Selected quad for the lemma: father_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
father_n	eternal_a	ghost_n	holy_a	29,948	5	5.9119	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A19140	A right fruitfull admonition concerning the order of a good Christian mans life very profitable for all maner of estates, and other to beholde and looke vppon / made by the famouse doctour Collet, sometime deane of Paules.	Colet, John, 1467?-1519.	1582 (1582)	STC 5549.5; ESTC S4589	4,014	17

than to be other wise In thine aucthoritie busie thee rather to be beloued of thine inferyours than to be dreaded Let thy subiectes and seruauntes rather serue and obey thee for loue than for dreade or neede With such a soueraigne goodnesse gouerne thy subiectes that they may be glad to serue thee both in punishing and in cherishing Keepe a manerly meane Be not to straite Forgiue not to soon Keep a conueniēt mesure in al thy works Go not to meate as a beast but as a easōable man say thy grace then remenber that mo be sicke and die by superfluities of meates then otherwise Wherefore eate with measure to liue in health at thy meate haue none other but honest communication and such as is according to thy cunning Backbite no man Be merie in honestie For sorrow and care hath killed many and no profite therein In no wise sweare without compulsion of the lawe For whereas is great swearing frō thence is neuer the plague of God In no wise braul ne chyde without an vrgent cause For Salomon sayth better is a little with ioye than a house ful of vitailes with brawling Also he sayth An euil person is euer chyding and therefore the Angell of God shall be sent against him Be content at thy dinner also at other times to geue part of that which God hath sent thee For he that wil not heare the cry of a poore man he shal cry to God and not be heard After thy meat thanke God of that he hath sent thee or els thou dost not as a reasonable man but like a beast which in eating remembreth nothing but his meate With good prouidence and discretion see thee time where when how why or wherefore thou speakest doest or byddest any thing to be don When thou deemest or iudgest any be he poore or riche behold and consider the cause and not the person Be as meeke in other mens causes and offences as in thine own Sit neuer in dome and iudgement without pitie or mercy For while thou hast pitie and art mercifull to other mens offences thou hast mercie on thy selfe For in what measure thou measurest it shal be meaassured to thee Yet thou must execute iudgemente but it must be with pitie or mercy For of a suretie to do mercie iustice is more pleasaunt to God then to pray or to doo sacrifice vnto him Deeme no man by light suspections First prone and then deeme In doubtes reserue the sentence to Gods might That thou knowest not commit it to God haue litle or none affection loue to these earthlie and temporall thinges For blessed is the riche man that trusteth not in his money and treasure Remember as a man loueth so he is For the louer is in the thing loued more properlie than in him selfe Wherefore if a man loue earthlie thinges he may be called an earthly man And if he loue principallie heauenlie thinges or God he may be called An heauenty or a Godly man And therefore loue God and heauenly thinges for vndoubtedly that is best and most assured loue for they be and euer shall be permanente and all earthly things be soone vanished and ended and so the loue of them is in vaine Also it is wisedome to feare God For as he sayeth him selfe Feare not him that may kill the bodie and can not hurt the soule but feare him that can kill the bodie and also the soule and commit them to euerlasting paine Wherefore euery euening ere thou go to bed cal to remembraunce as much as thou canst thy thoughtes words and deedes sayd and don that day And if any haue been to thine owne profite and to the pleasure of God hartily thanke him for by his grace it was done And if any haue beene contrarie to his pleasure aske hartily mercy and reconcile thy selfe shortly by repentaunce to eschewe the euerlasting and terrible paines of hel For as Saint-Austine sayth there is not a greater madness than for a little temporal delectation which is soone done to lose the eternall ioye and to be bounde to euerlasting paine from the which the almightie Father of heauen by his infinite power and mercy and bitter passion and infinite wisdome of Iesu Christ and by the infinite goodnes and charitie of the holy Ghost keepe vs. Amen Deo gracias Vse well temporal thinges Desire eternal thinges