Selected quad for the lemma: heaven_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
heaven_n	behold_v	earth_n	new_a	6,996	5	7.0434	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A04705	Policie vnveiled vvherein may be learned, the order of true policie in kingdomes, and common-wealths: the matters of justice, and government; the addresses, maxims, and reasons of state: the science of governing well a people: and where the subject may learne true obedience unto their kings, princes, and soveraignes. Written in Spanish, and translated into English by I.M. of Magdalen Hall in Oxford.; República y policía christiana. English	Juan de Santa María, fray, d. 1622.; Mabbe, James, 1572-1642?; Blount, Edward, fl. 1588-1632, attrib. trans.	1632 (1632)	STC 14831A; ESTC S102311	349,848	530

they heare and hearing answer that they haue heard that which they neuer meane to grant And there is no worse Answer for a suitor then to make this answer to his petition That it hath beene heard And it is very fit that they should reply in this kinde of phrase for thereby is giuen to be vnderstood the great obligation they haue to heare as well those that haue iustice as those that pretend to haue it although they haue it not In signification whereof the two eares are placed on the two contrarie sides of the head one opposite to the other because affording one eare to the Plaintiffe we must reserue the other for the defendant And because God would haue it so that Hearing should be the ordinary meanes for the receiuing of the diuine Light and attaining to the knowledge of those supreme truthes by so superexcellent and high a gift as that of faith Quomodo credent ei quem non crediderunt How shall they beleeue in him of whom they haue not heard As also that Kings may haue an intire light of humane Truthes it is requisite that they should lend a willing eare to those that cra●e Audience of them For in this sense of all other saith Saint Bernard Truth hath it's seate and Mansion In auditu veritas Truth is in Hearing And in example of this hee alleageth that which passed betwixt good old Isaac and his two sonnes Esau and Iacob who by reason of his olde age fayling very much in all the rest of his senses that of his hearing continued still in it's full perfection The other deceiu'd him and this onely told him the Truth Vox quidem vox Iacob manus autem manus sunt Esau. The voyce is Iacobs voyce but the hands are the hands of Esau. Wherein he was out In Gods Schoole where faith isprofessed great reckoning is made of Hearing Quia fides ex auditu Because faith comes by hearing For a man may heare and beleeue though he cannot see But in the Schoole of the world we must haue all these and all is little inough We must see heare and beleeue And when Kings haue both seene and heard and throughly informed themselues of the whole State of the busines that they may not be deceiued in their iudgement then let them presently proceede to touch it as we say with the hand to fall roundly to worke and in that maner and forme as shall seeme most fitting to finish and make an end of it Dominus de coelo in terram aspexit vt audiret gemitus compeditorum c. The Lord looked downe from the height of his Sanctuary Out of the Heauen did the Lord behold the earth that he might heare the mourning of the prisoner and deliuer the children of death This looking downe of the Lord from the highest Heauens and from the throne of his glory vpon the earth to heare the grieuous gro●nings and pitifull complaints of poore wretched creatures which call and cry vnto him for iustice should my thinkes be an admirable good lesson for Kings that they should loose somewhat of their sportes and recreations and of that which delighteth the eye and the eare to bestow them both on those who humb●y petition him that he will be pleased to both see and heare their cause Of Philip King of Macedon though some put it vpon Demetrius it is reported by Plutarke in his life that going one day abroad to take his pleasure and pastime an olde woman came vnto him besought him to heare her and to do her Iustice. But he excusing himselfe and telling her he was not now at leysure to heare her shee made answer Proinde nec Rex quidem esse velis Sir if you be not at leysure to heare your subiects will not giue them leaue to speake vnto you leaue to be king for there is no reason he should be a king that cannot finde a time to cumply with his dutie Conuinced with this reason without any more adoe he presently gaue a gracious Audience not onely to her but many moe besides For Kings which doe not heare by consequence do not vnderstand And not vnderstanding they cannot gouerne And not gouerning they neither are nor can be Kings The Cretans painted their God Iupiter without eares because he was that supreme king that gaue lawes and iudged all And therefore ought to cary an equall eare indifferently to heare all parties after one and the same selfe manner Other some did allow him eares but so placed them withall that they might heare those least that were behinde him Which was held a fault in their God as likewise it is in King not to heare any but those that stand before them or side by side are still weighting at their elbow Kings should heare as many as they possibly can and which is the onely comfort of suitors in that gratious and pleasing kinde of maner that no man should depart discontented from their feete being a maine fundamentall cause to make all men to loue reuerence and esteeme them and likewise to oblige Princes to lend the more willing and patient eare to their subiects And of this subiect Pliny in commendation of his Emperour Traiane tells vs that amidst so many cares of so great an Empire as his was he spent a great part of the day in giuing Audience and with such stilnes and quietnes as if he had beene idle or had nothing to doe And that he knowing the content that his subiects tooke in their often seeing of him and speaking with him so much the more liberally and longer he afforded them occasion and place for to inioy this their content For nothing doth so much please and satisfie the heart of a Prince as to conceiue that he is beloued and generally well affected of all his subiects Let a King then this course being taken perswade himselfe that his people loueth him and desireth to see him and to speake dayly if it were possible with him And that they take a great deale of comfort that they haue seene him and he heard them And that of two things which all desire To wit To be heard and relieued The first intertaines and comfortes the suitor and makes him with a cheerefull minde to hope well of the second Let him heare though it be but as he passes by from place to place and let him not let any day passe without giuing ordinary Audience at a set hower and for a set time And in case any shall require a more particular and priuate Audience a gods name let him grant it them For euery one of these to conceiue the worst cannot deceiue him aboue once And it is to be supposed that they will not be so vnciuill or so foolishly indiscreete as to craue the Kings priuate eare but in a case of necessitie or where there is some especiall cause or extraordinary reason for it And I farther affirme that Audience being giuen in this

