Selected quad for the lemma: lord_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	baronet_n	knight_n	sir_n	27,306	5	7.3237	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A15447	Seuen goulden candlestickes houlding the seauen greatest lights of Christian religion shewing vnto all men what they should beleeue, & how they ought to walke in this life, that they may attayne vnto eternall life. By Gr: Williams Doctor of Divinity	Williams, Gryffith, 1589?-1672.; Delaram, Francis, 1589 or 90-1627, engraver.	1624 (1624)	STC 25719; ESTC S120026	710,322	935

labyrinths because iarring and iangling about errours they let passe the maine grounds of truth and striuing to finde out new wayes they doe quite forget the old way which is the good way and are become almost ignorant of the first and chiefest Principles of Religion Such is the pollicie of Satan to busie their heads about the lesse needfull Controuersies thereby to make them the lesse diligent to inquire after the most necessary counsels of their saluation And therefore considering with my selfe what the Apostle saith that hee desired to know nothing but Iesus Christ and him crucified I haue applyed my selfe to treate of these ensuing Theames I confesse my manner of handling them is like my selfe plaine and homely without any gorgeous garments of Rhetorical ornaments because I euer desired to speak rather for the edification of my hearers then for the oftenstation of my selfe but I assure you the matter is like them from whom I receiued it sound and good fit to feede all those Christians that desire rather to haue their hungry soules fedde with the sincere milke of Gods Word then their itching eares tickled with the inticing speech of mans wisedome for they doe containe the knowledge of our selues how poore and miserable we are become by sinne the knowledge of the true and eternall God and the knowledge of Iesus Christ God and Man then whom there is no greater no better which few lessons are alone able to make vs happy I neede speake no more of the worke let it speake for me I referre all to God who esteemeth of our indeauours not by their euent but by our intent but remembring that presenting your Honours with a Booke I must not make a Booke of an Epistle I onely desire you to accept these notes of a Schollers obseruation who desires not so much to make himselfe knowne as to acknowledge his duty to God and his desire to doe him seruice to extoll his name in Heauen and not to gaine himselfe a name on Earth and to haue all his thoughts and workes to honour Christ or to be dishonoured himselfe for no Christian So with my daily prayers for you and all yours I humbly take my leaue and rest Your Honours true seruant and most humble Chaplaine in all Christian seruice euer to be commanded GR. WILLIAMS TO THE RIGHT REVEREND FATHER IN God IOHN Lord Bishop of Saint Asaph and to the Right VVorshipfull the truly Honoured Sir IOHN WYNNE Knight and Baronet all grace and happinesse in this life and eternall happinesse in the life to come Right Reuerend Father I Write not this vnto your Lordship by base flattery to beg any thing of you for I doe endeauour alwayes to support my meane estate by meditating on the Apostles lesson in any state to be contented and I know that as we came naked into this world so we shall all returne naked hence againe but I presume to affixe these few lines vnto these my poore labours to assure the world of mine vnfained ioy to see your Lordship placed in that seate of gouernment wherein you are in a certaine hope that as Saint Paul said of Timothy according to the prophesies that went afore of you that is the Propheticall expectation that all men conceiued of you and the faire promises that your Religious and alwayes vpright carriage hath made vnto vs your Lordship will be a great comfort and a Diuine blessing vnto that whole Diocesse wherein you liue I know it is the practise of many I dare not say of any Bishop either basely to sell their spirituall promotions or sinisterly to bestow them on their friends their kinsmen and alliances and yet I say not the Church of England doth imitate that painted Harlot of Babylon nor that Ierusalem iustifieth Samaria but as Demodocus said of the Milesians they were no fooles and yet they did the same things that fooles did so I feare that we may say of many in the Church of England we are no Pagans no Popes no Papists no worldlings no carnall men and yet though I say not that any man doth ill yet I doubt wee doe not all well not much better then they vse to doe herein I confesse the Apostle noteth it as a vice of the latter times to be without naturall affection but if gifts blinde the eyes of the wise that they peruert iudgement I doubt not but this carnall loue of flesh and bloud will sometimes with Mydas preferre Pan before Apollo and this naturall affection to kinred being vnworthiest will not onely deiect the mindes of painefull men and cause men rather to seeke to be allied to others then to attaine vnto any worth in themselues but it must also turne to the hurt and detriment of the whole Church of God and doth apparantly shew such spirituall Patrons to be indeed carnally minded for do not the Publicans and Sinners euen the same and therefore though I wish all men to abound in loue and affection vnto their Kins-folkes yet in this case I would to God that all of vs Deut. 33 ●8 wold imitate Leui who saide vnto his father and to his mother I haue not seene him neither did he acknowledge his brethren nor knew his owne children but obserued Gods word and kept his couenant that we would set God alwayes before our eyes Neither doe I say this to deny that men should doe for their kinsfolke being worthy men but that they should not doe this neglecting others farre more worthy and laying aside all sinister respects would doe onely what should be most for Gods glory for the encouragement of painfull Preachers and for the best benefit vnto the people of God for if Christ being lost by Mary and Ioseph could not bee found among his owne friends and kins-folkes these men should take heed they finde him not among theirs I could say more of this point and yet not so much as Saint Bernard saith vnto Eugenius of many other points like to this but this will serue to be a witnesse against some at the dreadfull day and perhaps to stirre vp as much rage against my selfe as the Iewes had against Saint Stephen for speaking this truth against them that vse such dealing against God If it doth I say as Saint Chrysostome said of the rage of that cruell Empresse If they keepe me poore I know Christ had not an house to put his head in if they silence me and thrust me out of their Sinagogue so was that poore man that confessed Christ and the Apostles inioyned not to speake in the Name of Christ if they cast me into prison so was Ieremy Saint Peter Saint Paul and many more If I be forced to flie my Countrey I haue that beloued Iohn and that Atlas-like Athanasius for presidents of the like vsage or whatsoeuer else should be done vnto mee I haue the holy Martyres for my fellow sufferers and I will neuer count my life deere vnto me so I may finish my course with ioy