Selected quad for the lemma: soul_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
soul_n	arm_n	love_n	zion_n	16	3	8.7381	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A28387	A mirrour for monkes written by Lewis Blosius.	Blois, Louis de, 1506-1566.	1676 (1676)	Wing B3203; ESTC R24660	36,136	205

more sometimes fewer according to the internall motion of the holy Ghost he would also often accuse his soule that it was too slowe stuggish tepid ingratfull hard insensible unstable miserable and unhappy Againe he would comfort it being dejected with pusillanimity or feare and would encourage it with these or the like words dispaire not my soule take comfort daughter and be confident most deare If thou hast sinned and art wounded behould thy God behould thy phisitian is ready to cure thee He is most courteous and most mercyfull and therefore willing he is omnipotent and therefore can pardon thy sinnes in a moment Peradventure thou art afraid because he is thy indge but take heart for he that is thy indge is also thine advocate He is thy advocate to defend and excuse thee doing peanance he is therefore also thy indge to save not to condemne thee being humbled His mercy is infinitly greater then thy iniquity either is or can be which words I say not that persevering in evill thou should de make thy selfe unworthy of his mercy but that being averted from evill thou shouldest not dispaire of indulgence and forgivenesse thy God is most gentle most sweete he is wholy amiable wholy desireable and wonderfully loveth all things which he hath created when thou thinkest of him or conceivest him in thy memory far be all imagination of terrour austerity and bitternes from thee When we say he is terrible it is not in respect of himself but of those that abuse his patience and deferr to doe peanance Whose most bitter and poysonons sinnes as contrairy to his most sweet and pure goodnes he repelleth and punnisheth let not thime imperfections discourage thee too much for thy God doth not dispise thee because thou art imperfect and infirme but loveth thee exceedingly because you desirest and labourest to be more perfect he will also helpe thee if thou persist in thy good intention and will make thee perfecter yea peradventure which thou little hopest for wholy fayer and every way pleasing to him Thus and innumerable other wayes would he frindly talke with his soule and invite her by chast speeches to the chast love of her beloved he would also turne his speech to our lord and aspiring to him by holy love would say and good JESU pious Pastor sweet master king of eternall glory when shall I bee immaculate and truly humble before thee when shall I truly dispise all sensible things for thee and when shall I perfectly forsake my selfe when shall I bestript of all propriety For vulesse there were propriety in me there would not bee selfe-will in me passions and inordinate affections would have no place in me I should not seeke my selfe in any thing propriety only maketh thee impediment and medium betweene thee and me propriety only doth hinder thee from me when therefore shall I cast of all propriety when shall I freely resigne my selfe to thy divine pleasure when shall I serve thee with a cleane quiet simple and calme mynde when shall I perfectly love thee in the armes of my soule when shall I love thee with most fervent desire when shall all my tepidity and imperfection be swallowed up by the immensity of thy love and my desire my treasure ô my totall good ô my beginning and end O my God ô sweetnesse of my soule ô my consolation my life my love O that my soule might enjoy thy most sweet embracings O that were indisolubly bound with thy love would it were perfectly united to thee For what is to me in heaven And besids thee what would I upon earth God of my heart and God my portion for ever When shall the world be silent to me when shall the impediments troubles and vicissitudes of this life cease to me when shall my pilgrimage be ended when shall my sejourning be consummate when shall the miserable captivity of this bannishment be disolved when shall the shadowe of mortality decrease and the day of eternity draw neare when shall I lay downe the burden of this body and see thee when shall I praise thee with thy saints without impediment happily and eternally O my God my love my totall good He was often wont to use such aspirations knowing that by the exercise of them humane spirit is more effectually united to the divine spirit and that there by man attayneth the sooner to the perfect mortification of himselfe He had then ready every where But if at any time he had more sufficient leasure he would then sitting as Mary Magdalen did rejoyce to linger more freely and that more to the honour of God then to the inordinate pleasing of himselfe he would not in the meane time omitt with a certaine internall effusion of heart by a sincere and sweete affection to adore blesse give thankes and pray Moreover tourning his speech to the blessed virgin the mother of God as to a most mercifull lady and most liberall stewardesse of heavenly treasures he would ingeminat his pions complaints before her and with an holy importunity extort a benediction Another day he would sert before himself howe our saviour betrayed by Judas was taken and concerning this point he would iterate his foresaid exercises and so would goe through with the passion in order and having ended would begin agayne And about that part of the passion which did represent Christ hanging on the crosse he did not employ himselfe in order and in his proper day but every day at least breifly if so be he thought it convenient exciting his soule to the earnest contemplation of these things On every solemnity of our saviour or the blessed virgin he would if he thought it good propose to the eyes of his mynde the representation of that feast in steed of parte of our lords passion which otherwise was that day to be frequented And would performe his internall exercises or frindly discourses with his soule and about the worke cause mistery and joy of that festivity He was also much delighted with singing the psalmes And I knowe that by the continued custome of this holy exercise he reaped great consolation and singuler profitt of his labours I vvill sett downe an example imitate of it if you please For by this meanes you shall be accustomed to apprehend the presence of God by this meanes you shall begin to have your sences sober watchfull exercised and calme by this meanes you shall prepare your selfe away to the highest contemplation and perfection thus wheresoever you are you shall spend your time profitably vayne and instable cogitations being caste forth out of the corners of your heart and such as are serious being entertayned in their place you may frame your selfe meditations and aspirations in other termes then wee have if you perceave the looking in your booke to hinder your mynde where by you are the lesse able to reach to God and to be united to him lay a side your booke againe if you perceave it doth further your exercise make

