Selected quad for the lemma: evil_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
evil_n	bitter_a	good_a	light_n	2,289	5	8.2364	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A07312	The golden art, or The right way of enriching Comprised in ten rules, proued and confirmed by many places of holy Scripture, and illustrated by diuers notable examples of the same. Very profitable for all such persons in citie or countrie, as doe desire to get, increase, conserue, and vse goods with a good conscience. By I.M. Maister in Arts.	Maxwell, James, b. 1581.	1611 (1611)	STC 17700; ESTC S120331	125,557	228

that shall come vpon you your riches are corrupt Iam. 5.1.2.3.4.5 and your garments are motheaten your gold and siluer is cankred and the rust of them shall bee a witnesse against you and shall eate your flesh as it were fire Ye haue heaped vp treasure to wit by violent oppression cruell extortion vsury and vnrighteous detention for the last daies yee haue withholden the hire of the labourers yee haue liued in pleasure on the earth and in wantonnesse yee haue nourished your hearts as in a day of slaughter yee haue condemned and killed the iust and hee hath not resisted you Finallie the blessed Apostle Paul exhorteth 1. Thes 4.6 that no man oppresse or defraud his brother in any matter for the Lord is the auenger of all such things Hee will bee auenged on all oppressours Godspoilers Church-robbers extortioners bribers vniust detainers and all such violent men Prou. 4.17 that as Salomon speaketh eate the bread of wickednesse and drinke the wine of violence and chiefly vpon all peruerters of equitie iustice and iudgement Euen vpon such as imagine iniquitie vpon their beds and eate the bread of iniquitie at their bords and speake and practise iniquitie at the barre and in the seate of iudgement In a word the great Law-giuer and Iudge of the world will bee auenged on all lawlesse Lawyers on all peruerse pleaders and proctors and on all vniust Iudges And therefore let all such folkes as are excised and emploied about lawes iustice and iudgement perswade themselues of this that the time shall come when a day of law shall hold when all their tricks and entanglements their niceties and their nets their deceits and their delaies their bribing and their biting their negligence in following and furthering a good cause and their diligence in an euill And finallie their deceitfull collusions and vnlawfull conclusions shall bee laid open before men and Angels Then they shall bee all tongue-tied and shall not haue so much as one word to answere or pleade for themselues No though all the subtiltie policie craft and eloquence of all the Lawyers and Iudges of the world were to bee found in any one such man yet shall hee not haue so much as one word to vtter in his owne defence God shall intend processe against him the Angels both good and bad shall pleade against him so shall good and holie men and that which is more his owne conscience shall accuse him yea his owne tongue shall condemne him So that it may bee well said that as a iust Iudge is a visible god so is an vniust Iudge a visible diuell And as an vpright Lawyer is an earthlie Saint so is an vnrighteous Aduocate Pleader Proctour or Atturney worse then an hereticke For the hereticke sinneth most part of ignorance where as the vnrighteous and deceitfull Lawyer sinneth against his knowledge both wittinglie and willinglie For although hee know his parties cause to bee euill yet benefit and gaine will make him to say that it is good and his aduersaries cause which hee knoweth to bee good the same gaine will make him to say that it is euill In which doing they make themselues obnoxious vnto that fearefull woe pronounced by the Lord and his holie seruant Isaiah Isai 5.18.19.20.23 Woe vnto them that draw iniquitie with cordes of vanitie and sinne as with cartropes Woe vnto them that speake good of euill and euill of good which put darkenesse for light and light for darkenesse that put bitter for sweete and sweet for soure which iustifie the wicked for a reward and take away the right of the vpright or righteous man from him Amos 5.7 Woe vnto them that decree wicked decrees and write grieuous things As if he should say such Iudges as turne iudgement into gall and such Lawyers as turne the fruit of righteousnesse into wormewood shall one day know what it is to peruert iustice equitie and iudgement what it is to call euill good and good euill what it is to make right wrong and wrong right Their delight was in turning of things one into another and therefore their plague shall bee conformable to the nature of their trespasse They turned good into euill and sweete into sowre and therefore shall God turne their sweete wine into waters of gall Ierem. 8.14 9.15 23.15 Iob 20.16 and their daintie cheere and pleasant bread into wormewood they shall sucke the gall of Aspes and the old Serpents tongue shall slay them Isai 66.24 for their worme shall not die neither shall their fire bee quenched Iob 15.33.34.35 God shall destroy them as the vine her sowre grapes and shall cast them off as the oliue doth her floure For the congregation of the hypocrite shall be desolate and fire shall deuoure the houses of bribes For they conceiue mischiefe and bring foorth vanitie and their bellie hath prepared deceit That is their bellie hath made them deceiuers and double dealers and peruerters of equitie and right euen belli-gods who for the loue of their bellie care not a pin to displease God 20.12.13.14.15.23.26 And because wickednesse was sweet in their mouth and they hid it vnder their tongue and fauoured it and would not forsake it but keepe it close in their mouth therefore God saith the holie man shall turne their meate in their bellie into the gall of Aspes yea the substance they haue deuoured God shall draw it out of their bellie So that when they shall bee about to fill their bellie with meate gotten by peruerting of equitie by vnrighteous pleading and vniust iudgement God shall send vpon them his fierce wrath and shall cause to raine vpon them euen vpon their meate yea the fire that is not blowne shall deuoure them and their bellie both and that which remaineth in their Tabernacle shal bee destroyed And therefore let mee say vnto euery student in this Art that which Salomon saith Prou. 2.20.21.22 Walke thou in the way of good men and keepe the waies of the righteous For the iust shall dwell in the land and the vpright men shall remaine in it but the wicked shall bee cut off from the earth and the transgressour shall bee rooted out of it V. Rule The poore man must not purchase goods nor the rich man increase his goods alreadie gotten by vsing of vsurie or false weights by keeping of pledges or hording vp of corne to a more deare time and by ouerprising of wares by keeping or holding of whore-houses by sinfull playing and gaining nor yet by cosening cogging deceiuing and lying for all such wealth of vanitie will soone vanish Probation and declaration Exod. 22.25.26.27 Deut. 24.12.13 IF thou lend money to my people saith the Lord by Moses that is to the poore with thee thou shalt not be as an vsurer vnto him yee shall not grieue him with vsurie If thou take thy neighbours raiment to pledge thou shalt restore it vnto him before the Sunne goe downe for