Selected quad for the lemma: heart_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
heart_n	arise_v	light_n	shine_v	2,177	5	8.7054	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A11073	The mysticall marriage Experimentall discoveries of the heavenly marriage betweene a soule and her saviour. By F. Rous.	Rous, Francis, 1579-1659.	1631 (1631)	STC 21342.5; ESTC S106415	66,682	385

comforters that wound and smite her and if shee meete with that one of a thousand that speakes right words and tells her true comforts yet while the inward Comforter is wanting that should turne the words into deedes they remaine bare words and are like the white of an egge that hath no taste in it For the soule sayes still Call mee not Naomi but Marah for my Lord hath dealt bitterly with me Yet still she lookes out for her husband but sees him not shee calls to remembrance his former loves that so shee may enjoy him in the representations of her former enjoyings But then a world of fleshly and fearefull thoughts rush in upon her and with a cloud cover that sight of him which memorie would give her and if she yeeld not to them she is vexed with importunity and if she yeeld to thē she is vex't with guilt self-accusation the Tempter buffets her with sharp and thornie temptations to drive her to yeeld and when shee yeelds hee buffets her with fearful accusations Now what can bee added to her misery Her best friend is gone from her and her worst enemies are round about her yea her best friends seemes to have surrendred her into the hands of her worst enemies for shee feeles a mighty force of her enemies but no strength of her beloved Therefore her heart failes her and shee thinkes that shee hath wholly lost both her selfe and him I opened saith she to my beloved but my beloved had withdrawne himselfe and was gone I sought but I could not finde him I called him but hee gave no answer The watchmen that went about the City found me they smote me they wounded me But yet be of good comfort thou wearie wounded and distressed soule thy husband is a God that comforteth the abject that makes light to shine out of darknesse that gives refreshing to the weary and heavie-laden that brings life out of death Thy Lord hath called thee as a woman forsaken and grieved in spirit and as a wife of youth when thou wast refused saith thy God For a small moment hath he forsaken thee but with great mercies will hee gather thee The mercies of God even when they seeme to faile thee then doe they gather thee yea they gather thee by their seeming to faile thee Thy husband is God and God is love and love doth ever good to the beloved Yea thou lovest him and he hath told thee that all things shall turne to good to them that love him therefore even these desertions though never so dreadfull and discomfortable the almightinesse of Gods love shall make usefull and advantageable This is so true that many of these uses and advantages may particularly be named and I doubt not but thy husband himselfe will teach them to thee experimentally yet because while the cloud of desertion is upon thy soule she can hardly see by her owne light another that hath light for the time though perchance clouded himselfe as much or more another time may tell her what hee sees by his light And indeede when the soule is in the darke and her owne light shines not she may doe well to get a guide and to take heede to borrowed light untill the day dawne and the day-starre arise in her owne heart A first advantage then that may come to the soule by the desertions of her husband is by desertions to prevent desertions for by loosing him shee may learne not to loose him and by the miseries of her former ill keeping him learne hereafter to keepe him better Perchance thou wast too careles in holding him when thou hadst him or in admitting him when he came to visite thee and to bring these thy faults to remembrance that by remembring them thou maist amend them he is now gone from thee Remember whether thou didst not heare such a voice as this Open to me my sister my love my dove my undefiled for my head is filled with deaw and my lockes with the drops of the night Remember also whether this was not thy answer I have put off my coate how shall I put it on I have washed my feete how shall I defile them Thou hadst taken up some rest in the flesh and hadst put thy selfe into a method of ease and then it was a marring of thy method and a fowling of thy feete to step into any action or passion for thy beloved Hee that was thy true happinesse was growne very cheape to thee and thou wast content to part from him rather than to give the price of a little paines for him And art thou not well worthy to lose him whom thou thoughtest so little worth the keeping But now thou art put to learne the value of him by absence whom thou didst so much undervalue being present And when by absence thou hast learned this lesson thou hast gained more by absence than thou wouldest have done by presence for thou hast gained the true valuation of thy Lord by absence which through thy fault and frailty thou forgatest in his presence so by this first gaine thou shalt come to a second for by absence thou shalt gaine his presence For absence having taught thee truly to value him and accordingly to desire and thirst after him and to give him due entertainment when he comes hereafter and offers his love unto thee then shalt thou by this benefit of absence come to enjoy his presence Thy fulnesse brought thee to hunger and thy hunger now brings thee to fulnesse for he filleth the hungry with good things and the full he sends empty away He will fill thee not onely with good things but with goodnesse it selfe for he wil fill thee with himselfe and hee is goodnes yea thou shalt yet have a farther gaine by this absence for when he comes againe thou wilt holde him faster and keepe him surer and so enjoy him nearer longer Now thou wilt embrace him and cleave to him and winde thy selfe about him and when thine eye sleepeth thy heart shall wake that thou maist still keepe his presence whose absence was so bitter unto thee Thou wilt bring him into the chamber of the soule and binde him with the cords of love thou wilt claspe thy affections about him and hold him fast that hee may no more escape from thee And being thus bound by the cords of love and love loving to be bound by love hee willingly abides in the bands which hee loveth for both love and faith are mighty with the Almighty and make the spouse an Israel even a prevailer with God Shee that loveth Christ much may embrace him much and kisse him much and holde him much and if any man doe trouble her hee himselfe will say Why trouble yee the woman And thus thrives the Spouse by her losses while by losing her husband for a time shee loves him better and being returned enjoyes him the more and holdes him stronger and longer But

