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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	word_n	world_n	worthy_a	171	3	6.1523	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A17282	The practice of meditating with profit The misteries of our Lord, the Blessed Vergin & saints. Gathered out of diuers good authors, and published by the very Reuerend Master Iohn Alberto Buronzo, chanon of the cathedral church of Verselles. Reuiued and augmented by the same author, & translated into English by a Father of the Societie of Iesus.	Berzetti, Nicolas.; Talbot, Thomas, 1572-1652.	1613 (1613)	STC 4125; ESTC S104826	77,217	308

to the world by mortification and pennāce Thirdly to continue the comparison of a true allegory vnderstanding in that manner all the martyrs which Christ foresaw and by those words foretould who by offering themselues to torments and death should for theyr owne part and to theyr owne behoefe yeald plentifull merit to others worthy examples of inuincible courage and fruites of exceeding charity towards almighty God Fourhtly Anagogically all the happy soules that in this world haue beene beaten by tribulation sent from God like corne to be afterward translated to that celestiall habitation with multiplyed gayne of eternall glory Now yf he will propose for the subiect of his meditation that parable spoken by Christ Simile est regunm caelorum homine negotiatori quaerenti bonas margaritas inuenta aute vna pretiosa murgarita abilt vendidit omnia quae habuit emit eam The King-dome of heauē ys like to a merchant seeking good pearles and hauing found one pretious pearl he vvent and sold all that he had and bought yt he shall vnderstand in the literall and historicall sense the vvords as they sound for that vvhich happeneth vnto Ievvellers vvho vvith all diligence seeke after pearles for that they knovv theyr value hauing found one to theyr mynds they sell all that they haue to buy yt In tropologicall sēse for that vvhich passeth vvith spirituall persōs vvho knovving vvhere they may get grace and vertue cease not to imploy all theyr thoughts and labour vntill they attayn to be able to gayne yt In the allegoricall sense for that vvhich vve see verefyed in the infidells vvho illuminated by God to knovv the value and great vvorth of faith and the excellency of the holy church leaue what soeuer they haue to be admitted into the number of true beleeuers finally in the anagogicall sese for that which passeth with one who hath knowledg of the heauenly glory prepared for the vertuous who aduentures his goods honour yea and life yt self to obtayne yt Affections to be raised in Meditation NOvv for that the discourse vppō the things aforesaid may not only be the foode of the vnderstanding he that will meditate fruitfully must after some discourse made about some one thing stirr vp in his soul some affect correspondent vnto the matter meditated and dilating and confirming yt so long fixe himself therein as yt shall please God to mayntayn yt And although the affects be many and various and therefore yt cannot be determined alwayes to which one must attend especially they depending for the most part vppon the assistance of the holy ghost the best master in prayer yet notwithstanding those vnto which the persons who attend to the purgatiue way must especially haue regard be these that follow First a great greefe with shame and confusion for his synnes committed by negligence and coldnes in Gods seruice by carlesnes and faintnes in seeking after perfection c. Secondly a holy feare of offending almighty God of loosing his grace of being faulty in his duty in not answering to the voices and inspirations of God of his being lyable to great punishmēt for his synnes past or at least for his present imperfections or els for his litle care to profit himself in the way of perfection Thirdly a great inward hatred of the synne of tepidity negligence of earthly things which seperat a man farr from God as also of himself and his own interest Fourthly a great desyre of mortification of the body of the senses of the passions and of the desyre of honour to subiect himself to all to esteeme himself and to be esteemed of others the most vile of all For those which are in the illuminatiue way these following wil be sittest First a feruent loue to all vertues 2. A great desyre to attayne thē Thirdly an inflamed desyre to know the person and the most diuine actiōs of the sonne of God incarnat and to imitate the same as much as may be Fourthly a firme hope to please God with his diuine grace to attayn to perfection to perseuer in the good commenced and in his vocation receaued from God to free himself from all imperfection and defect and to obtayn at lenght eternall blessednes Fiftly a pious sorrow and compassion for those indignityes which the sonne of God suffered for his sake for the blindnes of other his neighbours who offend his diuine maiesty in so many things And for him who attends to the vnitiue way First an excessiue loue of God Secondly a spirituall ioy and gladnes of the insinit riches perfections of his diuine maiesty of the honour he receaueth from the good of the knowledg which to his faithfull seruants he imparteth of himself Thirdly a great contentmēt for the glory and happines of Christ risen from death and receaued in heauen with great festiuity and maiesty for the signes shewed to men of his charity and for so great and manifould benefits communicated to his friends c. Fourthly a vehement desyre that the name of God be sanctifyed that he may raygne ouer all soules without contradiction that his holy will be done in earth as yt ys in heauen and other like which the vnction of the holy ghost will teach him so that he dispose himself with a great desyre and necessary humility to the receiuing of them Yet notwithstanding he must not leaue to vse his diligence to stirr vp some of the aboue named affects and others the like and to dilate them the most he can aswell for the greater ioy and comfort of his soul as also for more copious fruit ordeyned to operation for the honour glory of God almighty Certayn motyues to be proposed to the will for the more facill embracing of that which ys good HE shall therefore stirr vp these affections by propounding vnto the will those motiues whereby yt ys apt to be moued which motiues are wont to be various according to the variety of the things which doe moue the mind eyther to embrace them or abhorr them But speaking in generall they may be reduced to these heads following that ys to say when the light of the vnderstanding doth conclude that such a vertue ys to be imbraced or such a point of perfection ys to be practised yt must withall propound vnto the will First the beauty of the same vertue shewing that yt deserueth euen for yt self to be imbraced Secondly the necessity he hath of yt that he may thereby be the more answerable to his estate or that he may attayne true peace and quiet of mind or to put himself in perfect state towards soluation c. Thirdly the vtility he shall reape eyther towards his owne perfection or that of his neighbours or for the gayning of grace and other heauenly gifts in this life or for the increase of his glory in the life to come Fourthly the spirituall delight he shall feele in imbracing and practising the same vertue which also sometymes doth