Selected quad for the lemma: master_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
master_n	child_n	husband_n	parent_n	3,987	5	7.8229	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A04483	A viewe of a seditious bul sent into Englande, from Pius Quintus Bishop of Rome, anno. 1569. Taken by the reuerende Father in God, Iohn Iewel, late Bishop of Salisburie. Wherevnto is added a short treatise of the holy Scriptures. Both which he deliuered in diuers sermons in his cathedral church of Salisburie, anno. 1570	Jewel, John, 1522-1571.; Garbrand, John, 1542-1589.	1582 (1582)	STC 14614; ESTC S107782	85,989	232

to slepe nor mine eye liddes to slumber vntill I finde out a place for the Lorde an habitation for the mightie God of Iacob she had learned to saye If God bee on oure side who can bee againste vs So was hir gratious hearte consumed with the zeale of Gods house O who can conceiue the ioy and comfort of the people it was so great as no manne can declare They helde vp their hands to God they hadde not words to giue him they could not speake for ioye They reioiced as a Birde doth at the daye spring as Ionas reioiced when he came out of y ● Whales bellie as Daniel reioiced when he was brought safe out of the Lions denne as the children of Israel reioiced when they came out of Aegipt as the three children reioiced whē they came forth of the burning fornace so did we reioice and said This is the daye which the Lorde hathe made lette vs reioice and bee gladde in it I néede not speake of the continuall peace which God hathe giuen vs all the time of hir gouernement He that knoweth not the price of peace and howe to esteeme it let him behold the kingdomes which border next vppon vs howe pitifully they be afflicted Let hym beholde Spaine Fraunce Denmarke Flaunders and Scotlande and consider what they haue suffred these few yeares past what houses haue bene ouerthrown what Cities haue béene burnt what bloud hath bene shed how many women haue lost their husbands how many mothers haue lost their children and how many children haue béene made fatherlesse But God euen our God gaue vs Queene Elizabeth and with hir gaue vs Peace and so long a Peace as Englande hath seldome séene before What should I speak of hir wisedom in gouernement Let vs looke vppon the state as it was before what hunger was in this lande many of our brethren dyed for lacke of foode What cruel executions were then in London there were few stréetes where was not set vp a galous or a gibbet In Oxford 52. were executed at one Sessions What diseases fell vpon vs the grauest and wisest and richest men were takē away Calais was loste A stranger and forraine people had the rule ouer vs. Al thinges wente againste vs because God was not wyth vs. But God restored by his seruaunt our Queene those ioies againe which wée lacked He hath giuen vs ciuill peace among our selues and peace with forrain nations He hath giuē vs health of body and store of victuals discharge of debts and auoyding of strangers he hath gyuen vs mercie in iustice abandoning all crueltie We are nowe with God and al things go well with vs. They talke much of an vnbloudy Sacrifice It is not theirs to offer it Queene Elizabeth shall offer it vp vnto God euen hir vnbloudie handes and vnbloudie sworde an vnbloudie people and an vnbloudie gouernement This is an vnbloudie Sacrifice Thys Sacrifice is acceptable vnto God I say not that it is not lawfull for hir to putte to death God saith Thine eye shall not pitie the wicked nor shewe mercie but thou shalt kill him that all Israell maye heare and feare and do no more anye suche wickednesse as this among you Shée muste doe it if she woulde not yet hir laws would sée offendors punished But I speake it to shew the gratious goodnes of hir mercifull nature Oh how gratiously didde hir Maiestie commend vs hir subiects to the carefull and wise gouernement of hir Counsell and Iudges when she spake thus vnto them Haue care ouer my people You haue my place Doe you that whiche I ought to doe They are my people Euerie man oppresseth them and spoileth them without mercie They can not reuenge their quarrel nor help thēselues See vnto them see vnto them for they are my charge I charge you euen as God hath charged me I care not for my selfe my life is not deare to me my care is for my people I praye God who soeuer succeede me bee as careful as I am They whiche might knowe what cares I beare woulde not thinke I tooke anye greate ioye in wearing the Crowne These eares