heauinesse Hence againe hee that saith I sayd of laughter it is mad And of mirth what doth it And that hee sayth yet once againe The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning but the heart of fooles is in the house of mirth But continuing our discourse concerning Kings and things so generally receiued and intertained as sports pastimes and temporall delights rigorous is that qualification which the greatest and most approued qualifiers of Heauen and earth haue left firmed signed vnto vs with their owne handes and names That mirrour of Wisdome King Salomon or to say better the Holy Ghost speaking by him Our Sauiour Iesus Christ the true wisedom of his father and that great Bishop and Doctor of the Church S. Gregorie plainely tell vs That those delights and merriments which are so well receiued in the world are but lyes and mocks and prognostications of euils to come and that they haue their reception and residence in the hearts of fooles and that they remaine banished from those that are truly wise These Authenticall persons haue sayd it and all the Saints of God haue confirmed the same both by example and doctrine And I whilest I am now writing of this subiect though the meanest of a thousand am verily perswaded that my pen cannot doe better seruice then to iustifie Gods cause and to make the faults of Kings the more without excuse and to let the mighty know that they shall be mightily punished And since that I cannot take away the vse of these things giue me leaue to aduise you of the abuse and if it shall not be of force to worke an amendment yet let it so farre preuaile with you as to put you out of your error And to take it into your consideration that in the way to Heauen you are to meete and incounter with many dangers and that the Diuell is wonderfull busie and carefu●l in setting of his gynn's and his s●ares without our laying in the way these new stumbling blocks to breake our own necks and to make the way more dangerous and to adde new occasions of sinning whereby to put the businesse of our Saluation in the more contingencie and hazard Here might I take occasion to say something of that Temperance which should temper and moderate the excesses of the tast Whereof we will speake when we come to treate of the sence of Touching And now let vs passe to another Ministrie which likewise belongs vnto the Tast from the Office and function of the Tongue it being one of it's principall properties to speake deuided by these insuing Paragrahpes §. I. Of the Language and Truth which Kings and wherewith Kings are to treate and to be treated with THe braine as Minister to all the rest of the sences sends to the Tongue two sorts of members the one soft and smooth for to tast our meates withall and to know and distinguish as already hath beene sayd the seuerall sorts of sauours and relishes which the Taste intertaineth The other somewhat more stiffe and strong for to turne and winde the tongue and to moue it with that nimble motion as wee see as likewise to hold backe the spring and to restraine and lock it fast when it is not fitting for the tongue to speake This is the Master-key as we may tearme it and the ordinary Mistresse of Nature which by the helpe of one onely Instrument performeth diuerse Offices As of the Ayre to refrigerate and coole the heart to refresh and comfort it and to make it breathe the better and with the more ease and likewise to forme our words for without it it is as impossible to speake as without breath to winde a Horne or blow to play vpon the Fi●e The tongue serues vs for our taste it serues to turne and roll our meate vp and downe in our mouth it serues to cleanse the roofe thereof gumm●s and teeth it serues vs to talke withall and to vtter those conceits which are hatched in the braine which is it's most proper Office And though it be written of some that they haue spoken without a tongue yet this is the vsuall meanes of vtterance and the ordinary instrument wherwith we pronounce our words which are the thoughts Interpreters I omit here to treate of good or better language or whether this or that ought to be in greatest request since the Master himselfe of Eloquence saith That in euery part and place wee are to speake with those words which are there vnderstood And that such a people or such a Nation is Lord of a Language and may by a kinde of prerogatiue power either coyne new or call in old words It being like vnto money of seuerall Kingdomes and Prouinces that being currant in one Countrie which will not passe in another And therefore that language ought to be spoken by vs which is generally approued and commonly vsed and receiued And therefore many times men alter the fashion of their Language as they do of their cloathes And wee our selues finde that in this our Spanish tongue wee haue made almost as many changes and alterations as we haue of our garments and are able to make two such different languages that the one should not vnderstand the other For wee make such hast to inuent new words and to take them vpon loane from other Languages that thinking thereby to inrich it we come to loose and forget our own naturall Language So different is it to some mens seeming in these from what it was informer times For the Spanish tongue in it selfe is an humble and lowly language if they had not painted it ouer and adulterated it with new words Not considering in the meane while with themselues that the best Language according vnto Tully is that which wee haue beene taught by our Mothers and which chaste Matrones and those that haue beene well bred speake familiarly at home in their owne houses And the reason of it is for that they hauing not gone abroad out of their owne Countrie to forraine nations nor treated and conuersed with strangers they conserue the naturall phrase and speech of their own Towne or Country without sophisticating their Language with new words or those that are not of ordinary vse And therefore it is fitting that wee should speake in that which is most passable and which is best vnderstood vsing sober proper and plaine words for words were ordayned to that end that they might be well vnderstood He speakes best and in the best Language that is best vnderstood not hee that shall speake in an vnco●th stile and in words that are neither in vse nor easie to be vnderstood It is a common saying with vs Delos antiquos auemos de imitar las virtudes y delos modernos el Lenguaje Wee are to imitate the ancient in their vertues and the Moderne in their Language And Quintilian tells vs Loquendum vt vulgus sentiendum vt pauci We must speake with the many but thinke