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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
love_n	affection_n	heart_n	word_n	2,963	5	3.8797	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A76232	Ēh probolē tēs alētheias or The bul-warke of truth, being a treatise of God, of Jesus Christ, of the Holy Ghost, and of the Trinity in unity, against atheists and hereticks. / By Robert Bayfeild.	Bayfield, Robert, b. 1629.; Faithorne, William, 1616-1691, engraver.	1657 (1657)	Wing B1468; Thomason E1636_3; ESTC R209045	111,248	263

found in all humane Ethiques and there are more heroick vertues and martiall prowesse in Joshuah Judges and the C●●●nicles then can be fetcht out of all the Greeke and Romane stories and you shall finde more patheticall expressions of sorrow and greife in a little more then one leafe of Jeremiahs Lamentation then you can finde in the mournfull Elegies of the Poets you shall read such ravishing Encomium's of true love in eight little Chapters of the Song of Songs as the like are not to be found in all the Epithalamium's of the world and you shall see more elegancy of expressions more excellency of demonstrations and more admirable allusions in our Saviours Doctrine then can be collected out of all the millions of volumes that are extant And therefore by Gods word Hushai was made a wise Counsellour Solomon a wise King Joshuah a wise Captaine and Timothy a wise divine Gideon overcame the Midianites David the Philistines Jehoshaphat the Amonites the Isralites the Canaanites and all godly men the Flesh the Devill and the worlds vanities By it Kings raigne Princes decree Justice all things are governed the Foundations of the Earth were layd the Heavens established Treasures and substances are inherited Also by it Man is blessed his Faith is encreased his soule is converted his Vnderderstanding enlightned his heart cheered and changed his corruptions mortified his thoughts purged his affections sanctified his memory with good lessons stored his will to Gods will conformed his speech with grace is seasoned his dayes are prolonged his yeares augmented his sleepe is secured his walkings guided and all his actions to Gods glory wholy directed Yea further By Gods word The ignorant men are instructed disordered men reformed the afflicted in heavinsse comforted the dull in memory quickned the cold in zeal inflamed and the distressed in want releived by it the Righteousnesse of God is revealed the Church is sanctified truth is preached errour convinced vice corrected good life directed death avoided and life eternall through Christ obtained In keeping then of Gods word there is great reward therefore it will be worth our paines to sequester our spare time from the n●cessary duties of our calling to the reading hearing and meditating upon the word which through the spirit of grace and devout prayers will enlighten our understanding with the knowledge of God enflame our affections with the love of God and establish our hearts with the promises of God yea it will moderate our joyes with the fear of God mitigate our afflictions with the comforts of God and regulate all our thoughts words and deeds with the precepts of God Theodosius the Emperour and Alfred King of England are renowned in hystory for their assiduity in reading of the scriptures and concerning Alphonsus King Arragon it is recorded that he did fourteen times read over the Old and New Testament with Commentaries upon the same It is an excercise well beseeming the highest as well as the lowest to be wel versed in the book of the high God which alone is able to make a man wise unto salvation Let us not therefore dive continually in humane arts and secular sciences full of dregs and drosse but let us rather digg into the mines of gold of Ophyr where every line is a veine of precius truth and every page a leafe of Gold Indeed in other books some truth is taught some good commended and some kind or part of happiness promised but in the inspired Oracles of God all truth is taught all goodnesse commanded and all happiness promised nay we may invert the words with Hugo de sancto victore and say Quicquid ibi docetur est veritas quicquid precipitur bonitas quicquid promittitur faelicitas All that is there taught is truth all that is there commanded is goodnesse and all that is there promised is happinesse Amongst the Ancients Chrysostome likens the holy scripture to a Treasury to a Fountain to an Apothecaries shop Jerom to a Table richly furnished with variety of delicates Ephrem to an armory Basil to a looking-glass Chrysost to a pleasant garden and Cassian to a fruitfull feild But to what purpose serveth a Treasury if wee make no use of it or a Fountaine if we draw no water thence or an Apothecaries shop if we fetch no Medicine thence or a Table furnished with varieties if wee tast not of them or an Armory if we take no weapons thence or a looking-glasse if wee behold not our faces therein or a pleasant Garden if we gather no flowers or herbs thenein or a fruitfull feild if we reap no fruit therein Surely to no purpose at all That wee may then make use of this Treasury draw water from this living fountaine take medicinall confections from this Apothecaries shop tast and eat of this well furnished Table weapon our selves from this armory behold our faces in this glasse gather fragrant flowers in this Garden and fruit from this fertile feild Let us be diligent in perusing the sacred writings of the Prophets and Apostles let us write them in the table of our hearts yea let us teach them diligently unto our children talk of them when we sit in our house Deut. 6.6.7 and when we walke by the way when we lye down and when wee rise up so shall we shine every day more and more gloriously in all sanctity and at last be able to look death in the face without dread the Grave without fear the Lord Jesus with comfort and Jehovah blessed for ever with everlasting Joy Thus Gentle Reader I thought good to tennder thee a preparatory Advertisment of some things whose precognition is necessary before thou entrest this Bulwark of truth which I know wil pass under the censure judgment of divers sorts of men some are ignorant cannot judge Et ideo grave judicium est ignorantis and the ignoranter man the severer Judge others are too rash and are ready to censure it before they read it others are malicious maligning and depraving other mens labours and I know there be many Momus like Aug. contra Faust l. 22. c. 43. Qui vel non intelligendo reprehendunt vel reprehendendo non intelligunt that do shew their folly in reproving others when out of envy or ignorance they blame that good of others which they have not or know not themselves and for these there is none other helpe but to be carelesse of their censures and to pray against their wickednesse Yea Let them go on say what they will Ego sic vivam ut illis fides non habeatur I hope God will give him grace to fear him and not them And I hope the Godly Reader of this little Tract of mine will finde some profit by it for the most necessary sublimest points of divinity are here breifly and yet fully handled and I rejoyce in this that I deliver what I learned and not what I invented as Lyrinensis speaketh Let no man how challenge me for

