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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	effect_n	reason_n	see_v	2,645	5	3.6710	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A74649	An entertainment of solitarinesse or, the melting of the soule, by meditations, and the pouring of it out by prayers. By Sir Richard Tempest, knight and baronet.	Tempest, Richard, Sir, 1619 or 20-1662.	1649 (1649)	Wing T625; Thomason E1410_1; ESTC R209519	28,217	157

receptions let me follow the wisdome of thy methods Lord who by the Churches directions of their Fasts to precede our Festivals teacheth us humilitie goes before glory repentance and mortification before true joy But now alas the outward and materiall Temples are made to mourn in their own ashes while the living ones rejoyce over the ruines of Sion The loosenesses and indulgences of this Age rather beares a proportion with the Religion of the Ottomans than exhibits Sacrifices pleasing to the most Holy One. They cashiering all strict observances as fetters and bonds to their more free Genius are mis-led by their owne evill spirits in a wildernesse of Opinions The observing these signall dayes turnes our devotions into the knowne and vulgar Character which the world by our practise as it were may reade Our memorie charges the Times with good or bad events happening in them not but those good or ill qualities adhere to the things done in those Times Time being onely the measure of motion upon whose skore wee retaine the remembrance of what things pleasing or displeasing have befallen us To quarrell at the observation of Times is to quarrell at the holy and devout Exercises at such times usually performed whence wee see so easie a slide in many from the contempt of the time to neglect the humble and pious practises of the other To take away the set Dayes set Prayers and set Patrimonie of the Church is to make the Church contemptible their lives dissolute and their devotions prophane The Magnificats of hearts divinely in love and the heavenly wealth of an open-handed Charitie makes these dayes prospect so glorious and in this respect they are inlightned with no vulgar Ray nor doth the Sunne shine with any common beames The Heathens marked their fortunate dayes with white or precious stones but wee must observe these with white and spotlesse actions by which they will prove so to us Our miserable Times we becloud either over againe with our griefes and distrusts or else adde to them the feathers of vanitie to make them more insensibly flye away the two excesses of our life too jocular Vanities or too sad Dejections But from the heights of these dayes doe our soules take their Aethereall flights and range themselves in the Quires of Angels while they beare part with them in their Allelujahs Lord grant that by the continued practise of these Heavenly Attempts the chayne of my mortalitie being broke I may get wing and flye to thee and that constantly reaching my hands to thee from these dayes which are the upper steps of the Ladder of my Life next to Heaven thou mayest at last reach forth thy hand and receive me Morning Thoughts DArkenesse no sooner gives way to the approach of the Sunne but the whole Theatre of Nature seemes to smile the Clouds put on their severall-coloured Habits the Musicall inhabitants of the Groves warble forth the Aire in varied and delightfull tones of harmonie the Flowers draw forth their severall flames and beauties offering sweet incense from their fragrant bosomes all mists and fogges breake up and vanish and that which before dissembled so bright a lustre hath lost it in the light of the Sunne And now my senses loosned from the soft chaines of sleepe enjoy the prospect of the glory of the Heavens the pleasant view of the Woods Fields Rivers but as there be Groves and Caves where the Sunne hath not accesse so my Body is that Cave where without the beame of Reason to discerne the causes and effects of those works I externally behold it is still in darknesse nay I shall still continue so if with the reflext beame of Reason I looke not into my selfe and see what habits and affections my Soule weares and what belongs to me in respect of duties and severall relations without nay I am still in darknesse if I behold not with the eye of Faith the Sonne of Righteousnesse arising as it were out of the immense Ocean of his Goodnesse and Mercie darting into my Soule the glorious rayes of his Truth and Goodnesse then doth my little World rejoyce and my flesh rejoyces in the living Lord then are all my affections the Birds in my little Grove tuned with his prayse then doth each thought weare a severall Liverie of its Makers prayse put on from the contemplation of his severall workes then are all the false splendors of Vanitie obscured the mists and fogges of Passion breake up and vanish then doe the flowers of Vertue salute him with that lustre and odour he himselfe bestowed on them some yeelding their sweets at a distance as the tender Vertues of Mercie Compassion Liberalitie others impart not their fragrancie till bruised and crushed as the Vertues of Patience and Constancie And now Lord my imprison'd Soule beholds thy beames through the chinks as it were of thy Creatures but a full vision of thy presence is reserved for the state of Glory Let my mind so feed on thy Workes that they be disgested into thy prayse and let me looke out so constantly through these Cranies at the rayes of thy Goodnesse Wisdome and Power that at last my spark may be swallowed up in the immensitie of thy light Evening Thoughts HEavens sable Curtaines being dtawn Darknesse makes all things alike the feather'd Musicians of the Wood repose their aeriall spirits amidst the leavie Groves a silent horror seemes to possesse all places while those Silver-footed Nymphs that by so many windings arrive at the watrie armes of Neptune send forth their pleasant murmures louder not drowned with greater noyse if the Sunne hath set in a Cloud it hath presaged stormes to the ensuing day I finde a resemblance in my lesser World of Nights Liverie when I winke the World into Darknesse by which all beauties lose their distinctions all lye lovingly together in the bosome of sleepe and agree in their obedience to these soft injunctions and delightfull commands of Nature Here the Miser is pleasantly robd of his store and the miserable man of his sense of being poore The ambitious man leaves to court Greatnesse and is content with the ordinarie favours of Morpheus the Lover layes aside the sweet tortures of his Amours and solaces himselfe only in the duskie imbraces of sleepe the Souldier in making his passage to the gates of vocall Fame ceases to invite Death and is here content with its image Now doe our senses which are the Birds that make the Musick in mans little Grove shrowd themselves under the downie wings of sleepe Thus doth Death equalize all things onely for a longer time in its habitations a quiet horror seems to dwell where all lye lovingly in the bosome of their Mother Earth silently crept under the soft Coverings of Ashes where our divided parts revell in their loosened motions which had before beene crowded together in our sickly composures I lye merrily down in my Bed though I expect to rise againe to resume the burthen of all my feares hopes and

