Linguistic DNA - Concept Modelling Demonstrator

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
city_n	apostle_n	peter_n	zion_n	25	3	8.6572	4	false

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A51590	The Catholike scriptvrist, or, The plea of the Roman Catholikes shewing the Scriptures to hold forth the Roman faith in above forty of the chiefe controversies now under debate ... / by I.M.	Mumford, J. (James), 1606-1666.	1662 (1662)	Wing M3063; ESTC R32100	169,010	338

people Iosue in that dignity did succeed him But he had but part of his glory so Num. 27. v. 18. Take Iosue the sone of Nun a man in whome it the spirit and put thy hand upon him who shall stand before Eliazar Priest and thou Ã´ Moyses shalt put some of thine honour upon him Now the one part of Moyses his honour was to be a secular Prince and commander in chiefe In this dignity Iosue did succeed him But in Levit. Ch. 8. God commanded Moyses to inuest Aaron with the other part of his dignity which was to be High Priest But when Aaron now came to dye God sayd to Moyses Num. 20.26 Take Aaron and his sonne with him and when thou hast unvested the father of his vestiture thou shalt revest therewith Eleazar his sonne Moyses did as our Lord commanded him And thus successively God provided his Church of high Priests Neither for the wikedness of any of them did he cease to governe his Church by them even by heavenly and supernaturall assistance As bad as Cayphas was yet because he was the high Priest he did prophesy Io. 11.51 He sayd not this of himselfe but beeing the high Priest of that yeare he prophesyed that Iesus should dye for the Nation 5. The old law beeing now transferred to the new it was necessary that the Priesthood allso should be transferred these two going togather Hebr. 7.12 wherefore the new law beeing the Lady the old the hand maide as S. Paul speakes the new law allso according to him beeing established upon better promisses Hebr. 8.6 we may with all ground in Scripture expect to see Christs church ever provided of such high Priests as shall by his bounty have many advantages above the high Priests of the old law Christ then intending to build his new church he called to him even amongst the first of his Apostles Simon and presently changed his name into Cephas which is interpreted Peter a Rock Io. 1.42 To this Simon Matth. 16.18 he sayth Thou art Peter which in that language which Christ spoke is as much as to say Thou art a Rock and vpon this Rock I will build my Church The wisest of men designes a sure Rock for the everstanding building of his church in the midst of all windes and waves if any one say that Christ himselfe is a Rock so as not to communicate this Rock-like firmity of his allso to S. Peter he flatly contradicts Christs saying Thou art a Rock and upon this Rock I will build my Church If any man should take a fayre stone in his hand and say Thou art a fayre goodly solid stone and upon this stone I intend to rayse a Chappel Who would conceive this man in the last part of his speach to point at any other stone theÌ„ that which he had in his hand True it is that Christ is the fundation yet with out any dishonour to him nay to the increase of his honour he communicateth that very title of fundation to others So Eph. 2.20 we are sayd Built upon the fundation of the Apostles and Prophets Iesus Christ beeing the thiefe corner stone Christ then is the chiefe Rock of an everlasting perpetuity and this by his owne vertue S. Peter is a