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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
religion_n	church_n	england_n	rome_n	5,202	5	6.8819	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A95662	Hiervsalem: or A vision of peace. In a sermon preached at Margarets in Westminster, before the honourable House of Commons at their monethly fast, Aug. 28. 1644. By Christopher Tesdale, Pastor at Husborn Tarrant, in the county of Southampton, and a member of the Assembly of Divines.	Tesdale, Christopher, b. 1591 or 2.	1644 (1644)	Wing T792; Thomason E7_19; ESTC R2601	22,081	35

long as the whoredomes of thy Mother Jezebel c. The People say somthing to the matter in their description of peace Ps 144. that our sons may grow up as plants c but the chiefe ingredient is wanting here and therefore upon the acclamation of the common sort crying up this outward prosperity as the most desirable happinesse in the world Happy is the people that is in such a case as the Greek turneth it they count the people happy that hath these things the Prophet subjoyneth by way of refutation another sentence opposed to all this outward felicity Happy rather is the people whose God is Jehovah God then must be one in this holy League he must bee principall he must thinke thoughts of mercy towards his people he must speake peace unto them he must be reconciled to us through Christ our eternall Peacemaker And then secondly we must be at Peace with God Follow Peace and holinesse saith the Apostle without holinesse there is no peace Sin separates us Faith reunites us O knit my heart unto thee was Davids Prayer so Christ must ingratiate us into the favour of his heavenly Father God must enter Covenant with man and man must be in good termes with his God by faith repentance obedience or there is no Peace Thirdly there must be a sweet agreement betweene Prince and People a gracious accord too of the people among themselves knit together in the inviolable bonds of loyalty and love neither entoiled with civill broiles at home nor infected with hostile inrodes from without all professing and maintaining that one eternall Truth which is both Mother and Nurse of Peace Such a Peace as was enjoyed in the dayes of Solomon when Judah and Israel dwelt safely every one under his Vine and under his Fig-tree from Dan even to Beersheba And in the daies of Constantine when there was silence in Heaven for the space of halfe an houre and the sweet odours of the Prayers of the Saints ascended up as a cloud But a shorter and more full definition of Peace we cannot have then Paul gives us 1 Tim. 2. 2. That we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godlinesse and honesty Here it is a quiet and peaceable life in all godlinesse and honesty otherwise we may buy as gold too deare so our Peace evill conditions as bad ingredients are able to imbitter this sweet blessing and turne it into a curse Balaam may ingrosse the promotions of Moab as the temporizing Clergy of late the dignities of our Church but upon saucy termes they must come then and curse Israel and they must build Altars the better to effect it as it were with Bell Booke and Candle Micaiah may have the Court favours but he must frame his mouth then to the flattering veine and comply with the false Prophets in carrying on the King with lying visions to his destruction Eliah himself need not despaire of being Chaplain in ordinary to Queen Iezabel could he but bate of his fiery zeale and take the Priests of Baal for his Camerades Herod that fox will reverence Iohn Baptist and heare him gladly if he will not meddle with his Herodias Those Boanerges which the times favour not might bee better accepted would chey thunder lesse and not lift up their voice like a Trumpet that carnall men cannot sleep on for them securely in their sinnes These cocks are a great disturbance to drowsie Sybarites they cannot away with the unseasonable clamours of such wakefull birds But we that are the Lords remembrancers must not keep silence though we be silenc't for it we must hold our faith and hold the truth hold our profession and hold a good conscience but not hold our peace O'tis the basest tenure in all the World for any Minister to hold by to hold his living or hold his favour hold his Peace by holding his peace And so for publike peace Nahash the Ammonite will make a Covenant with the men of Iabesh Gilead upon condition he may thrust out al their right eyes the Popes condition just upon which he admits blinded Proselytes into the communion of his Church Hezekiah may make his Peace with great Senacherib if hee will take slavery with his bravery the Assyrian yoake with his chaine of gold and become a Tributary King some moderate men thinke that a good motion for controversies in Religion which the false Mother made for the living childe Neither mine nor thine but let it bee divided Upon such termes I doubt not the Church of England and the Church of Rome Protestancy and Popery might soon b●e reconciled would wee renounce our most Orthodox heresies and come home to the un-erring Councell of Trent Christs Kingdome would bee more quiet would he admit rivalls and compeeres with him in his Throne and suffer Romes Saints to sit cheek by choul at his right hand and at his left as the Theeves upon the Crosse to rob him of his honor or would his faithful modest spouse but dresse her selfe after the garb of the Skarlet whore in that garish attire shee might finde more favour in her sight Holofernes would hurt none that would serve the King of Babylon no more will the Jesuites infest those kingdomes that will worship their great Italian Idoll and bee stigmatized with the marke of the Beast and if this bee it wee were best take a neerer cut unto the Devill for a boon and as the miserable Indians fal down and worship the foule fiend that hee may not hurt us appease and please him that hee may bee quiet rather when his conditions are ever most base and hee drawes after him such a Dragons tayle of damn'd Idolatry Si cecideris Though hee should offer us all the kingdomes of the world the devil and all our answer is made already Avoid Satan get thee behinde mee thou foule fiend hold thy peace thy kingdomes thy monie thy peace perish with thee And how much better were it to have a biting Gospell then a toothlesse Masse as Bradford said to sit under the saddest shade of the true Vine even weeping then to frollick it under the greenest Trees and most pleasant Oakes of Idolatry the people sate downe to eate and to drinke and rose up to play to enjoy Christ though with the crosse and persecution then to live under Antichrist in all manner of temporall prosperity Better the Kingdome were troubled with the Popes leaden Bulls then his golden Calves and fell under the curse of a man of sinne then the wrath of a jealous God you like not I presume those hot gleames of Sunne-shine which carry fierce stormes and tempests at their heeles like your lucid intervalls lightnings as they call them in sicke folkes seconded with pangs of death a short truce that brings after it long troubles in a word better have a holy and a just warre than an irreligious dis-honourable and unsafe Peace better want the peace of the Gospel then not have with it the Gospel