Selected quad for the lemma: lord_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	david_n	king_n	solomon_n	11,542	5	9.1098	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A06880	The booke of marchauntes very profitable to all folkes to knowe of what wares they ought to be ware of, for the begilyng of them. Newly perused and augmented by the first authoure well practised in suche doynges. Reade and profite.; Livre des marchans. English	Marcourt, Antoine de, d. ca. 1560.; Farel, Guillaume, 1489-1565, attributed name.	1547 (1547)	STC 17313.7; ESTC S117723	19,535	96

lye of God but also by the authoryte of the decres and auncient cannos as pestilent people by whō the churche of God is robbed wasted and desolated y ● reformation of the church letted and the saluation of y ● people withdrawen O Lord God what a boke might be made of this mater if tym woulde suffer it but I remit it al to the Iugemēt of those persones whiche loue and dread the almighty lord What do you noble and vertuous Princes Lordes and Ladyes why haue ye no regarde ouer these marchants and notwythstandynge that by theyr pride they wyll not be visyred of you yet will thei or not ye haue authoritie ouer thē And to you and none other it belongeth to castyse to correct and represte the great excesse of suche theues Do it than to thende that it be not uerified of you that is voken in Esaye Suche princes are infidels companiōs of theues but rather that in y ● presence of the liuinge God of whom ye bere the name whiche hath giuen you the poure of the sworde for to vse it to hys honor defendynge innocentes punishing al male factors be ye foūd faithfull and veritable Consentynge to all godnes resystynge euylle wythe all your power for hys good wyll for by hym ye are commited ther to he alone may exalt you or put you down in this present lyfe and the life to come and herof ye maye be sure if ye seke his honor he wil honor you Yf ye exalt hym he wyll exalt you By hys wisdome kynges do reygne and Lordes do ordein ordinaunces of Iustice And the mysprision of the dyuine wyll wisdome is cause of al euyls ouer Kinges Princes Lordes coūtres and nations Which may be sen in Dauid Solomō Ezechi Achab Manasses and other And let no man take feare in forthering the honore of God as the simple Sedechie dyd Fearynge more the prynces of Iuda of Ierusalē thē y ● only God Not beleueyng y ● good coūsel of Ieremi The which Sedechie neuertheles afterwarde foūde tru that which the prophete had tolde him And was put fro the goodes y ● wer ordened for him For it is not in y ● power of men to put Kynges fro their crowes but it belongeth to y ● only god which trās ferreth kingdomes as it pleaseth hym The which if he be with you who cā be againste you Oh God if ye were as prompt and redy to procure the honor of God as these auaricyous marchāts are apt and diligent about theyr busines that nothing escape thē O Lorde howe euery thinge should be well It is no nede to speak of ther study and diligence for euery body seth it They haue a. C. eyes euer open to watch as the cat for the mous Argus sawe neuer clerer before and behynde nomore dyd Ianus wyth hys dowble face If the belles rynge in any place as thei say for an obit than oure gentyl gallants trudge apace but our Lord knoweth what a drage there is of them Yf the mayster or the dame of a hous be seke so that they be any thing riche for of the poore they pas not and that they haue any token of death oure marchants togo thether a pace a pace to put in theyr myndes to remember theyr shoppes theyr byldyng theyr church their brethen and for to haue some aniuersari foundacion or other testamentary gift Do what ye wyl out of the hous ye get them not tyll they haue some praye or elles they will saye that he or she be Lutherien heretykes God knoweth what wily wrinches what subtyll fallaces they do commit fro day to day Thinke who will on the houshold on the famuly on of the chyldren rent or detts al is one to them so they may haue theyr askynge they care not If any bridales be thyder rene oure marchants to fare well and to blysse y ● bride bed If any woman lye in childbed thei togo to say gospels ano to be at the syttyng vp and chirching To be short be it at lyfe or death our marchāts be euer practisyng some bribles they neuer make an end And the better to dyspose the matter after theyr sorte not one of them will mary because they maye the better vse theyr byt cheri at their ease to passe the tyme and to lyue wythout thought For to conclude it is to be noted that amonge so greate a felowshyppe of marchants there be two sorts yet none of them both do liue in purenes of chastite of the whiche some of them gouerne them selfe in course rude tyranie the other in fayre hypocrysy The fyrst be thei that opēly constraine the people to by theyr wares and there is no remedy but passe that wyae or els to be flayne and murdred of them or at the least excōmunicate in their sinagog The other that could not come to vsurpe the power to commaunde can by an other meane that is to wite in the apparence of pouertie bering walets all vpō their shulders full simply faining a lowting caūtenance selling them sellfe as the Essians Saducians or Pharisians dyd Sōtyme they would giue their owne habite to the pore pretendyng some holynes the which afterwarde was paied a. C. times dowble Thus can they worke subtylly in they marketes and fayres Than is there anothor sorte of fyne bestial frires lowtes lowting theyr heades bi the waye bearing great beades lyke father Robert of Islyngton Marchants of theyr owne workes and merytes as if they hade some in store to sell againe And openly thei haue made to beleue that all the benefactoures of theyr orders haue won heauen bi the merites of these holy beaupers quentchyng the fayth therby and putting the holy name of Iesus Christe in darcknes blasphemeynge openly the grace and mercy of the Lorde God the whyche is not wone by worke or merite or elles grace should not bee grace howebe i● by such dreamyng lyes and fayninge these arrogant supersticious fat trewāts haue sed theyr myserable bealyes wyth the labour of the simple people I maye say miserable west inoughe for there was neuer so manye vngracious sortes of people vpon the earth They do disfigure and fatten them selues they extermine theyr faces as hypocrits They torment punishe them sefes for to appere to the worlde suche as they bee not Truly thei tak great paynes to go to the Deuill And often tymes whan they se a yong child comē of a good stocke and riche kinred they wylle so entyce hym asmuche as they may to catch hym in limetwyges snare to make him lyke vnto them To such folkes Iesus Christe gyueth his curse when he saieth wo vnto you hypocrits that compas both sea lande to make one your nouice and whan he is made he shalbe dowble wors than you This is their ioy and consolacion to drawe any to their estate Wherby it is very veryt able that the delyte of a