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

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B05097	Hierosulias mastix, or A scourge of sacriledge: in answer to a pamphleter calling himself Anthony Pearson, concerning The great case of tythes. Wherein many gross fallacies and untruths of the pamphleter are discovered and convinced. / By Joh. Reading, once a student in Magdalen Hall in Oxford.	Reading, John, 1588-1667.	1661 (1661)	Wing R447A; ESTC R182394	73,792	98

ἸΕΡΟΣΥΛΙΆΣ ΜΆΣΤΙΞ OR A SCOURGE OF SACRILEDGE In Answer to a Pamphleter calling himself ANTHONY PEARSON Concerning The Great Case of Tythes VVherein many gross Fallacies and Untruths of the Pamphleter are discovered and convinced By JOH READING once a Student of Magdalen Hall in Oxford It is a snare to the man who devoureth that which is holy and 〈◊〉 after vowes to make enquiry Prov. 20.25 〈◊〉 are cursed with a curse for ye have robbed me even this ●●●le Nation c. Mal. 3.9 〈…〉 abhorrest Idol● dost thou commit Sacriledge Rom. 〈◊〉 London Printed by Da●●●●well and are to be sold by George Sawbridg at the sign of the Bible on Ludgate-Hill 1661. To the Right Honorable Sr EDWARD NICHOLAS Kt. Principal Secretary of State and one of His Majesties most honorable Privy Council Grace Mercy and Eternal Happiness in Christ Jesus our Lord. Right Honorable IT hath been the constant practice of the Adversary to oppose Truth and to use his power to the discouragement of Faithful Ministers and Professors thereof Sometimes like an envious Philistim by casting dirt and earth into the Fountain of living Waters opened by the hard labors of godly men Sometimes by casting out of his mouth water as a flood after the Woman the Church that he might cause her to be carried away of the flood Sometimes by supersemination of his pernitious Tares among the good Wheat in the Lords Field Hence were and now are those multitudes of Schisms and Errors which in all ages of the Gospel have infested the Church of Christ In this last age Satan knowing that his time is short hath more furiously raged moving all his engins and using all his stratagems for his siege against the holy City and Tents of the Saints Amongst other his artifices knowing how much innate avarice inclineth vulgar mindes to sacriledge he hath lately tempted many to endeavor the utter taking away of Tythes the Ordinance of God as ancient as his Church on Earth well-knowing that by subtracting the Oyl from the Tabernacle Lamps the light will soon go out and the people must be left to a darkness worse then Egyptian This fearful condition was coming on us so precipitately as that the enemies of Truth were not ashamed openly to boast That within one years time they would not leave either Church or Priest in England But blessed be God who hath broken the jaw-bones of these ravenous Lions and prevented their mischievous designs by his gracious and marvellous providence restoring his Sacred Majesty in peace unto his long afflicted people and them by Him to their just Laws and Liberties and therewith the free exercise of the true Religion maintained by our former Princes of ever-blessed Memory In which respect though divers able Champions of Christ and his Church have encountered the adversaries of these Church Rites with such full abilities as that they have left little to be added hereto Quod non fit dictum prius Yet seeing this conflict hath not so been ended but that new enemies still gird themselves to the battle it is necessary that they be invested and answered Therefore having brought to me from an adversary of all good this piece which I endeavor to confute as I conceive by way of challenge I could neither with credit to our Cause nor good conscience toward God be silent or leave the truth without defence my hope being that I may hereby undeceive some who have misunderstood the case which this adversary with his Jesuitical Arguments so stingily and contumeliously laboreth in Why I presume to prefix your Honors Name to this homely Tract none need demand who know the great favors which your Honor hath done for me others I desire to understand that in point of gratitude I humbly acknowledg the debt which I am no otherways able to pay then by acknowledgment and my daily and hearty Prayers to Almighty God abundantly to retribute for me by his preserving your Honor and all yours Which he really professeth who is Your Honors most obliged and humble Servant John Reading To the Christian Reader STanders by see more then the Actors especially in businesses Polemical wherein sundry motions are not so much composed unto comeliness Wisd 16.20 21 as present necessity of defence and offence It is very rare therefore that any piecce of writing like the Manna fitteth every palate or is as strong meat to the strong and as Milk to those who are of less exercised senses Hence are such variety of Censurers one profiteth by that he Readeth another is imbittered by Truth it self because some Spirit of Error possesseth him which like a Feavourish distemper makes the most wholsome things seem unsavoury It is an Insipid Discourse which falleth under no censure If in this velitation some things are let fall seeming more Sarcastical and sharp then the gravity of the cause may seem to allow I desire the prudent reader to consider that I deal with an adversary who careth not whether Dolus an virtus right reason or absurd and fallacious Mediums fair language or railing scurrility brings his deluded reader to an opinion of safe and impregnable conclusions on his side If any ask why I meddle with this Argument which some years past hath been discussed by so many learned writers the business in hand speaks my defence This bold Champion of Gath upon the matter cryeth out Give me a man 1 Sam. 17.10 in his opposing the Ministers of Christ and reviling Gods Israel and should we sleep The Enemy endeavoureth to bring Gods curse upon us and should not we arm and stand up in the Gap For my part however less able then many yet for Sions sake I cannot hold my peace nor sleep because the Ark and Israel 2 Sam. 11.11 and Judah abide under tents and the servants of my lord are encamped in the open fields Here is an emergent danger of seducement cast in among the people by which a dreadful curse must inevitably fall upon them because the Lord hath spoken it and should we be silent Consider who it is that saith Ye have robbed me Ye are cursed with a curse Remember who it is that saith to the Prophet concerning those sinners whom he warneth not Ezek. 3.18 Their blood will I require at thy hands Truly my hope is if my endeavours gain none of our adversaries Matth. 8. who are carried on with the foul spirits of Malice and Avarice like that precipitate Hoard to their own destruction yet by Gods mercful assistance we may stay and confirm our own 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Henod lest being deceived by others examples they should likewise err in unjust gains embracing their own mischief How ever I would no have this bragging enemy go away with his vain oppinion Haec dici potuisse non potuisse r●felli I have endeavoured to satisfie those who are not willing to be deceived but to know the Truth and their Duties hoping that others with their greater