light The understanding is not fettered and bound by a violent hand but it yeelds it selfe up freely to bee subdued and captivated by a light that surpasseth the light which it selfe hath The reasonable light of man continueth in man even when this supernaturall light shineth it knowes what other men know and knowes what it selfe knew and thought before this light came to it but this light being come it yeelds willingly to it and surrenders both it selfe and the man whom it formerly guided This homage of reason shewes a soveraignty in that spirituall light to which reason doth this homage The going out of the light of a candle not by quenching but not-shining acknowledgeth a greater and more excellent light to be present And indeede reason even with reason gives way that a greater light should rather guide than a lesser yea with reason it gives way that it selfe being a lesser light should be increased and enlarged by a higher and greater that so it may discerne higher and greater things And this increase it experimentally findes for by this new and greater light the soule sees the supreme light which begate it she sees him to be her soveraign good shee sees the way to him and is directed to union with him and to the full fruition of him And because shee sees these excellent things now which shee saw not before shee justly and wisely resignes her selfe to that light by which shee sees those excellent things which she saw not before and to that sight by which she seeth in a more excellent manner of seeing A second Character and marke of a divine visitation is ioy even a ioy of a different kind and character from other ioyes For this ioy ariseth not originally from naturall principles neither fastneth it selfe on naturall obiectes but is supernaturall in the roote of it and fixeth it selfe on supernaturall objects It is no sanguine joy neither made of humor and complection for it ariseth often in the midst of sadnes within and crosses without The spiritual man therfore thus truely describeth the manner of thē In the midst of the sorrowes of my heart thy comforts have refreshed me Even when the outward man decayeth dyeth away the inward man reneweth and rejoyceth When the disciples are talking doubtfully and are sorrowfull then Iesus appeares to them and warmes their hearts with an heavenly fire When the wine of naturall joy is spent and there is nothing left but the waters of affliction thē doth Christ turne this water into wine Thou hast turned saith David my mourning into dancing thou hast put off my sackcloth and girded me with gladnes There is a river that maketh glad the City of God there is the new wine of the kingdome that makes the heart merry there is a heavenly oyle that maketh that face pleasant and joyfull which is the image of God these flow forth from the throne in heaven from the true vine frō the right olive and that it may appeare that they doe so they are commonly sent into thirsty weary mourning almost despayring soules that the excellency of them may appeare to be of God and not of man when the soule is parched with drynes the sap of joy cannot naturally come out of drines even Moses himselfe saith Shall I fetch you water out of this rock when there is no wine and there appeares nothing but water even teares and sorrowes it must bee a divine hand that turnes this water into wine When the soule is oppressed with spirituall wants and sees nothing but griefe within and terrours without it must be the worke of God to make this oyle to runne untill the vessels bee full Therefore Saint Paul rightly infers that it is the right hand of the most High even in an high degree which maketh this chang Yea there is in it more then a change even a harmony and agreement betweene contraries Much affliction and joy in the Holy Ghost And so Saint Peter Yee greatly rejoyce though ye are in heavinesse Wherefore since to the Saints there ariseth a light in the middest of darknesse could not make this light but he only who is the light of the world and by whom first the light came to shine out of darknesse And as this joy is divine and heavenly flowing from a divine and heavenly fountain so is it also divine and heavenly because it fasteneth on divine and heavenly objects Things that love are like the naturall joy delights in naturall objects and a spirituall joy in spiritual objects Accordingly while the naturall joy lookes out for corne and wine the spirituall joy lookes out for the countenance of God God is a spirit and he delights in spirit because it is like him and the joy of the spirit delights in God yea delights in him most because he is the supremest spirit and consequently highest in this likenes And because the union of our spirits with this spirit is onely in Christ with whom the soule becomming one spirit hath union with the highest spirit therefore the soule having found Christ rejoyceth in him above all things with a joy unspeakable and glorious She rejoyceth so in him that she will sell all naturall things to buy the spirituall happinesse that is to be found in him And thus both by the absence and by the contempt of naturall things this joy may be knowne to be supernaturall For as it doth not faint nor faile when naturall things are absent if Iesus be present so doth it not fixe or feede on them being present if Iesus also be present with them Yea if the soule may feele Iesus to be more present because they are more absent she enjoyeth that absence by which the presence of her beloved is more enjoyed She delights in the tribulations whose abundance hath caused an abundance of consolations shee so much loves Christ that for his sake shee loves things that are to nature most hatefull and rejoyceth in them And thus while the soule rejoyceth in things contrary to nature for the love of things supernaturall this joy cannot be naturall and of the same kinde that those things are which it despiseth but must needes be supernaturall and of the same kinde that those things are in which it especially delighteth Another property of these joyes by which they prove themselves to be spirituall is this that they are nutrimentall to the very soule spirit of man They feede they satisfie and in their measure fill the soule and give her an inward thriving and increase Bodily joyes are thicke and grosse and by their grossenesse sticke behind in the body and pierce not to the soule and if any thing come to the soule from them it is commonly but filth dregs guilt vexation or shame Shee may bee more clouded by them made more dull earthy and foule by materiality or filth cast upon her but they enter not into the inward