Selected quad for the lemma: lord_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	daughter_n	father_n	son_n	10,765	5	4.8829	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A05326	A helpe to discourse. Or, A miscelany of merriment Consisting of wittie, philosophical and astronomicall questions and answers. As also, of epigrams, epitaphs, riddles, and iests. Together with the countrymans counsellour, next his yearely oracle or prognostication to consult with. Contayning diuers necessary rules and obseruations of much vse and consequence being knowne. By W.B. and E.P.	Basse, William, d. ca. 1653, attributed name.; Phillips, Edward, 1630-1696?, attributed name.; Pond, Edward, d. 1629, attributed name.	1619 (1619)	STC 1547; ESTC S117185	70,959	300

woman 12. ribs for that rib of which Eue was formed was peculiarly made by God to that purpose neither was it a bare bone but had flesh likewise And therefore since frō earth the slime of the earth frō a bone frō that earth all posterities are descended though some be rich some be poore some be noble and some base yet they are all but of one mettall and discent as to that purpose followeth Aurea nobilitas luteam si bestiat ollam Non ideo sequitur hanc minus esse lutam If golden titles guild an earthen pot That it s lesse earth for that it followes not And concerning the pride of cloathing this admonisheth vs that they should not bee abused to that excesse but rather for our humiliation the sad remembrancers of the fall of man for Adam in his innocency wore no cloathing Pellitus nunc es fueras sine bestibus ante Mudus eras purus crimen amictus habes Q. VVhat seed of all other is the least yet bringeth forth the greatest tree A. Christ himselfe expresseth this of the Mustard seed of whom it is reported in some countreyes to be trees of that bignesse that they yeeld a shadow to sit vnder Q. VVhat kinde of men are most rare in the kingdome of heauen A. Some say hypocrites for when Christ threatens destruction to the wicked he saith their portion shall be with hypoccrites some say Vsurers But the German prouerbe sayth Princes which are as rare in heauen as venison in a poore mans kitchin but this is alwayes to be vnderstood of wicked and irreligious Princes Q. VVho are those that are called the sonnes of Thunder A. Saint Iames and Saint Iohn the Apostles and the reason of their attribute is for that they affright the wicked rouse vp the slothfull drawing al● to an admiration of their highnesse from whence it is as Saint Bede writes of Saint Iohn that sonne of thunder that he thundered so high that if hee had thundered a little higher all the world could hardly haue comprehended him Q. VVho were those that found not a Physitian to cure them being liuing but to raise them being dead A. Christ Lazarus daughters of Iayrus the widdowes sonne Euticus Dorcas and others Q Who were those that liued in the earth and neuer dyed A. Henoch and Elias Q. Who and how many were those that had their names foretold and spoken of before they were borne A. Ismael Isaack Iosua Cyrus and Iohn the Baptist. Q. Who was hee that prophesied before he was borne A. Iohn Baptist in the wombe of his mother of whom S. Austine saith that hauing not yet seene the heauen nor the earth yet he knew the Lord of both Q. What issue was that that was elder then his mo●her A. Christ to which purpose the Poet thus wittily followeth it Behold the Father is the daughters sonne The bird that built the nest is hatcht therin The old of time an howre hath not out run Eternall life to liue doth new begin c. Q. Who was he that seeking his fathers Asses found a kingdome A. Saule Q. Whether of the two companions the soule or the bodie haue the greater hand in sinne and why for the sinne of the one they should bee both together ioyntly punished A. It is thus aunswered by a Similitude a Master of a familily committeth his Orchyard to two keepers of the which the one is lame and the other blinde where this cripple that had his eye sight spies out certaine goulden Apples hanging vpon a tree delightfull to his sight contentiue to his tast if hee might but obtaine them he not able to pluck them relates to his fellow how pleasant the fruite seemes to him that hee lookes vppon with his eyes and how willingly he would tast if hee had but legges to beare him to them To whom the blinde answers and I would not sticke to pull the apples if I had but thy eyes to see them and so at last between this debate they agree that hee that had his eyes should ride vpon the others shoulders that had his legges this being done they were able to plucke the fruite and did eate and hauing eaten the master of the Orchyard enters and finds his damage enquires by whom it was done and they both confesse their act and furtherance how the one vsed his feet and the other his eyes and so they did it betweene them The master finding it so punisheth both with one equall punishment as they had both deserued After which Example doth this more wise Gouernour exempt neither body nor soule because they both lend their furtherance to sinne and beeing thus both guiltie thus hee punisheth them inseparably for euer Q. But why should eternitie punish that which is committed in time and oftentimes but a short time A 1. Because the sinne though it bee committed in time is against an infinit Maiestie Secondly because God iudges according to the wilful inclination of a sinner that would sinne eternally if he might liue eternally and to his indefatigallibent of wickednesse God answers him with euerlasting punishments Q. VVhether do fooles bring more profite to wise men or wisemen to fooles A. Cato saith that fooles bring more profite to wise men because wisemen seeing their folly they endeauour to avoyde it whereas fooles on the contrary make no vse of the wisedome of the wise by reason of their folly Q. VVherefore doe Serpents since they hate all mankinde yet chiefly bend their forces against women A. By reason of the perpetuall enenmitie put by God betweene the woman and the serpent and the seede of the woman and the seed of the serpent Of which one thus writes concerning the blessed seede of the woman that broke this head of the Serpent Quos anguis dirus tristi de funere strauit Hos Sanguis mirus Christi de vulnere lauit And as another to the like effect Anguis peccatum mortem generauit in horto Sanguis iustitiam vitā reparauit in ara 1 Where the dire serpent brought in wounds and death Christ his by blood hath heald restord our breath 2 Both sinne and death to our succeeding losse The serpent gaue in garden to mankinde But Christ restorde againe vpon his crosse Iustice and life whereby we ransome finde And as another to that purpose Soluit pendendo quod Adā cōmisit e dendo Q. How is death proued to be nothing to vs A. Thus when death is then wee are not and when we are then death is not therfore death is nothing to vs. Q. How is our life proued to be a something almost depending vpon nothing A. Thus the yeeres that are past are gone those we haue not the future we are not certaine of and therefore boast not of the ●ime present is but a moment and that is the brittle thred it depends vpon And therefore to this I adde with a father happy is he that in this his short minute