Selected quad for the lemma: scripture_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
scripture_n	believe_v	divine_a	revelation_n	3,126	5	9.6340	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A80952	A most learned, conscientious, and devout-exercise; held forth the last Lords-day, at Sir Peter Temples, in Lincolnes-Inne-Fields; / by Lieut.-General Crumwell. As it was faithfully taken in characters by Aaron Guerdon.	Guerdon, Aaron.; Cromwell, Oliver, 1599-1658, attributed name.	1649 (1649)	Wing C7117A; Thomason E561_10; ESTC R206017	9,823	16

A Most Learned Conscientious and Devout-Exercise held forth the last Lords-day at Sir PETER TEMPLES in Lincolnes-Inne-Fields BY LIEUT-GENERALL CRUMWELL As it was faithfully taken in Characters BY AARON GUERDON LONDON Printed in the yeere 1649. ROM 13.1 Let every Soule bee Subject unto the Higher Powers for there is no Power but of God the Powers that bee are Ordained of God DEARELY Beloved Bretheren and Sisters It is true this text is a Malignant one the wicked and ungodly have abused it very frequently but thanks bee to God it was to their owne Ruine yet their abuse shall not hinder us from making a right use of it Every thing is Subject to bee abused bee it never so holy or good the men of God the Creatures of God all are subject to injuries and abuse the Counsell of State the Parliament the Army the Generall have been and dayly are abused nay even my selfe have not escaped the violence of those Seducers whose tongues are sharper then a two-edged sword my very face and nose are weekely malign'd and scandaliz'd by those scribling Mercuries Elencticus and Pragmaticus insomuch that were it possible they would raise a Faction in my forehead and make mutinies amongst my very teeth It 's true I have a hot liver and that 's the cause my face and nose are red for my valour lies in my liver not in my heart as other men's never any man could say my heart was stout indeede the Generalls lyes there and that 's the reason his face is pale You all know I never was a drunkard although when I was at the lowest I had Beere enough for you know I had neere relation to a Beere-Brewer and I had alwaies money to buy Wine with if I pleased so that I might have beene a drunked if I would yet you know I am a temperate sober man else I had never beene so good a Souldier But what is it the Malignants will not abuse who let not to abuse themselves I 'le warrant you they would abuse our very wives too if they durst and I fear some of them do you know what I meane but no more of that at present My Text you see is Scripture and Scripture must bee believed next to our Diviner Revelations bee it what it will but the Malignants they would interpret it one way and wee the Saints interpret it another now let any body judge whether they or wee are to bee believed whether I say those ungodly Cavaliers that fought to uphold Tyrannie and Antichrist or wee that in the uprightnesse of our hearts fought for Liberty and Freedome and for Establishing the Kingdome of King Jesus surely Beloved it is wee that are in the Right of it I think none of you will deny it But now that I spoke of Kings the main question is whether by Higher Powers are meant Kings or the Commoners Truly Beloved it is a very great question amongst those that say they are learned But I think verily they make more stirre about it then needs for may not every body that can reade observe that Paul speakes in the plurall number the Higher Powers now had hee meant subjection to a King hee would have said Let every Soule bee subject to the Higher Power that is if hee had meant one man but by this you see hee intended more then one for hee bids us bee subject to the Higher Powers that is the Councell of State the house of Commons and the Army I hope I have cleared this Point So now then I will come closer to the words themselves and shew you truly and plainly without any gaudy Rhetorique what they signifie unto us that you bee not deceived and I tell you this is not to bee done by every Spirit but only by such who are more then ordinarily indowed with the Spirit of Di●cerning I confesse there are many good men and women amongst you that intend well and speake well and understand well but yet cannot apprehend wel all things that lurke in Scripture Language for lack of a sufficient measure of the Spirit they must bee inwardly called thereuneo or else they are subject to errours and misconstructions Well then you see who are fittest to interpret and I presume you believe God hath aboundantly supplyed mee I doe not boast of it but I speake it to his glory that hath vouchsafed to take up his Lodging in so vile contemptible unswept unwashed ungarnished a Roome as is this unworthy Cottage of mine But It was his will and I am thankfull for it Now the Words offer themselves very naturally they are plain not difficult but prostrate their sense in most perspicuous manner For first Beloved by these words Let every Soule c. wee may understand that every one of us have Soules whence I raise this Doctrine that it is an ungodly irreligious prophane and Idle Tenent amongst the wicked to think or say that Women have no Soules Marke my Beloved to think or say c. for there are many now adaies that think and will not speake what they think and others that speake and will not think what they speake But wee are none such Deare Sisters it is a great abase to your honourable Sex And now truly I will turne to you only for you have beene our dayly and nightly comforters indeede la yee have you have raised our drooping Spirits though never so much dej●cted you have got us stomacks when wee had none and furnished us with flesh on all occasions wee never found you unwilling or unready to help us when wee were the farthest from home Believe it when I lay before Pembro●ke Castle my Landlady where I quarter'd who had once beene a Malignant and then but newly crept into the state of grace shee I say had a good Soul within her shee was brimme full of the Spirit and yet shee was very handsome which is strange for seldom wee finde a perfection without an imperfection commonly Women that are faire without are either false or foule within but to me shee was neither And yet I doe not speake this to condemne beauty for it is of singular comfort and good use and those that bee faire may bee true and good but this is secundum majus minus as the Logitians cant some are better then other some that 's the English of the Lataine and indeede I have found great difference in Women Then againe when I came in Yorkshire I met with Mrs. Lambert the espoused of that honourable and valiant Saint M. G. Lambert shee I say is a Woman not very faire I confesse but of as large a Soule and as full of the Spirit as any I ever yet met with I professe I never knew a woman more endowed with those Heavenly blessings of love meeknesse gentlenesse patience and long suffering nay even with all things that may speake her every way deserving the name of a Saint And yet I say shee was not very beautious or comly for shee is