use of it for I would that your devotion should be free to you and that you should follow the grace of the holy Ghost without confusion or anxiety moreover by aspirations as you may perceave by the above written coppyes we understand certaine short jaculatory prayers or burning desires and lively and amorous affections to God He that hath not as yet undertaken the beginning of internall conversation and his owne mortification or hath at least but newly begun ought not peradventure so precisely to follow this rule But it shall be expedient for him to exercise himselfe for a while according to this manner which I shall opscribe lett him therefore every day propose to himselfe some part of our saviours passion and lett him study to have recourse in mynde to the same whether he stand goe sitt or rest unlesse he have some other profitable or necessary thing in his heart to treat of And lett him often discourse with his soule in the presence of Christ suffering either thus or after the like manner O my soule behould thy God behould ingratefull attend thou wretch consider thou poore soule behould thy God behould thy Creatour and Redeemer behould howe the king of eternall glory humbled himselfe for thee behould howe the highest majesty debased himselfe for thee see what sorrowes bitternesse and indignityes thy saviour suffereth for thee Consider with what charity he loved thee who undertooke soe great calamity and affliction for thee Arise my soule arise out of the dust slip thy head out of the coller thou captive daughter of Sion Arise forsake the pudle of thy vices and leave the vucleanesse of thy negligent life Howe long wilt thou take pleasures in perills Howe long wilt thou esteeme anxiety and torments to be rest howe long wilt thou securely sleepe in distruction Howe long wilt thou willingly leave the right way and wander abroad fart and neere by unknowen places Returne unto our lord thy God for he expecteth thee make hast be not slacke for he is ready to receave thee he will meet thee with open armes only deferr not thou to returne Come to JESUS and he will heate and purifi thee Joyne thy selfe to JESUS and he will illuminate thee Adhere to JESUS and he will blesse and save thee sometimes lett him more expresly upbraid his soule of ingratitude and perversenesse saying alas my soule howe ingratefull hast thou bin to thy God he hath bestowed innumerable and most admirable benefitts on thee and thou still repaye evill for good he hath created thee according to his owne image and likenesse he hath endowed thee with immortality he hath deputed heaven and earth and all things contayned in them to thy commodity he hath enriched thee with many gists and graces he hath brought thee to the light of the Catholique faith he hath with drawen thee from the dangerous waves of the world and conveyed thee to the haven and tranquillity of a monasticall life where thou as in a most sweete paradice of spirituall pleasures mightest have infinite occasion of holy joy and good workes he hath patiently borne with thee greviously sinning and hath preserved thee from the jawes of hell The king hath bin incarnate for thee thy Creator for thy sake hath become thy Brother Neyther did he thinke it sufficient to be borne for thee wherefore he would also suffer for thy sake he endured sorrowe and distresses for thy sake he was betrayed and taken for thy sake he was spit on and buffeted for thy sake he was scourged and wounded with a crowne of thornes for thy sake he was smytten with a reed and loaden with the burthen of the crosse for thy sake he was nayled to the crosse and drunke vineger for thy sake he wept and shed his most holy bloud for thy sake he died and was buried He hath adopted thee to be heire of the kingdome of heaven he hath promised those things unto thee which neyther eye hath seene nor heart of man can comprehend But thou hast left and contemned him who hath bin soe many wayes beneficiall to thee thou hast cast away the holy feare of him that loved thee thou hast shaken of his sweet ioke that hath elected thee thou art become as one of the daughters of Beliall as an impudent harlot thou hast iniquityes worshipped without modesty Thou hast compacted with death Thou hast given thy hand to the devill thou hast bin most prompt to all wickednesse thou hast heaped evill upon evill and hast rejoyced to adde worse to the worst By thy wickednesse thou hast againe crucified JESUS-CHRIST who had chosen thee for his spouse thou hast renewed his wounds by thy crimes Who will give thee grones and sighs who will give thee a spring of teares that thou mayest night and day bewayle thine ingratitude O unhappy wretch what wilt thou doe ò that thou haddest kept thy selfe in the state of innocencie and that thou haddest remayned immaculate O that thou haddest not miserably defiled thy selfe with dishonesty O that thou haddest not gone astray from thy God thou hast lost thine innocency thou art defiled thou art become dishonest thou hast gone astray from thy God Alas poore wretch and what wilt thou doe to whome wilt thou fly from whome wilt thou expect helpe from whome but from him whome thou hast offended he is moste pitifull most courteous most mercifull Humble thy selfe powre out thy selfe like water in his sight and he will take pitty on thee sometimes lett him turne his lamentations to our lord with these or the like words Alas my lord JESU what have I done howe have I left thee howe have I dispised thee howe am I become forgetfull of thy name howe have I cast aside thy name howe have I cast aside thy feare howe have I trod thy lawe under my feete howe have I trasgressed thy precepts O me my God ô me my Creator O me my Saviour O me my life and my totall good woe be to me wretched creature woe be to me woe be to me because I have sinned woe be to me because I have made my selfe like to a bruite beast woe be to me because I am become more silly then a sheepe O good JESU ô loving sheepherd ô sweet master helpe me Sett me on my feete stretch forth thy hand to me being in danger Cleanse me from my filth cure my wounde confirme my weaknesse save me from distruction I confesse my selfe unworthy to tread on the earth I am unworthy to behould the light I am unworthy of thy aide and grace For great is myne ingratitude great yea too great is the enormity of sinnes never the lesse thy mercy is infinitly greater Therefore ô God thou lover of mankinde and my only hope have mercy on me according to thy great mercy and according to the multitude of thy commiserations take away myne iniquity Some times as if he were risen out of adreame falling on his knees in the sight of our lord lett him