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	eternal_a	life_n	10,289	5	4.7511	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A04978	The incomparable jevvell Shewed in a sermon, which was preached in the church of B. in S. at the solemnization of a marriage, had betweene W.B. and E.S. the daughter of I.S. of London, merchant. Wherein, is recommended to every good and well disposed minde the matchless worth of a vertuous wife; and wherein also is discovered the hatefull company and hellish condition of a vitious -	Loe, William, d. 1645.	1632 (1632)	STC 15115; ESTC S108175	30,993	54

told mee the other day that you would shew me your Jewels when I should come to see you I pray you now doe so according to your promise That shall I willingly doe by Gods favour quoth the godly Lady And telling her a prettie tale or two to prolong the time anon her children came in from schoole These these quoth this good Ladie as once that thrice noble Roman Lady Cornelia the mother of the Gracchi said are my Jewels As for the other vanities which you shewed mee the other day are in respect of these my Children of no valuation at all O Heroina verè heroica heroe digna In the third place A vertuous wife is a true Ladie note the signification of Lady in the Saxon tongue from whence the name of Ladie with us is derived toward her Domesticks or houshold servants Shee sets them their taskes they eate not their bread in idlenesse And for their wholsome food and rayment they surpasse other mens servants In the fourth place Shee is an helping hand to the Poor Shee laboureth that shee may give them Shee spareth at home that the poor abroad may have some taste of her thrift and shee eateth not her morsels alone shee is no idle nor idoll gossip that spends idlely and vainly more in one moneth than shee bestowes on the poor in a whole yeare yea perhaps in seven yeares In the fifth place Shee is an eye to her neighbours by her good example for her good works so shine that her neighbours may see them and glorifie her Father which is in heaven In the sixth place Shee is a Saint to her God with whom shee hath found favour and with whom both her life is pretious and her departure hence Right deer in the sight of the Lord is the death of his Saints If their deaths be so pretious with him doubtlesse their lives are so also either Temporall life or Eternall as shall most conduce to Gods glory Lastly Shee is in and to her selfe an inestimable Pearle which when the Merchant had found he sold all hee had and bought it in respect of the sweet repose shee hath in the incomparable content of a quiet Conscience For chaste shee is in body composed in soule and spirit shee openeth her mouth in discretion and under her lips is the Law of Grace Where lives that wight that can match this pricelesnesse Shee weighs like the Shekle of the Sanctuary wherein twentie Gerahs goe to one Shekle twenty and twenty to that cannot equalize her The Platonists extoll the Idaea of Vertue that if it might be seene per se all the earth would be in love with the beautie thereof but if the gratious and vertuous wife had a cunning and curious Dissector to anatomize her shee would be a Quintess●… unto the most profound Naturalist Et admirabiles amoris excitaret affectus Imò Impiger extremos curret Mercator ad Indos ut potiatur hac If therefore you take a view of this gratious vertuous wife either Positively as shee is a Jewell or Comparatively as shee is a Rubie or Pluralitively as shee is resembled to Rubies or Superlatively above Rubies or Super-superlatively farre above Rubies you will conclude with mee in the cause considering the Premisses That a gratious vertuous wife is a Jewell of incomparable valuation The Reasons are manifest For shee is the Gift of God shee is the Crown of her husband albeit hee be her head nay shee is a Transcendent For shee is Res bona beyond all Predication not bounded within the limits of any Predicament Predicable or Topicall Predicate Mistake not now in all this Explication that albeit I call her pricelesse I doe not say shee is peerlesse Many doubtless there are of these vertuous wives yet I dare say that the paucitie of the one is rare in respect of the pluralitie of the other that 's to say a paucitie of pearles a pluralitie of peebles Pearles few fit to be worn by the best peebles many good for nothing but to be trampled under foot yet that God who hath given Man commission to seek hath also granted permission to finde such an one as the Text meaneth Furthermore albeit I say shee is pricelesse yet I doe not say shee is precise The Text saith not who can find a precise wife There are too too many of them who cannot be content to be Master at home but they will play Rex taxing Caesar they will play Lex saying The Parliament was ill advised to make such and such a Law yea and Grex too imposing upon their silly neighbours As I am a man and consider things equally I can find no great reason why a man should seek sue and wooe a woman For in reason the weaker should seeke for supportation of the stronger and not the contrary Onely I remember in the Creation I finde that the woman was made of the rib of a man and so happely the man conceiting that hee wants some-thing is occasioned to goe seek his lost rib untill he finde it But as I am a Christian man and look above my self and all the world and hope for a better beeing in feeling the powers of another life then I see Marriage is honourable among all men and the ●…ed undefiled but Whoremongers and Adulterers God will judge I see God the Father to be the first Priest to marrie the first couple and that in Paradise in the time of Mans Innocencie I see God the Son honouring marriage with his first miracle in Cana of Galile God the Holy Ghost overshadowing the blessed Virgin espoused to Ioseph in the wonderfull mystery of the Incarnation I see it honoured of the whole Trinitie both in word and deed In word by resembling the Kingdome of Christs Church to a Marriage on Earth and in deed by saving in the Deluge eight married persons and no other I observe the blessed Virgin and the holy Disciples of Jesus to be present as guests at a marriage feast I finde it honoured of the Fathers of the Church who call marriage Ecclesiae Seminarium filling the Earth with People and Heaven with Saints I finde it honoured of Jewes who kept it tyed to their tribes and had it in great reverence yea and I read that marriage is honoured of the very Gentiles and that in a great deale of strictnesse and austeritie In a word I observe it honoured of all except Hereticks and Papists The old Hereticks called Cathari damned second marriages and the new hereticall Papalins who with Pope Siricius that great Don of Rome interpret that of the Apostle Rom. 9. They that are in the flesh cannot please God most carnally and grossely At dicam falli eos qui negant Sirici●…m istum Papam os ha●…uisse and a foule one too who by his cursed glosse which corrupts the Text and his cursed head that understands it not yet sets this his private stampe upon it saying They that are in the flesh that is to say They