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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
heaven_n	bless_v	magnify_v	praise_v	2,332	5	11.7139	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A74632	Herbert's remains, or, sundry pieces of that sweet singer of the temple, Mr George Herbert, sometime orator of the University of Cambridg. Now exposed to publick light.	Herbert, George, 1593-1633.; Oley, Barnabas, 1602-1686.	1652 (1652)	Thomason E1279_1	88,323	339

of Noblemens cloaths He is a great Necromancer for he asks counsell of the Dead i.e. books A man is known to be mortal by two things Sleep and Lust Love without end hath no end says the Spaniard meaning if it were not begun on particular ends it would last Stay a while that we may make an end the sooner Presents of love fear not to be ill taken of strangers To seek these things is lost labour Geese in an oyle pot fat Hogs among Jews and Wine in a fishing net Some men plant an opinion they seem to erradicate The Philosophy of Princes is to dive into the Secrets of men leaving the secrets of nature to those that have spare time States have their conversions and periods as well as naturall bodies Great deservers grow Intolerable presumers The love of money and the love of learning rarely meet Trust no friend with that you need fear him if he were your enemy Some had rather lose their friend then their Jest Marry your daughters betimes lest they marry themselves Souldiers in peace are like chimneys in summer Here is a talk of the Turk and the Pope but my next neighbour doth me more harm then either of them both Civill Wars of France made a million of Atheists and 30000 Witches We Batchelors laugh and shew our teeth but you married men laugh till your hearts ake The Divell never assailes a man except he find him either void of knowledge or of the fear of God There is no body will go to hell for company Much money makes a Countrey poor for it sets a dearer price on every thing The vertue of a coward is suspition A man's destiny is alwayes dark Every man's censure is first moulded in his own nature Money wants no followers Your thoughts close and your countenance loose Whatever is made by the hand of man by the hand of man may be overturned FINIS The Authour's PRAYER before SERMON O Almighty and ever-living Lord God! Majesty and Power and Brightnesse and Glory How shall we dare to appear before thy face who are contrary to thee in all we call thee for we are darknesse and weaknesse and filthinesse and shame Misery and sin fill our days yet art thou our Creatour and we thy work Thy hands both made us and also made us Lords of all thy creatures giving us one world in our selves and another to serve us then did'st thou place us in Paradise and wert proceeding still on in thy Favours untill we interrupted thy Counsels disappointed thy Purposes and sold our God our glorious our gracious God for an apple O write it O brand it in our foreheads for ever for an apple once we lost our God and still lose him for no more for money for meat for diet But thou Lord art patience and pity and sweetnesse and love therefore we sons of men are not consumed Thou hast exalted thy mercy above all things and hast made our salvation not our punishment thy glory so that then where sin abounded not death but grace super abounded accordingly when we had sinned beyond any help in heaven or earth then thou saidest Lo I come then did the Lord of life unable of himselfe to die contrive to do it He took flesh he wept he died for his enemies he died even for those that derided him then and still despise him Blessed Saviour many waters could not quench thy love nor no pit overwhelme it But though the streams of thy bloud were currant through darknesse grave and hell yet by these thy conflicts and seemingly hazards didst thou arise triumphant and therein mad'st us victorious Neither doth thy love yet stay here for this word of thy rich peace and reconciliation thou hast committed not to Thunder or Angels but to silly and sinfull men even to me pardoning my sins and bidding me go feed the people of thy love Blessed be the God of Heaven and Earth who onely doth wondrous things Awake therefore my Lute and my Viol awake all my powers to glorifie thee We praise thee we blesse thee we magnifie thee for ever And now O Lord in the power of thy Victories and in the wayes of thy Ordinances and in the truth of thy Love Lo we stand here beseeching thee to blesse thy word wher-ever spoken this day throughout the universall Church O make it a word of power and peace to convert those who are not yet thine and to confirme those that are particularly blesse it in this thy own Kingdom which thou hast made a Land of light a store-house of thy treasures and mercies O let not our foolish and unworthy hearts rob us of the continuance of this thy sweet love but pardon our sins and perfect what thou hast begun Ride on Lord because of the word of truth and meeknesse and righteousnesse and thy right hand shall teach thee terrible things Especially blesse this portion here assembled together with thy unworthy Servant speaking unto them Lord Jesu teach thou me that I may teach them Sanctifie and inable all my powers that in their full strength they may deliver thy message reverently readily faithfully fruitfully O make thy word a swift word passing from the ear to the heart from the heart to the life and conversation that as the rain returns not empty so neither may thy word but accomplish that for which it is given O Lord hear O Lord forgive O Lord hearken and do so for thy blessed Son's sake in whose sweet and pleasing words we say Our Father c. BLessed be God! and the Father of all mercy who continueth to pour his benefits upon us Thou hast elected us thou hast called us thou hast justified us sanctified and glorified us Thou wast born for us and thou livedst and diedst for us Thou hast given us the blessings of this life and of a better O Lord thy blessings hang in clusters they come trooping upon us they break forth like mighty waters on every side And now Lord thou hast fed us with the bread of life so man did eat Angel's food O Lord besse it O Lord make it health and strength unto us still striving prospering so long within us untill our obedience reach thy measure of thy love who hast done for us as much as may be Grant this dear Father for thy Son's sake our only Saviour To whom with thee and the Holy Ghost three Persons but one most glorious incomprehensible God be ascribed all Honour and Glory and Praise ever Amen Mr G. HERBERT To Master N.F. upon the Translation of VALDESSO MY dear and deserving Brother your Valdesso I now return with many thanks and some notes in which perhaps you will disover some care which I forbear not in the midst of my griefes first for your sake because I would do nothing negligently that you commit unto me secondly for the Authour's sake whom I conceive to have been a true servant of God and to such and all that is theirs I owe

