Selected quad for the lemma: england_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
england_n	alexander_n	king_n	pope_n	3,279	5	6.9849	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A10556	Faith and good vvorkes vnited in a sermon preached at the Spittle vpon VVednesday in Easter weeke, 1630. By Richard Reeks minister of the word at Little Ilford, in Essex.	Reeks, Richard.	1630 (1630)	STC 20828; ESTC S115772	46,778	68

neglected euen in many of vs who neither feed liberally by charity nor soundly by Doctrine nor religiously by life which made that proud fugitiue Campian as malitiously as spitefully to say ministris illorum nihil vilius Heauen and earth can beare witnesse that the Sunne neuer beheld a more learned amore religious Cleargie yet among so many pots of the Temple what maruell is it Doctor Hall if some be drie for want of liquor others rusty for want of vse others full of liquor without meat others so full of meat that they want liquor woe to those corrupted sonnes of Heli which through insufficiency or vnconscionablenesse poure contempt on their owne faces Againe for other degrees of men how farre in their places from Doing that which is good is plaine to behold The Lawyer bee it knowne vnto all men vseth the Law vnlawfully not making it a speciall and speedy remedy of wrongs but an Engine or trap to ensnare the weake and simple trebling their fees of vniust gaine and troubling the world with vniust suites The Shopkeepers also as we passe along to cast an eye of obseruance on them how righteous he is in his dealing is easie to iudge their houses are as full of deceit as a cage of birds if either lies and oathes or false lights false measures vniust and unconscionable gaines may make men righteous then there is no vnrighteousnesse in them Lastly what doing of good our rich men practise now a daies he that hath but halfe his sight with one-eyed Phocion may cleerly see for they are better a great deale at the rake then at the pitchforke as it is in the prouerbe readier to pull and rake to them then to lay out or giue any thing Aurum habet Ecclesia non ut servet sed ut eroget but their greedy desires of mony increase faster then their mony our extortioners are not rooted in charity their mindes are on their mines that 's the root where they root but if the Apostle spake true Philargury is the root of all villany These sell the ayre take mony for time contract with Satan giue their soules for surety and the Deuill keepes the bond till they pay in themselues for the principalls Doe our rich men resemble Saint Bafil the great who in a famine did not only giue to the poore himselfe but exhorted others to open their barnes and doe the like Or William Warbam sometime Archbishop of Canterbury who was so liberall to the poore that hee left but thrity peeces of gold behinde him which pleased as Erasmus saith him so well that he said It is well I desired alway to dye no richer Or Philip Melancthon who was out of a meane estate so bountifull that euery houre some or other were relieued at his dore Or es Dorcas full of good works Or as the Captaine Cornelius and other holy men of God Abraham Lot c. Surely they are the greatest part so farre from going out to meet the poore as Abraham met the three Angels vnknowne that they turne their backs and shut the dore vpon them and instead of feasting and refreshing of them with churlish and crabbed words rate them away with hungry stomackes No no their care is to build faire houses and when they haue done to lock the dore and goe their waies and leaue them empty we haue a great many of these mockbeggars in England which where they should doe most good like butterflyes are to be seene but once in a yeere yet that is not to make a feast with Nabal at their sheepe-shearing nor to relieue their poore neighbours neere them but to rack their rents and enhaunse their fines to make themselues very fine finem facere to vndoe the poore Tenant to call Courts to fill carts to fence God out and hedge the Deuill in Giue they are so farre from giuing that like spunges good must be wrung out of them perforce like vnto Nabal churlish and euill in their doings which notwithstanding they haue good cause 1 Sam. 26.3 yet are so farre from helping that they say who is Dauid or what is the sonne of Iesse there be many seruants now a dayes that breake away euery one from his master shall I then take my bread and flesh that I haue killed for my shearers and giue it to these whom I know not whence they be Or like Cain nunquid ego fratris custos am I my brothers keeper Or like Iudas ad quid perditio haec to what end is this waste yea so farre are many from helping and relieuing them that because they are rich they presume they may tread them downe oppresse them by authority keepe back their maintenance take away their meanes as Ahab did poore Naboths Vineyard and their life too especially if mistris painted face Iezabel can beare rule what are they not rich art not thou a King art not thou a Lord of that Mannor are they not thy Tenants bridle them and saddle them and spurre them to death to keepe the slaues downe c. Yet I must confesse many rich men doe giue now adaies but it is according to that rule formerly set downe Surely no for First there are that regard not what they giue they giue that for which they deserue no thanks but shame they feed the poore at another mans table and make them free of another mans trencher such an almes-giuer was the Deuill who would giue the world to our Sauiour a liberall almes but out of Gods Exchequer yet as these hee said all is mine and to whom I please I giue it So Alexander the sixt gaue America to the King of Spaine as in 88. the Pope gaue England to him to a great gift but out of the Indians and Christians freehold and so indeed many an vpstart Gentleman giues by keeping of a good house for his company when like the lewes he crucifies Christ in his poore Tenants he feedeth some few poore as his wicket and hath made many poore to furnish his dresser his charity reliues ten his cruelty hath vndone ten thousand If euer the prouerbe be true t is true in this here is robbing of Peter to pay Paul Secondly there are that regard not why they giue not out of any care to obey Gods Commandements not out of any loue to their brethren not out of any loue chiefely to Gods glory or the like but to get a name to become famous for ostentation sake as the Scribes and Pharisees these are obstreperous benefactors which cackle like hens and blow a trumpet in the streets of their deeds haue not I done this giuen him that preferred him to his liuing or place did not I settle him yes but not out of any zeale to Gods glory but for some by-respect to make some other vse of him in such or such occasions and seruice but almes shold be like Oyle which is silent in pouring downe and maketh no noise yet it lies aloft So thou needest not