Selected quad for the lemma: heart_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
heart_n	aaron_n	blood_n	frog_n	21	3	10.6602	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A66756	An improvement of imprisonment, disgrace, poverty, into real freedom, honest reputation, perdurable riches evidenced in a few crums & scraps lately found in a prisoners-basket at Newgate, and saved together, by a visitant of oppressed prisoners, for the refreshing of himself and those who are either in a worse prison or (who loathing the dainties of the flesh) hunger and thrist after righteousness / by George Wither.	Wither, George, 1588-1667.	1661 (1661)	Wing W3163; ESTC R14994	55,794	128

when the Glory of their Name Is blur'd out with an evil Fame Then shall thy Poverty and shame Be mention'd unto thy praise V. Let wordlings feed upon their Chaff Their Cups of Fornication quaff And at thy sufferings grin and laugh A midst thy Foes lie down and sleep Whilst in their malice they persist In GOD's Protection take thy rest For though thy Body be opprest Thee safe in spight of them he 'l keep He whosoever he be that speaks this Charm Unto his Soul in Faith shall have no harm Therefore as a Receipt approved take it For for my self alone I did not make it A Meditation upon the many Prodigies and Apparitions which are mentioned by Publick writing or common Fame VVE are inform'd by questionless Presages Vouchsafed to instruct succeeding Ages That warnings of Christ's coming should be given By signs and wonders manifest from Heaven And we have seen in Histories recorded That Providence in all times hath afforded Some Premotions of those Desolations Which fell on Persons Places States and Nations Before they came For our most gracious GOD As doth a loving Father shewes the Rod Before he whips that he thereby may fright To Penitence ere he begins to smite And frequently prevail if that means may Us to reclaim he flings the Rod away Which kind Indulgence is in these times more Inlarged then it hath been heretofore New Prodigies we hear of ev'ry day And likewise hear how they are puft away As but meer Fictions If we find them so This justly thereupon inferr I do That more presumptuous we in these times are Then ever any other People were For very much corruption it implies To be in those who make and publish Lyes If there be Truth in any of those Visions Or Extraordinary Apparitions Which are affirm'd 'T is no less wicked daring So to affront GOD's visible appearing In Signs and Wonders as both to contemn And seek by all means how to smother them But it is worst of all to publish Lyes Of purpose to discredit Verities As if we meant to do the most we can To try the Patience both of GOD and Man If we believe the things that are aver'd Why of GOD's Judgements are we not afeard And either seek to pacifie his Wrath Or magnfie his Mercy who so hath Forewarn'd of what is likely to ensue That we his Indignation may eschew If we suspect what publickly is told Why do not they who are in Pow'r and should Search out the Truth that by due punishment They such like Provocations may prevent For out of question to connive at Lyes Or smother Truths worse things presignifies Then all the Apparitions that have been These twenty years in this our Climate seen Though nothing doubted of and will go nigh At last to turn all Truths into a Lye I must confess that though unto my Ears There have been brought within these twenty years So many strange Reports of sights and Voices Earthquakes and Thunders dreadful Storms noises Of Ebbs and Tides of Suns and Moons and Stars And Armies in the Clouds portending Wars With such like as would have perhaps amounted Unto a hundred if I them had counted Not one of those I saw yet so unjust I am not as those good men to distrust Who have aver'd them for though Prodigies And such miraculous Appearances Are daign'd in chief to Infidels and those Who in God's word no confidence repose Yet they are likewise otherwhile reveal'd To true Believers lest they be conceal'd From those whom they concern or lest by them Quite slieghted who the Works of GOD contemn They also their own welfare so neglect That they be totally without effect On trust I therefore take them for if we Confirmed by their Witness may not be Whose Conversations are to us well known How can we any Affirmations own For Truths Historically writ by those Whose Conversation no man living knowes For my part I have with my carnal Eyes And otherwise beheld such Prodigies In Words and Deeds that although none of that Were true which I hear other men relate I at the least Mysteriously discover All those old Miracles new acted over In my time which in Pharaohs days were wrought When Israel out of servitude was brought And many a such like wonderful proceed As we recorded in the Scriptures read I 've seen th' Inchanter's yea and Aarons Rod Turn'd into Serpents Waters into blood I have seen Froggs sent and remov'd again And yet we as hard hearted still remain I have observed at least once or twice Our Dust to be transformed into Lice Plagues which resembled Locusts Flies and Hail Yet not a jot upon our hearts prevail The People ev'n as Murrains do our Beasts A Sin that 's Epidemical Infests And so with Blaines and Byles we smitten be That in a moral sense meer Scabs we be Aegyptian Darkness too hath here among Our other Plagues continu'd very long With likelihood to be as grosse as there Unless the Sun of Righteousness appear Yea I have seen our First-born also slain Yet still we in obduracy remain I therefore wonder not if private Visions Prodigeous sights and Dreadful Apparitions Discern'd but here there have nought effected Since things more Signal are so much neglected Where Moses and the Prophets are not heard One from the Dead will find but small regard In vain are Dumb-shewes where a speaking sign Can to no heedfulness mens hearts incline When CHRIST's own Words will not with credit pass In vain will be the speakings of an Asse Yet speak must when GOD shall his tongue untie And whatsoere succeedeth so will I. A Riddle for Recreation not impertinent to this Place INto a Park I lately came Wherein are many herds of Game Whereof the Keepers take no care And yet they in abundance are They are a Cattle of strange Breed Which on no Browse nor Grasse do feed Are Found before that they are sought Aswell in sleep as waking caught So silently they hunted are That neither Hound nor Horn we hear When chatc't They are the onely things Left free for Beggars and for Kings To Hunt at will and all that we Assur'd of by our Charters be What Park is this What Game are these Tell me and Hunt there when you please A Proclamation made by this Prisoner with the advise of his Privy Counsel the Muses OH Yee's Oh Yee's Oh Yee's if any man In Country Court or City tell me can Where my last Poem call'd Vox Vulgi lies Seiz'd lately in my Chamber by surprize On penalty of what else follow may Let him produce it e're my Tryal day Which yet I am not certain when or where It will be neither do I greatly care He who to me the same will timely bring Shall be rewarded So GOD Save the King Given this 17th of the 8th Month 1661. At my Head Quarters in Newgate which is at present all the places of abode upon earth which the Prince of this World and