Selected quad for the lemma: evil_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
evil_n	evil_a	good_a	woe_n	2,007	5	10.0357	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A13103	A motiue to good workes Or rather, to true Christianitie indeede. Wherein by the waie is shewed, how farre wee are behinde, not onely our fore-fathers in good workes, but also many other creatures in the endes of our creation: with the difference betwixt the pretenced [sic] good workes of the Antichristian Papist, and the good workes of the Christian Protestant. By Phillip Stubbes, Gentleman.	Stubbes, Phillip.	1593 (1593)	STC 23397; ESTC S111359	64,680	234

they may so still that hammer anie matter or contriue anie plots against the Lords annointed in anie country or nation of the worlde whatsoeuer It is a good worke also in subiects to loue one another to praie one for another and to doo to others as they woulde wish others shoulde doo to them for this is the whole lawe and the Prophets saith our Sauiour CHRIST that is hee that loueth God aboue all things and his neighbour as himselfe fulfilleth the whole lawe And truely not without cause is it sayde that loue fulfilleth the law for if I loue my neighbor as my selfe then will I doo him no wrong neyther in worde nor deed I will speake no euill of him I will not detracte him slaunder him nor anie kinde of waie hurt or annoy him This caused our sauiour Christ to saie By this shall all men knowe that you are my disciples if yee loue one another This caused the Apostle Saint Paul to crie out Owe nothing to any man but this that you loue one another This caused the same Apostle in an other place to saie Though I speake with the tongues of men and of Angelles and haue no loue I am as a sounding brasse and tinkling cimball And though sayth hee I had the gifte of prophesie and knew all secretes and acknowledge yea if I had all faith so that I coulde remoue mountaines and yet had no loue I were nothing And though I feede the poore with all my goods and though I giue my bodie to bee burned and haue no loue it profiteth me nothing sayth this Apostle Yea such a precious thing is this loue that in the last verse of the same Chapter he preferreth it before either faith or hope and that verie worthely for faith and hope shall both cease and haue an ende when wee shall haue attained the full fruition and possession of those thinges which wee looke for after this life but loue shall euer remaine and neuer haue ende amongest the Saintes of God in the kingdome of heauen when all things else shall bee vanished awaie lyke vnto a scumme Then if wee must loue all men wee must hate none no not our verie enemies but contrariwise loue them praie for them and euery kinde of waie seeke to doo them good for so our Sauiour byddeth vs If thine enemie hunger giue him bread if he thirst giue him drinke for in so dooing thou shalt heape coales of fire vpon his head as the Apostle speaketh And in another place Christ biddeth vs Loue your enemies blesse them that curse you doo good to them that hate you for sayth hee if you loue those that loue you what great thing doo you Doe not the verye publicanes and sinners the same Wee must neither curse nor banne them as they saie nor in anie sorte seeke to bee reuenged of them what wrong so euer they haue done to vs but referre the reuenge to him who sayeth Mihi vindicta ego retribuam Vengeance is mine and I wyll rewarde For to reuenge euerie wrong and to contende for euerie strawe one with another is euen as if one member of the bodie shoulde rise vp and rebell agaynst another Therefore euen as the members of our naturall bodyes doe agree together in a most pleasant harmonie and sweete consorte doe loue one an other suffer one with another reioyce and sorrowe one with another and one helpe another in case anie bee distressed So let vs agree together one amongest another one loue an other one helpe comfort and releeue another to the vttermost of our power Let the counsell of the Apostle sinke deepe into our hartes where hee sayth Weepe with them that weepe mourne wyth them that mourne and be of like affection one towardes another Let not bruite beastes and vnreasonable creatures teach vs wysedome who loue all other of the same kinde and doe willingly conuerse with them than with any other of a cōtrary kinde Let vs not fall out amongst our selues for euery trifle nor goe to law for euery light occasion or rather many times for no occasion at all Let not the greedy Puttocks the Lawyers make you beggers and thēselues Gentlemen with your goods Let your controuersies rather be decided at home by your honest neighbors friends rather be content to lose a peece than to go to law and spend all thou hast and in the end peraduenture lose all too It is a good worke if any be falne to extreme pouerty eyther by piracy on the seas or robbing on the land by fire by death of cattell by suretiship or any other like accidēt whatsoeuer to relieue such a one to help him to restore him again to the vttermost of thy power that afterward by gods good blessing thy good meanes he may do good in the common weale thanke God for thee all days of his life after It is a good worke in euery one that is able to lend either money or goods or whatsoeuer els his neybour stādeth in neede of without vsury interest or gaine according to the saying of our Sauiour Christ lend to him that would borow not loking for any thing againe and thy reward shall be great in heauen But some are of minde that vsury is nothing els but an eating a gnawing a cōsuming an vtter vndoing of my brother for so indeed the etymology of the word soundeth so that say they as long as we eate not gnawe not nor consume not our brother though in the meane time they take neuer so much interest of hym for their money it is no vsury But if this be not a eating a gnawing a cōsuming and an vtter vndoing of my brother to take after twenty pound yea thirtie pound in the hundred as many doo then I knowe not what is But if they woulde knowe what vsurie is in deede according to the sense of the worde of God I will tell them Vsurie is anie thing ouer and aboue the principall which was lent be it neuer so lyttle eyther in monie corne grasse groundes landes meat drinke clothes or anie thing else whatsoeuer But now a dayes there is no sinne so grosse which is not blanched and smeered ouer wyth such counterfait coulours that except a man haue an eye illuminate by Gods spirite hee shall take it eyther for a vertue or at least for no sinne at all But woe bee to them sayeth the Prophet which call euill good and good euill sweete sower and sower sweete light darknesse and darknesse light I doubt these excuses and gloses will not go for paiment at the day of iudgment let them flatter themselues as much as they will in theyr foolysh imaginations It is also a good worke in euerie one to fast from sinne as much as hee he can and from all excessiue vse of meates and drinkes which might anie waie moue or stirre vp the bodie to dissolutenes and wantonnes And therefore the Papists doo belie vs in that they affirme that