Selected quad for the lemma: england_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
england_n	honourable_a	lord_n	privy_a	3,111	5	10.0848	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A12696	The Christians map of the world drawne at the solmne funerals of M. Henry Chitting Esquire, Chester-Herauld at Armes, interred Ianuary 11, Anno Domini 1637. By Edward Sparke Master in Arts, and preacher at St. Mary Islington.	Sparke, Edward, d. 1692.	1637 (1637)	STC 23015; ESTC S101711	31,652	60

THE CHRISTIANS MAP OF THE WORLD Drawne at the solmne Funerals of Mr. Henry Chitting Esquire Chester-Herauld at Armes interred Ianuary 11. Anno Domini 1637. By EDWARD SPARKE Master in Arts and Preacher at St. Mary Islington Sic pulcherim us olìm nunc pulcherim a quòndam Fracta licèt laetabuntur The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning but the hear● of fooles is in the house of mirth Eccles 7 6. LONDON Printed by I. N. for RICHARD THRALE 1637. TO THE UPRIGHT PATRON both of Laws and Learning the Right Honourable Thomas Lord Coventry Baron of Aylsborough Lord Keeper of the great Seale of England and one of his Majesties most honorable Privie Councell The Felicity of both Worlds GREAT LORD THese are a Widdowes teares vouchsafe your wonted eye Elegies extorted forth by the sad Relict of Master Henry Chitting I had else no purpose thus to feed the surfeter as little desire as desert for Printing And therefore here my penne as for the most part man comes into the dangerous World first crying lamenting common frailty in a private losse indeed such blackes best suit this season of * Printed in Lent the Plague not altogether ceased in this Kingdome humiliation For though our bloody waters thanks bee to God are well abated yet still our Rachel mournes the Prophets rod still cryes unto the Citty Micah 6 9. and to the Country also both sicknesses of body and security of minds call loud enough for cautions of mortality one through the wealth and pleasures of the world perswading us of Tabernacles heer The other by the downefall of many round about us bidding us build on a more firme foundation None knowing how soone the lot of Jonah may fall upon their heads it becomes us all like Abraham to be oft sitting in the dore of our tents .i. Cogitantes de Egressu Gen. 18.1 thinking of our dissolution and more permanent provision and in this Christian-Map you have the means of both both world 's delineated compared motives and directions for the better choyce I confesse an ordinary but a needfull subject drest like a childe of sorrow and my busie charge plaine and serious without either descant or embellishment Such as it is with the Authour is your Honors prostrate Importunity brings it * Yet not to travell far but 50. printed visits but some few friends whose love J hope wil cover the Errata abroad Gratitude to your Lordship and there 's magnanimity in accepting small things as well as in conferring great your Lordship both waies known innobled I am not ignorant how that the gravest Pauls and learned Gamaliels of the times ambiat your Noble Patronage enough to argue it presumption in the younger Timothys to erect such great gates to their little Citties as your prefixed Name but that t is knowne as well 1 Tim. 4.12 your equall goodnesse tutor'd by Saint Paul countenanceth virtue in all ages and for mine owne part I confesse of all ill manners I most decline ingratitude * Qui ingratum omaia dixerit Pardon then well-affected Zaches though they clime a little to have a sight of virtue suffer us engag'd spectators to behold your brightnes as wel as to enjoy your influence stars lose not of their height or luster for the gazers meanenesse nay oft have I seene an humble Valley grace a stately Mountaine nor will a Deaths-head spoyle a Christian feast any more than those old Macedonian Banquets Yet this I serve up here Right Honorable not as a Philips Monitor I know your zeale needs no remembrancer but as the Poets congratulator Qui monet ut facias quod jamfacis c. * ipse monendo laudat h●●tatu comprobat acta suo Ovid. Matth. 27.57 Your exemplary piety like that noble Arimathaean building the Sepulcher in the Garden ruminates these Novissima even in the midst of earthly happinesse and in the throng of all your stately cares finds opportunities of retird devotions mongst which at any time if a favourable eie but second the encouragement of your gracious eare these Funeralls may haply prove my studies Natalitialls and future time give the world better Testimony of his thankfulnes who in the mean while is at his prayers for your Honours Stocke and Branches Vine and Olive-plants that you may all bee happy with the dew of Heaven and fatnesse of the Earth T is the dayly appreciation of Your Lordships humble votary and unfeigned Honourer EDWARD SPARKE From your Islington Feb. 19. 1637. THE CHRISTIANS MAP OF THE WORLD Drawne at the solemne Funeralls of Mr. Henry Chitting Esquire Chester-Herauld at Armes interred Ian. 11. Anno Dom. 1637. OMNIS dies omnis hora quam nihil sumus osteudit c. Every day you see nay every houre saies Seneca shewes us what a Nothing wee are Libro d● brev vitae and by some fresh argument or other puts us in minde of our forgot mortality had not each Day enough of its owne griefe this could supply the rest The occasionall Preface we could now lend our neighbours teares but that I feare common calamities have already stord them stord them with such sad spectacles as lieth before us such indeed for frailenesse but seldome I thinke such for goodnesse one that 's Text enough for a discourse Acts 20 7. were it as long as Saint Pauls Sermon Act. 20. but that here double modesty prohibits Panegyricks and you know funerall Sermons are not so much to glorifie the dead as edifie the living and therefore wee will take another Text wherof yet Hee shall be the Comment while wee the Applicatours and that is written in the thirteenth Chapter of Saint Paul to the Hebrewes and the fourteenth verse Wee have heer no continuing Citty Text. Heb. 13. verse 14. but wee seeke or looke for one to come THat Wise observer of a Time for all things Eccles 3. Eccles 3. tells us of a tempus nascendi a time to be borne and tempus moriendi of a time to die but not so much as mentioneth tempus vivendi any time at all to live Man having indeed to certainty of that but passing from his proper to the common Mother from the grave of the wombe to the wombe of the grave as swift as either ship or shuttle winde or arrow like a Iob 9.25 Iobs Poast having ever one Citty to leave an other to make toward none to abide in 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. For wee have heere no continuing Citty But ere we enter this same City let us look a little on the gate of it this word b The context in the particle For. For 't will bring us better acquainted with the context and as a Porter open to us the dores of this building It is particula rationalis say the Schooles For is commonly a relative particle wheresoere prefixt speaking those words a reason of precedent matter and so indeed t is heere