Selected quad for the lemma: love_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
love_n	child_n	love_v	wife_n	5,735	5	7.1980	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A19611	The terrestriall paradise, or, Happinesse on earth. Written by Robert Crofts	R. C. (Robert Crofts)	1639 (1639)	STC 6044; ESTC S109076	37,271	114

from which as from severall Fountains all the rest doth spring and proceed and he that enjoyes these may be said to enjoy a Terrestriall Paradise o● Happinesse To define the riches of the World were to tell you what every man knows the good effects and benefits which spring from thence are many divers Good Education Acquaintance Friends Lovers Honour Authority and many pleasures of divers sorts are hereby often occasioned So as many rich men seeme to enjoy an● earthly Paradise True honour is defined to be the shining brightnesse of worthy vertuous and gracious actions reflected from our own consciences unto the sight and view of those with whom we live it may be also called a graceful respect or renowned reputation which every man ought to have in recompence of his worthinesse which is declared unto the World by good and glorious deeds and approved of by the acknowledgment of good and vertuous men and it shineth most brightly in such as are of greatest birth of greatest riches and of greatest dignity and authority both in Church and Common-wealth It is not then an imaginary Phantasie but a splendent brightnesse which maketh him that is the subject therof to shine forth as the sparkling rayes of a Diamond and for as much as it proceedeth from vertuous and worthy actions it is alwayes accompanied with inward joy and pleasure And among noble good and great Spirits ●othing is more desirous and pleasant insomuch 〈◊〉 they will spare no labour no pain but willing●● and fearlesly will adventure through many ●ifficulties many perils to gain the same A good name saith Solomon is better than ●old and more precious than ointment Pleasures are of divers sorts all the riches ho●our and delights of the World serve to please ●ur mindes What a number of excellent plea●ures and felicities hath God created in this Ter●estriall Paradise which may please our senses And first the sence of seeing as the Heavens ●heir glorious aspect the Sun in its lovely brightnesse the Moon her silver rayes the Stars their ●winkling sparks the Aire its fair nakednesse the Birds enameld with all sorts of colours the Trees ●edeckt with blossomes fruits and leaves the medows with Tapestry green the Rivers with ●he Crystall of their streams the Sea it 's huge and pleasant watery Mantle And an infinite number of creatures both in the Earth and Sea of different figures fair and goodly Cities Towns Churches Houses Orchards Gardens all plea●ant places and all faire beautifull and amiable ●reatures To please the sence of hearing also How can wee but be much delighted amidst the pleasures of a sweet harmony either of voices or instruments at the prety purling of a silver brook the sweet running murmurs of a pleasant fountaine ●he pleasing notes and prety warbling of Birds ●he amorous accents of a delicate voice joyned with the sweet allurements of the melody of a Lute the musicall tun● and delightfull strains of all kinde of Instruments to heare the pleasant and gallant noyses of Bels Trumpets Drums and other delicious sounds Also to heare pleasing Discourses Histories Songs Tales Iests News and the like So likewise of the other Senses as the tasting of sweet and delicious meats of all sorts of pleasant and sparkling wine and other delightfull liquours Also the smelling of odoriferous Perfumes Flowres of every kinde and all other sweet and fragrant things there is such a multitude of delights and felicities in the World to please the Senses as they are innumerable Likewise the most pleasant and happy societie of Parents Children Wives Lovers Friends Kindred and acquaintance And in generall the enjoyance of riches honour all sorts of lawfull Sports Recreations Delights and Happinesses all whatsoever is pleasant and delectable Insomuch as from divers of these particulars as might be at large dilated in whole Volumes ●pringeth abundance of sweet and pleasant joys and felicities Enough to charme and sweetly bring our mindes into an extasie of joy and happinesse In all which if wee throughly view them in their number variety pleasantnesse excellencie and happy effects we may plainly see that even in this life wee may enjoy a terrestriall Paradise of joy and happinesse The abstract of the first SECTION THere is within the Earth so many treasures Such glorious honors delightfull pleasures That who enjoys all these felicities Enjoys indeed an