Selected quad for the lemma: heaven_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
heaven_n	earth_n	lord_n	tremble_v	1,942	5	9.3297	5	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A07592	The mirrour of madnes, or a paradoxe maintayning madnes to be most excellent: done out of French into English, by Ia. San. gent	Sandford, James.	1576 (1576)	STC 17980; ESTC S107041	19,652	54

aspyre to al this this doctrine is so swete and so many resort to heare it that it neuer shameth his maister Of this Secte hath ben a great number aswel Greekes as Romās Truth we wil remember first Sardanapalus is to well knowen whose deathe I am sure the preaty pewlinge dames so muche bewailed that the teares fell downe from theire eyes as huge as milstones to let the residue passe and to come to Alexander the greate whoe knoweth not that as vppō a Madnes he woulde nedes subdue the whole worlde euen so geuen to pleasure hee became of a Souldiar a sawyer of a captayn Captiue and of a noble Conqueroure a notable Haukeroure the first original of this beganne in the warres pretended betweene him and the Amazones whom when the Queene hadde seene and he wel fixed hys Eies on her with wanton regardes and countenaunces euery sparkle kyndled a brande and euery brande raysed a flame and so the flame seeking his issue tooke truce for affections sake raged vpon the bodies of them both thus was the battayle of manhode turned to the batterye of Cupide whereof the ende was this that the fortes of both their honoures rased and pleasure takinge such deepe roote in the haughtye hart of the Prynce after many worthyes slayne by him in dronkenes and Royaultee transported to Tirannye Poyson became the ende of pleasure As for Heliogabalus his Tower garnished with glisteringe stones polished and set with gold to flinge himselfe downe if neede we are his Halters set with Pearle and curiouslye wroughte to hange hymselfe if neede weere his sworde so ryche and costly gilte engraued and set with Margaritee to slay hymselfe if neede were saued him not from the violent swoorde of his enimies To speake nothinge of Nero whose end was most miserable and tyrannie moste insatiable and pleasure in ost abhominable The like of Periander we reade and he a wise Philosopher but a wylde and sauage Tyraunte whom pleasure in the ende broughte to ende and distruction If emperoures if the Conquerours of all the worlde if many more beside Tyrauntes if Philosophers if high if lowe if one if other serche out pleasure so diligently followe it so inordinatlye wallowe in it so shamefullye ende with it so desperately what shal I thinke but that sithence all our life is set on pleasure and plesure altogether Madnes that all our life is Madnes Now exceptynge the vile and beastly pleasures whiche are the causes of these shamefull endes no man wil saye but that all pleasures may be allowed for al pleasures moderatly taken are profitable are honest are necessary profitable for that they prolong life honest for that they be decently vsed necessarye for without some pleasure our life is nothinge And for this cause nature inuented theym but pleasure as pleasure is of necessitye Madnes yet honest profitable and necessarye as before is proued Ergo. Madnes is both honest profitable and necessary But what if I make for Epicure and proue that all pleasures are good and excellente then I trust I shall enforce the like consequence of Madnes my chiefe reason shall bee a subiecto for euery accidente hath his excellencie of his subiect now if pleasure be in the most excellente subiecte and the same Madnes then Madnes for the excellencie of the subiect must nedes be most excellent in the most excellent subiecte it is as it maye bee with a weat finger shewed for what subiecte canne be more excellent in Heauen Earthe Purgatorye and Hell nexte to God or the Deuil then the most Holy Reuerende and Renowmed Father the Vicar of Chryste the Successoure of Peter the Lieutenaunte of Saynct Pawle our Ladies chiefe Chaūcelloure and Chamberlayne who hath all knowledge in the deapthe of his breaste all misteries within the ambrie grosse prease of his vnderstandinge who can do asmuche as Chryst can by the vertue of Saynct Peter and more then Chryst by the auctoritye receaued from him wherein he hath bound himselfe to his Holines in somuche that hee is able to dispence with the Newe and olde Testamente and to call thinges whiche are not euen as though they weere of nothing to make somethinge and to create his crea toure wherby he geueth the same auctoritee to Pryestes and ghostly Fathers likewise to iudge all men withoute controlmente or checke or iudgement of any other man although he drew infinite heapes of soules to Hell after hym likewyse in his mouthe is euery woorde established the leaste woorde thereof standeth to as greate effecte as the Bible thus maie Nouatus reioyce for his Heresies become Scripture and aboue it which was that for those that once fell ther remayned afterward no repentaunce thus maye Iohn the .xxii. triumph who denied the immortallitee or euerlastingnes of the soule affirminge that there was neyther Heauen nor Hel after deathe and nowe his opinion is aboue Scripture and Leo decimus hath no cause to complayne who sayde hee would haue Wylde foule in despyte of Gods teeth and maugre the Bible this is aboue Scripture O holy gouernoures of Peters ship O blessed Porters that carye the keies both of Heauen and Hell of the one to shutte other men from thence and of the other for suretie of repairaūce but he is Lorde of all Nec Deꝰ es nec homo sed neuter inter vtrū que Te deus elegit socium socialiter egit Tecum nāque tenet Caelum dedit tibi terras Ne God ne man but midle playne thou art God hath thee choose his fellovv meate to be And vvith thee played a right good fellovves parte Reseruing Heauen himselfe and Earth for thee And yet his grosers and glosers worthines sticke not to cal his Holines Regem Regum Dominum dominantium King of Kinges and Lorde of Lordes of whose curse all the whoole worlde standeth in awe and trembleth as greatelye as dothe the Catte by the Kytchin fire or els in the milke panne ouer heade and eares But to recken vp all his grosse opynions especially of Transubstantiation wyl not euery man confesse the same to bee a solemne Madnes marke how soberlye it is proued 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 whiche is asmuch to saye as-giue vs this daye our daylye breade whiche they interprete geue vs this daye oure supertransubstantiated breade fie fie Super sub and trans this is able to bringe a man into a traunce they muste haue the Calfe wyth the whyte face they muste haue they know not what and yet is theire Transubstanciation as good as before if a man aske them what the Accidentes be they saye visible if ye aske whereof they saye of Breade likewyse of the tangible Accidentes and the gustable beynge demaunded they answeare asmuche Yet must wee beleue vnder payne of damnation that euery lowsie dolte bussardlye Sacrificer may fetch downe Christ from Heauen into the Pixe at a sodayne yet say they not to Crucifie him although that they graunt him to be passible otherwyse he is