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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	darkness_n	light_n	shadow_n	7,372	5	9.4624	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A29240	Times treasury, or, Academy for gentry laying downe excellent grounds, both divine and humane, in relation to sexes of both kindes : for their accomplishment in arguments of discourse, habit, fashion and happy progresse in their spirituall conversation : revised, corrected and inlarged with A ladies love-lecture : and a supplement entituled The turtles triumph : summing up all in an exquisite Character of honour / by R. Brathwait, Esq.	Brathwaite, Richard, 1588?-1673.	1652 (1652)	Wing B4276; ESTC R28531	608,024	537

ever living never dying yea that worme which gnaweth and dieth not that fire which burneth and quencheth not that death which rageth and endeth not But if punishments will not deterre us at least let rewards allure us The faithfull cry ever for the approach of Gods judgement the reward of immortality which with assurance in Gods mercy and his Sonnes Passion they undoubtedly hope to obtaine with vehemency of spirit inviting their Mediator Come Lord Iesus come quickly Such is the confidence or spirituall assurance which every faithfull soule hath in him to whose expresse Image as they were formed so in all obedience are they conformed that the promises of the Gospell might be on them conferred and confirmed Such as these care not so much for possessing ought in the world as they take care to lay a good foundation against the day of triall which may stand firme against the fury of all temptation These see nothing in the world worthy their feare This only say they is a fearefull thing to feare any thing more than God These see nought in the world worthy either their desire or feare and their reason is this There is nothing able to move that man to feare in all the world who hath God for his guardian in the world Neither is it possible that he should feare the losse of any thing in the world who cannot see any thing worthy having in the world So equally affected are these towards the world as there is nothing in all the world that may any way divide their affection from him who made the world Therefore may we well conclude touching these that their Light shall never goe out For these walke not in darknesse nor in the shadow of death as those to whom the light hath not as yet appeared for the Light hath appeared in Darkeness giving light all the night long to all these faithfull beleevers during their abode in these Houses of Clay Now to expresse the Nature of that Light though it farre exceed all humane apprehension much more all expression Clemens understandeth by that Light which the Wise-woman to wit Christs spouse kept by meanes of her candle which gave light all the night long the heart and he calleth the Meditations of holy men Candles that never goe out Saint Augustine writeth among the Pagans in the Temple of Venus there was a Candle which was called Inextinguishable whether this be or no of Venus Temple wee leave it to the credit of antiquity onely Augustines report we have for it but without doubt in every faithfull hearer and keeper of the Word who is the Temple of the Holy Ghost there is a Candle or Light that never goes out Whence it appeares that the heart of every faithfull soule is that Light which ever shineth and his faith that virgin Oile which ever feedeth and his Conscience that comfortable Witness which assureth and his devoted Zeale to Gods house that Seale which confirmeth him to be one of Gods chosen because a living faith worketh in him which assures him of life howsoever his outward man the temple of his body become subject to death Excellently saith Saint Augustine Whence comes it that the soule dieth because faith is not in it Whence that the body dieth because a soule is not in it Therefore the soule of thy soule is faith But forasmuch as nothing is so carefully to be sought for nor so earnestly to be wrought for as purity or uprightnesse of the heart for seeing there is no action no studie which hath not his certaine scope end or period yea no Art but laboureth by some certaine meanes or exercises to attaine some certain proposed end which end surely is to the Soule at first proposed but the last which is obtained how much more ought there to bee some end proposed to our studies as well in the exercises of our bodies as in the readings meditations and mortifications of our mindes passing over corporall and externall labours for which end those studies or exercises were at first undertaken For let us thinke with our selves if we knew not or in mind before conceived not whither or to what especiall place wee were to run were it not a vaine taske for us to undertake to runne Even so to every Action are wee to propose his certaine end which being once attained we shall need no further striving towards it being at rest in our selves by attaining it And like end are wee to propose to our selves in the exercise of Moderation making it a subduer of all things which sight against the spirit which may bee properly reduced to the practising of these foure overcomming of anger by the spirit of patience wantonness by the spirit of continence pride by the spirit of humility and in all things unto him whose Image we partake so neerely conformed that like good Proficients wee may truly say with the blessed Apostle Wee have in all things learned to be contented For the first to wit Anger as there is no passion which makes man more forgetfull of himselfe so to subdue it makes man an absolute enjoyer of himselfe Athenodorus a wise Philosopher departing from Augustus Caesar and bidding him farewell left this lesson with him most worthy to be imprinted in an Emperours brest That when hee was angry hee should repeat the foure and twenty Greeke letters Which lesson received Caesar as a most precious jewell making such use thereof as hee shewed himselfe no lesse a Prince in the conquest of this passion than in his magnificence of state and majesty of person No lesse praise-worthy was that excellent soveraignty which Architas had over this violent and commanding passion as we have formerly observed who finding his servants loitering in the field or committing some other fault worthy reproofe like a worthy master thought it fit first to over-master himselfe before he would show the authority of a Master to his servants wherefore perceiving himselfe to be greatly moved at their neglect as a wise Moderator of his passion hee would not beat them in his ire but said Happy are ye that I am angry with you In briefe because my purpose is onely to touch these rather than treat of them having so amply discoursed of some of them formerly as the Sunne is not to goe downe upon our wrath so in remembrance of that sonne of righteousness let us bury all wrath so shall we be freed from the viols of wrath and appeare blamelesse in the day of wrath For in peace shall we descend to our graves without sighing if in peace we be angry without sinning Secondly wantonness being so familiar a Darling with the flesh is ever waging warre with the spirit she comes with powdred haire painted cheeks straying eyes mincing and measuring her pace tinkling with her feet and using all immodesty to lure the unwarie youth to all sensuality These light professors as St. Ierome to Marcella

