Selected quad for the lemma: lord_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	death_n	die_v	life_n	17,942	5	5.0592	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A11626	God and the king in a sermon preached at the Assises holden at Bury S. Edmonds, June 13. 1631. By Thomas Scot Batchelour in Divinitie, and minister of the word at S. Clements in Ipswich.	Scot, Thomas, minister at St. Clement's, Ipswich.	1633 (1633)	STC 21873; ESTC S100056	17,205	34

from it onely in duration for if a man should ever be as in his passion with eyes staring countenance red and inflate teeth grating and interfering tongue stutting and stam●●●●ng hands shaking and trembling and all actions thus irregular shewing laesum principium who would not say this man were distracted But if Socrates would not beat his boy when he was angry how much more should all ministers of justice banish this heady passion from the judgement-seat lest they heat the oven seven times hotter in their own cause then in Gods proceeding in heat against the person and not in zeal against the sinne 4. Lastly from fear or cowardise this cast away Nabaoth the Judges had letters written in Achabs name and sealed with his seal and they durst not go against the Kings Mandamus With this the Jews brought on Pilate to give sentence of death against the Lord of life who adjudged him both to die and to be guiltlesse of death Nè non videretur amicus Caesari Lest he should not be Cesars friend or rather lest Cesar should not be his friend But how much better had it been if these Judges had preferred the displeasure of the great Judge of all the world and said Da veniam Imperator tu minaris carcerem Deus gehennam I will forfeit mine head or mine office rather then my truth Thus they who be in scarlet should be valiant men To betray a cause for want of courage is worse then for want of understanding this is of ignorance but that is voluntary therefore not to be expiated but by double sacrifice A minister of justice of the two had better be 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 then 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 without an head of knowledge then an heart of execution But joyn head and heart together in this sacred cause wisedome going before like a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and courage coming after like a puissant army And this be said of the first point against this base-born Partiality descended either from reward favour passion or cowardise onely let me adde that No errour in justice doth so directly flie to the throat as respect of persons doth other do but lame her but this gives her the deadly mortall wound The second point is Obstinate offenders are chiefly to be looked unto Whosoever will not c. This obstinacy is indeed an Alecto in anothers likenesse a meer mock-vertue walking under the habit of constancy or fortitude as many other vices have their cloaks also but we shall uncase him presently These obstinates be of two sorts Dogmaticall and Practicall the one in opinion the other in life and conversation The Dogmaticall obstinates are such as erre in judgement as Schismaticks led by a particular spirit erring on the right hand and Papists who are carried with conceit of the religion of their fathers and forefathers and these erre on the left hand both of them thinking themselves constant but are indeed obstinate as we know To both I say with S. Paul It is good to be zealous in a good thing But of these after in as fit a place The Practicall obstinates are they we now have to deal withall They who do not obey must have judgement but it is a great and unsufferable increase of the fault when men will not obey for Non obedire shuts the doore but Nolle obedire doth bolt and rampiere it up against all duty to God and the King Such S. Paul calls 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 haters of God and hated of God these be 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 such as will not have God to reigne over them like Pharaoh who blusters at Gods message saying Who is the Lord not unlike the Thracians who in thunder and lightning used by way of revenge to shoot shafts at Jupiter They are described in Scripture to have words thoughts and lives all peremptorily wicked For their words they are stout against the Lord saying Depart from us c. They set their mouth against heaven and their tongue walketh throughout the earth Our lips are our own who is Lord over us Their thoughts are no better for they are haughty in their own conceit therein making a fool of the whole world As for their lives they have a resolution quidlibet audendi tell them of death and hell they are at a point for that They have made a league with death and with hell they are at agreement And as for counsel the medicine of putrid mindes either they will not be charmed like the adder which Cassiodorus saith stops one eare against the earth the other with his tail or if in any fit they give it the hearing they take it by whiffes as they do tobacco it 's no sooner in but it 's out with a puffe In their soaring presumptions they build Babels but as they begin in pride so they end in confusion for this obstinacy in sinning is ever the punishment of custome in sinne and is that which S. Paul calls the reprobate minde These are in respect of Gods and the Kings laws very outlaws lords of misrule in a Commonwealth The character of this obstinate is this or such like By birth he is a Gentleman or at least an heire of one who lived poore to leave him rich he is brought up to nothing but to live upon his lands for the most part he comes to his lands at one and twenty and by that time though young in yeares yet is he old in wickednesse by foure and twenty hath spent good part of his estate and if possibly he can he will sell his land twise or thrise over he never names God but to swear by him he is a coyner or minter of new and execrable oaths he fears not God nor man save Sergieants and Baliffes he hath already travelled through many prisons he owes for clothes of six or seven severall fashions yet he loseth no rent for he takes it all aforehand he undoes his tenants by suretiship for the young master if he gets into an Inne he comes not out till his horse pay the reckoning and there out of his window scoffes at those who go to church his discourse is nothing but rayling upon and disgracing the better minded Justices and other ministers of justice in every quarrell he is either principall or second he is a night-walker and if he should never be drunk he would die for want of sleep where ever he comes he misuses the Constable and beats the watch he never comes in any publique assembly but a play nor rides through a town without smoke at his nose but in processe of time his means spent his credit crackt his hopes forlorn having nothing left of a Gentleman but his long lock and his sword he had rather lack life then living and either kills a man or takes a purse and is brought to the assises Where if ye meet any such remember the charge Whosoever will not c.