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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	life_n	love_n	love_v	2,826	5	6.6025	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A89482	Temporis Angustiæ Stollen houres recreations. Being meditations fitted according to the variety of objects. By Tho. Manley, jun. gent. and student, anno. ætatis 21mo.	Manley, Thomas, 1628-1690.	1649 (1649)	Wing M449; Thomason E1374_1; ESTC R209219	34,225	131

Temporis Angustiae Stollen Houres Recreations BEING Meditations fitted according to the variety of Objects Martial lib. 8. Epig. 2. Tune potes dulces ingrate relinquere nugas Dic mihi quid melius desidiosus agas Sat plenè si sat benè BY THO. MANLEY Jun. Gent. And Student Anno Aetatis 21 mo LONDON Printed for John Stephenson At the Signe of the Sun on Ludgate-hill 1649. TO THE Most vertuous and truly worthy Gentlewoman M rs A. M. Thomas Manley wisheth all the blessings of this life and that which is to come Deare Mistris OUt of that spare time stollen from the houres of my more serious studies I have here from variety of objects extracted and rough-drawne a few light Meditations the extravagancies of a lighter braine which I have ●esumed to dedicate to your Name hoping that ●●om it they will gaine both weight and credit A pre●●nt I confesse too meane for so great vertue yet 〈◊〉 assured confidence of your goodnesse that you ●ill not so much looke at the meannesse of the gift 〈◊〉 the good will of the giver and accept it because 〈◊〉 comes from a friend was the maine cause of my ●oldnesse which if you please to pardon adding ●ithall a grant of my desire acceptance I shall not ●nly acknowledge my selfe to be bound to you by the ●trictest tye of friendship but shall be bound to ac●nowledge my selfe M rs Your most affectionate friend Tho. Manley Jun. TO THE Friendly READER TO make a tedious Preface to our ensuing short discourses seemes to me as vaine and unnecessarie as was his worke who made the gates to his Citie larger then the Citie it selfe all I shall say to thee is this I desire thee with sinceritie to reader and without Criticisme to amend what thou findest amisse so for such a friend this short Epistle will be long enough but if thou beest otherwise affected and readest only that thou mayst carpe to such I have made this too long I desire really thou mayst profit by thy reading so shalt thou receive comfort and I my desired reward thy good will farewell Thine to doe thee good M. J. Temporis Angustiae MEDITATION I. IT is a Maxime in Phylosophie that out of nothing comes nothing but this would put us into confusion and reduce us againe to a Chaos unlesse we were set upright by Divinity which assur●s us that an omnipotent hand out of nothing hath extracted and drawn all things being then thus rectified let us raise our thoughts to their highest pitch in contemplation of the end for which we were created The first and chiefest thing certainly is to exalt with prayses the power of our God And the next is to love our brethren and neighbours for if we love not our brethren whom wee have seen how can we love God whom we have not seen for the former our duty towards our God is to beleeve that he is that he is Almighty and that all his attributes are true what Nation was ever so barbarous which did not acknowledge a superintendent deity Nature it selfe hath taught us that there is somewhat beyond it selfe to whose glory and for the advancement of whose honour all our actions ought to tend The Scythians though farre remote both from civility and vertue yet acknowledged their Jupiter The Egyptians whose mindes vvere only stuffed with the study of Witchcrafts yet worshipped their Osiris The Indians then whom vvho more savage yet they rather then will have none to worship fall downe to the Devill To conclude the Turke though none more cruell yet have they their Mahomet Nay those Anthropophagi those man eatting Cannibals then whom though none more devillish yet have they their Deity on whose Altars they offer sacrifices and to whom they put up and preferre their Petitions And shall we who are Christians bought with a price even the bloud of the Lamb I say shall we be more barbarous then b●●barisme it selfe not only denying the honour due to our great God but even as much as in us lies both denying our God to be and endeavouring to pull him if it were possible out of heaven by our sinnes We knovv his power but contemne it and all men are sufficiently instrued but Patience abused is turned to fury Secondly we must love our brethren Love saith the Apostle worketh no harme to his neighbour therefore Love is the fulfilling of the Law and our Saviour himselfe faith This command I leave you that yee love one another Certainly the often inculcation and repetition of this duty in the Scripture sheweth unto us how strict and diligent we ought to be in the observation of it It is a command upon whose observance depends our vvhole happinesse for what happinesse can there be where love is taken away Or hovv can that Common-wealth flourish where nothing abounds but strifes and contentions By Concord small things in little time grow great nay come to the top of prosperity by discord things already great in a small time grovv lesse nay vanish into nothing as by the one we rise to th● highest top of humane felicity so by the other we are throwne into the depth and gulfe of all wretched calamities Hence then you serpentin brood of Cadmus who onely begin to live that ye may study and endeavour to ruine one another Thinke you that God created man to be a selfe-destroyer nay we see otherwise in the very beginning Cain for murdering his brother Abel was cursed by God with a heavie curse to be a vagabond and God set a marke upon him lest any man should kill him If yee bite and devoure one another yee shall be consumed one of another What can be expected there but desolation where every man vvill be in all cases his owne both Judge and Executioner When every man may doe that which is right in his owne eyes What society can there be among men where Love is taken away Love is the life of the soule the maintainer of unity the bond of peace the efficient cause of happinesse and as Logicians say Causa sine qua non it is the builder of Common-wealths the repairer of breaches the restorer of pathes to dwell in VVe know not God unlesse we love God is love To conclude Love covereth a multitude of sinnes Love is like the Spring in and by which all things flourish it is the most noble passion of the soule which wholly spends it selfe in the attaining of a desired good I could vvith the Silke-worm quite worke my selfe to death spend my selfe all my choysest parts all my abilities in this heavenly Subject he is a child a senselesse creature a beast worse then a beast that hath never been touched with this heroike passion but I digresse I transgresse to returne Let brotherly love continue so shall wee bring to our selves blessing upon blessing we shall enjoy the God of love and by the love of God we shall be made a mirrour of happinesse the glory of all people A