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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
religion_n	king_n	prince_n	subject_n	3,995	5	6.4954	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A06163	Catharos. Diogenes in his singularitie Wherein is comprehended his merrie baighting fit for all mens benefits: christened by him, a nettle for nice noses. By T.L. of Lincolns Inne, Gent: 1591.	Lodge, Thomas, 1558?-1625.	1591 (1591)	STC 16654; ESTC S109562	41,902	68

blind men as the Prophet speaketh O God how is it possible they might giue any good sentence execute any iustice decrée any good ordinance for the policie of a Common weale since Venus hath rauished their vnderstanding The Philosopher sayth that it robbeth man of his spirite Itobeus accordeth hereunto taking his president from Archilocus who sayd that the force of loue stealeth away the tender spirites of men And the morall Poet sayeth that lust forceth the most faire and diuine parte of the soule on the earth for it maketh it terrestrial carnall and dull which is a dreadfull thing for them to behold who penetrate and contemplate the verie beautie of soules This vice that more is rauisheth a man into rage and furie as Plato proueth in his Timaeo where he sayeth that voluptuousnes is the bait of all euils by which a man becommeth as it were phreneticall the which Cicero teacheth in diuers places of his writings where he saith that the soule hath no greater enimie than carnall voluptuousnes And Philon nameth it a dangerous Palliard which deceiueth and deludeth the spirite This is saith he the Serpent vpon which Sathan is borne Socrates proueth wel that they which follow the same are nothing different from brute beasts which also is confirmed by many other Philosophers according to the recitall of the saide Stobeus alledged before time who replyeth and proueth that it is no other thing than a furie which seazeth on poore mankind and other mortall creatures He taketh it from Euripides who said that Venus is all that which is foolish in this worlde and for that cause the name of follie best fitteth her Will you finde her more brauely set foorth than by the Poet Virgil speaking of the loue of Dido if he speake according to his conscience Uritur infoelix Dido totaque vagatur Vrbe furens qualis coniecta cerua sagitta Quam proculincautam nemora inter Cressia fixit Pastor agens totis liquitque volatile ferrum Nescius illa fuga siluas saltusque peragrat Dictoes haeret lateri loethalis arundo Saeuit inops animi totámque incensa per vrbem Bacchatur But why alleage I prophane men haue we not Salomon for an example the learnedst king that euer was borne of a woman It is written of him that his spirite became altogether alienated by reason of the pestilent Lechery which he vsed with his Concubines yea euen vnto the leauing of the true religion and imbracing the false as diuers haue done in Athens the more is the pity This was it that destroyed the bright beame of sapience which God had indued him with to rule and gouerne his people a rare and great example for all Kings and Princes which haue subiectes to gouerne ouer the face of the earth Cosmo Now as touching selfe-loue Dio Thus of selfe-loue Philautia He that loueth himselfe more than God committeth the sinne of Philautia that is to say selfe-loue which is the roote of many euils he that breaketh the commandements of God to folow whoredome loueth his body more than God since it better liketh him to obay it than God such a one if it were lawfull to forge newe wordes as Apuleius was wont to do might be called Somalatros that is to say Idolater of his bodie for in sooth it is a kinde of Idolaty to bee more subiect vnto the flesh than to God Saint Augustine saith that two loues haue builded two Cities selfe-loue hath builded the City of the Diuell and the loue of God edested the City of God This sinne is so horrible that it hath conuerted the Angels into Diuels who made themselues Reprobates by ouermuch selfe-loue Now for the loue of the world Amor Mundi Those that loue this world so well that they would neuer depart out of the same but are willing to constitute their Paradice therein offend both God and humane nature which hath beene created vnto this end to issue forth of this vale of misery and to possesse the heauenly Pallaces and what is this except it be to sinne against the lawe of Nature It is also an other kinde of Idolatry to be too much besotted with the loue of this worlde and a signe of eternall reprobation and therefore saint Iohn saith to the Christians of Boerea My children loue you not the world neither the thinges that are in the same for hee that loueth the world the grace of God is not in him For whatsoeuer is in the worlde is either concupiscence of the flesh or concupiscēce of the eies or pride of life And he saith also The world is giuen ouer to all malignitie And saint Iames saith That hee who is a friend to this world is at enmitie with God Now touching the hate of God Dei odium And forsomuch as selfe-loue is incompatible with the loue of God he that is vanquished by lust loueth himselfe more than God whom hee despiseth yea more rather hateth by reason that prohibiteth him those things which he longeth after and desireth and chasticeth him for his sinnes in his person or in his goods This is the most soueraigne sinne of the world for it causeth a man will that which he would should not be seene of God if it were possible This is also the sinne of the diuels which makes them alwaies rebels against their Creatour so as the Psalmist speaketh The pride of those that hate thee O Lord God increaseth more and more That this sinne is the most grieuous that may be committed Aristotle himselfe knew full well who saith That the act which is opposed against the soueraigne good is the most wickedest of all Although I will not say that the diuine essence may be the obiect of hatred considering that being soueraignely good it may not be hated notwithstanding I say it may be hated in respect of his effects as when God punisheth sinnes and offences Philo O Diogenes this thy plaine methode farre from Ironicall captions prooueth thy singularitie I pray thée procéede let vs heare the horror of the other world Dio Thou shalt heare it or else thou art but deaffe I will ring it in thine eares in hope it may worke thy amendment Horror alterius seculi The horror of this world engendreth the horror of heauen and therefore they that say that God ought to kéep his heauen for himself and leaue the earth vnto men blaspheme like Atheists as they bee And whence procéedeth this It is for no other cause but in that they are so fleshed with their sensuall voluptuousnes as the Lotophages of Homer that they would neuer taste the true and eternall delights which are as swéete Nectar and sauorie Ambrosia prepared for the Gods that is to say for the seruaunts of God This vice may also be referred to the sinne of idlenes Sée here O chast and modest soules I speake to none of this auditorie Philoplutos the hideous Monsters that the sinne of Letcherie bringeth forth Let vs flie them then euen as a plague if we