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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	die_v	life_n	son_n	7,972	5	5.0682	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A19906	Yehovah summa totalis or, All in all, and, the same for euer: or, an addition to Mirum in modum. / By the first author, Iohn Dauies.	Davies, John, 1565?-1618.; Davies, John, 1565?-1618. Mirum in modum.	1607 (1607)	STC 6337; ESTC S109347	39,757	86

Accident But that 's an Essence which is really That which it is in its kind remanent As by our humane nature's euident In Soule and Body Man is said to Bee But in his nature is his Essence pent But yet this Compound neuer can agree Though nere so subtle with Simplicity And though that This and That do seeme to show A mixture in the Things wherein they are Yet in this simple Essence t is not so Though This and That same person stil be there For al three persons but one Substance share If so then though the Persons diuers be Their Essence is as pure as it is rare As in the Sunne a Beame wee likewise see Yet both make but one light essentially Yet Sunne and Beame are diuerse sith they do In their subsisting differ really For both subsist then both must needs be two Yet differ nothing but respectiuely As do the Persons of the Trinity Then by subsisting in a diuerse kind The Persons differ in the Diety Which three In-beeings in one single Mind One simple Substance doth together bind Now sets the Sunne that lights our pen to write Then with him Muse set downe thy weary Pen And in the Sunne that lights thee to indite More Wonders marke till th' other rise agen And then with care divulge the same to Men. These Steepes haue made thy trauell hard to day That thou mayst hold out thy flight fauour then For nought they do that more do then they may Then Wit must rest when Wisedome bids it stay NOw Heaue'ns bright Eye awake by Vespers sheene Peepes through the purple windowes of the East While Night doth sinke beneath the Earth vnseene Fearing with lightnes to be sore opprest Then vp my wakefull Muse to worke for Rest. Thou shalt not soundly sleepe till thou hast view'd Thy iournies end wherein who ends are blest Then let thy course be zealously pursu'd To find the rest of true Beatitude Which is Eternall and alone is so Without Beginning and can haue none End Which hath nor First nor Last for that doth grow From First to Last so rise and then descend But this doth no such Motion comprehend For that 's Eternall that not onely Is But still is such and doth not paire or mend Then must he needs be First and Last by this Because Eternall is that state of his Our Mynd alone confusedly conceiues Th' unbounded compasse of ETERNITY It 's past conceit sith Notion none it giues Being as free from mutability As from beginning end or quantity It euer Was that was e're Time had roome To stirre it selfe by Heau'ns propulsity To which there is nought past nor ought to come But all is present in her boundlesse Wombe Our Soules and Angels are eternall too But their eternity with Time was made As were the Places where reside they do Which both Beginning and Succession had So seeme to vanish though they cannot fade But these created were Eternities Which Time from time to time stil forwards ladd And though Eternall yet Were otherwise But GODS Was euer Is and neuer dies He is the Author of Eternity Then was before it else it could not be He was before that made Eternally So is eternall in the highest degree Yet not the Author of his owne is he His owne Eternity and He are one Sith that 's himselfe that is his Property So could not be his owne creation And so vnmade eternal is alone Angels and Soules though they eternall be Yet either may by nature haue an end That of an Act consist and Potency Which Compound doth to disolution tend Did it not on Gods simple POVVRE depend The Compound is the Cause that so it may For nought is rent without a Cause it rend But there can be no Cause of his decay Who is the chiefest Cause and his owne Stay And by that Stay vn constant Man he staies From a relapse to nothing which he was Yet falling finally he still decaies But nere determines for he still doth passe From ought to nought yet nought is ne'rethelasse For as was said Man is eternall made Though heere he flourisheth and fades like Grasse Yet shall he rise againe and neuer fade To Ioy or Wo as he is Good or Bad. What! shall he liue in wo Eternally If heere he liue and die in gracelesse state So for a short bad life for euer die Or liue in death life still t'excruciate This seemes all Mercy quite to ruinate For all neede Grace sith seuen times sins the best Ere once the Sunne his Round perambulate But seuenty seauen times do the worst at least Then if Grace faile none die to liue in rest If for an hundred yeares offending here For that 's the longest date of our liues lease Millions of Ages we were plagued there with paines past paine yet that in