Selected quad for the lemma: book_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
book_n	apostle_n	ghost_n	holy_a	1,615	5	4.9281	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A07488	Goodnes; the blessed mans badge: or Gods character stampt on mans conscience In two sermons before the most excellent Prince Charles. By Richard Myddleton his Highnesse chaplayne.	Middleton, Richard, d. 1641.	1619 (1619)	STC 17871; ESTC S107387	56,318	177

curuae in terris animae coelestium inanes O crooked soules on earth and voyde of heauenly things Psa 17 To how many may wee say they turne their eye downe to the ground neuer lifting vp ther eies to heauen from whence all good comes to them but like swine fee de on the Acornes neuer lookking vp to the tree that bare the Now if you will take a list of them and number them if you can So many as I shall see to be delighted with the filthy puddle of carnall pleasures neither perceiuing hearing or doing any thing that belongs to piety and godlinesse but onely to serue the time so many must I iudge to be swine O how many swine hath this worlde in opulent Cities and glorious Courts of Princes Where men should in great plenty be seene euen there they play they swine and bruite beasts There is Circes turning men into swine There is Epiourus that tame vncleane hogge There are all kinde of beasts innumerable small and great As many as wee shall see hauing no more soule then a swine Auimam pro sale Onely a soule to keepe the body from stinking rotting as beasts haue who neuer dreame of another life where so ules are immortall but liue as if there were neither Heauen nor Hell as the Atheists of our times so many swine beasts wee may say there are O good God how doth the earth abound with such kinde of swine The sow that farrowed thirty white pigges in the place Where Aeneas founded and built his City Alba had neuer such a plentifull litter as Atheisme and impiety at this day hath brought forth Yea they are growen to that height of all iniquity that they will wallowe in the mire without all controulment Come say they Sap. 2 let vs enioy the pleasures that are present for this is our lot this is our portion And shal I not think them to be swine that cramme themselues with delicates till it come vppe againe nothing commiserating the poor mēbers of Christ which by want or losses are driuen to extreame pouerty no man remembring the afflictions of Ioseph nor euer eyther yeelding them wooll to cloath them or milke to feede them more then swine doe But what talke I of swine These swine swim in all kinde of superfluities euen vnto surfeit these swine come not all to the shambles nor doe all of them accompany Vlysses a ship-board These feede not in the farmes vnder the trees they vse not all one common sty but euen famous Cities goodly Countries and glorious Courts of Kings are full fraught with such swine That as Salomon sayde Eccl. 12 there was no end in making bookes so hauing in some sort viewed this heard of swine if we should take an accoūt of the other bruite beastes to which the holy Ghost fitly compares wicked voluptuous impenitent sinners I should rather wearie you then reckon them vp there would bee no end in numbring them For as the Apostle sayd to his fellow labourers Acts 20 that after his departure grieuous wolues would enter not sparing the flock So I may say not only that the Heathen but that all maner of bruite beasts worse then the heathen are entred into the Lords inheritance Psa 79. defiling his holy Tempie and making hauocke of all religion and goodnesse Psa 22 The fat Bulls of Basan do enclose the godly on euery side the wilde Bores out of the wood doe striue to roote vp that little vine of the godly and the wilde beasts of the field deuour it Psa 80 Psa 22 Gods dearlings are in the power of dogges and in the mouthes of lions they lye lurking in their dennes Psa 10 Ier. 9 and rauish the poore The serpents and cocatrices that by corruption and oppression sting the godly to death and will not bee charmed but with gifts are euery where rife Euery one turneth into this race Ier. 8 as the horse into the battell Like fed horses euery one neigheth after his neigbours wife Like wanton vntamed calues Ier. 31 Psa 58 they keepe no bounds Like venomous serpents and deafe adders they stop their eares and will not bee charmed charme they neuer so wisely As a cage is full of birds so are their houses full of deceit Ier. 5 they are waxen fatte and shining they ouerpasse the deeds of the wicked they execute no iudgement Shal I not visit for these things faith the Lord shall not my soule bee auenged on such a Nation as this Here then I require two things to bee obserued First that wee woulde keepe the methode which God proposeth in doing good that is that in euery of our actions the goodnesse to be done to others be aymed at Secondly that wee labour to preserue goodnes and good men by taking away the worme that kils them First to keepe the order that God vseth For God preferres order before all things and as Saint Augustine saith Bonum in ordine consist it Good consists in order Now this is Gods order 1. To ayme at our good in all his actions 2. As the same Father saith Aug. it is Gods order to make Modus species et ordo generalia bona Measure forme and order to bee generall good things in all his creatures So that Vbi haec tria magna sunt magna bona sunt vbi parma parua bona sunt vbi nulla nullum bonum est Where these three are great there are great good things where little little good things where none no good thing at all Looke then if the end of all your actions bee the good of others looke if you finde these three good things in your actions which God hath put in euery creature measure forme and order Measure that temperately forme that decently order that discreetly all things bee done If so then doe you followe Gods methode in doing good But alas we run contrary and vtterly destroy Gods order For what measure is it to poure water into sieues or rent dishes that spend it faster then they receiue it What forme is there to rewarde dogges for killing the game and not iust and holy men for killing of vices What comlinesse is there in our monstrousnes and excesse of apparel What forme to cast all honours and preferments vpon the vndeseruing or in the lowest ranke of seruice and to neglect the best and worthiest seruices What order what discretion what measure to runne greedily after the foolish vanities of this life and neuer labor to purchase any riches for the Soule Is not this Christs order First seek the kingdome of God and the righteousnesse thereof Math. 6 First thou shouldst seeke as that good Father saith Aug. Vt sis bonus that thou maist be good thy selfe and then Vnde facias bonum the things whereby thou maist do good to others Secondly wee must labour to preserue goodnesse and good men by taking away the Canker that corrupts them