Selected quad for the lemma: book_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
book_n	call_v	holy_a	word_n	2,845	5	3.9924	3	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A09911	The young divines apologie for his continuance in the Vniuersitie with certaine meditations, ritten by Nathaniel Povvnoll, late student of Christ-Church in Oxford.	Pownall, Nathaniel, 1583 or 4-1610.; Fletcher, Giles, 1588?-1623.	1612 (1612)	STC 20174; ESTC S103162	35,832	210

let my soule therefore euer magnifie thy holy name because thou hast ruised mee out of the dust to stand before thee and hast shewed mee the light of thy countenance and let mine eyes see thy saluation To be a seruant of Seruants was once a curse but to be a seruant of one of thy seruants is one of the highest blessings thou thy selfe beeing Lord of all deigning to serue thy Seruants washing their feete and it beeing an office wherein thy blessed Angels doe reioyce But howsoeuer it is an honourable calling yet it is vnto thee a seruice and not vnto ease or pleasure Those that are in Princes Courts may goe in soft rayment and liue at their ease but not so they that serue in thy Courts O Lord. Thy selfe didst begin thy preaching with a fast of fourtie daies and didst enioyne to all that did follow thee to leaue all earthly pleasures which together with the world they were to forsake in stead thereof to take vp thy crosse that so thy members maybe conformable vnto their head Men are all borne to labour as a spark to flie vpwards it is a curse that followed mans fall but to labour in thy vineyard is a blessing following mans repayring and redemption to keepe and dresse thy Paradise thy inclosed garden as it was Adams charge in the happie estate of his innocencie so is it now the Ministers after the happie restoring thereof Thy vineyard laie desolate and the wild bore of the forrest spoyled it but thou hast new digged planted and hedged it and built a Tower therein and thou hast set it forth at a price to thy Ministers to be the Keepers thereof wherefore if it yeeld thee not the fruit or doe not well entreate thy seruants or suffer it to grow wast they can looke for no other but to be cast thence out of thy paradise Not without a cause did thy seruants reioyce that they were thought worthy to suffer for thy sake and thy Martyrs gladly shed their blood for the seed of thy Church and to water what thou hadst planted Thy first grace to thy seruant Paul after thou hast chosen him for a vessell of thine honour was to shew him what great things he should suffer for thy sake as thou hast done before for ours but alas let vs doe what we can or suffer whatsoeuer we are able for Christs sake yea though we should laie downe our liues for him or his sheepe as hee for vs and them yet weare we but vnprofitable seruants Neuerthelesse as blessed were the pappes that gaue thee suck so blessed also are those whom thou hast made the Nources of thy Church to giue them meate in due season blessed the wombe that bare thee and so that which beares thy children the wombe indeed that bare the Lord was deliueuered without paine or labour but thy children must be borne with labour and trauell and the Ministers are as it were daily to trauaile in birth with such as are begotten by them vnto thee but they soone forget their trauaile and reioyce so that children be borne vnto thee and thou makest them fruitfull and takest away the reproach of their barrennesse I know Lord I am no more able to doe the seruice then thou hast need of my seruice and yet since it hath pleased thee thogh all-sufficient and all-powerfull of thy selfe to vse the weake things of this world as thine instruments thereby the more to manifest thy power able to worke by the most vnlikely meanes I humbly and willingly yeeld my selfe as if I were euen nowe in thi●e hands new to be framed and created as clay to the hands of the Potter to be made whatsoeuer vessel either of honour or dishonour yea though it weare to be an Anathema to thy seruice For now that I haue 〈◊〉 my hand to the plough for the tilling of that good ground wherein the seed of thy word is to be sowne I may not looke backe to Sodome to the world whence thou hast called mee but wholy intend the worke thou hast set me to doe Thy seruants must know they are vnder a Taskmaster though a righteous one vnlike those of Egypt that will duely and daily exact their work of them and see that hauing straw giuen them they make bricke for the building of thy house and multiplie the Talents committed vnto them And now there is a woe for me if I preach not the Gospel and that sincerely not can I vnlesse I will be worse then Baalim for a world goe farther then thy holy word will warrant mee Graunt O Lord that my delight be wholy in thy word that I may thinke alwaies I therein heare thee speaking and as thy sheepe knowing thy voice may follow the sheapheard of my soule whether soeuer hee call mee O let not the booke of thy holy word I beseech thee be a sealed book vnto mee but thou that hast the key of Dauid the Lambe that art onely found worthie to open it vnfold it and giue me an vnderstanding heart which aboue all things hauing vndertaken so great a charge I desire with Salomon that I may be a right dispenser of thy holy word and go out and in before thy people For I knowe Lord they which will preach in thy name if thou send them not and assist them are but like those who without authority from thee would cast out deuils in thy name which prevailed against them yea euen those whom thou hast called and set apart to thy ministerie if they do not wel and abide in thee and thou in them the deuill will enter into them as he did into Iudas and make them the sonnes of perdition tenne times worse thē before Giue me grace therefore first to direct mine owne wayes according to the dictat of thy holy Spirit and word that beginning with my selfe and so speaking out of the treasure and abundance of my heart and knowing the things which belong to saluation I may be blessed if I doe them let me first worke out myne owne saluation with feare trembling and so saue both my selfe and others least otherwise I be beaten with many stripes First O Christ make the vessel newe make me a new man and then put in new wine turne thou my water to wine And because thy Ministers are as the eies of thy mysticall and militarie bodie for as thou art the light of thē so they are the light of the world O let there be no beames in their eyes who are to be eyes to the blind but make their verie feete to shine as the starres in the firmament make them conuert many to righteousnesse and beeing first guided by thee the bright morning starre let them become themselues starres also though shining in the night and with thy beames to guid and direct others to the house of the Lord that so hauing found the Messias they may wi●h the wise men noise it abroad and cause others as Philip did Nathaniel to come