Selected quad for the lemma: land_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
land_n	famine_n	joseph_n	pharaoh_n	1,487	5	10.4663	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A07668	A target for tillage briefly containing the most necessary, pretious, and profitable vse thereof both for king and state. By Iohn Moore Minister of Gods word, and Parson of Knaptoft in Leicestershire. Anno 1611.	Moore, John, d. 1619.	1612 (1612)	STC 18058; ESTC S120561	22,755	74

what are gold and siluer pearls and pretious stones to this our daily bread And therfore it is rightly called the staffe of bread being the stay of our life as the staffe to the impotēt aged which God threatneth to breake when he will punish a wicked people so that they shal eate their bread by weight with care and on the contrary that he will blesse the bread and water of those that serue him so that they shall eat their bread with plenteousnesse Therefore saith the Prophet when the vallies shall be couered with corne men shall shout for ioy and sing yea and all the creatures shall clap their hands as it were in their kind and reioyce with mirth when our garners and corners of our houses are ful with diuers sorts of store the want whereof causeth the husbandman to be ashamed this is a blessed thing euen in the censure of Gods Prophet Now the reason why this plentifull kind of increase is so incomparable is for that it is welnigh the life liuing of man and beast And for this bread in particular it is the strength of mans heart the stay of his life as we haue heard euen Esau that wretched reprobate being almost famished for want of food could say Giue me bread and take my birthright what is it to me being almost dead And how pitifull is Ieremies complaint for his desolate people in the famine for want of food All the people sigh saith he and seeke their bread they haue giuen their pleasant things for meate to refresh their soule The children and sucklings swoone in the streets they haue said to their mothers where is bread and drink when they gaue vp the ghost in their mothers bosome They that did feede delicately perish in the streets they that were brought vp in scarlet embrace the dung The Nazarites that were purer then the snow whiter then the milke that were more ruddy in body then the red pretious stones and like the polished Saphir their skin now for want of food cleaueth vnto the bones and withereth like a stocke their visar is now blacker then a coale so that they that are slaine with the sword are better then they that are killed with hunger for they fade away as they were striken through for the fruits of the field So sharpe are these euill arrowes of famine for want of food and fruits of the earth Hunger pierceth the heart of man with as sensible a pain as doth the sharpe point of a dagger or dart because it directly fighteth against the life of man and he dieth a most painfull death though not so violently whose deadly wounds do longer pricke him A shorter punishment though heauier doth not kill the heart so much as that which is of longer continuance though lighter Therefore to auoide this extremitie of famine the poore people are constrained to gage their houses their vineyards and their land to take vp corne for their family And the Egyptians gaue to Ioseph for corne and bread not onely all their money that they could make but sold to him their Horses Asses Sheepe c. yea themselues as seruants and slaues to Pharaoh for want of bread And Elies sonnes will bow for a morsell of bread and therefore Iacobs suite to God in his iourney was that if God would but onely giue him bread to eate and clothes to put on that then he should be his Lord and God c. The vse is to teach vs first that whensoeuer God pincheth vs with the want of this blessing of bread and store of the fruits of the earth that then in anger he threatneth the taking away of our liues shooting his euill arrowes of famine to wound our very soules Euill indeed in regard of the euill effects and consequents thereof Secondly we must learne to set a greater price and farre more highly to esteeme and value these outward blessings of increase that whensoeuer the Lord doth loade the earth with plentifull store of fruits and maketh pleasant fields as it were to laugh vpon vs when he bursteth the wine-presse and filleth our storehouses that then I say we enlarge our hearts and haue store of praises for him And as these earthly blessings manifest his loue and care to vs so let vs expresse our kindnes to him by our publishing and proclaiming of our thankfulnesse in remembrance of his mercies Let vs say with the Princely Prophet What shall we render to the Lord for all his benefits towards vs c. Lastly it serueth to reproue all carnall Epicures vnthankfull Atheists which when they are fed to the full swim in their delights pleasures make their belly their god and their flesh their shrine that fling out their heeles like wilde colts and fat horses that are prouender prickt against their rider that are more vnkind then the Oxe and the Asse that know their maisters crib yet these men that are fed so full and fare so finely being so kindly nourished of the Lord will not know him but rebel against him like to Bores in the franke swine at mast wallowing and tumbling in their owne dung of their vncleannes neuer regard nor look vp to the store house of heauen from whence they haue their food and fulnesse Like filthy Sodomits their fulnesse of bread leades them to fulnesse of idlenesse villany and all kind of vncleannesse not vnlike the carnall Israelites whom God had fed with the fruite of the field and caused to sucke honey out of the stone and oyle out of the hard rocke butter of kine and milke of sheepe with the fat of lambes and Rams fed in Bashan and Goats with the fat of the graines of wheate and the red licour of the grape had he filled them But he that should haue bin vpright when he waxed fat spurned with his heele thou art fat thou art grosse thou art laden with fatnesse therefore he forsooke God that made him and regarded not the strong God of his saluation Neither let any man loath Gods good creatures or despise any or the least for the abundance thereof nor yet abuse them to licenciousnesse as the manner of many is in drunkennesse and gluttony in chambering wantonnesse adding drunkennesse to thirst or yet without due respect in bestowing them vpon their hounds dogs and horses lest in the time of necessitie they be not forced earnestly to desire but the superfluity of that which heretofore they haue giuen to their beasts So was the prodigall person plagued not keeping himselfe at home nor content with Gods blessings in his fathers house but running riot wandering wasting his wealth and honesty was forced in the famine to scramble with the swine which he kept for their food which yet was glad of the huskes when they had eaten the kernell The king