Selected quad for the lemma: lord_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	carnal_a	former_a	great_a	51	3	2.1257	3	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A12480	A learned and godly sermon preached at Worcester, at an assise / by the reverend and learned, Miles Smith ...	Smith, Miles, d. 1624.; Burhill, Robert, 1572-1641.	1602 (1602)	STC 22807; ESTC S1722	29,684	80

is not his own nor of himselfe and therefore not to be gloried in 8. In matters of learning it is very vnperfect God only being truely wise and therefore also not to be boasted of 9. In matters of state it is very vncertaine 10. Policie falsly so called is not to be gloried in but to be hated as the cause of the corrupt execution of the busines of the common wealth of neutrality in religion 11. Strength and might by making vs prosumptuous oppressors vse to set God against vs 12. Riches draw on enemies to spoile vs. 13. There is no certainty in riches 14. Riches commonly make not men better but worse 15. True ioy and happines is to know God a●…ight A LEARNED SERMON preached at VVorcester IER●…MIAH CHAP. 9. 23. Let not the wise man glory in his wisedome nor the strong man glory in his strength neither the rich mā glorie in his riches 24. But let him that glorieth glorie in this that hee vnderstandeth and knoweth me c. THE Prophet ZACHARIH in his first Chap hath thus Your fathers VVhere are they and doe the Prophets liue for ever But did not my words and my statutes which I commanded by my servāts the Prophets take hold of your fathers Meaning that they did take hold of their fathers would take hold of them also except they repented So 1. Cor. 10. the Apostle saith These thinges came to them for ensamples but are written to admonish vs vpon whom the ends of the world are come Signifying that the iudgments of God recorded in the worde and the vvhole word it selfe was not ordained for the instructiō only of them in whose daies it was written but to bee for the vse of the Church in al succeeding ages In a citty of Aegypt called Diospolis in a tēple there called Pylon there was pictured a little boy to signifie generation and an old man to signifie corruption also an hawk a symbole of God for the quicknes of his sight and a fish a symbole of hatred fish were an abhomination to the priests of Aegypt as witnesseth lo. 2o. lastly a crocodile to signifie impudencie The whole devise being laide togither importing thus much and preaching thus much 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that is O yee that are young cō●…ing on O yee that are old and going out of the world O all togither to you all be it knowne that God doth hate impudencie This hath Clemens Alexandrinus in the 5. of his stromats The like may bee saide of the present text which I haue in hand that albeit it be a part of a sermon that the Prophet Ieremie made vnto the children of Israel a little before their captivity into Babylon wherein he assureth them that pietie only no carnal sleights or abilities should be able to do them good in that feareful day and so might seeme to be proper to that nation to that occasion yet for al that if we wil not mistake it wee are to take it for an everlasting sermon there is mention in the Revelation of an everlasting gospell even for a general proclamation against all haughtines vaine confidence of mē whether they bee Iewes or Gentiles young or old evē against all those that doe not set God before their eies making him their stay but do boast themselues of the sharpnes of their wit or of the strength of their arme or of the greatnesse of their wealth which the Lord doth not accompt of And that this generall vse is to bee made of this parcell of Scripture the holie Ghost himselfe the best interpretour of his own meaning doth plainly declare 1. Cor. 1. 31. 2 Cor. 10. 17. to the which places for brevity sake I do referre you And here that observation of Tertullian in his booke de spectaculis hath fit place Specialiter quaedam pronuntiata generaliter sapiunt cum Deus Israelitas admonet disciplinae vel obiurgat vtique adomnes habet Certaine things vttered in the scriptures for one speciall purpose or vpō one specialloccasiō haue yet a generall drift or importment whē God admonisheth the Israelites of their duety or findeth fault with thē for neglect thereof it concerneth all So then as the Apostle saide to Timothie that hee suffered trouble for the Gospell sake vnto ●…ōds but the word of God was not boūd And as it is said of Abell Heb. 11. That he being dead yet speaketh so it may bee said in some sort of the prophet Ieremy that though he were boūd as touching bodily presence to his countrymen the Iewes and though his bones are rottē long since yet for all that his words remaine liuely in operation even to this day and by the same he speaketh and preacheth to vs now here assembled And what doth he speake vnto vs in the words of my text In summe and in grosse thus much to purge out the old leaven of arrogancie and insolenci●… that we may be a sweete lumpe of modestie and thankfulnes vnto the Lord. In particular these two pointes First that wee would weane ourselues from all carnall boasting whether of our wit and cunning or of our power and authority or of our wealth and other abilities this in the former verse Secondly that we would entertaine embrace a spirituall kinde of reioicing for Gods great mercies and favor toward vs ●…amely for this that he hath vouchsafed to reveale himselfe and his trueth vnto vs this in the later verse Touching the former many are deceiued beloved concerning this matter of boasting for neither is it proper to a few fooles only as some haue imagined for these fooles are found every where nether is it a fault of vanity only or indiscretion but even of iniquity and sinnefulnes If any doubt of the general spreading of the infectiō whether it bee Epidemicall let him thinke but of two sayings the one of Salomon the other of Seneca In the 20. of the Proverbs Salomon saith Many men will boast every one of his owne goodnes but who can finde a faithful man where he sheweth the fault to be generall or as good as generall So Seneca epist. 47. speaketh indefinitely Regum nobis induimus animos every one of vs heareth the minde of an Emperour then we wil not be farre behinde for boasting this for sentences As for examples let me produce vnto you but two out of hundreds namely of Cato the elder and of Tullie What a notable man was Cat●… the elder He had that commendation given vnto him by cōsent which none in his time was thought to deserue to be optimus orator optimus senator optimus imperator as Plinie reporteth to wit a most singular orator a most singuler senator or states-man and a most singuler generall and yet this so incōparable a man was so much given to boast himselfe that his veriest friendes were ashamed of him As for Tullie he was so excellently

