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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	ghost_n	holy_a	temple_n	7,031	5	7.9574	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A04351	A sermon preached before the Queenes Maiestie at Hampton Courte, the 19. of February laste paste. By VVilliam Iames Doctour of Diuinitie	James, William, 1542-1617.	1578 (1578)	STC 14465; ESTC S107697	20,743	68

A SERMON Preached before the Queenes Maiestie at Hampton Courte the 19. of February laste paste By VVilliam Iames Doctour of Diuinitie ¶ Imprinted at London by Henry Bynneman Anno Domini 1578. Aprilis 24. A Sermon preached at Hampton Court Ezrae 4. BVT the aduersaries of Iudah and Beniamin hearde that the children of the captiuity builded the tēple vnto the lorde God of Israel 2 And they came to Zerubbabel and to the chiefe fathers said vnto them we wil builde with you for we seeke the Lorde your God as ye do and we haue sacrificed vnto him since the time of Esar Haddon king of Asshur which brought vs vp hither 3 Then Zerubbabel and Iesua and the rest of the chiefe fathers of Israel saide vnto them it is not for you but for vs to builde the house vnto our God for we our selues togither vvil builde to the Lorde God of Israel as king Cyrus the king of Persia hath commaunded vs. GOd that first created man to his owne image and placed him as Lorde of Paradise that after his fall recomforted him that the séede of the woman should bruse the Serpentes head that with most gratious promises blessed Abraham and his posteritie that ledde his people through the wildernesse by the hande of Moyses and Aaron that sente them faythfull Iudges and zealous Priests to execute iustice and maintayne truthe that after long contempt of his mercyfull call by many of his Prophets gaue them ouer to be schooled by the king of Babilon that suffered their temple to bee raced and themselues moste miserably to be entreated that God that at no tyme can forget his faithfull people but remembreth them when they are in trouble and rescueth them in the perillous tyme bycause he will not suffer Virgam peccatorum super sortem iustorum Psal 100 at once worketh thrée strange wonders Fyrst he inflameth King Cyrus with an earnest desire not only to dimisse the people helde in captiuitie but also to restore vnto them all suche vessells treasures as Nabuchadnezer hadde before taken out of the Temple Secondly he rayseth vp thrée notable guydes thrée excellent and rare men for the preseruation of hys people nowe after their returne from babylon Zorobabell Ezra and Nehemias Thyrdly he encourageth the people with all earnestnesse to trauaile in the worke of the house of God so that neyther the wearinesse of the captiuitie whiche they had endured nor the true seruice of God of a long season vnfrequented nor the pleasures whiche Babylon offered coulde once wythdrawe these weake and féebled persons The summe is the snare is broken Israell is deliuered Zorobabel Ezra Nehemias the people al apply their businesse desiring in hearte no one thyng so muche as to erect the Temple of the Lorde to aduāce the glory of their despised God But sée the aduersaries of Iudah Beniamin came not of any cōscience but craftily to supplāt these workmen It so falleth out that if God haue a Church the Diuel if he cānot hinder it yet wil looke to haue an oare in it if Moses worke wonders Pharaos soothesayers will vse an apishe imitation The Apostles Peter Paule Barnabas shal no sooner testifye the trueth of Iesus Christ than Simon and Elymas the sorcerers wil be at ynches to peruerte the ryght wayes of the Lorde If Paul preache at Athens or at Ephesus then shall he surely finde either Stoikes Epicures or Iewes or some secte of miscreants ready to misse-leade Gods people The enuious mā that when the seruants sléepe soweth tares to choake the wheat that plucketh the word of God out of the harts of the hearers ne crederent seruarentur that somtime like a roaryng Lion séeketh whō he may deuoure and at another time can turn himselfe into an Angel of light that so shook that consciences of Caine Iudas that they thought their sins greater than coulde be forgiuen that so cunningly bleared Saules eies with the counterfaite shape of Samuel and made Ananias and his wife to lye to the holye Ghoste That man of sinne as a Spirite sawe the intente of Israell and as an enimy by all possible meanes goeth about to hinder the building of the house of God The diuel and the superstitious Samaritans saw that so long as Kyng Cyrus fauoured the Iewes and the reedifying of the Temple that so lōg it was vnpossible openly to hurt thē or hinder it and therefore nowe after that frowning wyll not serue he vseth a far more cunning shifte he beginneth now to flatter and speake faire You haue a long time endured trouble your treasure is wasted your bodies weakned the work is heauy your strēgth is féeble the charge greate your substance small we Zorobabell and you the reste of the chiefe of Israel we wil ioyne with you in this worke distruste vs not for wee séeke the Lord your God as you do and we haue sacrificed vnto hym since the tyme of Esar Haddon whyche brought vs vppe hither Whome might not these sugred speaches haue deceyued we will builde we séeke the Lorde with you wee sacrifice to him as you do But that God that euen in that same houre instructeth his what to answere and that hathe lefte to hys seruantes iudgement to discerne the sprytes whether they be of God or no here in a trice teacheth Zorobabell Iosua and the rest of the Elders to answeare It is not for you and vs to builde togither I will not stande heere to discusse why thys Booke and the nexte of Nehemias are accompted Canonical neither why the other of Esdras are refused I purpose onelye at thys tyme briefly to reste on these two pointes the aduersaries comming and Zorobabel Ieshua and the rest of Israelles reiecting of thē Of these that I may so speake as maye redounde to gods glory I most humbly craue your Christian ayde in earneste prayer These Iewes nowe returned from seauentie yeares captiuitie and nowe in hand with reedifying the house of God and desirous euery man to abide by his tackling at the first are set vpō wyth these suttle Samaritanes Let vs build with you this they sayd intending nothyng more than indéede to pull downe They sawe thus much with Scribes Phacifies that as if new Christ were suffered to grow vp that then al the people wold go after hym and that if Paul myghte be allowed to preache at Ephesus that then Diana should haue a great downe fall so if the buylding of the tēple might go forwarde that then the Idols of Samaria would be but little set by There are in these superstitious Idolaters two things worth the consideration their consent agréement vniuersallye to hinder Zorobabel and the rest and that in these wordes let vs build c when they intended to supplāt The other is their lying Hipocrisie we seke as you we sacrifise as you and firste it is strange to sée the agréement of the godlesse Againste true Mycheas the whole rabble of false prophetes prophesied