Selected quad for the lemma: soul_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
soul_n	aaron_n	altar_n	hallow_v	22	3	11.5847	5	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A30255	No sacrilege nor sin to alienate or purchase cathedral lands, as such: or, A vindication of, not onely the late purchasers; but, of the antient nobility and gentry; yea, of the Crown it self, all deeply wounded by the false charge of sacrilege upon new purchasers. By C. Burges, D.D.; Case concerning the buying of bishops lands.	Burges, Cornelius, 1589?-1665.	1660 (1660)	Wing B5676; ESTC R202286	78,792	78

concurrence with Dr. Hacket in admitting the alienation of any thing settled by Divine Right upon the Church to be Sacrilege but nothing else It was far from him to grant that all which Cathedral men enjoyed was theirs by Divine Right or to admit that it was Sacrilege to aliene any other thing that was theirs not by Divine Right He intended no more in that Answer than what he had long before published in a Preface to a little Tract of Personal Tithes where he thus expresseth himself To that Tenet viz. that Tithes are due jure divino I subscribe affirmatively ex animo But with Cautions 1. Tithes I say not ought else are due by Divine Right to Ministers of the Gospel 2. I never was nor I think ever shall be of that opinion that all Tithes within such or such a Circuit of ground now by positive Law made but one Parish are absolutely and without all exception due by Divine Right to the person of one single Incumbent there but to the Church in whose Name he receiveth them Had he granted more he had deviated from the truth And could it be proved by an hundred witnesses that he fully concurred with Dr. Hacket in this point and that sundry who then heard him so understood him yet this cannot make Sacrilege to be in the true nature of it of larger extent then it is indeed and therefore if he did so speak he must and doth renounce it as an errour But is it not said Numb 16. after Korah and his associates were so dreadfully destroyed for making using Censers to burn incense withall that God commanded Moses to speak to Eleazer the son of Aaron the Priest that he take up the Censers out of the burning and scatter thou the fire yonder for they are hallowed The Censers of these sinners against their own souls let them make them broad plates for a covering of the Altar for they offered them before the Lord therefore they are hallowed vers 37 38. Out of which text many things may be observed viz. First that men may offer some things before the Lord and to him which he hath not commanded Secondly that such things so offered are hallowed how wicked soever they be that offer them Thirdly that upon such offering and hallowing of them they may not be imployed to any use but what is holy and sacred Fourthly that therefore to imploy them otherwise is Sacrilege This carries in it a shew at least of greater weight than all that is urged by most of those that would make Sacrilege as wide as the Canonists and School-men do But it is yet capable of an Answer sufficient to satisfie impartial men For 1. What here is first observed from that text is denyed because the text holds out no such thing For albeit Korah and his company sinned greatly in taking on them to oppose Moses and Aaron yet their Offering of Incense at that time was not without some command for Moses thus spake unto them before they attempted any such matter This do take you Censers Korah and all his company and put fire therein and put incense in them before the Lord to morrow vers 6 7. And as if this were not enough he doubleth the same injunction vers 16 17. whereupon it is said vers 18. And they took every man his Censer and put fire in them and laid incense thereon and stood in the door of the Tabernacle of the Congregation with Moses and Aaron This Moses enjoyned not as approving what they were to do but as bringing them to the tryal whether they had not sinned very hainously against God in charging Moses and Aaron with taking too much upon them upon pretence that all the congregation were every one of them holy that is as fit as Aaron to do that service which he did before the Lord. They therefore were to offer incense Aaron also should offer too and then the Lord by the issue would shew who were his and who was holy and would cause him whom be chose to come neer to him as approving of him and his service and rejecting and punishing the rest who were but usurpers Therefore there was a command for that act at that time for that end Again these Censers were not of Korah's own making or dedicating but belonged to the Tabernacle For it cannot be imagined they could be made in such a sudden and in such a seditious hurry for they were to use them the very next day after the command given which was not to make but to take every man his Censer There were many Censers belonging to the Altar The sons of Aaron Nadab and Abibu took either of them his Censer when they offered strange fire Soloman when he built the Temple and made many Vessels and Instruments amoug them he made Censers of pure gold which before were of brass how many is not certain but in probability for every Priest one This may appear by the abuse of 70 of them at once by the antients of Israel which were all Priests and by Jaazaniab the chief Priest who is supposed to be the Ring-leader of the rest Therefore every Priest had his Censer to offer in when his turn came about So that these Censers were not Vessels offered to the Lord by Korah and the rest of those Conspirators as a free-will Offering without a command but made and hallowed by Moses for the use of the Altar according to the patern shewed to him in the Mount Therefore that Collection that men may offer and God accept some things not commanded hath no sooting here 2. The next inference from the same text that such things so offered are hallowed how wicked soever the Offerers be will also now fall to the ground For if those Censers were of Gods own appointment then it follows not that they were hallowed upon the account of a free-Offering without a command Those Censers were hallowed before that time wherein they thus mutined so the text vers 38. They offered them before the Lord therefore they are hallowed All the Priests offered incense in their turns which they could not do without their Censers Here then is no argument to make good the second Observation or Collection from the text in hand That which misled that great Tostaius herein was the Addition of the vulgar Latine Translation at the end of vers 37. where it is said the Censers were hallowed in mortibus peccatorum in the death of those sinners which Addition is a gross corruption of the Text. 3. As to the third viz. that which is once offered and thereby hallowed may not be imployed to common but onely to holy uses will be more proper for the next Chapter therefore it shall be but briefly touched here We must distinguish both of things offered and of their hallowing thereupon 1. Some things are offered voluntarily some by command some are offered to be made use of in