Selected quad for the lemma: lord_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	honourable_a	majesty_n	privy_a	10,396	5	9.6495	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A04554	A lanterne-light for loyall subiects. Or, A terrour for traytours Wherein may be seene the odiousnesse of treason, the deserued ende of traytours, and the wonderfull preseruation of anoynted princes. A matter rightly agreeing with this time of danger, where wicked persons haue desired our publike sorrow, and the ruine of this realme of England.	Johnson, Richard, 1573-1659?	1603 (1603)	STC 14675; ESTC S109172	6,910	17

A Lanterne-light for loyall Subiects Or A terrour for Traytours Wherein may be seene the odiousnesse of Treason the deserued ende of Traytours and the wonderfull preseruation of anoynted Princes A matter rightly agreeing with this time of danger where wicked persons haue desired our publike sorrow and the ruine of this Realme of England Feare God Be true to thy Prince and obey the Lawes Printed at London by Simon Stafford dwelling in Hosier lane neere Smithfield 1603. ❧ To the right Honorable the Lord Thomas Howard Earle of Suffolke Baron of Walden Lord Chamberlaine of the Kings houshold Knight of the Noble order of the Garter and one of his Maiesties most Honorable priuy Councell health happinesse and prosperity I Haue aduentured Right Honourable Lord vnder your Noble protection to publish to the world a poore testimony of my loyalty to my Prince and Countrey A little Pamphlet it is but a sweete comfort and a sound counsell for good Subiects describing many fayre examples of Traytours foule ends shewing that the reward of Treason is destruction and after death lasting infamy The matter agreeing with the condition of this troublesome time hath made mee the bolder to present it to your Honourable censure Acceptance I doe not doubt for no good subiect can mislike it For here in the name of Experience I aduise all men whose heads clyme aboue the heyght of their present conditions to make loyall and honest actions the Ladder of their aduauncement which will commend them with a beloued life or an honorable death when Treason is the Hatchet that seuereth life and ioyneth Infamy vnto death The Lord be with your Honour in all your affayres for whose health and Honorable prosperity the good subiects of England continually pray At your Honours commaundement in all humble duty Richard Johnson A Lanterne-light for loyall Subiects OR A terrour for Traytours GOD placeth Kings in their Kingdoms and he alone will haue the dissoluing of them If Princes be good let vs be thankfull to God for them if they be tyrannous let vs looke into our sinnes for God sendeth Tyrants to punish the sinnes of the wicked Therefore whether Princes be good or bad let subiects be obedient lest for their disobedience God take away the good and double the tyrannie of the bad Then I wonder why men are so bewitched with the inticements of the Deuill to lay violent hands vpon the Lords Anoynted knowing that the reward of such enterprises is shame and confusion Wherefore let all men consider this that God by sundrie examples preserueth the innocent from the violent hands of the wicked euen in the pride and greatest hope of their purposes Haman erected a gallows for Mardocheus the Iew and he and his ten sonnes suffred therevpon The false Iudges had got sentence of death against chaste Susanna but by diuine prouidence the stones dashed out their owne braines But where the practise tendeth to the murther of Anoynted Princes the odiousnes thereof so highly offendeth the Maiesty of God as he hath defended euen notable Tyrants from the murthering swords of Traytours As for example Commodus was a wicked Emperour and to kill him the Traitor Quintianus wayted at his chamber dore his dagger was ready drawne his heart was resolute and his hand was striking the stroke at what time the Traytor cryed This the Senate sendeth thee By which fore-warning Quintianus was stayd and the Emperour escaped vnhurt If God plucked wit and prudence from Traytors that purposed to kill such notable Tyrants as this was it is constantly to bee beleeued that with the Shield of his strength he wil defend righteous Princes amongst whom our most gracious King is crowned with the soueraigne renowne of vertue in which dignity the King of Kings long continue his Maiestie The murther of a Prince is so odious as euen nature it selfe crieth out against it King Croesus had a young sonne that from his birth was dumbe● and yet when one of King Cyrus soldiers taking him for a common person was ready to kil him the Infant cryed out O kill him not for he is the King my father Also I haue read of a stranger matter namely of a Kings sonne that brake forth of his mothers wombe to giue his father warning of his enemies presently after his birth cryed out I am borne in a wofull houre to be the messenger of no better tidings then that my father is in present danger so lose both his life and kingdome Which being spoken the Infant presently dyed We hereby perceiue how the person of an anoynted Prince is so sacred as nature maketh a passage for sucking babes and dumbe persons to deliuer the same from danger and withall the Traytor is so open to destruction as the Preacher saith to the Traytour A Bird of the ayre shall bewray thy voyce and with her feathers shall discouer thy words Korah Dathan and Abiram they and all that they had went downe quicke into hell because of their rebellion And certainly whosoeuer marketh the sequel of treason shall find a hundred examples to one to proue the end of Traytors to be most miserable By Statute law it is petty treason for a seruant to murther his master being but a subiect How detestable treason is it then for a sworne seruant to lay violent hands on his anoynted Prince The offence being in the extremest degree of sinnes the punishment ought to be according to the seuerest censure of iustice Euery mans house well gouerned resembleth a Common wealth wherein seruants ought to liue in the awe and subiection of subiects But the wicked policy of men hath alwayes bene such as where open power was too weake ambition enuy and money allured the seruants of Emperours Kings and men of all estates to lay violent hands on their masters and to betray them to death Iudas one of the Apostles betrayed our Sauiour Iesus into the hands of the Iewes King Alexander was poysoned by his Physicion The death of the Emperour Commodus was compassed by the practise of his owne sister Many haue had their bane by their wiues some by their sonnes but innumerable haue beene destroyed by the treason of their seruants But let all good subiects to their comfort and Traytors to their confusion know that the wicked dig a pit and fall therein themselues The Iewes had Saint Paul in prison where forty of them vowed that they would neither eate nor drinke vntil they had slayne him but God in a due time defended him The Angell of the Lord led Peter forth of prison The Angell of the Lord defended Sidrac Misac and Abednago in the burning fire The Angell of the Lord stopped the Lions mouthes that should haue deuoured Daniel And there is no doubt but the good Angell of the Lord with a drawne sword will defend our Soueraigne Lord King Iames from all his enemies A comfortable saying it is that this holy Angell of the Lord with a drawne sword though not