Selected quad for the lemma: england_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
england_n	edward_n	king_n	warwick_n	2,481	5	11.8552	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A96538	A word in season, for a warning to England: or a prophecy of perillous times open'd and apply'd. Wherein the signes of bad times, and the means of making the times good, are represented as the great concernment of all good Christians in this present age. First exhibited in a sermon preached in the Abby at Westminster, July 5. 1659. and since enlarged and published. / By Thomas VVilles, M.A. minister of the Gospel, in the city of London.	Willis, Thomas, 1619 or 20-1692.	1659 (1659)	Wing W2308; Thomason E1734_1; ESTC R7862	218,037	465

shall men give them the Cup of Consolation to ●rink for their Father or for their Mother Now the Word used by the Prophet Amos when he saith their banquet shall be removed properly signifies such a Funeral-Feast And therfore though hence it may be transferr'd to signifie any Feast or Banquet if the Feasting here spoken of was upon such an Occasion it was no small Aggravation of their sin of Luxury For was Feasting upon Delicacies and excessive Drinking represented by their drinking Wine in Bowles seasonable or suitable for such an Occasion Nay was it not more excessively si●ful at such a time as this when they were call'd to attend such a sorrowful Solemnity But whether this were their sin or not sure I am it is a Sinne too common in the grea City of this Land and no small Stain to its Glory For upon such occasions as these of our Funeral Solemnities it is too ordinary a thing for Women of the lower rank I am asham'd to speak it and yet afraid to be silent let so horrible a Sinne should passe unreproved not onely to drink wine in Bowles but o drink off Bowles of wine to a manifest Exce●s a beastly Drunkennesse Neither can it be deny'd when sometimes their shameful spewing in the open Congregation testifies against them How horrible a thing is this that women professing Christianity and who would take it in foule scorne that an● should say of them they were strangers 〈◊〉 Religion and godlinesse should be guilty of such an abominable Excesse such a filth● scandalous damnable Drunkennesse Is it not a shame if those may be Judges that have not utterly renounc't all Sobriety that some one Woman should at one Time drink several quarts of Wine one after another upon such an Occasion This me thinks should seeme incredible to strangers which manifest and too frequent evidence amongst us makes altogether unden●able O horrid vitiousnesse and worse then brutishnesse of such intemperate wom●n the shame of their Sex the scum of our City however some of them may seem to be of good fashion and in the eyes of all sober Persons more loathsome then the Dung in the streets May not the Lord justly * Jer. 13.9 mar the Pride and staine the Glory of a City polluted with such foule Abominations May not the Lord say concerning such a People as here of Israel for his Epicurisme and Excesse The Lord GOD hath sworn by himself saith he LORD the God of Hosts I abhor the excellency of Jacob and hate his Palaces therefore will I deliver up the City with all that is therein Strange it is that any should seek to themselves a Name and affect Glory by so shameful a sin so ignominious an Abuse of Gods Creatures as they are guilty of who sacrifice them to their Luxury and in a fearful excesse of Prodigality consume them upon their Lusts Yet many such abominable Epicures there have been and doubtlesse still are in the World Thus we reade of that Luxurious and Lascivious Queen of Egypt Cleopatra that to give the more Noble Reception and Honourable Entertainment to Mark Anthony she order'd at a Banquet One Dish to be prepared at the Expence of two Hundred and fifty Pieces of Gold to be served up to the Table in the second Course And further to express as she thought the Love and Honour she bore to Mark Anthony her Wanton Paramour having dissolv'd a Pearle of fifty thousand pounds price she drank it off to his Health at one draught Oh infamous Excesse O Licentious Lady of Luxury worthy of no greater Honour in all after Ages then this to be stil'd the Grand Patronesse of Prodigality But what think you was the end of this great Epicure When Mark Anthony to requite this Honour was resolv'd to make her Emperesse of the World and to that end attempted the ravishment of the Romane Scepter he was vanquish't by Octavious Augustus at Actium whence he fled to Alexandria and there in Despair of Life Disdain of Death from the Hand of an Enemy he fell upon his own sword and dy'd Hereupon Cleopatra that she might not become the Matter of the Roman Triumph inclosed her selfe in a Tomb and there setting two Serpents to her Breast she ended a Luxurious Life with a miserable Death Thus at length the Pleasure of Luxury expires in Paine and the Glory of Prodigality is buried in shame and covered with everlasting Ignominy and Contempt But I needed not to have travell'd into Egypt for an Example of Luxury while I might have produc't one in England hardly to be parallel'd in the whole Empire of Epicurus But when I consider the quality of the Person and the Place that he held I am afraid lest by the Relation of it I should give an Occasion to the Churches Enemies to cast Reproach upon the most Honourable calling in the World which is that of the Ministry of the Gospel But when I consider that surely the most enraged Malice of men cannot but be satisfi'd by the severity of the Judgements of God in punishing the Pride and Vanity of men of that Order and Degree wherein he was placed I conceive the Report of it may bring in some Profit without any Prejudice or Danger For this man of whom I speak was in his Time an Arch-Bishop in the Church of England And it s sufficiently known to the World that God hath of late years been pouring out the full Vialls of his just Wrath upon this glittering Sun of Englands Glory This man then George Nevil by Name brother to the Earle of Warwick in the dayes of King Edward the fourth made a Prodigious Feast for the Nobility prime Clergy and chief Gentry at his Installment into the Arch-Bishoprick of York He rifled the Aire Earth and Sea for all so●ts of Provisions and costly varieties for this pompous and magnificent Entertainment † See his Bill of fare in Godwin his Catalogue of the Bishop of York p. 65. And Fullers Church-History l. 4 p. 193. Above twenty thousand Fowles Peacocks Pigeons Capons Cranes c. Above six thousand Cattel and Land-creatures Oxen Sheep Dear c. Above six hundred Fishes Porpaises Pikes Seales and Breames lost their Lives to maintaine the Luxury of this one Feast besides which five thousand Dishes of Gelly with other Palate-pleasing Delicacies were prepared And to digest these Dainties he provides three hundred and thirty Tuns of Ale and above foure hundred Tuns of Wine besides a Pipe of spiced Wine to please the more curious Palates and for a stronger Provocation to Excesse Thus he exceeded the * 1 King 4.22 23. Magnificence of Solomon by the Excesse of his Prodigality O prodiga Rerum Luxuries nunquam contenta paratu Et quaesitorum Terra Pelagoque ciborum Ambitiosa Fames lautae Gloria Mensae † Lucan l. 4. Pharsal O Prodigal Luxury and Luxuriant Prodigality O Ambitious Appetite that cannot be content except it stretch its Dominion over all the