Selected quad for the lemma: land_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
land_n	egypt_n	famine_n	pharaoh_n	1,741	5	10.4102	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A95748	Noli me tangere, or, A thing to be thought on. Scilicet, vox carnis sacræ clamantis ab altare ad aquilam sacrilegam, noli me tangere, ne te perdam.	Udall, Ephraim, d. 1647.; Marshall, William, fl. 1617-1650.	1642 (1642)	Wing U12; Thomason E133_4	22,793	48

far Mr. Fox Now in these Catchpoles see the cunning of the Devill that is called Sacriledge the very uncleane Spirit that breaths the same motions now in the mindes of our Burres and Tenterhooks Is hee not a devout Devill and carefull of Gods Service that it may bee well performed by the Clergy For for this purpose hee will take away their Lands that they may follow their studies and not bee encombred about them Is he not carefull of the Clergie that they may have an honest competent Stipend Is he not carefull of the Kings profit that hee may have the Bishops Lands to his Highnesse use and commoditie The very Spirit of many of our people at this time to the same purpose but in an higher degree of Sacriledge for whereas they sought onely after the Bishops Lands these seeke after the Cathedrall Churches also evill proceeding alwayes to more evill and waxing worse and worse in time But all these goodly pretences are hypocriticall and the masks of vile iniquity and holy Theft for it was not the Clergies profit they looked at for that they grudged them neither the Kings commodity for that was but their Shooing-horne to draw him on to fit their foot but it was their owne covetousnesse by which they sought to satisfie their pride riot wanton and greedie Lusts being herein like unto the Master of their Art the Traytor Iudas that grudging Christ the womans oyntment as a waste would willingly have had it sold pretending that it might have beene given to the poore not that he cared for the poore but was a Thiefe and carryed the Bag into which if hee could have got the oyntment hee would have wiped the poore of it and licked his owne fingers which were already in Christ his pocket and itched after Maries cost bestowed on his Lord and Master Such were these Harpies and such are many now talking in their very streine who if they faile of their desired oyntments will not stick rather than faile to sell the Lord Christ Iesus himselfe as Iudas did for thirty pieces of silver Now nothing is wanting to these mens deserved punishment but a grave Bench of such Iudges as the Areopagitae who adjudged the sacrilegious boy to death Surely this is a mighty disgrace to the Religion we professe that since the Reformation all mens Thoughts do runne even in times of greater labour and learning in the Church than heretofore to pill and poll the Ministerie and bring it to uncomely and deformed Beggerie the sweetnesse of the bread of God as William Rufus said begetting a greater desire of it since the statute of Dissolution even as the sucking of the sheeps bloud begets desire of bloud and brings that desire in the Mastive into a trade of ravening and devouring after he hath once rasted the sweetnesse of it So that as the old Patriarch Iacob said of his Children when Benjamin was sent for by Ioseph into Egypt Yee have bereaved me of my Children Gen. ●2 36 Ioseph is not and Simeon is not and yee will take Benjamin also all these things are against me So may the Clergie of England complaine and say yee have taken away my Tithe and my Glebe and many other profits are not and now yee will take away the rest of my Revenue all these things are against mee may the Church of England say unlesse putting up that prayer of the Patriarch shee prevaile in it with God Gen. 43 14. Now God Almighty give me favour in the eyes of the men that they may send back that that is taken away already and let That alone that yet remaineth Certainly there is such a Sin as Sacriledge to this day and if this be not that sin I am deceived by Solomon Prov. 20.5 It is a snare to the man who devoureth That that is holy and after vowes to make inquirie id est That which is consecrated and devoted and so separate to any service of God in his Church will prove a snare to that man Now it is out of humane power by Donation to God that shall after such Donation fall on Enquiries whether such a Service or Imployment be needfull and then concluding it is not to alienate and take back againe to humane usage That that is thus devoted and so devour it which was his intention when he entred into his Enquirie Certainly the Sinne of Sacriledge is great Rom. 2.22 Thou that abhorrest Idolls committest thou Sacriledge By which it appeares to bee as bad at least as is Idolatrie And this place is specially to bee noted by them that pretend mainly against Superstition and Idolatrie and yet are hotly set for sacriledge Idolatry hath beene ever bountifull in the service of Idolls Hos 2.8 Thou hast taken my Flaxe and my Wooll my Corne and mine Oyle my Silver and my Gold and prepared them for Baal Ezek. 16. And wee read of decking and adorning of Idolls in most costly manner 1 King 18.19 And we read also of liberall and honourable maintenance for Priests that served about the worship of these Idolls Iezabel allowed many hundreds of them an Ordinarie at her Table Gen. 41.22 And in the great seven yeares Famine of Egypt when all the Egyptians lands were sold to Pharaoh for bread onely the Lands of the Priests Ioseph did not buy for the Priests had a portion of Pharaoh and did eate their portion which Pharaoh gave them wherefore they sold not their Lands Now this the Devill attempts not to hinder neither cries he out ad quid haec perditio because it advanceth his Kingdome But sacriledge with us strikes at the root of Gods true service religion being a meanes in time to introduce Barbarisme to destroy Learning and to ruine the worship of the true God And this is the reason why the Devill is so busie hearing of a Reformation and purgation of the Church from superstitious Roman Dregs which is as it were an abhorring of Idolls to advance Sacriledge and set that on foot as a thing well serving his turne to strike withall at root and branches of true pietie and religion that it may not prove so much a Reformation as a Destruction thereof in the later end Which course Iulian the Apostata himselfe thought fittest to extirpate the Christian Name and Faith Certainly the sinne of Sacriledge is dangerous more wayes than one Dangerous it is to private men that commit it Psal 83.12 Make them like a Wheele as stubble before the wind persecute them with thy tempests fill their faces with shame let them bee troubled and confounded for ever who said Let us take the houses of God to our selves in possession Ananias and Saphira were smitten dead for this sin And Peters speech teacheth us what it is saying While it remained Act. 5 2.5.10 Vers 4. was it not thine owne and when it was sold was it not in thine owne power implying when it was once devoted it was not in