Selected quad for the lemma: lord_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	day_n	holy_a	see_v	10,511	5	3.8303	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A64904	Unholsome henbane between two fragrant roses, or, Reasons and grounds proving the unlawfull and sinfull inserting of the corrupt and most erronious Apocrypha between the two most pure and sacred testaments together with a most humble vote and serious desire to our most reverend and religious assembly of divines, to be a means to the high and honorable Court of Parliament for the utter expunging of it out of the Holy-Bible.	Vicars, John, 1579 or 80-1652.	1645 (1645)	Wing V332; ESTC R10756	8,046	10

slenderly it is that which I could do Whereas the Inditer of the holy Canonicall-Scriptures begins goes on and concludes from Genesis to the end of the Revelations with majesty gravity and convincing authority Thus saith the Lord The Word of the Lord is pure and undefiled And Cursed is he which addes or diminisheth from this word and such like most high and authoritative expressions I say all along from first to the last Now then all these most serious and weightie premises advisedly and piously considered How dares my man especially by his or their authority who ever they be joyn such patcheries nay rather such putrified and pernicious impieties with Gods most pure and holy Canon the sacred Scriptures Certainly it is most impious and impudent pertinacie and saucynes for any man I say to presume and dare to joyn and set up such bumane and rotten-posts by the Lords most strong pious and precious Posts and their Thresholds by his Thresholds which the Lord himself complains of and cals and counts defiling abominations Ezek 43 7 8. And for which very thing he cut off and consumed in his anger his people of Israel both them and their kings as there in that Scripture is most evidently clear And yet even this durst our late most impious and imperious tyrannizing Taskmasters the Prelats do in their formerly uncontrolled most proud and even Papally-domineering dayes yea and so audaciously durst they do it and proudly command it to be done as not to suffer any Bibles to be bound up without it under pain of sharp reproof and severe censures and Fines too for it Yea and to this very day do too many even very good Christians and especially almost all our irreligious Malignants and sottish Ignoramuses both in City and Countrey I know not out of what insensible and corrupt custome hugge and hold-fast in their Bibles these so impure and polluted Apocryphal-writings just as they idolized formerly their prelaticall Common-Prayer-Book almost with equall faith and affection to the most pure and unspotted most holy and holesome Canonicall-Scriptures which onely are abundantly sufficient and profitable to life and salvation as being for this very use and end indited pend and preserv'd by the Lords own speciall command power and providence in all ages maugre all the malicious machinations of Sathan in any or all his instruments to have destroyed them Atheists Infidels and Assyrian or Babylonish heathens But heer it may peradventure be objected especially by or blockish Malignants and silly Ignerants O but Sir are there not very many excellent and Divine sayings and Sentences in the books of Apocrypha as in the book of Wisdom and Ecclesiasticus fit for men and women to read and therfore were it not pity say they such good things should be so ill spoken of and so harshly and wholly rejected and quite put out of the Bible Wherunto I easily answer first But are ther not far more excellent purely-holy and Divine Sayings and Sentences in most parts of the sacred Scriptures especially in those precious pearley-Bracelets and golden-chains of sacred Sentences in the books of Proverbs Ecclesiastes the sacred and sugred Book of Psalms and as I said generally all over the whole Bible which may nay ought to be more holily and holesomely read and ruminated on than any or all those in the so polluted Apocrypha Secondly I answer If the meer morall goodnes of those Apocryphal-writings and that 's the most and lest you can make of them be the main and only ground of retaining them in your Bibles as so it seems it is then I say for the very same reason and on the very same ground you may as justly yea and as profitably place in the midst of your Bibles the excellent Sayings and Sentences collected in a book called The Lives and Answers of the Philosophers wherin is contained as many and as excellent wise and morally Divine Sayings and Sentences of those Philosophers as any that are in the books of Wisdom and Ecclesiasticus But I say neither these nor those nor any other mens sayings who ever they were being but meer-mens ought as I humbly conceive by any means to be conjoyned and set cheek by jowl as the proverb is especially not to be tolerated in the very heart and midst of the sacred Scriptures what ever specious pretences or fair glosses may be urged for it For that which ofttimes seems good and very