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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
water_n	call_v	earth_n	sea_n	3,957	5	6.9260	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A27991	The proverbs of Solomon paraphrased with the arguments of each chapter, which supply the place of a commentary / by Symon Patrick ...	Patrick, Simon, 1626-1707.	1683 (1683)	Wing B2635; ESTC R18386	254,828	624

I teach men both to doe justly and to love mercy also IV. Dan. 24. 19. My fruit is better than gold yea than fine gold and my revenue than choice silver 19. Whereby I bring them in greater Treasures than Gold though never so massy never so refined a Revenue of higher value than the purest and choicest Silver in the World 20. I leade in the way of righteousness in the midst of the paths of judgment 20. For I set their minds and hearts aright and inrich them with excellent thoughts which teach them how to use those earthly goods and govern themselves with such exactness in all their private transactions or publick administrations as never to swerve from the steady rules of justice and equity 21. That I may cause those that love me to inherit substance and I will fill their treasures 21. In order to their happy settlement in a state of eternal peace and substantial satisfaction which I conser on all those that sincerely love me and adhere unto me whose Souls I will fill as full with abundance of inestimable riches as their Treasuries are with Silver and Gold and all other stores 22. The LORD possessed me in the beginning of his way before his works of old 22. For the LORD himself hath no greater riches than me who lead men to a participation of Him and communion with Him III. 19 20. with whom I was ever present as well as always most dear unto Him not onely when he began to create this World but before he made any of his Works when as yet there was Nothing but himself 23. I was set up from everlasting from the beginning or ever the earth was 23. My Sovereignty and Dominion is from everlasting and hath no superiour to it All Antiquity comes infinitely short of mine who was before the Earth it self the common mother of all mankind I. Gen. 1. 24. When there were no depths I was brought forth when there were no fountains abounding with water 24. When as yet there were no depths I. Gen. 2. I was conceived in the mind of God long before the sources and springs whose excellent waters which are of greater value than any other owe their rise unto me the inexhausted fountain of all things 25. Before the mountains were settled before the hills was I brought forth 25. Who had a being before the Mountains from whence those waters run were settled or there was so much as a hillock to be seen in the earth 26. While as yet he had not made the earth nor the fields nor the highest part of the dust of the world 26. For as yet the Lord had not made the earth it self as I said before v. 23. much less adorned it and put it into this form of lofty mountains and spacious plains no there was not so much as the first atome of this globe whereon you tread 27. When he prepared the heavens I was there when he set a compass upon the face of the depth 27. But why do I speak of the earth alone I was present when He disposed the heavens into this wonderfull order wherein we behold them as well as when he moved upon that confused Abyss which they inclosed and fashioned the earth into a regular shape 28. When he established the clouds above when he strengthened the fountains of the deep 28. When he made the watry clouds also with admirable Wisedom so firm in the air that they shall not fall down all together but by drops upon the earth and provided strong Cisterns for the waters pent up there from whence they gush out forcibly and yet wear not away the passages He hath opened for them 29. When he gave to the sea his decree that the waters should not pass his commandment when he appointed the foundations of the earth 29. When he prescribed also to the Sea its limits that the waters thereof though they swell and toss up and down shall not pass over the shores wherein He hath confined them and when he settled the Earth so stedfastly like a building upon sure foundations that it remains unmovable in the place he appointed for it 30. Then I was by him as one brought up with him and I was daily his delight rejoycing always before him 30. Then was I with Him nay very near unto Him contriving all these things nor had He any higher pleasure than me who day by day during the Creation of the World produced some lovely work or other in which He rejoyced to see how good and agreeable they were I. Gen. 4 10 12 18 21 25 31. 31. Rejoycing in the habitable part of his earth and my delights were with the sons of men 31. More particularly I displayed my skill in the vast variety of Creatures wherewith I have beautified this Earth wherein you dwell which afford a most delightfull spectacle unto me and unto all wise Observers who may see that above all the rest my principal thoughts were fixed upon the children of men I. Gen. 26. in whom I delighted exceedingly as the Lord doth in me v. 30. beholding them made in the Image of God and after his Likeness capable to converse with me 32. Now therefore hearken unto me O ye children for blessed are they that keep my ways 32. Who may therefore justly expect all these things considered that you should cheerfully embrace my repeated Counsels and as dutifull children take the greatest pleasure in being obedient to them For blessed you cannot but see blessed beyond all expression are they who observe as all other creatures do the Laws that I have prescribed them 33. Hear instruction and be wise and refuse it not 33. Hearken I beseech you and yield to the voice of your own reason and of God's holy Word and Spirit which checks the irregular motions which you find at any time in you and be so wise and considerate as not to slight and reject it 34. Blessed is the man that heareth me watching daily at my gates waiting at the posts of my doors 34. But rather invite such Instructions by giving them thankfull entertainment and going thither where you may meet with them For happy more happy than can be expressed is that man who not onely hearkens obediently when he is told his duty but makes it his business to be rightly informed neglecting no opportunity but constantly and diligently attending there where he may be taught how he ought to live most earnestly desiring to become my disciple and to be governed by me 35. For whoso findeth me findeth life and shall obtain favour of the LORD 35. In which whatsoever pains he bestows he shall not lose his labour For as he shall not fail to find what he seeks so he shall find withall that I will make his life a perpetual pleasure to him for I have demonstrated that he must needs be beloved of the Lord to whom I am most nearly allied and from him he shall obtain his heart's desire 36. But he that

