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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
love_n	heart_n	soul_n	word_n	5,510	5	3.8378	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A77115	Urbs deplorata. A sermon preached in course in the cathedral church of St. Mary Lincoln on the tenth Sunday after Trinity, Aug. 19. 1666. Happening at the time of the general assize. By Edward Boteler, prebendary of that church, rector of Wintringham in that county, and one of his Majesties chaplains.	Boteler, Edward, d. 1670.	1669 (1669)	Wing B3803B; ESTC R223809	21,876	69

into a Well an Ocean Ch. 9.1 Oh that my head were waters and mine eyes a fountain of tears that I might weep day and night for the slain of the Daughter of my People It was the last Item which our Lord that Man of Sorrows Isa 53.3 gave them in that black walk to his passion where it seems some had the good nature to lament him Daughters of Hierusalem weep not for me Luk. 23.28 but weep for your selves and for your children But since they had not the grace to do it for themselves he hath the compassion to do it for them for He beheld the City and wept over it saying If thou hadst known even thou at least in this thy day the things which belong unto thy peace You see by this time whose the saying is and what it means Patent viscera St. Bern. per vulnera as his bowels did appear by those wounds which they after made in his body so are they here audible from his tongue legible in his eyes all parts of him speak his passionate thoughts for the sins and sufferings of Hierusalem Sins and sufferings they were not parted in his must not be in our mourning We care not for them in conjunction are over-apt to divide them Sufferings we quickly feel and heavily complain of scarce a word of our sins we go under them as if we were insensible Tears for sufferings overflow our cheeks often for sins seldome fill our eyes When we suffer we can weep showers but we put off our sins with a few heat-drops and rarely they get them too But this is a squandring away that precious Eye-water intended for better use and meets with few or no Comforters Rachel wept and would not be comforted she wept for her losses Mary Magdalen wept and found joy she wept for her lusts Sorrow was made for sin is good for nothing else and whatsoever streams run another way are straglers and have lost their Channel Let us then borrow from our sufferings to bestow upon our sins Isa 61.3 this will bring the Garment of Praise for the spirit of heaviness This is Aquam fluentem in Cloacam deducere in hortum as St. Augustine expresseth himself to turn the water which ran through the Sink and bring it to the sweeter and more delicious service of the Garden And certainly we have cause enough never more our sins are many our sufferings not a few The Sword hath slain its thousands and the Plague it s ten thousands and the Fire hath devoured our Habitations a Fire only short of that threatned in Jeremy Jer. 21.12 To burn and none can quench a fire only second to that in Deuteronomy which burns to the lowest hell Ch. 32.22 and sets on fire the foundations of the Mountains And for our sins who can number them How shall we list those Anakins which are all Commanders Pride Luxury Prophaneness Atheism Irreligion Whoredome Drunkenness and Oaths of the new fashion Propter hoc lugebit terra Hos 4 3. therefore shall the Land mourn Because of these Ne faceat pupilla oculi Thren 2.18 Let tears run down day and night let not the apple of thine eye cease We may well weep for sin who are all sin when he wept who knew no sin we heartily for our selves when he so affectionately for others He wept over it saying If thou hadst known even thou at least in this thy day the things which belong unto thy peace The words are very passionate and so somewhat broken like the language of Mourners Griefs can hardly speak out The Book of the Lamentations is observed to have no Title in the Original Cor. a Lapid Arg. in Thren that which it now wears was bestowed on it by the Seventy two Interpreters Sorrow is none of the best Speakers Flevimus gemitus Luctantia verba repressit The affectionate thoughts of our Lord abounded till they crouded one another so that like a multitude at a small Port each hindred the others pass broken words coming from a broken heart a Soul sighing it self out in love and with an earnest compassion crying out Oh that thou or If thou hadst known c. Nor doth the Aposiopesis or repression of some words make so wide a breach in the sense that we need fetch in any kind of Fillers to make it up Indeed if we make the If conditional only then we must resolve with the Commentator Maldonat in Loc. Dictio si exigit aliquod verbum ubi quodammodo quiescat there must be something brought in for it to lean and rest upon and it will need a larger Supplement If thou knewest what There must be an object for knowledge it will starve if it have nothing but second notions to feed upon If thou knewest what then It must be to some purpose or else it makes but a sounding brass and a tinkling Cymbal To supply these defects Interpreters have busied themselves more then needed they might have spared their Paralipomenon's with more thanks Some of them are not worth naming I 'le only present you with two or three of the better sort If thou The people in thee and the chief of thee knew me as this poor company of Disciples doth and as those lesser Cities which have acknowledged and received me Annot. in Locum So the Italian Diodati If thou knewest Ruinam scilicet subversionem quae tibi imminet how near thou art to ruine and destruction thou wouldest weep who now rejoycest So our Country-man Gorran In Loc. If thou knowest sicut ego cognosco says Gregory and Bede Homil. 29 in Evang. What I know and see coming upon thee thou wouldest weep as I do and have a more serious sense of thy sad and deplorable condition But this Conditionality ingageth it's followers in unnecessary difficulties and gives the Text not so much a supply as a surfet Nor is it so safe Verba foris accersere Beza in Annot. says a learned pen upon the place For if we may call in words at pleasure we shall soon open a way to heretical depravations If we must have condition that of Saint Cyril Augustine and Theophylact is doubtless best who rest the Si cognovisses upon the following Quae ad pacem tibi and so make but one supply thus If thou knewest the things which belong unto thy peace thou wouldest not neglect the opportunity now put into thy hands But what need this If be conditional when it may be Optative may better be so Praestat ut in optandi forma legamus quam cum reticentia Oh that thou had'st known or Would thou had'st bin so happy as to know the things that belong unto thy peace in this thy day And then we have the compleat sense within us and the sentence will be more emphatical nor doth this want the countenance of the best Authors for besides that it is usual in the elegant Lucian the