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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
father_n	ghost_n	glory_n	son_n	22,021	5	5.9032	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A04605	Londons looking backe to Ierusalem, or, Gods iudgements vpon others, are to be obserued by vs	Jones, John, minister at St. Michael Basenshaw, London.	1633 (1633)	STC 14722; ESTC S119135	33,692	66

one Lydia Act. 16.14 to attend to the things which are spoken Consider then the danger of this sinne Prou. 20.25 It is a snare to a man to devoure holy things As the feathers of an Eagle laid with the feathers of other birds are said to consume them so holy things the goods of the Church mingled with private mens patrimonies do devoure them Male parta male dilabuntur which may be observed by the Crane in Embleme that having swallowed a wrongfull prey Au●●us Gelius N●tt Alloc l. 3. c. 9. could not digest it When Scipio robbed the Temple of Tholossa there was not a man that carried away any of the gold who ever prospered after it That gold was not more fatall to the followers of Scipio than the stollen goods of the Church have beene unfortunate to the Gentrie of our land They have proved gangreenes to their whole estate and as knot-grasse to dogges which being eaten keepes them from thriving so that in the end these robbers or their posterity prove beggers Aug. ad Macedon Epist 54. Dum. alienum rapis a diabolo raperis et quamd in id detines a diabolo detineris retines aurum prodis coelum iniuste detines rem alienam iuste amittis haereditatem tu am iniustum lucrum sed iustum damnum lucrum in arca sed damnum in coscicutia percat mundi lucrum per quod fit animae damnum But that 's not the worst remember that of S. Augustine Multi in hac vita manducant quod postea apud in feros digerunt Many devoure that in this life which they shall digest in hell And againe Si in ignem mittitur qui non dedit rem propriam vbi mittendus qui in vasit alienam c. If hee bee decreed to the fire which gave not his owne whither is he to be sent that hath robd another whilst thou snatchest from another the Devill snatcheth away thee and so long as thou withholdest it the Devill withholdeth thee thou retainest gold loseth thine inheritance an unjust gaine but a Iust losse Lucre in thy coffer but condemnation in thy conscience a mischeife on that money that brings destruction to the soule If this bee to ingrosse the portion and possession of the Lord if this be to rob the house of God who dares lay sacrilegious hands upon it Oh meddle not with that which is consecrated to God as Pilates wife sent her husband word haue thou nothing to doe with that just man Matth. 27.17 so have thou nothing to doe with Gods portion doe not forage his Church defraud his Ministers this is to rob God himselfe Mal. 3.10 Will a man rob God yet ye have robbed me But yee say wherein have wee robbed thee yee make your selves ignorant as if yee knew not that yee had robbed me in my tythes and offerings Yee are cursed with a curse for yee haue robbed me even this whole nation yee haue joined your selues in one to rob mee of my portion thinking the commonnesse of the offence to bee every mans particular justification therefore yee are heavily accursed Enough to terrifie those sacrilegious pioners of Gods house that say with them Psal 83.12 Let us take to our selues the houses of God in possession But I have spoken sufficiently touching this kinde of violence offered to the peculiar place of God I passe now to another Further they are here to bee taxed who carry themselves irreverently in the place of Gods worship which is the peculiar place of God not a Barbers shop nor an Apothecaries house nor a common court but the place of Angells and Archangels the Kingdome of God yea heaven it selfe * Chrysost in 1 Cor. Hom. 36. Many by their indecent behaviour doe so vilifie this place as if it were the worst of all others worse then their owne houses as S. Chrysostome * Ibid. complained in his time for ther 's order observed but in the Church saith he is such disorder such confusion such laughing and sleering and nodding and whispering such a stirre and noise that there is little or no difference made betweene the Church and an alehouse nay betweene the Church and a Play-house nay betweene the Church and a brothelhouse no difference made at all I would to God this our irreverence were not a just occasion to the Romanists to scandalize our religion S. Paul 1 Cor. 14. 24. exhorts us so to carrie our selves in the Church that if an unbeleever come in he may say God is there and God is in us and may be drawne to joyne with us in the worship of God But if such a one should come into some of our Congregations and observe the carriage of many he will well say what Lord do this people serve that are so irreverent Mal. 1.10 The Lord said to the Iewes in the like case I have no pleasure in you neither will I accept an offering at your hand and v. 6. he tells them that they despised his name and made his table contemptible It is our sinne at this day Wee make his table contemptible his throne contemptible his house contemptible his word contemptible and all contemptible by our indecent behaviour in the place of his worship Therefore I say in this case as the Prophet did to them in the like Mal. 1.9 I pray you beseech God that he will be gracious unto us Beseech him with broken and bleeding hearts to be gracious unto us in the pardoning of this sinne Mac. 1.9 Mac. 2.3 Mac. 2.15 Remember how Antiochus was punished for prophaning the house of God so Heliodorus Nicanor Belshazzar Dan. 5. when Christ was in his humiliation he whipt out such shewing by that base punishment that they are not sonns but slaves and will hee not then punish these now being so highly exalted When King Ahashuerosh conceived that Haman would have forced Queene Ester hee tooke it the worse because it was in his house Est 7.8 Will he force the Queene before mee in the house A man of the poorest condition cannot abide to see his house abused and shall God indure to see his abused He cannot he wil not therfore beware of that Let it ever be our care when we enter in to the house of God where Father Sonne and Holy Ghost behold us to doe nothing any way unbeseeming that place To conclude this point If the place where God is worshipt be his peculiar place let us think upon the glory of this place this land I meane this Kingdome wherein we live Here is the place where God doth set his name settle his worship and ordinances as once he did in Shiloh and afterward at Ierusalem Israel and England though they lye in a divers climate may bee said right Parallels not in Cosmographicall but in Theologicall respects Nay we doe herein farre transcend them they had onely a drop to refresh themselves we have the whole streames of Gods mercies poured upon us they