Selected quad for the lemma: ground_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
ground_n	day_n	lord_n	sabbath_n	2,255	5	9.8890	5	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A85827	A discours apologetical; wherein Lilies lewd and lowd lies in his Merlin or Pasqil for the yeer 1654. are cleerly laid open; his shameful desertion of his own cause is further discovered; his shameless slanders fullie refuted; and his malicious and murtherous mind, inciting to a general massacre of Gods ministers, from his own pen, evidentlie evinced. Together with an advertisement concerning two allegations produced in the close of his postscript. And a postscript concerning an epistle dedicatorie of one J. Gadburie. By Tho. Gataker B.D. autor [sic] of the annotations on Jer. 10.2 and of the vindication of them.	Gataker, Thomas, 1574-1654.	1654 (1654)	Wing G319; Thomason E731_1; ESTC R202124	96,485	112

A Discours Apologetical WHEREIN Lilies lewd and lowd Lies in his Merlin or Pasqil for the Yeer 1654. are cleerly laid open His shameful Desertion of his own cause is further discovered His shameless Slanders fullie refuted and his Malicious and Murtherous Mind inciting to a general Massacre of Gods Ministers from his own Pen evidentlie evinced Together with an ADVERTISEMENT Concerning two ALLEGATIONS Produced in the close of his POSTSCRIPT And a POSTSCRIPT concerning An Epistle Dedicatorie of one J. Gadburie By The-Gataker B. D. Autor of the Annotations on Jer. 10. 2. and of the Vindication of them LONDON Printed by R. Ibbitson for Thomas Newberry at the three Lions in Cornhil neer the Royal Exchange 1654. The Contents of the ensuing DISCOURS LIlies Merlins meer Pasqils Page 1 His whole Answer as usuallie a peece of meer scurrilitie 1 6 His former grounds of his Art given by him deserted 2 6 Not a word of the good Angels that first taught it ibid. How uneqal a match for anie ingenuous person to deal with a Railer 3 By freqent railing and being railed at men grow shameless ib. In such bickerings no honor to overcome to be overcome no dishonor 3 4 Star-gazers for money can tell that of trifles which of weightier occurrents they cannot 4 Jacob Behmens writings of what stamp 4 A Northern Lilie prophesied of by him 5 Lilies immodest and scurrilous language unworthy regard 5 6 To what purpose Mr. G. qotes Autors Heathen and others 6 Some necessity imposed on him of answering some scandalous aspersions 7 A good name fo what worth and how much to be regarded 7 8 Yet a good Conscience to be preferred before it 8 9 No good duty to be omitted for fear of disgrace 9 A great grace to be disgraced for Christ ibid. Mark the Emperor tho a Stoick how careful to cleer himself from calumnies 9 12 From the imputation of Avarice especially 10 What care and caution Ministers ought to have in this kind ●0 The word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 how taken 1 Tim. 3. 6 7. Eph. 4. 27. 10 A common liars word no slander 11 Infamous persons defamation no infamie 11 Reproaches of such rather matter of praise their praises of dispraise Page 11 The falsest reports tho never so well cleared leav some sear oft behind 11 Most folk suspicious and prone to suspect the worst ibid. Mr. G● resolution to undertake this Apologie 12 Lilies former slanderous Charge 12 An ill presage to begin ill with a gross untruth especially 12 13 So begins Li●ie that Mr. G. was sometime a stiff Prelate 13 14 23 And that then he preached impudent●ie for Sabbath-sports 13 15 19 23 Of the three Names given the Day which most proper 14 15 Mr. Gs. constant cours of preaching for and pressing the due observation of the Lords day 15 19 22 23 The Lords Day no Day for complemental Visitations 15 Nor for entertainment of Clients 16 Nor for riding Circuits or hearing Causes 19 The change of the Lecture-times at Lincoln-Inne with the ground thereof 16 The Lords Day Gods Mart or Market Day 18 The Christian Sabbath 14 15 King James his book for Sabbath-sports 20 22 That Mr. G. preached in defence of it a notorious untruth 20 21 Mr. Gs. Treatise of Lots and the subject matter thereof 21 How far forth Cards or Dice are therein justified 21 22 No liberty therein for Sabbath-sports allowed but expreslie opposed 22 23 Another stander that Mr. G. turned Presbyterian in hope of Bishops and Deans lands 12 23 24 Mr. Gs. constant judgement both of Prelacie and Presbyterie 24 25 26 Men moderatelie minded suffer usuallie from extreams on either side 26 27 The frivolous pretended ground of Mr. G● re●ol● 27 28 Mr. Carpenters scurrilous Relation of the Presbyters birth and base condition 28 29 His Historical untruth of its first birth 30 Li●●us latter slanderous Charge against Mr. G. of