Selected quad for the lemma: blood_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
blood_n	aaron_n	bid_v	rod_n	24	3	9.4255	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A19065	Christian offices crystall glasse In three bookes. First written in Latine, by that famous and renowned Father, Saint Ambrose Bishop of Millane. Whereunto is added his conuiction of Symmachus the Gentile. A worke tending to the advancement of vertue, and of holinesse: and to shew how much the morality of the Gentiles, is exceeded by the doctrine of Christianity. Translated into English by Richard Humfrey ...; De officiis. English	Ambrose, Saint, Bishop of Milan, d. 397.; Humfrey, Richard.	1637 (1637)	STC 548; ESTC S100171	335,831	469

him did he not deale honestly by them that when he had smote them first with blindnes to hinder their attempt he afterward brought them into Samaria desired God to open a 2 Kings 6.20 their eyes and prevailed Wherefore when the King of Israel would have smitten them and b Eamque sibi dari à propheta facultatem posceret required leaue of the Prophet he answered him smite whom thou hast taken with thy sword and with thy bow but as for these set bread and water before them And this kindnesse c Ver. 23. so much overcame them that they came no more into the land of Israel How much doth this exceed that of the Greekes that when two d The Athenians and Lacedaemonians striving for the honour of the victory over the Persians at Plataees Plutarch in the life of Aristides saith it was given to the Plataeans yet afterward sundry sorts of people did strive one against the other for glory and dominion and the one e Themistocles having this device in his head to make the state of Athens greatest among the Greekes in estimation by setting on fire the arcenall where all their shippes lay was censured by of them had occasion offered to set on fire privily the ships of the other thought it a dishonour and chose f Aristides for vnjust and perfidious rather to do what was g Maluitque minùs posse honestè quàm plus turpiter lesse honestly then what was more dishonestly Now these could not doe this thing without committing of wickednesse For they in so doing must needes deceiue them who convened with them in society to make an end of the Persian warres and closely working them this mischeife though it might haue bin denied yet would shame have so covered their faces that they might not being charged with it haue forborn blushing But Elisha sought not to insnare though they sought his life but to preserve those Syrians whom the Lord had smitten because it was both honest and honourable to spare the bloud of an enemy when ir was in his power to haue spilt it Wherefore it clearely appeareth whatsoever is honestly carried and in a comely manner is alwaies commodious and commendable For both holy Iudith raised the siege by her comely and couragious contempt of her owne safety and procured the publike vtility by her owne proper attempt and divinely preserved honesty and Elisha got to himselfe more worthy praise by pardoning and feasting the adversary h Decoro contemptu then hee should haue done by vncourteous intertaining more profit to the kingdome by saving then hee should haue done by intercepting him What other thing did Iohn the Baptist but consider and examine the point of honesty and thereby discerne vnhonest wedlocke in the King and so grow to tell him boldly that it was not lawfull i Mark 6.18 for him to haue his brothers wife He could haue beene silent had he not iudged it vnbeseeming his calling for feare of death to haue his mouth stopped from speaking the truth and this to k Potuit tacere nisi in decorum sibi iudicasset mortis metu verum non dicere inclinari regi propheticam authoritatem adulatione subtexere be palpable flattery to pretend that propheticall in this case must bow to princely authority He knew because for the preservation of piety he was refractary to a King and must therefore die yet it stood him vppon to preferre honesty and the honour of religion before his owne security m Dan. 13.21 and verely what was more profitable then l 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Stoica quae malorum peccatisen su non afficitur refragatur Exemplo Mosis Exod 32.19 et hic Baptistae Observanda tamen phrasis Aug. lib. 22. contra Faust Manich. in vitia saevire nos jubet Psalmista psal 4.4 saevire Apostolus Col. 3.5 mortificate membra that which brought the glory of martyrdome to this holy man And holy Susanna was not drawne through the terror of false testimonie to runne into the crime of incontinency when shee saw her selfe to bee vrged on this side with perill on that side with reproach but would rather by an honest death fly infamy then by seeking present safety to be branded with the stampe of eternall disloyaltie Therefore while she truly intended what made for her honesty shee extended thereby the thred of her life who if she had preserved that which seemed commodious for life before it she had not wonne so great renowne yea rather that which might have beene not only discommodious but perilous also she had not perhaps escaped the punishment of a crime Wherefore we observe that what is shamefull cannot be gainfull neither what is honest and pious unprofitable Because true profit comprehendeth necessary probity true probity piety and for that each of these friendly drawing together in one yoke cooperate in their mutuall offices Gods glory and the good of his people The Rhetoricians relate it as a thing memorable that the Roman n Fabricius discovered to Pyrrhus his Physicions conspiracy Plutarch in the life of Pyrrhus Captaine when the physition of an opposite king came to him and offered to give his Master poison and so to make a speedy dispatch of the warres harkened not to him bound him and sent him backe to the King his master to receive condigne punishment of his treacherie And verely it was a brave resolution that undertaking armes to trie valour hee would not vanquish by fraud For hee placed not honesty in the victory but even the victory it selfe sought by dishonest meanes in a base manner hee reputed ignominious But to let forreine testimonies goe and to come home to our owne Moses and other farre precedent monuments unto this which being drawne out exceed no lesse in excellency then in antiquity The King of Egypt would not suffer the people of Israel to depart Moses bid Aaron stretch out his rodde over all the o Exod. 7.20 waters he stretched it out and the waters of the rivers were turned into bloud and no man could drinke thereof they both sprinkled p Chap. 9.10 ashes toward heaven and there came a scabbe and brake forth into blisters and bladders upon man and upon beast they brought downe q Chap. 9.23 haile mingled with fire and thunder to the destroying whatsoever was abroad in the fields throughout all Egypt only in r Verse 26. Goshen there was no haile But when Moses besought the Lord for remedie against these evils all things were restored to their former estate the haile ceased the ulcers were healed the waters cleared Pharaoh remaining still rebellious to God the land was covered over with ſ Exod. 10.22 Moriebatur darknesse for three dayes together upon Moses lifting up his hands to heaven The Egyptians had t Chapt. 11.5 all their first borne slaine the Hebrewes had all their children u Chapt. 12.27 preserved But to these