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
A73585	A necessarie admonition out of the prophet Joël concerning that hand of God that of late was upon us, and is not clean taken of as yet: and othervvise also verie fitlie agreeing (in divers good points) unto these dayes wherein wee live. By Edm. Bunny.	Bunny, Edmund, 1540-1619.	1588 (1588)	STC 4090.5; ESTC S125205	86,469	206

A Necessarie Admonition out of the Prophet Joël concerning that hand of God that of late was upon us and is not clean taken of as yet and otherwise also verie fitlie agreeing in divers good points unto these dayes wherein wee live By Edm. Bunny PROVERB 15.32 He that refuseth to be reformed despiseth his own soule but he that submitteth himself to correction is vvise JACOB 4 8 10. Draw neere to God and he will draw neere to you Cast down your selves before the Lord and he will lift you up Imprinted at London by Robert Robinson for Thomas Man and Thomas Gubbins 1588. TO THE MOST Reverend father in God his verie good Lord IOHN by the providence of God Archbishop of Canterburie one of her Maiesties most honorable Privie Counsell Primate of all England and Metropolitane IN what sort this land of ours was lately visited by the hand of the Lorde for two yeares together with vnseasonable weather so consequently with some scarcitie then although to say the truth it was nothing so grievous as heretofore our elders haue had and others then felt as it was reported yet was it so evident and plaine in it selfe that I shall not neede to stande to shew what it was or how far we were all generally touched therewith but especially those that were the poorer sort among us Our owne experience for that matter was such that whosoever woulde goe about to make any farther demonstration of it might verie well spare his labour therein But whereas in such case some other way there is wherein we might bee fruitfully occupied and to verie good purpose and so as the nature of the thing it selfe doth require therein whosoever could rightly and orderly imploy his labour he might be able thereby to discharge some part of his duetie and doe a peece of good service to God and his countrey That other way I take to bee especially this that we acknowledge the same to bee sent of God and therewithall that só we be touched therewith as in such case doth appertain In which because I did not then know nor yet doe that others did labour therefore the last yeare I did endevour mee self to set downe somewhat thereof which also I finished as is pleased the Lord to blesse me therein And to the end that I might safelier doe it without offending on either side either on the right hand or on the left I sawe no better way then to take some text of Scripture such as belonged to this kinde of argument and out of it to derive some such instruction as the text it selfe shoulde naturally yeeld So did I take the Prophet Ioel and out of him framed this Admonition that thén I praesented your Grace withall But seeing that since it hath beene stayed I wote not by what sinister meanes by one that undertooke the printing of it now of late it is come to my hands again although that in some respect it may seeme to come out of season now yet because that in others it doth not nor but little in that I thought it my dutie again to praesent your Grace therewith Which thing the lesse that it is in it selfe in respect of any thing therin that is mine the lesse bould I ought to have beene both at the first and now also to have offered the same unto so grave and learned a censure But seeing that it pleased your Grace to accept of it then I might not turn it an other way now especially when as the nature of it in my iudgement is such as that before I thought mee self bound and yet do in order and duetie to make it yours And so beseeching your Grace to pardon both my former bouldnes therein and the renuing of it now again I humblie praie that Almightie God the father of lights only fountain of all good graces of his great and infinite mercie for the glorie of his holie name and in the face of his Annointed would vouchsafe so to visit us from above by his Holie Spirit that we maie be in such sort touched with this his gentle and gracious warning and so seeke vnto him while it is time that we provoke no heavier displeasure but maie attaine to his further mercies and euer stand in his gracious fauour From Bolton-Percy Aprill 6. 1588. Your Grace most humble in the Lord Edm. Bunny The Praeface to the Reader WHeras gentle Reader this admonition of mine out of the Prophet Ioel was to haue come foorth the last summer That this Prophecie fitteth us also and these our daies marvelous well though I know not how it hath beene stayed till this praesent by this meanes it cummeth to passe that now I am iustly occasioned to say sumwhat unto thee not only of the Treatise it selfe but also of this late publishing of it Concerning the Treatise it selfe although it be out of the Prophet Ioel who was sent of God to his people of old and about such things as concerned a speciall estate of theirs thén yet doth it so fitly agree with ús also now and with the waies that are most common and rife among us that the selfe same Prophet may seeme as much to have beene preserved for ús against this time that now we are in as he was before sent unto others to speake unto thém For we also are found in the self same waies that they were in at that praesent and therefore hath the Lord for these few of the last yeeres in much like sort laide his hand vpon us as he did upon them and yet also doth in very plaine and sensible maner But as théy were senseles and could not see it therfore turned nor unto the Lord that so had laide his hand upon them so wé likevvise at this praesent have notably beene provoked diuers waies to acknowledge the hand of God upon us and to turne unto him and yet notwithstanding we have not done it but either shame with it or thinke it needeles to take such a course And yet as at that time God did but with one hand shake the rod at them with the other held foorth special mercies vnto them a further advancement of religion among them and a special deliverance from al their enimies so at this time also we may see the Lord to observe that course toward vs not onely laying his hand upon us but also tendering and offering unto us by manie good and comfortable tokens both a further manifestation of the gospel and a better riddance of our enimies if so be that we can truely turn unto him As therefore this call of the Prophet was to speciall good use unto thém to quicken them up both to a sensible feeling of that hand of God upon them to cast thēselves to be in a redines to receave those greater mercies at his hands likewise even so may it be as much to our purpose that he should nowe stir us up unto a feeling of such hands of God as are