Selected quad for the lemma: cause_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	child_n	husband_n	wife_n	1,655	5	6.9646	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A11073	The mysticall marriage Experimentall discoveries of the heavenly marriage betweene a soule and her saviour. By F. Rous.	Rous, Francis, 1579-1659.	1631 (1631)	STC 21342.5; ESTC S106415	66,682	385

let her ever be tasting of thy loves and ever love thee by tasting them Let the savour of thy oyntments whose very breath is love be ever in her nostrills that she may ever love thee for that savour and by it Give me the flagons of the new wine of the kingdome which may lift up my soule above her selfe in her loves and give her better loves than her owne where with to love him that is farre better than her selfe Yea let her drinke plentifully that she may be mounted up in a divine extasie above her carnall and earthy station that she may forget the low and base griefes and cares and distractions of carnall and worldly love and by an heavenly excesse be transported into an heavenly love to embrace her beloved who is the Lord from heaven with a love that is like him O my beloved thou art most lovely even when I love thee not yet then art thou most lovely and when my soule covered with flesh sees not thy beauty yet then art thou most beautifull and most worthy to be beloved But then thy lovelinesse is lost to me because love loves not what it sees not Therefore ever anoynt mine eyes with thine eye-salve that my soule may ever see thy lovelinesse and seeing it to be most lovely love it with her best loves and despise a world of beauties in comparison of thine and a world of loves in comparison of those loves wherewith shee loveth thee Let my love rest in nothing short of thee neither let it be content meerely to rest in thee but kindle it enflame it enlarge it that it may rest largely in thee Enlarge the crany which thy spirit hath bored through the flesh into my spirit that I may largely see thee and so largely love thee Enlarge the arteries and conduit pipes by which thou the head and fountaine of loves flowest into thy members that being abundantly quickened and watered with the spirit of love I may abundantly love thee And doe not onely come much but often into me and let my spirit often be one spirit with thee in communicative and fruitive unions For such often unions with thy spirit will make my spirit more spirituall and the more spirituall shee is the more will she love him who is a spirit Againe the more spirituall she is the more will he who is a spirit love her and the more he loves her the more will he visit her with his spirit and the more he visits her the more lovely and beloved shall she be Wherefore by often visitations put thy owne image and beauty more and more on my soule and then love thy owne beauty in my soule and my soule for thy owne beauty which thou hast put on her and let my soule love thee infinitely for being infinitely more beautifull than that beauty which thou hast put on my soule and therefore infinitely more lovely than that which thou lovest in my soule Wilt thou my Lord love the image and shall not the image much more love the patterne O thou most lovely my love to thee should be farre greater than thy love to me because my object of love in thee is infinitely greater than thine in me But I being a poore and narrow creature have not love enough to love thee sufficiently an infinite Creatour and indeed there is no love but thy owne sufficient to love thee whose love onely is equall to thy lovelinesse Thy being is lovelinesse it selfe and thy being is love it selfe for God is love Come therefore into me O thou that art love and love thy selfe in me Come into me and by thy owne most excellent love fitly love thy owne most excellent lovelinesse And while thou lovest thy selfe in my soule let my soule according to her measure taste and see and love that love Let her with all her might though that might be far too weake for this worke consent and approve that love of thine and on the torrent of thy love let her most active strongest and largest affections swimme to thee O thou Ocean and unbounded fulnesse both of lovelines and love And thus though shee cannot make her owne love sufficient to love thee yet let her make thy all-sufficient love her owne by receiving some of it into her according to her capacity by assenting to it by approving magnifying it and by a desire to resemble it as much as a poore measured creature may resemble that which is unmeasurable It is thy owne word O thou lover of soules that where there is a willing minde thou acceptest that which a soule hath and not that which she hath not But Lord though that love which I have attaine not to that measure which is unmeasurable yet Lord let it be a full measure which thou pourest into me and let there bee nothing void in my heart and unfilled with thy love Yea let thy spirit of love come so fully into my soule that it stretch and enlarge her measure and make her to grow from the measure in which she is unto the measure in which shee should be even to that stature which is appointed her in thy body And thus by fulnesse in a lesse measure let her grow to a fulnesse in a greater measure growing still in measure and growing still in that which filleth her measure Yea let the measure sometimes be not onely full but running over even running over to a spirituall drunkennesse but not unto drowning for these extasies and excesses of love shall somewhat advance my ability of loving thee For when my understanding will and affections are all overflowne overcome and amazed then shall my wonder gaze on thee and my very faintings shall be enflamed toward thee and melt me into thee Neyther doth my soule desire the pleasure of this loue and Ioyes of thy vnion meerly for pleasure But I desire that the ioy and sap of thy spirit powred into mine when they two are one spirit may be generatiue and fruitfull Far be it from my soule to loue thee like an harlot and not like a wife let mee desire vnion with thee because I love thee and because I love thee let mee desire to bring forth fruite vnto thee Yea I will not cease to cry vnto thee Give mee children or else I die For thou canst not reply vnto mee Am I in Gods stead to give the fruit of the wombe For verily thou art that God who giveth the fruite of the wombe both spirituall and corporall Give me therefore children by this vnion with thee euen fruites of thy spirit which may resemble thee and be pledges to me of thy vnion with me And when I have brought them forth let me give the praise vnto thee For thou onely makest the barren to beare and to be a fruitfull mother of children And when thou hast made mee fruitfull by coming to mee come more often to mee be cause thou hast made mee fruitfull It was the voice of a naturall