time should cease And we for That in mercy haue release So Iustice might with Mercy sympathize But for a short time of our crimes increase Euer to liue in death that neuer dyes Ah! this makes Iustice seeme to tyrranize But stay fraile flesh and bloud here Truthes reply Thou speak'st thus much as prompted by the Fiend But Truth this Iustice well may iustifie For had'st thou liu'd stil stil thou would'st haue syn'd And to thy passions euermore beene pynn'd Then sith thou sinn'st in thine eternity It 's iust thou should'st in Gods in Hell be Inn'd For he the Will for Deede takes commonly As well when it wills well as wickedly And synne's gain'st Goodnesse most-most infinite Are made most infinite in ill thereby Then no proportion hold paines definite To scourge the ill that hath infinity Which must be punish't in eternity Then O! what life ought mortall Men to lead That leads to endlesse blisse or misery Then liue w'in Hell for Heau'n as did our Head Not liue in Heau'n for Hell when we be dead O how it ought to make flesh freeze with feare Or flame in all deuotion of the Sp'rite Sith the Word EVER euer doth appeare So bottomlesse in length so infinite Euer in vtter darkenesse neuer light Ah! this is it that 's able to dissolue Both Soule and Body with eternall fright And yet to sinne some euer do resolue And EVER neuer in their thoughts reuolue Euer to dye and neuer to be dead Euer to Bee and neuer be at rest Euer in fire yet neuer minished Which EVER Patience neuer can digest Sith it 's most bad when it is at the best If euer we did thinke aright of this This Fire would neuer cease to moue at least And if we be not mou'd with endlesse Blisse Such paines will moue aright or most amisse Then fleshly wisedome no let can be more To let this motion stay a Spirit vnstaid For that Egeriaes doctrine deemes this lore And thinkes all holy fraud which Truth hath said That Lawes may so the better be obaid This wisedomes Eyes are dull yet sharply see To go past

Truth for Errours greater ayde For like old Eyes at hand they blinded be But farre off falsely graunds each quantity After this wisedome comes presumption After Presumption blindnesse of the mind And after all these foule Affection Then Custome comes insensibly behind And makes these ils vnfelt with craft vnkind So haue the lewd no feeling of offence Their pow'r of feeling Custome so doth bind Thus fleshly wisedome is the Roote from whence Spring greatest Synnes withall impenitenee These thrust out Reason of her Signiorie The Braines where erst she sate in Siluer Throne Ruling with Scepter of pure Iuory That is Commaunding nought but Right alone For right is cleare from all corruption Vpon which Scepters Top an Eagle's fixt To note that Reason bee'ng her Wings vpon Transcends the Spheares to see the world vnmixt With Eyes that see the subtill'st parts betwixt If Reason then retaine her Pow'r and Place Shee doth aright informe the Intellect VVhich counsels well the Will in eu'ry case That it commaunds the Members with effect To do as she by Reason doth direct So wild Affections truely tamed be For by the Raigne of Reason they are checkt Then the Minds Kingdome is as fast as free Being a VVorld of all Felicity Yet when all Vice is brought in Vertues Bounds Ah! see how Man is here still millitant Hydra-like hath strēgth from her own wounds So growing an vnconquered Combatant Doth make the Soule with endlesse strife to pant Vnlesse she seares Prides euer-springing Heads With the hot Iron of the Law to dant Her haughty hart which with that Sharpnesse bleeds For she is conquer'd by her owne misdeeds Thus when we haue subdued eu'ry Synne The Conquest doth beget sinne to subdew So lose we more by how much more we wyn To gaine which losse we must the Fight renew Or else lose all that should to vs acrue For not a moment may we cease to fight Lest mortall Sinne to death should vs pursue Sith Hydra-headed Synne gets greatest might When we haue brought her to the weakest plight Shee 's strongest to destroy when we suppose We haue destroy'd her by our hardynesse So worst we fall by her worst Ouerthrowes Because we glory in our great successe So make it not so much or nothing lesse O Synne damn'd Nothing that dost all things dam'n Which thou dost touch where lies thy mightinesse If in thy Head our Head hath bruz'd the same Yet liu'st thou in his spight who thee or'came If maugre him thou liu'st that 's Lord of Might Whose onely frowne can Hell it selfe confound How shall we froth of Frailty foyle thee quite Who art more whole the more we thee do wound And mak'st vs sore by making thee vnsound O help vs Weaklings Lord of Hoasts to fight Else we to Nothing must be captiue-bound For Nothing Synne doth nothing day and Night But make vs worse then Nothing by her spight The Fount of Goodnesse goodnesse makes to flow from out the worst of Ils which we fulfill For he thereby makes vs our selues to know And humbles vs in