Selected quad for the lemma: heart_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
heart_n	beauty_n	love_n	love_v	3,150	5	6.1573	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A28639	A guide to heaven containing the marrow of the holy fathers, and antient philosophers / written in Latine by John Bona ... ; [translated] in English by T.V.; Manuductio ad coelum. English	Bona, Giovanni, 1609-1674.; T. V. (Thomas Vincent), 1604-1681.	1672 (1672)	Wing B3549; ESTC R12920	80,974	225

upon all chances before they happen that so the Enemy may find thee prepared 'T is too late to furnish the Mind with Remedies after the Dangers Learn to do little and speak little for if of the many things thou speakest and dost thou takest away what is not necessary thou wilt find fewer perturbations in thy Mind And say not this is a small matter For that which is the beginning of Virtue and Perfection is very great though it seems but little 5. The Old man drawing his Origine from the infected seed of the sinner Adam is to be considered as a certain Tree having for its Root Self-love for its Trunk a Propension to Evil for its Branches Perturbations for its Leaves Vitious Habits for its Fruits Works Words and Thoughts which are contrary to the Divine Law Wherefore to hinder the Branches of bad Affections from breaking forth into Leaves and Fruits apply the Axe to the Root and extirpate that worst Love of thy self If thou takest this away thou hast with one stroke cut off the whole vitious Off-spring of thy Inferiour Appetite And thou wilt take it away and root it out if thou contemnest thy self if thou truly believest thy self to be one of those thousands who are indu'd with no singular dowry and perfection and that thou art destitute of all knowledge and virtue if thou fearest not to displease men and to be by them scorned and despised if thou art willing to want all sorts of comforts and conveniences Thou wilt preserve thy self if thou well hatest thy self thou wilt lose thy self if thou ill lovest thy self CHAP. XIII Of Love Its Nature Causes Effects Its Remedies Something added of Hatred 1. LOve is a complacency in that which is Good to wit that first impression wherewith the Appetite is affected when the known Good pleaseth it By this the whole World coheres together and this being brought under which holds the prime place amongst the Affections the whole troop of the rest will easily be quelled The Love which is good tends thither from whence it had its beginning It goes to Good because it proceeds from the Soveraign Good Discuss thy Life and weigh thy Heart in the Ballance of a strict Examination Observe what Love is there predominant for that which weighs down in the Scale of Love is to thee a God that 's the Idol thou worshippest Therefore God hath commanded thee to love him with thy whole Heart to prevent thereby the Affections of thy Mind because whatsoever thou Lovest with thy whole Heart that is the thing thou adorest as God 2. Besides Goodness and Beauty a certain sympathy and agreement of minds and manners excites Love as also outward Modesty Industry Nobility Learning quickness of Wit and other such like Ornaments of Body and Mind Love it self is the Load-stone of Love to which if Benefits are added he is then constrained to return Love who would not bestow it There are moreover some things naturally provoking Love for they who have clearer Spirits a warmer Heart a more subtle Blood and are of an easie and meek Disposition are more prone to Love 3. Great is the power of Love It transforms the Lover into the thing Beloved Love is a certain going out of it self a certain Pilgrimage from it self a certain voluntary Death He who Loves is absent from himself he thinks not of himself he provides nothing he doth nothing and unless he is received by his beloved he is no where O how unhappily doth he love who loves not God! for he cannot be in the beloved who loves earthly Objects which cannot satiate the Soul as being subject to Vanity and Death But he that loves God is in God and ceasing to live in himself lives in him in whom all things live who is our Center and our unchangeable Good Humane love is violent and bitter the Divine is evermore humble and peaceable Jealousie torments that but this hath no Rivals that fears lest another should love this wishes all would love wherefore if thou lovest thy self love God for that thou lovest him is thy own profit not his Man may be alter'd and perish thou never losest God unless thou leavest him 4. That the love which thou perchance bearest thy Companion may be sincere lay aside all humane causes of Wit Jocundness Likeness and seek only them which consist in Piety and Sanctity The Love which they call Platonical is the bane of Virtue whereby they feign that from the beholding Corporal Comliness the Soul is raised to the contemplation of the Divine Beauty The stedfast eying of a sair Face excites the Concupiscence to touch it and that which goes out by the Eyes whether it is Light or a certain Flux melts the Man and destroys him 'T is better the Feet should slip than the Eyes But the Remedies of Love are of great difficulty because when 't is chastised it more eagerly presses on and unless thou resistest its beginnings it so insensibly creeps in that thou wilt first feel thy self to Love before thou hadst any design of Loving But if thou absolutely repugnest to the beginnings the cure will be easily compassed The Mind also must be busied about other matters which being accompanied with care will remove the memory of the thing beloved Then all mention of the person affected is to be avoided because nothing more easily returns than Love which if it hath once seiz'd on thee it will so pertinaciously vex thee as that it will not be removed but by the lingring Remedy of time and absence that is till it being tired expires Shame hath cur'd many when they saw themselves pointed at and become the common talk of the people and withall considered the foulness of the thing full of disgrace full of danger and subject to future Repentance It hath profited others to enquire attentively into the Evils and inconveniences of the thing beloved which might diminish its amiableness and beauty Lastly a conversion of our Love to God to Virtue to eternal Objects that is to things which are truly Lovely will much conduce to the cure that so a good Love may expell the bad and the generous mind of man may grow ashamed to debase it self to the vile love of the earth Bad loves infect good manners 5. Nature hath bound all things together with a certain Love-Chain This drives and couples the dances of the Stars in Heaven the flocks of Birds in the Air the Heards of Oxen in the Meadows the Droves of Cattel in the Mountains the companies of Wild Beasts in the Woods This Sacred Bond is broken only by Hatred for as Love tends to Union so Hatred aims at Division and Dissention They are most subject to this bad affection who are sluggish timerous and suspicious and apprehensive of loss on every side There are moreover some men so born that they hate all others like that horrid sort of Fowls which hate even their own darkness If thou meetest with any of this