Selected quad for the lemma: father_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
father_n	know_v	see_v	son_n	19,837	5	5.8352	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A28388	Seven exercises or meditations by which a man may be, in a short time, established in the fear of God, and a good and holy life / by Lewis Blosius ...	Blois, Louis de, 1506-1566.	1686 (1686)	Wing B3204; ESTC R33231	23,898	150

free Thou must not adhere by inordinate affection to any person or to any perishable thing Thou must shun immoderate laughter and all lightness of manners Thou must prudently decline noxious and superfluous conversations of worldly men and occasions of sinning Thou must spend the remainder of thy life profitably to the honor of God and with Gods assistance endeavour to live soberly chastly purely and piously 6. Moreover as thy King Christ endured unjust accusations of himself revilings persecutions and pains inflicted on him most humbly most patiently most gently and with a mind absolutely resigned so thou hereafter must purpose to endure patiently and gently reproof of thy self injuries reproaches contempt dolors and all crosses for his love taking all from his fatherly hand Thou must resign thy self wholly as well as thou canst to his most just judgement and most acceptable good pleasure Thou must I say leave thy self absolutely to him permitting him to do with thee to send to thee to take away from thee whatsoever he will and as he will Thou must renounce all thy own will Thou must believe thy self to be worthy of all Tribulation and that no creature can so much afflict thee as thou deservest to be afflicted by reason of thy infinite iniquities Thou must not lightly complain that any injury is done thee nor say that thou sufferest any thing unjustly because thou wilt alwaies suffer less than thou hast deserved 7. Lastly as Christ thy King loving all men and desiring the Salvation of all prayed even for his enemies and makes his sun to rise upon the good and bad so thou must purpose hereafter sincerely to love all men none excepted desire the Salvation of all and out of charity exhibit thy self faithful gracious and sweet to all especially to thy enemies Thou must grieve that so many Souls stamped with the most Noble Image of God do perish Thou must compassionate the afflicted Thou must despise no body Judge no body for rash judgments greatly hinder the grace of God 8. Thou must diligently ponder these things with thy self Thou must consider attentively how true it is when in the foregoing points Christ is said to have done this or that Thou must wish from thy heart to be conformable to him that the Disciple may be as his Master and the most vile Servant must not be proud the supream Emperor shewing humility in all things Thou must examin thy self diligently in the particulars and see whether thou hast an absolute will to fulfil by work with the Grace of God that which thou readest For thou oughtest to be ready to this without any tergiversation If not withstanding thy nature repugning thou perceivest thy self as yet less ready thou must not therefore be too pusillanimous but must do what is in thy power and have a good will renounce vices and resign thy self as well as thou canst Thou must pray to God that he would strengthen thee and give thee those things which are necessary for thy salvation and are pleasing to him If thou desire and endeavour thus to imitate thy King thou shalt without doubt come to his Heavenly Pallace and shalt obtain everlasting Life and Glory with all the Saints Meditation 7. Of the Glory of Heaven Division 1. THou must imagin that Celestial Country to be as it were a most splended glorious and large City built of most pure gold and most pretious Or if thou hadst rather imagin it to be a most spatious Country and adorned with all the beauty of grass flowers and trees and filled with all fragrant sweetness and delight where there is ever a most pleasant spring and delightful summer Where there is pleasantness rest quiet and peace surpassing all sense 2. Thou wast created for the highest and infinite good which is God This good thou shalt have for the merit of the Incarnation and Passion of Christ and shalt enjoy it for all eternity if here thou shalt have worshiped God purely and holily in fear and love Consider that this most pleasant good contains in it self superabundantly all nobleness pulchritude comeliness elegancy sweetness delight grace and perfection This when thou shalt have obtained thou shalt not be able to desire any thing more for thou shalt find most fully in God whatsoever may be desired It is manifest therefore that the Vision of God is most highly pleasant and incomparably excells all delight imaginable For if naturally thou willingly beholdest that which is beautiful what and how great joy will it be to thee clearly to contemplate the divine Essence which is the Fountain whence all beauty flows and which is infinitely splendid fair comely sweet and delicious O what does he see what does he hear what does he smell what does he taste what does he feel who is united to God in Heaven Truly eye has not seen nor ear heard nor have the goods and joyes entred into the heart of mortal man which God has prepared for his elect 1 Cor. 2. 3. In seeing God thou shalt see all things and know all things which thou wouldest know Thou shalt behold in God the order of the whole Universe and all truth Thou shalt enjoy the highest good shalt alwaies possess it and thou shalt have in it whatsoever is delightful Thou shalt be shined upon by the eternal wisdom and shalt most abundantly tast the sweetness of the divine Peace Thou shalt be wholly absorpt with the love of thy Creator and shalt be transformed into him and shalt alwaies embrace him according to thy desire and shalt be perfectly united unto him Thou shalt see the bright ever quiet Trinity and thou shalt know how the Son is begotten by the Father and how the Holy Ghost proceeds from the Father and the Son and how the Father loves the Son and the Son the Father and both the Holy Ghost Also how the Father and the Son and the Holy Ghost are One GOD. Then thou shalt most perfectly praise God and without any Irksomness or Labour Thou shalt praise him with all the Blessed for ever and ever Now thou shalt never displease him more but shalt please him in all things 4. Thou shalt see the excellency and beauty of the humanity of the Son of God Jesus Christ O! how wilt thou rejoyce beholding the Amiable Jesus exalted and Glorious in his Kingdom Who once in the world was for thy sake poor despised and afflicted Thou shalt also see with ineffable joy the Beauty and Glory of the most Sweet Mother of God the Virgin Mary Thou shalt behold all the Orders of the Angelical Spirits and how thousands of thousands Minister to their Creator and that the Souldiers of God are numberless Thou shalt know most perfectly all the Citizens of Heaven thou shall know their inviolable peace their most fervent Charity their most Pleasant Society their unshaken security their Inenarrable Beauty Splendor and Glory And all the Blessed are illustrious and glorious Princes and Kings Thou shalt have