heard when hir Maiestie spake such words I trust they wil work suche affection in your heartes whiche heare them reported as they did in me when I heard them spoken She loueth hir Subiectes and they reuerence hir She is carefull for them and they are true to hir God continue his blessing towards hir and ouer shadowe hir wyth his mercifull hande For she is the comfort and Diamond of al Christendome This is she againste whome Pope Pius rageth and stormeth and hath sente hys cursse sentence of depriuation against hir If he had bene acquainted with oure happye estate vnder hir he mighte wyth better grace haue said to hir Because thy God loueth England to establish it for euer therefore hath he made thee Queene ouer them to execute Iudgement and Iustice. He might with more and better aduisement haue saide How shal I curse where the Lorde hathe not curssed Or how shall I detest where the Lorde hath not detested He is not so wise as Balaam which would not for a house full of gold passe the commaundement of the Lorde to doe eyther good or badde of hys owne minde Praecipimus interdicimus vniuersis singulis proceribus subditis populis alijs praedictis ne illi eiusūe monitis mandatis legibus audeant obedire qui secus egerint ●os simili anathematis sententia innodamus Wee charge and forbid al and euerie the Nobles and Subiects and people and others aforesaide that they be not so hardie as to obey hir or hir wil or commandementes vppon paine of like accursse vppon them Woulde you take thys man to be the Uicar of Christe He séemeth rather to be some Maister of misrule whyche so dischargeth all manner of Subiectes from all manner obedience For what order will he leaue vs when wée maye not doe those things whyche we doe vnder hir obedience by charge of hir will or commaundementes or lawes His wordes speake verye broade I commaunde vnder paine of damnation that no seruaunt obey his Maister no wife obey hir husbande no childe obey his Parentes and that no Subiecte obey hys Prince I commaunde and forbidde that you dare not obey hir c. But what if you shewe him of oure lawes whyche Queene Elizabeth hath made and established against Burglarie and robbing by the high way and anye other kinde of theft againste murther adulterie and all f●lthinesse as kéeping of Concubines and Courteghians like to the vse of his City at Rome kepe them not saith the Pope vnder paine of my cursse Againe sir by hir lawes we are required to resort to our seuerall Churches there to heare the worde of God to giue thankes vnto him and to pour● out our prayers before him c. hée yet sayeth obey them not What shal we do then for lawes of common peace and of holding our possessions

warneth thée The eye that mocketh his father and despiseth the instruction of his mother let the Rauens of the valley plucke it out the yong Eagles eate it Hath God blessed thée in Wealth Art thou rich Reade the Scriptures they will teach thée Be not high minded and trust not in vncertaine riches but in the liuing God which giueth vs aboundantly all things to enioy Againe Trust not in oppression and robberie be not vaine if riches increase set not your hart thereon Thou shalt depart and leaue them behinde thée they shal forsake thée Thou shalt dye thou knowest not howe soone Salomon sheweth thée Riches auayle not in the day of wrath but righteousnes deliuereth from death Art thou poore and sufferest scarsitie in this worlde Reade the Scriptures they will teache thée Say with Iob. Naked came I out of my mothers wombe and naked shall I returne againe Learne of Salomon Better is little with righteousnes than great reuenues without equitie And againe Better is the poore that walketh in his vprightnesse than he that peruerteth his wayes though he be rich S. Paul saith Godlinesse is great gaine if a man be content with that hee hath for wee brought nothing into the world and it is certaine that we cary nothing out And againe Let him that is poore labour and worke with his hands the thing which is good that hée may haue to giue to him that néedeth Art thou a Marchant Usest thou to buye and sell Reade the Scriptures they will teach thée This is the will of God that no man oppresse or defraude his brother in any matter Thou shalt learne that diuers weights and diuers measures are abhomination vnto the Lorde and deceiptfull balances are not good Art thou an Vsurer thy case is harde yet heare the Scriptures they wil teach thée God commaundeth thée thus If thou lende mony to my people to the poore