Selected quad for the lemma: majesty_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
majesty_n	honourable_a	lord_n	viscount_n	3,313	5	11.4579	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A36980	The true and absolute bishop with the converts returne unto him : wherein is also shewed how Christ is our only shepheard, as well as our truest bishop : and also, how lamentable and miserable the condition of those men doth appeare to bee, which are out of Christs fold, out of Christs diocesse / by Nicolas Darton ...	Darton, Nicholas, 1603-1649?	1641 (1641)	Wing D273; ESTC R10864	47,823	62

The True and Absolute BISHOP With the Converts returne unto Him Wherein is also shevved hovv CHRIST is our only SHEPHEARD As well as our truest BISHOP And also how lamentable and miserable the condition of those Men doth appeare to bee which are out of CHRISTS Fold Or out of CHRISTS DIOCESSE By NICOLAS DARTON Minister of GODS Word at KILLESBIE in NORTHAMPTON-SHIRE HEBR. 7. Ver. 26. For such an High Priest became us who is holy harmelesse undefiled separate from sinners and made higher then the Heavens LONDON Printed by Tho. Badger for Humphrey Mosley and are to bee sold at his Shop at the PRINCES Armes in Saint PAULS CHVRCH-YARD 1641. TO THE RIGHT HONOVRABLE and every way RELIGIOVS LORD WILLIAM Viscount SAY and SEALE Master of his Majesties Court of Wards and Liveries an especiall Member for God Glory and Great Britaines safety amongst the Right Honourable Lords in the High Court of Parliament now ass mbled And one of His Majesties most Honourable Privie Councell Much Honoured LORD LEt the blisfull streames of Gods eternall mercies run plentifully through all your Parliamentary designes and others else to make you as truly prosperous in your Acts of State as Religious in your intentions for Piety that 's my desire for you The next for my selfe is this that some drop of your Honours favour and Clemencie how little soever may through your Honourable acceptance of this my small tender fall on me to make me as truly happy in the enioyment of so great a Patronage as I am forward in the dedication of the same unto your Honour True it is you may wonder I beg thus bold for the latter especially being that I am so farre remote from your Honours knowledge but to speak iustly there 's no iust cause of marvaile for though I am a stranger to your Person I am not to your vertuous practises which make our Hemisphere of Great Brittaine with admiration to be acquainted with you The booke I confesse is not worthy your iudicious eye nor reading but the Bishop in it I am confident you love with all your heart straying sheep I have heard your desire is should returne to the fold imitating here our great Shepheard that makes welcome all the Flock that come VVhat you finde amisse in the handling of the propounded subject which is good let your love to goodnes pardon and what otherwise in the rash attempt of so bold an adventure as this upon your goodnesse is let your wounted mildnesse passe by Greatnesse in you I beleeve is as pardonfull as your goodnesse for O how sweetly in you may both Church and State see how they goe hand in hand together I dare not speake all I beleeve of your almost unparallell'd pietie t is enough for me to see it and to heare it abroad but for feare of suspition of unpleasing flattery to your selfe I dare not speake VVhat now is to bee spoken for the present on my behalfe hath an eye upon your mercy that you would vouchsafe the same though undeserved upon the worke and Author So shall I that am but even the smallest of Christs ministry be encouraged in the painefull worke of the Lord and endeavour daily if not more to bring Goates haire by no means lesse to the building of Gods Temple continually morne and evening as long as I have a day to live praying heartily to the eternal Trinity for you and yours that an encrease of true honours welfare may abound on your Honourable selfe Your truly vertuous and Religious Lady and hopefull Progenie here and that an immortall Crowne of endlesse glory with the communion of Saints through Iesus Christ may be your eternall inheritance hereafter Your Honours Servant in all Humlitie most devoted NICOLAS DARTON The Epistle to the Reader COurteous and Christian Reader if the Title Page do please thee as perchance it may I am confident then that the ensuing Treatise will not distaste at all because it tenders thee a salve for thy sores and a remedy for thy straying thoughts Should now the word Episcopacy draw a dislike upon thine affections or like a blacke cloud darken thine impartiall esteeme hereof it is to be feared then for the present that all is not well within thee for here thou hast the absolutest the truest and the most perfect Bishop that ever was in all the Christian world whose Diocesse also is from one end of the earth unto the other and from the Sea unto the worlds end This is the Metropolitan that governes Heavens Universe and whose See as it is without all contradiction Universall so in like manner is his EPISCOPACIE in all points uncontroleable This is hee that was called from the Wombe hereunto and from the bowels of his mother Isa 49.1 Zach. 3.8 Mal. 3.1 unto whom all the Yles must listen and eke the people from farre who is the branch of the Lord and the messenger of the Covenant who is like a refiners fire and like Fullers sope and will purifie the sons of LEVI meaning all the Ministers of his Word and Sacraments by what names or titles soever they be called and will purge them as Gold and silver that they may offer unto the Lord an offering in righteousnes I write not this now to barke at or to bite at any in the world for that Hostile and scurrilous humour both against Gods sacred house and Englands Kirk I leave to our brawling and rayling tongues wherewithall our times abound alasse and thrice alasse too too much in every street and corner nay I had almost said in every part and place so that should not the right honourable and blessed Parliament out of their heavenly dispositions forthwith silence the contumelious affronts with irrevocable censures of such black-mouthed Sanballats as without all question the plenitude ●f their gracious judgement and undoubted religious goodnesse will challenge the care hereof both Zion then and all her sonnes may sit downe in the dust and weepe But I write this scribendo proficere proficiendo scribere to satifie the ingenuous reader with some notions of a right and absolute Bishop and that upon his benefit and good liking I my selfe may receive some comfort As for the matter here debated before thine eyes though it doe not come unto thee in the beautifull and gracefull habit of excellent and learned rhetoricke yet mayest thou finde therein many an wholesome expression both for thy soules health and lifes amendment I desire thus much that as thou doest not receive it with the reverence of a Father so that thou wouldst not reject it as the raveries of a child for Apollo yeelded Oracles as well to poore men for their prayers as to Princes for their presents If thou hast bin a stragler from the flock and fold of Christ here are discoveries for to enforme thy conscience and such demonstrative Characters to certifie thee of thy soules state and condition in that particular as that thou canst not unlesse meerely blinded