encounter with some of these Complete Amorists who will make a set speech to your Glove and sweeten every period with the perfume of it Others will hold it an extraordinary grace to become Porters of your Misset or holders of your Fanne while you pinne on your Maske Service Observance Devotion be the Generall heads of their Complement Other Doctrine they have none either to instruct morally or informe politically Beleeve it Gentlewomen they are ill-spent houres that are bestowed in conference with these Braine-wormes Their frivolous discourse will exact from you some answer which if you shape justly to their dialect there will bee more vaine wind spent than you can redeeme with many teares Let no conceit transport you above your selves hold it for no Complement worthy your breeding to trifle time in love-toyes They detract both from discretion and modesty and oft-times endanger the ruine of the latter fearefully This kinde of Complement with great ones were but meere Canting among Beggars Hee or shee are the Completest who in arguments of discourse and action are discreetest Full vessels give the least sound Such as hold Complement the sole subject of a glib tongue active cringe or artfull smile are those onely Mimicks or Buffouns of our age whose Behaviours deserve farre more derision than applause Thus you have heard how Complement may bee corrupted wee now purpose with as much propriety and brevity as wee may to shew you how it may bee refined To the end that what is in its owne nature so commendable may bee entertained with freedome of choyce and reteined without purpose to change THe Vnicornes horne being dipt in water cleares and purifies it It is the honour of the Physician to restore nature after it bee decayed It is the sole worke of that supreme Architect to bring light out of darkenesse that what was darke might bee enlightened life out of death that what was dead might bee enlivened way out of error that the erring might bee directed knowledge out of ignorance that the ignorant might bee instructed a salve out of sinne that sinnes sore might bee cured comfort out of affliction that the afflicted might bee comforted hope out of despaire that the desperate might bee succoured a raising from falling that their fall might bee recovered strength out of weaknesse that his great worke might bee glorified Gold thrice tryed becomes the purer and more refined And Complement the most when it is best accommodated True it is that Society is either a Plague or a Perfume It infects where Consorts are ill-affected but workes excellent effects where vertuous Consorts are assembled It is the sweetest note that one can sing When Grace in Vertues key tunes Natures string Where two meeke men meet together their conference saith mellifluous Bernard is sweet and delectable where one man is meeke it is profitable where neither it proves pernicious and uncomfortable It is Society that gives us or takes from us our Security Let me apply this unto you Gentlewomen whose vertuous dispositions so sweetly hath nature grac'd you promise nothing lesse than fervorous desires of being good Would you have that refined in you which others corrupt by inverting the meanes Or expresse that in her native Colours which will beautifie you more than any artificiall or adulterate colours whose painted Varnish is no sooner made than melted Make choyce of such for your Consorts whose choyce may admit no change Let no Company bee affected by you which may hazard infecting of you The World is growne a very Pest-house timely prevention must bee used before the infection have entred You have no such soveraigne receits to repell as you have to prevent The infection of vice leaves a deeper spot or speckle on the mind than any desease doth on the body The Blackmoore may sooner change his skin the Leopard his spots than a soule deepe dyed in the graine of infection can put off her habituate corruption Bee it then your principall care to make choyce of such bashfull Maids modest Matrons or reverend Widdowes as hold it their best Complement to retaine the opinion of being Continent Infamy hath wings as swift as fame Shunne the occasion lest you undergoe the brand Posthuma because given to laughter and something forward to talke with men was suspected of her honesty where being openly accused shee was acquitted by Spurius Minutius with this caveat to use words sutable to her life Civility trust me is the best and most refined Complement that may bee Courting in publike places and upon first sight it affects not for it partakes more of impudent than Complete Bee it of the City that argument of discourse bee ministred it can talke freely of it without mincing or of the Court it can addresse it selfe to that garbe in apt words without minting or of the Countrey in an home-spun phrase it can expresse whatsoever in the Countrey deserves most prayse And all this in such a proper and familiar manner as such who are tied to Complement may aspire to it but never attaine it Hee that hath once tasted of the fountaine Clitorius will never afterward drinke any wine Surely howsoever this civill and familiar forme of dialect may seeme but as pure running water in comparison of Complement which like Nectar streames out in Conduits of delight to the humorous hearer yet our discreet Complementer preferres the pure fountaine before the troubled river It is true that many fashions which even these later times have introduc'd deserve free admittance yea there is some thing yet in our Oare that may be refined Yet in the acceptance of these you are not to entertaine whatsoever these finer times have brought forth Where variety is affected and the age to inconstancy subjected so as nothing but what is rare and new becomes esteemed Either must our inventions bee present and pregnant our surveyes of forraine places serious and sollicitant or wee shall fall into decay of fashion or make old ones new and so by antiquity gull our Nation Truth is though our tongues hands bodies and legges bee the same our Elocution action gesture and posture are not the same Should the soule of Troilus according to that erroneous transmigration of Pythagoras passe into the body of one of our English Courtiers or Hortensius who was an Orator active enough into one of our English Lawyers or Antigone who was Complementall enough into one of our English Curtezans they would finde strange Cottages to dwell in What is now held Complete a few yeares will bury in disgrace Nothing then so refined if on earth seated which time will not raze or more curious conceits dis-esteeme or that universall reduction to nothing dissolve That Complement may seeme pleasing such a fashion generally affecting such a dressing most Complete yet are all these within short space covered with contempt What you observe then to be most civill in others affect it such an habit needs not to bee refined which cannot be bettered Fashion is