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	resurrection_n	sabbath_n	11,414	5	10.0655	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A42536	The religion of a physician, or, Divine meditations upon the grand and lesser festivals, commanded to be observed in the Church of England by act of Parliament by Edmund Gayton ...	Gayton, Edmund, 1608-1666.	1663 (1663)	Wing G416; ESTC R7653	47,970	120

returning from the Lake of Minturnum where he was forced to skulk from the proscriptions of Scylla Catenae fuga exilium honorificaverunt dignitatem that is their Exilements Imprisonments Scornes Miseries did imblazon their dignities and set a varnish upon that Gold which the evil tongues of those and these dayes had laboured to rust and with Calumnies Canker-eat and deface Victrix causa malis placuit sed victa Gatono I loved the Church when she was unlovely when she was blackest then was she comely A dis-figured Parthenia is the lov'd Mistress of a constant Argalus Bright Cynthia with all he spots is amiable and our Ladies in smaller volumes imitate the pale Lady of the skies In my Mother the Church her spots are not black Foyles but red the Red-letter daies being the Ornament of her Year her Festivals my present subject so many pillars as in Solomon 's Porch the beautie and flourish of the building I do acknowledge that learneder Pens have laboured in this Argument and I come forth burthened with their just Fames and must needs incur the censure of an impertinent and superfluous Scribler Scribendi Cacoethes is a Disease incurable for which there is no dose in our Pharmacopaea I can make no other Apologie then this that Nil est dictum quod non est dictum prius the Mode perchance the Fashion may be new but the ground-work is old If I prove Scinctillula de Scinctilla a Sparkle of a Spark is honour enough Longè sequor vestigia semper adoro The many little Starrs in the firmament make a very rare Via lactea which the greater Luminaries do neither envie nor obscure Let my vantage Candle I pray be taken into the pound to make weight at least while your Christmass Tapers carry the glory of the day These Apologetick complements premised I proceed to prove the Antiquity and Legality of these Festivals wherein also I am prevented by the learned Dr. Gunning after whom to glean is too much honour for me unworthy to carry his Books And first of the Antiquity of Easter what can be more reverend for its Age more holy for its Subject it was instituted by the Apostles themselves kept by them and is indeed the leading Sabbath or rather Holiday of the year Dies Dominicus non Sabbatum creationis the Lords Day a Commemoration of the Resurrection of our Saviour which was the complement and perfection of the Redemption of the World This is the Lords day in which his Arm brought mighty things to passe And for the Antiquity of Lent it is deriv'd by Dr. Gunning very far to whose more authentick authority I refer you According to Helvicus and the Cronologer upon him we finde it instituted by that good Prince Sigisbert amongst us English-men having first restored Christian Religion in the year of our Lord 640. but at Rome it obtained sooner observance in Telesphorus his Episcopacy of that See For then the name of Pope was not appropriate to the Bishop of Rome onely but was shared among the rest of his Brethren but in Phocas the Emperour's dayes Boniface the third usurped the title of Universal Bishop and did affix the name of Papa to the Roman See onely though S. Gregory before him plainly said That whoever did assume that title was the fore-runner of Antichrist What need the Geneva Glosse is not S. Gregory enough to state the Question And in 142 Lent was instituted at Rome the forementioned Telesphorus being Pontifex Maximus but as for the business it self the Antiquity makes no great matter no more then our long contentions for the Superiority of Oxford and Cambridge though in this present Parliament my Mother hath got the right-hand side and to shew my thankfulness for that Vote I shall tell the noble Suffragators of a piece of Petrarch a Poet too yet of good authority wherein speaking of the ancientness of the Disputative Ergo he saith Vetustum illud ergo hoc Oxoniense illud Parisciense Which doth intimate that Cambridge had no name then or no ergo or ergo fallor let these Universities be for ever styled as my Father Ben calls them most politickly in his Dedication before Volpone most equal Sisters It is not the oldness of any thing unless it be also very good makes it praiseworthy Stand in the old way that was the first covenant of the Decalogue was a holy Precept but fight for the Good old Cause which was a covenant for Mischief and Treason was an abominable invitation and a call to Rebellion Curse ye Meroz was a very good commination against those backward Israelites which kept their Tents and would not rise with the Lord against the mighty but to your Tents O Israel and the new Curse you Meroz of our times was the decoy to Sedition Tumults and War and a spur to England to ruine themselves to cut off the best King that ever Christianity knew The Iewes at this day attribute their long abandoning and dispersion to their rebellion against the house of Judah Shall a Iew repent of that sin of Witchcraft and shall the Godly Party wipe their mouths like the Harlot and say it is a sweet thing and persist in impenitency and provide for future Risings Pudet haec approbria vobis Et dici potuisse non potuisse refelli Countreymen I am ashamed of your obstinacy and beseech you to undeceive your selves These Meditations if read with impartial eys will befriend you into the true way that way which your King upon his Theatre of Martyrdom told you you had forsaken Remember the words of your dying Father of a true Jonathan though not the son of Rhacab but a sober Prince a chaste Prince a pious Prince and for his sake who prayed for your Pardon who purchased your Act of Indempnity with his own Blood of his Mercifull Son for his Son's sake for his Christ's sake yet in this your day leave off murmuring repining speaking evil of Dignities and every high thought of heart and come with old Barsillai you and your sons and families bring the King to Jerusalem settle him in his Royal City with joy and make one Festival more then I write of make one Iubilee to the universal rejoycing of this yet distracted Nation At this Repentance Heaven will dance the Angels will be pleasant and your own hearts wil be enlarged with everlasting comforts Which is the hearty vote of a true Son of the Church of England and a Religious Physician That word makes me reflect upon my selfe and commands me to shew some reason why I intitle this Book The Religion of a Physician since that hath been used by Doctor Brown an able Artist in that Faculty To whom for that and his Vulgar Errors the world stands still engaged and obliged I do not do it for this end and purpose that either in Physick wherein he was admirable or in Theologie wherein he was curious I should match my selfe with him or labour to out-vie him A poore Dwarf