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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
kingdom_n	glory_n	grace_n	lord_n	4,464	5	3.7966	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A11620	The tillage of light· Or, A true discouerie of the philosophicall elixir, commonly called the philosophers stone Seruing, to enrich all true, noble and generous spirits, as will aduenture some few labors in the tillage of such a light, as is worthy the best obseruance of the most wise. By Patrick Scot, Esquire.	Scot, Patrick.	1623 (1623)	STC 21862; ESTC S116882	23,614	62

Pastors and people ought to be indued heare vpon earth and by the second their perfection in the Kingdome of Grace and glory in heauen hereafter That Vrim and Thummim signifie light and perfection wee are not to doubt but that they were artificiall substansified substances is not yet cleered As the rest of Ezekiels vision was a similitude of the glory of the Lord in the deliuery of his Ambassage to the Prophet so by the firie coales or stone mentioned in that vision is meant the force and effects of Gods word Aurum Dei spoken of in that prophesie or else where in Scripture alluds to the incomprehensible goodnesse of the Creator and to the holinesse and thankefulnesse required in the prime Creature But if wee beleeue that any of these pointed at a materiall elixar or substance to be sought by art if it bee not heresie it is grosse errour all Scripture as Isidor learnedly seconds the rest of the Fathers ought to be interpreted morrally and vnderstood Spiritually whosoeuer then applieth it otherwise to things that peruert the nature order and meaning of Scripture may be good textuaries but are rash text-wresters and not better grounded in Diuity then Rabbelais or the Curat that applied the authority of his horse to those that denyed purgatorie It was Arius prancke Verba Scripturarum simplicia sicuti in eis reperiuntur itidem vt Diabolus assimulare to wreast sinfully the words of Scripture as they are expressed if wee may beleeue Eusebius is a loosnesse of liberty and lightnesse of vanity more then any of the Fathers durst take vpon them Next that the strayning of the Philosophers work to an artificiall Elixar powerfull to multiply Gold by proiection driues all wit out of harmony I prooue by the chiefe ayme of Phylosophie then by the harmefull consequences which the infinite multiplication of Golde would produce All Phylosophers agree that their principall ayme is to extract a light or a true Summum bonum as they call it or content from the contempt of adulterate inconstant terrestriall suggestions and delights if this bee true as most true it is it would follow that Philosophers would neuer haue bestowed so much labour in vntwining a Spiders web and finding out a light by the multiplication of Gold which they did hold their Summum malum and in so base account that some of them when they had it did throw it in the Sea others when they might haue had it did refuse and reiect it that they might with more ease attaine to that content which Philosophie enioyeth from which the cursed care of Gold so much detracteth that as Experience telles vs by it Religious dueties are prophaned Iustice corrupted all bonds of ciuill societie and true friendship are infringed and the light of Humanitie quite rased out of the mindes of worldly Golden Spirits Secondly if it were possible to multiply or transmute a greater proportion of other vnrefined Mettals into Gold by proiection what benefit should thereby arise either to the Philosophers or from them to others they should acquire nothing by it but corruption of manners and staine of their profession others but the euersion of all politike gouernment mutuall commerce and industrious exchange Kings should be inferiour to Philosophers in the purchase of so great Treasure and so all Soueraigntie to whom by all Nationall Lawes belong the prerogatiue of all Gold and Siluer Mynes would turne againe to a confusion and hotch-potch many that are now holden wise would perhaps turne fooles and those that haue now little wit would haue then none at all Wee should see euery couetous pennie-father mercilesse Vsurer and Iewish Broker become Philosophers and conuert the blood of the poore vpon which they now feed into the new found Elixar We should see the Philosophers pearne their Cloaks and become insatiable worldlings vsurious Caterpillars hellish pawn-mungers and cut the garments of the necessitous to make them riding coates in their iourney towards hell O what a pitifull sight were it to see the of-falls of heauen the drugges of the earth and hells fit fagots inuested in heauens richest indowments But what more tragicall spectacle were it to behold Vertue stript naked spoyled of her beautie heauens gate which now stands open for her close shut vp and the entrie confined to the narrow passage of a Needles eye through which how hard it is for Asses loaden with Golde and corruption to enter the Master of Heauen when hee was vpon Earth hath foretold I tremble as in an Ague to heare of this exchange that Vice should reach Heauen and Vertue enter in the right way to Hell O deceitfull Riches how falsely are you called goods who knoweth you rightly may entitle you to be true euils none makes vs bond-slaues but you none wrongeth vs but you you abridge vs of our libertie and intercepts vs in our way towards Heauen O pelfe none can praise you but must dispraise true Libertie None can get you or keepe you without the hazzard of loosing themselues you are Achanes Wedges or Turnus his girdle that bereaues vs of life So ticklish and hard is your vse that seldome do you more good nor harme I do verily beleeue if frowning Fortune can fauour good men in any thing it is in releeuing them from that burthen that so sore presseth their shoulders But thinke mee not so surcharged with passion as I seeme to fauour a Stoycall austeritie Heremitish retyrednesse or voluntary pouerty I affect lawfull libertie in the first and am so farre from barring good men from the right vse of Riches that if I were not fully assured that diuine Prouidence hath her secret endes for our weale and knoweth better what is good for vs then our selues I should goe neere to suspect her of Iniustice in vnequall sharing of her temporal goods which so long as we vse as dispensators of them to the supply of our owne wants and helping of the necessities of others so long are they Heauens good blessings and the charitable dispensation of them is the concomitant effect of sauing Faith yea they are so necessary to the best of men that without them they are not able to effect that good which they would doe But when we adore Gold for God and in chesting or putting of it to vnlawfull vse starues our fellow members and smoothers Vertue with want or when we make it the fuell of Ambition corruption and iniustice then iustly may those blessings bee changed into curses Riches which were giuen to bee our seruile vassals and dutifull seruants in our iourney towards happinesse bee made our racking Land-lords or mercilesse executioners heere and the Paradisian sword to barre our entry there where before we can haue a Quietus est wee must giue account tam eorum que accepimus quam eorum que rapuimus Moysture was not giuen to Springs to remaine in the place where it is bred but to be conueyed by Conduits to the watering of barren drie grounds Nature at first