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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
A45563	The royal common-wealth's man, or King David's picture represented in a sermon preached at the solemnity of the funeral of Sir Tho. Adams, knight and baronet, and alderman of London ; in St. Katherine Creechurch, on the 10th of March, 1667 / by Nath. Hardy ...	Hardy, Nathaniel, 1618-1670.	1668 (1668)	Wing H742; ESTC R16815	26,628	50

liveth saith the Psalmist and shall not see death there were never any but two Enoch and Elias and I may say What man is he that dieth and shall not see corruption there was never any but one the holy one of God But otherwise all that lie in the grave rot for which reason the same word in Hebrew signifieth both the grave and corruption I have said saith Job to corruption Thou art my Father and to the Wormes You are my Mother my Sister and this as appeareth by the foregoing words in reference to the grave wherein though some by embalming are preserved longer than others for so say some was Alexander's body kept from putrefaction above an hundred years yet sooner or later all rot for which cause our body is called by St. Paul vile body or according to the Greek body of humiliation A consideration which may very well be matter of abasement to the strongest man beautifullest woman that their strength must degenerate into weakness their colour into paleness and both at last into rottenness though withall let it not too much discourage us since as the rotting of the grain in the ground maketh way for its springing up and fructifying so shall the corrupting of our bodies in the grave And therefore let us in the multitude of our thoughts within us touching the grave look beyond it at that day when as St. Paul assureth us our Lord Jesus shall change our vile body and when as the same Apostle tells us Mortality shall put on immortality and corruption shall put on incorruption ANd thus I have given you an account of Saint Pauls narrative concerning King David But another narrative is and that justly at this time expected from me concerning the Life and Death of the Right Worshipful and Right Worthy Knight Sir Thomas Adams Knight and Barronet There is no less than a threefold obligation to wit of Piety Equity and Charity laid upon us of publishing the excellencies of those who have done worthily and been famous in their Generation since as Saint Basil hereby 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 we glorifie the Lord in and for his servants and that is Piety 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 we honour the dead in their memory and that is equity 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 we rejoyce and benefit the People by their examples and that is Charity As Physicians and Chirurgians do very much advance their knowledg by Anatomising the bodies of dead men so we either are or may be much better'd in our practise by a delineation of the graces of dead Saints and therefore though this eminent servant of God and of his generation being taken out of this valley of Bacah and carried to that mount of Joy where beholding the glorious Deity he sings eternal Halelujahs stands in no need of any praises from us Yet it is needful very needful for us who are left behind that we may be stirred up to follow his choyce example And now what Paterculus saith of Aemilius Paulus he was vir in tantum laudandus in quantum virtus ipsa intelligi potest I may fitly apply to him the circumference of his Encomium may very well take in all the lines of virtue which meet in him as in their Center and I could heartily wish that as those Confessours truly said in their epistle to Saint Cyprian Vigorous expressions were correspondent to the glorious actions or rather Passions of those Martyrs whom he commended so I could now draw the Picture of this Worthy not only at the length but to the life But alas my Pencil giveth so rough a draught that I am afraid I shall but disfigure him whilst I go about to commend him so that I am ready to draw back my hand whilst I am drawing his lineaments and therefore shall desire as he did who wrote the life of Saint Cyprian that quicquid minus dixero minus enim dicam necesse est If I shall say less as less I must needs say than he deserveth it may not derogate from his honour but be imputed to my unskilfulness and if any shall think I say too much I shall ascribe it to their ignorance since none who knew him but must needs have a high value for him nor shall I say more of him than what not only very credible information but for the most part my own personal knowledg will warrant me having had the honour of more than 20 years acquaintance with him 15. whereof he was the chief inhabitant of that Parish wherein I was an unworthy Labourer The truth is as Titus Vespasian was called deliciae generis humani the delight of mankind so was he the Darling of the City so generally well reputed and reported of that I suppose it will be said of this Panegyrick concerning him what one said who met with a book called Herculis encomium The praise of Hercules Quis Lacedaemoniorum unquam vituperavit who ever dispraised him to wit that knew him His very outward aspect was amiable nay venerable and his presence as the appearance of some benign Star having a pleasing influence upon all that looked upon him But could you have viewed his inside behold that virtuous soul which inhabited his comely body how would it have ravished you and yet though we could not directly we might reflexively and that both from his words and works The Tongue of the Just saith Solomon is as choyce silver of which the Trumpets under the Law were made because of its sweet sound and again the lips of the righteous feed many to wit with wholesome counsels and comforts keeping as it were open table for all comets such was his tongue frequently tip'd with silver nay golden sayings which he brought forth out of the treasure of his memory such were his lips with which as well nay better then with his bountiful table he fed not only his children and servants but all who conversed with him among whom I can truly say I never went to him but I did or might come away from him bettered by his gracious and prudent discourse Nor was he only as I doubt too many are a man of words his goodness was not only at his tongues but his fingers ends That of our Saviour concerning himself my works testifie of me is though in a far inferiour way verifyed of him at least we may make use of what Solomon saith concerning the virtuous woman His works did praise him in his gates so that he was not only in respect of his words a sweet and pleasing voice but of his works a burning and shining light It is said of David that he died in a good old age full of riches and honours The age to which this worthy Patriot attained was old elder then David exceeding it eleven years for whereas David lived but 70 he was above 81. years old when he died and if Davids were a good old age his was better being more