obedience of the King and the Lawes made by the consent of the free people of England A fourth cryes out Forainers fore-saw this and helpt to cast in these seeds and principles upon which they contrived our ruine they are all Heretikes and these Divisions are Judgements light upon them for departing from their Mother-Church The Matter being thus prepared the Spark would easily be procured And thus are our men placed just in that posture our enemies desire to play their Game in Our wittie Adversaries by a penetrating insight into the constitution of this State have long since contrived our Ruine upon those very Principles this Warre hath begun upon and may be continued Those ingenious artificers of our Ruine dexterously applying their active to passives and by electing fit instruments aptly working upon the severall parties have contrived our dissolution Though other peccant humours have flowed in and the ambitious practises of great ones yeelded their malignant aspects yet the grand matter of the Disease lay within and that sharpe humour in the Body of the Kingdome being set on fire hath turned it into a Feaver They knew well the complexion of our Countrey which is now made too sanguine as appeares by that Draught of our Ruine delineated by the Pen of Campanella who though shut up in his Cloyster had inlarged his minde to the consideration of all Crownes And writing to the King of Spaine how he might so treat with every Kingdome and Republique that taking hold of the advantages the things themselves afforded he might become Monarch of the West part of the World And concerning the affaires of these Islands he adviseth thus That the King of Spaine should send to King Iames of Scotland to promise him his assistance to the Crowne of England in case of oppositions and to get back from him ingagements for the advancement of the Catholike Religion or at least not to disturbe his Plate-Fleet by Sea wherein their Shipping saith he is so powerfull and at the same time to send his Emissaries abroad which should refresh in the people of Englands mindes the remembrance of the former animosities betwixt the two Nations and to sharpen and sowre the mindes of the Nobilitie to insinuate to them That the King comming into England would bestow his Places Honours and Preferments upon his Countreymen to their under-valuing and dis-respect as also in Parliament that it be assured the Bishops if the King were admitted once into England he would bring along with him the Presbyterie of Scotland to their destruction Then by wittie Florentines on purpose maintained at Bruxels to negotiate here with the most eminent of the Nobilitie that were Catholikes promising each of them a part the one not knowing of his negotiation to the other that they should be the Heads of his partie in the Divisions which would happen among them Thus saith the wittie Politick you shall sowe the feeds of an immortall War among them that by their continuall Distractions they will not be able to hinder you in your Designes upon others or at last the parties growne desperate in Armes shall divide the Kingdome into little Principalities whereby at last they will turne your prey Thus doe they enjoy all our heats and Calentures and at those fires which are given in our Warres bring to maturitie their Designe of our Ruine while each partie seekes to support it selfe with Counsells and Strength separated from that of the publique Is there lesse danger The fruits of these Warres no other than they designed if this be practised by a neerer State Perhaps with the ingredients of many more fine and well-layed Plots The Moone hath greater influence upon the Earth than the other Planets not by reason of its magnitude as vicinitie Let them bee phlegmatick and have no Designe stupid and have no braine and can wee thinke so of them whose malice is as active as their constitution yet we force upon them the enjoyment of their Ambitions they suffer our heats to tyre us What is the fruit of all the Bloud and Treasure which the full Purses and the wanton veines of England have lavished out Doth not the present posture of things represent us in such a condition as they fore-saw wee should fall in The King in Prison the Church in Schisme the Countrey in Oppression the Citie in Faction new armed men dayly springing up from those Dragons teeth which are so artificially sowne among us They doe not onely with the nimble dashes of their Pen seeke to deface as it were with one blot all the faire and flourishing Letter of this Government but with Armes doe lay in dust what bravely rear'd his head with glory to the Skie Doe they not meditate of Cantonizing And to resume the same Power they have pull'd down and maintaine it by the same Armes with which they have destroyed the other Is not that faire and goodly Mirror which used to represent the beautifull image of the Common-wealth broke into severall pieces each of which represent severall faces Is not that Mould wherein our Lawes were cast used onely now for to have instruments of Warre fore-cast in Doth not every day the Case grow more perplext and intricate New knots which the most cunning hand will be never able dextrously to undoe except they be cut and the necessitie of the Sword must double upon us our former injuries Is it not truly observed that Armes once raysed turne to many uses which at first were never thought of And thus our miserie like Proteus begets every day new formes and shapes The farther wee send our eyes to looke what will become of these Divisions doe wee not lose them in those vast depths of Miserie and Ruine in that Gulfe of Destruction wee doe precipitate our selves into Is not the fire onely likely to be quenched with the Ruines of the House One may seeke England in England and not finde it The present condition of the Government unestablisht as touching its Lawes and Constitutions the Government being like a Ship that is almost covered with billowes scarce visible yet in being the outward adventitious condition of the thing onely altered And whether it shall be brought into the Port of Peace or it must finde in those vast gapings and yawnings of the Sea a liquid Grave Heaven only is the Insuring Office The people doe not apprehend the Reason and Wisdome of those Lawes by the benefit whereof they had their lives and estates secured till by the neglect of them the effects thereof fall upon them in Oppressions Injuries and Wrongs and till in the utter extremities of Miserie they learn the causes of mens entring first into Societie If men make use of their prerogative and that part wherein men excell their fellow Creatures they will finde there is no way imaginable to hinder the corruption of a State but by the reducement of it to its principles for every State drawne within its proper Rules and Lawes is