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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	bring_v	king_n	lord_n	4,363	5	3.8293	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A42732	The right honourable, Pourtraid. Or, the vizard taken off pretenders With perswasive reasons to allure the will, and reduce mens actiosn to obtain the title. As also a set boundary to the honour of saints departed. By Samuel Gilbert, Philalēthḗd.	Gilbert, Samuel, d. 1692?; White, Robert, 1645-1703, engraver.	1693 (1693)	Wing G718; ESTC R223675	16,536	72

neglect of holiness heavenly honours and the wealth of a better World but prefer the Onyons of Egypt before the Bread of Angels paltry Pibbles before precious Pearls thick Clay before pure Gold counterfeit Coin before true Treasure O see and bewail this so great a folly in your selves and others and for the future learn to covet Spirituals to be greedy of Grace to practice holiness without which none can be truly honourable However the holy ones of God here in this life receive many hard measures yea when they live best many times hear the worst Therefore must we take Virtue with a sweet or sour Breath 't is naturally sweet sour only through the corruption of the Air we live in being putrifi'd by the infected Lungs of those that are wicked despisers of her and ignorant of her worth to take Virtue as she is naturally with a sweet Breath is pleasanter tho' with a sour more meritorious for Regium est male audire cum bene feceris it is Kingly to be ill spoken of for good Deeds and whilst we have our Actions warranted by the great seal of Virtue we verifie the saying of one constant to such Conscia mens Recti famae Mendacia ridens An upright Breast laughs at the abuses of report A well grounded self justification scorns the dispraise of the Vulgar whose commendation is not authentick enough to call Persons or Actions good such infamy hath its delight and we must be just meerly out of love to it not for Glory by it and be content to be ill spoken of for being so few know the pleasure of a well got ill report but many the pains and pricks of Conscience for the ill getting a good report That raising themselves by over witting out reaching and fair promising others never intending performance not being set by God as Joseph but setting themselves over their elder Brethren They that place Honour in honorante honour in the bestower exile it as well from our care as power That passage through good and bad report gone through by that great adventurer for Heaven leadeth to a Haven of such inward rest as fears not the blasts of misprision nor the mire and dirt the wicked in their ragings cast up but can solace themselves in St. Paul's words Our rejoycing is this the Testimony of our conscience that in simplicity and godly sincerity not with fleshly wisdom but by the grace of God we have had our conversation in the World And this musick surpasseth all the Gingles of Fame not that we should slight a good Report but rather covet it especially from the best sort of men i. e. good men To contemn Fame is but a security of doing ill He that would not be thought good careth not for being so Contemptu famae contemni virtutes He that contemneth a good report despiseth the goodness deserving it yet if we miss it whilst our Actions are regulated by the square of Religion and Justice it is not Arrogance but well becoming Confidence to scorn the injurious World when it denyeth Merit its due Let us not be good on the salary of its praise nor suffer their scorn to spoil good purposes in their conception by damping our resolutions or by frights abortive their execution or smother our joy at their birth For when God hath once by the hand of Death drawn a Curtain between good men and the eyes of the World and remov'd them out of sight then is every one ready to bless their Memories and follow them to Heaven with a loud Peal of gratulatory Acclamations After death martyr'd Names as well as Men are Kalender'd even to an unquestionable repute of merit and that in those faithful Registers of Impartial History The Living may be Tenants at will to reputation but it is the possession of the dead and when the Grave dust is flung on our Chronicles envy it self cannot blur them Animis hominum manet in Aeternitate Temporum Fama rerum While some are buried in oblivion others in the memory of men survive even Posterity This is the condition of us all evil things we feel them before we fear them but good things we lose them before we know them De bonis judicamus a tergo 'T is the want that commends the worth of a thing even those we see by experience that could not endure the Saints whilst they lived yet when once gone they never speak of them without a preface of reverence Herein do the Saints of God resemble an excellent Picture or a curious piece or Cloth of Arras that looks well when ye are near it but fairer and smoother when farther off The wicked are compared to Hawks of great esteem whilst living but afterwards nothing worth but the Saints to tamer Fowls often Prey to such Hawks that are husht away and little esteem'd whilst living but after death brought to the Lords Table God will look to their honour when they are dead that so much looked to his while they lived Rather than Moses should not be honour'd God himself will make his Funeral Sermon Josiah and Hezekiah that honourable pair of Kings how were they honour'd by all Judah and Jerusalem at their death Such honour have all his Saints And if they are so honourable let us know how to prize them and give them their due Let us not fear to Imitate the Church in her Ancient Practice herein the Celebration of our Annual and standing Festivals in the Honour of the Saints A Custom in the Church from time to time Traditionary of so long a standing and Antiquity in the Church that now even by prescription 't is grown gray headed and venerable Certainly God must lose a great deal of his Honour if we bury the Honour of his Saints Laudate Dominum saith David in Sanctis if God be to be praised in all the Works of his Hands from the Cedar to the Shrub from the glorious Cherubim to the despicable Worm is he not to be honour'd in the Saints those whom he raised up to be horoical Instruments for the propagation of the Gospel But as many things are good in the intent which are not always so in the event good in the Institution not always in the Execution as there are many things excellent in their first birth and original which in tract of time gather soyl and rust and so degenerate from the purity of their first Institution even so it is with the honour of the Saints for whilst Men out of too strong a bent and overplus of inordinate affection towards the Saints thought they could never honour them enough at last they became flat Idolaters turning Charity into Piety Affection into Superstition Veneration into Adoration When the People first met together at the Monuments of the Martyrs an Ancient and Yearly Custom of the Eastern Churches to praise God for his Martyrs at last they forgot their Arrand and turned their Worship of God into the