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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	authority_n	church_n	pillar_n	1,970	5	10.4442	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A88789	Seven sermons preached upon severall occasions by the Right Reverend and learned Father in God, William Laud, late Arch-Bishop of Canterbury, &c.	Laud, William, 1573-1645.	1651 (1651)	Wing L598; Thomason E1283_1; ESTC R202684	133,188	349

to right who ever doe not Shall not the Iudge of all the world doe right Yes no question And therefore even Kings themselves and all mighty men of the Earth and Iudges of all sorts have need to looke to their wayes For God is over them with Ego judicabo I will one day call for an accompt I will judge all the Executions of Iustice with which I have trusted them And this is the first Prevention of the melting of a Kingdome the first Remedy when it begins to melt The maintenance and Execution of justice The Second followes and it is the establishing of the Pillars of the Earth I beare up the Pillars of it I saith God and I saith the King Where first it is not amisse to consider what these great Pillars of the earth are The Earth it selfe that hath but one Pillar and that is the poize and aequilibre of the Center And that is borne up by the Word and Ordinance of God Thou commandedst and it stood fast And saith S. Ambrose it needs no other thing to stay it The kingdomes of the Earth they have more Pillars than one This one which is Gods ordinance for Government they have but they have divers Administratours of this ordinance And these Pillars are Kings and Peeres and Judges and Magistrates Not one of these under the nature of a Pillar not one but yet with a great deale of difference For though there be many Pillars yet there is but Vnus Rex one King one great and Center-pillar and all the rest in a kingdome doe but beare up under and about him The Church that is not without Pillars neither No God forbid And it resembles in this the kingdomes among which it sojournes The great Master-pillar Christ he is the Foundation of all the rest and other foundation can no man lay of the Church Next to Christ the Apostles the Disciples are Pillars too and so called Gal. 2. After these their Successours Bishops Priests the Fathers of the Church in their several ages they came to be Pillars and so shall successively continue to the end of the world And so soone as Emperours and Kings were converted to the Faith they presently came into the nature of Pillars to the Church too If any man doubt this truth I le call in the Pope himselfe to witnesse it There are two great Props or Pillars of the Church saith Leo the Kings authority and the Priests both these and the Pope was content then to put the Kings first And Kings saith Saint Augustine are indeed great Pillars of the Church especially if they use their power ad cultum Dei dilatandum to enlarge and support the true religious worship of God You have seene what these Pillars are Will you consider next what they have to doe both in Church and Common-wealth The office of a Pillar is knowne well enough what it is 'T is sustinere to prop and beare up the Earth Quantum est columnarum nihil sustinentium sed in ornamentum tantum I know in luxurient buildings many Pillars stand onely for ornament but beare no weight It is not so with Pillars that are crown'd Honour and ornament they have and they deserve it but they are loaded too Kingdoms and States the greatest the strongest in the world are as mouldring earth as men Juda at this time was Terra liquefacta like a dissolving Body They cannot stand sine Columnis without their pillars to beare them And therefore the King hath ever been accounted and truly columna stare faciens terram the maine pillar and stay of the State And 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 quasi 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the King is the pillar the foundation of the people So S. Gregory for he bears subjectorum suorum onera not onely his subjects but their burdens too The office then of the Pillars is to beare but when is there use of them When why continually they can be spared at no time if they leave bearing the State melts presently We reade it foure times repeated in Scripture but upon two great occasions onely Idolatry and Abominable lust that there was no King in Israel Judg. 17. and 19. no King And still there followed a melting and a dissolving of the State Every man did what seem'd good in his owne eyes and the punishment was great At this time David was King of Juda and Ishbosheth would be King of Israel Joab was for the one and Abner with the other The Pillars here in stead of bearing fell a justling What followed Why you see Liquefacta est terra that kingdome melted The Pillars then can never be spared from their worke continuall use of them but yet at one time more need than another And the time of the greatest necessity of these Pillars is when there is any Liquefaction or weakening of the Earth And that is in the Text the Earth dissolving and then by and by recourse to the Pillars To the Pillars and therefore they which weaken the government nay which doe but offer to impaire the honour and reputation of the Governours are dangerous and unworthie members of any Common-wealth For to murmure and make the people beleeve there are I know not what cracks and flawes in the Pillars to disesteeme their strength to undervalue their bearing is to trouble the Earth and Inhabitants of it To make the people feare a melting where there 's none And what office that is you all know Continuall use there is then of the Pillars But what then Can the Pillars beare up the earth in a melting time by their owne strength No sure that they cannot not at any time and therefore least at a melting time But what then Why then here 's Ego and Ego I beare up the Pillars that are about me saith David and I saith God beare up both these and David too And indeed all Pillars are too weake if they be left to themselves There must be one to beare them or else they can never beare the Earth One and it can be none under God Ego confirmavi 't is I that in all times have borne up the Pillars of it And it is per me by me saith God Prov. 8. that Kings reigne And per me by me is not onely by Gods ordination once set and then no more but by his preservation and his supportation too And as S. Augustine observes Quid essent ipsae columnae What could the Pillars themselves doe if they were not borne up by God But when it once comes to Ego confirmavi I beare up the Pillars there 's nothing then to be feared Now these of which we speake are not stony or insensible but living and understanding Pillars understanding therefore they feele Onus terrae the burden of the Earth which lyes upon them when the dull earth feeles not it selfe therefore as they feele so are they able to