Selected quad for the lemma: son_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
son_n	brother_n	father_n	sister_n	23,792	5	10.2345	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A03912	The image of God, or laie mans boke in which the right knowledge of God is disclosed, and diuerse doubtes besides the principal matter, made by Roger Hutchinson. 1550.	Hutchinson, Roger, d. 1555.	1560 (1560)	STC 14020; ESTC S104325	175,281	406

offices and duties Ther be mo ministrations I wil not denay but they may be reduced all to these thre The Papistes make .vii. orders ostiaries or porters reders acolits exorcistes subdeacons deacons and priestes but nether of the names of .v. of them nor y t which is meant bi the names nor their crea●iō nor their offices be expressed in the scripturs And if I wold recite the offices that they thē se●es assigne and their forme of creaciō I think mo would laugh at them then alow them Some of the doctours write that ther were some so called in y e church at their daies but that their offices were such as they decribe they can not shewe out of any doctour They haue kept the names and chaunged the duties and offices and haue appointed thē other duties as it is plain namely in the office of a deacon and so they do not only rack y e scriptures but also depraue and corrupt the doctors to maintein their dreames and phantasies and by the name of antiquitie and fathers they leade vs from our father in heauen The .ix. Chapter ¶ God is truth and whether it be lawfull or honest to lie for any consideration GOD is also full of truth and mercy of whom Dauid witnesseth that al his waies or pathes ar mercy and truth He destroieth al those that forge lies deliteth in such as be true for he is truth it self Salomō amōg .vii. things which God hateth rekeneth lying twise as y t which God most abhorreth affirming also in another place that a false witnes lying lips shal not escape punishment Ther be that thinke it lawful to lie as y e marchaunt man to sell his wares with more aduaūtage the Priscillianistes who held this opinion y t for a greater aduaūtage lying is not forbidden to couer their couetousnes to excuse their daily lying they make thre sortes of lies Ioco sum perniciosum officiosum ges●ing lies pernicious officious of the which thei say two kindes to be lawful honest cōmendable bringing these examples Nasica when he came to Ennius the Poets house to speak with him Ennius hauing earnest busines cōmaunded his maide to mete him at the dore and to say that he was not within who knowing that her maister had bidden her to say so because of his busines departed Sone after it fortuned y t Ennius came to his house and knocking at y e dore enquired for him Nasica hearing one knock and perceiuing out of a window that it was Ennius answered with a loud voice that he was not at home But Ennius knew his voyce and came in Then nasica came vnto hym and sayd you are impudent for I beleued your maid that you were not at home and wil not you beleue me my self In this exāple be two lyes one of Ennius mayd at her maisters cōmaūdement the other of Nasica in the way of iest and mirth whiche both be defended to be honest But I tel you al lying is forbidden Sara also is alleged who when she had laughed denied it to thre men which came vnto Abraham and he likewyse is brought in for calling hys wyfe his sister And Iacob the patriark through the sutteltie of lying stoieaway his fathers blessing and the title of enheritaunce from his elder brother Esau at the coūsel of his mother Rebecca The scripture recordeth also that God delt wel with the midwifes of Egipt made them houses because with a lie thei hindred the deuillish entent of cruell kyng Pharao and preserued the babes of the Hebrues from death How is it true thē that he destroieth all liyng lyps Ananias and Saphi●a his wife are slaine for lying but Raab the harlot is rewarded numbred of S. Paul among the faithfull because she by lying saued the messengers or spies of the Israelites from the pursuers of the kyng of Iericho Iehu the kyng of Israel saying he had a great sacrifice to do vnto Baal gathering his priests from al the coasts of Israel into one temple murdered them all thorow his lye is not reproued for the same wherfore all lying is not forbiddē We read of Christ himself how he fayned that he wold go further then y e town of Emaus and the elect vessell S. Paul is not abashed to say he was a citizen of Rome and borne fre With these e●āples lying is mainteined disceit and falshod alowed and named policie and prudēce But I saye vnto you ye abuse Gods word ye rack it ye make it a nose of wax ye open it not with the ryght key but with a picklock name not subtiltie pollicie nor lying ieste or dutie all craftie schoffing all profitable lying is dampnable You bring for the defence of your leasinges Nasica Sara Abraham Iacob the midwifes of Egipt Raab Iehu Paul and Christ. As for Nasica his saying was a ieste a mery conceit and no lye Iestes mery conceites be no lies for as much as they be vttered not to harme noy or hynder any man but for myrth sake A man may affirme y t which is false and yet make no lye for to ly is to affirme an vntruth w t a mynd to hurt ēdamage and deceiue som man therby Abrahā said not to Abimilech she is not my wyfe but she is my sister which was true for she was his sister by his father but not by his mother the daughter of Aran his brother and consequētly of his father for asmoch as filij siliorum dicuntur etiam filii auorum the sonne sonnes or daughters are called also the sonnes and daughters of the grandfathers And so she was Abrahās sister because she was his fathers daughter and she was his fathers daughter because she was his brothers daughter Wherfore he spake nothynge that was false but he kepte y t close which was true saiyng she was his sister and not cōfessing her his wyfe the which thing also his sonne Isaac did afterward But this was no liyng to hyde the truth but to affirme that which is false And otherwise Sara lied in dede and her example is in that poynt to be eschued for many thinges are wrytten which are not to be folowed The story of Iacob is no lye but a mistery and the mistery proued true afterward When his father asked him who art thou son He answered I am Esau thy eldest sōne wherby nothing els is meant and signefied then that which Chrest saith ye shal se Abraham and Isaach and Icob and all the Prophetes in the kyngdome of God and your selues thrust out they shall come from the east and weste and north and south and sit in the kingdom of God and behold they be last which shalbe fyrst and they be fyrst which shal be last This thing nowe is com to passe for we are his people which wer not his people and his beloued which were not beloued S. Paule nameth this a mistery I