wife long agoe Now will my husband dwell with me because I have borne him six sons Let it be said now also by a spiritual wife Now will my husband dwell with me because his dwelling with mee hath made me fruitfull Make my soule a fruitfull paradise bearing every good fruit of love divine and humane and then come often into thy garden to behold gather the fruits of it And that I may bring forth fruites wholly thine and not anothers beside thee burne and consume whatsoeuer would grow one with my soule besides thee Thou art a burning and consuming fire and the spirit by which thou art one with my spirit baptizeth with fire O let the fire of thy spirit so wholly turne my soule into spirituall fire that the drosse of the flesh the world being wholly consumed shee may be onely spirituall and so bring forth fruites onely to thy spirit Thus and thus saith my soule to her beloved but when she saith thus her beloved is not farre from her for by him she speakes to him when he is neare his oyntments yeeld their savour and the savour of his ointments draweth soules to run after him There hath beene of late a fruitive union and such fruitive unions doe individuate and enflame the love of the soule to him whom she hath enjoied in that union But alas the husband of the soule is sometimes like that husband which is not at home but is gone a long journey He is gone so farre from me as if hee were not mine yea so far sometimes as if he were not at all The summer is gone from my soule and the winter is come and the true olive so draweth in his fatnesse that my soule though a branch yet doubteth whether there bee a root that beareth her The ointments of light and love are not seene or felt and how can she love the lovelinesse that she sees not and if she saw it how can she love it without love In such a darknesse the greatest lovelinesse affects not the eye and in such a deadnesse there is no love wherewith to love the greatest lovelinesse The soule doth not now taste how sweete her Lord is and therefore his sweetnesse is to her as a thing forgotten or a thing mistaken or at best as a thing which was and is not and will be no more The often unions that are passed are wholly past and the very images and representations of them are neare wholly vanished And now my soule that will ever bee a lover of something and a seeker of good in one object or other being left to the flesh by the enchantment of the flesh runneth to the creature to seeke good in it For as the spirit runneth to Christ so doth the flesh to the creature But alas the dove of Christ thus flowne from the Arke in her thoughts and affections findeth no rest for shee is gone from her rest and how can she finde rest by going from rest Put forth thy hand O thou lover of soules and take her in unto thee yea first make her to returne to thee by finding her when she seeks thee Seeke her O Saviour when she goes astray from thee like a lost sheepe for even when shee thus goes astray she hath not utterly forgotten thee thy loves nor thy lawes One looke of thine will awake her love and make her weepe bitterly that she loved thee so little whom to love sufficiently her best and mightiest loves are most insufficient Prevent her seeking with thy seeking and be thou present with her in thy providence and preserving power even when thou seemest to be farre off in the tasts of thy sweetnesse and fruition of thy loves Love her even when thou doest not give her thy loves yea love her by not-giving them Doe her good even by the subtraction of thy goodnesse shew her that her safety is not in her owne hands shew her that her goodnesse is not her owne shew her that she is nothing in her selfe but that which is worse than nothing and that thou and thy grace make her wholly to be that which she is Then shall she be more humble by seeing her owne vilenes in thy absence and thou shalt bee more lovely and precious to her whose presence gives her all her worth and excellence VVhen she hath regained thee she will hold thee more hardly and keepe thee more fastly and love thee more vehemently Shee will value thy loves above treasures yet she will love thee more than thy loves and she will provide a stocke of loves in the summer against the winters if they perchāce shal return again For in these loves shee will behold the pledges of a love eternall in these joyes of thy presence she will behold the earnests of eternall joyes in an eternall presence and for the sure hope of these eternall joyes she will patiently endure the sorrowes of these temporall absences Yet let these temporall absences be as thornes in the sides of my soule to stirre her up to the desire of that eternall presence And be not lacking overlong O thou life and love and guide of my soule but ever and anon visit her with thy presence stay her with thy flagons comfort her with apples for she is sicke of love when shee wanteth her beloved Whē thou wast here on earth thou hadst compassion on the multitude that had nothing to eate and wouldest not send them away fasting lest they should faint by the way O sweete Saviour thou art no lesse mercifull in heaven than thou wert on earth and an hungry soule is a fitter object of mercy than an hungry body and my hungry soule hath a farther way to goe than their bodies for shee must goe from earth unto heaven O refresh her and that right soone with thy mercies with the joyes of thy presence with the bread of heaven and water of life which thy spirit plentifully giveth to my spirit when thou commest unto her Be thou her guide even to the life which is beyond death and grant that through these changes of temporall presences and absences she may runne in one even and unchanged path of love and holinesse untill she come unto that eternall presence where is the fulnesse of joy without ebbes and perpetuity of joy without interruptions There shall shee see her beloved clearely and plainely even face to face and there shall shee enjoy her beloved so fully as she seeth him clearely yea she shall enjoy him with all her might of enjoying Her being shall be the measure of her enjoying for as much as she is so much shall shee enjoy shee shall be in a perpetuall union with her beloved and in a perpetuall fruition by union and so in a perpetuall rack extent and vttermost of joy The fountaine of joy shall flow continually into the mouth of the soule the new wine of the kingdome shall still overcome her and set her up