Selected quad for the lemma: water_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
water_n	fire_n	ghost_n	holy_a	5,254	5	5.8402	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02054	Heauen and earth reconcil'd A sermon preached at Saint Paules church in Bedford, October. 3. 1612. At the visitation of the right Wor. M. Eland, Archdeacon of Bedford. By Tho. Adams ...	Adams, Thomas, fl. 1612-1653.	1613 (1613)	STC 122; ESTC S100418	32,838	52

Fame then affection of Trueth 2. Are there none that mould their Sermons with Court dough Flatterie Cushion Chaplaines that carry their Mistresses Fannes to keepe the heate of Reproofe from their painted faces that cry it is either cold or hot as their Patron listes to feele it Si pr●nderet olus patienter regibus vti N●llet Aristipp●s si scir●t regibus vti Fastidir●t olus c. They get more by flattery the● iust men by their impartiall censures But it was Aristotle● amicus Plat● amicus Socrates m●gis 〈…〉 Thy Patron is thy Friend and the chiefe man of thy Parish is thy Friend Trueth is thy Friend aboue all 3. Are there none that leape out of the troubles of the world into the peace of the Church onely to be fedde at the Altar and liue idle That intertained to build vp Gods House and once sure of his pay lay downe their tooles and fall to play 4. Are there none that make a Vertue of necessitie and when all trades fayle turne Priestes making that their last refuge that should be their best This is a ranke custome among the Papistes but I hope it hath not gotten ouer our Seas Oh how vile is it and an argument of a desperate minde when Diuinitie is made but a shift If to digge they are too lazie to begge ashamed to steale afrayde to cheate want witte and to liue meanes then thrust in for a roome in the Church and once crope in at the window make haste to sharke out a liuing nay and perhaps she apace with the winges of golden Ignoraunce into Patrons Bookes and Presentations to good Beneficer when Learning is so ill hors'd riding vpon Penurie that the Benefice is gone ere he comes no matter how poore the stocke of Learning be so the stocke of Money hold out to the Patrons content Somtimes such Beggars are made Priestes when good Priestes are made Beggars 5. Are there none sicke of the Pearle in the eye a shrewd disease and no lesse common whose soules are taken vp by Mammons commission as Demas that gaue Religion the Bagge when the World offered him the Purse and vowed to serue Christ no longer for nothing I haue shewed you many oblique indirect and sinister endes but among all this carryes it for custome for hatefulnesse Proh pudor that euer a Minister should be couetous as if we had lost all our former time and were now to recouer it with a preposterous emulation of the hungriest Worldlings How should we reclaime others from the World that cleaue to it our selues They must needes thinke wee haue a broder way to Heauen then we teach others It is obseruable that the Creatures neerest to the Earth are most greedy to accumulate What Creatures store vp such heapes of prouision as the Ant But the Birds of the Ayre that flye next He●uen Neither sow nor reape nor carry into the Barne sayth our Sauiour Wee are next to Heauen in profession let vs hate to be farthest off in conuersation These are all vnblest and pernicious endes and whereof I trust no soule is heere guiltie I confidently vse the wordes of Paul I haue perswaded my selfe better thinges of 〈◊〉 and such as accompany saluation though I thus speake I hope the least Feather can brush these dustes from our Conscience Let not Fame Flatterie Ease Necessitie Couetousnesse taske our endeauours to this holy worke we are then but Adulterantes verbum such as adulterate Gods word as the Fornicator makes Lust his end not Generation so such a Minister intendes not to beget soules to God but Fame or Gaine to himselfe If we doe thus the worst is our owne Whiles some preach Christ of strife some of goodwill yet so long a● Christ is preached I doe ioy and will ioy therein It shall be the best for vs that our intentes sympathize with Gods his Ordinaunce with our Perfour●ance to turne soules to Righteousnesse COPVLATIVES This for the Praedicate The persons whom God hath deputed to attone these two contrary natures sinfull men and Righteousnesse are the Ministers there is no weake contention betweene these and the labour is hard to reconcile them To vs is committed this ministery of reconciliation God hath honored vs to tye this ●notte though it be indeed Dignus vindice nodus a sacramentall bond for the hand of the most high God to perfect yet he vouchsafes this honour to vs as his instrumentes that we in his name and power shall tye a double knot on Earth a temporall knot of the husband to the wife which none but the Minister may doe a Spirituall and eternall knot of the beleeuing soule to her husband Christ I haue prepared you for one Husband to present you a pure Virgin to Christ Hee hath designed vs to turne men to Righteousnesse Is this possible Est Deus in vobis c. God is in you if you can doe this no power rules constraines conuertes the heart of man but God onely I say againe thus is God pleased to honour vs that we shall be said to conuert sinners Hee that conuerteth a sinner from going astray shall saue a soule from death and hide a multitude of si●nes And Paul thus chargeth Timothy Continue in learning for in doing this thou shalt saue thy selfe and them that heare thee Yet absit farre be it from vs to thinke or any superstitious soule to ascribe it to vs that by our owne arme we haue gotten this victorie If the Psalmist denyes power to any of rescuing his brothers body from the Graue he much more excludes thy redemption of his soule This then is true when the externall voyce of man and internall operation of the spirit shall iumpe togeather then John Baptist shall turne heartes then the Priest shall make thy soule cleane When the agent of Heauen and instrument of Earth doe concurre or are comprehensiuely taken but when they be either compared in opposing or opposed in comparing then all is in God then Paul can but plant and Apollos water God giues the increase Then Iohn Baptist poures on Water and Christ baptiseth with the holy Ghost and with Fire Will you heare them vnited God was in Christ reconciling the world to himselfe and hath committed to vs the ministrie of reconciliation else there is no power in my perishable voyce to affect your conscience Breake away this Analogie and virtuall association of the spirit from our preaching and you depart from the Temple with as foule heartes as euer you came thither No beloued lift vp your eyes higher then the Pulpit and know he dwelles in Heauen that pierceth the Conscience Behold I stand at the dore and knocke c. I sayes the Sonne of the eternall God It is he that cleares the eye vndeaffes the eare vnlockes the heart and shakes the inmost powers of the soule as the Thunder shakes the Wildernesse Were we all Bo●nerges the Sonnes of