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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
judgement_n	according_a	lord_n	see_v	1,803	5	3.4174	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B12254	Phōsphoros or A most heauenly and fruitfull sermon, preached the sixt of August. 1615 At the translation of the right Reuerend Father in God, the Archbishop of St. Andrewes to the sea thereof. By Mr. William Covvper B. of Galloway.	Cowper, William, 1568-1619.	1616 (1616)	STC 5932; ESTC S114580	30,693	94

such power as you haue against me but assure your self you shall neuer be able to perswade me nor yet cōpel me to adhere to your impiety Modestus perceiuing that no maner of way he could preuaile dismissed him not with threatnings any more but with a feare and reuerence But forced to breake out in a great commendation of Modestus of him And comming back to his Master the Emperour hee counselled him to assay his strength against another for as to Basilius firm●or est quam vt verbis praestantior quam vt minis fortior quam vt blanditiis vinci possit Hee is so solid that words cannot ouercome him so resolute that threatnings cannot moue him so strong that allurements cannot alter him A notable example shewing to vs what a worthy Iewell this grace of integrity is in the seruant of God which makes him to be feared and reuerenced euen of such as are his enemies There are two euils sore enemies 2. Great euils enemies to integrity 2. Tim. 5. 21. to this grace of integrity the Apostle chargeth Timothy by a graue obtestation to beware of them both The first is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the second is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 signifies preiudice or hastie iudgement whereby sentence is giuen out before sufficient tryall a dangerous euill in any Iudge but most of all in an Ecclesiasticall The Lord The first is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 whereby iudgemēt is giuen of a person or matter before tryall our God the righteous Iudge of all the world gaue no sentence against Adam and Euah nay nor against the Serpent til first cognition of their fault went before neither powred he out iudgement against Sodome and Gomorrha till first hee came downe and saw that their sinnes were according to their cry which doubtlesse the Lord did to giue instruction vnto al Iudges that they should not iudge before-hand This sinne diuerted Dauid from his integrity when he gaue sentence against innocent Mephibosheth vpon the false narration made vnto him by Ziba Beware then of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 for it is a sore enemy to integrity The other euill is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 forbidden The other is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 whereby a man either of self propension or others perswasion is made partiall also by the Apostle 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 partialitie or a propension to the one side more then to the other The word may be read either with I or H if it be read with IOTA as the most part and best learned doe then it signifies partiality which commeth of a mans owne voluntary inclination to one more then to another proceeding either of loue or of hatred of feare or of some cupiditie If otherwise it be read with ETA as Theophilactus doeth then it signifieth that partiall inclination which is procured by the request intercession or aduocation of others and this is a very forcible and yet common tentation against which a Bishop hath neede Against this all in authority specially Bishops haue need to be confirmed to be confirmed that fot the pleasure of men hee incline neither to the right hand nor vnto the left but still may keepe his integrity It was a notable answere which Vitellius the Emperour gaue vnto one of his friends who being refused A notable answere of the Emperour Vitellius to this purpose of a certaine vnreasonable request had sayd vnto him with indignation What auailes your friendship to me or what better are we that you are preferred to be Emperour seeing I cannot obtaine that which I craue to whom the Emperour replied and what auailes thy friendship to mee if for thy sake I must doe that which is vnhonest and becomes me not Nazianzene compares men aduanced A comparison of Nazianz. seruing this purpose also vnto high places in the Church to those actors commonly called funambuli who walke vpon a cord stretcht out from one part to an other high aboue the earth all their safety stands in their vpright walking if they decline but a little either to the right hand or the left they become a destruction to themselues And thus much for the grace of integrity expressed here vnder the words 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which grace that it may bee distinguished from that which followes we do chiefely referre vnto that inward disposition of the heart whereby the man of God walketh with God as Henoch did and followes him in all his waies as Elisha followed Eliiah and would not suffer himselfe to bee diuided from him Grauity The other grace required With integrity grauity is required here is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 It impors such a moderate carriage as may procure reuerence to a Bishop of al that behold him This vertue composes the man of God in all his outward behauiour whereunto it is to be rereferred The word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 sometime is taken in an euill part pro tumido qui affabilis non est for a man swelling with such conceit of himselfe This grauity composeth all the parts of a Bishop or Pastors outward conuersation 2. Tim. 2. 24. as makes him strange and difficil toward others not accessible nor curteous nor humane to speak vnto Such statelinesse the Apostle will haue farre from the man of God 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the seruant of the Lord should bee gentle toward all men he should be 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 courteous affable despising no man yet so that hee still keepe this grauity in al his outward actions yea euen in his countenance and gesture of his body Corporis Ambr. offic lib. 1. cap. 18. enim motus vox quaedam est animi the motion of the body is a certaine language of the minde Dissolute laughter Cachinnus was taxed by the Fathers of the Primitiue Church in their sermons for a foule fault and such as was not tolerable in any Christian And Ambrose in the place before cited records that he debarred one from the Ministry who otherway could haue done good offices in the Church onely because his behauiour was light and vndecent and such as became not the grauity of a Preacher We haue here then three notable Three graces required to make a complete Pastor parts which make the man of God complete Sincerity within Grauity without with these the grace of powerfull preaching Oh how seldome do these concurre together how many shall we finde can make a faire shew without of that which is not within or if he haue both yet wanteth the third and is not able to put his talent to profit vttering the grace which he hath receiued with 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to the edification of others The Century Wrirers make mention of one Androneus Episcopus Rotomagēsis that he was humilis corde grauis vultu sapiens Cent. 7. It is rare to finde these graces concur in one in colloquio prudens in consilio vehemēs in