Selected quad for the lemma: love_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
love_n	death_n	glory_n	life_n	2,889	5	4.2035	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A05380	Heauen and earth, religion and policy. Or, The maine difference betweene religion and policy. Written by C.L.	Lever, Christopher, fl. 1627.	1608 (1608)	STC 15536; ESTC S108517	29,500	128

in the maine purpose of his calling which is the common good and not his owne good the prosperity of State and not the thriuing of his owne state 12 And herehence it is that such as by these meanes raise their base beginning to an extraordinary degree of fortune haue their conscionable dealing much suspected because the lawfull profits of their place cannot so speedily nor so highly raise them And therefore let euery man in such place be assured that as the conscionable discharge of his office is a matter of high merit a Religious care and a seruice very gratefull in the eyes of God so to be withdrawne with the perswasion of any by-respect from the true purpose of his office is a practise of euill Policy whereof the seruice of his place hath no need and whereof hee ought to bee altogether ignorant 13 And let no man encourage himselfe in these vanities with the hope of prosperous fortune or with the loue he hath to the glory profits of this life For at the instant of dying al the profits and al the pleasures in the world cannot giue a man that comfortable farewell as al such haue who die with the witnes of good conscience for good conscience sweetneth the sorrowes of death maketh the pangs of death pleasurable whereas oftentimes the hauing of much causeth the loue of much a loathnes and extream sorrow to leaue our heaped pleasures And therefore in the discharge of euery duty let a man loue conscience rather then profit and Religion rather then Policie In respect of Honour Military Courtly CHAP. IX THE names of Honor are the rewards of vertuous deedes or the gifts of princly fauour They are giuen men for distinction that by them may be knowne who are gratious vertuous or of honorable merit And therefore do all men greatly desire these titles of honour because they giue men speciall reputation and perswade the world that such honours could not bee had without speciall deseruing And among the honourable there are none more noble then such as aspire the degrees of honour by the steps of vertuous reputation because they persue not the name but the nature of honourable action hazarding themselues thorow many dangers and difficulties to attain so faire a name 2 And this was the cause that in the old world the most forward and valiant spirits howsoeuer of noble or princely birth thought themselues dishonourable and but of common worth before they wonne their honorable name by some braue aduenture neither would those tims inuest men with dignities of honor that were not either braue in action or graue in consultation either Senators or Souldiers because such men are the onely weapons and armour of a kingdome whereby the enemy is both resisted preuented and vanquished 3 And as those times so these times make it the generall ayme whereto they leuell al their honors though there is no King or State but doth often misse in many particulars And therefore in respect the Nobility are of best estimation and commonly of best merit these respects of Religion and Policy are very considerable in them their affection to good or bad being of great consequence in a kingdome hauing authority and interest in the hearts and estates of many 4 If we should reduce to memory the honourable and famous men of former times and should number vp their memorable victories what charge what care and what trauel they haue spent for the honor of Christendome and the Christian Religion it will appeare that neuer any had better zeale to fight Gods quarrell then they many of them vowing the whole seruice of their liues to those holy warres the which they maintained with so much resolution and valour that their renowne is like their happines eternall 5 Againe if we search the records of time and inquire after the most worthy and famous Stats-men we shall finde their names in the ranke of honourable personages who in their counsell chambers haue preuented conspiracies and ouerthrowne huge Armies of resolued enemies For besides their gifts of Nature they are extraordinarily fitted for these affaires by speciall and painefull education 6 And therefore the great Empires of all times haue had care to elect such choice particulars from among their nobility as were of best sufficiency vpon whose wisedomes the strength and State of the whole Empire reposed Such was Vlysses amomg the Geekes and Quintus Fabius among the Romans such hath our Nation had and yet hath many vpon whose vigilancie and trus● the affaires of greatest State do principally depend 7 To vnderstand these titles of honour I will distinguish them They are either deriued or giuen deriued honours are such as descend by inheritance in a succession of vntainted blood Honor by gift is when any one for his honorable deseruing hath such command or place giuen him as for his owne life makes him of honorable estimation the which honour though it descend not like the former to posterity yet is it of very noble deseruing and doth conclude the worthinesse of him so honored 8 There is an honour also without name vnknowne and vnregarded which being hid in the darknes of aduersity and poore fortune cannot appeare to knowledge nor raise itselfe to deserued dignity For in many men who haue the formes of basenes and contemptible fortune there is a braue and noble disposition whereby they are fitted for all honourable exercise the which though it want the imployment of honorable action whereby their worth would be both knowne and honoured yet there is no power of fortune can depresse their generous spirits or disgrace them in their owne vnderstandings 9 And therefore some are honored by nature not fortune as these poore ones some are honored by Fortune and not Nature as many rich ones and some are honoured both by Nature and Fortune and such are both good and gratious in the eye of the world 10 To consider then how these import this purpose of Religion and Policy we must againe diuide the degrees of honor into Militarie and Courtly because their diuers imployments haue great dissimilitude And first for military honour the which in the Christian world hath had such noble exercise as that the prosperitie of Religion may seeme to haue marcht vnder the hope of their victorious colours 11 And this is euident in the view of former times when Religigious zeale did incense the noble spirits of generous and braue gentlemen to spend both their substance and liues in the seruice of Religious warres against all the prophane enemies of the name of Iesus both Turke and euery other mis·beleeuer by whose victorious hands the enemies of God were kept back from the spoile they intended on Christian Religion 12 And among these many may be specially remembred such as by speciall obligation did binde themselues to intend these holy warres onely and such were those knights of Rodes of Malta and Ierusalem and others who notwithstanding their knowledge