Selected quad for the lemma: christian_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
christian_n	year_n	young_a	zeal_n	12	3	6.8577	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A03963	A vvorld of vvonders. A masse of murthers. A couie of cosonages Containing many of the moste notablest wonders, horrible murthers and detestable cosonages that haue beene within this land. Not imagined falso to delight vaine heads ociose, not practised trans mare to breed trueth cum ambiguitate, but commited euen at home re vera, and may be prooued cum honestate. A matter moste fit to be knowen, well wayed and considered of all men.	T. I., fl. 1595.; Johnson, Thomas, d. 1644, attributed name.	1595 (1595)	STC 14068.5; ESTC S109081	33,922	48

A VVORLD of vvonders A MASSE of Murthers A COVIE of Cosonages Containing many of the moste notablest Wonders horrible Murthers and detestable Cosonages that haue béene within this Land Not imagined ●also to delight vaine heads c●iese nor practised trans mare to breed trueth cum ambiguitate but commited euen at home re vera and may be prooued cum honestate A matter moste fit to be knowen well wayed and considered of all men Who list of VVonders tell and straunge euents to knowe Or heare of Murthers fell this Booke a Masse dooth 〈◊〉 Who would the wily slights of Cousnage gladly heare Heerin for his delights a Couie dooth appeare Muse at the first feare at the next the third doth cry beware So maist thou shun a world of woes which herein named ere NON PLVS W. B Imprinted at London for William Barley and are to be solde at his shop in Gratious streat neere vnto Leadenhallgate 1595. To the christian READER grace mercie and peace FOrasmuch gentle and beneuolent Reader as wee are now abyding in that same iron worlde wherof Ouid speaketh in which is small store of good frutes but such as barren soyles doe buy Nature yeelds to witthistles brambles such like whereof small gaine is to bee expected wherwith mens harts are hardned charitie chased loue lacking trueth thrusted out of doores liberalitie laide along compaision coupled in chaines and all good and vertuous exercises either seldome vsed or vtterly extinct as fire smothered vp in ashes and in stede of these carnall and most vnnaturall murthers detestable periuries cankerd coutousnes incestious adulterie hardnes of hart peeuish extortion exactions vsury and diuers such most horrible and abhominable practises yeerly monthly nay howrely are vsed and practised All which and other like to the learned are thought to bee moste euident and manifest signes that that finall end that conclusion and shutting vp of these transitories and vanities of this mortall world are at hand and that Christ is euen readie to call vs vnto iudgement and forasmuch as calling of Preachers execution of lawes and iustice and other like woorketh but small amendment in vs yet neuerthelesse because that signes threats tokens of Gods wrath signes in the ayre murthers incest and such like heard of and seene with our corporall eyes although they be not in continuall remembrance to terrifye by vs from committing such abhominations yet doe they for the present time that they are seene heard or done stirre and moue vs vp to prayer to God to amendment of our sinful liues to the horror of such wicked actions and such like And for this cause I haue collected these exampses not from straunge languages or from forrain nations which might breed some ambiguitie or doubtas touching the trueth but I haue taken them out of our owne natiue Cuntry not without sorrow that such hainous sins enormities should be so rife amongst vs wherof can no doubt be made for trueth of action or exception for processe of time or antiquitie being done all for the most parr within these few yeares within our memory with in our knowledge All which I say are collected togither in a redines as apretious glasse to see the frailitie of man to vein the wickednesse of this world the end of mischiefs the punishment of such greeuous enormities such like that therby other seing the same may refrain the like and seeke to shunne such paths as lead to distruction which graunt vs so to doe hee that for sinners shed his pretious blood vpon the tree Amen Thine in Christ T. I. AS there is no fructe vvhich hath not first his bud then his flovver thirdly his fruct and aftervvard time for his rypenes Euen so there is no villanie o● vvicked fact that hath not first his motion and intent next his opportunitie thirdly his execution or committing of that fact and lastly his shame and punishment as may appeare by these examples A COVIE of Cosonages WIthin these thrée yeare dwelled in Brodstreet within the Cittie of London a Chaundler whose honest life good conuersation vpright dealing and christian zeale is yet manifestly to beknowen of y e inhabitants wher he dwelled Vnto this youngman in a winters euening repaired a tall young man of a commendable proportion of body if inward guifts had accorded therunts This man entring this Chaundelers shoppe where the goodman was busie in his vocation demaunded if he had any Nutmegges to sell whereuppon after hee had séene the Nutmegges demaunded the price he asked the Chaundler if hée would buye a good bargaine of Nutmegges and other wares saying hée was lately come out of the Carick and had certaine commodities to sel which he had kept till than but now wanting money and comming into arrorages with his Ghoast where he soiurned was constrained to sell all his merchandize or at least some of them to discharge his lodging the Chaundler ready as all worldlings are to get After certaine spéeches of bargaining they grewe to a composition and absolute bargaine and therupon this halter catcher desired the Chamdler to take a bagge or two with him to put in the commodities for the easier carriage and also to put sixtéene shillings in his pursse to pay the hoast if he would not let the wares to passe for so much hée said he was runne on the score The simple and plaine meaning Chaundler suspecting nothing lesse then cosenage tooke to his box and tooke out from other mony twentie and fiue shillings and put it into an other pursse by it selfe and so takeing the bagges marched all along from Breadstreet to Queen-hiue where this tibornesse growing sonne entring into a dore fit as it séemeth his parpose desired the Chaundler to stay at the dore till he tooke the bagges and filled them After some short space or time this new gates birde came again to the Chaundler sitting at the dore and there certifying him that his host and he had beene at some speeches and that he would not let him haue the Nutmegs vill he had his sixteene shillings and therfore desired him to let him haue sixtéene shillings to pay him and ther with deliuered him a thing wrapped vp in browne paper after the best fashon like to a peece of veluet which hee saide was ●uft taffata this he left as gadge for the money till the Nutmegs came the Chaundler meaning plaine simplicitie deliuered him his pursse with the fiue and twentie shillings saying take y e pursse you know I put in so much money pay him out sixtéene shillings and keep the rest till we reckon Now the viliaine is gonne and the Chaundler waiteth for his Gentleman at the doore some halfe bowre and more and pereceiuing no likelyhood of his comming beganne to suspect some vnacqainted bargaine and theruppon vntied paper to see what merchandize was therein which being opened he found nought but taylors shreds artificialy placed and bound after the fashion of yeeces of taffata Imagine now that the Chaundler is