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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	extraordinary_a	good_a	great_a	269	4	2.1091	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A26231	A dialogue (or familiar discourse) and conference betweene the husbandman and fruit-trees in his nurseries, orchards, and gardens wherein are discovered many usefull and profitable observations and experriments [sic] in nature, in the ordering fruit-trees for temporall profitt ... / by Ra. Austen ...	Austen, Ralph, d. 1676.	1676 (1676)	Wing A4233; ESTC R5888	40,239	128

forgett God least if yee neglect this day of grace yee shortly prove these things to be true by woofull experience in remediles Miseries ●kilfull ordering of Fruittrees produceth Fruitfulnesse HVSBANDMAN But yet I see some few of these great Trees even in this rich soyle who by some skill and extraordinary industry of the Husbandman do bring forth very good Fruits and plentifully too from yeare to yeare how glad should I be were yee all so Fruitfull I should then have a greater revenue of Profitts yearely then I have Remove the Cause and the Effect ceaseth FRVITTREES Thou knowest by Experience that immoderation and excesse in any thing is hurtfull and dangerouse so when thou knowest the Cause of a mischiefe or inconvenience thou hast best remove it if thou can'st that so the effect also may cease as this in Nature so also in Morall or Spirituall things sublatâ Causâ tollitur effectvs HVSBANDMAN This also is of higher and further use in reference to the great on 's in the world A due Commendation of the Pious and Religious Gentrie Although great Revenues high Titles Dignities Honours Riches and Pleasures of the world are great snares and Temptations unto those who have them yet through the mighty and powerfull operations of the spirit of God in the carefull and diligent use of the meanes of grace which some of the great Persons do exercise themselves in their minds and hearts are inlightned and changed from a state of Nature to a state of Grace who are famous Examples unto others in their generations and have a great influence upon all round about them being Patterns of Piety great Charity and Vertue And so are truly Noble as being Borne from above Sones and Daughters to the Lord God Almighty Though according both to * 1 Cor. 1.26 Not many wise men after the flesh not many mighty not many Noble are called Scripture Experience and Observation of inlightned spirituall minds the greatest part of such walke in the broad way and enter into the wide gate that leadeth to destruction the eyes of their minds being blinded not only by Corruption and Sathan as all sorts by Nature are but also dazelled by the glittering shew and splendor of these Pompous gaudy Vanities Profitts and Pleasures of this world and so their state is thereby the more dangerous Then what infinite grace is shewed forth in chusing and calling some of them Notwithstanding these impediments and plucking them as Brands out of the Burning making them as rich Diamonds and Pearles among Pebbles and common stones These persons then lye under the greatest Bonds and Obligations that can be to returne answerable Obedience Duty and Thankfullnesse unto God for his rich and free Grace to them in Jesus Christ Not only in saving them from the wrath to come but also estating them in an inheritance immortall invisible and that fadet● not away reserved in Heaven for them Section 8. HVSBANDMAN Omnia f●orebunt prospiciente Deo Methinks yee swagger and are very brave this May-morning i● your beautifull blossomes and green● leaves whence had yee all this Gallantrie● The Voice of all Creatures to Man FRVIT-TREES It pleased our bountifull Creator to bestow it upon us but i● is for thee and for the sake of mankind which ingageth thee and all men to acknowledge it And to serve him and prais● him with more chearefullnesse This is ou● Language and Lesson to all Men which every particuler tree among us does dail● speake aloud qui fecit me propter te fecit te propter se He that made me for thee made thee for himselfe HVSBANDMAN But I have seene you meanely clothed sometimes in the yeare I perceive yee change your Garments now and then have yee severall suits of Apparell Fruit-trees receive and loose their beauty once a yeare FRVIT-TREES Yea we are diversly clothed we weare out a new shuite every yeare Our bountifull Lord and Master puts upon us a fresh new Garment every spring of the yeare and we are very beautifull to looke upon all the spring and Summer with various coloured blossomes leaves and Fruits but towards Autumne this brave clothing looseth its fresh colour because the Sun the efficient Cause of our Springing growth and flourishing withdraws from us and is gone towards the South parts And as cold weather coms on these our beautifull Garments of Leaves ●nd Fruits fade and fall from us by lit●le and little till we are quite Naked and ●hen for a season we are in a melancholy posture The state of all things here below changeable HVSBANDMAN Vicissitude and change is the state of all visible Creatures from Riches to Poverty from Poverty to Riches sometimes prosperity sometimes adversity sometimes health sometimes sicknesse sometimes honour sometimes disgrace good Report and evill Report turnes and changes of providence which we ought to be fitted for that in every state we may be therewith content by getting a well grounded confidence and assurance of the love of God in Christ which never changeth as all created things do but is the same for ever without variablenesse or shaddow of change There is evidently a very great change and alteration concerning you betweene Sommer and Winter as hath been said but how is it with you in the cold sharp Winter in frost and snow stormes of Haile Raine strong and boisterouse Wind and sometimes blasting killing Winds and Aires have ye● any reliefe or nourishment then to feed● upon how do yee to live and hold out i● the time of all these difficulties yee shew forth no effects of life either by growthbuds blossomes or leaves how do yee find your selves to be during that sharp time Fruit-trees are pincht and endure difficulties in Winter Fruit-trees in the spring revive FRVIT-TREES It 's true indeed There is a very great alteration in us betweene Sommer and Winter our beauty and ornaments being taken from us and we are left naked and bare and seem during all that time as if we were quite dead so that some unskilfull persons judg us so to be indeed yet we have a conserving sap existing in us all that time which keeps us alive though we cannot exert it then because the Sun which is the efficient Cause of our growth is at that time farr remote from us But when it returnes again in the spring time and daily draws neerer to us then by its warmth and influence we begin to be a little refreshed for though we have not sence yet we have perception which is to us insteed of sence and we shew it by the effects for thou seest we then begin to plump our buds which by little and little do open and brake forth into Blossomes Leaves and shootes And by degrees as the Sunne draws neerer and neerer and it 's heare and influence is stronger and stronger upon us we are more and more refreshed by it our blossome Buds turn into Fruits and we shoote forth uigorously and strongly and bring forth