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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	keep_v	peace_n	unity_n	7,015	5	8.9407	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A03346	The peace of enmity A sermon preached in Paules Church the 12 day of February, in the yeere of our Lord God, 1639. By Augustine Hill, rector of Dengey in the county of Essex.	Hill, Augustine, d. 1660.	1640 (1640)	STC 13467; ESTC S104107	17,891	32

separation a partition wall 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a great gulfe of contradiction I finde the Genesis of this enmity heere in my text the Exodus thereof I know not where nor when to finde From the beginning it was thus now is et excandescit eundo it gets strength the further it goes And when an Angell from heaven hath sworne by him that liveth for ever there shall be no more time then and not till then there shall be no more enmity I alleadge no other reason then that of the Apostle 2 Cor. 6. what communion hath light with Darkenesse c. For my part I will not blow the Coales of dissention there are too many Phaetons that set the world in a combustion Et utinam abscindantur say I with the Apostle I would they were even cut off that are troublers of peace Gal. 5. We cannot but see and condole the enmity that is betweene the womans proper seed and how her children struggle within her to her great paine and travaile heere is not onely Jsmael's hand but Isaac's hand against Isaac one Christian against another as though we meant of purpose to verifie that which our Saviour spake ex hypothesi I came not to send peace Math. 10.35 but a sword to set a man at variance against his father and the Daughter against her mother Or that other there shall be five in one house divided three against two Luke 12.52 and two against three The Poet complaines Serpentum concordia major quàm hominum interse Inven. There is more agreement of Serpents among themselves then of men nay betwixt Devills then Christians Aug. Legiones Daemonum in uno homine convenerunt et duo homines in unâ domo vix conveniunt A Legion of Devills could agree together in one man and two Christians can scarce agree in one house Surely prodigious is our intestine enmity And though God did graciously in my text make it the Churches restitution yet we seeke to make it her ruine It is observed that when sheepe fall a butting one against another a storme followes not long after when the sheepe of Christ are so malignant one to another it is a fearefull presage of an ensuing storme They say of Bees when they stirre and strive among themselves it is a signe their King is about to remove and leave the hive When we make such stirres tumults and schismes in Religion it may be feared God is going to remove from us But let us all labour to continue his presence still among us that he may still take delight to walke in the middest of the seaven Golden Candelestickes O pray for and practise the peace of Ierusalem that he who makes men to be of one mind in an house would make us to be of one heart and of one soule together in a blessed communion of Saints which may never be dissevered and let us all endeavour to keepe the unity of the spirit in the bond of peace Ephes 4.3 Leave we then this enmity and follow the line of my text and it will bring us to the Prince of peace Hee Faustus the Manichee puts a rub in my way in saying the old Testament had nothing in it propheticall concerning Christ but I will easily step over it for who was Iacobs Shiloh I saiahs Immanuel Zacharies Branch and this semen mulieris in the text but Christ And the vulgar translation seemes to stop my course ipsa she shall so it reades the word And the Papists commonly either to dignifie the Mother above the Sonne that she not he should breake the serpents head as most of their wooden Priestes and many of their brazen faced Iesuites or by the Sonne that she by him should breake the Serpents head as Bellarmine with more modesty but Ribera with a few others with more honesty doe acknowledge it wholly to belong to Christ according to the Originall 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and the Septuagint 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 he and he alone could breake the serpents head without any further Damage then a bruised heele The power of Christ is described both by the effect which it produceth and the object it worketh upon The Object is the head the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or the highest part of the body and most soveraigne for the direction of it caput because the senses doe capere initium take their beginning from thence The effect is breaking the word signifies not onely to weare and wast by degrees but to breake as a ship is broken in a tempest it is so used Iob 9.17 And further there is an Ellipsis of the particle 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Both these imply the totall and finall victory of Christ The part is dangerous the head the wound is deadly and shall never be healed he shall breake thy head Thus the prophet Isa 17. The Lord shall pierce Leviathan that crooked serpent and our Saviour himselfe Luke 10.18 I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven and that beloved Disciple for this purpose the Sonne of God was manifested 1 Iohn 3.8 that he might destroy the workes of the Devill These workes were of Adoration of consultation and of temptation Of Adoration For before Christs incarnation he did tyrannize over the world and his kingdome was establisht he was generally then adored and worshipped as he is now by Indians in Dei imitationem Eusebius as Eusebius observes after the manner of God nay humane flesh was not too precious to doe sacrifice to him even among Gods people their tender infants must not be spared to passe through the fire unto Moloch Ierem. 32.35 which some thinke to be Mercury others Saturne others Iupiter the King of the Gods Melech and by corruption Moloch which Gods of the Nations were truely Devills And that addition which Saint Steven sets downe gives a liberty of conjecture that it was Deus tutelaris Acts 7.43 the tutelary God of the Ammonites to him was this bloudy sacrifice powred out but when the fulnesse of the time was come these bloudy sacrifices were broken off Christ abolished this tyranny and tooke the scepter into his owne hand to governe his people by righteous lawes and commandements which are not grievous till they come to reigne with himselfe in his heavenly Kingdome 2. Consultation His Oracles were then the Generall rule of counsell and advice both for publike and private actions till Christ came who having the words of eternall life brought grace and truth into the world And then all his Oracles ceased as it is recorded of Augustus Caesar who enquiring at the Oracle at Delphos who should succeed him in the Empire had this for an answer Peucerus 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 An Hebrew Child King of the Gods hath commanded me to leave this House and to returne to Hell therefore henceforth forsake our Altars 3. Temptation whereby he corrupted the hearts and lives of men The vigour of this is taken away