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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
enemy_n	love_n	love_v	neighbour_n	3,555	5	9.3021	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A22030	A looking glasse for England VVherein those enormities and foule abuses may most euidentlie be seene, which are the destruction and ouerthrow of euery Christian common-wealth. Likewise, the onely meanes howe to preuent such daungers: by imitating the wholsome aduertisements contayned in thys booke. VVhich sometime was the iewell and delight of the right honourable Lorde and father to his countrey, Fraunces Earle of Bedforde, deceassed.; De duodecim abusivis. English.	Lesse, Nicholas.; Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo, attributed name.; Cyprian, Saint, Bishop of Carthage, attributed name.	1590 (1590)	STC 84.5; ESTC S118999	17,805	50

when we euidently behold that the landes and substaunce of a rich man doo declare him to be without witte and iudgment because he loueth those things with the desire of his whole hart which neuer doo render him loue againe For if a man loue gold siluer lands dainty fare fine meates and brute beastes the naturall course of things doo teache vs that none of these can yeeld him loue againe What thing is then further from al reason then to loue that which cannot loue thee againe and to neglect that which giueth to thée all thinges with loue For that cause God commaunded vs to loue not the worlde but our neighbour sith that he can render loue againe for loue which thing worldly goods cannot doo it is well knowne Euen so GOD commaundeth vs to loue our enemy that the same loue may make him of our enemie our freende Let euery couetous rich man therefore who would haue euerlasting riches distribute while he is heere to the poore and needie those riches which are but temporall and doo not continue for euer For if a man will not sell the thing which he loueth how can another man bye that thing which hee coueteth Couetous men are called curssed of GOD. and therefore the couetous men are called curssed of the most righteous Iudge because they which past by them did not say vnto thē The blessing of God be vpon you and we doe blesse you in the name of God Therfore the couetous men are cursed vnhappy who for transitory goods doe goe to euerlasting damnation But on the other side Math. 5.7 Blessed are the pittifull for they shall finde mercie and pittie In deedes of charitie the wil is taken for the deede where the power is not to shew the deede Happie is that man that is mercifull for so much as God in this vertue doth not looke vppon the substaunce and riches but vppon the affection and hart of man The fift abuse A woman without shamefastnesse Cap. 5. PRoceeding to the fift notorious kind of abuse I finde it to be a Woman without modestie or shamefastnes For euen as wisedome doth bothe gette and keepe good manners in men so in Women shamefastnes dooth bring foorth nourish and keepe all honest and good works The effects of shamefastnes Shamefastnesse keepeth them chaste and pure it plucketh in warie respect of life it refraineth from strife and debate it asswageth anger it quencheth the desire of the flesh it doth moderate the desire of the minde it chasteneth wantonnes it banisheth drunkennes it maketh few words it brideleth the greedie desire of the gut and vtterly condemneth theft what more It brideleth and tameth all vice it nourisheth all vertues and whatsoeuer is before God and man acceptable A life which is vnchaste is neither The reward of immodestie praised of men in this world nor rewarded of God in the world to come The reward of a chaste life But the contrarie which is a chaste life is well spoken of among men and reioyceth also in the hope of the blisse to come It dooth winne the looue of men which are liuing and doo perceiue it and to them which come after if leaueth a goodly example of imitation being a pleasant and a godlie memorie It delighteth alway in good manners and agreeth vnto them euermore refreshing the soule with continuall reading and meditation of the holie Scriptures Like doth well agree with like And besides this it keepeth the examples of good which are gone being alway acquainted and ioyned in companie with them that are perfect and honest By what tokens a man shal perceiue the vertue of shamefastnes in a woman The exercise of shamefastnesse consisteth in two things that is to say in the outward behauiour of the body and the inward affection of the minde In the bodie by giuing good examples before men as the holy Apostle saith and in the mind before God wee doo prouide and beginne good works The properties of shamefastnes For the shamefastnesse and chastitie of the body is not to couet other mens goods and to flie all vncleannesse not to eate and drink but in time not to be a gigler and a prouoker of other men to laughter no speaker and teller of false and vaine tales to be soberly apparrelled all things beeing sette in comely order according to godlines in all parts of the bodie as wel in the haire on the head as in the rayment Not to company with the vngodlie neither to looke proudlie or disdainfully vppon any man nor yet wantonlie to cast vppe the eyes to the euil prouocation of other not to goe nicely and trypping in the streete hauing a pace like as it were in a game or a play to be séene and to tempt other therwith To be also inferior vnto no man in good workes to be occasion to no man of reproche or shame to blaspheme or slaūder no man to hate none that is good nor to scorne such as are olde not to meddle with those things which thou knowest not nor to contend or striue with thy better and finally not to blab abroade all thinges that thou knowest These things doo make a mā loued of his neighbor and acceptable in the sight of God The chastitie of the soule and the properties thereof The shamefastnes and chastitie of the soule is to doo those thinges which thou doost more for the sight of GOD then to be séene of men to stay the desire of euill thoughts to esteeme euery man better then thy selfe not to infect thy iudgment with false doctrine to agree with them that are to the Catholique and vniuersal faith to cleaue only to God to presume nothing of thy selfe but to commit al thy dooings to the help of God to be alwaies humble in his sight to offer to our Lord Iesus Christ the chastitie of thy inward minde neuer to make an end or to cease from good works during thy life with a strong hart to despise the present tribulations of thy minde of things worldly to loue nothing but thy neighbor to set and lay vp the treasure of all thy loue in heauen and finallie to be assured that for thy well dooing thou shalt not leese the reward in heauen What especiall benefits ensue by shamefastnesse Shamefastnes is a goodlie ornament of noble persons It exalteth those which be humble making them noble It is the beautie of thē that are féeble and weake the prosperitie of them which be sick the comfort of them that are in heauines the increase of all beautie the flowre of Religion the defence buckler against sin a multiplier of good deedes and to bee short it is the onely paramour and darling of God the creator of all The sixt abuse A Maister or a Ruler without vertue Capit. 6. Vertue consisteth not in the outwarde but inward strength IN this place followeth the sixt abuse namelie a Lorde or Maister