of any part by taking away so much as the usuall seasons of summer and winter earing and harvest Let the weather be what it will still we have bread though sometimes more somtimes lesse wherewith also a carefull Joseph might meet He conceives not possibly how he that would beleeve a Divinity if he had been at the Creation of all things should lesse beleeve it seeing the Preservation of all things For Preservation is a Creation and more it is a continued Creation and a creation every moment Secondly for the Law there may be so evident though unused a proof of Divinity taken from thence that the Atheist or Epicurian can have nothing to contradict The Jewes yet live and are known they have their Law and Language bearing witnesse to them and they to it they are Circumcised to this day and expect the promises of the Scripture their Countrey also is known the places and rivers travelled unto and frequented by others but to them an unpenetrable rock an unaccessible desert Wherefore if the Jewes live all the great wonders of old live in them and then who can deny the stretched out arme of a mighty God especially since it may be a just doubt whether considering the stubbornnesse of the Nation their living then in their Countrey under so many miracles were a stranger thing then their present exile and disability to live in their Countrey And it is observable that this very thing was intended by God that the Jewes should be his proof and witnesses as he calls them Isaiah 43.12 And their very dispersion in all Lands was intended not only for a punishment to them but for an exciting of others by their sight to the acknowledging of God and his power Psalm 59.11 And therefore this kind of Punishment was chosen rather then any other Thirdly for Grace Besides the continuall succession since the Gospell of holy men who have born witness to the truth there being no reason why any should distrust Saint Luke or Tertullian or Chrysostome more then Tully Virgill or Livy There are two Prophesies in the Gospel which evidently argue Christs Divinity by their success the one concerning the woman that spent the oyntment on our Saviour for which he told that it should never be forgotten but with the Gospel it selfe be preached to all ages Matth. 26.13 The other concerning the destruction of Jerusalem of which our Saviour said that that generation should not passe till all were fulfilled Luke 21.32 Which Josephus his story confirmeth and the continuance of which verdict is yet evident To these might be added the Preaching of the Gospel in all Nations Matthew 24.14 which we see even miraculously effected in these new discoveryes God turning mens Covetousnesse and Ambitions to the effecting of his word Now a prophesie is a wonder sent to Posterity least they complaine of want of wonders It is a letter sealed and sent which to the bearer is but paper but to the receiver and opener is full of power Hee that saw Christ open a blind mans eyes saw not more Divinity then he that reads the womans oyntment in the Gospel or sees Jerusalem destroyed With some of these heads enlarged and woven into his discourse at severall times and occasions the Parson setleth wavering minds But if he sees them neerer desperation then Atheisme not so much doubting a God as that he is theirs then he dives unto the boundlesse Ocean of Gods Love and the unspeakeable riches of his loving kindnesse He hath one argument unanswerable If God hate them either he doth it as they are Creatures dust and ashes or as they are sinfull As Creatures he must needs love them for no perfect Artist ever yet hated his owne worke As sinfull he must much more love them because notwithstanding his infinite hate of sinne his Love overcame that hate and with an exceeding great victory which in the Creation needed not gave them love for love even the son of his love out of his bosome of love So that man which way soever he turnes hath two pledges of Gods Love that in the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established the one in his being the other in his sinfull being and this as the more faulty in him so the more glorious in God And all may certainly conclude that God loves them till either they despise that Love or despaire of his Mercy not any sin else but is within his Love but the despising of Love must needs be without it The thrusting away of his arme makes us onely not embraced CHAP. XXXV The Parson 's Condescending THe Countrey Parson is a Lover of old Customes if they be good and harmlesse and the rather because Countrey people are much addicted to them so that to favour them therein is to win their hearts and to oppose them therin is to deject them If there be any ill in the custome that may be severed from the good he pares the apple and gives them the clean to feed on Particularly he loves Procession and maintains it because there are contained therein 4 manifest advantages First a blessing of God for the fruits of the field Secondly justice in the Preservation of bounds Thirdly Charity in loving walking and neighbourly accompanying one another with reconciling of differences at that time if there be any Fourthly Mercy in releeving the poor by a liberall distribution and largesse which at that time is or ought to be used Wherefore he exacts of all to bee present at the perambulation and those that withdraw and sever themselves from it he mislikes and reproves as uncharitable and unneighbourly and if they will not reforme presents them Nay he is so farre from condemning such assemblies that he rather procures them to be often as knowing that absence breedes strangeness but presence love Now Love is his business and aime wherefore he likes well that his Parish at good times invite one another to their houses and he urgeth them to it and somtimes where he knowes there hath been or is a little difference hee takes one of the parties and goes with him to the other and all dine or sup together There is much preaching in this friendliness Another old Custome there is of saying when light is brought in God send us the light of heaven And the Parson likes this very well neither is he affraid of praising or praying to God at all times but is rather glad of catching opportunities to do them Light is a great Blessing and as great as food for which we give thanks and those that thinke this superstitious neither know superstition nor themselves As for those that are ashamed to use this forme as being old and obsolete and not the fashion he reformes and teaches them that at Baptisme they professed not to be ashamed of Christs Cross or for any shame to leave that which is good He that is ashamed in small things will extend his pusillanimity to greater Rather should a