Selected quad for the lemma: scripture_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
scripture_n	ghost_n	holy_a	inspiration_n	3,288	5	10.8693	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A21109	The royal lavv: or, The rule of equitie prescribed us by our Sauiour Christ Math. 7.12. Teaching all men most plainly and briefely, how to behaue themselues iustly, conscionably, and vprightly, in all their dealings, toward all men. To the glory of God, and good of Gods church, explaned: by Ricaard [sic] Eburne minister of the Gospel at Hengstridge in Somersetshire.	Eburne, Richard.	1616 (1616)	STC 7472; ESTC S118399	52,023	78

or painted for all men to reade and doe thereafter And as other haue it he being no Christian for it alone much fauoured the Christians affirming often that those men could not be bad that had among them lawes so good Of the hardnesse and difficultie to performe this precept no man hath need greatly to complaine seeing no more is required at his hands to be done to another then he desireth iudgeth fit another should render vnto him the performance whereof can bee no harder for the one then it is for the other Rather it will behooue euery man as of a precept most plaine and pregnant most iust and necessary to be take himselfe with all sedulity and readinesse of mind to the performance and obseruation thereof It is a part of our humane corruption and home-bred or rather inbred imbecillity while we should bee studying how to do that which is commaunded and fulfill that is taught vs to bee thinking on excuses for our negligence and defence of our transgressions But the issue thereof will be onely to take from vs all iust excuse of our disobedience and to conuince vs to haue had more knowledge then loue of well doing and greater ability then purpose strength then desire to keep what is prescribed vs. The Vse of this Law our fourth principall point is manifold and exceeding great but for auoiding Prolixitie and that which comes thereof Tediousnesse I will reduce it vnto a two-fold consideration onelie that is of the 1. Law of God 2. Lawes of men In regard of the law of God as it is the summe both of the Law and the Prophets so it serueth well as a remedy and an helpe against the largenesse and the hardnesse of them both For whereas the Law and the Prophets conteine many volumes of writings too much to bee of euerie ordinarie head comprehended and kept in mind and memory the summe and substance of them both is so contracted into this Compendium that therein alone is conteined and infolded as the quintessence of that greater masse the very summe and effect of all that which in those many and larger Bookes and writings exhortations and dehortations Lawes and ordinances is explaned and enlarged And whereas many places sentences and words in the Law and the Prophets be darke and obscure hard and intricate to bee vnderstood and expounded the sense of them all may be found in these few words alone as which doe conteine whatsoeuer in them or any of them is intended assured that only is and must be the true sense thereof which accordeth as the worke to the rule with this Ground of lawes and foundation of equitie This vse is plainly deliuered vs by our Sauior himselfe in the words annexed Haec est n. Lex Prophetae This is the Law and the Prophets By which clause he doth clearely intimate that al that is conteined in the Law and the Prophets concerning our dutie vnto man is but as it were so many seuerall and particular explications members branches and clauses of this one principall precept and originall statute Doe to others as by others thou wouldest bee done vnto And therefore hee that knoweth this knoweth all and hee that doth this doth all that in and by them to that purpose is more at large taught and commaunded If this be the law and the Prophets for so bee the words and this be as I haue said and happely soone will be granted so plaine and easie to be vnderstood what needeth then may some say so much teaching and preaching A great many Sermons might be saued and lesse Seruice a good deale well enough suffice This charge and cost to maintaine Ministers and Teachers Schollers and learning c. is it not superfluous As Iudas said when hee minded his purse howsoeuer hee pretended the poore so may not we Quorsum haec perditio What needeth al this waste For al that they can say and teach in their so long and so laborious Sermons words and works it is all but this Doe as thou wouldst be done vnto And this I trow one man may tell and teach another quickly Who cannot learne this without any great labour and therfore their pains and their place too may be spared Farther what need so many lawes and statutes so many proclamations and edicts so many Canons and Constitutions to be enacted made published Kings and Princes Gouernors and Rulers of Kingdomes and Countries of Common-wealths and cities haue taken more labour belike then they needed and troubled themselues very much without any great cause in making so many lawes and ordinances in enacting so many statutes and publishing so many orders and decrees when it might haue sufficed to haue proclaimed nothing but this Quaecunque vultis c. But take heede take heede I say of such suggestions This wisedome descendeth not from aboue but is earthly sensual and diuellish Such as so reason and so speake if they thinke as they speake doe not despise men but God and presume themselues to be wiser then he For first of all That which is conteined in this law is but so much only as concernes our disposition and conuersation vnto man that is the obseruation of the second table of Gods law which is but the one halfe and that the lesser and inferiour halfe of the whole For we owe besides this as I thinke euery body knowes a dutie also vnto God which consisteth in the profession and practise of true religion according to the tenour of the first table of Gods law of all which this rule hath not a word Be it then that for our duty toward men this law this abridgement of the second table might suffice yet for our duty to God we must haue a further direction and other helpes And therefore if not in this yet in that regard at least the labour and diligence of the Ministers of the Church is most necessarie and the vse of knowledge and learning exceeding expedient 2. If this alone were instruction sufficient for our dutie vnto man then did God the Father very much forget himselfe with reuerence of his Diuine Maiestie be it spoken in that he did command and send forth his Priests and Prophets from time to time to set forth to the people in their many and large speeches and exhortations not only such things as concerned Gods worship alone but also and withall those and so many of those that concerned our dutie vnto man Neither did the Sonne of God well that he would giue this in charge to his Apostles his Ministers and Preachers of the Gospel to call the people to amendment and newnesse of life to exhort them to all and singular particular duties to insist no lesse on these kind of doctrines then on those which pertaine to religion only Nor yet the holy Ghost by whose inspiration all scripture was written in causing the Law and Prophets and a great part