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
A43845	A profitable method compiled for the benefit of all indigent people so effectually drawn into a modell, the like before has not been exposed to this our English-nation: wherein is particularized, the several orders and degrees, for the promotion of the linnen manufacture, as also the management and farther improvement of the said benificial exercise to the great encouragement of his Majesties distressed subjects, as likewise for the disburthening the charge of parishes throughout the nation. Humbly offered to the consideration of the great wisdom of the nation, viz. His most Excellent Majesty, and both Houses of Parliament, by R. H.	Haines, Richard, 1633-1685.	1679 (1679)	Wing H204A; ESTC R218874	7,237	7

and Ease Thus much I have proposed for the satisfaction as I hope of those who are the most judicious Objectors or at least so far as that with their Corrections it may be made feazable and acceptable to the great Wisdome of the Nation In the mean time I leave my Proposals as a Ship without Governour running a drift amongst the raging waves between the highest Rocks and the shallow Sands attended with Storms Calms and Cross-winds yet laden with Treasure sufficient to enrich the whole Kingdom to that degree that there may not be one Beggar in the Nation Nay I will affirm that 't is more than 3000 l. a day lost to the Nation for every day in the year whilst it is neglected besides the loss of what is of a far greater value as may be more plainly demonstrated if desired Now would I crave leave to add a word or two to another sort of Pople whom I cannot so properly call Objectors as Opposers of my Proposals since they are so Censorious as to judge and condemn them before they have read them or know what my Reasons are and so regardless of the happy Reformation intended thereby that they think it too much to part with their unnecessary self-interest and contribute a small Assistance for improving the best and most profitable Expedients crying out The old way is best and the work will be better done at home by their own fires when perhaps the wood is stoln out of their Neighbours hedge And that the Parents may best bring up their own Children Though too true it is that instead of bringing them up in Industry to earn their Livings at five or six years old and to be instructed in good manners both towards God and man they now generally at four or five years old learn of their Parent to curse swear lye beg and steal until they be fourteen or fifteen years of age and so addicted to vice that they are not fit for a good man to take into his house And thus from generation to generation have they been and are brought up to live and dye most miserably To these Gentlemen I have this to offer viz. Suppose Sirs there were no Profits to be reap'd That what we contribute is only a meer Act of Charity accomplishing the happy Reformation comfortable Imployment and Maintenance of the Poor Consider I say if this were all whether it be safe to keep that Interest or money which we ought to part with and improve for Gods glory and good of our poor Neighbours since by so doing we may incur his displeasure and our own ruine for ever Or how can we that are impiously uncharitable expect pardon and mercy since it is so that our Faith our Hope and all we can do without Charity availeth nothing What more plain and loud Call can there be for an Act of Charity than when thou feest that by a free and general Contribution so profitable a Reformation may be so accomplished I thank God I think it not too much or any dishonour to be 〈…〉 a Beggar for the Poor at the doors of those in whose power to carry on this 〈…〉 I am certain if they be for it no good man dares be against it What you may do I know not for my own part rather had I be a simple object of Charity like La●●●●● a Beggar at the door of the Rich than to be a rich man without Charity to lift up my eyes in the flames of Hell What will it profit a man to keep his money in his pocket when God shall certainly make him miserable for not improving of it Is it not an infallible Truth that no good man can possibly be uncharitable and also that no bad man shall enter into the Kingdom of Heaven How necessary then is it for thee to be found in thy Stewardships improving thy Talent while thou may'st that so thou mayest be an object of mercy in that day when Almighty God shall accept of thy Account and say Well done good and faithful servant thou hast been faithful in few things thou shalt be Ruler over many Cities Thou didst not hide thy Talent in a Napkin Thou hast been a Father to the fatherless an Husband to the widow in their distress and poverty Thou hast fed the hungry clothed the naked made such comfortable Provision for their Children and their Childrens Children that none of them shall beg their bread or want an Habitatoon yea thou hast contributed of thy substance to turn many Thousands who like the blind were wandring in the paths of Death and hast led them into the way of Eternal Life Enter thou into the Joy of thy Lord. Much more might be added for the admonition of those who had rather hide their Talents in the earth than improve them for the most publique and greatest Advantage but I leave it as a work more suitable for the most Grave and Pious Divines the Archbishops Bishops c. whose expressions of zeal to the pious ends of this Designe have invited me to believe they will not be wanting to contribute their assistance whereby to encourage those who are under their Spiritual Care to be assisting in so profitable and charitable a work by which the Glory of God the Prosperity of the whole Nation and the Welfare and happy Reformation of all poor distressed People may be at once and together promoted If any shall object and say Such a design would have been certainly embraced and prosecuted had you proposed it in the Generation past but is not so proper for or probable to thrive in this I desire to know the obstacle at whose door the fault must lie Sure I am his Majesty hath been most graciously pleased to give a Signal Instance of his Royal Approbation and Encouragement thereunto though it seem to diminish his Majesties particular advantage more than all the People in the Nation besides His Illustrious Highness Prince 〈◊〉 that eminent Promoter of the Prosperity of our Kingdom and several Noble Peers in particular have exprest themselves satisfied with the Utility of the Design divers Reverend Prelates and Divines have declared their great and unanimous Zeal for promoting the work And not a few worthy Gentlemen of the House of Commons are convinced that no other expedient yet offered can so certainly speedily and easily accomplish the good ends designed And why then may not this Age be as proper as the age past for this hopeful Plant to flourish in under so many cherishing Influences Howbeit with all humble submission I refer the same and all that I have said to the favourable Construction and grave Consideration of the great wisdome of the Nation beseeching God to direct their Councels and bless their Enterprises as may make most for his Glory and the Nations Prosperity FINIS With allowance London Printed for D. M. 1679.