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
A68840	Most fruitfull [and] learned co[m]mentaries of Doctor Peter Martir Vermil Florentine, professor of deuinitie, in the Vniuersitye of Tygure with a very profitable tract of the matter and places. Herein is also added [and] contained two most ample tables, aswel of the matter, as of the wordes: wyth an index of the places in the holy scripture. Set forth & allowed, accordyng to thorder appointed in the Quenes maiesties iniunctions.; In librum Judicum commentarii doctissimi. English	Vermigli, Pietro Martire, 1499-1562.	1564 (1564)	STC 24670; ESTC S117825	923,082	602

¶ Most fruit full learned Cōmentaries of Doctor Peter Martir Vermil Florentine Professor of Deuinitie in the Vniuersitye of Tygure with a very profitable tract of the matter and places ¶ Herein is also added contained two most ample Tables aswel of the matter as of the wordes wyth an Index of the places in the holy scripture Galath vi God forbid that I shoulde reioyce but in the crosse of our Lorde Iesu Christe wherby the world is crucified to me and I to the world ¶ Set forth allowed accordyng to thorder appointed in the Quenes maiesties iniunctions ¶ Imprinted at London by Iohn Day dwellyng ouer Aldersgate These Bookes are to be solde at his shop vnder the gate Ptolomeus Marinus Strabo Polibius Aratus Hipparchus Geometria Astronomia Arithmetica Musica MERCVRIVS IB F DROICT ET LOYAL ¶ To the ryght honorable my most singuler good Lord and Maister the Lord Robert Duddely Earle of Lecester Baron of Dynghby Knight of the honorable order of the Garter one of the Quenes highnes most honorable priuy Counsel and Maister of her Maiesties horsse THe old opinion right honorable and my singuler good Lord being no lesse auncient then true whiche accomptes hym an ill man that is good but for him selfe as who saye from whom no goodnes commeth to the help of others most like a Drone in a Bee hiue shrowded there for his owne sucke not for the common wealth of Bees whom therefore they suffer not among them but kill cast out as an vnkinde member vnnaturall and not to be endured in their state hath bene alwayes the rappyng hammer in my head and the spurre to my side to knocke and pricke me forward that am of my selfe lytle able to do to procure what I can to my calling at least for the profit of my vniuersal country men by whom among whom as a member I lyue In respect whereof among other it hath pleased God to geue me leaue by your Lordships meane vnder the lisence of my most dread soueraigne Lady and Prince to publish and set out to the glory of Gods Maiestie chieflie I haue taken vpon me to plant and put foorth lyke such a husbande as can not endure the plowe of my profession to stande vnoccupied this notable and right excellent woorke of that famous graue and great learned Doctor Maister Peter Martir entiteled His Commentary vpon the booke of Iudges being turned at the request of the learned out of that tounge wherein he wrote it into our English phrase in which it is most meete for vs. As who shoulde saye what he published into one toung priuately he ment as I take it shoulde be deliuered to all men generally Christians or other to whom it maye doo good VVhose labour tending to suche effect cannot but like a tree that beares many braunches spread it selfe abroad tyll it stretche with hys fruit to many countries nacions and languages out of the same spryng and stocke wherin he first planted it to grow and hath graffed it for vs And happy that spring yea very happye that caries such course of water to furnishe so many Conductes for the necessity and helpe of so many inhabitors as it can not but haue concourse among And happy that seruant that hath so bestowed his maisters talent as it cannot but turne agayne with so great an interest to the owner And twise happy they that may so taste and drinke of it as the glory may be Gods and the comfort theirs which being the onely but and marke wherat this Markmā shot what deserueth such an Archer to be accompted of I that thinke my selfe scant meete to set out his booke do recken my selfe much more vnmeete to expres his prayse As if I were either able or meete what should I labour to shewe your honour a whole man by his peece vnlesse as it might he said I ment to shewe your honour the Sunne by a candle Him selfe therfore that hath taken this paine vpon him and best can shewe him selfe by his owne shape shall report him selfe in his owne labour to your honour as he is best able VVho as he thought it most meete for his part to vnfolde the secretes of that cōmon wealth in the time of the Iudges for the plainer vnderstanding of the sence therof to the commoditie of vs and others after vs and him So haue I thought it meete for me and my very duty to your honor humbly to present and offer the same by me now published vnto your honorable hands as from the Iudges of Israel and him to one a Iudge and Ruler of this my natiue countrye and people vnder our supreme Iudge our most dread soueraigne Lady the Queenes Maiestie Hauing had nothing meeter wherby to expresse my faithfull hart good mynde and duty to your honourable Lordshyp then thys the simple laboure of my plowe the fruite wherof cannot be but yours that are owner of me Humbly beseching the same to accept it in as good part as my faithfull seruiceable hart towardes your honour hath and doth meane it Beseching God that so graciouslye hath lyked to beginne wyth your Lordship hitherto mercifullye continue and keepe the same to hys glorye to the comfort of your selfe and hope that this your Countrye of Israell whereof you are a Iudge hath conceaued of you Your Lordships humble faithfull and redy seruaunt Iohn Daye ❧ To the noble and most vvoorthy men the Lordes chiefe gouernours of the Schoole of Argentine my good Lordes for their godlynes and wisdome much to be reuerenced D. Peter Martir Vermilius Florentine Professor of the holye Scriptures in the Schoole of Tigure wisheth health and felicitye from God through Iesus Christ our Sauiour WHen it pleased God most woorthy and honorable mē of his mere goodnes and not for any my vertues or merites to cal me to the obedience of his sonne our Lord Iesus Christ to exercise my selfe in setting forth his Gospel in such maner as hath pleased him I thought it my duty as much as lay in me to execute my vocation and assigned burthen not onely in teaching but also in minde lyfe and maners For thus I reasoned with my selfe If vnto al men being iustified onely by the mercy of the true God through Iesus Christ our Sauiour not vndoubtedlye by woorkes but freelye receauing forgeuenes of synnes there remayneth no other thyng in the course of this short lyfe then that hauing obtayned the holy Ghost and nature being somewhat relieued from his proper corruption they should by pure lyfe and holy actions liuely expresse God hymselfe their regenerator and Christ their redeemer the same thing without doubte is much more required of men of my profession whom the ecclesiasticall spirit hath appointed to administer liuely doctrine vnto other men that whylest they teach vprightly by their euil deedes they deface not the waight and al the authoritye of their doctrine which thing if they do they shal in the darknes of this worlde most brightly geue