goodnesse by that Ill So thereby betters both our Works and will But the curst Cause of all impiety Out of our Best the Worst extracteth still VVho drawes high'st Pride from low'st Humilitie So drawes most ill from Ills most contrary Thus from the high'st intire ETERNITY Our Muse hath stoopt vnto the low'st Ills Thereby to show their inequality Yet each is such as fils yea ouerfils The Soule with weale or wo so saues or spils But Phoebus Horses now their swift Careere Haue staid for this day on the highest Hils And fal'n to rest beneath our Hemyspheare Therefore with them tir'd Muse thy toile forbeare LO how Apollos Pegasses prepare To rend the ring-hedge of our Horizon Be ready Muse sith they so ready are To flee with them in such proportion That both may moue by heau'nly motion And yet their Mouer moues not but doth rest In restful-restlesse perfect Action By which the worst still fals out for the best For him and them that by him still are blest He changeth not that truely euer Is Sith what Is truely cannot changed be For what is sometimes That and sometimes This Is mixt of Simples which do disagree But he is simply selfe Simplicîty Then That Is not that is not simply so Sith in an Instant It from Is doth flee And as the restlesse Seas do ebbe and flow So that twixt Was and Is doth come and go But hee 's ne're mou'd and so can neuer change For what should moue him in whom all do moue He fils each Place then can he neuer range And so is fixt all Time and Place aboue So still I AM he doth himselfe approue I AM that Is which is That which He is Euer the same as firme in hate as loue Who could not be immortall but for This For who doth change dies throgh that change of his Each Essence changeable is said to die To what it Was when it Is otherwise So may mans Soule in immortality Be said to dy when it from Vertue flies And liue aright when it to Vices dies So may immortall Spirits Augelicall Dy through such change and tumble from the skies As some haue done and so no doubt may all But that a Pow'r still fixt preuents their fall For what may sin may die and die they must That sin if Grace do not their death preuent If any Creature cannot be vniust That Iustice is not his it is but lent Onely the Lender's iust of his owne bent Who by no change can possibly offend And much lesse dy for Hee 's still permanent The Fount of Grace and Life on whom depend Al Changes sith hee 's changelesse without end But if he might be chang'd it needs must be By actiue pow'r of some himselfe without Or by himselfe through passiue Potency But nought can euer bring this change about For nought's more strong then Pow'r most absolute Nor can a simple Act be passiue so It puts the question clearely out of doubt That neither can another Agent no Nor he himselfe himselfe change too and fro For that is chang'd that not remaines the same But hee 's the same he was and euer is And That stil Is that neuer alters frame But such alone is that firme state of his That changeth all yet changeth not by this Hee 's Glories Sunne whose Shade is constant sight Then can no Shade of change eclipse his Blisse In whom's no darknes for he blinds the sight Of bright-Ey'd Angels with his glory bright Though he assum'd our Shape so seem'd to change Sith what he is he was not yet the same He was he is and though the case be strange Yet is it true in nature though his Name Be doubl'd by his confixt double Frame He came to take our Nature to his owne Yet ours into his nature neuer came But ours from His by eithers Acts is knowne Then by that

lesse be'got Sith it 's lesse then Priuation in degree Though He of Nought made all Things perfectly Yet could he cause that Christ Is not and Is Then could he cause Nought Men should instifie Which were repugnant to that Truth of his That flat affirmes Christ cheefely worketh This. His Povv'r to two Things He hath fastned then That is to Nature still for Orders sake And to his WORD for his Words sake to Men That so they might his VVord the rather take VVho can aswell himselfe as it forsake yet NATVRES Bounds his Pow'r doth oft trāscend VVhen it works Miracles Men good to make But past his VVORD it neuer can extend Sith it is That which neuer can haue end So then he can do whatsoere he will But yet he will not do what ere he can For he could melt the Heau'ns the Earth to spill But will not nor destroy the righteous Man Though all the VVorld a Deluge ouer ran He will not do so sith he will not so The reason of his Will his Will doth scan But he that would the same yet further kno Looke in his VVord but no step further go He can do nought but what is good and iust And though that all he doth be simply so yet doth it not ensue that needs he must Do what he doth and likewise do no mo Lest he his Grace and Iustice should forgo No if he would do more or otherwise All should be good and iust which he should do For hee 's the fount of GOOGDNES whence doth Pow'r infinite