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fire_n	wit_n	woman_n	young_a	19	3	5.7795	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A11206	The ymage of loue Here foloweth a goostly pamphlete or mater co[m]pendyously extract of holy scrypture, and doctours of ye chyrche, called ye ymage of loue, very necessary for all vertuous persones to loke vpon.; Ymage of love.	Ryckes, John.; Gough, John, fl. 1528-1556.	1525 (1525)	STC 21471.5; ESTC S110770	28,460	53

wyll not abyde onely withinforth in the wyll but it must go withoutforth by shewyng of good workes in outwarde conuersacion O charyte I haue praysed the as ferre as I can and yet I caste in my mynde yf there maye be sayd ony more excellente prayse vnto thy laude I can not saye whether it be more to call the god or to saye that thou dyddest ouercome god that that is more yf ony be more that gladly and boldely wolde I saye of the thus prayseth Hugo myn ymage Take it therfore and set it fast vpon the aulter of your herte alwaye lokynge vpon it consyder the goodnes of it remembre the vertue power of it se the many folde merueylouse effectes It caused god to make man it drewe hym from heuen to erth for to redeme hym agayne frome seruitude of the deuyll it Ioyned the moost hye and pure nature to the moost lowe and vyle nature wherin it wrought merueylouse thȳges in resynge deed men helynge lypers and all maner dyseases And at the last it wounded cryst full bytterly and slewe hym full pyteously for to quyckē our soules full mercyfully and resyd hym agayne full gloryously vs for to Iustefy it lyfte hym vp agayn to heuen ful Ioyously there mankynde to gloryfye it drewe vp steuē vyctoryously and crowned hym eternally It conuerted sodenly saynt Paule and fixed hym so fast vnto Iesu Ro. viij that nother trybulacyon ne anguysh persecucyon hunger pouerte to go naked sworde ne other parelles coude not dysseuer hym frome the loue of cryst ye and it made Paule so stronge that he sayd more of hymselfe and his folowers I trust sayth he that nother dethe ne lyfe nor none of all the aungelles in heuen nor in hell ne nothynge good nor yll that is present or for to come no strong violence nor hye power ne depe wytte nor ony other creature can seperate vs frome the charyte of god that is in our lorde Iesu cryste and after them this loue made innumerable people to loue cast away al wordly thynges and to ronne after cryst not sparyng nor ferynge fyre sworde payne ne no maner of tormētes but gladly toke them with grete desyre it was but a smalle thynge to thē for to forsake theyr frendes for the loue of Ihesu And thus not onely in stronge men but also in women and chyldren weyke and frayle and in yonge tender vyrgyns that were made by loue more stronge than all tyraūtes that fered nother kynge nor Emperour and ouercame them both in wysdome and in strength for to suffre more paynes than theyr tormentoures coude put them to and vtterly confounded them O good charyte O dere charyte yf I vnworthy defyled wretche haue presumed to prayse the and to shewe thyn ymage thus rudely where so many holy and noble men haue praised and commended the but yet nothynge as thou arte worthy as they wytnes themselfe I cry the mercy and them also besechynge the to come in to my soule for to kyndle it in loue to lyghten it with grace to dilate myne hert to stretche out my desyre to open the bosome of my mynde to enlarge stablysshe thy dwellynge place in my soule ¶ That it maye receyue the good lorde Father sone and holy ghost moost hye charyte in to my reason wyll and memory for a contynuall dweller in me And lykewyse in you good ladyes perpetually AMEN ¶ Thus Endeth this lytyll treatyse called the ymage of Loue. Imprynted at London in the Flete strete at the sygne of the Sonne by Wynkyn de worde The yere of our lorde M. CCCCC xxv The vij daye of October wynkyn worde