covetousness Page 30 Seed of all sin in all but some more eminent then other 31 32 This of covetousness Mr. G. most disclaims 32 Freqent shifting of charges deemed a note of Avarice or Ambition 32 33 Mr. Gs. setled Ministerie in two Places onely for two and fifty yeer 33 His entrance into his place at Lincolns-Inne 33 34 His entertainment and ten yeers continuance there 34 35 His Salarie what it was there 35 Places elswhere refused during his abode there 36 38 Ingenuous dispositions what they deem of the good they do 38 39 Their joy when their kindness takes grief when it misseth 39 40 Mr. Gs. waving the Degree of Doctor 41 42. The general disposition of Mr. Gs. Auditorie at Lincolns-Inne not affecting noveltie or varietie 43 The occasion of his removal to Rederith 44 46 His chargeable entrance there 47 His continuance there upward of two and forty yeer 47 His means what for the first ten yeer 47 48 49 Tythe upon houses formerlie paid how came t● thee intermitted 48 49 How it or somewhat in lieu of it recovered 49 50 The whole sum with the Addition then agreed on far short of what Lilie saith he receivs 50 As much expended one yeer with another as the revenue of the place amounted unto 50 51 Means of enlargment elswhere offered and refused 51 52 His natural disposition of what frame and temper 52 53 Ambition and Avarice how far they prevail where they rule 53 54. Everie one his own first and chiefest Flatterer 53 The result of the premises concerning Mr. G. charged with either of these two Corruptions 54 55 Avarice deemed the peculiar vice of old age 55 56 Why compared to a root 55 Why it and pride to the spleen ibid. Why against reason for men to grow in old age more covetous 56 Of M. Gs. wilful silencing himself charged upon him by Lilie ib. His artendance at the Assemblie and receipts there p. 56 57 His sicknes that took him off from that attendance and for some time from his pastoral employment p. 57 The occasion of his necessarie surceasing to preach p. 58 His receipt of 200 l. a year a notorious untruth and what his receipts are p. 58-60 The reason of his retaining a Title with his desire to be rid of it p. 60 61 The sum of Lilies slanderous assertions andaspersions with a resolve of future silence p. 61 Lilies malicious and murtherous mind and motion to have the whole Presbyterie and Ministerie removed by a general massacre p. 62 63 In the Advertisement TWo Allegations in Lilies Postscript p. 64 The former of one Cleavland wherein the late Assembly at Westminster is traduced ibid. The latter parcel of a Latine Epistle which Mr. G. must English ibid. The A●tor of it sometime a Popish Priest ibid. By his own kind●ed suspected to be Popish still p. 65 By some other censured another Spalatensis ib. Retaining still divers Popish conceits and opinions p. 65. 66 His wishes concerning School-Divinity and Mystical Divinity p. 66 67 His renunciation of Popery with a transcendent commendation

the Husbandman to hedg and ditch or to folow his Tillage on that day as for the Lawyer to employ it in consulting with and attending his Clients And I pressed the point so far that through the good hand of God going along with it and carrying home his own Ordinance to the hearts of the hearers it made so deep an impression upon them that upon a motion made by some of the cheif ones at the next meeting after it a consultation was had what cours might be taken for the future prevention of so common and irregular a practise And after advice therein taken with me it was by common consent agreed on That the Morning Lecture on the Lords day should be drawn down to the usual hour in other places and the Wednesday Lecture transferred to the Afternoon of the Lords day Which howsoever it were a matter of much more labor to my self to speak twice in one day which as I am informed in the French and Dutch Congregations is seldom or never done and some of my Successors have complained of and blamed me for giving way thereunto and by means thereof I was abbridged of that libertie of hearing others abroad which I had formerlie enjoyed yet for the atcheiving of my main ay● herein of gaining a more du and diligent observance of the day I right willinglie dispensed with mine own ease and advantages and condescended thereunto And this was the ground of the alteration of the Lectures in that House which I suppose in that manner in which upon this occasion they were then setled continu stil to this day During mine abode at Lincolns Inn the time approaching for my taking the degree of Batchelor in Divinitie I procured a cours at St. Maries in Cambridge for mine English Sermon the first and last that I ever preached there having never had the boldness before to