Selected quad for the lemma: hand_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
hand_n	body_n	head_n	member_n	5,319	5	8.1605	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A65490	Englands face in Israels glasse, or, The sinnes, mercies, judgements of both nations delivered in eight sermons upon Psalme 106, 19, 20 &c. : also, Gospel-sacrifice, in two sermons on Hebr. 13 / by Thomas Westfield.	Westfield, Thomas, 1573-1644.; T. S.	1646 (1646)	Wing W1416; ESTC R24612	107,991	268

is of somewhat larger extent then the former The first word doth signifie an almes-deed or such reliefe as wee give the poore that is Well-doing The second word Communicate containes under it all mutuall offices of love and kindnesse that passe between man and man For the better knowing of that communicating what it is to communicate let me first tell you that as severall Countries have their severall commodities as you know one Country abounds with good corne another Country hath good wine another hath good fruit another Country hath good breed of cattell Solomon had his oaks from Bashan but his cedars from Lebanon his firre from Shebar his Almug-trees and gold from Ophir his spices and sweet odours from Arabia his fine linnen and horses were brought out of Egypt his ivory apes and peacocks were brought out of Selvesia by his navy and fleet of Tharshish As severall Countries have their severall commodities so severall men have severall gifts or blessings which they are to communicate to others as every Countrey by Merchants communicate the commodities that abound in them to other Countries and they from other Countries receive in other commodities they want God would have one Country to stand in need of another for some commodity or other So it is among men God hath so disposed of his blessings as that there is no man but stands in need one of another There is a necessity of receiving and communicating Solomon Eccles 5.9 tells us The King is served by the tillage of the field the very King stands in need of husbandry The Citizens sometime stand in need of the Country man and the Country man another time hath as much need of the Citizen The poore man cannot stand in so much need of the rich man at one time but the rich man at another time stands in as much need of the poore There is never a member of the body can say to another I have no need of thee as the Apostle tells us The eye cannot say to the hand I have no need of thee nor the head cannot say to the foot I have no need of you Nay quoth the Apostle those members that are feeble are necessary Those poore men that peradventure are contemptible in the sight of the world are necessary God hath so disposed of his gifts and dispensed them with such wisdome as that hee would still have an intercourse of kindnesse betweene man and man There is a necessity of receiving a necessity of communicating of gifts Some men can tell how to receive but they know not how to communicate Nabal and his servants received a great deale of kindnesse at the hands of David and his servants they confessed it Davids servants was a wall about them by day and by night they protected and defended them from all dangers all the while they were in the wildernesse but when David sent to Nabal for some reliefe in the day of Nabals sheep-shearing What quoth the Churle Shall I take my bread see how hee appropriates things still My bread and my water and my flesh that I have prepared for my shearers and give them to men that I know not whence they come 2 Sam. 25.11 Hee knew how to receive kindnesses but he knew not how to communicate As God hath established a distinction of proprieties among men while every man governes his owne house and rules his own servants and tills his owne land and feeds his owne cattell and mannageth his owne affaires I say while God doth thus every man finds sweet experience of Gods particular providence As God hath established thus a distinction of propriety of house and goods and land among men so God on the other side hath established a Communion of Saints and Communion of Saints doth not abolish the distinction of Propriety nor the distinction of Propriety doth not abolish the Communion of Saints they may both stand together a distinction of the Propriety and the Communion of Saints God will have us in regard of possession to have things private and severall that are our owne but God would have us make these things common in regard of use upon severall occasions and then a man doth good when he communicates that good that God hath given him to the good of others Every man must consider with himselfe wherein hath God enabled me to doe the greatest good as Sampson knew wherein his strength lay and then to his uttermost power to doe good and communicate to others of that which God hath given him Forget not to doe this for with such sacrifices God is well pleased This same doing of good and communicating may be done many wayes and mark them because there is no body may be exempted from this precept of the Apostle it concernes every man and every man may doe good and communicate some way or other Wee are forbid to call our brother Racha which in the Syriack signifies empty vacuous A man empty saith St. Ierome upon that word how can a man be said to be bare and empty whom the Spirit of God hath filled and replenished with some gift or other that hee may communicate and in so doing doe good There are many wayes of doing good First a man may doe good to the Publike or hee may doe good to the Private hee may doe good to the Church and Common-wealth in generall or a man may doe good to some speciall persons in the Church or Common-wealth in particular And to distribute and doe good both to the one and to the other forget not For the first to the Publike a man may doe good many wayes These wayes especially come to my mind First a man may doe good to the Publike by the building or enlarging or adorning Churches and Chappels and Oratories for the service of God A man may doe good to the Publike by erecting and endowing of Schools and Colledges for the education of youth A man may doe good to the Publike by making High-wayes and Causies and Bridges for the Travellers A man may doe good to the Publike by the conveyance of water that may be usefull either to City or Countrey and many other things There are many wayes more that a man may doe good to the Publike in and to doe good to the Publike forget not for with such sacrifice God is pleased For some such works as I have named the memory of some good men is blessed to this day and will be hereafter from generation to generation for such publike works Then secondly a man may doe good to some speciall person in Church and Common wealth and that two wayes 1. A man may doe good to the body or 2. To the soule The good that a man communicates may be either a Corporall or Spirituall good Then doth a man good to the body to the outward estate I meane when hee communicates such a thing as is a means of his comfortable being in the state of Nature But a man doth good to the