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heart_n	apostle_n	love_n	love_v	3,124	5	6.7919	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A31477	The innocent lady, or, The illustrious innocence being an excellent true history, and of modern times carried with handsome conceptions all along / written originally in French by the learned Father de Ceriziers of the Company of Jesus ; and now rendered into English by Sir William Lower, Knight.; Innocence reconnuë	Cerisiers, René de, 1609-1662.; Lower, William, Sir, 1600?-1662.	1654 (1654)	Wing C1679; ESTC R37539	69,822	175

thought unchaste for being fair or the perfection of her body do injury to that of her soul could she not be seen without desire nor slandered without being convicted of a crime whereof her very thought was not culpable Should an apple render the wife of Theodosius criminall was that an inevitable misfortune to Queen Elisabeth loving the vertue of a Page to love an object that was not chast deserved Cunegonda to handle fire for proving that her heart burned not with any evil flame the daughter of the great Anthemius could not she do good to her sister without losing her reputation nor drive the Devil from her body without putting him into her soul who can conceive why God permitted that Marina should be punished for a sinne whereof she was not capable and which was as far from her will as from her sex Soft humane reason take heed how thou think that an essence all good and all perfect should produce any evill if there flow sharpnesse from that inexhaustible spring of sweetnesse it is either to wean our affection from the vanity of pleasures or to make our vertue merit in the martyrdome of sufferings Our griefs are not more sensible unto us than unto God if we are assaulted he resents it if we are wounded he complaineth he doth indeed seem sometimes not to know us but it is to the end to render us known to all posterity he permits detraction to spot our honour but to the end to dravv the rayes of our glory from our own obscurity you know it faire soules who glitter novv like so many Suns in that great day of eternity Is it not true that God loves not our abasement but to raise us up again our contempt but because it may be glorious to us Our losses but because vve may derive advantage from them our evils but because they doe us good The Bees suck honey aswell upon the Thyme and Wormvvood as upon the Roses the Lillies and holy soules make their infirmitie prosper as well as their good fortune but the first being of a nature more refined God vvill not be niggardly unto us of a favour vvhich vve can so vvell improve Who knoweth not that a great virtue hath sometimes thrust those who possessed it into presumption and that innocence mistaken and calumniated hath found its conservation in that which seemed to destroy it The life of the Nightingale which nourisheth not it self but with melody is very delightfull that of the Swan is not to be despised though he lives not but with melancholly God takes pleasure that we should lead a life like unto this sorowful Bird provided that we be so white in Innocence as he is in his plume he careth not to see us swime in the waters of our grief Nothing pleaseth him like our sighes he loves perfectly that musick of which himself gives the measure and indeed there are those visages who weep with so good a grace that they should never be without this ornament our eys ravish not those of God but by tears which he seeks with a great care and which he gathereth with an incredible joy The tears fall to the ground and mingle themselves with the dust but their restuction gos unto the firmament mounteth above the stars so as they are the pearls of heaven which form themselves in the salt waters of our bitternesses as a great Wit hath said It is the delicate wine of the Angels the delights of Paradise and the voice that goes even to the ear of God For this reason he commanded one of his Prophets that the apple of his eyes should appear unto him continually for as much as he takes an inexpressable content at the sweet violence with which they constrain him if we knew well to weep we should know to vanquish our enemies to drown our sins to ruin the devils to extinguish hell and sweetly to force heaven to the sense of our requests The sinner hath no stronger arms than in his eyes seeing that God himself may be wounded with them The Athenians offered plaints in one of their sacrifices for my part I believe that it was to that unknown divinity which the Apostle instructs them to be the true God for as much as they cannot present him an offering more acceptable then tears which are no sooner drop'd from our eyes but they enter into his heart How can he not love these liquid pearls these melted diamonds this subtle sweat of the soule that a●stils it self through the fires of love to the end to offer him an essence more precious a thousand times than that of the Iasmin I do not say that chastity plants it self in our hearts as the lillies who have no other seed but their tears and that vertues appear there onely when this dew of our eyes makes them to bud there After all this we should no more wonder if God takes pleasure in the sighes of an afflicted Innocence since we finde so remarkable an instruction in his example so advantagious a profit in his merit then if God will that we suffer is it not great reason to consent thereunto If our displeasures delight him ought we to seek out the cause thereof Alas we shut up the Birds in the Cages to the end to draw joy from their plaints Can it be that they are more ours than we are his that their liberty is more subject unto our tyrany than ours is to his Empire O how happy should a creature be if God taking pleasure in his tears he might weep eternally the History which we have to set forth can give rare examples of this truth and advance most profitable instructions from this practise To the Reader MY dear Reader in expecting a Work whereof I give you here but one of the least parts I conjure you to suspend your judgment upon this History and not to take the effects of an all adoreable Providence for the Fictions of a Romance Raderus in his Baviere Ericius Puteanus and many other Authors can warrant the principall circumstances thereof and I assure my self in time to make you understand that there is nothing in the whole piece which is not as true as divertising ERRATA or faults escaped in the printing PAg. 3. line 6. those her sex read those of her sex pag. 5. l. 24. the great perfections 1. the perfections p. 7. l. 16. exposed r. proposed p. 13. l. 18. part r. depart p. 23. l. 2. souldiers r. folds p. 26. l. 14. Narbonana r. Narbona p. 31. l. 28. as of a Come● r. as that of a Comet The Innocent Ladie OR The Illustrious Innocence IN one of the Provinces of the * Gaule Belgick which was sometime the countrey of the Tongrians about the time that the glory of the great Lodowick began to be obscured that the children of this Lion degenerated into beasts much lesse generous was born a daughter in the most illustrious family of the