Selected quad for the lemma: lord_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	aaron_n	abide_v	moses_n	122	3	7.0149	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A04873	The popish kingdome, or reigne of Antichrist, written in Latine verse by Thomas Naogeorgus, and englyshed by Barnabe Googe; Regnum papisticum. English	Naogeorg, Thomas, 1511-1563.; Googe, Barnabe, 1540-1594.; Naogeorg, Thomas, 1511-1563. Agriculturae sacrae libri quinque. Book 1-2. English. aut	1570 (1570)	STC 15011; ESTC S109280	147,386	198

That of the worde of God the sonnes might euermore remaine And men no l●nger looke to heare the voyce from starry raigne Nor can the eares of man abide the speach of God to heare As once the Hebrues made afrayde good witnesse well may beare Therefore he mortall doctors vnto mortall men did sende As Moyses Aaron and such men as euer did attende About the seruice of the Lorde and Moyses now in graue They read the people still the lawe and laboured them to saue As Prophets priestes Leuits eke who preacht and alwayes taught For to beware of wicked things and to eschue the naught And to conceyue assured hope in Christ the promised séede Whereby the hearts might healed be which griefe had causde to bléede This was the Prophets office than and this their order iust When Moyses here had yéelded vp his carkasse vnto dust Whose wrytings through the gift of God doe hitherto remaine The very doctrine of the holy ghost appearing plaine We must not weigh them as the worke of mortall men that die But take them as the bookes of God sent downe from heauens hie In like sort must the Gospell here of good men honorde bée For both with all the Prophets olde it iustly doth agrée And with the dreadfull voyce of God it hath confirmed béene Nor any thing repugnant here may any where be séene Therefore the Church did iustly giue the chiefe authoritie Vnto the holy bookes that in the Bible written lie Commaunding that they neuer be abusde by any wight But to remaine for euermore in good and perfite plight As knowing well hir husbandes voyce the ender here of strife And these the certaine instruments of euerlasting life Beside we must estéeme them more than all the Sibylles heare Or all the Oken groues that earst to Ioue were counted deare And thinke that vnto men these bookes sufficient light doth giue Whereby they well may know the will of God and how to liue So that we profite much herein in knowing that we neede Not ransacke other volumes great of fayth or hope to réede For miserablie doth he toyle and tosse his troubled minde That séekes his pleasure where it doth not lie or else is blinde Whosoeuer of pure and perfite golde hath founde the fruitfull vaine By which he may to Pelops welth or Craesus state attaine And passe the Arabians riches here and Hermus sandes that shines Will hardly hence be had away to digge in emptie mines And vainely pecke in euery rocke whereas no golde doth lie Where trauaile great must be indurde and nothing got therebie To these therefore let husbandmen their mindes and studie giue Here shall they finde what néedefull is to teach them how to liue No néede is here to vexe the minde with turning many bookes Nor for to gaze on barraine fielde with vaine and ydle lookes Here of the euerlasting worde the knowledge full doth lie That sonne of God and Iesus whome the worlde is saued bie The knowing of whom alonely brings vs to euerlasting blysse And reconciles vs to the father where we did amysse And makes vs heyres of heauen bright this is the treasure which Lay hidden in the ground so déepe and Iewell passing rich For which all worldly substance great is well bestowed here Looke where thou list thou shalt not finde it any other where Leaue searching of the Cesterns and the Fennes and filthie soyles And stinking pondes when as at home the fountaine freshly boyles Here draw of cleare Cristall streames here mayst thou drink thy fill If thirst of euerlasting life and vertue mooue thy will Giue all thy force and minde hereto and all thy wittes applie Moreouer this perswasion doth great profite herein bring When in the scriptures plaine appeares Gods will in euery thing What honor we must giue to him what worship him delightes What maners and what wayes are méete to frame the life arightes Least superstition in our mindes or wicked error spring And least we preach and blase abrode some lewde and hurtfull thing As if the things sufficed not that God himselfe hath tought Or that we thinke by our deuice might better things be wrought Who so beléeues that God hath hid no vertue here nor right Contents himselfe and doth obey the worde with all his might And faynes not any thing himselfe nor followes fancie vaine Nor any gloses blinde of men nor dreames of ydle braine As most men commonly doe vse this madnesse vexeth sore And is a plague that all the worlde doth trouble euermore Without the worde of God eche foole dare frame himselfe away Procuring eke companions to runne with him astray Whom at the first he doth perswade and after doth constraine T' obay his folly as a God that ouer all doth raigne Let not our husbandman be staynde with such vntowarde minde But know the waight of scriptures well where he may easily finde What best is to be done or left least that he wander wide Obaying more the voyce of man than his that all doth guide Thus boldned let him duely reade the scriptures euermore From top to toe and oft reherse that he hath read before And print it déepely in his minde layde vp in safetie there None otherwise than golde or pearles or such like precious gere From whence he largely may disburse to men as cause requires The maner how to please the Lorde and leaue their fonde desires And if perhaps he vnoerstand not all things perfitely Or reade some things that doe declare a great simplicitie Let him beware that tediousnesse nor lothsomnesse him take And force him so the sacred worde of God for to forsake In prophane wryters many things at first doe not appeare But hidden lie and doe deceyue the readers looking neare No maruell then if that the holy ghost declare not all In easie phrase but sometime teach with senses mysticall Accept the plaine and easie wordes and those that from thée flie With haste pursue and drawe them from the darknesse where they lie He blessed is that profiteth both with the hard and plaine And is not feared with the tone nor countes the other vaine But markes the order and the guise of Gods most holy spright And beares with that in euery case and takes his meaning right First shall he knowe the causes true and father of eche thing From whose commaundment and whose worde all kind of things doe spring Created of no substance here the stately framed skies The breathing ayre and weightie earth that in the middle lies The monstrous waues of raging seas that here and there doe flowe And what in sixe dayes worke was wrought for garnishing or showe The wondrous sort of creatures straunge in ayre in seas or landes That haue bene made committed to the powre of Adams handes By this he also well shall learne that in the worlde there is But one all onely Lorde and king whose powre almightie is Who doth of persons thrée consist coequall in degrée In nature Godhed