Selected quad for the lemma: honour_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
honour_n	earl_n	lord_n	viscount_n	2,547	5	11.7917	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A16523	The doctrine of the sabbath plainely layde forth, and soundly proued by testimonies both of holy scripture, and also of olde and new ecclesiasticall writers. Declaring first from what things God would haue vs straightly to rest vpon the Lords day, and then by what meanes we ought publikely and priuatly to sanctifie the same: together with the sundry abuses of our time in both these kindes, and how they ought to bee reformed. Diuided into two bookes, by Nicolas Bownde, Doctor of Diuinitie.	Bownd, Nicholas, d. 1613.	1595 (1595)	STC 3436; ESTC S113231	229,943	300

THE DOCTRINE OF THE SABBATH Plainely layde forth and soundly proued by testimonies both of holy Scripture and also of olde and new ecclesiasticall writers Declaring first from what things God would haue vs straightly to rest vpon the Lords day and then by what meanes we ought publikely and priuatly to sanctifie the same Together with the sundry abuses of our time in both these kindes and how they ought to bee reformed Diuided into two Bookes by Nicolas Bownde Doctor of Diuinitie Hieron Prolog Galeat In the Church of God euery one doth offer that which he is able some gold siluer and pretious stones others blew silke and purple and skarlet and fine linen t is well for our part if we offer skinnes and goates haire AT LONDON Printed by the Widdow Orwin for Iohn Porter and Thomas Man 1595. HONI SOYT QVY MAL Y PENSE TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE MY VERY GOOD LORD ROBERT Deuoreux Earle of Essex Ewe Vicount of Hereford Lord Ferrers of Chartley c. Master of the Q. Maiesties horse Knight of the most noble order of the Garter and one of her Maiesties most honorable priuie Counsel the increase of all true honor and fauour with God and men RIght Honorable if there were so many good reasons to moue your Honour graciously to accept these my labours as I haue iust causes to induce me to preferre them to your Honor then I should haue good hope that as they haue most willingly come from mee so they should haue good countenaunce at your Honors hands For besides your late Honorable fauour extended vnto me requireth this and al other duties of me wherby I might shew my selfe thankefull to your Honour for the same euen so the desire also that I haue that this truth of GOD might come forth with the best credite hath moued me in the conscience of mine ovvne tenuitie to become humble sutor in the behalfe thereof for your honorable gracious protection Wherein if I haue intruded my selfe further then I ought and pressed neerer to your Honor then it becommeth mee crauing your Honorable pardon for this my boldnes I beseech your Honor to accept either my feruent desire to tender all duties vnto you or my great care to purchase best fauour for this worke or both vvhich haue compelled me hereunto And herein I am so much the more importunate vvith your Honor not for my selfe but for this part of Gods holie truth that it might be countenanced as one of your Honors fauorites because as wee be fallen into these euil daies wherin too many are readie vnaduisedly to set themselues against whatsoeuer they dislike and therfore the best causes are driuen to seeke patronage where it maie doe them most good So the Lorde hauing inlarged your honorable name aboue a great manie which as a precious ointment flowing from your selfe comfortablie refresheth and perfumeth a great number this part of Gods trueth also might enioie the common benefit of it with other to be ouershadowed thereby and by that meanes haue entertainment there where otherwise happily it should be finally regarded And so it becomming for your Honors sake a welcome guest vnto them it might deliuer vnto them in the name of God as sent by your Honor that message of his that it centaineth to the honor of his name to whom all honor is due from whō all honour commeth whome trulie to honour is the greatest honor Thus ceasing anie further to interrupt your Honor from your weightie affaires my praier vnto God is long to preserue your Honor zealous of the glorie of God faithful to her Maiestie profitable to the whole realme and comfortable to your owne soule most humblie with all dutifulnesse taking my leaue Your Honors most humble at commandement alwaies in the Lord Nicholas Bownd Norton in Suff. Iune 1595. To the Godlie and Christian Readers and namely to the reuerend wise and godly learned Fathers and brethren Ministers and Preachers of the Gospell grace and peace hee multiplied RIght reuerend and welbeloued in the Lord when as about nine yeeres since I was solicited to publish my Sermons vpon the tenne Commaundements by certaine of my godly brethren auditors then of the same I had manie reasons that preuailed to disswade me from that enterprise and especially be●ause I thought it superfluous in such great variety of learned writers of that matter especially wherein I haue been since more ●onfirmed by all those who of later times haue trauailed in that ●●nde And moreouer besides mine own vnsufficiencie for so great 〈◊〉 matter J was of opinion that hee that bendeth himselfe vnto ●riting had neede to haue some relaxation from preaching vn●esse hee bee of great gifts and meruailously fitted for both and ●herefore being necessarilie tyed vnto the one I durst not vnder●ake the other yet their importunitie preuailed thus farre with ●●ne as to make triall what I could doe in this commaundement which I had then in hand whereunto also I was the rather indu●●ed because it contained that argument which as it is of all o●her most excellent so it was least of all dealt in by anie largely ●●nd of purpose Hauing then within a fewe moneths at my best ●●asure finished this treatise as diuers of my fellowe Ministers ●●n whose hands it hath bin are sufficient witnesses and by them further encouraged to communicate it vnto all men I yeelded thereunto slowly indeede because I knewe a reuerend godly M. Robert Greenchā and learned father who for the most part of his life time greatly trauailing in this matter by his own reading meditation and conference with sundrie learned men had long before finished a great volume and wayted but his opportunity to furnish it to the presse though I neuer read one leafe of that booke whome I did for iust cause so highly reuerence that I was vnwilling to preiudice any of his godly proceedings especially in this thing wherein I knewe he had trauailed aboue most of his time and thereupon suspending my purpose for a time when I had imparted vnto him what I had done he gaue me this aduise to take his booke and to compare it with mine owne and to make one of them both which I refusing as being vnmeete for such a purpose and not knowing how I should well sorte out to the Reader such varietie of matter as was like to arise out of them both nor cunningly to fit the one to the other as it were to put a new piece of cloth to an old garment determined wholly to suppresse mine own expecting the comming foorth of his in time whereunto also I solicited him by writing and that also was my iust defence to those that still called vpon me for the comming foorth of mine owne In which expectation I continued vntill most vntimely I vnderstoode to my great grief and to the vnspeakable losse of the Church of God that hee was fallen a sleepe in the Lord And then I reuiued my former purpose and