Selected quad for the lemma: virtue_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
virtue_n	knowledge_n	lord_n	temperance_n	1,588	5	11.7145	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A03344	The crie of England A sermon preached at Paules Crosse in September 1593 by Adam Hill Doctor of Diuinitie, & published at the request of the then Lord Maior of the citie of London, and others the aldermen his brethren	Hill, Adam, d. 1595.	1595 (1595)	STC 13465; ESTC S115191	52,777	122

secondly honor and they dishonour their parents thirdly sustentation in necessitie and they rob their parents fourthly seruice in all obsequies they are rebellious fiftly reuerence in words and they are taunters sixtly obedience in honest things and they are disobedient seuenthly pardon in offences and they like Cham discouer their Parents shame eightly tolerance in aduersitye and they refuse to acknowledge their parents Therfore noble houses are decaied the posteritie of the rich are brought to scarsitie the extorcioner consumeth their wealth and horrible is the end of the vnrighteous generation For either with Absolom they are hanged or with the Sonnes of Eli they are slaine or with the sonnes of Iob their braines are dasht out or with the sonnes of Saul they are beheaded or with the children of Ierusalem they are brought to a perpetuall desolation To tel here how some are scoffers with Ismael some adulterers with the sons of Eli some bribers as the sonnes of Samuel some theeues as the sonnes of Achan some gluttons as the sonnes of Iob some Atheists neither seruing God nor honoring the Magistrate nor louing the Minister nor reuerencing the aged nor obeying their father nor submitting themselues to their mother nor pittying the poore nor regarding their consanguinitie were too long for me to speak and tedious for you to heare only this I say our children are the children of wrath and of endles destruction for the most part Euil example of Magistrats Ministers and Fathers Euil example of Magistrats maketh sin exceeding great are an other meanes to aggrauate sin For when Israel coupled himself to Baal Peor the Lord being angrye saide thus to Moses Num. 25.4 Take all the heads of the people and hang them vp before the Lord against the sun that the indignation of the Lordes wrath may cease from Jsrael Magistrates should be men noble in birth in knowledge and in vertues As they haue a crown of pure gold so must they shine in puritie to their subiectes as they are deckt with precious stons so must they shine in excellent vertues as they weare chaines of gold so they must be endued with wisdome iustice fortitude and temperance as they haue a scepter so they may not he bēded from iustice to oppression or from clemencye to foolish pittie They are the Sun of the cōmon weale therefore if they be darkened there must needes followe horror and confusion they are the heart of the political bodie if they be poysoned with the venome of sinne the whole body must needs be infected to death Ieroboam made all the people to commit idolatry Baasha slew Jeroboam and al his house and left none aliue 1. king 15 2● 9. c. because of the sinnes of Jeroboam which be committed and wherewith he made Israel to sin by prouocation So is it written of Baasha that he made all Israel to sin 1. King 16.11 But Baasha and all his posteritie were destroyed for it Zimri also was burnt 1. King 16.18.19 because hee walked in the sinnes of Jeroboam and made all Israel to sin Omri also walked in the sins of Jeroboam 1. King 16.26 and made al Israel to sin The like may be spoken of Ahab and of other wicked Kings for there are many causes why they fal 1. the loftines of their estate because they haue none to controll them 2. the abundance of al things 3. the delights which they haue in this world 4. their libertie because they are aboue al and subiect to none 5. the example of wicked gouernors 6. the troubles of worldly thinges 7. slatterye then the which nothing is more pernicious Euil examples of ministers maketh sin exceeding great The euill example of Ministers doth likewise make sin heinous for the Minister must be an example to his flock and zealous of good workes but if hee be either a proud person and louer of preheminence as Diotrophes was or a louer of the world as Demas was or a couetous caitiffe as Iudas was or a false Prophet as were those that fed at the table of Iezabel thē no doubt but they draw the people from religion to superstition from the spirit to the flesh frō Christ to the world and from God to the diuell If there be a tree withered saith Chrysostome the fault is in the roote Chrysostome so if ye see the people irreligious the fault is in the Ministers and this is a true saying in Augustine Gregory and Bernard He that liueth ill in the sight of those ouer whome he ruleth as much as in him lyeth killeth them for whose life is abhominable his doctrine cānot not be acceptable There are three thinges necessarye for a Preacher 3. Things necessarie for a Preacher knowledge which is noted in the booke sent to Ezechiel eloquence which is noted in the hot cole that purged Esay holinesse of life which is noted in the hand sent to Ieremy If a Preacher lacke knowledge hee is an idol if hee lacke vtterance hee is an infant but if he lacke holines of life hee is a diuel It sorroweth me to thinke of the Ministers of England for either we neuer learne to speake which is slothfulnesse or else we speak before we learne which is rashenes or else we learn neuer speak which is idlenes or els we speak to please itching eares which is flattery or else we speak falsely against the truth which is impietie The euil example therefore of the Ministers which haue gifts giuē them from aboue to gather togither the body of Christ and yet do scatter which should build vp the house of the Lord and do destroy it which should sow the pure seede of the word of vnitie and they sow the darnel of dissention is an other heinous crime which prouoketh to eternall destruction The like may be said of Fathers who participate the name of God our eternal father Euil example of Father maketh sin exceeding great because they should beget vs in the worde of truth bring vs vp in the feare of the Lord and by their example teach vs to worshippe our God and serue him in holines righteousnes all the dayes of our life But good Lord how far are we from this dutye for we bring them vp in dancing dicing and daliance not in religion we teach them to oppresse deceiue in bargaining we confirme them in idolatrye and schismes and make them instruments of iniquitie What is the reason that we haue so many recusant Papists in England but onely this the ill example of their fathers What is the reason our Saboths be openly prophaned throughout this land ill example of the fathers for whereas they shuld specially care that day of the Lord to enstruct their families in the faith of Christ they do that daye bring them forth to leade their dance in contempt both of Gods commandement and his Ministers Happie are those that may say with Dauid Psal 22 4.5 Our fathers hoped in