earthly Paradise The riches of the Earth to us do bring Much happinesse from thence doth often spring So many benefits honours and pleasures As makes us much esteem these earthly treasures Honour likewise It s glorious bright aspect And splendent beauty doth so much attract All good and great noble heroick Spirits As that they much desire by glorious merits By all good worthy deeds the same to gain For which they le spare no labours fear no pain To them nothing is more delightfull they deem Nothing on Earth more worthy their esteem A good name saith King Solomon is better Then gold and precious ointment is not sweeter Pleasures are many and of divers kindes The whole world seemes to serve to please our minds How many pleasant sweet felicities May we enjoy within Earths Paradise Who can but sweetly greatly pleased bee So many lovely pleasant sights to see The Sun Moon Stars whose glittering heavenly beams Dazle our eyes likewise the silver streams Of Rivers Fountains prety Birds to see And other creatures blossoms on each tree Fruits leaves the medows woods fields so green All pleasant objects therin to be seen The Sea the Ships Cities Towns Castles fair Churches and houses gardens beauties rare Gold Pearles a thousand other pleasing sights Each one affording us most sweet delights Likewise to charm and to delight the eare Sweet Musick pleasing melody to heare The prety chirping warbling notes of Birds And purling murmurs of a Brook affoords Vs prety pleasures and the melody Of Instruments likewise the harmony And delicate accents of an amorous voice The gallant sounds of Trumpets pleasing noise Of Drums and Bels doth greatly sweetly move And please our eares and also tales of love And other prety Stories Jests Songs News Do sweetly charm us in a pleasing Muse So likewise pleasant cates and banqueting dishes All sorts of dainty meats as fowles and fishes Sweet pleasing liquors brisk neat sparkling fine Canary and the like delicious wine To please our tasting sence of every kinde Abundance in this Paradise we finde And also flowres perfumes and fragrant things Of divers sorts the Earth yields forth and brings To please the sence of smelling Insomuch The pleasures of the Earth are truly such So sweet so many that if I should tell You what how sweet how many I should dwell For ever in discourse It doth surmount All pens all tongues to shew and to recount The happy pleasures loving Parents may And children also mutually enjoy Each in the other likewise husbands wives Lovers and friends even during all their lives Partake together truly so much joy Such

mirth and sports such sweet delights we ma● Enjoy together in our happy love And mutuall pleasures that they even may move And bring our mindes with delectation sweet Charming the same when therin they do meet Into an extasis of pleasure thus we may A Paradise of sweet delights enjoy The second Section We ought to enjoy earthly happinesse with contentment HAving viewed wherein earthly happinesse consists now to the intent we may be further happy therin let us endevour to settle our minds in a contented estate in all accidents and conditions and so to enjoy these terrestriall felicities with a contented happy minde It is strange that some have put this truth in● a Paradox That he forsooth is the richest and ●ost happy who is most contented when no●ing is more certain then it the soule having no ●easures no happinesse more properly her own ●or more in effect then that of contentment Hee that is poore in desires is rich in content●ent one saith who bridleth his intemperate ●esires contendeth even with Jupiter himself in ●elicitie to him that desires but a little a little ●eems much and hee that covets no more then what hee hath may be said to possesse all the World But he that possesses abundance of these earth●y happinesses and yet fears the losse or want of ●hem or out of a covetous ambitious or intemperate voluptuous heart grieves because hee en●oyes not so much as he desires is as miserable as ●e that wants them those who extend their desires beyond nature and moderation letting ●oose their appetites to follow vice and superfluities make superfluous things necessary th● souls slaves to their bodies they are 〈◊〉 contented They would build house 〈◊〉 ●●●ble and after of Iasper and Porphyry They would first possesse a Lordship then a Kingdome after the World which if they did they would then think the World too litle and grieve because they enjoy no more no better Worlds they a● never satisfied They would have they know no● what they are always restlesse still desire trouble and perplex themselves till they bring themselves into a fools Paradise But this meane for a man to