Selected quad for the lemma: scripture_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
scripture_n	ghost_n	holy_a	trinity_n	2,581	5	9.6972	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A43763	A looking-glass for loyalty, or, The subjects duty to his soveraign being the substance of several sermons preached by a person who always looked upon his allegiance as incorporated into his religion ...	Higham, John, 17th cent.	1675 (1675)	Wing H1966; ESTC R19006	105,066	207

of persons or that a Gift will blind his eyes and cause him to pervert Justice if any were so wicked as to offer it yet God is more righteous then to accept it If you would know his mind in the Case you must have recourse to his infallible Oracles the Holy Scriptures which judge it for Solomon condemning the other for injuriously detaining his right These will tell you how unanimously the holy blessed and undivided Trinity concur in that Decision that God the Father hath given us a Law God the Son hath set us a Pattern and God the Holy Ghost hath inspired the Prophets and Apostles in the Times of the Old and New Testament to call upon all Subjects to pay this duty to their Princes I. God the Father 1. I suppose few unless they be professed Atheists will dispute the Divine Institution of that Law which Moses received on the Mountain to deliver to the People but subscribe to its Preface as a truth which they are very well satisfied in that God spake all those words and if all then those Honour thy Father and thy Mother which in order in our common account is the fifth but in St. Pauls the first with promise that is Ephes 6.2 with a particular promise or promise made to the obedience of that particular command The second hath a promise annexed but that is more general not restraind to that single precept but is extended generally to the obedience of the whole Law shewing mercy to thousands of them that love me and keep my Commandments We usually reckon it the first of the second but Philo the Jew the last of the first Table Philo Jed As though men had never performed their whole duty to their Father in Heaven unless they give the honour there required to their Fathers here on Earth which bear his Image therefore he joined them both together in the same Table as Solomon doth God and the King in the same precept here in the Text. But some perhaps will be apt to question Quest what a King can challenge from his Subjects by virtue of that Command now under consideration wherein neither King nor Subject are so much as named These are to consider Answ that the word Father is not of so narrow a Construction as they would seem to conceive yet that it may be too large for their duty too but it is to be understood of all who are called by that name Natural Fathers or which for their Fatherly care deserve to be so called Besides Natural Fathers from whom we have our being of Nature Spiritual Fathers there are which are so called in a Spiritual sense that is Ministers from whom under God we have our being of Grace without which it would be better if we had never been at all Saint Paul tells the Corinthians which is not a syllable more then what another Minister may say of any where his labour hath found the like success though you have many Instructors yet ye have not many Fathers 1 Cor. 4.15 for in Christ Jesus I have begotten you through the Gospel Oeconom Fathers Moreover there be Oeconomical Fathers such as are Masters to their Servan●s Father if the Prophet had commanded thee some great thing 2 Kings 5.15 wouldst thou not have done it say Naamans Servants to their Lord when they heard him dispute so passionately against the means of his cure Fathers by Age. 1 Tim. 5.12 There are also old men whom for their Age we ought to reverence as Fathers In former Times those persons were looked upon with an eye of respect by all who pretended to civility although their outward condition were never so mean who had outlived the sight of their eyes or the taste of their palats on whose head the Almond Tree did flourish and on whose foreheads Age had plowed her deepest furrows It was noted as an ill Omen and a sign of great confusion when the Children presumed against the Antients Isa 3.5 Lament 5.12 and when the faces of the Elders were not had in honour Shall these and several others be thought for more particular care Fathers of their Country the Father of his Children the Minister of his Flock the Master of his Servants the Tutor of his Pupils the Schoolmaster of his Scholers c. worthy and do not Kings much more deserve it if faithful in the discharge of their trust that have the care of all their Subjects incumbent upon them Adrian Non mihi seit Populo Rex●… Adrian the Emperour was wont to say he was a King not for himself but for his People conceiving himself obliged by virtue of his Office to mind more the common good of his Subjects then the particular good of himself Such mens honours are not if deserved without their burdens Honos Onus and though the outsides of their Crowns be set with precious stones which make a glorious shew dazling the eyes of their Spectators yet they sit very uneasie upon their heads being lined with the pricking Thorns of those daily cares which do attend them Neither are their temples so compassed with the one as their minds are besieged with the other That King in Homer complained that great Jupiter in that respect had made but little difference between him and a Prisoner accounting his Cares his Prison Augustus And it is storied of Augustus a Roman Emperour that hearing of a Roman Knight who was imprisoned for debt and yet slept as sweetly as if he were at liberty and owed no man the value of a penny he sent after his death to buy his Bed conceiving there must be something more then ordinary in it If so Princes more then any have need of such Beds because they of all men have most cares And the same Author relates a saying of the same Emperour to his Livia 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Dio. Cass Numb 11.12 Had we not businesses and cares and fears above any private persons we should be equal to the gods their breasts are as the Ocean whereinto the cares of private men do empty themselves And their affection is excellently exprest by that Phrase of carrying their Subjects in their Bosome and little do they know the tender bowels there are in their Governours towards them borrowing time from their own rest to plot and contrive for their good if they did they would value them at a higher rate then most of them do When Julius Caesar had overcome Pompey Julius Caesar at that fatal Battle fought between them in the Pharsalian Fields and had pursued his Victory so far as Egypt whither he fled and where he was basely murdered his two Sons Sextus and Cneius heirs of their Fathers Valour and Misfortunes one of them being slain at Munda in Spain the other forced to shelter himself in Celtiberia Sextum fortuna in Celtiberia abscondit Florus de Gest Roman in so much that an end