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	let_v	sabbath_n	10,277	5	9.9520	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A00467	A brothers gift containing an hundred precepts, instructing all sorts of people to a godly, honest, and morall life.	Everinden, Humphrey.	1623 (1623)	STC 10601; ESTC S114633	13,510	42

A BROTHERS GJFT Containing AN HVNDRED PRECEPTS Instructing all sorts of people to a godly honest and morall life LONDON Printed for Iohn Wright and are to be sold at his shop at the signe of the Bible without Newgate 1623. TO HIS LOVING Cousin Mr. Thomas Smith all health grace and happinesse ACcept good Cousin a small token of my loue value not the heart according to the greatnes of the gift onely taste and trye and you shall finde it though small yet not altogether fruitlesse especially if after tryall you trust and make vse thereof Your kinde acceptance of this shall be a meanes to beget a better So wishing Gods grace and blessing to you and all your righteous endeuours I rest Your euer louing Cousin HVMPHRY EVERINDEN A BROTHERS GJFT 1IVdge not of Religion by the tongue but by the life the heart thou canst not search and the life doth more plainly bewray the sincerity of the heart then the tongue for it is an easy thing and cheap to speake well but costly and laborious to doe well 2 Neuer call or account a man which is truly and absolutely couetous Religious thou mayest as well call an open adulterer or common drunkatd Religious for Cotousnes is as contrary to religion as the other as much hope of the other as of the couetous and the couetous should as commonly be accounted not religious as the other but that His filthinesse is couered with the cloake of thrift his parsimonie with a pretence of not nourishing the poor in idlenesse 3 Auoid the company of a couetous person as thou wouldest the company of a Thiefe Whoremaster or Drunkard for he is the most dangerous thiefe because by the Lawes vnpunishable he is as scandalous as the other because as odious to God and as sinfull His company is more dangerous then the others because his wickednesse is not accounted sin therefore not accounted dangerous 4 Be sure frequenting Sermons to be perfect in the first principles of Religion for As it is impossible for him to reade well that knoweth not his Letters so is it impossible to reape any full fruit by hearing of Sermons not well knowing the first principles 5 Receiue the Sacrament of the Body and Bloud of Christ often no Spirituall exercise is to be vsed seldome The Word without the Sacraments is like a Writing of Confirmation without a Seale 6 If the Lord haue sent into thine owne Parish a Preacher on the Sabbath heare him for if he be bound to feed the flocke of God which dependeth on him his flocke is bound to receiue their food on him If thou goe from him for contempt Remember what our Sauiour said of Iudas as well as of the other Apostles He that despiseth you despiseth me 7 Receiue the Sacrament of the Lords Body and Bloud alwayes humbly knéeling thinke not that so doing thou adorest the Bread for thou maist adore the Bread as well sitting or standing and if thy heart be frée from superstition the thrée gestures are in themselues frée and being in themselues frée obey thy Prince in that one of them that hee commanded for conscience sake To vrge the second Commandement against kneeling at the Sacrament is vngodly and prophanely to make and account the Sacrament an Idoll 8 Heare the word of God often say not thou canst heare enough at one Sermon to practise a long time after for there must be line vpon line precept vpon precept because all the food thou receiuest at one meale turneth not into the nourishment of thy body thou therefore eatest againe and often So because All thou hearest at one Sermon is not remembred nor at large practised of thee thou also must heare againe and often 9 Desire in prayer to be frequent in heart not eloquent in words the Lord to whom thou speakest is not like those itching eares which regard to heare no Sermons but such as are pollished with eloquence fitted to their humors pounced with variety of learned Arts but The simplicity of the heart pleaseth him best and what is to him most acceptable shall be with him most auailable 10 Be not long in Prayer but often long continuance at one time dulleth the affection such is our weaknesse and the affection dulled the prayer is dead since then lips labour and not the heart yet frequency in Prayer encreaseth the feruencie of the affection and the feruent cry of the affection pierceth far so that The feruenter the Spirit the neerer his groanes ascend to the eares of God 11 Chuse such a Trade of life as wherein with honest Art and gaines thou mayest maintaine thine estate not such an one as wherein without cousoning shifts thou canst not gaine some trades of life now vsed are in the first institution vnlawfull others in their first institution lawfull yet as now they are vsed vnlawfull a third sort by the vngodly with cousoning shifts abused but By the honest and godly with sincerity lawfully vsed 12 Measure out the day into set portions appointing to euery of thy actions therein to be performed his times of the day continuance of time and in euery day let God haue some time spared from thy labours and if extraordinary occasions with-call thée to interrupt thy appointed order rather take the time from thy portion which in the sixe dayes is the largest then from the Lords which is the least 13 As the Sabbath is wholly to be spent in Gods seruice excepting some time for thy necessary refection or perhaps recreation or vpon extraordinary occasion for the preseruation of the life of Man or Beast So the wéeke dayes are wholly to be spent in thy calling not in Idlenesse excepting also some time for the priuate worship of God or vpon extraordinary occasion for his publike seruice yet Delay not at any time of the day or in any day of the weeke in thy labours going riding or sitting to lift vp thy heart vnto God the minde will be alwayes busied and better such thoughts then other 14 In the Morning remember thy birth that as the Sunne riseth not to stand still but to goe forward not to darken but to enlighten the earth so thou wast borne not to continue a childe but encrease in true knowledge of thy Creator By the light of a godly conuersation to glorifie thy God 15 At Noone remember thy middle age that as the Sunne when hée is at the highest declineth without staying so thou In thy greatest strength shall not stay but in a moment decrease and descend towards the Graue 16 At Night remember thy graue whereof thy bed is a figure and thy death whereof sléepe is an image remember that as the Sunne setteth the next morning to arise againe to begin either a faire day or a foule so shalt thou ly downe in the dust at the Resurrection to arise againe If thou haue done well to glorious life and light but If thou haue done euill to euerlasting darkenesse 17 Make conscience all the day