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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	body_n	life_n	nature_n	5,718	5	5.3460	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A41582	A sermon preached at the publique fast the ninth day of Aug. 1644 at St. Maries, Oxford, before the honorable members of the two Houses of Parliament there assembled by Paul Gosnold ... ; and published by authority.	Gosnold, Paul.	1644 (1644)	Wing G1312; ESTC R956	13,369	33

A SERMON Preached at the PUBLIQUE FAST the ninth day of Aug. 1644. At St Maries OXFORD BEFORE The honorable Members of the two Houses of PARLIAMENT There Assembled By PAUL GOSNOLD Master of Arts And published by Authority OXFORD Printed by Henry Hall PSAL. 122. 6. Pray for the peace of Jerusalem TO tell ye that my text is pertinent were to distrust your sense for there are but three words in it and the first concernes the day the second the times the third the state Prayer a principall end of Fasting is proper to the day Peace is seasonable in these divided times Jerusalem brings in the State But three words I say in the Originall {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} but they are all three Verba Trojana pregnant words every one containes a catalogue Pray all duties in one Peace all blessings in one Ierusalem all Cities and States in one Pray c. Every word playing his part will divide the Text into a single act and a double object or into an Act an Object and a Subject the Act or duty Pray the Object of prayer Peace the Subject of Peace and yet the Object of Prayer too Ierusalem But I will invert the order of the words and because the Object in nature is before the Act and the Subject before them both I will first speake of Ierusalem next of Peace and conclude with Prayer These words were written for our instruction and therefore though Ierusalem be only nam'd all Cities and States are meant David for Ierusalem We for great Britaine every man intercede for his Country and Christ for us all Pray for Ierusalem for these reasons 1. Homo est animal politicum Man is a creature naturally both needing and desiring society therefore it is not good for man to be alone nor were it safe for men to be together but in Ierusalem under some forme and frame of government for homo homini lupus nothing is more wild and cruell then man if he be not tam'd by authority out late confusion and violations of Politicall order have made England like the sea about it where one fish hunts and preyes upon another Vncontrolled licentiousnesse though to the grosse conceited vulgar it seemes to be liberty yet wee find by dismall experience that it produceth nothing but disorder injustice rapine and insupportable slavery for now violence and the sword beare sway every man does what he can and the strongest takes all wherefore it was well and wisely spoken of Calvin Politie or government is of no lesse necessity and of farre greater dignity then bread and water I may adde then the ayre we breath in or the Sun that gives us hight for indeed there is no living without it at least men would be driven to live solitary in woods and caves like beasts and salvages Therefore it is a fundamentall duty to pray for Ierusalem 2. We see in the great world how all parts of it dispense with their particular affections to their proper Elements when their generall duty to the Vniverse requires it Stones would forsake the earth the place of their private repose mount as high as Heaven to fill a vacuitie to heale a wound in Nature So also in the Microcosme the little world of man's body if the heart the mother of life be distressed presently the spirits and bloud flock and flow from all parts to relieve her Now if as learned Hooker observeth those voluntary actions are most agreeable to reason which doe most resemble the necessary workes of nature then as it is in the naturall so in the politick body it ought to be every part should have a maine eare of the whole Therefore it is our naturall duty to pray for Ierusalem 3. If the Sunne should draw the Ocean dry or the Ocean swell to quench the Sunne if Heaven put out his lights or Earth keepe in her fruits the Winds hold their breath and the Clouds stop their Bottles what would become of the world and if the world should perish what would become of them So if we the particular members of Ierusalem for what is Ierusalem but our selves incorporate should withdraw our duty she could not subsist and if she doe not neither can we if the whole be ruin'd the parts must suffer if the tree fall the branches wither if the Kingdome be over-run who sees not who feeles not that the substance lives and liberties of private men must needs go to wrack Therefore though we have no care of the Publick but referre all things to our selves and our domestick commodities yet because these are inclosed in the happinesse of the Vniversality it is our necessary duty to pray for Ierusalem 4. Prayer is the expression of desire the object of desire is Good the greater good is to be preferr'd before the lesse the publick good is incomparably greater and worthyer then the private by how much a whole Societie is more worth then one man Therefore it is our principall duty to pray for Ierusalem 5. To these reasons I will adde Gods commandement which we cannot disobey unlesse first we will be unreasonable Honour thy father and mother if the parents of our flesh the authors of our generation and being ought to be honoured then our King and Country to whom we owe our preservation and well-being are worthy of double honour for it is better to be well or happy then simply to be as it is worse to be miserable then not to be at all Honour thy father and mother Ierusalem is the mother of us all c. Our Country saith the Orator is major altera parens our Grand-mother wherefore we must do all we can to honour her inwardly with our judgements and affections outwardly with our endeavours and devotions the least we can do is to pray for her Therefore it is our bounden duty to pray for Ierusalem But because Ierusalem without peace were no right Ierusalem that is the Scene of peace or where peace is to be seene but rather a very Babylon a Citie of confusion Therefore in the second place pray for peace the peace of Ierusalem 1. Many are of the minde that though men had persisted in their primogeneal integritie there should have beene dominion and government amongst them yet as profound Hooker noteth if Adam had not fallen there is no impossibility in nature but they might have liv'd without it But all agree in this our fall and corruption made it necessary For when there were but foure persons in the world but foure that we reade of howsoever no great multitude one brother murdred the other and as their number so their malice and mischiefes increased for restraint whereof there was no way but to come to composition and by common consent to authorize one or more to superintend the quiet and safety of the rest to defend them who were not able to defend themselves to curb the unruly to distribute to every one his due and so preserve the