Selected quad for the lemma: church_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
church_n	earth_n	heaven_n	militant_a	4,766	5	11.7120	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02059	A good speed to Virginia	Gray, Robert, 16th/17th cent.	1609 (1609)	STC 12204; ESTC S105839	15,771	30

A GOOD SPEED to Virginia ESAY 42. 4. He shall not faile nor be discouraged till he haue set iudgement in the earth and the Jles shall wait for his law LONDON Printed by FELIX KYNGSTON for VVilliam Welbie and are to be sold at his shop at the signe of the Greyhound in Pauls Church-yard 1609. TO THE RIGHT NOBLE AND HONORABLE EARLES BARONS and Lords and to the Right Worshipfull Knights Merchants and Gentlemen Aduenturers for the plantation of Virginea all happie and prosperous successe which may either augment your glorie or increase your wealth or purchase your eternitie TIme the deuourer of his own brood consumes both man and his memorie It is not brasse nor marble that can perpetuate immortalitie of name vpon the earth Many in the world haue erected faire and goodly monuments whose memorie together with their monuments is long since defaced and perished The name memorie and actions of those men doe only liue in the records of eternitie which haue emploied their best endeuours in such vertuous and honourable enterprises as haue aduanced the glorie of God and inlarged the glorie and wealth of their countrie It is not the house of Salomon called the Forrest of Lebanon that continues his name and memorie vpon the earth at this day but his wisedome iustice magnificence and power yet doe and for euer shall eternize him A right sure foundation therefore haue you my Lords and the rest of the most worthie Aduenturers for Virginia laid for the immortalitie of your names and memory which for the aduancement of Gods glorie the renowne of his Maiestie and the good of your Countrie haue vndertaken so honorable a proiect as all posterities shal blesse you and vphold your names and memories so long as the Sunne and Moone endureth whereas they which preferre their money before vertue their pleasure before honour and their sensuall securitie before heroical aduentures shall perish with their money die with their pleasures and be buried in euerlasting forgetfulnes The disposer of al humane actions dispose your purposes blesse your Nauie as hee did the ships of Salomon which went to Ophie and brought him home in one yeere six hundred threescore and six talents of gold The preseruer of al men preserue your persons from all perils both by sea and land make your goings out like an host of men triumphing for the victorie and your commings in like an armie diuiding the spoile And as God hath made you instruments for the inlarging of his Church militant heere vpon earth so when the period of your life shall be finished the same God make you members of his Church triumphant in Heauen Amen From mine house at the Northend of Sithes lane London April 28. Anno 1609. Your Honours and Worships in all affectionate well wishing R. G. GOOD SPEEDE TO Virginia Iosuah 17. 14. Then the children of Ioseph spake vnto Ioshua saying why hast thou giuē me but one lot and one portion to inherite seeing I am a great people Ioshua then answered if thou beest much people get thee vp to the wood and cut trees for thy selfe in the land of the Perizzites of the Giants if mount Ephraim be too narrow for thee Then the children of Ioseph said the Mountaine will not be inough for vs and all the Canaanites that dwell in the low countrey haue Charcts of Iron as well as they in Bethshean and in the townes of the same as they in the valley of Israel And Ioshua spake vnto the house of Ioseph to Ephraim and Manasses saying Thou art a great people and hast great power and shalt not haue one lot Therefore the Mountain shal be thine for it is a wood and thou shalt cut it downe and the endes of it shall be thine thou shalt cast out the Canaanites thogh they haue Iron Charets and though they be strong THe heauens saith Dauid euen the heauens are the Lords so is the earth but he hath giuen it to the children of men Psa 113. 16. Yet notwithstāding the fatherly prouidēce large bountie of God towards man so improuident and irrespectiue is man that he had rather liue like a drone and féede vppon the fruites of other mens labors wherunto God hath not entituled him then looke out and flie abroad like the Bée to gather the pleasures and riches of the earth which God hath giuen him to enioy whece vpon it comes to passe that although the Lord hath giuen the earth to the children of men yet this earth which is mans fee-simple by deede of gift frō God is the greater part of it possessed wrongfully vsurped by wild beasts and vnreasonable creatures or by brutish sauages which by reason of their godles ignorance blasphemous Idolatrie are worse then those beasts which are of most wilde sauage nature As Ahab therfore sometimes said to his seruants 1. King 22. 13. Know ye not that Ramoth Gilead was ours and we stay take it not out of the hands of the King of Aram So may man say to himselfe The earth was mine God gaue it me and my posteritie by the name of the children of men and yet I stay take it not out of the hands of beasts and brutish sauages which haue no interest in it because they participate rather of the nature of beasts then men The Christian part of the world did plainly bewray this improuident and irrespectiue neglect of Gods prouidence and bountie When Christopher Columbus made proffer to the Kings of England Portugall and Spaine to inuest them with the most precious and richest veynes of the whole earth neuer knowne before but this offer was not onely reiected but the man himself who deserues euer to be renowned was of vs English especially scorned accoūted for an idle Nouellist Some thinke it was because of his poore apparell and simple lookes but surely it is rather to be imputed to the improuidency imprudencie of our Nation which hath alwayes bred such diffidence in vs that we cōceit no new report bee it neuer so likely nor beléeue any thing be it neuer so probable before we sée the effects This hath alwayes béene reported of the English by those that haue obserued the nature of nations Bodin lib. 5. de Repub. cap. 1. reporteth that the English were alwayes accounted more warlike valorous and couragious then the French but the French went alwayes beyond them in prudence and pollicie And to expresse the same he vseth the words of Ennius Bellipotentes sunt magis quam sapients potentes And it may be that this might be reported of vs English in those times when our Country was not pesteced with multitude nor ouercharged with swarmes of people for peace and plentie breed securitie in men neither is it necessarie for anie man to beléeue reports though probable nor to follow strange proiects be they neuer so likely so long as he hath home inbred hopes to relie vpon and assured certainties to satisfie his