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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	faith_n	grace_n	spirit_n	4,029	5	5.0239	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A10045	David his oath of allegeance to Ierusalem The sermon preached on Act Sunday last in the morning, in St. Maries in Oxford. By Daniel Price Doctor in Divinity.	Price, Daniel, 1581-1631.	1613 (1613)	STC 20291; ESTC S115204	24,054	46

better service of God with helpe of sciences and prophane learning and therefore they are to be pitied rather then envied qui suae patrocinantur ignorantiae faith Erasmus Erasm scholia in Ier. ad Pam. Bucer Aemil. Prob. loc 151. Pomer in 1. ad Cor. 2. Cal in 1. Cor. 15 plus inscitiâ suâ fidunt superbiunt quàm alij eruditione suâ saith Bucer rudes et degeneres sūt saith Pomeranus nay Mr Calvine is so absolute for this as that his words vpon the 15. of the 1. Cor. are Colligimus hos esse superstitiosos Wherefore beloved all you of the yonger sort that are to be flowrishing plants in particular societies or are to be transplanted from this Eden of God and to passe into the functions and Sanctions either of Church or Common weale first stay at Ierusalem til the spirit be sent you The gift of tongues was only given at Ierusalem it is morbus comitialis that at our proceedings after the first or second degree some most rude thinke themselues most ripe and forsake the Vniversity never to returne againe I say againe so long as God friends any meanes may be had stay at Ierusalem till the spirit be sent you When you go hence take knowledge with you exercise your talent to the honour of your Master that the retributiō may be good faithfull servant thou haste been faithfull in a little I will make thee ruler over much Otherwise your right hand shal forget her cunning Honourable Lawyers I giue you but that title that your own glorious Emperour gaue you how ever the fat kine haue eaten vp the leane and the law hath almost devoured your law yet in your knowledge which is more honoured in al parts of the Christian world then is our owne land let it be seene that your knowledge and practise turn to the good not the disgrace of the Church Church Churchmē haue enimies more then friends If a poore Prophet or Levite came before the Doctors of the law among the Pharisees the word was Goe in peace Jf ever you come to place of authority and a poore Minister come before you let him haue countenance far be it that your learned lawes should be snares to good minds or quirks for mercenary wits lex et prophetae your Law and Prophets are ever ioined in Scripture divide not divorce them not least your right hād forget her cunning Learned and Honourable Physitians I giue you that title that the son of Sirach giveth it is but Apocrhypha direct your knowledge the right hand of your knowledge to the right vse let praier go before Religion bee an ingredient in al your practise let it not be observed as Innocētius once said and yet in some places though not here yet in the great city of this land is frequently lamentably to be found that dum corpus medici reficiunt aegrotorum animas inficiunt that while irreligious Ephraimiticall Hypocriticall popish Physitians cure the body by some Idolatrous dram they infect the soules of their vnhappy rather them vnhealthy patients Remember donum sanationis was given only to the Apostles practise with care with knowledge with conscience lest your right hand forget her cunning My deere and Reverend brethren in Divinity you know what your Sauiour said be yee not called Doctors for there is but one Doctor which is Christ that is Calvin and Iunius giving allowance to this interpretation be not Pharisaicall Doctors neither idle nor idol Doctors not factious not ambitious for otherwise posuit Christus alios Doctores alios Pastores alios Prophets in Ecclesia though the painted Pharisees of this age envy you this honorable degree The contempt we are liable vnto is much even by those whose fathers saith Iob I would not place with the dogs of the heard Divinity hath lōg been kept on foot cogitur ire pede yet blessed be our God since the first howre of reformation vnto this time Aboue 40 sons of anciently descended knights students in divinitie most of them already ministers now in Oxford never were so many so worthy sonnes of the Prophets many worthily some honourably amōg vs descended and consecrated herevnto Archippus looke to thy charge watch stand fast in the faith pray exhort rebuke with al power with al authority Preach in season and out of season let no man despise yee Cave nedum vita tua mala nō sit per nequitiā Austin videarur mala per negligentiam Sit vestra cura nō nummorum sed animarū saith Bern. seeke not so much the church goods as the churches good lest your right hād forget her cūning All of you Ho. Rever blessed beloued brethrē all of you that are come hither to this great Comitial assembly that are come to this Ierusalem as Ioseph and Mary to find Iesus in the midst of the Doctours remember Ierusalem Religion and knowledge the mother and the daughter nobile par the Naomi and the Ruth the blessed paire of Cherubins over the Mercy seat let them both haue your best wishes and partake of your best workes in that yee doe any thing to these yee doe it to Christ All posterities shall blesse the name of those our worthy present founders whose workes be aspiring quorū iam maenia surgunt The blessing of Iuda the blessing of Levi the blessing of both testaments of both lifes shall be vpon them and their posteritie forever Their names shall be honoured their examples imitated and their workes shall praise thē in the gates and their right hand shall never forget her cunning When wee shall all meet in the higher Ierusalem in that great assembly of all Saints we shall see these rewarded with Palmes in their hands and Crownes on their heads let vs therefore my beloued covet these spiritual things let vs do some service to Religion and truth here that mercy and glory may crowne vs hence Which that wee may obtaine the Lord grant vs all such measure of his spirit of his grace that abounding here in faith and good workes we may receaue the reward promised Come yee blessed of my father receaue the kingdome provided from the beginning of the world To God the Father God the Sonne God the holy Spirit be all praise all Power all honour this day and all the daies of our life in this place and all Congregations of his Saints for evermore Amen FINIS