Linguistic DNA - Concept Modelling Demonstrator

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	true_a	worship_v	worshipper_n	3,990	5	12.1152	5	true

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A46802	The burning yet un-consumed bush, or, The holinesse of places discuss'd held forth in two farewel-sermons at Christ-Church London, August 17th, 1662 / by William Jenkins.	Jenkyn, William, 1613-1685.	1662 (1662)	Wing J633; ESTC R28952	23,187	40

the service therein performed this is not in the times of the Gospel God is present at the places of Religious performances not in respect of the place but to the performers Therefore God doth not say I will be present in that place for the places sake but for the duties sake Prayers in the time of the Ceremonial Law were regarded for the places sake but we must abhor this piece of Judaisme and utterly deny Consecration in this day of the Gospel when the Altar sanctified the Gift this is done by Gods institution But to say places or things can now do so it makes the appointments of men equall with the Institutions of God The Temple sanctified the duties or performances not they the Temple it s quite contrary now Our Churches and Meetings are not holy without relation to the duties performed Our duties are holy without relation to the Church but the Church not holy without relation to the duties therein performed None but God can consecrate a place to bee an effectuall means of Worship The Jewes worshipped in the Temple Now God is worshipped elsewhere the places have no influence at all into our duties at the most but helpfull to the bodies Conveniency The third thing I deny is this There is now no place so holy as to exclude another place from being as holy we have not now the precept of God to preferr one place above another Wee have not now the miraculous presence of God God hath not given us those Symbolls of his standing residency amongst us as in former dayes he did his People as the Arke ' the Mercy Seat c. As for his Ordinances and the performance of them if we make a Place holy in regard of Gods speciall and spirituall presence I say the Closet or Dining Room or Chamber the Field or the River side is holy humane consecration make no place truly holy I say it again it s the speciall presence of Christ in his Ordinance maketh one place more holy then another then any Utensils in the Church are more holy then the Church the Font and the Communion Table then the body of the Church and so you make a difference between holynesse in holy places in holy things and so bring in plain Judaisme A new Table where the Sacrament was never administred cannot be so holy as the old by this the very Mouthes of the Communicants would be so holy that they must not eat nor drink any more but they would defile it I conclude this with this assertion that Religious difference of places is removed the Gospel takes it quite away the Gospel is so far from giving or making such a difference 1. Tim. 2.8 I will therefore that men pray every where lifting up holy hands without wrath and doubting John 4.21 22 23. Jesus saith unto her Woman believe me the hour cometh when ye shall neither in this Mountain not yet at Jerusalem worship the Father Ye worship ye know not what we know what we worship for Salvation is of the Jews But the hour cometh and now is when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in Spirit and in truth for the Father seeketh such to worship him 1 Cor. 1.2 Vnto the Church of God which is at Corinth to them that are sanctified in Christ Jesus called to be Saints with all that in every place call upon the name of Jesus Christ our Lord both theirs and ours Therefore where two or three are met together there am I in the middest of them Mat. 18. â—0 This is the sum of all That Gods institution is to be regarded humane institution to be rejected 4. Lastly No place is so sanctified by the miraculous special presence of God but that presence ceases when the tokens of Gods residence cease the Ark the Mercy-seat the places became as before For us to go a pilgrimage to Jerusalem and to the Temple is an abominable thing how many bloody battels have since been sought there these places where the presence of God was when abused to the dishonour of God they become worse and worse whatever we use in holy uses looses their holinesse when abused It 's boldnesse for us to tye the presence of God to any place for God hath not tyed himself to any place I cannot but wonder how it 's possible for men to hold that the Lords day which God hath been pleased to set apart for himself that its holinesse can cease for that they say the Lords day is not holier longer than the service is in doing yet that the Church that God never appointed should retain