Selected quad for the lemma: master_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
master_n	earl_n	lord_n	son_n	7,283	5	6.5289	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A90972	Tyrants and protectors set forth in their colours. Or, The difference between good and bad magistrates; in several characters, instances and examples of both. / By J.P.	Price, John, Citizen of London.	1654 (1654)	Wing P3349; Thomason E738_18; ESTC R203206	41,217	58

her adversari●s but the goodness of her cause he is no secret accepter of persons Job 13. 10. he hears causes without prejudicial impiety and judiciously examines them without sinister obliquity and sincerely determins them without sinful partiality It was said of Cato that he was one A quo nemo unquam rem injustam petere audebat So just as no man durst make any unjust request unto him He esteemeth royalty without righteousness as eminent dishonour guilded putrifaction glorious baseness riches retinue splendor and greatness no better then meer Pageantry shews and shadows of Nobleness which causeth his vigilancy over his own heart and his own family Righteousness is the way to ric●es goodness makes men glorious It was said by one of Constantine the Great Bonus Deus Constantinum magnum tantis t●rrenis implevit muneribus quanta optare nullus auderet The good Lord heaped so much outward happiness upon his faithful Servant Constantine the Great as no man ever durst to have wished more his glory like Sarah's beauty consisteth in the hidden man 1 Pet. 3. 4. He knows that Dignitas in indigno est ornamentum in luto That a jewel of gold in a swines ●nout is as comely as gay clothes upon vile persons painted Sepulchres Solomons wisdom rendred him more honourable then all his glittering and golden glory the justice wisdom righteousness of a pious Prince these are Ornaments of grace and Crowns of glory Prov. 4. 8 9. Riches honours delights pleasures life length of days seed and posterity are all entailed upon piety and holiness outward pomp greatness and glory suck out the goodness of the heart as the Ivy from the Oak except there be curious caution What are they but insufficient and unsatisfactory often provocations to vice and hinderanc●s of vertue The Order of nature is inverted when vile men are exalted Psal. 12. 8. It is a foul incongruity and of very evil consequence vile persons are loathsom though veild with velvets and the children of Satan though in Sattin He hath great vigilancy over his own family he sees who they are and what they are every officer every servant he keeps is of his own choyce or approbation He cannot rule well in the Church much less in the Nation that ruleth not his own house well He bewares of an Achitophel a Doeg an Haman It was said of a Prince of Germany That esset al●u● si esset apud alios He would be another man were he with other men He takes heed who gets the royalty o● his ear lest he doth with him what he list David would not know i. e. own a wicked person Psal. 101. 4. and vers. 7. He that worketh deceit shall not dwell within my house he that telleth lyes shall not tarry in my sight An hypocrite an Ismaelite shall not dwell wi●h him He takes heed of proud servants knowing that men will be apt to mistake him in them and think they read him in them A wicked person in his family is as an Achan in the Army a Jonas in the Ship 'T is his honour and wisdom to be loved and feared of his family which he will never be except they be wise and honest He that delicately bringeth up his servant shall have him become son at the length Prov. 29. 21. Solomon himself that sometimes knew better how to give good counsel then to take it entertains Jeroboam gave him great power in his house admitted him into so much familiarity that he let loose the bridle of domestical discipline unto him in so much that he took state upon him as a young Master in the house and soon after turn'd Traytor See the like in Abner Ishbosheths servant who grew so haughty that he must not be spoken to and so Zimri whom his Lord and Master Elah 1 King 16. 11. advanced Captain over half of his charets being thus like a begger set on horseb●ck ●ides without reins to the ruine of his Master and whole house Asperius nihil est humili dum surgit in altum It is with a Ruler in respect of evil servants as with a creature called Millipeda the more feet it hath the flower it goeth corrupt servants hinder the course of Justice this reflects upon their Lords His frowns are upon evil and his favors upon wise servants which is Solomons counsel Prov. 14. 3● as was Pharaohs towards Joseph Darius towards Daniel Henry the E●ght towards Cromwell who for his wisdom and faithfulness he raised from a mean person son to a Blacksmith to be Master of his Jewel-house Baron of Okeham in Rutland-shire then Knight of the Garter Earl of Essex Lord great Chamberlain and at last his Vicar General A wise servant may have rule over a son without dishonor to the father and discredit to the son Amongst his servants some may be wiser some better some more in Gods favour then others He lets such have rule over his houshold by his commission and suffers not the b●ambles to domineer over the Ceda●s The le●ity luxury idleness wantonness of the quondam Court at White-hall together with their concomitants were none of the l●ast on●●ns of their destruction It is observed by one that among all the servants pleasures and delights which Solomon had he got him no fool or Jester which formerly Princes could not be without in this Nation no not when they should be most serious It is recorded of Henry the third King of France that in a solemn P●●cession at Paris he could not be without his Jest●r who walking between the King and the Cardinal made mirth to them both Was not here sweet devotion The truth is ●●eir religious actions were all in jest their wicked in earnest I hope no such vile and vicious persons will be ever found more in our English Courts He is the joy of the just the delight of their souls the breath of their nostrils He lives beloved he dyes desired is buried with lamentations his generation is blessed and his name is had in everlasting remembrance The Death of Josiah struck the heart of Israel and Judah making their eyes as fountains of tears and their mourning so gr●at that it grew to a Proverb The mourning of Hadadrimon in the valley of Megiddon Zach. 12. 11. His memory shall be blessed his name shall be heir to his life and h●s posterity shall enjoy the fruit of his vertue His children are blessed after him Prov. 20. 7. His righteousness is inherited by his posterity and laid up in everlasting remembrance and his translation shall be unto an incorruptible Crown of Glory which is undefiled and fadeth not away with the whole Family of God and the Spirits of just men made perfect where he shall receive a prepared Kingdom and dwell among those Mansions shining as the Sun in the Firmament for ever and ever FINIS * Kings and Bishops * Veraciter se excusavit de honore regni