in the Psalme made the domb beast speaking with mās voice to rebuke the madnes of the prophet as it is in the Apostle made these mē which were but babes in Christ nay evē as beasts before him being without God in this world to set forth his honor and praise and even to rebuke the madde arrogancy of many Christians in our daies Mans wisdome therfore touching matters of learning is vnperfect you heare by the cōfessiō of the wisest and therefore not to bee boasted of So is it vncertaine concerning matters of policie therefore this a third reason why it ought not to bee gloried in Prudens futuri tempo●… exitum caligino sa nocte premit Deus saith one 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 saieth an other Thus it is future things they are to be they are not yet therefore wee cannot see them they may fal out another way as wel as that way which we imagine they be futura contingentia therefore we may be deceived in them The chirurgian that dealeth with an outwarde wound seeth what he doth and can tell whether hee can heale it or no and in what time but he that is to make an incision within the Body bee it for the stone or the like disease hee doth but grope in the darke as it were may as wel take hoult of that which he should not as of that which he would So the arti●…an that worketh in his shoppe hath his tooles about him can promise to make vp his daies worke to his best advantage but the merchant venturer that is to cutte the seas had need of one winde to bring him out of the havē an other to bring him about to the lāds end another peradvēture to bring him to the place of trafficke where he would be he can promise nothing neither touching his returne neither touching his making of his cōmodity but as the winde the weather the mē of warre by the way as the honesty skil of them whom he tradeth with shal giue him leaue Iust so fareth it in these matters of prudence and policy they are cōiectural they are not demō stratiue therfore there is no science of thē they haue need of the cōcurrence of many causes that are casual of many mēs mindes that are mutable therfore we cannot build vpon them Yea they are built many times vpon the errours and negligence of our enemies and they peradventure bee avvake as vvel as our selues Antigonus that wise Prince he is reckoned among thē that having but one eie were exceeding politicke and crafty thought made certaine account of it to come vpō his enemie Eumenes at vnawa●…es and to take him napping but he foūd ●…umenes as vigilant as himselfe and so was faine to retire with a slea in his eare as wise as he came This for matters of war So for matters of peace Salomon the vvisest of al thought that if he might ioin in affinity with his neighbour princes and take many of their daughters to be his wiues and womē he should not only strengthen the kingdome in his own hande but also stablish it in his house long and long also he thought peradventure that by occasion of his mariages and affinities being great many of the vplandish people would bee trained wonne to the knowledging and worshipping of the true God of Israel but how was hee deceived His wiues and women turned his heart from the Lord he could do little or no good vpon them or theirs and as for the secret vnderminers of Salomons state succession where found they entertainement but among Salomons allies Let mee instance this pointe in one or tvvo examples more Constantine the great that worthy christian and great politician thought that if hee might build a cittie in the confines of Europe and Asia that might be aemula Romae a match to Rome place one of his sōs there to keepe his court he should not only eternize his name but also fortifie the Empire no lesse then if he had invir●…ned it with a wal of brasse Also Phocas and Pipinus thought the one if he might dignifie the Bishoppe of Rome with an extravagant title to bee called vniversal bishop the other if he might lade the church of Rome with principalities even with principality vpon principality they should deserue immortally wel not only of that sea but also of the whole house of God But the way of man is not in him selfe as Ieremie saith neither is it in man to foresee what wil fal out luckely or crosse The building of nevv Rome vvas the decay of old Rome so it proved and the dividing of the Empire was the destructiō of the Empire no lesse as wise men know Also the lifting vp of the man of Rome was the hoysting vp of the man of sinne and the locking of him in the chaire even in the chaire of pestilence Thus there is no policie so provident no providence so circumspect but the same is subiect to errours and crosses and therefore no cause why it shoulde bee trusted to and therefore no cause why it should be glorified in Let not the wise man glory in his wisdome c If any wisedome might bee boasted of surely one of those kinds of wisdom that ●… earst reckoned vp vnto you to wit wisedome or skil in the artes wisedome or knowledge in divinity wisedome or policie touching matters of state but these you haue heard are not to be relied vpon because they are vncertaine because they are vnperfecte c. therfore much lesse are we to relie vpon any such as is worse or inferiour to these But yet the world is the world it hath done so doth so yea and blesseth it selfe for so doing therefore this wound had need to be searched ransacked a little deeper Homer I remember crieth out against Eris or Discorde 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 O I would it were perished and throwne out of the company of the goddes men So Cyprian against covetousnes ô dete stabilis caecit as mentium c ô this same detestable blindnes of mēs mindes Hieronym against luxurie or lechery ô ignis inf ernalis luxuria ô Lecherie a very hellish fire Augustine against errour or mistaking ô errare ó delirare ô vvhat a vile thing it is to be blinded with errour c. thus every one cried out against the sinnes wherewith their times were most pestered and po●…soned Surely if I were appointed to touch the soare of the daughter of our people wee haue many soares from the crown of our head to the soale of our foote we are little else but soares botches biles but yet if I were to touch that which doth most of al apostemate and ranckle then I ought to crie out ô policie policie Policie I meane falsely so called but indeede cunning cudgeling This letteth that the prince the ●…ealme many times cannot bee