Selected quad for the lemma: peace_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
peace_n	bring_v	good_a	tiding_n	2,863	5	11.4428	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A42135	Essayes and characters written by L.G.	Griffin, Lewis.	1661 (1661)	Wing G1982A; ESTC R40526	25,748	100

Trebble strining which he hath skrewed up higher then the rest as Gods mercy is above all his works And therefore those turbulent Spirits which are not pacified with the Musick of his Government but are still readie to cast their Javelins even at Majestie it self are surely possessed with a worse Devil then that of Saul A reverend Divine WE read of Venerable Bede that being blinde he was led by an unhappie boy to preach to a heap of stones It is the complaint of many people that their preachers are like Bede blind Guides It is the grief of more Ministers that their hearers are like that sensless Congregation Men of stonie hearts It shall be my prayer that he who is the Sun of Righteousness would enlighten the eyes of the one and mollifie the hearts of the other The Prophets in ancient times were called Seers a name very incongruous for those of our age Few of them can see any thing unless it be moats in the eyes of others when there are beams in their own Where then shall we find a true Divine Diogenes they say sought an honest man and the Place where he sought was Athens the most Famous Universitie of Greece It often times falls out that where there is the most Learning there is the least honestie But that must not be our Rule Humane Learning is necessarie for a Minister for without that he may interpret the Gospel as those Infidels did the words of our dying Lord when they said He calls upon Elias to come and save him or like that bundle of Nonsense tied up in a Cassock that would blot out Eli and write Trumpington or like the Bishop of Dunkelden who knew neither the Old Testament nor the New Yet this Knowledge must be sanctified He that is Mediocriter Doctous let him be Egregie pius Prophane Gown-men are like Psapho's Birds that being let out of their Cage the Achademy Flie into the Countrie Villages and chirp in the Pulpits their half conn'd 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 saluting their Creator as the Crows did Caesar with a Complemental 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 But Latine and Greek Phrases especially if they flow from unhallowed lips are but a stronger charm to sleepie Consciences and dawb an Illiterate Auditorie with the untemperate Morter of the old Babel Two things therefore qualifie a Divine for his Function 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Grace and Eloquence He is in one sense lawfully the Husband of two Wives Philosophie and Divinitie for the one he did with Jacob serve seven years at Oxford or Cambride but alas she proved a blear eyed Leah and not so amiable as he expected But he hath at length gained Rashel that is Divinity which is more beautiful and quiker-sighted He looks upon the sacred scriptures as a dial the Holy Ghost as the Sun whose assistance must needs be necessary for them that read for a dial without the sun is useless yet haying this help we know the truth by the one as well as the time of the day by the other and therefore he sets the watch of his judgement by this dial not like the foolish Sectaries whose erroneous opinions are like lying clocks their braines are full of wheeles which the lusts and passions of their hearts hurry about too fast and make the hammers of their tongues give many false allarum's For that bold phanatick that layes aside the holy writ and walkes by a pretended light within is like the Sextons wife who scorned the advice of the dial and beleived that her husbands clock went truer then the Sun His doctrin is plain and powerful and if he use notes it is onely for method and memory for he delivers nothing but the fruits of his own labour and study As for his prayers they are more mental then oral his words and his meditations hasten towards God as Peter and John towards the sepulcher but his heart like the beloved disciple out runs his tongue and his devotion like a bullet peirces the gates of heaven before you can heare the report of the Gun His preaching may well be called lightening for it hath the same wonderful operation it effects broken hearts in sound breasts and melts the soul in the Scabberd of the body And as he is in regard of doctrine a light of the world so in regard of his Conversation he is the salt of the earth indeed all good men are salt for they season others and keep the body politick from stinking Salt Sulphur and Mercury are the three principles of the Chymists It was the sin and misery of Sodom and Gomorah that they had too little salt and too much sulphur Thus all his actions are savory and well rellished without gross scandal that might be nauseous and offensive to the squeamish stomack of a weak brother for his words and workes are the same thing and his life is a true repetition of his sermon He well understands what our Savour means by a Prophets reward and therefore he hates covetousness and scornes to listen to a Presbyterian Call He is well contented with a competent allowance and accounts the love of his neighbours and the successful fruits of his ministry his best preferment Neither is he only actively but also passively Good and as his innocence shews that he is a sheep so his sufferings argue that he hath been amongst wolves He hath alwayes honoured the King as his master and owned the Bishops as his fathers and for their sake hath been silenced not imprisoned Yet he hath chosen to be ejected rather then to take an Oath against his Prince when he was brought to that hard Dilemma that he could not keep his Benefice and the fifth Commandement But now this harmless dove that was by the Hand of Providence put out of the Ark of his Parsonage is returned again with the olive branch of peace in his mouth to signifie that our deluge of blood is well abated wheresoever therefore he is sent let him be joyfully received for as David said of the Son of Zadock he is a good man and he brings good tidings A Vertuous Woman IS a true coppy of our mother Eve with a perfect correction of all her Errata's The second Edition of a piece of Female divinity polished with beauty and bound up in Chastity to convince the world that piety and goodness are of the feminine Gender He that beholds her thinks he sees the prophesy of a new heaven and a new earth fullfilled for her very countenance looks like the shame fac't blushes of the first light that peep'd out of the ill-shapen Chaos and all her actions are Symptomes of a new Creature Her face is like the face of a Cherubin which she vailes in the presence of God because it is impossible for her to behold his majesty and covers in the presence of men because it is dangerous for them to look upon her beauty Yet she hath an eye not like an ignis