Selected quad for the lemma: sin_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
sin_n	heart_n	sorrow_n	tear_n	3,398	5	8.0837	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A88705	Speculum patrum: A looking-glasse of the Fathers wherein, you may see each of them drawn, characterized, and displayed in their colours. To which are added, the characters of some of the chief philosophers, historians, grammarians, orators, and poets. By Edward Larkin, late Fellow of Kings Colledge in Cambridge, and now minister of the Word at Limesfield in Surrey.	Larkin, Edward, 1623-1688.	1659 (1659)	Wing L444A; ESTC R230373	42,396	106

the west Yet this Father was not altogether free from errours Concerning the worlds creation it was his opinion that the Angels those spiritual creatures were made long before the visible world and where he writes against Iovinian he doth not entertain so honourable thoughts of marriage as doth become him for he seems there to dislike of second marriage which the Apostle alloweth of because the bed is undefiled and also an expedient against unlawful burning Aurelius Augustinus AUrelius Augustinus the most doctrinall in his writings of all the Ancient Worthies was an Affrican by birth whereupon the learned Bishop Andrews calls him Decus Africae The glory of Africa He is not to be accounted as the last of the pious Fathers who having been instructed in Rhetorick at Carthage was at the beginning a complier with the Manachees His life for the greater part of it is written by his own pen in his confessions Afterwards being baptized by Ambrose he returned into the right way and succeeded Valerius in the Bishoprick of Hippo about the yeer of Christ 390. The coversion of this man was in this manner Having read the life of Antonius the Eremite as well as heard the Sermons of Ambrosius and being therewith wonderfully moved and affected he began to disrelish his former conversation which he had wasted in the vanities and pleasures of sin and going into a Garden with his friend Alipius there he fell to bemoan with tears the abominations of his youthfull dayes wishing the time now at hand that his soul should be watered with true converting grace And as his heart was thus melting into penitentiall sorrows he heard a voice say to him Tolle lege Take up the book and read and again Tolle lege Take up the book and read for he had his Bible in the Garden with him and seeing no body there he then perceived it was an admonition and a word to him from Heaven whereupon he opened the book and the first place he lighted on was Rom. 13.13 14. Not in gluttony and drunkennesse not in chambering and wantonnesse not in strife and envying but put ye on the Lord Iesus Christ c. At the reading whereof he was so far transported that he resolved to become a convert and so to live as to shew forth the fruits of a good reformation He maintained Disputations with very many Hereticks as the Arians the Manichees the Donatists and the Pelagians whose unsound devices he gravely confuted and so stood up for the defence of the Christian Truth as if he only of all men were called to that employment When the city of Hippo was straightly besieged by the Vandals he was therein enclosed but yet dyed peaceably before it was taken in the third moneth of the siege and in the yeer of Christ 433. being aged 76. yeers I shall not let him passe without his deserved Encomiums Erasmus speaks thus of him Eximius Pater inter summa Ecclesiae ornamenta ac lumina Princeps An excellent Father amongst the great Ornaments and Lights of the Church the chief And thus doth also Sarisber Doctor ille Ecclesiae cujus nemo satis memor esse potest That Doctour of the Church of whom no man can be enough mindfull And not to omit that of Ludovicus Vives Fuit in illo vira studium uberrimum cognitio Scripturarum Sacrarum exactissima Iudicium acre ac extersum Ingenium ad miraculum arctum He is so deep in some of his works that Ierome in one of his Epistles doth not stick to call him the most obscure Expositour of the Scripture Yet this man that he might descend to the capacities of the unskilfull and rude multitude he would frequently speak Barbarismes having this expression often in his mouth Malo ut me reprehendant Grammatici quam ut non intelligant populi I had rather Grammatians should reprehend me then the people should not understand me Our learned Whitaker speaking of him saith quod magnum est ejus in Ecclesia nomen That his name is great in the Church There is one thing which he himself would have all readers to observe in his works T is the fourfold distinction of Time wherein they were written Some of them he wrote when he was Catechumenus and so are inflated and puft up with with secular learning Others when he was but newly baptized and but a beginner in the study of Theologie others when he was Presbyter and therefore more exact then the former and lastly others when he was chosen Bishop and so most elaborate and excellent of them all These distinctions of Time would this Father have every reader take notice of that they might thence see his proficiency in Sacred learning and thereby might be the more easily induced to excuse him seeing he makes amends in his latter works for the imperfections of his former ones Of all his works his Retractations and Confessions do bring most honour to him the one being a meek acknowledgement of his Errors or Lapses of judgement the other a confession of his Falls or Lapses of his life Of all his Commentaries on the Holy Scriptures those which be hath written upon the Psalms are most disliked whereupon one of the learned saith of him nunquam infelicius in Scripturis Sanctis versatus quam in psalmorum enarratione Cyrillus Alexandrinus CYrillus Alexandrinus so called because Bishop of Alexandria and in distinction to another of the same name Bishop of Ierusalem He flourished about the year of Christ 433. in the reign of Theodosius the younger There was great strife and contention about choosing of this man Bishop some were for one Timotheus and the p●incipal man or head of that party was Abudatius the Captain of the Garrison who laboured might and main to cross the choice of this Cyrillus and to further the election of Timotheus Yet notwithstanding all opposition Cyrils party prevailed and carried it who being invested with his Episcopal Jurisdiction did take more state upon him than any of his Predecessors ever did before him For there hapning a combustion betwixt the Jews and the Christians in that City this Cyril would not stoop so low as to make his complaint to Orestes the chief Governour and to crave justice of him against the wrong doers but usurping to himself the Office of a Magistrate he set upon those Jews and spoiled them of all their goods which caused a great breach betwixt the Deputy and the Bishop insomuch that five hundred Monks of Nitria came out of the Wilderness to side with Cyril their Prelate and one of them by name Ammonius wounding the Governour in the scuffle was thereupon apprehended and forthwith condemned and executed whom Cyrillus enrolled for a Martyr and changing his name called him thenceforth 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that is Wonderful He contended against Nestorius the Bishop of Constantinople whom the Council of Ephesus had condemned for an Heretick He refuted the Errours of the Arians and Eunomians He died in the