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truth_n	apostle_n	know_v	teach_v	1,736	5	5.8816	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A05280	The first step, towards heaven, or Anna the prophetesse sacred haunt, to the temple of God. Preached at Standish Church in the Countie of Lancaster. By VVilliam Leigh, Batchillor of Diuinity and paster there. With the second edition of great Brittaines deliuerance, newly corrected and enlarged by the author.	Leigh, William, 1550-1639.; Leigh, William, 1550-1639. Great Britaines, great deliverance, from the great danger of popish powder.	1609 (1609)	STC 15424; ESTC S103610	66,134	240

be witnessed of any but of men of worth and if any wil shew forth his glory let them take heed that they themselues be not ignominious Cum canerem reges praelia Cinthius aurem vellet admonuit To sing of kings and conquests is too high a subiect for homely shepheards you may not exceed your straine least Apollo plucke you backe And againe he said well who euer he was that sayd Quis tulerit Gracchos de seditione querentes Verrem de furto Who can endure Gracchus to cōplaine against sedition or Verres against theft the one being a base theefe the other a ranke rebell Ye haue taken a profession vppon you this day my deere brethren to confesse with Anna the Lords Christ to publish his praise and to solemnize the feast of his blessed birth and being it stands you vpon therefore to see vnto it that by no leud conuersation you blemish his birth but so to demeane your selues in all modesty piety and godlines as you may be worthy witnesses of his truth knowing with the blessed Apostle Paul that the grace of God which as this day brought saluation vnto all men hath appeared and teacheth vs that we should deny vngodlines and worldly lusts and that we should liue soberly and righteously godlily in this present world I dislike not of your feasting if Christ be your guest and withall if you feede vpon his faith in the faire assembly of his saints I dislike not of your houses trimmed vp with Holly Bay and Iuie so your hearts be prepared for God and Christ to be your garland your garments are tollerable if you wash your stoles in the bloud of the lambe and be arrayed with his righteousnes And for your musicke mirth and minstrelsie so ye strike out with Dauid a song of Sion and sing vnto the Lord with a grace in your hearts so ye dance as he did before the Arke of God and sound out with the angels the babes lullaby thus Glory be to God on high and in earth peace good will towards men ye may reioice I say ye may reioyce for such mirth musicke is pleasant vnto the Lord and sweet vnto his saints yea it is as one saith Mel in ore in aure melos in corde Iubileus Hony to the mouth musicke to the eare a Iubily to thy heart But if you will keepe this feast with your dough sowred and with the leauen of all corruption being enemies to the crosse of Christ making your belly your god your glory your shame for that you are wordly minded I say then you blemish the birth of your Sauior you grieue the spirit and you are not worthy to witnesse his truth with Angels Simeon and Anna. I say for conclusion let the Babes birth as this day bury all thy sin in this his solemnitie and in the middest of thy pride looke vpon his pouerty When thy house is full furnished with guests thinke how there was no roome for him in the Inne When thou art laid in thy bed of downe thinke how the Babe was found in the cratch When thou art lapt in thy warme clothes thinke how the child was swaddled in clouts When thy tenants are about thee and thy friends fawne vpon thee thinke how solitarily the child was found with Ioseph and Mary all alone When thou art in thy peace thinke vpon his persecution and flight into Egypt I say thinke vppon the banished Babe When thou art in thy mirth thinke vpon his moane When thou art in thy life ioyous thinke vpon his death dolorous And i● thou wilt with Anna truly professe him be a prophe●esse go not in the streets to haunt the Theaters or see the shews of the Shechemits with Dina but abide in the temple as she did and serue God with fastings and prayers night and day Watch and play I feare these 12. dayes will be the exercise of many bu● watch and pray in the practise of few It may be all that heare me this day can say This is the day which the Lord hath made but I feare me few can say We will reioyce and be glad in it The Lord deliuer vs from Baltassars feasts that we neuer take the golden and siluer vessels brought from the temple at Ierusalem I meane our sanctified soules and holy bodies bought with a price thereout to drinke our wine vent our sinne praise the gods of gold and siluer of brasse of iron of wood and of stone But to preuent both the sinne and the iudgement Baltassar saw we will not cease by the grace of God whilest the dayes of your banqueting go about we wil not cease I say with the holy and patient Iob to sanctifie you with our prayers and preaching as he did his children We wil rise vp early in the morning and offer vp burnt offering● that is our broken hearts with sighes and sobs to the number of you all for Iob thought and so do we it may be that my sonnes haue sinned and blasphemed God in their hearts The Lord giue vs grace to temper our mirth with moane our solace with sorrow because of him whom we haue preached Fill our hearts O Lord with the feare of thy iudgements and feeling of thy mercies and as we professe thy name this day and acknowledge thy nature as this day to be made ours so graunt that our bodies and soules may be sanctified thereby and sinne may be namelesse and we blamelesse in all our dwellings Amen Amen Secondly in this testimony of Anna I doe obserue paucity o● professors and that they are few in the world who exercise the worke of faith to God or charitie towards men For of all the thousands in Ierusalē ten thousands in Israel onely foure persons to wit Mary Ioseph Simeon and Anna attended the busines in cherishing the child Iesus two at his birth in Bethlem receiued him into the world and only two in the temple presēted him according to the law of the first borne Where were the Scribes where were the Pharisees where were the Actuaries of the law They sayd nothing of their Christ they did nothing for their Christ. There was no King to protect him no Prophet to declare him no Priest to present him in the Temple he came I say Cum altum erat silentium nullus Propheta erat reliquus when all was hush and neuer a Prophet left Onely Marie was mother midwife nurse and all she fed him at her owne brests she swaddled him with her owne hands onely Ioseph was his triumphant coach and attendant he caried him in his armes from Bethleem to Nazareth from Nazareth to Egypt and from Egypt backe againe to Nazareth and so to Galily I say Ioseph and Mary they were no more they bare the burthen without pompe of princes or preasse of people to honour the babe yea and heere in the Temple when he should