Selected quad for the lemma: city_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
city_n	mind_n	young_a	youth_n	32	3	7.7922	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02360	A yong mans inquisition, or triall VVhereby all young men (as of all ages) may know how to redresse and direct their waies, according to Gods word, and if they bee in the way of life to saluation, or in the way of death, to condemnation. Together with a godly and most comfortable meditation and praier ioyned thereunto. By William Guilde.	Guild, William, 1586-1657.	1608 (1608)	STC 12494; ESTC S103544	93,895	285

hath landes or ample possessions that therefore thou needest not nor should apply thy minde to vertue or thy hand to worke the truely noblest that euer was Iesus Christ God man whose creatures and worke all Nobles and Kings are wrought with his hands vnder his supposed father Ioseph in the craft of carpentarie in all subiection till the time of his publike ministerie came wherein hee behoued to goe about his true Fathers businesse Iacob a great Patriarch and borne to great possessions euē the whole land of Canaan which flowed with milke and hony yet sent to seruice by his parents who loued him more deerely and wisely then many who cocker vp their children now and thinke it an indignitie to put them to handie-crafts or seruice being a great deale lesse able to sustaine them nor hauing so sure a promise that God wil so prouide for them yet hee being so great a mans sonne thought no shame nor griefe to serue full 21. yeares in the colde frost of the night without sleepe and hote sunne burning of the day and when hee had many seruants and goods yet still serued painfully albeit vnder an vnthankfull Maister Moses sometime called the sonne of King Pharao was called by God to bee the leader of his people to Canaan from keeping of sheepe in the field Gideon sonne to Ioash father or chiefe of the Ezrites who had many seruants as is euident Iudges 6. 27. was found threshing wheate himselfe when the Angell called him to bee Iudge of Israel Saul who is called 1. Sam. 9. 1. the sonne of a man of Beniamin mighty in power named Kish was sent to runne through many countries with one seruant onely a foote to seeke his fathers Asses that were lost with no great prouision of money or victualls as appeareth vers 7 8. and thereafter called to bee King of Israel Dauid likewise from keeping of sheepe Elisha that great Prophet called from the Plough Amos from keeping of cattell many of the Apostles of Iesus Christ who shall iudge the twelue Tribes of Israel and whose doctrines are the twelue foundations of the wall of that spirituall Ierusalem were called from painefull fishing Paul a man of great learning and authoritie yet a Tent-maker and if thy parents how noble or gentle soeuer they bee thinketh thee better then these or thou thy selfe then indeede thinke shame to worke or to apply thy minde to some kinde of vertue or vocation neither trust onely to thy lands or possessions for God may giue Sathan power as hee did concerning Iob to try thee and take thy goods from thee many waies vnexpected and neuer thought of Seeing also he hath giuen them to thee freely as sufficient meanes to increase and imploy thy talent as Salomon saith Prou. 17. 16. As a price in thy hand to get wisedome if in idlenesse notwithstanding without any vocation thou suffer the same to perish and waste the means price improfitably they shall make thee howsoeuer for a time the more honored acceptable before mē yet the more inexcusable and vile before God whō thou so dishonourest for many of these forenamed had greater possessions then thou canst haue yet laboured with their hands It is not thy landes that maketh thee noble or gentle it is onely vertue Nobilita● sola est atque vnica virtus and thy predecessors obtained this title only by some vertuous acts which is deriued to thee increase therefore the same by vertue impaire it not We reade of an ancient custome and most laudable amongst the Romans that none was suffered to goe in the publike streetes without some instrument in his hand to be thereby known of what vocation he was of to shew he was not an idle drone in the bee-hiue of the Cōmonwealth to teach him that whatsoeuer hee was not to be ashamed of his calling And amongst the Indians in these daies before they eate they vse to take an account what they haue earned or wonne Iustinian the Emperour of Rome exercised himselfe in the lawes and perfited the law of Nations Mithridates king of Pontus was a Phisitian who first found out that excellent compound called frō his own name Mithridatum Quintus Cincinnatus was called frō the Plough to be Dictator of Rome And we read of Dyonisius who being expelled from his Kingdome that by the vertue he learned in his youth hee liued in teaching a few youths in a schoole and therefore onely was called backe to his Kingdome againe Homer in commendation of Vlisses accounteth this as a note of great honour mentionating that he could make his owne ships himselfe Quintus Fabius a most noble Roman with his owne hands painted the walls of the Temple of Salus and not thinking shame thereof but rather coūting it a laudable and auowable thing agreeable with his honour degree affixed thereto vnder wrote his name Achilles is recorded to haue bin so cūning in cookery that he thought it no dishonor at a certaine time to shew the same in dressing a royall and sumptuous supper to certaine Ambassadours who came to him Constantine the Emperour also had his liuing a long time ●as it is reported by drawing And a certaine learned Philosopher in Grecia vaunted that his cloake the ring hee wore on his finger were of his owne making esteeming it a great praise he could doe so Therefore take example of these that by thy owne vertue thou maiest rather shine before thy predecessors then to glance onely by their light studie to bee called not onely one of such a race which is by thy parents but a vertuous one of such a race which is by selfe By trusting to lands or possessions oft times vertue is neglected and infamie or no fame followeth when poore mens sonnes not hauing lands to trust to but leaning only to vertue and Gods grace come to great honour riches and renowne both which experience teacheth to all men The pouertie of such as are idle without any vocation commeth as Salomon saith like a traueller in the hie way or the necessitie of an armed man which is suddenly or hastily and therefore it is that so many Noblemen or Gentlemen make away with their lands which their antecessours by their vertue and hard purchase obtained and left to them they by vertue got it they by idlenesse vice consume it Hence aso it is that so many old and young sturdie beggers are in a kingdome or citie education without vocation From idlenesse also in youth it is that so many miserable spectacles are seene of so many that goe to the gallowes who behoued to steale because they applied not their minde to any vertue being young dum vires annique sinebant and now could doe nothing else Hence it is that so much wickednesse aboundeth and is committed in the world as in the time of Sodome and the primitiue world Whereby wee may know that the second destruction by fire as the first was by water is not farre