Felle caret Rostro non laedit Optimum granum elegit Gemicum pro cantu habet Juxta flumi●a aquarum sedet Innocentia valet Volatu praestat Thom. Aquin. de proprietat columbae she wanteth Gall shee hath no bitternesse in her shee never hurts with her bill nor clawes she is full of Love and yet shee never sings any wanton tune but woo woo is her matutinus vespertinus cantus her mournfull morning and evening song and therefore the holy Ghost descended on Jesus Christ like a Dove to shew these dove-like qualities of this Lambe of God and to teach that we must be thus qualified like Doves if we should have and enjoy the sweet and comfortable presence of this Heavenly Dove this holy spirit of God Joh. 14.16.17.18.26 Rom. 8.15.16 Joh. 16.13 Eph 1.13 4 30. Rom. 8.23 who is in the hearts of the elect as the pledge of Christs presence the witnesse of their adoption the guide of their life the comforter of their soule the seale of their redemption and the first fruits of their salvation Secondly like cloven tongues of fire Secondly He appeared like cloven tongues of fire First Like tongues because as a Father saith Symbolum est lingua spiritus sancti a Patris verbo procedentis The tongue is a symbole of the holy Ghost proceeding from the word of the Father for as the tongue hath the greatest cognation 1. Why the holy Ghost appeared like tongues and the neerest affinity with the word and is moved by the word of the heart to expresse the same by the sound of the voice saith Saint Gregory so the holy Ghost hath the neerest affinity that may be with the word of God and is the expressor of his voice and the speaker of his will Joh. 16.14 that receiveth of him and revealeth all unto us Secondly Like cloven tongues 2. Why he appeared like cloven tongues because all tongues and all languages are alike knowne and understood of God and because this holy spirit can teach all men all Languages and the gift of tongues is a gift of God Thirdly 3. Why he appeared like cloven tongues of fire He appeared like cloven tongues of fire because the spirit of God delighteth rather in the zealous and the fervent tongues of saint Paul and Apollo's that warme the heart then in those eloquent tongues of Cicero and Demosthenes that delight the eares for this is the desire of Gods spirit to kindle the hearts of men and to set them on fire with the love of God and to make them zealous in all good things Indeed zeal derived 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is a word that 's framed from the very sound and hissing noise that hot burning coales do make when they meet their contraries in any moystned substance and so zeal expresseth heat and zealous men are said to be 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 such as burn or such as waxe fervent in spirit Acts 18.25 Psa 39.3 so as the Prophet saith The fire kindled and at the last I spake with my tongue zeal is the highest degree of affection good or bad therefore he that doth any thing moderately though hee may be called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a Lover of that thing yet he cannot be called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 because a Zelot is so intensive Vt quicquid vult valde vult as that to all the objects of his affections he is excessively disposed Omnis animi impetus a ratione vel recta vel perversa proveniens ad destruendum vel ad s●uendum aliquid sub hoc verbo zelus significatur and most earnestly stretching himself to the very height of his abilities his love is fervent his desire eager his delights ravishing his hopes longing his hatred deadly his anger fierce his greif deep his feare terrible and so of all the rest of his passions he hath them all in the highest pitch so that such a man all the men in the world had most need to have his biasse right and to be furnished with that most necessary paire of spirituall endowments nam●● Wisdome and understanding Of wisdome understanding by way of digression first what they are two excellent graces and gifts to be desired above all the wealth of this world if wee would but consider the difference betwixt a Wise man and a foole that is void of understanding Now there are two sacred scriptures which do tell us what is Wisdome and Understanding for in the Book of Job it is sayd Job 28.28 Behold the feare of the Lord that is Wisdome and to depart from evill is understanding Deut. 4.4 5 6. And Moses sheweth the same also saying Behold I have taught you statutes and judgements c. Keepe therefore and do them for this is your Wisdome and your Vnderstanding in the sight of the Nations which shall hear all these statutes and say surely this great Nation is a wise and understanding people Moreover Sap 7.22 concerning wisdome the wise man sayth that in her is an understanding spirit 2 Of the sundry properties in wisdome holy one only manifold subtill lively clear undefiled not subject to hurt plain loving the thing that is good quick which cannot be letted ready to do good Kinde to man Sap. 7.23 stedfast sure free from care having all power overseeing all things and going through all understanding pure and most subtill spirits For wisdome is more moving then any motion Sap. 7.24 shee passeth and goeth through all things by reason of her pureness 25. For she is the breath of the power of God and a pure influence flowing from the glory of the Almighty Therefore can no defiled thing fall into her 26. For shee is the brightnesse of the everlasting light the unspotted mirrour of the power of God and the image of his goodnesse 27. And being but one she can do all things and remaining in her lelf she maketh all things new and in all ages entring into holy soules shee maketh them freinds of God and Prophets 28. For God loveth none but him that dwelleth with wisdome 29. For shee is more beautifull then the Sun and above all the order of the stars being compared with the light shee is found before it so that as Menander saith 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Wisdome is a more precious possession then all riches and therefore Nihil sapientiâ ardentius diligitur nihil dulcius possidetur nothing is loved nothing is desired more than Wisdome and though one man affecteth honour another desireth wealth and a third loveth his pleasure Aristot Me●a l 1. yet all men affect wisdom which as Aristotle saith is Cognitio primarum altissimarum causarum Cicero Tusc l 4. or as Cicero defines it Sapientiae est divinarum humanarum rerum scientia and it is the greatest glory and eminency of any man because a wise man in raggs is more to