all good to exercise rise But some affirme that he can do no mo But what he did foresee he should performe By his Pow'r actuall the same is so But his Pow'r Absolute can that reforme And make much more in much more better forme So though he through his Purpose did foresee VVhat he would do yet did himselfe informe That he could do much more then now can Be Because his Purpose is as fast as free But he saw all he made was perfect good Then could they not by nature better be He must haue chang'd their Essence with their mood If he had made them better in degree Sith in their kinds he Them did perfect see No Pow'r can multiply a Numbers Store But it must change the Number really So Man as he was made his Fall before VVas good if better then a Man no more VVe meane as he was good essentially For accidentally no doubt he might Haue bin complish't much more perfectly VVith neither Will nor Povv'r to do vnright And haue continued in that perfect plight yet as Immortall Saints are Men no more Then we so we though made more exquisite Should be but Men as we were made before For Fooles are Men aswell as Isidore But O! had he so pleas'd t' haue made Man staid Man had beene staidly-blest till his remoue For hence at last he should haue beene conuai'd To stay for euer Motion farre aboue But how remou'd God knowes I cannot proue Assumpted some suppose but howsoe're It should haue bin as best should Man behoue The Way could not haue bin throgh Death or Fear For Sinne made Them els they had bin no where But why he made Man to His constant Forme yet made him changeable so most vnlike And why his Sonne endur'd his Anger 's Storme Sith so Man chan'gd I am heerein to seeke But sure I am for It Hee Him did strike Could He resolue before he gaue the VVound with his owne Paines past Paines to heale the Sicke when with more ease he might haue keptthem sound He did and what he doth hath perfect ground Though he were GOD yet suffe'rd he in Flesh Such Agonies as made that Flesh to sweat Both Blood and Water which came streaming fresh From all his Parts to coole his Anger 's heat As he was God which is as hot as great Nay it was such that though true GOD he were yet that the Cup might passe he did intreat So much he did ensuing Torments feare which he came to sustaine yet fear'd to beare His Glory was the Marke whereat did ayme The Shame and Torments which he did sustaine yet why sith he all glory wel might claime As his owne Right without so strange a Straine As to endure for Glory shamefull paine But O! the depth of al Profundity His Iudgements ô who can attaine To know his Councels ful of mistery Not one not God as Man then much lesse I It was his suffrance and it was his will That man made stailesse so should fall and rise So he permitted not desired ill Or if he Ill desir'd t' was Good precise For ill he cannot will that 's onely wise Damnation's ill but in respect of vs But in regard of him quite otherwise Then if he will'd it it were righteous which makes as well as Grace him glorious Mans Free-vvill was the Cause of all the ill Beneath the Sunne which God did well fore-see yet sith Mans dignity requir'd Free-vvil No Man without it could his Essence be Much lesse with Gods Forme could his Form agree For by his Free-vvil and Intelligence He is the Image of the Diety And hauing ouer All preheminence T was fit he should command his Will and Sence And though the Diuine vvisedome did foresee He would abuse Free-vvil to his decay yet with that VVisedome it doth well agree To let him on his owne Supporters stay To stand vpright or downeright fall away That so Gods Grace and Iustice might appeare which due Revvards and Punishments bewray Both which as vselesse quite extinguisht were If Man from his foule Fall had stil bin cleare He knevv that through temptation Man would sinne yet made him apt in foulest sinne to slide Sith he fore-saw the good that Ill within Made for his greater Glory sith he dide That Man then dead might still in life abide Deeming it better ill should still consist That he through it might more be glorifi'de By doing highest Good for Euill high'st Then that there should no Ill at all exist yet he gaue Man not onely freest Will But with it Reason and Intelligence To choose the Good and to reiect the Ill Sith he had heard t' would wound his Conscience And Diuine Instice mightily incense So had he Meanes the force of Ill to foile Had he but vs'd them with ful confidence But willingly he fel before the Broile So freely did though charg'd to fight recoile yet was he framed so that if he had On God relide as he both might and should He had o'recome in fight but being mad With Diulish pride fell as the Deuill would Sith willingly of God he loost his hold That man might see God could not be distrest For want of him or what performe he could He made him free to serue whom he likt best So Sinne he seru'd at his Freewils request But yet the good which we by Sinne