Selected quad for the lemma: lord_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	work_n	work_v	wrought_v	1,549	4	8.0871	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02959	The white deuil, or The hypocrite vncased in a sermon preached at Pauls Crosse, March 7. 1612. By Thomas Adams ...	Adams, Thomas, fl. 1612-1653.	1613 (1613)	STC 131; ESTC S100428	46,976	70

vnfruitfull thing by nature made only for commutation it is a praeternaturall thing it should engender money this is monstrosus partus a prodigious birth Usura quasi propter vsum rei The nature of it is wholly deuouring their money to necessity is like cold water to a hot ague that for a time refresheth but prolongs the disease The vsurer is like the worme we call the timber-worme which is wonderfull Teredo soft to touch but hath teeth so hard that it eats timber but the vsurer eats timber and stones too The Prophet hedgeth it in betweene Bribery and Extortion a Ezek. 22. 12. In thee haue they taken gifts to shed blood thou hast taken vsury and increase and thou hast greedily gained of thy neighbours by extortion and hast forgotten me saith the Lord. Therefore I haue smitten my hands at thy dishonest gaine c. You vers 13. heare Gods opinion of it Beware this dishonest gaine take heed lest this casting your money into a Banke cast not vp a Banke against you when you haue found out the fairest praetexts for it Gods iustice shall strike of all b Eph. 5. 6. let no man deceiue you with vaine words for for such things Gods wrath will fall on the children of disobedience Infinite colors mitigations euasions distinctions are inuented to countenance on earth heauen-exploded vsurie God shall then frustrate all when hee powres his wrath on the naked conscience God saith Thou shalt not take vsurie goe now study paintings excuses apologies dispute the matter with God hell fire shall decide the question I haue no other trade to liue on but vsurie only the Deuill first made vsury a trade But can this plea in the thiefe I haue no other trade to liue on but stealing protect and secure him from the gallowes The vsurer then is a thiefe nay a double thiefe as the old Roman law censured them that charged the thiefe with restitution double the vsurer with foure-fold concluding him a double thiefe Theeues steale sometimes vsurers alwaies Theeues steale for necessity vsurers without need The vsurer wounds deeper with a peece of paper than the robber with a sword many a yong gentleman newly broke out of the cage of wardship or blessed with the first Sun-shine of his one and twenty goes from the vigilancy of a restraining Gouernour into the tempting hands of a mercilesse vsurer as if hee came out of Gods blessing into the warme Sunne Many a man that comes to his lands ere he comes to his wits or experience of their villany is so let blood in his estate by vsury that he neuer prooues his owne man againe Either prodigallity or penury or dissembled riches borrow on vsurie to racke the poore with ouer-plus all but Deuils hold monstrous to lend the Prodigall is wicked enough for it feeds his issue with ill humours and puts Stibium into his broth who was earst sicke of the vomiting disease and could not digest his Fathers ill-gotten Patrimony For the rich that dissemble pouerty to borrow on vsurie for there is that maketh himselfe poore and hath great riches they doe it either to defeat creditours Prou. 13. 7. or to auoid taxations and subsidies or some such sinister respects The gentleman that borroweth on vsurie by racking his rents makes his Tenants pay his vsury The Farmer so borrowing by inhauncing his corne makes the poore pay his vsury The Trades-man raiseth his wares that the buier must pay his vsury I wil not tax euerie borrower it is lawfull to suffer iniury though not to offer it it is no sin for the true man to giue his purse to the thief when he cannot chuse To redeem his lands liberty life he may as I suppose giue interest but not for meer gain only which he may get by that wicked money lest he encourage the vsurer for a receiuer vpholds a thiefe This is the priuy-pocket whose death is the more grieuous because hee is repriued till the last Sessions a Gibbet is built in hell for him and all the gold in the world cannot purchase a pardon I know there is mercy in Christs blood to any repentant and beleeuing sinner but excepted Zacheus shew me the vsurer that repents for as humility is the repentance of pride and abstinence the repentance of surfet so is restitution the repentance of vsurse hee that restores not repents not his vsurie and then non remittitur peccatum Aug. nisi restituatur ablatum the sinne is retained till the gaines of vsurie be restored This is durus sermo sed verus sermo a hard saying but true then we may giue all doe if they be so gotten Dabit Deus meliora maiora plura God will giue better things God will giue greater things God will giue more things as the Prophet to Amasiah The Lord is able to giue thee more than this Thus I haue discouered by occasion of Iudas some priuy 2. Chro. 25. 9. theeues if without thankes yet not without conscience if without profite yet not without purpose of profite Indeed these are the sinnes which I vowed with my selfe to reproue not that others haue not done it or not done it better then I from this place I acknowledge both freely yet could I not passe this secret thiefe Iudas without discouering his companions or as it were breaking open the knot of Theeues which vnder allowed pretences are arrant cut-purses to the Common-wealth How to punish how to restraine I meddle not it is enough to discharge my conscience that I haue endeuoured to make the sinnes hateful to the trespassers to the trespassed Deus tam faciat commodum quam fecit accommodum God make it as preualent as I am sure it is pertinent Giue me leaue yet ere I leaue to speake a word of the His meanes his maintenāce Bagge first his meanes and secondly his maintenance I will ioyne them together a fit and a fat booty makes a 1. The bag gaue him meanes theefe Iudas hath got the bagge and the bagge hath got Iudas hee could not carry it but he must make it light 2. and that you might not think it was empty that which was put therein gaue him maintenance enough for his carriage he empties it into his owne coffer as many Stewards rise by their good Lord and Masters fall Iudas meanes to be a theefe and Sathan meanes to fit him with a booty for after hee had once wrought iourney-worke with the Deuill he shall not want worke and a subiect to worke on I will limit my remayning speech to these three heads First the difficulty to beare the bagge and not to be couetous Secondly the vsuall incidency of the bagge to the worst men Thirdly the progresse of sinne only faint not in this last act 1 It is hard to beare the bagge and not to be couetous Iudas is Burser and he shuts himselfe into his pouch the more he hath the more he couets the Apostles