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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	become_v	zeal_n	zealous_a	36	3	8.8593	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A11169	Sir Beniamin Rudierd his speech in behalfe of the clergie and of parishes miserably destitute of instruction, through want of maintenance. Confirmed by the testimonies of Bishop Iewel, Master Perkins, and Sir Henry Spelman.	Rudyerd, Benjamin, Sir, 1572-1658.; England and Wales. Parliament. House of Commons. Proceedings. 1628.	1628 (1628)	STC 21436; ESTC S116129	8,912	17

them to repentance none that can preach vnto them forgiuenes through Christ none that can instruct them in the comfort of everlasting life For this cause you liue still in your sinnes in adultery in covetoussnes and in pride without any feeling of conscience without any feare of God thus we provoke God to anger many walke of whom we cannot thinke but with vveeping they are the enemies of the Crosse of Christ the name of God is blasphemed among them c. These words happily seeme sharpe and over vehement but the darkenesse of our hearts against God and the lacke of zeale for his house inforce me to them wee are almost fallen into the lowest pit wee are left without zeale as sencelesse men as if vve had cleane forgotten our selues as the Heathens which know not God therefore vnlesse we repent the kingdome of God shall bee taken away from vs hee will send vpon this land a famine of the word Ierusalem shall bee overthrown and made an heape of stones the man of Sinne and they which haue not the loue of the trueth shall prevaile with many and withdraw them from obedience to the Prince this noble Realme shall be subject to forraine nations all this will the zeale of the Lord of hostes bring to passe I could haue spent thi time in opening of some other matter but nothing in my judgement is more worthy your good consideration and speedy redresse c. Wherefore he concludes with a graue exhortation to her Majestie as followeth O that Your Grace did behold the miserable disorder of Gods Church or that you might forsee the calamities that vvill follow It is a part of your kingdome and such a part as is the principall prop stay of the rest I will say to your Majesty as Cyrillus sometimes said to the godly Emperours Theodosius and Valentinian Ab ea quae erga Deum est pietate Reipub. vestrae status pendet The good state and vvelfare of your common-weale hangeth vpon true godlines you are our governour your are the nurse of Gods Church Wee may open this griefe before you God knoweth if it may bee redressed it is runne so farre But if it may bee redressed there is no other besides your highnes that can redresse it I hope I speake truely that which I speake without flattery that God hath indued your Grace with such measure of learning and knowledge as no other Christian Prince He hath given you peace happines the loue and the hearts of your Subiects Oh turne and employ these to the glory of God that God may confirme in your Grace the thing which he hath begunne To this end hath God placed Kings Princes in their State as David saith that they serue the Lord that they may see and cause others to see to the furniture of the Church The good Emperour Iustinian cared for this as much as for his life Constantine Theodosius and Valentinian and other godly Princes called themselues vassales the subjects and bond-servants of God They remembred that God furnished them in their houses and were not vnmindfull to furnish his house When Augustus had beautified Rome with setting vp many faire buildings hee said inveni lateritiam marmoream reliqui I found it made of bricke but I leaue it made of marble Your Grace when God sent you to your inheritance and the right of this Realme found the Church in horrible confusion and in respect of the true worship of God a Church of bricke or rather as Ezekiel saith dawbed vp with vntempered morter Your Grace hath already redressed the doctrine now cast your eyes towards the Ministery giue courage and countenance vnto learning that Gods house may bee serued So shall you leaue a Church of God and a testimony that the zeale of the Lords house hath eaten you vp Let vs haue care for the house of God whosoever is not after this sort zealous is a man of a double heart wee may not halt betweene two opinions If the Lord be God follow him but if Baal be hee then goe after him Hee that is not with Christ is against him Many talke of the Gospell and glory in their knowledge but it is neither talke nor knowledge which shall saue them in that day he that feareth the Lord and serveth him with a pure heart and may truely say the zeale of thine house hath consumed me hee shall be saued if they shall not escape which haue zeale without knowledge what shall become of vs which haue knowledge without zeale And you whosoeuer you are that haue decayed the Lords house and abridged the provision and maintenance thereof and see the miserable wracke of Gods Church if there be any zeale of God in you if you haue any fellowship of the spirit if any compassion and mercy if you loue God if you desire the continuance of the Gospell Oh remember you haue the patrimony due to them that should attend in the Lords house you take vnto your selues wrongfully that which was not lotted for you Giue vnto Caesar those things that belong vnto Caesar and vnto God the things which appertaine vnto him and make for the beauty and furniture of his house Enrich your selues by lawfull meanes and without the spoile and waste of Gods Church Let not the Ministerie by your meanes bee despised You enriched them heretofore in the dayes of Popery which mocked and blinded and deuoured you spoyle not them now that feed and instruct and comfort you That reverend man of God Mr Perkins in his sermon of the duties and dignities of the Ministery giueth 3. reasons of the rarenesse and scarcenesse of good Ministers The first is the contempt and disgrace of their calling by wicked and worldly men 2. The difficulty of discharging the duties of their calling The 3. reason is more peculiar to this age of the new Testament namely Want of maintenance and preferment for men that labour in this calling Men are flesh and blood and in that respect must be allured and wonne to embrace this vocation by some arguments which may perswade flesh blood the world hath in all ages bin negligēt herein therefore God in his law tooke such strict order for the maintenance of the Levites but especially now vnder the Gospell this calling is vnprovided for when it deserues best of all to be rewarded certainly it were a worthy Christian policy to propound good preferments to this calling that thereby men of the worthyest gifts might bee wonne with it and the want thereof is the cause why so many young men of speciall parts and greatest hope turne to other vocations and especially to to the Law wherein at this day the greatest part of the finest wits of our Kingdome are imployed and why but Because they haue all the meanes to rise whereas the Ministery for the most part yeldeth nothing but a plaine way to beggerie this is a great blemish in our Church and surely I wish the Papists those children