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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	john_n	thomas_n	viscount_n	16,382	5	11.3901	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A19485	The brazen serpent: or, the copie of a sermon preached at Pauls Crosse, Decemb. 31. 1620. By Iohn Andrevves, priest and preacher of the VVord of God at Saint Iames Clerkenwell in Middlesex	Andrewes, John, fl. 1615.	1621 (1621)	STC 591; ESTC S122344	23,076	64

THE BRAZEN SERPENT OR the Copie of a SERMON Preached at PAVLS Crosse Decemb. 31. 1620. BY IOHN ANDREVVES Priest and Preacher of the VVORD of GOD at Saint Iames Clerkenwell in MIDDLESEX Martial lib. 13. Ep. 2. Ne perdas operam Qui se mirantur in illos Virus habe Nos Haec nouimus esse Nihil NOLI ALTUM SAPERE LONDON Printed by G. P. for Thomas Thorp and are to bee sold neere Christ-Church Gate by Ed. Wright 1621. TO THE RIGHT HONOVRABLE IOHN EARLE OF Houldernesse Viscount Haddington and Baron of Kingstone vpon Thames c. My singular good LORD and PATRONE Right Hon and my very good LORD SInce I first vnderstood that it pleased GOD of his gracious mercy to make choice of your right hand to be the happy Instrument by which Hee thought it meete to make this Kingdome of Great BRITAINE happy in rescuing the life of His Anointed Our Gracious and dread Soueraigne from the Malignant Sword of bloud-thirsty conspirators I did euer magnifie the name of the Lord for you For not I only But all the Inhabitants of this Kingdome at least So many as loue the peace of Hierusalem and pray for the prosperitie of Sion are bound to honour you and to praise God for you Seeing that by your meanes in preseruing our Soueraigne from the Sword of the Treacherous he preserued for vs the matchlesse perfections of many Princes in one For in him we enioy an Augustus a Commodus a Probus a Pius a Constantinus and a Salomon a King of Peace without which neither Religion nor Piety nor Probity nor Commoditie nor Maiesty can haue their perfect lustre For his Maiesty is not only 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 peaceable in himselfe but 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a Peace-bringer to vs in this Land and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a Peace-maker among Forraine Nations round about and for this cause highly honoured and deuoutly prayed for by all sorts of People euen beyond the Seas as being One whom they hope God hath ordained to be a principall meanes to heale the fresh-bleeding wounds and to staunch the Bloudy-issue of Christendome So that all Christendome for his Maiesties preseruation next vnder God standeth bound vnto you My Lord I am a plaine-brested man Hee that knoweth me knowes I cannot flatter This with many other expressions of goodnesse was that which did first not inuite but enforce me to loue and honour you I may bow to your Greatnesse but it is your Goodnesse that claimes from me all loue and vnfained honour towards you And heerein I doe but imitate your Lordship who had rather weare the style of a Good man and an Honest Lord then of a Rich man and a Great Lord. And you heerein do imitate the Lord of all Lords who albeit he be Deus Optimus Maximus of All that 's good the best and of all that 's great the greatest yet notwithstanding as Pliny saith Plinius in Panegyric● Traian dict He is prius optimus quam maximus Hee prefers his goodnesse before his greatnesse Wherefore howbeit Tantò sim pessimus omnium propheta Quantò Tu optimus omnium Patronus I presumed to present these worthlesse Papers to your Lordship trusting only vpon your Goodnesse for a liberall Acceptance For vnlesse the wiser Sages haue deceiued me Bounty and Liberalitie consist not only in Giuing but also in a cheerfull and gracious Accepting and receiuing of a Present The slenderer the Present the meaner the Giuer is the more doth it commend and increase the Liberalitie of the Noble Receiuer For to Princes and great Potentates we doe not so much giue the Thing it selfe which we doe present vnto them as in It wee doe make tender of our very Hearts our Loue Dutie Honour and dearest Regards All these I heere present to your Goodnesse and not doubting of your Noble acceptance commend you to the goodnesse of Him that hath honoured you on Earth and will glorifie you in Heauen Your Honours poore Beades-man and vnworthy Chaplaine IOHN ANDREVVES To the Reader REader whether courteous or vncourteous I know not I am sure I care not For in this matter I am Iohn indifferent As I came of late to the Crosse as a Beare to the Stake so now I come to the Presse as a Theefe to the Gallowes sore against my mind Which I write to premonish thee lest thou shouldest mistake one for another For another there is who writes both his Names as I doe and hath published diuers Bookes as Petitions Subpoena's Christ Crosses c. Now because I would be loth to defraud him of any Right or Honour which may duly belong vnto him or that He should share with me in my shame I doe heereby certifie thee that I am not the Man For I neuer saw the Kingdome of Ireland in all my life but in Bookes nor the County of Wilts but in the worthy Worke of the learned iudicious and famous Antiquary M r. Clarencieux And for my part howsoeuer I be the meanest among the many thousands that are called to the Sacred Priesthood yet I may truly protest that I neuer played the Circumforanean Theologaster Istos enim Circulatores qui Sacram Philosophiam honestiùs neglexissent quàm vendunt semper exosos habui And for mine Owne part I was neuer in Print before Neither was it either in my purpose or in my desire to come abroad to the World in Print at this time The importunate request of my friends could neuer haue pressed me to the Presse if I had knowne which way to suppresse certaine bastard and illegitimate Copies of this silly Sermon which wandred vp down the Town like vagrants and were taken Begging here for a Crown and there for an Angel c. It was my desire that they should haue been had to the House of Correction and after due punishment sent back to the place where they were born or rather misbegotten But the multitude of them was so numerous that Iustice without inconuenience could not be done vpon them Therefore to vindicate my selfe from the imputation of glorious Barbarisme and most lame and vnioynted Nonsence I knew no better course then by making the Genüine Copy of that which I then deliuered publique to the World Such as it is thou hast it accept it euen as thou canst finde in thine Heart I grant I haue not interlarded it with any exotique Elegancies nor conclouted the Margent with many Quotations because I found it somewhat cumbersome to the Compositors For the Style I confesse it is plain and incurious euen like my Speach Garments For it was my study euer to be rather inter Zenonis 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 quàm 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 And to say the Truth as I neuer had any facilitie in teaching Periods to daunce Friskin and such-like curiosities So did I neuer take any felicitie in it For I was perswaded that such laboriosae nugae were better neglected then ambitiously affected If for no other regard