Selected quad for the lemma: lord_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	love_n	love_v	soul_n	15,334	5	5.6380	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A19673	The way to wealth wherein is plainly taught a most present remedy for sedicion. Wrytten and imprinted by Robert Crowley the .vii. of Februarye in the yere of our Lorde. a thousand fiue hu[n]derd [et] fiftie. In Elie rentes in Holburne cum priuilegio ad imprimendum solum.	Crowley, Robert, 1518?-1588.	1550 (1550)	STC 6096; ESTC S105142	14,029	36

haue caused the to beleue that thou shouldeste preuaile againste them with the swerde vnder whose gouernaunce God hath apointed the to be He would haue told the that to reuenge wronges is in a subiect to take and vsurpe the office of a kinge and cōsequently the office of God For the king is goddes minister to reuenge the wronges done vnto the innocent As he that taketh in hande therefore or presumeth to do anye office vnder a kinge not beinge lawfully called vnto it presumeth to do the office of a kinge so he that taketh in hand to do the office of a king taketh goddes office in hand We reade that oure sauioure Christ beinge in the estimation of the worlde but a priuate man Luke x● wold not walke out of the boundes of that vocacion But whē a certaine mā came vnto him desired that he would cōmaund hys brother to deuide the enheritaūce wyth him he axed who had appointed him to be iudge in suche matters And againe when the woman takē in adultery was broughte vnto hym he shoulde not geue sentence of the lawe againste her but axed hir if any man had comdemned hir and vpon hir deniall let hir go If these examples Iohn viii with the terrible stories of Corah Dathā Abira and Absolom had ben diligently beatē into thine heade Numeri xvi thou wouldeste no doubte haue quieted thy selfe ii Reg. xviii and haue suffered thy selfe rather to haue bene spoyled of al together yea and thy bodie toren in peces rather thē thou wouldest haue taken on the more then thou art called vnto For no cause can be so great to make it lawful for the to do againste goddes ordinaunce But thy shepeherde hathe bene negligent as alas the while all shepeherdes be at this daie and hath not enstructed the aright He espied not the wolf before he had woried the or happlye he knewe him not frome a shepe But it is moste like he was but an hirelinge and cared for no more but to be fedde with the milcke fatlinges and cladde with the woule as the greateste numbre of thē that beare the name of shepeherde in Englande be at this daie Yea perchaunce he had many flockes to kepe therfore was absent from them al leauing with euerye flocke a dogge that woulde rather worye a shepe then driue away the woulfe wel brother these be greate plages it behoueth the synnes to be greate that haue deserued these so great and intollerable plages at goddes hande Returne to thi conscience therfore and se if thou haue not deserued all this and more to Consider firste if thou haue loued thy neighboure as thy self cōsider if thou haue done nothing vnto him that thou wouldeste not that he shoulde do vnto the. Loke if thou haue not gone about to preuent him in any bargen that thou hast sene him about loke if thou haue not craftely vndermined him to get some thing out of his hand or to deceiue him in some bargein Loke if thou haue not laboured him oute of his house or ground Se if thou haue not accused him falsely or of malice or else geuen false euidence againste him Se if thou haue not geuen euell counsell to his wife or seruauntes which might turne him to displeasure Consider if thou haue not desired and wished in thine herte to haue his commoditie frō him if thou mightest without blame of the worlde haue broughte it aboute For God loketh vpō the herte and if thine herte haue bene infected with ani of these euilles then haste thou bene abominable in the sight of God and haste deserued these plages at goddes hād Now if thou befoūd abhominable in thy be hauoure towardes thy neighboure what shalt thou be founde trowest thou in thy demaners to god ward God requireth thine whole hert thyne whole mynd and al the powers of thy body and soule Thou shalt loue thy Lord God wyth all thy lyfe wyth al thy mynd and wyth al thy strēgth That is to say Math. xxii ther shal be nothynge in the whych thou shalt not apply wholly to the loue of thy Lord God But how was it possible for the to loue God whom thou seest not syth thou louest not thy Brother whom thou seest God requireth the to loue him euer And how often hast thou gone whole dayes togither whole weakes yea whole yeres and neuer thought once to loue hym aryght How many and how great benefites hast thou receyued at goddes hand and howe vnthanckful hast thou bene for them thynckynge that thou haste gotten them by thyne owne laboure and not receyued them frely at goddes hand As though God had not geuen the thy lyfe thyne health and thy strength to laboure Yea and as thoughe it were not God only that geueth the increase of euerye mans labour But knowynge by thyne owne creacion and bryngyng vp and also by the yonge fruite that God sendeth the of thy bodi further by the frutes that God sēdeth and causeth yerely to growe out of the earth that there is a god almyghty yet thou hast not honoured him as God romaynes .l. but hast turned the glorie of God into an Image made after the shape or similitude of mortall man renuinge and ridinge from place to place to seke and to honoure thinges of thine owne makeinge crienge and callinge vpon them in thy nede and paying vnto thē thy vowes and thancking thē for thyne health receiued doinge them dayly worshipe and reuerence in the temples and bestowinge thine almes vpon them in deckinge thē and setting lightes before them Biside this thou haste put confidence of saluacion in pardones that thou haste bought in prayers that thou hast hiered or mumbled vp thy selfe in masses that thou hast caused to be saide and in worckes that thou thy selfe haste fantasied and haste not thanckefullye receyued the free mercye of God offered vnto the in Christ in whom onlye thou maiste haue remission of thy sinnes and therfore God hath geuen the vp in to a reprobate minde to do the thinge that is not beseminge Rom. i. Euen to stande vp againste God and goddes ordinaunce to refuse his holy word to delite in lies and false fables to credite false prophetes and to take weapē in hand against goddes chosen ministers I saye his chosen ministers For be they good or bad they are goddes chosen If they be good to defende the innocente ▪ If they be euell to plage the wicked If thou wilt therfore that God shall deliuer the or thy children from the tirannie of them that oppresse the lament thine olde sinnes i. Esdras .i. and endeuour emendment of life And then he that caused King Cirus to send the Iewes home to Ierusalem againe shall also stire vp our yong king Edward to restore the to thy liberty againe and to geue straight charge that non shal be so bolde as once to vexe or trouble the. Prouerb xxi For the herte of a kinge is in goddes