goodly to the eyes and heart of man is a most palpable and execrable abomination to the Lord The Vote upon the Premises O therfore that among the many most excellent and eminent work of Reformation in the Church of God now lately thought upon and in much measure fairly already effected to the perpetuall praise and glorie of our good God the just honour of his pious Instruments Both Houses of Parl●ament and the most learned Reverend and religious Assembly of D●vines and to the ineffable soul ●●●●ring joy and comfort of all true Engl●sh-hearted Saints and Servants of the Lord who have together with mine unworthy-self the meanest of them all long time longed for and from the root of their hearts desired to see those holy happie halcyon-Halcyon-dayes of K●ng Jesus sitting solely upon his throne of powerfull and pure Ordinances O therfore I say that it might please the Lord to put into the hearts of our most grave and godly Assembly to whom I humbly conceive it most properly now appertains seriously to see unto if alreadie they have not a most exact and accurate Reforma●●●● both of the particular great and grosse vitiosities and also the g●nerall foul abuses offered to the whole Kingdom in and about this sacred Book of God the Bible both as touching the constant defect of exact correction of the Orthographie of it from the Printers-Presses wherby the sense is in very many places feully corrupted and falsly mistaken as also the constant and generall printing of our Bibles in very course and extreme thin and bad sinking-paper and a dull and blunt letter yet setting a high and inhaunced price upon them a most foul shame to them and an intolerable abuse to the whole-Kingdom that such a most preciously usefull and daily vendible Book should be so ill used Also the adding unto heertofore by constra●nt on pain of H●gh-Commission penalties and forfeitures of their Bibles through the horrible pride tyranny and Popish-superstion of the Bishops and by the base aymes and ends of some London-Stationers and others who for filthy lucre got Patents for the adding unto I say and binding with our Bibles divers humane patches and peices of mens inventions to be as it were of necessity by reason of their Patents bound with every B●ble making them therby to swell out to a bigger bulk and so the more unconveniently portable principally to raise the prices of Bibles and to vent every mans inventions if I say they could but procure the B●shops Papall authority therunto as namely the superstitious and idolized Book of Common-Prayers the Genealogies the Concordance the Doctrine of the Bible the Historie of the Bible and such like Some wherof though I acknowledge to be usefull in themselves for honest ignorant and plain people yet not fit as under correction I conceive to be set cheek by jowl with the pure and immaculate Word of God But most especially I say my humble suit and heartie desiro is and shall be that our most Reverend and Religious Assemblie of Divines would be piously pleased to be a means to our present Parliaments that by their supreme Authority the most vile and vitious Apocryphal-writings so erronious and enormous as hath been fore-mentioned may be utterly expunged and expelled out of all Bibles whatsoever heerafter to be printed and bound up for publick and private use and this under such pain or penaltie as their grave and godly wisdom shall see fit That so Gods holy word alone may be had and used in its own genuine orbs and native purity without any humane coagulated mixtures or improper additions in any part of them That thus both those arch enemies of the Lord Jesus Christ I mean Jesuites and Papists may loose a mightie advantage which they at least seemed and pretended to have among us and against us and Gods Truth especially by those vitious-writings so equalized as it were by many of us with Sacred Scriptures and by which they most boldly though most falsly used to boulster up upon mine own knowledge I speak it and to wrangle-out many of their blasphemous and damnable opinions against the most pure immaculate and invincible Truths of Gods word And also that by this means all Malignants and ignorant poor and blind formall Protestants whom the specious and glitterring tales and fables and for ought we yet know to the contrary untrue Stories of Susanna Judith Bel and the Dragon and such like do so please and affect as hath been fore-specified may be made better yea only acquainted with the pure and undefiled and most authentick Word of God the sacred Scriptures which are able of themselves alone to conform and confirm souls to Christ and to make simple-ones wise to salvation Psal 19 7 8. And this I say hath been the longing and thirstie desire and till it be throughly effected is and shall be the most servent and zealous prayer of one of the meanest and most unworthie Servants of his most dear and precious Lord and Master Christ Jesus John Vicars FINIS Imprimatur Ja Cranford London Printed for John Rothwell at the Sun in Pauls Church-yard 1645.