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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
city_n	roman_n	young_a	youth_n	52	3	8.7094	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A56428	The second nativity of Jesus, the accomplishment of the first (viz) the conversion of the soul fram'd by the model of the Word-incarnate. Written in French by a learned Capucine. Translated into English, augmented & divided into 6 parts by John Weldon of Raffin, P.P.C.	Leon, de Vennes.; Weldon, John, of Raffin.	1686 (1686)	Wing P526A; Wing S2293B_CANCELLED; ESTC R202694	232,055	466

difficile est ut linguae saecularium men tem non inquinet quam tangit quia dum plerumque eis ad quaedam lonquenda condescendimus paulisper assueti hanc ipsam locutionem quae nobis indigna est etiam delectabiliter tenamus ut ex ea jam redire non libeat ad quam ex condescensione venimus inviti D. Greg. to 2. lib. 3. dialog cap. 15. and Capharnites happens to very many in our days which is That our Saviour speaking to them of Holy and Profitable things of the Institution of the Blessed Sacrament of the necessity of Crosses of the obligation of sufferance says that they are things hard to be digested they cannot give ear to them they are altogether displeasing to them and for to express their unwillingness to practice them they do withdraw themselves one after another from under so heavy a Yoak Is it not a strange and most deplorable thing that now-a-days it 's taken for the meerest folly in Nature to speak of God in any Meetings He is but an Alter-piece a devourer of Images a rouler of Beads a Melancholick and Hypocondriacal man who will offer to speak of Devotion in company they will presently begin to jeer him to smother his feelings of Devotion and Piety Gorrumpunt mores bonos colloquia prava 1 Cor. 15. v. 33. Is it possible that the World has blotted out of our hearts the Memorials of the Recognizances which we owe unto him whom the very senseless and dumb Beasts cannot forget We will make such large amplifications of a matter of nothing and we shall not have a word to say of the King of Glory of a God of Majesty inexhaustible source of perfection We will pass over whole days to entertain a company with Stories with Fables with Fictions without truth or ground and we shall be sorry for one quarter of an hour imployed to set forth the Praises and Glorious Prerogatives of our Redeemer A Commedian a Stage-player shall be heard as an Oracle and he who will declare the Word of God must be commanded to keep silence Do we not fear the Fatal Effects of that most Dreadful Sentence pronounced by our Saviour against them who shall be ashamed to confess him before Men Vitiorum exempla oppugnant animum immutant transformant miraculo erit inter incendia vel non s●mi vel ce●tè non inca●es●ere S Cyprian de spectaculis that he will not acknowledge them before his Father which is in Heaven They are the People to be shun'd as a Plague that infects all the World as so many Incarnate Devils whose conversation and company brings us nothing but misfortune and woe It is then most true that good conversation and company is an efficacious means that God makes use of to convert Souls That of the wicked is also another strong means whereof the Devil makes use to cross his designs of their Conversion And so we must conclude that he who is taken with this company goes on headlong to everlasting destruction whereas the former has found out the right Road to Heaven and the assured means to work his Salvation CHAP. XXIII That to think of Death has a great power on the Conversion of a Sinner THere is neither Rule nor Law so Universal Statutum est omnibus hominibus semel mori post hoc autem judicium Heb. v. 27. but admits of some exceptions or difficulties there have been many and are at this present to my great grief that will hardly believe the Existance of a God But all without either exception or difficulty concur in this Point that we must all die we tread under our feet the dead to day and we shall be dealt with the same to morrow Testamentum enim hujus mundi morte morietur Eccl. 14. v. 12. For my part I do adore all thoughts which may conduce to my Salvation as of the love of God above all things who without any desert of mine has given me so many Graces of the Beauty of Heaven glorious and everlasting residence of the Blessed of the noble extraction of the Soul appointed from all Eternity to enjoy the intuitive Vision of the first Essence But in this point I must confess the corruption of my nature the dullness of my understanding such thoughts are good for purer Souls than mine is they are motives able to ravish a St. Paul into the third Heavens to Print on a St. Francis the Effigies of Christ to set a St. Bernard beyond his Senses and make all those extatical Spirits to fall into a weakness I am an insensible Rock to all those truths a Dyamond which those Darts cannot penetrate I am colder than the very Ice at the approach of those Fires But when I come to think thar poor Brother Lyon Capucin must die that I am now standing on my Legs and that to morrow they will put my Head into a Capuce for to cast me into the Earth That they will sing a doleful de profundis at my Funeral to send me to another World and give me the last farewel I raise up my shoulders I re-enter into my self my Blood is already frozen within my Veins I have no more mind to laugh than I have to live And really as I shall make it appear by moral induction there is no Motive more powerful among the Exteriours to stir up all sorts of persons to the feelings of their Salvation than the thought of dying To Youth it is a curb to stop them when they are in their full carreer to Perdition To Kings Princes Emperours and Monarchs a Subject of humility that they should not puff themselves up with over-much Pride above the People To Soldiers and Warriours a cause of humiliation that the favour of Fortune and Arms should not make them insolent To the most Holy Souls an ordinary entertainment Mors rot a incertè fixa brevis haec est multiplex vita sursum movetur ac deorsum trahitur fugiens tenetur manus effugit saltat plerumque nec tamen fugere potest stationem suam motu trahit retrahit Greg. N●zianz in distichis to keep them within the limits of humility and from presuming any thing rashly by the Justice of their actions As for the Youth that Antient practice of the Romans was a rare spectacle and a brave Lesson they gave the young men of the City when they made up a most magnificent Sepulchre to the young Princess Servilia the rarest beauty that ever appeared in the Roman Empire Over the Marble cover of her Tomb was in the very middle an Earthen Pot and at both the ends two Nymphs in Womens shape from the Head to the Navel and thence downwards light-footed Deers so Artificially joynted Greg. Nazianz. in Moncast which looking fixedly at the Pot with a jeering smile would give it a kick at the same time and break it to pieces That Earthen Pot represented the Body of Servilia a Vessel