enrich himself and to make himself happy and contented by desiring little according to nature moderation and reason is very just It is in every mans power hee may finde it within himself Nature hath so provided that in all things so much as sufficeth is at hand and in our own power A litle wee know of these earthly felicities is enough to suffice nature and to live well and wee may take as much felicity in sufficiency as if we possessed all the riches honours and pleasures in the world which if we did wee could enjoy the superfluity to wit that which is above sufficiency onely by looking on and contemplation so may we while it is anothers what happinesse is there on earth which in our mindes by contemplation we may not enjoy An● 〈◊〉 commonly see that poore men of low degree are as contented as rich noble and voluptuous men they are usually more free from idlenesse ill passions intemperance and consequently from such distempers as are incident therunto and wee may observe they are commonly free fearlesse secure healthy merry con●nted happy men Having therfore food and rayment let us be ●erwith contented as wee are divinely exhor●d And concerning crosses want and troubles ●t such considerations as follow amongst di●ers others which might be written move us to ●ontentation in all conditions Crosses want and troubles are common to all ●en oftentimes to the best men It is a signe of weaknesse not to digest that with contentment which cannot be avoided which is common to ●ll to the best men when we have so many and ●uch companions Some crosses and troubles are necessary as Winter to Summer else pleasures and prosperity would become dry stale wearisome and cloy us It is a mixture of crosses and adversity that makes prosperity and pleasures most sweet unto us We may convert our minds from those things that offend us to those which are pleasing and afford us delectation Though wee have some want and troubles yet perchance we may enjoy many pleasures and felicities also in so much that if wee be not too peevish and wayward we may drown our sorows and crosses in pleasantnesse and joy However the worst things have some mixture of comfort in them and it is certain Tha● all crosses and troubles will have an end Custom● and Time will surely wear them away Custom is a remedy against the most tedious and irkso● troubles even the Gally slaves can sing in thei● servitude after they have been some time accustomed therunto Time is the finisher of all trouble perchance we have already well nigh forgo● all the crosses and sorrows of our life time past and such as wee do remember wee rejoyce that they are past and gone And this good effect crosses and adversity alwayes leave behinde Pleasure and prosperity after the same is past is the sweeter Ioy and pleasure after sorrow is a strange enlightning to us in such sort as it should seeme Nature hath given sorrow and troubles for the greater increase and service of our pleasure and delight Foresight Expectation Meditation Wisdome and Fortitude are excellent Remedies against crosses and adversitie Let us therfore hereby endevour to raise and quicken our spirits above and beyond feare and adversity Contemning all the frowns and blows of the World which do scare and depresse onely weak and feeble spirits and to settle our mindes in a contented and blessed tranquillity which is a beautifull sweet equall pleasant estate of the mind such as neither ●ood accidents nor ill Prosperity nor adversity an mend or depresse Piety is yet a better remedy against crosses ●nd adversity and the best way to contentment ●nd true happinesse To consider that the Almighty God our loving Father doth by his most wise just loving and good Providence order and guide all things is enough to make us sweet●y contented in all conditions It is a safe and a happy way to apply our wils to his will It is effeminacy and dastardlines to complain against God and greatly addes to our misery It is magnanimity and courage to yield to him It is perfect freedome and happinesse to obey God Hee that follows his Captains commands through adversity and dangers aswell as prosperity shall be greatly rewarded The good Souldiers of our heavenly Captain shall be crowned with eternal glory and triumph Let us then doe our best endevours in all good wayes for the attainment of earthly Happinesse and depend on the Providence of the Almightie for successe trusting him in all things casting all our care upon him who truly careth for such as rely on him and truly knows what is best for us so may we be assured that in what estate soever wee be in the same is best for us and that all things shall convert to our happinesse let the World tosse and vary it self