Selected quad for the lemma: land_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
land_n	blood_n	lord_n	shed_v	1,770	5	9.8115	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A14975	Two sermons of assise the one intituled A prohibition of reuenge, the other, A sword of maintenance : preached at two seuerall times, before the right worshipfull iudges of assise, and gentlemen assembled in Hertford, for the execution of iustice, and now published / by W. Westerman ...	Westerman, William.	1600 (1600)	STC 25282; ESTC S2384	63,408	150

of the people they committed For when sinne groweth stoute and loftie and punishmentes weake when the rodde of Scorpions is turned into feathers when priuate men reprooue not the vngodly ministers rebuke not Iudges and rulers hauing them offered punish not at the last all become guiltie all actors and consenters in sinne and all be punished with a grand execution of some famine pestilence sworde or such like calamitie I would to God in our peaceable estate there were no want of this holie indignation and religious fortitude in the pursuit of those manifolde sinnes which are the spottes of our peace and shadowes in the sunne-shine of the Gospel But set before your eyes religious audience our whole estate and cōsider as I doubt not but you do oftē the sores of our body politike and the breaches of our land from the top of the head to the soale of the foote and you shall behold many wounds and many soueraigne plaisters and yet very slow healing because there wanteth courage in the heart of the Phisitions to apply the one to the other Looke downe to the legges of our Common-wealth and remember that lately they were ready to rot with idlenes misery Those idle vagarants I meane who swarming like Caterpillers not long since and treading downe Prou. 13. 23. the fielde of the poore wherein is much fruit if it bee well ordered walking without checke or shame in theft drunkennesse and whoredome in prophanenesse of life and all vngodlinesse swearing and cursing lying and murthering begetting a monstrous ofspring the parents without wedlocke the children without baptisme are they not mightilye repressed by an easie medicine wiselie prouided by the superiour powers and yet but coldly applyed by the inferiour officers Who amongest vs remembring the grosse inconueniences of those idle backes and slowe bellyes so tolerated to wnader and increase but will detest that course of lyfe And yet there must bee a respectiue looke of loue to Gods c●eatures and a commiseration of them for though they be lazie legges and yet are they our limmes and members and therefore to be supplied with worke and reliefe with direction and correction by those parts that carry the eyes and wisdome to gouerne and teach As hatred of their sinne is readie to whippe them so loue and compassion must be readie to helpe feede them They must eate so nature teacheth vs not the bread of idlenesse but their owne bread purchased by their labour so the Scripture informeth 2. Thes 3. 12. vs. A wife and auncient Counseller sometime of this Realme wittily rebuked the maners and orders of a straunge Countrie not much differing Sir Th. More Vtop from his owne but in the title for that they first made theeues and taught them to steale and after hanged them vp They made theeues saith he in that they suffered such a multitude of seruingmen to bee trained vp in idlenesse and pride which after being thrust out of seruice must needes be driuen to theeuerie for begging they scorned and to labour they had not learned in any honest vocation I will not say but men made seruice able are verie necessarie and stand before great men in good place But idlenesse permitted to a multitude must needs be the nurserie of beggers and where manie lustie open beggers remaine there sayth Plato be many priuie theeues and pickers As all other Plato de rep dial 8. Zepper countryes are noted for some peculiar vice which the people thereof are most addicted vnto so English men though they be ingeniosi yet are they desidiosi though ingenious Ascham yet idle it is our fault and therefore asketh great industrie of the gouernours before it can be throughly expulsed Neither is it to be forgotten that a renowmed King of this nation Edward the third of that name procured strangers from beyond the seas with great rewards Camden in Kent and priuiledges to come into this countrie and teach our people that trade of clothing which to the great benefite of this lande and employment of the poorer sort is yet in practise whence al our womē are presupposed spinsters as the men of meane degree are intended laborers And sure a kingly practise is it to prouide worke for the lustie and strong as reliefe and hospitalitie for the sicke and the lame From the head there descende sinewes to the hands and inferiour members and from the highest in place must issue such good directions as may gouerne the whole bodie keepe it in frame The legges must not be cut off or Heb 12. 12 turned cleane out of the way but rather streight steppes are to be made to our feete and the halting legges to be healed and the feeble knees to be lifted vp If we ascend from the legges to the handes shall we not see a multitude of them defiled with bloodshed beside the manifold iniquities wherewith they are exercised Compt the woundes the murthers and the bloud that is shedde in euerye part of our lande note how it is couered vnder the wings of men that haue countenaunce how it is pleaded for with this allegation that life is to be fauoured euen in fauour of him that had no mercy in his rage and we may with good cause be afrayde least the Lord arraigne the whole land for bloud vnreuenged crying in his eares The life and bloud of the murtherer is owing to the Lord who putteth the sworde into the Gene. 9. 6. Magistrates hand to make payment and satisfaction for bloud wrongfully shedde there is no way to purge the land from bloud but to strike the offender that the righteous may reioyce Psal 58. 10. and wash his foote in the bloud of the wicked and make it a Caueat to keepe him from the like Looke vp towarde the heades and greater men of our Common-wealth If the want of discipline suffred the Grashoppers to catch a head which skip vpon the ground what will not the Caterpillers dare that sit aloft in the highest trees amongst much fruit clothed in gay colours despising the Magistrate and scorning the Minister There is indeed a common disease very dangerous in many of them that carrie something high sayles and thinke themselues to be mightie which is called Noli me tangere Touch me if thou dare As in physicke so in diuinitie it is thought to be incurable because the more it is handled dealt withall the more it swelleth and rageth with anger and fretfulnesse This disease raigneth amongst the vsurers and extortioners of our time that hate the good Micha 3. 23 and loue the euill and plucke off the skinnes from the people and the flesh from their bones that ioyne house to house and field to field till there Isai 5. 8. be no place but for themselues that depopulate whole townes and swallow vp the poore that Amos. 8. 4. the needie of the land may faile and yet breake through the statutes and lawes as through cobwebbes