Selected quad for the lemma: fire_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
fire_n	air_n	earth_n	element_n	11,896	5	9.9757	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A14795	Spare-minutes: or resolved meditations and premeditated resolutions. Written by A.W.	Warwick, Arthur, 1604?-1633.	1634 (1634)	STC 25096; ESTC S102697	27,998	212

inforceth ingratitude which being the basest of vices cannot but foyle and disgrace a man graced with such honours I am not preferr'd with honour if debased with ingratitude HE that will not be perswaded to leape downe from an high chamber at once commeth willingly downe by the stayres and yet the declining degrees of his winding descent make it not lesse downward to him but lesse perceived of him His leape might have brought him downe sooner it could not have brought him down lower As I am then fearefull to act great sinnes so I will bee carefull to avoid small sinnes He that contemn's a small fault commits a great one I see many drops make a shower and what difference is it whether I be wet either in the raine or in the river if both be to the skinne There is small benefit in the choyce whither we goe downe to Hell by degrees or at once THE gentle and harmelesse sheepe being conscious of their owne innocency how patiently how quietly doe they receive the knife either on the altar or in the shambles How silently and undaunted doe they meet death and give it entrance with small resistance When the filthie loathsome and harmefull swine roare horribly at the first handling and with an hideous crying reluctancy are haled and held to the slaughter This seemes some cause to me why wicked men conscious of their filthy lives and nature so tremble at the remembrances startle at the name and with horrour roare at the approach of death when the godly quietly uncloathe themselves of their lives and make small difference twixt a naturall nights short sleepe and the long sleepe of nature I will pray not to come to an untimely violent death I will not violently resist death at the time when it commeth I will expect and waite my change with patience imbrace it with cheerefullnesse and never feare it as a totall privation IT is no small fault to be bad and seeme so it is a greater fault to seeme good and not be so The cloake of dissimulation is a maine part of the garment spotted with the flesh A vice thus covered is worse then a naked offense There is no divell to the Hypocrite WHen I see the Larkers day-net spread out in a faire morning and himselfe whirling his artificiall motion and observe how by the reflecting lustre of the sunne on the wheeling instrument not onely the merry larke and fearefull Pigeon are dazeled and drawne with admiration but stowter birds of pray the swift Merlin and towring Hobbie are inticed to stoope and gazing on the outward forme loose themselves Me thinks I see the divels night-nets of inticing harlots fully paraleld spread out for us in the vigour of our youth which with rowling eyes draw on the lustfullnesse of affection and betray the wantonnesse of the heart and wit● their alluring glances often make to stoope within danger of their fatall nets not onely the simple and carelesse but others also men otherwise wary and wife who comming within the pull of the net lie at the mercy of that mercilesse fowler to their certaine destruction Hence I resolve when I see such glasses to shunne such motions as assured that those glasses have nets adjoyning those nets a fowler attending that fowler a death prepared for me then which I cannot die a worse I may by chance I must by necessity at sometime come within their view I will at no time come within their danger I cannot well live in this world and not see them at all I cannot live well in this world nor at all in the better world if I bee caught in their fatall nets THere bee that make it their glory to feed high and fare deliciously every day and to maintaine their bodies elementary search the elements the earth sea and aire to maintaine the fire of their appetites They that thus make their bellies their Gods doe make their glory their shame I distaste a sordid diet as unwholsome I care not to taste and feed on variety of delicates as unhealthfull Nature contented with a few things is cloyed and quelled with over many and digestion her cooke imployed in the concoction of so much variety at once leaves the stomacke too fowle a kitchin for health to abide in Since then so to feed may the sooner end my life and the end of my life is not so to feed I will bee taught by Grace not to live to eat but eat to live and maintaine health by a competent diet not surfet with excesse HE that too much admires the glory of a Princes Court and drawne up thither by his ambition thinks high places to bee the highest happinesse let him view the foggie mists the moist vapours and light exhalations drawne up from the earth by the attractive power of the glorious sunne-beames which when they are at highest either spend themselves there in portending meteors to others terrour and their owne consumption and either by resolution are turned into raine or cong●lation unto hayle or snow which sinke lower into the earth at their fall then they were at their assending For my part I may admire such a glowing coale I will not with the Satyr kisse it As I thinke it not the least and last praise to please Princes so I know it is not the least danger of times to to live with them procul a Iove procul a fulmine Hee presumes too much of his owne brightnesse that thinkes to shine cleere neere the sunne where if his light bee his owne it must bee obscured by comparison if borrowed from the sunne then is it not his but an others glory A candle in the nights obscurity shewes brighter then a torch at noone-day And Caesar thought it a greater glory to be the first man in some obscure towne then the second man in Rome the head city of the world IT is a common custome but a lewd one of them that are common lewd ones by custome to wound the fame and taint the reputation of their neighbours with slanders and having no lesse impotency in their tongues then impurity in their hearts forme both opinions and censures according to the mould of evill in themselves And this they doe either with the Lapwing to divert by their false cries the travelling stranger from finding the nest of their filthinesse or with the curtold Fox in the fable to endevour to have all foxes cut-tayld or with the fish Sepia to darken with the pitchie inke of aspersions all the water of the neighbourhood that so themselves may scape the net of Censure justly cast to catch them Or els to have themselves thought as good as any other they will not have any thought good that dwells neere them I will therefore suspect him as scarce honest who would with a slander make mee suspect an other as dishonest I will not presently disrespect him as dishonest whom a lewd person dishonesteth with suspition The divell is not more blacke-mouth ' then a slanderer