Rock standing firme everlastingly not by his owne vertue but by the vertue of Christ and made thus not for his owne sake but for Christs churches sake Christ intending that this his church should stand for ever as I proved Point 3. Whence Christ adds upon this Rock I will build my Church We willingly graÌ„t that the church was to be built not upon the shoulders of S. Peter but vpon his faith yet his faith must not be taken as separated from his person but it must be taken as the thing chiefly regarded in his person for which to him personally this dignity was given yet given chiefly for the perpetuall good of the church to be built upon him Wherefore lest the building should be shattered at his death this firme perpetuity of a Rock that is this saith of his which Christ prayed should never fayle Luc. 22.32 was to be derived to his lawfull successors as the chaire of Moyses ever had the successors of Moyses sitting in it for no well ordered common wealth is destitute of sufficient meanes still to provide her of her lawfull Heads and Governours appointed her successively And as it is not enough to say Christ is King of Kings and Lord of Lords therefore the civil commoÌ„ wealth needs no other King or Lord. So it seems farr greater non-sense to say that because Christ is the chiefe head and Priest of the church therefore we vpon earth need no other head to governe such a common wealth as the Church is conteining so many severall people of so many nations natures customes and dispositions as be fouÌ„d froÌ„ the rising of the suÌ„ne to the going downe of the same though this so farr spread common-wealth were intended from the beginning to last as long as the Sunne and Moone It was then for this his churches sake that some one was ever to be first and Chiefe in it 6. Now sayth S. Matthew numbring the Apostles Princes of the Church The names of the twelve Apostles be these The first Simon who is called Peter Matth. 10.2 And so in all places where the Apostles are counted as Iudas is allwaise the last so S. Peter is counted first and as it was sayd of Eliazar that he was the Prince of Princes of the Levites Num. 3.32 So amongst the spirituall Princes of Christs Church S. Matthew doth not only count him first but plainly says he was the first The first Simon who is called Peter He was neither the first in order of calling to the Apostle shipe nor in age For his Brother Andrew was before him in both these Io. 1. Again to signifie that he was the head and chiefe in ordinary Christ sayd to him Matth. 16.19 And to thee will I give the Keyes of the Kingdome of heaveÌ„ For though the power of loosing and binding was afterward given to the other Apostles Iohn 20.23 yet the Keyes of the Kingdome of heaven are never in Scripture sayd to be given to any but to S. Peter The giving of the Keyes is wel knowne to signifie naturally the supreme Rule in a citty or familie HeÌ„ce the Keyes of the citty are offered to the chiefe Governours at theyr entrance So allso the Keye of the house of David is given to Christ being to reigne in the house of David for ever Here Christ giveth the Keyes to S. Peter as to his successor in the house of God which is the Church of the living God 1. Tim. 3.15 By these Keyes is signified the plenitude of highest power 7. Again Iohn 21.15 Simon of Iohn lovest thou me more then these Feed my lambes And yet again v. 17. Feed my sheepe Note that he would not have required greater love in Peter rather then in any of the rest nor