with thee thou shalt not be as an Vsurer vnto him yee shall not oppresse him with vsurie Againe if thy brother be impouerished and fallen in decaye with thee thou shalt relieue him thou shalt take no Vsurie of him nor vantage thou shalt not lend him thy vittailes for encrease but thou shalt feare thy God that thy brother may liue with thee And Whatsoeuer yee woulde that men should do vnto you euē so do ye to thē And He that giueth his money vnto Vsurie shall not enter into the kingdome of heauen Art thou a Fornicatour liuest in adultery Reade the Scriptures they will teach thée He that committeth fornicatiō saith S. Paul sinneth against his own bodie Know you not that your bodie is the Tēple of the holy Ghost Know you not that your bodies are the members of Christ Shal I then take the members of Christ and make them the members of an Harlot God forbid As hee which hath called you is holy so bee ●e holy in all maner of conuersation saith S. Peter The reason is set downe by S. Paul For this is the will of God euen you holines and that you shoulde absteine from fornication that you may be holy both in bodie and in spirit And Whoremongers adulterers God will iudge They shall haue no inheritance in the kingdome of Christ and of God Art thou a seruant Reade the Scriptures they wil teach thée Seruants be obedient vnto thē that are your Maisters according to the flesh in all things not with eie seruice as men pleasers but in singlenesse of heart fearing God And whatsoeuer ye do doe it hartely as vnto the Lorde and not vnto men Againe please your Maisters not aunswering againe be no pickers but shewe all good faithfulnesse that you may adorne the doctrine of God our sauiour in al things Art thou proude Reade the Scriptures they wil teach thée Be not high minded but feare What hast thou that thou hast not receiued If thou hast receiued it why reioicest thou as though thou hadst not receiued it and learne of me that I am meeke humble in hart And God resisteth the proude but giueth grace to the humble Art thou in aduersitie Read the Scriptures Great are the troubles of the righteous but the Lord will deliuer him out of them all And he shal call vppon me and I will heare him I will be with him in trouble I will deliuer him and glorifie him And Saint Peter telleth thée the eyes of the Lorde are ouer the righteous his eares are open to their prayers God is faithfull which will not suffer you to be tempted aboue that you be able but will giue the issue with the tētation that yee may bee able to beare it The Lorde is neare vnto all them that call vpon him yea to all that call vppon him in truth Art thou A sinner hast thou offended God reade the Scriptures they will teach thée Hate the euill and loue the good And againe flie from euill and do good and dwell for euer Rise vp and go to thy father and saie vnto him Father I haue sinned against Heauen against thee and am no more worthy to be called thy sonne Doest thou dispaire of the mercye of God reade the Scriptures they will teache thée Christ telleth thée I came not to cal the righteous but sinners to repentance Againe Come vnto me al ye that are wearie and laden and I will ease you At what houre soeuer a sinner doth repent him of his sinne from the bottome of his heart I will put all his wickednesse out of my remembrance saith the Lord. Againe I desire not the death of the wicked but that the wicked turne from his waye and liue And the Lorde is good to all and his mercies are ouer al his workes Art thou going out of this life reade the Scriptures they will teach thée I am the resurrection and the life hee that beleeueth in me though he were deade yet shall hee liue and whosoeuer liueth and beleeueth in mee shall neuer dye Saye with Sainct Paule Christe is to mee bothe in life and in death aduauntage I desire to be loosed and to be with Christ. What shoulde I saye more of the Scriptures how profitable and comfortable they be in all cases and parts of our life in aduersitie in prosperitie in life and in death they are our especiall comfort If we must fight they are a sworde if we hunger they are meate if we thirst they are drinke if we haue no dwelling place they are a house if we be naked they are a garment if we be in darknesse they be light vnto our going They are comfortable to kings to subiects to old men to yong men to mā and to wife to father to childe to maister and seruant to captaine and souldiour to preacher and people to the learned to the vnlearned to the wise and