its holinesse that you must not tread there but with your hat off nor come there without bowing the knee Give me leave to wind up all with profitable inferences that floweth from hence Vse 1. The first inference See the great difference betwixt the sanctity and holinesse of places under the Old and under the New Testament Those under the Old had the miraculous presence of God so long the places were holy They had their Temple their Altar their Mercy-seat the Ark c. these places were holy you cannot say the like now we have the presence of God but we have not the precept of God as they had places now differ from places then Vse 2. I note the great goodnesse of God to give to us such a sweet dispensation that now hee doth not tye us to places as heretofore he did the Jenes no land now is holier nor place now holier then another every coast is a Iudea every Congregation is now a Zion a Temple you may pray as well now in your closets as then in the Temple Vse 3. There are several persons to be reproved those that take pilgrimages to particular places because of that holinesse they suppose in them I might tell you of their lying Reliques I will not trouble you with them suppose them true what is this to Institution and command of God where have you a command for such a thing I might take notice of those that put holinesse in places of Burial in the Church think it holier than the Church-yard and one part of the Church holier than another private prayer rather than joyn in publick for any to bow towards the place of the Communion Table rather than to any other place of the Church Vse 4. I shall desire you to take notice of four things you that are Christians First Let this encourage you to serve God in your Families and places that God hath set you in with humility and reverence as becomes that God with whom you have to do Though I am against Superstition and Popish Innovations yet I am for positive reverence wherever Abraham came he built God an Altar Let no morning or evening passe without Prayer in your Families Pray pray often let every one of your houses be a Church this will bring a blessing on the place where you live Be much in Prayer for the Lords sake Secondly Labour to promote personal Holinesse as well as Family duty Since you have heard something of holinesse of places let us labour to become holy Do you think those wretches are not the more to be lamented that swear and drink and lye and whore and think that the very dust of the Temple touching their garments will make them Holy oh put away uncleannesse pride drunkennesse and covetousnesse else though you bow and cringe God will not hear your Prayers Thirdly Love the holinesse of the living Temples of God wherever thou seest any thing of holinesse be in love with that soul if there be a heaven upon earth it is to enjoy the company of Saints this will blow up the coals of spiritual love to God and goodnesse A famous man had this expression When I was in the company of Saints I thought I was as if I had been among living coales but when I was separated from them and came among Swearers and Drunkards I found a spiritual frozennesse all over mee Though the people of God are best company in Heaven yet they are good company on earth Whatever thou hast received impart it Grace may be imparted it cannot be impaired Fourthly Labour to preserve the holinesse of Gods true Institutions those things that are of divine consecration For humane consecration alas what is it But for the Sabboth the Lords day labour to keep it holy We talk much of Holy dayes this is so indeed The Lords Supper that 's of Divine Institution labour for a holy participation thereof If any thing in the world would drive mee to a Passion this would to hear men plead for the holinesse of places and live unholy Lives to stand up for humane and not regard Divine institutions Oh that our King and Parliament might do something more than is done for keeping the Sabboth holy oh that we could mourn for that we cannot mend The Sacraments are Holy it is the duty of Ministers to labour to keep them holy The Lords Word that 's Holy Ministry and the Ordinances of Jesus Christ labour to keep in High esteem We ought to hear with the same reverence as if Jesus Christ himself was here to preach Live like walking Temples Many of these truths might be further inlarged but I have not time nor strength I could discharge my duty without speaking somthing to these What you have received with the right hand do not east off with the left I have better hopes of you my dearly beloved I hope God will bring home these and all other those truths to your soules which in much weaknesse I have delivered to you and be more to you than his poor Minister though he should have remained with you FINIS

