Selected quad for the lemma: soul_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
soul_n	ordinance_n	power_n	resist_v	4,907	5	10.4011	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A07626	Quadrivium Sionis or the foure ways to Sion By John Monlas Mr of arts	Monlas, John.	1633 (1633)	STC 18020; ESTC S102304	90,305	189

dayes and forty nights after which they came to the mountaine of Oreb the pl●ce of his refuge and security This Iezabel is the devill and this Prophet may lively represent unto us our soule which of all sides is persecuted by this cruell and implacable enemie who flying his assaults if shee come to repose her selfe under the sharpe Iuniper of a truly holy and filiall feare Then without doubt the Angell of Divine consolations will bring him the bread of Love favour and mercy baked upon the coales of his affection and the good will and clemency of God which will then refresh and replenish our hearts and soules during all the pilgrimage of this our mortall life untill wee are arrived to the mountaine of Sion which is the centre of our desires the residence of our delights and the impregnable Fort and Castle of our felicities I finde Saint Augustines comparison to be very excellent and pretty upon Feare and Love and that we must passe thorow that before wee can arrive to this Hee sayes that feare is as a Needle and Love as the silke which it drawes after it The Needle is sharpe hard and piercing but the silke is soft faire and pleasing Feare is indeede a sharpe and distastf●ll passion but that which doth sweeten lenifie and cure his prickings it is love wh●ch immediately followes it being fraughted with courtesie goodnesse and favour Wee must not therefore apprehend the small stings of Bees b●cause they afterwards promise to delight satiate us with their honey which distills and flowes from the rocke of our salvation And it is the Enigme of Sampson to the Philistims from the bitter came sweet from the rage and gall of the Lion issued sweet honey to delight and refresh Sampson If Iesus Christ the true Lyon of the tribe of Iuda had not endured for us the bitter and cruell death of the Crosse then wee had never tasted the excellent vertue of the honey of his resurrection Indeed to flesh and blood the Feare of God is as it were a kinde of gall and bitternesse because it daunts and out-braves his passion● and it still keepes him waking as we doe to wild birds thereby to tame him and to make him quiet and docible and so to instruct and civilise him to the service of God It still shewes him the eminent dangers wherein shee will ingulph precipitate him in offending his God but still with an indulgent intent to prevent and hinder him from it Pondus timoris est anchora c●rdis The burthen which feare caries with it is the hearts anchor to prevent that it ●ee not reversed and overblowne by the waves nor of all sides split and shipwrack'd by the violence and impetuosity of tempestuous passions which without intermission assayle and beat upon it But the mercy of the Lord saith David is from generation to generation upon all those who feare him In a word and so to draw to the conclusion of this part of the Text the two principall pillars of Christian Doctrine and the two firme and vnremoveable foundations thereof is Feare and Love which are the two proper meanes to containe the godly and to retaine the wicked in the observation of Gods Commandements The wicked by Feare the godly by Love as the Poet speakes but morally in a Christian sense and language Oderunt pec●are mali formidine Poenae Oderunt peccare boni virtutis amore The wicked abhorre to offend for feare of punishment and the Godly will not be drawne to sinne because of their love of vertue But here fearing least I should runne astray and so lose and ingulph my selfe in this great and vast Ocean o● the feare of God it makes mee rowe abord thereby to gaine the desired shore and so to treat and discourse of the second part of the Text which is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Honour the King The two noblest and most excellent offices which the Angels and blessed soules enjoy above in the triumphant Church are the vision of God and the ordinary action of glorifying and honouring God about the which they are eternally imployed and therefore the holy Ghost to fashion and dispose us here belowe in the militant Church to glorifie in time his sacred Majestie in heaven commandeth us in our text likewise to Honour the King as being the true Image and lively representation of that great King of glory of the Father of Eternitie of the mighty God of Hoasts Feare God saith hee a●d Honour the King Divine and altogether admirable words as be●ng the summe and abridgement of all the duties which we ought to practise in this world both in body and soule both for the morall and spirituall life the performance whereof brings us to absolute perfection for if we feare God wee serve him and never offend him and in honouring the King besides the performa●ce of our duty wee obey the Commaundement of God So these 2. commandements are so straightly link'd and joyned together that the breach of the one is the violation of ●he other for we ca●not displ●ase the King without offending God nor offend God without violating the Kings lawes Let us see what that chosen vessell saith in very earnest and pressing words Rom. 13.1 Let every soule be subject to the higher powers for there is no power but from God and all authority is given from the Lord which is the reason of the commandement followed presently with a threatning wherefore who so resist●th the power resisteth the ordinance of God and therefore incurres condemnation for the Prince beares not the sword in vaine seeing he is the servant and minister of God to punish evill doers therfore must ye be subject not onely for feare but also for conscience s●ke and therefore pay ye tribute because they are the ministers of God ordain●d to that end Give then unto every one his due tribute to whom tribute custome to whom custome feare to whom feare and honour to whom honour Before we ent●r into an exact and particular exposition of the words of our Text wee will examine the consequence of this commaundement and as those who desire to know the sweetnesse and goodnesse of water ascend to fetch it from the spring that wee may esteeme the more the excellencie and greatnesse of this commandement we must observe that this ordinance is not made by men either to flatter King● for feare of their soveraigne authority but that it is Gods owne ordinance dictated unto our Apostle by the holy Ghost Which brings great matter of consolation to those who with zeale undertake the execution of it knowing that God loves those that feare him and blesseth those that are obedient to him And contrarily it must greatly terrifie the disobedient when they remember the infallible threatnings and the irrevocable sentence pronounced by Gods owne sacred mouth saying Cursed is hee that break●s the least of th●se commandements Math. 5.19 Cursed is hee that shall not be perman●nt in all the things