Selected quad for the lemma: lord_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	beseech_v	good_a	please_v	23,628	5	8.8360	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A74632	Herbert's remains, or, sundry pieces of that sweet singer of the temple, Mr George Herbert, sometime orator of the University of Cambridg. Now exposed to publick light.	Herbert, George, 1593-1633.; Oley, Barnabas, 1602-1686.	1652 (1652)	Thomason E1279_1	88,323	339

he that profits not in that time will lesse afterwards the same affection which made him not profit before making him then weary and so he grows from not relishing to loathing CHAP. VIII The Parson on Sundays THe Country Parson as soon as he awakes on Sunday morning presently falls to work and seems to himselfe so as a Market-man is when the Market day comes or a shop-keeper when customers use to come in His thoughts are full of making the best of the day and contriving it to his best gaines To this end besides his ordinary prayers he makes a peculiar one for a blessing on the exercises of the day That nothing befall him unworthy of that Majesty before which he is to present himself but that all may be done with reverence to his glory and with edification to his flock humbly beseeching his Master that how or whenever he punish him it be not in his Ministry then he turnes to request for his people that the Lord would be pleased to sanctifie them all that they may come with holy hearts and awfull mindes into the Congregation and that the good God would pardon all those who come with lesse prepared hearts then they ought This done he sets himself to the Consideration of the duties of the day and if there be any extraordinary addition to the customary exercises either from the time of the year or from the State or from God by a child born or dead or any other accident he contrives how and in what manner to induce it to the best advantage Afterwards when the hour calls with his family attending him he goes to Church at his first entrance humbly adoring and worshipping the invisible majesty and presence of Almighty God and blessing the people either openly or to himselfe Then having read divine Service twice fully and preached in the morning and catechized in the afternoone he thinks he hath in some measure according to poor and fraile man discharged the publick duties of the Congregation The rest of the day he spends either in reconciling neighbours that are at variance or in visiting the sick or in exhortations to some of his flock by themselves whom his Sermons cannot or doe not reach And every one is more awaked when we come and say Thou art the man This way he findes exceeding usefull and winning and these exhortations he cals his privy purse even as Princes have theirs besides ther publick disbursments At night he thinks it a very fit time both sutable to the joy of the day and without hinderance to publick duties either to entertaine some of his neighbours or to be entertained of them where he takes occasion to discourse of such things as are both profitable and pleasant and to raise up their mindes to apprehend Gods good blessing to our Church and State that order is kept in the one and peace in the other without disturbance or interruption of publick dvinie offices As he opened the day with prayer so he closeth it humbly beseeching the Almighty to pardon and accept our poor services and to improve them that we may grow therein and that our feet may be like hindes feet ever climbing up higher and higher unto him CHAP. IX The Parson's state of Life THe Country Parson considering that virginity is a higher state then Matrimony and that the Ministry requires the best and highest things is rather unmarryed then marryed But yet as the temper of his body may be or as the temper of his Parish may be where he may have occasion to converse with women and that among suspicious men and other like circumstances considered he is rather married then unmarried Let him communicate the thing often by prayer unto God and as his grace shall direct him so let him proceed If he be unmarried and keepe house he hath not a woman in his house but findes opportunities of having his meat dress'd and other services done by men-servants at home and his linnen washed abroad If he be unmarryed and sojourne he never talkes with any woman alone but in the audience of others and that seldom and then also in a serious manner never jestingly or sportfully He is very circumspect in all companyes both of his behaviour speech and very looks knowing himself to be both suspected and envyed If he stand steadfast in his heart having no necessity but hath power over his own will and hath so decreed in his heart that he will keep himself a virgin he spends his dayes in fasting and prayer and blesseth God for the gift of continency knowing that it can no way be preserved but only by those means by which at first it was obtained He therefore thinkes it not enough for him to observe the fasting dayes of the Church and the dayly prayers enjoyned him by auctority which he observeth out of humble conformity and obedience but adds to them out of choyce and devotion some other dayes for fasting and hours for prayers and by these hee keeps his body tame serviceable and healthfull and his soul fervent active young and lusty as an eagle He often readeth the Lives of the Primi tive Monks Hermits and virgins and wondreth not so much at their patient suffering and cheerfull dying under persecuting Emperours though that indeed be very admirable as at their daily temperance abstinence watchings and constant prayers and mortifications in the times of peace and prosperity To put on the profound humility and the exact temperance of our Lord Jesus with other exemplary vertues of that sort and to keep them on in the sunshine and noone of prosperity he findeth to be as necessary and as difficult at least as to be cloathed with perfect patience and Christian fortitude in the cold midnight stormes of persecution and adversity He keepeth his watch and ward night and day against the proper and peculiar temptations of his state of Life which are principally these two Spirituall pride and Impurity of heart against these ghostly enemies he girdeth up his loynes keepes the imagination from roving puts on the whole Armour of God and by the vertue of the shield of faith he is not afraid of the pestilence that walketh in darkenesse carnall impurity nor of the sicknesse that destroyeth at noone day Ghostly pride and self-conceite Other temptations he hath which like mortall enemies may sometimes disquiet him likewise for the humane soule being bounded and kept in in her sensitive faculty will runne out more or lesse in her intellectuall Originall concupisence is such an active thing by reason of continuall inward or outward temptations that it is ever attempting or doing one mischief or other Ambition or untimely desire of promotion to an higher state or place under colour of accommodation or necessary provision is a common temptation to men of any eminency especially being single men Curiosity in prying into high speculative and unprofitable questions is another great stumbling block to the holinesse of Scholers These and many other