admonish thee to avoid one thing to which our Nation is too prone that is not to abuse any poor Slave whose condition is wretched enough and therefore for instance rather excuse than aggravate his fault to his Master who perhaps is too rigorous and be sure never to load him with unjust accusations lest being wronged by thee and not knowing how to right himself he appeal to the Lord and pray Him to punish thee and thou being found guilty feel the heavy effects of his vengeance See Arg. f 11. There is a generation that curseth their father and doth not bless their mother 11. And now to answer your inquiry what company you should keep There are four sorts of men I would have you set a mark upon and cautiously shun First they that are fouly ungratefull to them from whom they have received many benefits for such a sort of men there is who have no sense of obligations no not to their Parents to whom they have the greatest but rail upon their Father nay wish him dead and cannot speak a good word of their Mother 12. There is a generation that are pure in their own eyes and yet is not washed from their filthiness 12. Next to these are a sort of hypocrites who have a great opinion of their own purity and would be thought by others very vertuous but hide the greatest filthiness both in their minds and lives which either they do not see or will not take care to purge away under this outward garb of holiness 13. There is a generation O how lofty are their eyes and their eye-lids are lifted up 13. There is a third sort whose pride and arrogance is so lofty that it appears in their very countenance and makes them superciliously overlook all other men as if they were not worthy of the least respect from them 14. There is a generation whose teeth are as swords and their jaw-teeth as knives to devour the poor from off the earth and the needy from among men 14. But the fourth and last sort is most mischievous whose ravenous cruelty hath no example unless you conceive a Lion or Wolf that hath teeth both small and great as sharp as swords or knives coming with open mouth to devour every Creature that is weaker than themselves such is the savage oppression of tyrants extortioners calumniatours c. who have no mercy upon the poor and needy but make their condition which moves compassion in other men so insufferable that they are weary of living any longer in the world 15. The horse-leach hath two daughters crying Give give There are three things that are never satisfied yea four things say not It is enough 15. And here I will satisfie one of your other Questions What Creature is most unsatiable I answer the Horse-leech which sucks the bloud of other Creatures till it burst as those wicked men do the livelihood of the poor till they ruin themselves And in this perpetual craving more and more without any end there are two things so like the Horse-leech that they may be called her Daughters nay there are three that are never satisfied or rather four whose desires cannot be filled See Arg. g 16. The grave and the barren womb the earth that is not filled with water and the fire that saith not It is enough 16. They are these Death or the Grave which having consumed so many past Generations will as greedily swallow up and consume all that are yet to come the barren Womb which is wont to be desirous of Children beyond measure the Earth which drinks up all the rain that falls upon it and still thirsts for more and the Fire which devours all the fuel that is thrown into it and never ceases to burn as long as there is any thing to feed it 17. The eye that mocketh at his father and despiseth to obey his mother the ravens of the valley shall pick it out and the young eagles shall eat it 17. I will not end this till I have pronounced the doom of the first sort of wicked men now mentioned v. 11. who are so ungrate full to their Parents as not onely to disobey their commands but to scorn nay and deride their persons and mock at the infirmities of their old age whose villanies shall bring them to an infamous end and expose their dead bodies for a prey to the Ravens which frequent the Brooks that run in the Vallies and to the young Eagles who shall pick out those eyes in which their scorn and derision of their Parents was wont to appear See Arg. h 18. There be three things which are two wonderfull for me yea four which I know not 18. To your next Question my Answer is that there are three things whose motions are beyond my reach nay a fourth which is the most unaccountable of all the rest See Arg. i 19. The way of an eagle in the air the way of a serpent upon a rock the way of a ship in the midst of the sea and the way of a man with a maid 19. First the wonderfull swiftness of an Eagles flight into the air quite out of our sight XXIII 5. secondly the manner of a Serpent's speedy creeping without any feet to the top of a slippery rock thirdly the way that a Ship makes in the Sea though it seem sometime to sink to the bottom of the water and again to mount up into the air But above all the slipperiness of youth which is more inconstant than the air c. and especially the impatience and restless tossings of a young man's mind his cunning and slights when he goes a woing and the wonderfull arts he hath to slide into the heart of a maid and win her love 20. Such is the way of an adulterous woman she eateth and wipeth her mouth and saith I have done no wickedness 20. And yet the subtilty of an adulterous woman is equal to this both in crafty contrivances of secret ways to enjoy her filthy pleasures and in casting a mist before her Husbands eyes to conceal them when she is in danger to be discovered For having defiled his Bed she not onely looks modestly and demurely but professes the greatest innocency and behaves her self as if she were the honestest Woman and the kindest Wife too in the world like one that having eaten some forbidden meat wipes her mouth and says she hath not so much as tasted it but abhors to let it come within her lips 21. For three things the earth is disquieted and for four which it cannot bear 21. And to satisfie your other Question What things are most intolerable my answer is that three things make such a disturbance that men groan under the load of them nay there are four which are an unsupportable grievance unto those that are oppressed by them See Arg. k 22. For a servant when he reigneth and a fool when he is filled with meat 22. First the insolent cruelty of a vile Slave