Selected quad for the lemma: fire_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
fire_n	bring_v	evil_a	good_a	3,222	5	5.4761	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02488	King Dauids vow for reformation of himselfe. his family. his kingdome Deliuered in twelue sermons before the Prince his Highnesse vpon Psalm 101. By George Hakewill Dr. in Diuinity.	Hakewill, George, 1578-1649.; Elstracke, Renold, fl. 1590-1630, engraver.	1621 (1621)	STC 12616; ESTC S103634	122,067	373

neminem à se dimisit tri●tem who never dismis●●d any Petitioner with a teare in his eye or a heavie heart nay hee counted that day as lost in which hee had not done some bodie some speciall favour which made him stiled Deliciae generis humani the darling of mankinde while he lived and beeing dead Senatus tantas mortus gratias egit la●desque congessit quantas ne viuo quidem vnquam atque praesenti The Senate gaue him more thanks and loaded him with more praise being dead then ever they did living and present This vertue then of affability and curtesie a word derived as it seemes from the Court as it is commendable in private men so in a Magistrate such as David is it in a manner necessary as the contrary vice of frowardness which in private men is uncomly and unchristian in them is both dishonourable and dangerous Let churlish Laban then deale discurteously with Iacob and Nabal the same name by inversion of letters with David and his followers insomuch as one of his owne family shall testifie against him Hee is such a sonne of Belia● that a man cannos speake to him 1. Sam. 25. 17 yet shall he be held but a froward foole for his labour he shall be cursed and hated of all men as a disastrous Comet when such as with David put away a froward heart and crooked behaviour shall be honoured as luckie planets It followes I will know none evill or as both our vulgar English and last Translation reade it I will not know a vvicked person the Originall beares both if we take it the first way it is to be referred to things if the second to men Evill in as much as it hath no Entitie or Beeing it in self but in good and nothing can be farther knowen then it hath a Beeing consequently it cannot be knowen of us in it selfe but onely by the knowledge of good as darknes is by the knowledge of light sickness by the knowledge of health Rectū est index sui et obliqui the evenness of a straight line is the best way to discover the unevennesse of a crooked and the knowledge of true syllogisms the deceit of fallacies This knowledge of evill then arising by reflexion frō good is not in it self unlawfull in as much as God thus knowes the utmost extent and possibilitie of evill though never acted or to be acted and yet remaines altogether untainted in himselfe as the Sunne-beames which glaunce upon sinks or dunghils Yet this very knowledge though not unlawfull in it selfe in regard of our corrupt nature to us it is dangerous like a sparke cast upon flax or tinder which easily conceives fire Adams eating of the tree of Knowledge of good and evill was it that brought all that ensuing miserie upon himselfe and his posterity yet was hee then in the state of innocency To know evill that we may runne the farther from it or hate it the more is good but now there is such a sympathie between us and it that for the most part the more wee knowe it whether it be by reading or by relation or experience the more are we inamoured of it Ign●ti nulla cupid● We need not then go seek it in books or farre countries it will comesoone enough and fast enough of it selfe it will come home to us and find us out Let us resolve then with our Prophet that wee will not seeke so much as the knowledge of evill farther than for the better practice of good But I rather fasten upon our vulgar and last translation I will not know a vvicked person For a Magistrate to know wicked persons that hee may punish them is a part of his dutie And for a private man to know them that he may shun their company is a signe both of honestie and discretion Take away the drosse from the silver and there shal come foorth a vessell for the Finer take away the wicked from before the King and his throne shall be established in righteousness and this doth our Prophet promise in the last verse of this Psalme But for a Magistrate or private man to know thē that is to entertain them to credit or coūtenance them to admit them into their friendship or service to lodge them in house with them or place them in office under them is that which our Prophet and with him all good men specially all good Magistrates utterly disavow considering the three-fold hazard from thence manifestly incurred of Suspicion of Infection of Malediction Of suspicion from others of infection in themselves of malediction and punishment from God The hazard of Suspicion from others in as much as wee commonly ghesse at a mans inclination by the disposition of his servant or company because for the most part birds of a feather will together 1. Thes. 5. 22 the Apostle wils us to abstaine from all appearance of evill whereof this surely is one The second hazard is of Infection such beeing both the corruption of our nature and the nature of our corruption that if the good and bad meet the good is rather soiled by the bad than the bad any way bettered by the good It is written of Mezentius the tyrant Corpora corporibus iungebat mortua vivis Hee bound the dead and the living together but the dead did not revive by the living the living rather putrefied by reason of the dead The fresh waters running into the Sea do not sweeten it but are made brackish by it It is but madnes for a man to presume upon an Antidote in going to the Pest-house when hee may keep himselfe from it It is indeed the property of oyle beeing poured into other liquors to swim on the top and keep it selfe unmixed and of the Salamander to ly in the fire and not bee burnt but this quality is rare Even in Paradise the woman whom God himselfe gave to the man beeing infected by the Serpent infects the man and that at the first assault and shall any man now beeing shut out of Pardiase and stript of those supernaturall helps and graces wherewith Adam was invested think himselfe more able to resist than hee No no Evill words corrupt good manners much more a continuall evill conversation Reiterated importunity will at length make a breach upon the soule though in our judgement never so throughly fensed as the long playing of the Cannon batters the wall and a continuall dropping pearceth the stone Samson held out long against Dalilah so did Salomon against his outlandish wives but in the end neither the wisedome of the one nor the strength of the other could priviledge or secure them the grace of Perseverance as his Majesty well inferres thereupon not being a Flower that growes in our garden The third hazard is of Malediction from God For as the blessing of God fals upon a whole society or familie many times for one mans sake as it did upon all that sailed with Paul for his sake