Selected quad for the lemma: majesty_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
majesty_n	earl_n	lord_n	precedent_n	3,907	5	10.2488	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A17002	A seder olam, that is: order of the worlde: or yeeres from the fall to the restoring A seconde apologie for the angel Gabriels proprietie of trueth, in his holy and healthy message, of the cleernes and certainty for our redemption: and a further answere to some, litle thinking that all humane libraries may by them selues, and must by Scripture be controlde: vvith a long preface touching the humanity of the gentry of Cambridge, and higher, in fauour of ancient learning.	Broughton, Hugh, 1549-1612.	1594 (1594)	STC 3885; ESTC S116571	23,451	46

A SEDER OLAM that is Order of the worlde or yeeres from the fall to the restoring A seconde Apologie for the Angel Gabriels proprietie of trueth in his holy and healthy message of the cleerenes and certainty for our redemption And a further answere to some litle thinking that all humane Libraries may by them selues and must by Scripture be controlde VVith a long Preface touching the humanity of the Gentry of Cambridge and higher in fauour of ancient Learning Iob. 24 25. Yf it be not so now who will disproue me and make my wordes nothing 1594. To the right honorable Henrie Earle of Huntingdon Lorde Hastinges Hungerford Botreux Molins and Moiles Knight of the most noble order of the Garter Lord President of her Maiesties counsell established in the North partes THe register of time right Honorable which the Greekes cal Chronicon the Doctors of the Hebrew kinde tearme Seder Olam that is the Order of the worlde They haue many phrases from ancient holy men doubtlesse which the Apostles do confirme as the Worlde to come Paradise the seconde death and such In lyke sort Seder Olam seemeth to be a phrase vsed from the Prophetes tyme. It conteyneth deepe matter in it For who woulde not be astonished consideryng that God sendeth all men to learne the age ●f the worlde from the recorde of the Fathers vnto Terah vnlesse he knew the purpose to declare the fathers of whom Christ commeth Now it is more strange that thence it is not continued by Abraham Isaak and Iacob three so rare men But the course is broken of at Terahs death and soone after a new order is taken how many dayes or monethes after I dare not discusse But presently thence in the narration from the promise of Christ the Epoche goeth and Abrahams age is tolde what it was then which can not be exactly gathered how from his fathers age it dependeth as the Learned cast all from Adam to Charans byrth at Terahs seuentyeth yeere exactly From the perigrination vpon the promise of Christ vnto the Lambe the yeeres are to the very day and lykewyse thence to the Temple what day of what yeere from the Lambe it was buylt in what yeere of the king the buylder and how long he reigned and how long after the diuision euen to what day of what moneth it was brent for idolatry Then the exact accompt for day and moneth is not layde downe though the whole Captiuity be recorded for the iust yeeres VVhen it is ended thence a new vpon a rare occasion to a rare man by an Angel the onely of any created that hath a proper name of Angel the tyme is pared out in a rare phrase of speach vnto the death of Christ our sauiour vnto the very tyme of the euenyng offeryng when he offered vp him selfe The speach and the matter is so heauenly and precious that as of olde tyme that prophecy was openly read of all the Iewes and knowen of all the East it doubtles Iosephus meant bell Iud. 7 12. So all the worlde from their Childhood should read it and all the learned shoulde styll reduce the new Testament vnto it and expounde the olde Testament by it For it is the abridgement of the New and the key of the Olde The state after our Lordes death is called A new Heauen And his death ended the last Olam or Iubilee or yet the later part of the olde worlde as that part before the flood is tearmed of S. Peter Thus Seder Olam shalbe a goodly title for the Ebrew accompt from since the first Adam stoode on the earth vntyll the seconde Adam arose from the dust and went into the heauens Certaine obseruations I haue writted for this space registred by the wysedome of God to keepe the holy text in his natiue clearenesse agaynst entanglementes of Iewes and Gentiles I coulde wysh the dexterity of Daniels wit For the matter is worthy And that which my paynes coulde breede I was desirous to commende to your Lordshyp Some remembrance I woulde leaue how much I am beholdyng to your Honour though none writes in a Calender all good thinges done to him Of your Lordshyp I may say out of Homer that you haue been vnto me as a father to the sonne and I wyll neuer forget that tenderyng I founde many honourable Patrons but your Lordshyps charges were the greatest The Archbyshop of Canterburies grace was the meanes sone after my comming to Cambridge in my young yeeres to procure me a continuall profession of Homers tongue Whervpon with al speede the rest of my successe proceeded vntyll Sir VValter Mildmayes Lecture in Greeke with the gyft of six Scholershyps as I woulde and his fatherlike fauour better encoraged my paynes And I shoulde iniury all the Gouernoures of Cambridge yf I woulde not acknowledge continuall singuler cherishing and one poynt in offering whether Lecture I woulde of Iapheth and Sems chiefe tongues But there to me your Lordshyps charges was fiue and twentie times more then the priuate Greeke profession and about ten tymes the Value of a Felowshyp by yeere The greatest alowance that any Noble man graunted any Scholer So great a desire you had that my paineful and chargeful race of study which you iudged by your experience able to go through the pikes agaynst common errours shoulde there haue practise and tryall And when good desart and the best then taken in hand vpon graue request and orderly vsed was least regarded and worst recompenced in all mens sight by a good mans errour not of yll wyl yet so that you heard and hundreths more saw an iniury the same alowance you continued to my priuate labour VVhereby my Greeke translation of the Hebrew Prophetes was wrought That diligence calling all East and VVest forces of study togeather Hebrew Babylonian Chaldean Syrian Arabian al together mixt in the Cabala Greekes of all sortes Latines of all sortes all vsed skilfully seruantes to the Temple That diligence made me enterprise the Herculean labour of the Harmony I thinke you remember D. Penyes censure vttered to your Lordshyp of the Table entituled A Sinay sight how by conference in those poyntes he thought that he learned the whole frame of the Bible better then by all his Englysh and foraine paynes and conference and that one yeere vpon such tryed groundes woulde doe more then ten from the common course The learned D. tolde me what he told your Lordshyp to harten me agaynst the busy but hartened already enough by rare olde tendering I must heere craue leaue of a further digression to leaue a memoriall of tenderyng shewed to my young studies For as sone as I coulde be Graduate vpon sodayne disputations in the Greke tongue wherin the readiest of the ancient Maisters came to reply many were encoraged to the tongue worde was sent me that I should choose where I woulde be Felow I choose to be where first an election was euen foure dayes after I was eligible and to that