Moyses v. 8. They have made them a molten Calfe and have worshiped it and sacrificed thereunto And sayd these are the Gods of IsraÃ«l who have brought thee out of the Land of Aegypt You see God himself sayth they have worshipped it and Sacrificed thereunto that is to the very Calfe and not to the true God And they did not acknowledge that the true God had delivered them from Aegypt but they did attribute theyr delivery to the Gods to witt the Aegyptian Gods Wherefore the true God sayd in that place of Exodus just now cited They have quickly revolted forgetting me who so very lately did so many wonders to deliver them all which they now ascribe to the Aegyptian Gods And that you may see I say this most groundedly I shew the same expresly sayd in other Scriptures Moyses speaking of this very act of Idolatry here committed sayth Deutr. 32.16 They provoked him with strange Gods The God of IsraÃ«l can not be called a strange God And the next words are They Sacrificed to Divels not to God And yet you say they Sacrificed to the true God which allso is expresly coÌ„trary to the next words They Sacrificed to new Gods that came newly up to Gods whom they knew not To Gods whom theyr Fathers feared not What more clear David allso manifestly Psal 106. v. 19. They have made a Calfe in Horeb and they worshipped the molten Image they forgott theyr Saviour who had done great things in Aegypt A strange thing indeed it was that all those strange wonders should be so soon forgot But it is that very thing for which God so often blameth them So that Moyses with great reason wondred how Aaron could be brought to be partaker in this sin and as astonished he asked him Exod. 32.20 what hath this people done to thee for I am sure they must have used great violence and force to bring thee to this that thou shouldest bring upon them an heinous sin Aaron for his excuse allegeth the violence offered to him Now whereas Aaron proclaimed this solemnity as the solemnity of the Lord of IsraÃ«l he did so because he denounced that the very self same honour should to morrow be solemnly given to this Idol which was formerly given to the God of IsraÃ«l And seeing that they resolved to giue to this new God all other honours they would allso give him the honour of the highest name Iehova a name yet famous among them So you might lately see a Quaker say to Iames Nayler Thou art my Christ as S. Paul sayd of the Gentils Rom 1.21 that whereas they knew God yet they did not glorify him as God And they changed the glorie of the incorruptible God into a similitude of a corruptible fourfooted beast So might we say of these Iewes Now I answer what was added of Ieroboams renewing this Idolatry For he allso did worship false and strange Gods as appeares by what God spoak by his Prophet Ahias 1. Kings 14.3 Thou hast gone and made thee other Gods and cast me behind thy back So that he did not honour for of him these words are sayd the God of IsraÃ«l in those Idols but casting him of he honored other Gods yea in Chap. 12.32 He Sacrificed unto the Calves that he had made But how then say you did they call the God of IsraÃ«l Baali I answer that as a Quaker calling Iames Nayler Iesus Christ doth make Christ to be no better man then Iames Nayler and so doth as good as call Christ Iames Nayler Even so these Iewes taking Baali for theyr true God did say that in effect theyr true God was no better then Baali and so they vilifyed him as much as if they had called him Baali giving all honour to Baali that was due to God yea even the honour of beeing theyr chief God as wee sayd of Aaron 10. Thus I have answered at large this theyr best argumeÌ„t upon which chiefly they must build theyr uncharitable and heinous accusation of the whole visible Church to have been guilty of the highest of Crimes that is of Idolatry it self Alas how farr short doth this objectioÌ„ come of making good so foul an accusation which is most injuriously made if it cannot be better proved then by this weak argument THE XLI POINT It is Laudable to worship the Reliques of Saints 1. ALL the worshipe we give to the Reliques of Saints is only such respect as insensible Creatures are capable of as to be kissed costly inshrined touched worn and used with reverence c. And all this is meerly for the respect we beare unto the person whose Reliques they be By the worship done to the Ark we shall fitly both prove and declare the honour of which such insensible holy things are capable The Ark of God was only that portable litle chappel in which God was pleased to speak and impart his mind to the High Priest consulting him with due Ceremonies And yet see I pray what honour God would have done to this Ark though it were a creature insensible of Honour and only capable of beeing honored for his sake to whom it had relation And this relative honour was exceeding great and extended to manyfold strange expressions of Reverence Yet all these honours were farr from beeing Idolatrous yea God by this so much worshiped Ark confounded Idolatry For 1. Sam. 5.4 Dagon fell upon his face unto the earth before it Let us see what reverence God declared due to the Ark. When without respect they had looked on the Ark of our Lord he smote of the people fifty thousand Chap. 6.19 And 2. Sam. 6.6 Because Vzzah put forth his hand to the Ark of God and took hold of it For the oxen shook it God smote him for his errour and he dyed by the Ark. Whence David fearing want of due piety in himself sayd how shall the Ark of our Lord come to me And so he caused it to tourne into the house of Obededon where it was three months And our Lord blessed him and all his house We may then hope for blessings by wearing Reliques by having Saints Bodyes buried in our cities c. And when Salomon placed the Ark in the Temple 2. Chron. 5. v. 2. He gathered to geather all the ancients of IsraÃ«l and all the Princes of the heads of families of the Children of IsraÃ«l into Ierusalem to bring the Ark from the citty of David which is Sion See here this most stately and goodly procession to bring the Ark. And all that were gathered before the Ark Sacrificed Sheep and Oxen which could not be tould nor numbred for multitude v. 6. And God graced this Procession and Translation of the Ark by a miraculous Cloude filling the house of our Lord so that the Priests could not stand to minister by reason of the cloude v. 14. Laugh not then at our Processions made in Translations of Reliques this beeing done for the Ark. Now of other Reliques 2. Kings 2 v. 13. Elizeus

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