Selected quad for the lemma: heart_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
heart_n	harden_v	judgement_n	pharaoh_n	2,936	5	10.9003	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A57659	Mystagogvs poeticvs, or, The muses interpreter explaining the historicall mysteries and mysticall histories of the ancient Greek and Latine poets : here Apollo's temple is opened, the muses treasures discovered and the gardens of parnassus disclosed whence many flowers of usefull delightfull and rare observations never touched by any other mythologist are collected / by Alexander Ross.	Ross, Alexander, 1591-1654.	1647 (1647)	Wing R1964; ESTC R1748	187,684	318

day thank them for feeding him when hee was hungry otherwise the Ethiopians that feasted Jupiter Neptune and the other gods will rise in judgement against us 15. As Juno had the charge of the citie gates and Minerva of the castles and towers so had Neptune of the foundation and walls by which I think they meant that riches wisdome and strength for in Homer Neptune is called the strongest of the gods are required for the preservation of Cities and States 16. Our Saviour Christ is the true Neptune the God of the sea whom both winds and seas obey the true Sonne of God in respect of his divinitie and of Ops or of the earth in regard of his humanitie who hath the true Trident or full power of heaven and earth given to him and likewise the keyes of death and of hell hee is the true 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or shaker of the earth as hee made it appear both at at his death and resurrection and the true Consus or God of counsell for his name was in Isaiah the Counsellour hee hath married the virgin of the Church the fairest of women who may be called Theophanes because it was to her and for her that God appeared in the flesh therefore the day of Christs nativity was called by the ancient Christians 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the day of Gods apparition for then did hee lay aside his majestie and took upon him the form of a servant that hee might build the walls of the new Jerusalem And lastly as the Greeks called Neptune P●sidona that is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 making the image because of all the elements water onely represents or makes images by reason of its smoothnesse and cleernesse so it was Christ that made us at first to the image of God and afterward repaired this image being dec●yed in us a fit work for him who is the expresse and essentiall image of his Father NEREUS See NEPTUNUS and OCEANUS NIOBE SHee was the daughter of Tantalus and wise of Amphion king of the Thebans who because of the multitude and beauty of her children preferred her self to Latona therefore Apollo and Diana being angered by her insolencie with their arrows killed all her children and she with grief was turned into a stone The INTERPRETER 1. TAntalus was covetous and Amphion rich when wealth and covetousnesse meet together they bring forth Niobe that is pride insolencie and contempt of God himself 2. By Apollo and Diana are meant the Sun and Moon they caused by their beat and multitude of vapours a great pestilence which killed all Niobe's children hence arose the fiction of Apollo's and Diana's arrows which killed Niope's children 3. The turning of Niobe into a stone i● to shew the nature and greatnesse of her grief and sorrow which made her stupid and benummed and in a manner senselesse for parvae cu●● l●quumu● ingen●es s●upent or else it may signifie the stone monument that shee erected to her ●●lfe and children or that rock in Phrygia which afa● of seems to be a woman weeping by reason of the springs of water flowing from thence 4. By this punishment of Niobe and her children wee may see the judgements of God against pride and insolencie and are taught not to be pu●t up with conceit of our selves wife or children but to carrie an humble minde even in the highest fortune 5. The turning of Niobe into a stone may let us see how God hardeneth the hearts of wicked men as hee did the heart of Pharaoh and that profan● men are not mollified and bettered but hardened and more obstinate by afflictions 6. Niobe sinned but her children are killed by this we see that it is no injustice in God to visit the iniquitie of the parents upon the children seeing they are a part of their parents and in their punishment the parents suffer oftentimes more then in their own and God is absolute Lord over his creature 7. Here in Niobe we see the pride of women which bringeth destruction ●pon themselves husbands and family the beauty of Niobe made her proud and pride made her insolent and insolence caused her ow● and her husbands ruine in their children therefore he that marries for beautie where there is not grace will finde in that match plus ●ellis quam mellis more gall then honey As it fared here with Niobe so it did with Cassiope shee in her pride preferred her self to the Nymphs therfore her daughter Andromache had inevitably been devoured by the sea-monster when she was tied to the rock had not Perseus resc●ed her 8. Niobe's husband was an excellent Musician he made the rude stones hop together and make up the walls of Thebes but h●e that put life into dead stones and civilized such rude and senselesse creatures could not for all his musick charm his wifes pride and insolencie Our Saviour Christ by the sweetnesse of his Evangelicall musick charmed the Gentiles and of such stones raised children to Abraham causing men to meet together towards the building of the new Jerusalem but yet hee could not prevail with the Jewes which hee had married to himself neither could hee cure their pride and obstinacie though he piped they would not dance NOX SHee was the antientest goddesse the daughter of Chao● or of Hell the mother of Love Deceit ●eare Darknesse Old age Death Misery Complaint Sleep Dreams and many other such like children The INTERPRETER 1. NOx is so called a nocendo for the night is the occasion of much mischiefe Nox amor vinumque nihil moderabile suad●nt So is also any grief sicknesse or pain more hurtfull and vi●lent by night then by day 2. Night is called by some the daughter of Chaos by others the daughter of Hell by which may be meant the night or darknesse which was before the Creation and so shee is the daughter of Chaos this darknesse is called negative in the Schools And also the darknesse which is caused nightly and is the shadow of the earth when the Sun is under our Hemisphere and so Nox is the daughter of Erebus or of Hell this is called privative 3. Night is painted like a woman because as the female sex is the weaker and more fearfull so is mans nature more fearfull by night then by day and weaker also as is seen in sick men Shee hath a black garment and long black wings of which Virgil Nox ruit fuscis tellurem amplectitur alis by these wings shee embraceth the earth Shee is also carried in a chariot and is accompanied with the starres and hath the Cock for her sacrifice to signifie the darknesse and qu●lities of the night and that the starres are then most seen and that the Cock by reason of his vigilancie and noise that hee makes deserves to be sacrificed to the night which is the time of rest Her black hair her garland of popies with which she is crowned and her chariot drawn with four horses doe shew the darknesse and