Selected quad for the lemma: lord_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	duke_n	king_n	queen_n	10,709	5	7.0363	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A64902	Prodigies & apparitions, or, Englands warning piece being a seasonable description by lively figures & apt illustration of many remarkable & prodigious fore-runners & apparent predictions of Gods wrath against England, if not timely prevented by true repentance / written by J. V.	Vicars, John, 1579 or 80-1652.	1643 (1643)	Wing V323; ESTC R717	17,447	62

often seen in Germany by the inhabitants thereof in many places notable fore-runners and predictions of Germanies succeeding miserie still fresh in the memory of many yet living who have been both eye and eare witnesses of the manifold and most lamentable distresses and destructions which have befallen and even to this day lye still very heavy on that once most famous and flourishing Eden of the whole Christian world now made a desolate defart and bare and barren wildernesse But all this while that we have only heard that our neighbours houses have been so fearfully on fire what use have we of England made thereof How have we endeavoured to keep the flame off from our own houses and habitations Certainly wee have not made that holy and humbling use thereof as we might and ought to have done considering our meanes of grace and reconciliation wherewith we have been even lifted up like Capernaum to heaven far beyond our neighbours round about us We have not been wise by other mens harmes as meer humane and worldly wisedome might have taught us to be But have contrariwise drunk wine in bowles as the Prophet complaines and stretched our selves on our beds of Ivory none of us hardly being grieved for the afflictions of Ioseph in the aforesaid Germany and now also of late and lamentably bleeding Ireland Wherefore the Lord hath and that most justly come neerer home to our owne doores and begunne to make us who were only supine spectators of others miseries now unhappy spectacles to others of imbred and homebred devouring destructions Nor yet I say in all these our selfe-procured sorrowes can we justly taxe the Lord in the least measure with any more harsh or hasty proceedings heerein with us then with any of his other servants in by-past times but have been every-way wholy left without excuse For hath not the Lord for these many yeares together both called upon us by by his faithfull and painfull Preachers of the word fore-warned us to flie from the wrath to come Have they not frequently and servently cried out and told us that except we repent we also should perish Yea when this one great and maine meanes of reclaming us his people from our sinnes would not serve hath not the Lord used that other more terrible and heart-frighting course heer mainly intended in this treatise of Prodigies Signes and Apparitions in the ayre and other most degenerating unnaturall and wonder-striking contingents amongst us here at home As now I intend more exactly and particularly to set forth and shew to the Reader whereby wee shall easily discerne and discover to our owne hearts if we will not bee too wilfully blind which as I shewed before was the first and worst signe of smart and sorrow in Jerusalem and more then marble-hearted most apparent prints and even visible footsteps and impressions of Gods highly conceived indignation and provoked patience turned into enforced furie by our constant and unconscionable sinning against him and now resolved to execute the utmost severitie of his wrath upon us if now at last wee hasten not most heartily to prevent and divert it by true and timely repentance and reformation And now I say that we may no longer looke abroad into forreigne parts nor many yeeres past for examples of this sort I shall desire the Reader to remember what yet may be fresh in memory among us That in the Reigne of King Iames that so peacefull a Prince who so much delighted in the name and worke of Peace both at home and abroad that hee had this Motto given to him Beati Pacifici Blessed are the Peace-makers And so successefully had he prosecuted his affections therin that as heere you may see in this Embleme or following Figure Every man fate under his owne Vine and under his owne figge tree even from Dan to Beersheba all the dayes of the sayd King Iames our so peacefull King as it Every man Sitting vnder his vine vnder his owne fig gtree enjoying all good things in the days of King James But on the 18th of November 1618 A great Blazing-starr with 7 long streames appeared much damping mens hearts HEre every one sits under his owne Vine All under their-own Figtrees sup and dine In Pleasures Treasures and all joyes encrease In pleasant Plentie amiable Peace But whiles this Peace and Plentie brings forth Pride Luxurie Loosnes and all sinnes besides Gods wrath is kindled Heav'n therwith offended Lets England see his judgements sore intended By a strange Blazing-starre which every day Betimes ith'morning did bright beames display Which as a Warning piece the Lord thus sent To rouze-up England timely to repent And to prevent his judgements thus foreshown Lest still secure England be overthrown See here th' indulgence of a gratious God Who ere he strikes first shewes and shakes his Rod was said of King Salomon also that Prince of Peace But this peace being but a meer externall and sensuall peace and so the mother of Luxury Libertinisme and prophanenesse whereof the whole Kingdome did then and so all along to this very day too risely and rankly abound together with all kind of sinfulnesse Piety being then turned into Court-Policy and sincerity into outside and Diabolicall hypocrisie The Lord therefore even about the yeere 1618. November 18 sent a visible demonstration of his just wrath and displeasure namely a great Comet or Blazing Star as there also you have it in the Embleme with seven streames which continued to the 16. of Decemb. following rising every morning about three or foure of the clocke and so continued shining most cleerly and bright till day light appeared the streames of it blazing upwards Now what this Comet or Blazing Star might portend and prognosticate hath been evidently seene and known amongst us by reall and sensible experience ever since not only over all Christendome in general as in Germany Rochel in France and still fresh bleeding and lamentably dilacerated and forlorne Ireland but even within our owne bosomes in England also as in the death of Queene Anne and of King Iames also himselfe not long after yea and many most eminent Peeres and Nobles of this Land suddenly taken away but by what stroke is not yet fully discovered though greatly suspected as the Marquesse of Hamilton the Duke of Richmond and the Lord Belfast c. all eminent Common wealths men fierce and furious warres also and rumours of warres Nation against Nation and Kingdome against Kingdome And as I toucht before wee now see our too secure Kingdom must also share in these common calamities now fallen upon the earth England having sinned and done very foolishly England must also come under the lash of Gods justice and greatly incensed indignation against it as well as Germany Rochell and Ireland Before I can leave the blazoning of this Blazing-star I must give the Reader one more remarkable note and observation on it Namely that at