Selected quad for the lemma: death_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	bless_a	life_n	lord_n	4,841	5	3.6009	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B08005	Organon reipublicæ, or The north starre of pollicie, by which the course of a common-wealth may be directed..	J. R.; I. R.; Sadler, Edmund.	1605 (1605)	STC 20575.7; ESTC S94820	17,320	38

dishonest things manfully to endure aduersity or prosperity Fortitude of a purged minde is to be ignorant of passions not to feare that it knoweth not to be angry and desireth no dishonest thing Exemplare fortitude is to be vnchangeable because it is alwaies the same and is not at any time changed The parts of fortitude are foure Magnificence Confidence Patience Perseuerance Magnificence is the cogitation and exployting of great and high matters with a certaine honorable purpose of mind Confidence is a vertue whereby the minde it selfe in great and honest matters hath reposed much in it self with a certain hope of trust Patience is a voluntary and continuall sufferance of hard and difficult things for honestie and commodities sake Perseuerance is a vertue sure and permanent in a well aduised purpose There are many effects of Fortitude 1. it triumpheth ouer ones enemies Mark 5. and he a most valiant man 2. it keepeth a mans goods Luke 11. when a strong man armed c. 3. it enricheth Prou. 10 the hand of the strong get●●th riches 4. it adorneth Prou. 31. fortitude and comelinesse his garment Fortitude consis●th in fiue things In aduenturing vpon hard things Many things help fortitude 1. The exhortation of wise men In despising earthly things 2. The example of the strong In suffering tribulation 3. Excercise in fight In resisting ●emptations 4. Hope of reward In fighting against vices 5. The helpe of prayer As Harts haue great Hornes in vaine seeing they want courage so it is not sufficient to be strong and to be of power in other things vnlesse Fortitude be adioyned Plutarch Of Temperance Politicke Temperance according to Macrobius is to desire nothing to be repented in nothing to exceede the rule 〈◊〉 modestie to tame desire vnder the yoake of reason Whence commeth the saying Wilt thou be crowned wilt thou be filled with delicates Haue this short saying alwayes before thee Be sober Temperance of a purged minde is not onely to represse but quite to forget earthly desires Temperance as it is an Exemplar vertue is a certaine turning about towards it selfe with continuall diligence There are three parts of Temperance Continence Clemencie Modestie Continence according to Tully is a vertue by which the desire is ruled by the gouernment of counsell Clemencie is a vertue whereby the motions of the mind being stirred with rashnesse to the hate of some one are staied by gentlenesse and pleasantnes●e Modestie is a vertue by which an honest shamefastnesse getteth an honourable and durable estimation There are againe three formes of Temperance Sobrietie Abstinence Modestie The first consisteth in tast which Sobrietie moderateth The second consisteth in touching wherein Abstinence and Chastitie put a meane The third consisteth in words and deeds But a deede as it is heere taken doth appertaine to three sences about their propper matters Seeing Hearing Smelling This deede pertaineth also to touching not onely in things vsing the act of generation but also pertaineth to others whose instruments are hands to smite and take and feete to walke In all these Modestie setteth downe a meane The dignitie of Temperance is seene in these two things 1. First it preserueth Nature because Nature is delighted in meane things and through extreames is corrupted Keepe a meane if thou wilt not loose the end Blessed men haue kept a meane saith Bernard 2. It adorneth the minde For as in Natures the forme is more comely than the matter so also in manners the manner is more commended than the action it selfe Whence commeth that olde common saying We merit not by Verbes but by Aduerbes that is to say not in that we speake or doe any thing but in that we speake well or doe well It is manifest by an example in that Widow who offering two mites is more commended by our Lord then they who cast in great gifts into the Treasury Temprance is compared vnto the Sunne which is the midst of the Planets and most glorious amongst them all Socrates said that a temperate habite of the minde and contented with it owne was like a short and pleasant life Fo● hath much peace and little labour Of Iustice Now time requireth that we enter into the holy closets of Polliticke Iustice whose propertie is to keepe to euery 〈◊〉 his owne where also a respect of a iust and honest fact is busied with a religious obseruation and nothing is termed p 〈…〉 fitable which may seeme dishonest Iustice of a pure mind is so to be with that high mind that it keepeth with it a perpetuall league by imitation It is a propertie of Exemplar Iustice by an euer during Lawe not to be turned from the perpetuall continuation of worke There are six parts of Iustice 1. Religion 2. Pietie 3. Thankes 4. Reuenge 5. Obeysance 6. Truth To these mercy seemeth to be fitly ioyned being a vertue most accepta 〈…〉 to God which will not onely pittie but also succour the aduersiti 〈…〉 another 1. Religion is a vertue of a certaine superiour nature which men call diuine and bringeth with it care and ceremony 2. Pietie is when dutie and diligent reuerence is giuen to them who are linked to vs in blood and good will 3. Thankes is that wherein are contained the remembrance and desire of requiting the amitie and offices of another 4. Reuenge is a vertue whereby violence and iniurie and euery obscure thing is repelled by defending and reuenging 5. Obeysance is a vertue whereby men excelling in some worthinesse are vouchsafed with some reuerence and hono 〈…〉 6. Veritie is a vertue whereby those things are said to be changed which haue beene are or shall be hereafter Heere is to be noted that Iustice is not so much a speciall vertue as a generall as is abouesaid in the Cardinall 〈…〉 tues But Iustice may be peruerted three wayes 1. Through loue of the person or of money Isa 5. Woe to you who iustifie the vngodly for a reward 2. Through feare Mat. 10. Feare not them who kill the body c. 3. Through enuie Marke 15. Knowing that for enuy they had betrayed him Many things draw vs to Iustice that is to say The Scripture Eccles 4. Euen vnto death striue for Iustice Our naturall inclination Augustine Naturally Iustice is in the heart of man Also brute beasts admonish vs to Iustice by their agreement and innocencie There are many effects and blessings of Iustice Mat. 5. Blessed are they who hunger and thirst after Iustice ●et 3. Blessed are ye if you suffer any thing for Iustice ●ccle 4. Who worketh Iustice shall be exalted and is blessed ●r●● 10. Iustice deliuereth from eternall death It rewardeth Psal 17. My lord will reward me according to my Iustice It crowneth Tim. 2. The crowne of Iustice is laide vp for me To conclude Iustice is called the vpholder of the Common-wealth the life and Queene of all vertues The Sunne is most pleasant to them who can behold it so also is a Prince to them who loue Iustice