Selected quad for the lemma: lord_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	blood_n	body_n	soul_n	10,399	5	5.2639	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A64668	VVits fancies, or, Choice observations and essayes collected out of divine, political, philosophical, military and historical authors / by John Ufflet ...	Ufflet, John, b. 1603.	1659 (1659)	Wing U20; ESTC R8998	43,009	138

change confess that the Bread and Wine are made Sacraments which effectually by the vertue of the holy spirit do signifie present seale and give unto us as touching the soul by the means of faith the body and blood of the Lord. Occasion of contention may be given to those that will contend when he concerning whom it is himself is not contentions Continencie in Clergie men is not of the substance of their order nor appointed by the law of God Continency is when reason ruleth concupisence Content lyes not in the things we possesse but in the mind that values them Content is a rare blessing because it arises either from a fruition of all comforts or a not-desireing of some which we have not God knowes how to disperse his favours so that every man may have cause both of thankfullness humiliation while there is no one that hath al no one but hath some if envy and contempt were not thus equally tempered some would be over-haughty others too miserable but now every man sees in himself that which is worthy of contempt and matter of emulation in others and contrarily sees what to pitty and mislike in the most eminent and what to applaud in himself and out of this contrariety arises a sweet mean of contentation Mis-observancy differs from contempt the one reflects upon the institution the other upon the institutor he who covertly transgresses the Laws leaves the reputation of him that made them untoucht he who openly offends against them aimes more to weaken the Prince then the Laws errors which are occasioned by whatsoever other affection may be great or little those which are occasioned by contempt are Gyant-like Frandulent conventions bind not Seven or eight persons assembled together made a conventicle and were prohibited first by act of Parliament in the fifth year of Richard the second The partiall conversion of men to God is but hatefull hypocrisy There are some men that take no heed what hapneth to others by bad conversation and therefore overthrow themselves in the same manner through the same fault not foreseeing dangers manifest The direction and correction of a fault ought to be in secret It must be strong evidence that will make a sinner convict himself Nature hath so many shifts to cosen it self in a spirituall verdict that unless it be taken in the manner it will hardly yield to a truth either she will deny the fact or the fault or the measure Henry the sixth in the tenth year of his Raign was Crowned the 17th day of December King of France in the City of Paris Our naturall courage cannot bear us out against spirituall objects There is nothing more easie then to be valiant when no peril appeareth but when evils assail us upon unequal tearms it is hard commendable not to be dismayed Much is in a mans courage and discreat carriage of himself All private considerations must be extinguished when the question is of the good of a mans Country The covetous man in all things doth affect secresie and propriety Govetousness and riot dissolve the bonds of all respect our will ever carrying us from our selves from all awefulness and fear of lawes covetousness and pride are impatient of loss Cruelty is seldom without avarice by which if it be not caused it causeth it In the 4. year of William the Conqueror he instituted the courts of Chancery and Exchequer and appointed the Jury of r2 men to go upon causes criminall and to deside controversies At the same time he appointed four terms to be kept in the year at such places as he should nominate also he constituted Sheriffs over every County In the 19th year of Henry the seventh the Court of Star-Chamber was erected to punish such as offended against penal lawes which Court made informers and promoters to swarme and abound In the raign of Henry the third one William of York Rishop of Salisbury was he that caused the custom to be received for a law whereby the tenants of every Lord-ship are bound to do sute service to their Lord on whom they hold their land The Star-Chamber Chancery and court of Request have power in criminall cases to give oathes to the Defendant Princes ears and eyes are in every place courts being full of spies and nothing is hid from emulation Courtcarriages are riddles which though seen cannot be resolved without exceeding patience and judging experience The Court is a common Inne for flatterers time-servers and polititions and the Courtiers life is a Gally-maufry of pride lust ambition fraud imposture dissimulation distraction and envy A common counsel in Henry the sixth his time at first in London consisted of 180 persons Counsel ought not to be held holly but secret also therefore the Alter of the God Consus who was God of counsels was hidden in the earth Counsel given shews what we should do and not what we can do Generall Councils may erre and have erred Against greif it is as hard to chuse the season to give counsel as to give it the season should be after the first disgestion of sorrow and before the last All councils us well in publique as private deliberations require a reposed spirit free from wrath and fear all perturbations or particular interest for as a troubled mind is more apt to erre then to advise justly and hath more need of proper medicines for it self then it hath in it self to apply any comfort to others and is fitter to receive then to give counsell from which as from a great and violent currant are carried al those errors and disorders which are brought upon mature deliberations the which have commonly long repentances and disasters but he that can restrain himself from being transported by intemperate appetites and can rule his passions and give a just rule to himself and to his desires doth give the best time to all deliberations by mitigating heat and fury so altereth all counsel from that nature which is received from an unquiet and troubled mind No wise men can hold good counsel disparaged by the means of the Author if we be glad to receive any treasure from a servant why not precious admonitions Those that can least act are oft times best to give counsel Particular discontents and greivances are either of the mind the body or fortune which as they wound the soul of man produce many inconveniencies but Drunkenness utterly subverteth the same and astonisheth the body The perpetual custom of Drinking grows by using it into a perpetual pleasure stirring up the desire of the palate which is ever afterwards either overflown or thirsty The Drunkards stile begins in lawlesness proceeds in unprofitableness ends in misery and all shuts up in the denomination of this Pedigree A Son of Belial Drunkenness is a communicative Vice and requires the emulation of Companions wherein they strive for victory In Drink men discover their Dispositions which they dissemble being sober In the sixth year of Richard the