Selected quad for the lemma: fire_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
fire_n	hand_n	left_a	right_a	3,202	5	6.8371	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A92320	England's backwardnesse or A lingring party in bringing back a lawful King. Delivered in a sermon at Waltham Abbey Church in the county of Essex, at a solemne fast. / By Thomas Reeve D.D. preacher of Gods word in that parish.	Reeve, Thomas, 1594-1672.	1661 (1661)	Wing R687; Thomason E1056_3; ESTC R208035	33,106	49

my kinsmen stood afarre of Psalm 38.11 and this was it that pierced Job to the quick His brethren were farre from him his acquaintance were utterly estranged his kinsfolk failed him and his familiars forgot him they which dwelt in his house counted him a stranger he called his servants and they gave him no answer though he entreated them with his mouth yea his breath was strange to his own wife though he entreated her for the childrens sake of his own body Job 19.13 14 15 16 17. Yea this was our Saviours groan that he had no honour in his own Countrey nor amongst his own kinne Mark 6.4 Now what more inhumane and prodigious then that the ties of nature should be loose twists where there is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 there should be 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Naz. Illa est vera fraternitas quaenullis casibus frangitur Seneca where a reciprocation in birth there should be a reciprocation in respects That is true brotherhood which is not rent asunder with any casualties strangenesse in kindred is not only a repture in humanity but a schism in Nature It is grievous when there is a friend that is closer then a brother Prov. 18.24 when a man cannot go into his brothers house in the day of his calamity because better is a friend that is near then a brother afarre of Prov. 27.10 How do these violate all engagements and rase out the very Characters which are engraven and imprinted in the womb they dry up the springs of pedigrees and grind to powder the souls of their Progenitors For did their Ancestours give them the same linage to live as Aliens Should communitie of stock and kindred not beget a communitie of correspondencie and benevolencie Should these be averse discrepant diametrically opposite no here is a ground for a rebuking increpating criminating expostulation as here Wherefore then are ye Application This doth serve to exhort all men not to quench the incentives of Nature not to falsifie Relations for why should any go about to dissolve those bands of Adamant or infringe that ingenerate League Shall a kinsman fail in his trust or set his own nest on fire Shall one foot tread upon another or the right hand cut off the left no the Apostle doth cry out against them which are without natural affection and the Spouse doth complain against her own consanguinitie for being unkind The children of my mother were angry against me Aet tu mi Fili Shall Brutus be stabbing his own fathers brest Must Julia make peace between her two children Caracalla and Gaeta by wishing her self to be divided into two parts if they continued in discord Must Axuchus by much Oratory work a reconciliation between Johannes Comnenus and his own sister Anna Caesarissa Where in the mean time are all the prickles and sparkles of Nature Have they learned then Mother-Tongue to express it to others and can they no better pronounce it amongst themselves Do they call Kinsmen and live as Savages No these above all people have endearing and ingratiating obligations If they be thus unkest and unkent tetricall and wayward they must have the check in my Text Wherefore then are ye The last Now let us come to the unseasonablenesse of the appearance The LAST From hence observe that lingring doth eclipse the honour of worthy Actions It is ill in good things to be taken in mora in delay as the Civilians say will a man sue for justice when the Court is risen no Vigilantibus non dormientibus succurrit lex The Law doth help the wakefull and not the sleepy He that observeth the Wind and Rain shall never sow So a man must take his feed-time for noble Attempts upon the first offer and not stay for fair weather In good things the first opportunity is to be taken for Deterior posterior dies the latter day is the worser To every thing there is an appointed time How then art thou disappointed if thou dost neglect the appointed time Will any set forth on fishing when the seas are frozen or sow at Harvest no over-late things are postdated Every thing is beautifull in the season Bern. Volat verbum irrevocabile volat tempus irremediabile The word doth flye and cannot be recalled time doth flye and cannot be remedied Sicut capillus de capite sic momentum non peribit de tempore As an hair doth not fall from the Head in vain so a moment of time shall not perish Thou mayest perish if thy time doth perish No man doth walk in the dark no it is too late then to beginne a Journey Esau lost a Blessing because he came not in time and the Wise Virgins lost their entrance because they stayed till the Door was shut Opportune things are the most beneficial things A man doth lose much honour in losing his just season The best workes are the earliest and the forwarderst things are the firmest the first births are the honourablest and the first ripe fruits are the pleasantest He that doth things out of time meeteth rather with scorn then contempt as the Trojanes that came to Tiberius to comfort him up for the death of his dear sonne Germanicus two yeares after he had been dead he took it in such disdain that he said he wished the like comfort to them for the death of their Valiant Hector who had been dead above a thousand yeares Rhesus which came to help Priamus in the tenth year that the Grecians had besieged Troy the Citizens derided him and said he shewed himself Qualis Trojae amicus fuit what manner of friend he was to Troy It is a disparagement to prolong or after-day good things it is as it were to administer Physick at the last gasp or to bring a shore when the Building is falling As vineger is to the teeth and smoke to the eyes so is the sluggard to them that send him Proverbs 10.26 Such an one as doth deliver his message when the businesse is done The slow Asse was not fit to be sacrificed so the delayer is not fit for any commendable enterprise He that is long expected at a Banquet is no welcome guest he that hath his work to do in the Close is no approved paines-taker These same hindermost men do carry a blemish with them as Judah here hath a skar because last Wherefore then are ye the last Application This doth serve to reprove Retarders who do deferre honourable Undertakings who either never appear at all or do come nimis sero too too late a protracting generation who cannot walk without their Guides nor stirre a foot till all their Neighbours round about them have trodden out the way for them they are loth to be too forward or to be called at the first no they halt and loyter and play the Truants if they do present themselves at last it is at a very untimely season they are the last as if they had no will to the work or could be