Selected quad for the lemma: scripture_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
scripture_n	holy_a	person_n	trinity_n	2,662	5	9.6888	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A72482	Keepe within compasse: or, the worthy legacy of a wise father to his beloued sonne teaching him how to liue richly in this world and eternally happy in the world to come. Meete for all sorts of people whatsoeuer.	Trundle, John.	1619 (1619)	STC 14898.5; ESTC S104889	14,131	50

Keepe within Compasse OR The worthy Legacy of a wise Father to his beloued Sonne teaching him how to liue richly in this world and eternally happy in the world to come Meete for all sorts of people whatsoeuer Atheisme ✚ Pray in thy Chamber In Religion VERTVE Luxury ✚ Conuerse with good Men Conuersation Gluttony ✚ Eate thine owne Labours Dyet Prodigality ✚ Suite thine owne Calling Apparell Printed at London for I. Trundle dwelling in Barbican TO THE WORTHY Gentleman and his best respected Friend Mr. Roger Taylor all those good wishes his owne heart desireth Worthy SIR THE frequent custome of this Age to challenge Patrons and to trouble their braines with bestowing vpon those Patrons Mountebancke Encomiums hath no whit at all taken vp my minde since no folly can be greedy thereof but shall purchase wit enough for that purpose Suffice it is my true knowledge of you and my truer loue vnto you which makes mee send this poore infant of my braine and slender Collections to kisse your hand which in as much as the roote or centre is Vertue the circumference that happy list or bound out of which no good man will willingly stray and in which I know the goodnesse of your inclination makes you delight to liue on whom can I better bestow it both in respect of the thing which onely looketh vpon Vertue and in respect of your selfe who is not onely a louer but a supporter of the vertuous So that to conclude if your acceptance shall say I haue done well I will beleeue all which are good like you will agree with you who doth the contrary I will laugh at for hee loues not Goodnesse Yours Iohn T. To the Reader PEruse this Diall euery day Wherein no hower shall passe away But by it thou shalt learne to finde Some Iewell to inrich thy minde Count one the first hower of thy breath And all the rest to lead to death Count twelue thy dolefull passing Bell And so my Dyall shall goe well The Dyall The Howers I ONe God one Baptisme and one Faith One Truth there is the Scripture saith II Two Testaments the Olde and New Wee must acknowledge to be true III Three Persons in the Trinitie Doe make one God in Vnitie IIII Foure holy Euangelists there are Which Christs birth life death declare V Fiue wounds the Iewes our Sauiour gaue Whence flow'd the bloud that all men saue VI Sixe dayes to labour is no wrong For God himselfe did worke so long VII Seauen deadly Sinnes in man doe rest Which once expell'd mans soule is blest VIII Eight in Noahs Arke alone were found When in a word the world lay drown'd IX Nine Hyrarchies of Angels rayse Both day and night Iehouahs praise X Tenne Statutes God to Moses gaue Which broke or kept doe spill or saue XI Eleauen aboue with God doe dwell The twelfth burnes in perpetuall hell XII Twelue attended on Gods Sonne Twelue made the Creede my Dyall's done Keep within Compasse OR A Direction for good life In Religion FIrst my sonne vnderstand that Religion is a Iustice of men towards God or a diuine honouring of him in the perfect and true knowledge of his word peculiar onely to man It is the ground of all other vertues and the onely meanes to vnite and reconcile man vnto God for his saluation And whosoeuer breaketh out of this list or circumference strayeth through Atheisme into eternall damnation True Religion is the soule of Innocency mouing in an uspotted conscience To be doubtfull in Religion is to bee certaine of the greatest punishment True Religion hath thrée vertues to be knowne by first it serueth the true God next limiteth euery action by the word and lastly reconciles man to his Maker if hee doe pursue it The first precept from the wisest Philosopher was to feare God and the first Law amongst good men to increase Religion It is Faith and not Reason which teachethmen Religion Religion is the stay of the weake the master of the ignorant the philosophy of the simple As hée that heareth without eares can interpret our prayers without our tongues so a religious man may pray and neuer open his lips Religion is the oratory of the deuout the remedy of sinne the counsell of the iust and the comfort of them in tribulation Religion is that absolute cleane Beast which both chaweth the cud and diuides the hoofe for it makes a man ruminate and chaw holy meditations till they giue diuine nourishment and the one claw poynteth man to the feare of God the other to the loue of his neighbour Hée is happily religious whom no feare troubleth no sorrow consumeth no fleshly lust tormenteth no desire of worldly wealth afflicteth nor any foolishnesse moueth vnto mirth Religion teacheth men to pray and no man is so happy as he whose life is a continuall prayer Religion is the wings that beare the soule vp to heauen and meditation the eye which onely can sée God liuing Religious deuotion is a continuall discourse or conference with God for when thou readest God speakes to thée when thou praiest thou talkst with God True Religion makes prayer ascend that Grace may descend In thy deuotions fixe thy iudgement on thy faith not on thine experience for faith is truth experience but deceitfull To desire sufficient things is néedlesse for God will giue them vndemanded but desire to bee contented with such things as he bestoweth for therein will consist thy happinesse Except true religion make vs vnderstand God in his word our sight is but blindnes our vnderstanding ignorance our wisedome foolishnesse and our deuotion diuellishnesse Religion will teach thée to know that God is a most bright Sunne which ariseth vpon those that feare him and goes downe from them that are carelesse and prophane God sits in the highest heauens if thou wilt lift vp thy selfe vnto him hee will flye from thée but if thou humbless thy selfe before him he will come downe vnto thée True Religion brings a man vp to heauen which is the seat of glory the habitation of Angels the resting place of the faithfull farre beyond thought and glorious beyond report Hee that bites of euery wéede must néedes taste poyson and he that is of diuers religions must néedes méete with damnation Religion will make thée know well and doe well and they are the only two poynts belonging to Uertue As plants measurably watred grow the better but being watred too much are drowned and dye so opinions in religion mixt with moderation are made sound and refreshed but accompanyed with too seuere curiositie oft turne and conuert to heresie As a ship with a sure Anchor may lye any where so the minde ruled by religious reason is quiet at all seasons Since holy Writ shewes vs Gods holy power With pure heart adore him euery howre Begin thy dayes worke when the day begins First blessing Gods thrice blessed name deuout And then at euening when thy labour ends Prayse him againe so bring the day