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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
ground_n	church_n	pillar_n	truth_n	16,480	5	7.1251	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A90064	Jerusalems vvatch-men, the Lords remembrancers: a sermon preached at the Abbie at VVestminster, before both Houses of Parliament, and the Assembly of Divines, upon their solemn fast, Iuly 7. 1643. / By Matth: Nevvcomen M.A. and Minister of the Gospell at Dedham in Essex. Published by order of both Houses of Parliament.	Newcomen, Matthew, 1610?-1669.	1643 (1643)	Wing N911; Thomason E63_7; ESTC R8797	23,198	43

literally signifies the people of Ierusalem the Nation of the Jews whom God hath in his righteous indignation scattered over the face of the earth as chaffe before the wind these we may pray for I meane the remnant according to the election of Grace that God would gather them againe according to his promise And so all Israel shall be saved Rom. 11.26 But yet this is not that Ierusalem here meant neither The Ierusalem meant in this place is the Mystical Ierusalem that Ierusalem whereof this was but a type the new * Revel 21.2 which text seemes to referre to this of Isaiah speak the same language for as here ver 4.5 God saith The Lan I shall be married And God will rejoyce over Jerusalem as a bridegroome rejoyceth over his bride so here John sees this Ierusalem prepared as a bride adorned for her husband Ierusalem comming downe from God out of Heaven And so it implyes two things First the Church of God in the utmost latitude of it the whole Catholique Church dispersed over the world the generall assembly and Church of the first borne is unto us Mount Sion the City of the living God the heavenly Ierusalem Heb. 12.22 23. for which we are to pray that God would establish and make it a praise in the earth And secondly by Ierusalem Mysticall we are to understand that particular Church in which we live of which we are to which we stand in the same relation that the Iews did to Ierusalem for this we are to pray that God would establish and make it a praise in the earth And so I come to the second thing to be explained Secondly for what we must pray the subjectum quod or what it is we are to pray for Two things we find mentioned in the text first that God would establish secondly that God would make his Church a praise in the earth First that God would establish his Church First that God would establish his Church for though the Church hath a strong foundation and walles and bulwarkes strong yet it is in it selfe but a weake building Mat. 16.18 earthly tabernacles planted on a rock Isaiah 26 1. 2 Cor. 5. That which God speakes of the earth may be applyed to the Church Psal 75.3 The earth and all the inhabitants of it are dissolved I beare up the Pillars of it All the commissures and contignations of this great fabrick of the Universe would be loosned and disjoynted if God did not put under his everlasting armes and beare up and establish the Pillars of it So would it be in the Church of God therefore we must pray that God would establish his Church In two things and that in two things first in Truth secondly in Peace First in truth against all errors Secondly in Peace against enemies Fi●●… in Truth First we must pray that God would establish his Church in truth The Church is said 1 Tim. 3.15 to be the pillar and ground of truth not as the Papists affirme as if truth were grounded upon the judgement and determination of the Church the Church is indeed the Pillar of truth not because it holds up the truth but because it holds forth the truth the metaphor is taken not from Pillars that are supporters of houses but from such Pillars as anciently were wont to be fixed in market places and other places of publique meeting upon which they hung their lawes as the leges 12. Tabularum at Rome that they might be publique to the view and notice of all men as amongst us Proclamations for the same end are pasted upon posts such a Pillar of truth we grant the Church is and ought to be a Pillar to hold forth the truth to the view of all men a Pillar to which all men resorting may read and know the truth it is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 but not 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Pillar and ground of truth the word in the Originall is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which in the first and native signification is a seat the Pillar and seat of truth the place of truths abode and residence its proper ubi where truth is always to be found this the Church of God is or ought to be Now though the Church of God should be thus yet we know there is no Church but it is subject unto error The Apostle tells us there must be Heresies 1 Cor. 11.19 and that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and our Saviour tells us that there shall arise some such subtill masters of heresie that they shall seduce if it were possible the very elect of God Mark 13.22 Therefore we must pray that God would establish his Church in truth against all errors Ephes 6.14 Truth it is the Churches girdle A Church quae hanc Zo nā perdidit aut soluta est as the Latine proverb is a Church that hath lost this girdle of truth or hath this girdle loosed is an Adulterous beggerly Church therefore yee that are the Lords Remembrancers keep no silence give him no rest till he establish his Church in truth Secondly in Peace And as in truth so secondly in Peace Peace is one of the richest blessings of heaven a comprehensive blessing a circle of blessings I will not rhetoricate in the praises of it the want of peace hath made us know what peace is worth in the enjoyment of this rich desirable blessing we must intreat the Lord to establish Ierusalem his Church yee that are the Lords Remembrancers keep no silence give him no rest till he establish Ierusalem in peace And this peace is threefold Civill with the Nations Ecclesiasticall with its own members and spirituall or celestiall with its head and God First 1. Civill we must pray that God would establish his Church in peace among the Nations the Church of God is among the Nations Cant. 2.2 as the lilly among the Thorns the lot of Israel was among the uncircumcised Heathens so is the Churches yet hath her God promised peace in the middest of enemies Mic. 4.3 He shall judge among many people and rebuke strong Nations afar off and they shall beat their swords into ploughshares and their spears into pruning hooks Nation shall not lift up a sword against Nation neither shall they learn war any more but they shall sit every man under his vine and under his figtree and none shall make them afraid for the mouth of the Lord of Hoasts hath spoken it You that are the Lords Remembrancers keep no silence give him no rest till he establish his Church in this peace Secondly there is peace Ecclesiasticall peace of the Church with its own members Secondly Ecclesiasticall peace in the bowels and bosome of the Church wee must pray that God would establish his Church in that that the Church may not languish and die of Antiochus his disease a torment in her bowels that there may be no incomposable divisions no irreconciliable rents no