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	king_n	son_n	18,071	5	5.0209	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A42732	The right honourable, Pourtraid. Or, the vizard taken off pretenders With perswasive reasons to allure the will, and reduce mens actiosn to obtain the title. As also a set boundary to the honour of saints departed. By Samuel Gilbert, Philalēthḗd.	Gilbert, Samuel, d. 1692?; White, Robert, 1645-1703, engraver.	1693 (1693)	Wing G718; ESTC R223675	16,536	72

Grace as Abraham the Father of the Faithful and God's Friend Moses my Servant faithful in all the House of God David a Man after the model of God's own heart Zachary a holy and just Man John Baptist a shining and burning Lamp none greater than he born amongst Women If Achilles were happy because he had Homer to be the Trumpeter of his Praises how much more they that have God himself to be the Blazoner and Herald of their Honour It is not unworthy observation how regardless God is of Greatness without Goodness Honour without Holiness such an one was Dives in that Historical Parable in the Gospel shall go nameless the Spirit of God will not so much as vouchsafe him a Name there was a quidam c. a certain Man c. So Jeconiah of the Seed-Royal and the last of the Kings that ever swayed the Scepter of Judah God will not do him the honour to give him the length of his Name but instead of Jeconiah he cuts off and curtails a piece of it and calls him not Jeconiah but in disdain Coniah But when God would grace and honour Abraham as if Abram was not enough he spins out his Name to the full length and not willing to part with it too soon out of his Mouth and calls him Abraham Scripture tells us that Saul Reigned only two years and yet it is manifest by the Story that he Reign'd more than two Years what doth the Spirit of Truth mistake in matters of Chronology and Calculation of Times No he takes notice of Saul's Reign no farther than he Reigned well and therefore Saul only Reigned two years because two years well The Tribe of Dan both in Chronicles and Apocalyps is not reckon'd amongst the Tribes did the Spirit of God mistake his account therein No! but Dan was the first of all the Tribes that fell to Idolatry and therefore unworthy to be honoured with a Name in God's Register The World indeed is a very unskilful Herald and then oft-times graceth when God dishonoureth advanceth greatness without goodness But God emblazoning the Coat of Arms of his honourable ones only prizeth goodness without greatness if they be his Saints they are honourable All the Honour that comes from the World is but like the reflexion of a deceitful Looking-Glass that represents to the beholders view nothing less than the true proportion of the Face yea happily to a distorted and deformed Countenance giveth Grace and Beauty But that is the true Honour indeed without all stain or taint that comes down from him who alone is the God of honour and therefore alone can give it He that is from Heaven is above all and therefore his Testimony is so too not he who Commends himself is allowed but he whom God Commends He is the true worth whose praise is not of Men but of God and therefore Honor si quaeratur illic quaeratur ubi nemo indignus honoratur 2. Because they only are the most Royally descended from the noblest Stock the honourablest Blood that ever the Sun saw sc the Blood of Christ hence it is that they have Styles given them so full of Honour by the exactest Herald the Spirit of God for is it not an honourable preferment only to serve him whom to serve is to Reign Methinks saith St. Jerome when I hear St. Paul begin every Epistle with Paulus Apostolus servus Jesu Christi he is more proud of this Title than if he had said Prefect us pretorii aut exercitus Imperiatoris Tiberii Captain of the Guard or General of Tiberius his Army David tho' a King was ambitious of no greater Preferment in his Service than to be a poor Door-keeper Here Solomon's Servants happy that stood in his presence and not those that stand continually in God's presence who is a greater than Solomon but as if to be a Servant were not honourable enough he makes us Friends Thus Abraham is called God's friend But as if to be a friend were not honour enough they are not only admitted to God's Court but to his Privy Council Thus was Abraham God's Privy Counsellor Shall I hide from Abraham the thing I mean to do Surely the Lord God will do nothing but he revealeth his Secrets unto his Servants the Prophets And the Secrets of the Lord are revealed to them that fear him But as if here were not honour enough he makes them all Sons and Daughters to himself and what is it nothing to be Son and Daughter in Law to a King but as if to be Sons and Daughters were not honour enough he makes them his Heirs Co-heirs with Christ to share and divide the Inheritance with the natural Son of God yea such an honour it is to be God's heir that as each Son is an heir so an heir to the whole inheritance the whole Kingdom but as if all this were not yet honour enough he hath drawn us yet nearer to him by Marriage he hath Married us to himself with an everlasting Covenant And in that day I will make a Covenant for them c. And I will betroth thee unto me for ever yea I will betroth thee unto me in righteousness and in judgment and in loving kindness and in mercy I will even betroth thee unto me in faithfulness and thou shalt know the Lord. And then the Rule is in Civil Law Mulier fulget radiis mariti The Wife shines with the Beams of her Husband the Wife cannot be base where the Husband is honourable by this Marriage Knot he hath made them bone of his bone and flesh of his flesh nay parts and members of him and if one member be had in honour doth not every member share in it yea the honour that is done one is done to each one because all the members are but parts of and make up one body Thus we see how full of honour holy men are and what glorious things are spoken of them which made good Theodosius one of the best of the Roman Emperors count it greater honour to be Membrum Ecclesiae quam Caput Imperii a Member of the Church than Head of the Empire 3. Because their Attendance and Guard is honourable no less than a Royal Guard of Angels like so many heavenly Janizaries to keep them in their ways that they dash not their feet against stones so far doth God honour them that he makes even his Angels themselves those glorious and excellent Spirits to be ministring Spirits for their sakes that shall be heirs of their salvation 4. Their Reward is honourable it is no petty Farm or minor Cottage nor inferior Office nor vanishing dignity but a Kingdom and that a Kingdom of Glory so called to kindle in us a more ardent desire after it Glory being a thing whereof we are naturally ambitious what an honourable estate then is this which is attended with such a glorious reward It was an