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	inspire_v	2,844	5	10.2489	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A11483	Gods arrowe of the pestilence. By John Sanford Master of Artes, and chapleine of Magdalen Colledge in Oxford	Sanford, John, 1564 or 5-1629.	1604 (1604)	STC 21734; ESTC S102391	30,165	68

GODS ARROWE Of the PESTILENCE By JOHN SANFORD Master of Artes and Chapleine of Magdalen Colledge in Oxford PSAL. 64.7 God will shoote an arrowe at the evill doers suddenly their stroke shall be at once AT OXFORD Printed by Ioseph Barnes and are to be sold in Paules Churchyard at the signe of the Crowne by Simon Waterson 1604. TO THE RIGHT WORshipful the Vicechancelour the Doctours Proctours and Heades of Houses and to the rest of the Students of the most famous Vniversity of Oxford Grace and Peace be multiplied REverend Right Worsh Fathers and Brethren beloved in our Lord Saviour Christ Iesus Having of late been induced perswaded vpon former triall of my strength in privat exercise to haue delivered some part of this Treatise in publike place and afterwardes finding my selfe prevented by that infirmitie which at other times had overtaken me in your hearing to my no small discouragement and the griefe of many my good friendes I was enforced to forbeare the place and to leaue the exercise vnperformed yet supposing this to be an honest and lawfull kinde of Vorsura to borrow of my hand to pay my tongues debt I haue presumed to present it to your graue iudgements in writing and vnder your Worsh names to publish it to the world What the wil and purpose of God is in this māner to put me to silence I do not busy my selfe to inquire neither would I haue other rashly and curiously to iudge Exod 29 29 2. Tim 4 5 Secret things belong to God In that I cōtinued thus vnserviceable for the work of an Evangelist in speech and vtterance I resolued with a Reverend man among vs Evangelizare manu scriptione to preach according to my poore ability by my hand and by writing D. Rainolds Epist ad Com Essex Let no man thinke that I pretend infirmity as a covert for Idlenesse for I haue heretofore offered and presented my labours of a willing and ready minde when I might haue withdrawne my selfe And I feare to truant in this busines vnder any such coulourable excuse least that shold befall mee which happened vnto Caelius who to avoide the Ave potentiorum to giue his attendance earely and late vpon the great ones of his times faigned himselfe sicke of the gowt so cunningly that his hypocrisie came home to him and he fel sicke of the gowt indeed Tantum cura potest ars doloris Martial l. 7 Epig. 38. Desit fingere Caelius podagram What my infirmity is I cannot well tell you because Galen saith it hath no name yet I finde that it effecteth that which there he saith loquelam De Sympt Causis lib. 2 cap. 2. quae voluntatis nō leve est opus prorsus adimit it cleane depriveth bereaveth a man of speech which is the principall worke and the most noble Action of his will Iam. 3 2. Enarrat in Psal 37. qui in lingua non peccavit c. Saint Iames faith according to St. Augustines reading that hee that offendeth not in his tongue is a perfect man it is ment that sense according to which the Paroemiast speaketh in multiloquio stultiloquium Prov. 10.19 where Austen saith Non frustra lingua in vdo est Aug. ibid. quia facilè labitur The tongue may as well offend in too much silence as in lavishnes of wordes For to be wilfully silēt in Gods messadge in which the neglect is attended on with a vae ● Cor. 9.16 Ier 48 10. negligēce with a curse is to faile of a Ministers active perfection the chiefe complements whereof are the right vse of his hand and tōgue If I haue wilfully neglected or negligently handled the worke of the Lord Psa 137.5.6 then let my tongue ever cleaue to the roofe of my mouth and let my right hand also forget her cunning Mark 7 35. Luke 1 64 Motus linguae vitiatur per septimam nervorum coniugationē Gal. de locis affectis lib. c 2. But seeing it hath pleased God not to loose the strings of my tongue for vtterāce as to Zacharias but rather by solution of the cōiugation of nerves to disable my speech J must learn with Saint Paule even in this also to bee content Philip. 4.11 Especially seeing that Gods worthiest servantes haue complained of like infirmities Ser 44. in Cant. Saint Bernarde saith that weaknes of bodie oftentimes inioyned him silence and inforced him to pause in the midst of his sermons and abruptly to breake off his Disputations and Lectures Concerning this present discourse as I conceived it vpō occasion of the daunger of these times and since haue inlardged it with a Summary collection of that which at other times I had delivered elsewhere touching the same matter I thought it good to shoot it abroad like one of Ionathans Arrowes 1. Sam. 20.22 to giue men warning of Gods displeasure beseeching him to guide it to the marke wherevnto it was levelled namely to worke in vs all a trembling feare of his wrathfull indignation our true harty conversion which I pray God to graunte vnto vs. And I humbly beseech your Wor to accept this my silly labour with that wōted favour wherewith I haue alwaies founde my indeavours to haue beene accepted and intertained of you God of his mercie double his Spiritual graces vpō you giving you a large heart 1. King 4.29 to vnderstande and to comprehende the riches of his goodnes and the wonderfull thinges of his law and replenish you with godly zeale seasoned with discretion truely to seekc the advancement of his glory sincere worship and the good of his Church From Magdalen Colledge this 13. of March 1603. Your worships in all Christian duty JOHN SANFORD Gods Arrow of the Pestilence Psal 38.2 For thine arrowes have light vpon me and thine hand lieth vpon mee c. THAT which Tullie sometimes saide of Crantors booke de luctu Est non magnus In lucullo sive lib 2 Acad Quest verùm aureolus libellus The same may more cruely be spokē of this booke of the Psalmes that it is but a smal volume but in deed a golden booke both for the stuffe and the matter thereof as containing in it the true and vndoubted word of God which as the Psalmist saith is pure to be desired super aurum obrizum even before fine golde Psal 19 10 as also for the multiplicity of Argument fitted to yeeld comfort instruction to all estates of men in their severall occurrences and distresses and therein also is more cordiall medicinable then the Paracelsians aurum potabile so much commended by Iohannes Franciscus Picus Mirandula Lib. 1 de au●o ca. 4 Saint Basill in his preface to the first Psalme saith that the whole body of the Scriptures inspired by God was therfore purposely indighted by the holie Ghost that every man might there finde a medicine and confection for his particular disease 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