appear in that place This fel out to be the verie next day after Qeen Elizabeths decease which being not known yet at Cambridge the Qeen as stil surviving was at the Forenoon Sermon solemnlie prayed for by him that preached that day at Kings Colledge But about Noon the report came down of the Qeen departed this life and King James proclaimed which caused an exceeding great concours of people at the Afternoon Sermon though it were no Lords day When by advice of the Vice-Chancelor in regard that no publick notice of it was as yet sent down I conceived my Petition for the King in a kind of circumlocution For the present Supream Governor without expression of his name At that branch of my Prayer the tears trickling down my Cheeks and scarce any one drie eie in the whole Assemblie as I was afterward informed This Sermon then had on 1 Tim. 6. 6. at the reqest of some Friends who had seen some Copies of it was manie yeers after published under this Title The Gain of Godliness wherein is extant the ensuing passage concerning the Lords day p. 36-38 For worldlie wealth men can toil and moil all the week long and yet ar they not wearie they think not the whole week long neither but for the heavenlie gain for the spiritual thrift we have but one day of seven and we think that to much too we think the day all to long the labor all lost and the whole time cast away that we imploy and spend to this purpose We say as the profane Jews sometime said When wil●he New Moon be past and the Sabbath once over that we may return again to our worldlie affairs Yea manie among us have not the patience to tarry so long but spend a great part of the Sabbath that is Gods Market or Market-day for the getting of this spiritual Gain either about their worldlie affairs or their bodilie delights The Sabbath day I say is Gods Market-day and those that seek to take away the Sabbath attempt to put down Gods Markets and so do the Devil good service whatsoever their intent be As freqenting of Markets makes a rich man so keeping of Sabbaths makes a rich Christian and as we count him a bad Husband that foloweth game on the Market-day so may we as wel count him a spiritual unthrift that spends the Sabbath in that sort But may some say When we have been at Church and heard the Sermon and Service is not Gods Market-day then done I answer If the Sabbath be a day then it is not so soon done Gods Market lasteth all day long Yea grant the principal because the publick of it be past yet as Market-falks returning from Market wil be talking of their Markets as they go by the way and be casting up of their penny-worths when they come home reckon what they have taken and what they have laid out and how much they have gotten So should we after we have heard the Word publickly confer privatelie of it with others at least meditate on it by our selvs and be sure to take an account of our selvs how we have profited that day by the Word that hath been spoken unto us and by other Religious Exercises that have been used of us And us the Market-man counteth that but an evil Market-day that he hath not gained somewhat on more or less so may we wel account it an evil Sabbath to us whereon we have not profited somewhat whereon we have not either increased our knowledge or been bettered in affection whereon we have not been further either informed in judgement or reformed in practise whereon we have added no whit at all to our Talent Thus then and there After my leaving of Lineol●s Inn being reqested by my Right Honorable Lord the Lord Hobart to bestow a Sermon on them one Lords day at Serjeants Inn in Fleetstreet before the Judges and Serjeants at Law of that House I preached unto them on Psal 82. 6 7. That which came forth in Print shortlie after about the same time with the former under the Title of Gods Parley with Princes In it pag. 12-14 these words may be seen and read Here let me more particularlie as from God and in Gods Name entreat you to have a special regard of observing Gods Sabbaths You that are to see them observed by others ought you not much more to observ them your selvs Your cariage is a kind of censure that all men fix their eyes upon that most men shape their courses by If others then shal see you riding in your Circuits on the Sabbath wil they not think within themselvs And why may not I ride as wel on the Sabbath to a Fair as the Judg may to the place of Assize If they shal be warned to appear before you for some hearing by themselvs or by their Counsel upon the Sabbath wil they not be readie to argu from the works of your calling to the works of their own And why may not I as wel be about my work as they about theirs And in truth to speak plainlie as the thing is