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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
heart_n	aaron_n	moses_n	murmur_a	58	3	12.5193	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A19678	A sermon of the pestilence Preached at Chiswick, 1603. By the right reverend father in God, Lancelot Andrewes, late L. Bishop of Winchester.	Andrewes, Lancelot, 1555-1626.	1636 (1636)	STC 610; ESTC S113686	10,201	21

of Phinees standing What need there be any mention of Phinees standing Was it not enough to say Phinees prayed It skils not whether he sate or stood for praying it selfe was enough No wee must not thinke the Holy Ghost sets downe any thing that is superfluous Somewhat there is in that he stood Of Moses it is said Ier. 18.20 before in this Psalme that hee stood in the gap to turne away the wrath of God In Ieremie it is said though Moses and Samuel stood before me So there is mention made of standing also And the Prophet himselfe puts God in mind that he stood before him to speake good for the people and to turne away his wrath from them that is put God in mind of the very sight of his body For though God be a Spirit and so in Spirit to Iohn 4.24 be worshipped yet in as much as he hath given us a body with that also are we to worship Him and to glorifie him in our body and spirit which both 1 Cor. 6 20. Rom 12.1 are Gods and to present or offer our bodies to God as a holy and acceptable sacrifice in the reasonable service of Him And to present them decently For that also is required in the service of God Now judge in 1 Cor. 14.40 1 Cor. 11.13 your selves Is it comely to speake unto our betters sitting Sedentem or are extra disciplinam est saith Tertullian to pray sitting or sit praying is against the order of the Church The Church of God never had nor hath any such fashion All tendeth to this as Cyprians advice is Etiam habitu corporis placere Deo even by our very gesture and the carriage of our body to behave our selves so as with it we may please God Vnreverent carelesse undevout behaviour pleaseth Him not It is noted of the very Angels Iob 1.6 Esa. 6.2 Dan. 7.10 that they were standing before God If them it becomes if Phinees if Moses if Samuel and Ieremie it may well become us to learne our gesture of them Prayer is availeable to appease Gods wrath and Against their inventions 1 Execution of judgement so consequently to remove the Plague but not prayer alone For though it abate the anger of God which is the first yet it goeth not high enough takes not away the second cause that is our inventions which are the cause of Gods anger We see it plaine in Num. 25.6 they were all at prayers and Phinees among them he and the rest Num. 25.7.8 But yet the plague ceased not for all that till in the verse following Phinees tooke his javelin wherewith in the very act of fornication he thrust them both through Zamri and his woman and then the plague was stayed from the children of Israel For as prayer referreth properly to anger so so doth executing judgement to sin or to our inventions the cause of it Prayer then doth well but prayer and doing justice both these together joyntly will doe it indeed And if you disjoyne or separate them nothing will be done If we draw neere to God with our mouthes and honour Him with our lips it will not availe us if judgement be turned back or justice Esay 29. 14. stand afaroff There are two persons Both of them were 2 By Phinees as a Prince in his Tribe and a Magistrate in Phinees For as he was a Priest so he was a Prince of his Tribe So then both these must joyne together as well the devotion of the Priest in prayer which is his Office as the zeale of the Magistrate in executing judgement which is His. For Phinees the Priest must not onely stand up and pray but Moses the Magistrate also must stand in the gap to turne away the wrath of God that he destroy not the people No lesse he than Aaron with his golden Censer to run into the midst of the Congregation to make attonement for them when the plague is begun Moses he gave in charge for the executing of them that were joyned to Baal-Peor Num. 25.4 Phinees he executed the charge Moses stood in the gap when he gave the sentence Phinees stood up when he did the execution And these two are a blessed conjunction One of them without the other may misse but both together never faile For when Zamri was slaine and so when Rabshaketh perished and so when the incestuous Corinthian was excommunicated in all three the plague ceased But what if Moses give no charge what if Phinees 3 By every man upon himselfe doe no execution as oft it falleth out How then In that case every private man is to bee Phinees to himselfe is not onely to pray to God but to be wreaked doe judgement chasten his owne body and so judge himselfe that he may not be judged of the Lord. For every one for his part is a cause of the judgements of God sent downe and so 2 Cor. 2.11 may bee and is to bee a cause of the removing 1 Cor 9. 1 7. them Somewhile the King as David by the 1 Cor. 11 3. pride of his heart Otherwhile the people by their murmuring against Moses and Aaron So that King and people both must judge themselves every private offender himselfe Zamri if he had judged himselfe Phinees should not have judged him The incestuous Corinthian if he had judged 1 Chr. 21. 1.8 himselfe S. Paul had not judged him For either Num. 16.3 by our selves or by the Magistrate or if by neither of both by God Himselfe For one way or other sin must be judged Zamri by his repentance Phinees by his prayer or doing justice or God by the plague sent among them Now then these two 1 Phinees stood up and prayed 2 and Phinees stood up and executed judgement if they might be coupled together I durst undertake the conclusion would be and the plague ceased But either of them wanting I dare promise nothing To conclude then 1. The plague comes not by chance but hath a cause 2. That cause is not altogether naturall and pertaines to Physicke but hath something supernaturall in it and pertaines to Divinity 3. That supernaturall cause is the wrath of God 4. Which yet is not the first cause For the wrath of God would not rise but that he is provoked by our sins and the certaine sinnes that provoke it have beene set downe 5. And the cause of them our owne inventions So our inventions beget sin sin provokes the wrath of God the wrath of God sends the plague among us To stay the plague Gods wrath must be stayed To stay it there must be a ceasing from sin That sin may cease we must be out of love with our owne inventions and not go awhoring after them Prayer that asswageth anger To executejustice that abareth sin to execute justice either publikely as doth the Magistrate or privately as every man doth or may doe upon himselfe which joyned with prayer and prayer with it will soone rid us of that we complaine and otherwise his anger will not be turned away but his hand stretched out still FINIS