Selected quad for the lemma: heaven_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
heaven_n	beast_n	earth_n	fowl_n	2,016	5	9.9276	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A00776	A spirituall consolation, written by Iohn Fyssher Bishoppe of Rochester, to hys sister Elizabeth, at suche tyme as hee was prisoner in the Tower of London. Uery necessary, and commodious for all those that mynde to leade a vertuous lyfe: also to admonishe them, to be at all tymes prepared to dye, and seemeth to bee spoken in the person of one that was sodainly preue[n]ted by death	Fisher, John, Saint, 1469-1535.	1578 (1578)	STC 10899; ESTC S109711	49,974	144

cōmeth not of a singular loue shewed vnto you by your lord god before all them And shall not this cōsideration pearce your harte and moue you muche to loue him againe The fifth consideration THe fifth consideration is this Peraduenture after that thus by your repentance askyng mercy you were taken to this grace of your God yet far more gréeuously and farre more vnkindly you fell againe to sinnne and kepte not the purpose and promyse that before you did make but more without shame and dread of hys hyghnesse tooke your libertie in your sinfull wayes abusing his gentlenes presuming vppō hys mercie not regarding any benifite or kindenesse shewed by his most excelent goodnesse vnto you before so defiling your soule by innumerable wayes and makyng it filthie more vngoodly then is the Sowe that waltereth hir self in the foule myrie puddle and more pestilently stinketh in the sight of God then is the stinking carion of a dead dogge being rotten and lying in a ditch yet neuertheles for all these misbehauiors your Lord God of his farre passing goodnes hath called you agayne from your sinfull life and hath graciously stirred your soule to forsake your sin to leue this wretched worlde to enter the holy relygion Wherby after the sentence of holy doctors your soule is made as cleane as it was at your baptisme and restored agayne to the puritie and cleanenesse of your first innocencie And not onely that but also hée hath appointed you to be of the number of them that be assigned for hys best beloued spouses And what hygh point of singular fauour is this How many weomen farre better then you be lefte behinde in this worlde not called to this high dignitie nor admitted to thys most speciall grace When the noble Kinge Asuerus as it is written in the scripture commaunded many fayre yong maydens to be chosen out and to be séene vnto with all things that might make them fayr● and beautifull and pleasaunt to his sight to the intent that they at all tymes when it should like him to appoynte any of them to come to his presence and to be his spouse they might be the more readie This thing no doubt of it was to them that were thus chosē a comfort that they were preferred before other and also euerie one of them might lyue in hope to come to the kings presēce haue some likelihood to be accepted for his spouse in so much that all other but they were excluded In like maner it is with religious women All they by the gracious calling of the great king of heuen be gathered into Gods religion and disseuered from thother seculer women that be of the world there a season to abide vntill they be sufficiently prepared by the holy sacraments and the holy obseruacions of religiō to come to his gracious highnesse presence and to be brought into his secret chamber aboue in heauen there to abide with him in endles ioy and blisse Blessed is that religious woman that so doth prepare her selfe for this litle time that héere she shal tarry by prayer by meditation by contemplatiō by teares of devocion by harty loue burning desyre that after this transitory life she may be admitted to the most excellēt honor not with shame rebuke be repelled therfro whē the day shal com The sixt consideration THe sixt consideration that you call wel to your remembrāce who it is that doth thus exhorte you for to loue verely he is the person that if eyther you wil fréely giue your loue or els sell your loue he is most worthie to haue it aboue all other First if ye were of that mynd to giue your loue frée it were good yet there to bestow it that you shoulde choose suche a one as both in goodlinesse of person as also in prowesse wisdom and good gentil maners may be worthie your loue For if there be any deformitie in him whō you would loue it is an impediment and great let for to loue hym But in our sauiour Christ the sonne of God is no deformitie for hee is all goodlye and surmounteth all other in goodlynesse And therefore of hym the Prophet Dauid affyrmeth in thys maner Speciosus forma pre filijs hominum that is to say he is goodly before the chyldren of men And of truth much goodlie must he néedes be that hath made so many goodly creatures Behold the Rose the Lillie the Uyolet beholde the Pecockes the Feasaunt the Popingaye Behold all the other creatures of this world All these were of his making all there beautie and goodlinesse of hym they receyued it Wherfore this goodlinesse discribeth that he him self must néedes of necessitie be verie goodly beautifull And for that in the booke of Canticles the Spouse discribeth his goodlinesse saying Dilectus meus candidus et rubicūdus electus ex millibus That is to saye hée that I loue is whyte and redde chosen out amōgest thousands And this beautie and goodlines is not mortal it can not fade ne perish as doeth the goodlinesse of other men which lyke a flower to day is fresh and lustie and to morrowe with a little sicknesse is withered and vanisheth away And yet it is sensible to the goodlinesse of mans nature for the which also he is more naturallie to bée beloued of many For lykenesse is the grounde of loue lyke alway doeth couet like and the néerer in lykenesse that any person bée the sooner they may bée knit togither in loue The same lykenes he hath you haue like body and lyke soule touching his māhood your soule is also like vnto him in his godhead For after the Image similitude of it your soule is made Furthermore of his might and power you may bée likewise a certayne season He made this world by the onely commaundement of his mouth and gaue to the herbes and all other creatures their vertue might that they haue And may also by his power saue dampne creatures eyther to lifte them vp in bodie and soule into heauen aboue or els to throw them downe into euer during payns of hell If ye doubt of his wisdom behold all this world and cōsider how euery creature is set with an other and euery of them by him selfe how the heauens are apparelled with starres the ayre with Foules the water with Fishes the earth with herbes trées beastes how the starres be clad with light the Foules with feathers the fish with scales the beastes with heare herbes trées with leaues and flower with sent wherin doth wel appear a great merueilous wisdō of him that made thē Finally his good gentil maner is all full of pleasure cōfort so kinde so friendly so liberall beneficious so pittious and mercifull so readie in all oportunities so mindfull circumspect so dulcet swéet in communicatiō For as scripture saith Non licet amaritudinem conuersatio vel tedium cōuetas illius Sed letitiam