THE BURNING Yet Un-consumed BUSH OR The Holiness of Places discuss'd Held forth in Two Farevvel-Sermons at Christ-Church London August 17th 1662. By Mr. WILLIAM JENKINS 2 Sam. 23.1 Now these are the last words of David the sweet singer of Israel LONDON Printed in the Year MDCLXII THE PUBLISHER TO THE READER THe words of a dying man usually are very serious weighty and much regarded The ensuing Notes being this Preachers last Legacy to his Congregation a little before his civil though voluntary death by reason of the great concourse of People that were then assembled to leave their dying Pastor preach his own Funeral Sermon whilst he was yet alive many being too distant from him or too much disturbed by the croud fell short of their share and portion in them For the benefit of such as well as other who lost much by committing to memory are these Notes exposed to publike view I conceive I need not add any one Letter to take off the clamor that hath bin cast upon him as if out of Humour and Faction or which is worse disobedience to Authority he refused to conform enough you will find here to give an account why he chose to take up his Cross and follow Christ in a way of Conscience and Fidelity Farewell Mr. JENKINS's Forenoon SERMON Aug. 17. 1662. TEXT HEBR. 11.38 The former Part of the Verse Of whom the World was not worthy THe Apostle in this excellent Chapter that by some is deservedly called a little Book of Martyrs discovers the triumph of Faith or victory against all difficulty we meet with First Faith it assents to Truths be they never so improbable Secondly It puts men upon Duties be they never so irrational or against carnal Interest Thirdly It inables to sufferings be they never so afflictive These Woâ—thies went through all by the victory that overcame the world the bitterness as well as the sweetness thereof In these Verses the Apostle doth two things First He sets down the greatness and smartness of their sufferings which are by some Learned men reduced to three Heads First Those sufferings that were to tempt them and draw them from God by those pains and tortures they were to undergo Secondly Those sufferings they underwent in dying Thirdly Their sufferings in regard of wandring and leaving their comforts rather then they would loose God There were all kind of persecutions laid upon these Saints through all which they waded and never would be brought to forsake God and his truth for any of them 2. We have here the excellency of the sufferer and that is in that expression These men or these persons whâ—n they were under all these distresses from the world yet they were such of whom the world was not worthy Brethren The excellency of these Saints and servants of God is considerable two ways that we may proceed distinctly and clearly First in reference to the wicked their excellency was so great that the wicked world was not worthy of them Secondly Their excellency is discovered from the estimate or judgment that the Apostle passes upon them who tells us that he accounted them to be such though they were under such distresses and troubles yet they were a people of whom the world was not worthy I shall fall upon the due estimation the blessed Apostle raises upon these persecuted Saints who was enlightned by the Spirit of God and so was able to passe a right sentence upon these persecuted Saints from this I raise this ensuing Observation Observ That a godly man doth see a very great worth and excellency in the people of God in the midst of all their troubles and distresses Or That a godly man a gracious heart one that hath spiritual Spectacles does see an excellency and worth in the people of God in the midst of all trouble and persecution that can befall them Here I shall handle it first doctrinally according to my constant method then come to improve it by way of Application For the Doctrinal handling of it there are two things must be discovered First Wherein the high estimation of a gracious heart does appear wherein it doth discover it self wherein they shew they have such an high estimation Secondly Whence it is and how it comes to pass that godly men have this high and honourable esteem of the Saints and people of God in their troubles and distresses which befall them For the first Wherein the high estimation of a gracious heart does appear I shall shew it in five or six following particulars First It appears in this In that they are not ashamed of owning their persons and faith that they profess in their troubles and distressâ—s the society of the people of God and the fellowship of the Faith and profession is highly respected by a gracious heart let the Saints lye under never so great distresses This is manifest in Moses in the 25. and 26. Verses of this Chapter He chose rather to suffer affliction with the people of God then to injoy all the pleasure and preferment of Pharaohs Court The Israelites Religion the profession of the true God and owning the faith and those Truths the Israelites stood up for this was that which Moses would not desert and thence it was he did not desert their company and society but went and visited them when they lay under those burthens under which they lay Secondly The second thing wherein is discovered so high an estimation of the Saints and people of God in sufferings is their sympathizing and follow-feeling with them in their sufferings if it goes ill with the Church and people of God all the rest sympathizes with them if one member suffers all the rest suffer Instance Nehemiah who had the greatest favour of the greatest Prince then on earth he lookt with a sad countenance because of the sufferings of the Saints and people of God Nehem. 2.2 Wherefore the King said unto me Why is thy countenance sad seeing thou art not sick this is nothing else but sorrow of heart Then I was very sore afraid and answered the King Because of the distresses the people of God lie under The pleasure of Musick should never be with him says David in Psal 137.6 If I do not remember thâ—e let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth if I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy As it is with two strings in an instrument rightly tuned if one be touched the other trembles if one servant of Christ be in a suffering condition the rest suffers with him this is the damp of all worldly delight if it be ill with any of the people of God the rest suffer in the way of compassion Thirdly In that they can plead for them and take their parts when they are never so much out of favour when they are never so much despised and abused This was in the case of Jonathan how he pleaded for poor David before his cruel father Saul though Saul called him a cursed

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