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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
love_n	know_v	see_v	soul_n	5,443	5	4.7990	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A50081	Microcosmography, or, Speculum mundi being a glasse for worldlings, a sermon preached at the funeral of the right worshipfull Spencer Lucy, Esq. at Charlecote, August 11, 1649 / by Christopher Massey.	Massey, Christopher, b. 1618?	1650 (1650)	Wing M1030; ESTC R28813	17,093	29

happinesse in him as he is towards thee Sprirituall pride is medicorum pudor the spirituall Physicians Gout The Kings Evill none but the King of Heaven can cure it Silly animals what doe they doe but spoil their wings the fly that so giddily flaps the flame or the bird that so securely built her nest in the circle of the Sun But so unsatisfied is the eye with seeing or the ears with hearing whilst all true light all true revelation throwes us downe with Paul Act. 9.4 humbles us blindes us makes us in appearance not seeing a while here that we may see and live for ever Boast not the whitenesse cleernesse lest seeing thou art but crystall thou hast not that white stone Rev. 2.17 Gods mercifull acquittance of thy wofull sin for although thou thinkst thou canst travell towards heaven with all thy earthly bunches as fast as the Indian camels can towards Canaan yet the needles eye requires 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Luk. 13.24 wrestle to enter in 't will be worth your best indeavours Though now thou appear to thy self and others as cleer as crystall yet at that clear light of that great fire thou wilt finde many strawes many cobwebs much foulness and plainly read what secretly thou writst with a Lemmon what counterfeitingly thou writst with an Onion These Temples of Egypt will show their Crocodiles Rats Onions at our Saviours second coming more than at his first For 3. They are all crystall most transparent to Gods eyes their-windows are in their tops glasse towards heaven the all-seeing God discovers those leeches envy malice crawling up and down in their glasses 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 So then we must fall on to the second Generall God the Spectator before whose throne the world acts only you must not conceive him to be an idle careless Spectator You see his Throne placed on these three particulars so much as concernes the Spectacle the world 1. His Power 2. His Presence 3. Essence That is he sits over all the world 1. as an omnipotent Judge 2. as an omniscient King 3. as an omniprovident cause 1. His power hee makes scorpions rabbets frogs 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 locusts bees pismires lice devour sinfull nations The Sun that great gyant that had not sin'd swounded at Christs death to see his Creator in that despised humility oh how wil he darken and die at that generall Sizes when he shal see him in that glory of his power David Psal 14.17 for lack a little of the presence and countenance of his gracious comforter feels his bones within him jumble together like arrowes all in a Quiver So Hezekiah Esay 38.13 and that for a little check What think you would these Kings have done if the omnipotent God should have mated them His arm is not shortned it is as able to help in these hopeless days The Gentiles Atlas may faint the Jews Samson may fail but the Christians Iesus the truly victorious Samson will never fail No snipping his golden lockes the beames of his free Spirit What bands will you get to chain him up with that rents rocks aswell as vailes What engine to bore out his eyes flames of fire that dazle the Seraphim aswell as the sun 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 2. His presence all things are naked present to him darknesse as well as light the things that are past and the things that are to come to passe to him they are alike visible Hee needs not others eyes to see withall nor the help of glasses to strengthen his sight withall it may befit Nero to behold his fencers at their exercises through an emerald wearinesse dimnesse like cobwebs will quickly hang in our windowes and darken us but God sees through crystall What shall not he that made the eye see He needs no Iacobs staffe not Galilaeus his telescopium sees all Shall not he that made the care heare he needs no whispering places heares all Shall not he that made mans soul understand needs not discourse knowes all intuitively 'T is true indeed occaecatur at prae amore he sees not sometimes but it is his love that hides us hee seems deafe sometimes but it is prae irâ because he is offended with us he seems ignorant sometimes but it is prae justitiâ because hee knowes not sin how to sin or sinners Go go shade thy Arbour so that the lynx can't dart a beam through its leaves make thy closet so close that the day light can't peep in dig thy vault so under ground that it will damp a flash of lightning yet there where the quickest sight is baffled where the light is bolted out a doores where the lightning stands at a dare even there the all-searching eyes of the Lord are Such just such an arbour had Adam seeking shelter under his fig-leaves Ionas under his gourd Nathaniel under his fig-tree so so close did Saul thinke himselfe under the stuffe Achan his wedge under ground Ionas in the ship so deep was Darius his den in which they buried Daniel Malchiahs dungeon in which Ieremy Iosephs sepulcher in which Iesus or such a vault was in Absolons heart when hee would steal the peoples heart in Sauls religion to spare the rich in Iudas his bag when he would spare for the poore all are crystalline 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 3. Of his essence giving all things being well being all having support from this throne Independents excluded from this throne The whole creation being linkt to it by a chaine of causes in an harmonious subordination hang on it as in esse so in conservari he concreates and conserves even the souls of the sons of men rules all does all causally cardinally totally What is nature but Gods will What is fate but his word What is that so much adored Fortune but his wheel to wrack us to confesse the mutability of mortal man His wisdome 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in this great musick schoole the heavens about him dancing and singing Te Deum the glassy world of men like the harp in his hand where the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the string that gives the highest sound is the quire of blessed spirits inhabitants of heaven the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the string that gives the lowest sound is the earth and its inhabitants where if hee windes some strings higher or slackens others it is surely to make musick to his own glory But what talk I of musick or musick schoole wee are not come to Platoes Creed yet that God is the worlds waggoner his waggon running on the four elements as on four wheels Alas the professors of Christianity are turned infidels O see it is Christs Creed Mat. 4.4 man lives not by bread alone but by his word that sanctifies it Shall Grashoppers live by dew and shall not I by the word of the Lord See it is the Angels Creed Luk. 37. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 every word that is every thing is possible with the Lord. Nay see it is the