Selected quad for the lemma: duty_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
duty_n	body_n	perform_v	soul_n	1,113	5	4.7193	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A04384	Certaine selected epistles of S. Hierome as also the liues of Saint Paul the first hermite, of Saint Hilarion the first monke of Syria, and of S. Malchus: vvritten by the same Saint. Translated into English; Selections. English	Jerome, Saint, d. 419 or 20.; Hawkins, Henry, 1571?-1646.	1630 (1630)	STC 14502; ESTC S107704	168,063	216

would bring in some of their commodityes to their next neighbouring Monckes Now how great care he had not to passe ouer any one brother vnuisited how meane soeuer or poore he were this one thing may serue to demonstrate that he went into the desart of Cades to visit one single disciple of his with a huge troupe of Monckes He came then to Elusa and it was by accident vpon that day when by reason of an Anniuersary solemnity the whole people of the Towne was assembled in the Temple of Venus for they worship her as Lucifer to whose veneration the Nation of the Saracens is addicted Moreouer the Towne it selfe for the most part is halfe barbarous by reason of the situation of the place They hauing therefore vnderstood that S. Hilarion passed by that way for he had often cured many of the Saracens who had beene possessed by the Diuell they came forth to meet him by whole troupes with their wiues and children bowing downe their heades and crying out to him in that Syrian word Barac that is Giue vs thy blessing These men did he receaue with all humility and benignity and besought them to worship God rather then stockes and stones and withall he would abundantly weep looking vp to heauen and promising them that if they would belieue in Christ he would come often to them And a wonderfull grace of our Lord it was that they suffered him not to depart ti●…l he should make a designe and draw the first lines of that Church which futurely was to be built in that place and till their Priest as he was then already crowned for the offering of some idolatrous Sacrifice might be marked with the signe of Christ. In another yeare also when he was going forth to visite the Monasteries and did set downe in a list by whome he would only passe and with which others he would stay the Monckes obseruing that one of the company was somewhat neer and sparing and being desirous to cure that fault of his they wished the Saint to stay some tyme with him But why sayth Hilarion will you wrong your selues and vexe him Which as soone as that sparing Brother vnderstood he was out of countenance and they all drawing one way had yet much a do to obtaine of him who was vnwilling that his Monastery might be in the nūber of them where the Saint should lodge Yet at length after ten dayes they went to him but in the meane tyme certaine Guards or Keepers were placed by him in the vinyard where the Moncks were to paste f●…ighting such as came towardes them by throwing stones and clo●…s of earth and by vsing also the sling all those guests departed the next day without eating so much as one grape the old man laughing at it but yet not taking knowledge of what had passed But being receaued by another Moncke called Sabas for it is fit that we name this liberall-hearted man as we concealed that other who was a m●…ser they were all inuited by him into his vinyard to the end that by eating grapes before dinner for it was on Sunday they might be refreshed from their labour The Saint then sayd Cursed be he who preferres the re●…ection of his body before that of his soule let vs pray let vs sing let vs performe our duty to God and then you may make hast to the vinyard Hauing performed this Office and being ascended vp to a higher place he blessed the vinyard and so gaue his sheep leaue to feed vpon it Now they were not fewer then three thousand eaters And whereas the vinyard when it was yet vntouched was esteemed likely to bring forth but a hundred vessells of Wine within twenty dayes after the owner made three hundred And that other sparing Brother making lesse wine then he was wont did lament too late that euen what he had was turned into veriuyce which the old man had foretould to many of the Brethren He did in particular māner detest those Monckes who through a kind of infidelity did hord vp any thing for the future and did vse either diligence or cost about their cloathing or any other of these thinges which were transitory And obseruing that one of the Brothers who dwelt almost fiue miles from him was too carefull and curious in keeping his garden and withall had layd vp a little money he droue him out of his sight And the party desiring to be reconciled came to some of the Brothers and particulerly to Hesychius in whome the old man tooke very much contentment When therefore vpon a certaine day the same party had brought a bundell of greene pease as they were in the cod and Hesychius had serued it that euening vpō the table the old man cryed out and sayd That he was not able to endure the stincke thereof and withall demanded whence it came Hesychius answering that a certaine Brother had presented it as the first fruites of his field Dost thou not seele sayth he a most abominable all sauour and that coueteousnes stinkes in the very pease cast them out to the Oxen and such brute beastes as those and see if they will ea●…e thereof Now he hauing layd them in the manger as he was bidden the Oxen fell into a fright and lowing after an extraordinary manner brake their teathers and ran euery one by a seuerall way For the old man had this guift that by the smell of bodyes or garments or other thinges which any man had touched he would know to what vice or Diuell he was subiect But in the threescore and third yeare of his age obseruing how great the Monastery was then growne to be as also the multitude of the Brothers who liued with him the troups of other men who brought such persons thither as were taken by seuerall diseases and possessed by vncleane spirits in such sort as that the wildernes was stuffed round about him with all kind of people he daily wept and remembred his former kind of life with an incredible desire to recontinue it And being demaunded by those Brothers what he ayled and why he afflicted himselfe he sayd I am returned againe to the world and haue receaued my reward in this life Behould the men of Palestine and the neighbour Prouinces esteeme me to be some body and vnder the pretext of gouerning a Monastery for the vse and conueniency of the brothers I find my selfe possessed of some poore little stuffe of my own This was kept by the Brothers and especially by Hesychius who with an admirable kind of loue was addicted to the veneration of the old man But when he had lamented in this sort for the space of two yeares that same Aristaene of whom we spake before being the wife of the Captaine of the Guard but hauing no part of his aspiring condition came to Hilarion with intention also afterwards to go on towards Anthony To her he sayd weeping And I also would be glad to go if I were not kept