Selected quad for the lemma: christian_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
christian_n	day_n	lord_n	sanctify_v	1,265	5	10.2044	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A23344	A dyall for dainty darlings, rockt in the cradle of securitie A glasse for all disobedient sonnes to looke in. A myrrour for vertuous maydes. A booke right excellent, garnished with many woorthy examples, and learned aucthorities, most needefull for this tyme present. Compiled by VV. Auerell, Student in Diuinitie, and Schoolemaister in London.	Averell, W. (William)	1584 (1584)	STC 978; ESTC S112712	28,627	52

superior element the inferior creature But as the Mole vnto whome the whole meddowe is scarcelie sufficient rooting vp euerie furrowe of the féeld to satisfie her gréedie nature therein destroying the earth hindering the owner of the grounde and lyttle profiting her selfe except in contenting her wastfull minde So this couetous father not content with aboundaunce hauing his minde as much vppon gathering money as the Mole in rooting the meddowe increasing his ritches peraduenture by the decay of others hauing no profite thereby except in beholding the same to suffise his couetous hart was incensed against his sonne in that he condiscended not to the conclusion of his choise which he had made as much and more to the pleasure of himselfe then the affection of his sonne considering he had determined the same with the father of the Maiden the consent of the virgin but most especiallie the agréement of her dowrie the quantitie whereof so tickled his hoording heart that vppon the refusall thereof he cast his sonne out of his fauour willing him to auoide his sight with most bytter threates of his displeasure losse of his heredetaments but chéefelie the lacke of his blessing Yet this sober youth giuing place to the passions of his Father and ouercomming his anger with quiet sufferaunce knewe that though the impatience of his Father was for a time somewhat troublesome yet time might both appease the same and yéeld better fortune vnto him that his Fathers couetous minde did wishe He well remembred that the herbe Scamone although it be venemous yet it purgeth coller though Southernwoodde be vnsauorie yet it expelleth venime and though Rew be bitter yet it cleanseth the braine cleareth the sight purgeth fleame and bringeth many commodities to the body So thought he that albeit the auoyding of this match and the abiding of this brunt be bitter yet future profite may repaye the same with double pleasure and therfore to auoide the coller of his Father to dissipate and make voide the deuise of his braine and to accommodate vnto himselfe some better fortune he fled the sight of his aged Syre And tracing his iourney through many a wilde wildernesse walking through vnknowne woods vncouth pathes and wearie wayes the Sunne withdrawing his lyghtsome beames and the night approching with his duskishe clowdes he declined into the house of an aged man to rest himselfe after his taken trauaile And entring into the doores thereof he found the daughter of the olde man being his onely childe with lyfted handes bended knées and open mouth yéelding prayse vnto the Lord for his great benefites bestowed vpon her and making her prayers vnto him from the bottome of her heart to graunt her his grace to liue in his feare to the reuerence of her Father the discharge of her duetie and the quiet contentation of her owne conscience A woorthy president to fire before the face of all modest Maidens shée was not héere occupied neither in trimming her head in glaring in the glasse in fingering her Lute in singing of Sonnets in denising of Letters in daunsing with her Louers nor in any such lewde and vnséemelie pastimes but like a chaste Virgin a milde Maiden and a good Christian was occupied in heauenly contemplation This routh musing at the rare exercise and no lesse admyring at the godly praiers stepped vnto her with fréendlie salutations requesting to know whether these diuine orations were her continuall study and frequentations and considering her pouertie which appeared in outward showe how and for what cause she yéelded such thankes vnto God for great receyued benefites The Maiden méekely beholding him a while although at first abashed with his suddaine sight yet at last she wiselie and discretelie framed vnto him this aunswere Syr I see you meruaile that my pouertie should not be an obstacle to my prayers for as much as to your iudgement it conteineth few worldly benefites consider with your selfe that as a simple medicine dooth more often cure great diseases then large compoundes curiously framed so pouertie though in apparaunce simple yet to a contented minde the very schoolemaister of vertue and the perfect path vnto perpetual pleasure more excellent to y e godlie then the glistring state of golden ritches which though in outward appearance it séem glorious yet is it the hooke of hurtfull securitie couered with the baite of worldly felicitie a log to vertuous life a stop to quiet state and the verie blocke whereby worldlinges stumble into the pricking perils of choking cares And although I am not indewed with aboundaunce of worldly treasures yet doo I thinke that the Lord hath left vnto me great ritches in as much as he hath graunted me the onely company of my aged Syre vnto whome as in youth he shewed me loue so in age I may yéeld good will being vnto him in age a staffe that was to me in youth a staye And thinke you good Syr quoth she that I haue receiued but small benefites at the hands of God who hath made me a reasonable creature that might haue made me a sencelesse thing by nature who hath giuen to me a soule that might haue cōstituted me onely of a body who hath made me a christiā that might haue made me an infidel redéeming me by his blood that might haue perished in mine owne sanctifying me by his spirite that might haue béen possessed by the enimie These caused considered I doo twise euerie day make my praiers vnto y e Lord for my soule as I doo twise euerie day féed my body lest if I should cherish my body not nourish my soule the one might grow disdainful and the other sinfull and if I should not thus repay him with thankes that hath fed me with benefits I might appeare more vngratefull to him for his mercies then he beneficiall for mine vndeseruinges O myrror of maidenhood O glasse of true virginitie O mind endued with modesty O hart fraught with true humility Sée héere you gadding girles that gape after euery gaude and prease after ech peeuishe pastime you that can daunce with the daintiest smile with the smothest laugh with the leudest you that wāder to weddings thrust in at Theaters trip into Tauerns you that take more care to trick your bodies to the pleasure of men then to deck your soules to the will of God you that had rather spend two houres at y e glasse then a minute at the bible taking more delight to vew your faces then to behold your consciences rather hardning your héels with daūcing then your knées with praying Behold the exercise of this virgin note her life and follow her example begin in vertue end in the same be not like a number of foolish damselles that begin hotlie after a while are luke warme but in the end stark cold like to the monster Chimera whose vpper part was a Lion whose midle a Gote but her neather part a Serpent Be not like to the Jewes that bowed theyr knees vnto Christ