Selected quad for the lemma: scripture_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
scripture_n	add_v	church_n	faith_n	2,553	5	5.1567	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A32794	Eben-ezer, a thankful memorial of God's mercy in preserving England from the gunpowder-treason, 1605 being a sermon on 1 Sam. 7:12, prepared for Novemb. 5th to be preacht at the cathedral, but preacht for the most part of it at the parish-church of Temple, in the city of Bristol, on the 6th of Novem. being the Lord's day / by John Chetwynd ...	Chetwynd, John, 1623-1692.	1682 (1682)	Wing C3796; ESTC R19751	30,602	46

profession and practice of the true Religion Reformation putting away their Idols Baalim and Ashteroth v. 4. Worshipping at Mizpeh fasting and praying v. 6. 2. Expressed In which 1. Gods grace and favour towards them Hitherto hath God helped us 2. Their sense of it Thankfulness for it and care to continue the memorial of it Thus large is this little portion of Scripture containing like Gold much value in a little compass To handle each particular as they ought would be too great a trespass to your patience and therefore I shall direct my discourse not to consider the many Doctrinal truths that they would present us with but apply my self to shew you how suitable they are to the occasion of this Solemnity and that according to the Method proposed and first 1. What 's supposed 1. The danger 2. The cause I shall joyn both together Their danger was from the Philistines because of their Reformation v. 3. and sincere profession and exercising of Religion and religious Worship at Mizpeh v 6. where they met to humble themseves before God and to consult of their affairs Then the Lords of the Philistines went up against Israel v. 7. and drew near to battel against them v. 9. and they were afraid of the Philistines v. 7. and intreated Samuel to cry unto the Lord for them that he would save them out of the hand of the Philistines v. 8. The Philistines were their neighbour Inhabitants whom the Israelites ought to have expelled but did not nor could not so that they continued amongst them as thorns in their sides many times in subjection always in opposition to Israel and sometimes having the upper hand as after the death of old Eli when they took the Ark of God kept it seven months sent it from City to City but grew weary of it and at last return it home and it was setled at Kirjath-jearim where it continued twenty years during which time the Israelites lamented their Condition under the Philistines power but took care to set up the Ark in the house of Aminidab whose Son Eleazer was consecrated to attend upon it Then Samuel whom God had raised up in Eli's place to rule and govern called them to Repentance and they obeyed that call and reformed themselves put away Baalim and Ashteroth their He-Gods and She-Gods and there solemnly humbled themselves by fasting and prayer and sacrificing a Lamb that signified their faith in Christ and obedience to God v. 9. Then the Philistines drew near to battel against them at which they being unarmed were afraid and knowing their own guilt desired Samuel to pray for them which he did and God delivered them in a miraculous way thundering a great thunder on the Philistines and discomfiting of them v. 10. This was their Case And is not ours the parallel to it Their enemies were the Philistines that always maligned Gods Israel Ours the Papist that always hate Gods true Catholick and Apostolick Protestant Church of England They had the Ark Gods true Religion and Worship Their Faith once famous throughout the World their Religion pure their Faith Orthodos Their manners holy and their Bishops holy Martyrs But this Ark they would not keep they became corrupt and unsound in their Principles and kept not the Faith once delivered to them but changed the glorious truths of God to a lie as the heathen Romans did cast away what they pleased of Gods commands quite left out of their Catechisms the second and to make Rom 1 up the number divided the tenth into two A sorry shift to support their idolatrous Worship taught for Doctrines their own unwarrantable Traditions closed up the Scriptures in an unknown tongue made it piacular to have or read and when to make some shew of owning them they make use of them they most ridiculously applied them as to instance God made a greater light and a lesser light therefore the Pope is as much greater than the Emperor as is the Sun than the Moon Christ said to Peter Kill and eat therefore the Pope may excommunicate and kill Kings Peter said Behold two Swords therefore the Pope hath both Spiritual and Temporal Jurisdiction God said to Jeremy He should plant and transplant therefore the Pope may dispose and transpose Kingdoms at his pleasure Domini sunc Cardines terrarum therefore the Cardinals are Lords of the earth Speed Hist p. 213. But generally they suppress the Scriptures and instead thereof allow their lying Legend to be read in Churches Added twelve new Articles to the Christian Faith impose Contradictions to be believed a that most monstrous Doctrine of Transubstantiation that contradicts not only Scripture that doth assure us that Christs natural Body is in Heaven but all that speaks us men our ●enses sight smell taste touch our Reason and Understanding that cannot comprehend how one body may be in a thousand places at one time and that all the dimensions of a man of full-grown stature can be hid under made and contracted into the proportion of a small Wafer have conjoyned new soul body-state destroying principles as that Dominion is founded in Grace That Religion should be promoted by the Sword A Turkish Tenet And that which is the Lerna Malorum that makes way if believed and entertained unto the establishing of all manner of Villanies in practise and falshood in opinion viz. That the Pope is infallible Thus for matters of Faith and as for their Morals how impure have been their practises not only allowing of publick Stews so that in Rome there were no less than twenty five thousand Common Women in the year 1565. under the Popes protection who received Bp. Jewel a Tribute from them but those houses of inforced and usually but pretended Charity have proved no other than unclean Brothel-houses and murderous habitations witness those 6000 Heads of Children taken out of a Pond near a Nunnery by the Command of Gregory the then Pope And as for Papal Vestals that were at greater liberty we read that Boniface an Englishman in the year 616 complained in a Letter rent to Cuthbert Archbishop of Canterbury That the English Nuns wandering in pilgrimage under shew of Devotion lived in pleasure and wanton Fornication through all the Cities of France and Lumbardy Speeds Hist p 360. How holy and chast the Roman Court was we have the Testimony of Cardinal Hugo who told them of Lyons in his farewel-Sermon when the Pope had for some time so journed amongst them That of the many benefits that the Popes abode had brought them this was a principal that when at his coming thither there were three or four houses of Common-Women in Lions now at their departure they lest but one but that indeed reached from the East-gate to the West facta est urbs tota lupana And of what temper of manners they were generally of even their devoted and religious persons in the days of King Richard the first of England we may find by that answer which