truth we will present all malice all feare fauour and affection laid aside and that according to the tenour of our oath If thus beloued you will truly informe things deformed in the house of God I doubt not but those in authoritie will carefully see all things reformed conformed and performed to the glory of God and to the amendment of what is amisse in the Church of Christ Ezek. 9.4 5. In the 9. of Ezekiel you shall reade of an Angel whom the Lord sent to Ierusalem in the similitude of a man and what was his message Goe through the Citie and cry against all the abhominations that are done in the midst thereof Other then there were which followed him and what was their charge Goe after him through the Citie and smite and let your eye spare none neither haue you pitie Here both Iurors and Iudges may see grafically described a picture of their duties The Romane Senate as Liuy writeth in his Decads vpon some weightie occasion Tit. Liu. li. 24. deca sent a Messenger vnto a certaine people with whom they were in league called Aequi sometimes he calles them Aequitani But they regarding neither the message nor the Messenger willed him to deliuer his errant vnto that tree pointing vnto an Oake that grew thereby Whereupon the Embassadour turning him to the tree said Tum haec sacrata quercus audict quod faedus violatur Why then said he this sacred Oake shall here and beare witnesse that the league is broken And hereupon followed the ruine and destruction of that people Well you haue heard your duties Church-wardens and Sidemen going before to take and to giue notice of abhominations faults defaults innormities You that are Ecclesiasticall Iudges following after to reforme and amend what is amisse to smite to execute iudgement and iustice without all respect of persons Now herein doe you all take heede that you be not remisse you be not partiall you be not negligent lest the timber the walles the windowes and the pillars of this sacred house doe testifie and beare witnesse against you How God plagued these Iewes for their negligence in the building of his Temple Gods materiall house in Ierusalem you may see in this Prophesie Is it time for your selues to dwell in your sieled houses and this house lye wast There is their sinne recorded in the 4. verse of the 1. Chapter Will you know what were the plagues and iudgements inflicted vpon them for this sinne Then looke into the 6. verse You haue sowne much and bring in little you eate but you haue not enough you drinke but ye are not filled ye cloth you but ye be not warme and he that earneth wages putteth the wages into a broken bagge And in the 9. verse Ye looked for much and loe it came to little And when ye brought it home I did blow vpon it And why saith the Lord of hoasts Because of mine house that is wast and ye run euery man vnto his owne house Therefore the Heauen ouer you stayed it selfe from deaw and the earth stayed her fruit And I called for a drought vpon the Land and vpon the Mountaines and vpon the Corne and vpon the Wine and vpon the Oyle vpon all that the ground bringeth forth both vpon Men and vpon Cattle and vpon all the labour of the hands And in the 16. 17. verses of the 2. Chapter before they set themselues about the building of Gods Temple When one came to an heape of twenty measures there were but ten and when one came to the wine-presse for to draw out fifty vessels out of the presse there were but twenty I smote you with blasting and with meldew and with haile in all the labours of your hands yet ye turned not to mee saith the Lord. And hath not the Lord of late yeares plagued vs after the same fashion for our negligence in the building of his spirituall house iust after the same manner making our fruitfull Land barren for the wickednesse of them that dwell therein And how can we tell but we may be thus plagued partly for our negligence and want of zeale in the repairing in the seemly