Selected quad for the lemma: friend_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
friend_n	appear_v	good_a	great_a	807	5	2.3104	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A09333	Two twinnes: or Two parts of one portion of scripture. I. Is of catechising. II. Of the ministers maintenance. By Richard Barnard, preacher of the word of worship in Nottinghamshire	Bernard, Richard, 1568-1641.	1613 (1613)	STC 1964; ESTC S115305	35,775	56

TWO TWINNES OR Two parts of one portion of SCRIPTVRE I. Is of Catechising II. Of the Ministers maintenance BY RICHARD BARNARD Preacher of the Word at Worsop in Nottinghamshire 1 PETER 5. 2. Feede the Flocke of God which dependeth vpon you 1 CORINTH 9. 11. If wee sowe vnto you spirituall things is it a great matter if wee reape your carnall things LONDON Printed for George Norton and are to be sould at his shop neare Temple-barre 1613. TO HIS RIGHT Worthy much-beloued and singularly approued good friend Maister Iames Risley all prosperous well-fare tending to eternall safe●●e SYR I cannot but often thinke of your singular good respect towards me in whom as now it appeareth long acquaintance in true loue hath bred a constant readinesse to doe me good not only when I am present with you as if you were as many be a friend to the face without sound affection fixed in the heart but also in my absence and that a far off when I supposed which was mine errour my selfe least in your thoughts and therefore farre enough from expecting so great kindenesses as I haue now receiued at your hands Surely SYR as I acknowledge that you haue sufficiently witnessed on your part beyond my expectation a minde fully bent to procure my well-fare so I pray you out of this your true loue to iudge me ready on my part to requite if I were able to recompence so great kindenesses vnto the full but I am indebted beyond mine hability to pay your satisfaction therefore from mee is onely my good will and your owne friendly acceptance of a thankefull heart a true token and sure testimony whereof be this my late and last labour which I bequeath vnto you till there be more fit meanes of recompencing your farre better deseruings In the meane space let it stand for a witnesse of my thankefulnesse which I haue euer desired to shew vnto all for euery little fauour receiued of any friendly well-willer This my labour in part concerneth the Laity wherein you may in your place occasionally be a very good instrument all meanes to further my intendment for the maintenance of the Ministerie In part also it toucheth many of vs of the Clergie in our too much neglected duty of Catechising the Antiquity vtility and right forme whereof is here set downe the godly consideration of which I humbly recommend to my Reuerend brethren of the Ministery in these parts to whose wise and indicious censure I submit this my best endeuour in this point crauing for it their friendly interpretation and for my selfe their fauourable countenance which I much desire and which if I may obtaine I will account as an addition of Gods blessing to my Lords most honourable fauours and as you one well knowne and approued shall be the instrument to effect it so will I value it as a part of high price in your vnfeigned loue towards me Thus thankfully remembring my selfe I commend my labour and my selfe to your friendly and kinde acceptance remayning Yours 〈◊〉 much beholden Richard Barnard From Worsop in Nottinghamshire Sept. 24. THE FIRST PART Of Catechising GALAT. 6. 6. Let him that is taught in the word make him that hath taught him partaker of all his goods THe APOSTLE hauing before Coherence spoken of Charity Loue and tender affection of one towards another more generally here he calleth to their remembrance the care of the Ministery which may seeme here by them as now to be too much neglected The text is an Apostilicall Canon and diuine constitution authorized vvith the authoritie of God himselfe for reformation of the same The wordes are an Exhortation or a Charge giuen The title and Scope of the Text. by the Apostle in the name of the Almighty the iust reuenger of all wrongs done to his seruants who speake in his name vnto all that know and haue learned Christ to maintaine his Ministers By this commandement the Hearers are bound to care for their Teachers by this the Pastours haue knowledge of their right and libertie to take of the people for their maintenance and a warrant to claime the same and to vrge the negligent to their duty herein if they faile of it This portion of Scripture containeth two things as The parts the parts to be considered the first concerneth the party to be maintained enfolded within the Text who is set out vnto vs in two things 1. by teaching 2. by the matter which he teacheth The second part concerneth the party maintaining the Minister which is plainely laid forth in the wordes in vvhich wee may obserue these two circumstances First the party exhorted Secondly the duety which he is exhorted vnto Now though this place speaketh plainely of the Preuention of an obiection Hearers duety ●●ely and but implicitely of the Ministers duty yet because the peoples knowledge of the labour and painefulnesse of the calling of the Ministery and of that equitie that labourers are worthy of their wages may induce them to a more ready performance of their duety as also for that this * Preached at Southvvell in Nottinghamshire by the appointment of the most Reuerend Father the Lord Archbishop of Yorke our worthy Metropolitan and much beloued Diocesan 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 verbum docenti vel in verbo Catechizanti Oecumenius ●eza Text vvas giuen mee once by one of principall authority in the Church to vrge my brethren of the Ministery publikely assembled to the duty of Catechising I thought it not amisse to speake first of our selues and our duty that I might more freely presse our Hearers to their duty if wee goe before it is the more likely that they will follow after That which toucheth the Ministers in this Text is in these wordes Him that hath taught him in the word The word translated taught signifieth him that is Catechised properly but yet is vsed and taken more generally for to teach or instruct otherwise Luke 1. 4. Act. 18. 25. Rom. 2. 18. 1 Cor. 14. 19. and so must it be here taken as Diuines hold and therefore is translated as wee see both in Latine and English by a more generall vvord of all translatours The holy Ghost vseth the more speciall word for the generall partly to shew vnto vs of the Ministerie orderly teaching for the peoples edification where we are to begin with them partly perhaps both to preuent a proud conceit in some Ministers which may thinke that they onely are to be respected which doe Preach as now Preaching goeth with men as also the peoples contempt of Catechising and Catechizers as if these deserued not any liberall portion but other persons onely more excellently gifted such as can speake for tongue with a plaudite for great reading with admiration for wit with singular delight and for learning beyond the Hearers common apprehension in comparison of whom Caeteri non dico poetae sed veri prophetae sordent while Hearers doe measure all by hearing and not