Selected quad for the lemma: soul_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
soul_n	high_a	power_n	resist_v	5,062	5	10.1243	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A08271	A christian familiar comfort and incouragement vnto all English subiects, not to dismaie at the Spanish threats Whereunto is added an admonition to all English Papists, who openly or couertly couet a change. With requisite praiers to almightie God for the preseruation of our queene and countrie. By the most vnworthie I.N.; Christian familiar comfort and incouragement unto all English subjects, not to dismaie at the Spanish threats.	Norden, John, 1548-1625?	1596 (1596)	STC 18604; ESTC S106050	48,283	77

the spoyle of your Prince the losse of your lands and goods the destruction of your wiues children kinsfolke and friends and your owne perpetuall thraldome you purpose shall tend to Gods glorie thinking you shall please God therein Alas sillie deceiued wretches you shall please God as they that in the like blinde zeale burned their owne children sacrificed their owne bodies to diuels But bee not deceiued your inward thirst is but the drouth of treason and although you carrouse not with Ballard and his heroicall crue to quench yet the least drop of your desire to see this wicked practise performed is high treason For whosoeuer followeth not Pauls counsel to submit himselfe to the higher powers let him thinke in resisting them he resisteth the ordināce of God If you wish prosperitie to the Spanyard you obey not your Soueraigne If you disobey her in so high a measure how can you be free in your soules from wishing her death which is meerely treason And in whose behalf doe you it in the enemies of God the professed enemie of the English nation who howsoeuer hee seeketh your loue for the time with promise to loue you still assure you hee will not only answer you as Caesar Angustus did Kymetalces King of Thracia who had forsaken Antonius to ioyne with him and boasting of his treacherous act Caesar dranke kindly to the rest and said to him yea Kymetalces I loue treason well but I loue no traytors Marke what was the rewarde of a King who breaking his faith with one to whom he was not bound as you to your Queene And what will you thinke that this newe master will loue your treasons lesse or you traytors more then did Caesar Nay assure you hee will not onely not drinke vnto you but hee will vomit you out of his conceipt euer to be true to him that are false to your lawfull annoynted Soueraigne It is not your painted religion beautified with counterfeit zeale that can draw him to dreame of your loyaltie and therefore be sure your reward shal be as of deseruing traitors and thinke in the degree of his loue what wil be offered by the basest of his people who will not cease bee sure to giue you your right titles trayterous villaines wherewith our former ignobled rūnagates are wel acquainted in Spaine as Lasthenes was in Olintham where hee was an inhabitant who hauing betrayed the towne to Philip king of Macedon was to his face by euery raskall called traytor who complaining to the king for remedie had this conceited answer The Macedonians saith he are naturally rude and grosse calling a spade a spade and all things else by their proper names by which answer the king couertly called him traitor too And therfore you may thinke that if you seeke reformation of such slanders by actiō of the case against the Spaniards the iudge in your action is as rude as the Macedonians to approue traytors to bee traytors and so to giue you the rewarde of traytors Loe what a glorious thing is it to bee a traytor whose beginning is blinde zeale whose continuance is vaine hope whose end is death and whose death is death eternall Be not therefore still like such as sharpen their tongues like a serpent for all your stings you see are in vaine to hurt whom God protecteth for the poyson that is in your thoughts doth but inuenome your soules to destruction But it may be you wil say that your Romish schoole master telleth you that you must not hearken to any other scripture then to his decrees for that hee hath power to dispense with the scriptures and with your treasons as he list And it is he as he makes you to beleeue that knoweth more then the auncient more then the wise and more then the learned But take heed for hee that cannot say with Dauid My heart meditateth a good matter cannot say My pen is the pen of a direct writer So that all his decrees are counterfeit zeale not written by the pen of the holie Ghost they are founded vpon the fonde inuention of man like Mahomets And that spirit teacheth not him to write a dispensation of your disobedience that taught Peter to say Christ was the sonne of the liuing God So flesh and bloud teacheth him and the holy ghost taught Peter hee plaies the serpent with you If you will eate the forbidden fruite sayth he your eyes shalbee opened If you will followe his forbidden lies and refuse the word commanded you shall be saued He will not haue you associate your selues with the godly nor reade the scriptures that testifie of Christ and teach you obedience to your prince and whereby you may prooue what the will of God is And this i● you bee not blinde you may see tendeth to no other ende but to intrap you not only with treason against your Queene but in rebellion against the high GOD that will haue the Kinges whom he hath ordained to be truely obeyed It may bee wondered at that you wonder not at your selues that you should degenerate by his magicall enchauntments not onely from the rules of humanitie but from the naturall disposition of bruit beasts who euer loue the place of their education a dogge affecteth that house a horse loueth those fields a lyon that desart and all other beasts those places where they haue had their beginning or bringing vp and do as it were respect there allies and familiars But you countrarie to all naturall ciuilitie seeke to dispoyle your owne countrie farre beyond the libertie of the affections of heathen men who haue beene moued to abhor to do il to their vnkind countrey from which they haue beene banished by their cruell countrimen Themistocles a heathen man being vniustly banished from Athens and kindly receiued of the King of Persia from whom he receiued so great benefits as that he to comfort himselfe and his children in banishment sayd VVe had beene vndone if we had not been vndone Could not yet be wonne to serue the Persian king in his warres which was betweene him and the Athenians although hee were offered a place of great honour but chose rather voluntary death then to bee treacherous to his countrie How vnnaturall are you thē that being not onely not banished but fostered euen in the bosome of your naturall and louing countrie should so farre imbrace the counterfeit loue of a straunger that fawneth vpon you like a weeping crocadile as that you should in heart wish much lesse by armes offer any shew of disloyaltie to your countrie or gratious Queene Thinke this that beside the sweete affections which nature it selfe hath imprinted in the hearts of all men towardes their country the benefits that you haue receiued within yours and the protection which her Maiesties lawes hath yeelded you should bee vnto you as an obligation to bind you if religion and diuine equitie were not to serue the publique