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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
heaven_n	church_n	earth_n	militant_a	5,036	5	12.4963	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A06534	The devout hart or Royal throne of the pacifical Salomon. Composed by F. St. Luzuic S.I. Translated out of Latin into English. Enlarged with incentiue by F. St. Binet of the same S. and now enriched with hymnes by a new hand	Luzvic, Stephanus, 1567-1640.; Binet, Etienne, 1569-1639. aut; Hawkins, Henry, 1571?-1646.	1634 (1634)	STC 17001; ESTC S103988	72,609	316

that not a fly disquieted the Patriarch busy in this rites I wil not Lord I wil not haue my hart a Bethanues or Temple of Bel a pestered with flyes and ruining al with filthy corrupt goare where Belsebub giues forth his Oracles and exhibits himself awful and terrible to men in despaire of their saluation How I hate these direful and dreadful Sacrifices these rites Thy bloud O sweet IESV is alwayes red with purple and white with lylies intermixed For these two colours thou affect'st the purple red snowy vhite wouldst thy Cliens and deuotes addicted to them and to be known by them This bloud of thine to thirsty soules quenches their heat to hot and toyled spirits sends a humid breath to broken and dismaid harts giues fortitude and courage VII MEDITATION The preparatory Prayer Actiones nostras c. THE PRELVDE IN the midst of the Temple was placed a huge brazen vessel wh̄ece many channels yssued forth apt to communicate their waters for the vse of Preists and Leuits where with they washed themselues when they went to sacrifice Weigh the munificence of God who thought it not enough for declaration of his famous and good wil towards vs to water the hart of man with his owne bloud vnles he left vs also a fountaine famous for seauen channels from whence the guifts of graces might plentifully prodigally flow into our minds to wit seauen Sacraments instituted to this end to wash vs to expiate our sinnes and to wipe al steynes from the hart 2. Point Consider the grace which flowes from the fountaines of the Sacraments to be a golden water which turnes al it touches into gold and that so powrefully and diuinely as there is not the least action of our life so it be sprinckled with the liquour of diuine grace which we ought not to make more reckoning of then of al the treasures and riches of the world as meritorious and worthy of eternal happines 3. Point Consider now how al graces merits depend of the only Sonne of God and thence ●re deriued by certaine pipes or aqueducts as from the rock or head of these liuing waters Wherefore we are most studiously to receiue and keep this liquour of grace least any whit thereof should breake from the bancks of our hart nor is any occasion of heaping merits to be omitted which we greedily reach or catch not at THE COLLOQVY TO the wounds of our Sauiour MY soule O God hath thirsted after thee vnles thou replenish it with heaūely waters who shal recreate or refresh it My soule is blacker then a coale who shal wash it whiter then snow vnles thou powrest forth thy grace into it which clearer then any chrystal fals from the streames of thy side hands and feet Oh sacred springs of Syloe infusing light to the blind Oh Springs of Elun which refreshed the heat of the people of Israel dying nigh with thirst amid those parched sands of that vast desert Oh rock smit cruelly with the tongue and hand of the Sinagogue a rock I say not exhaling flames of fire but powring out aboundant streames and flouds of benedictions which with a continued course accompanyed the pilgrime people into Palestine Oh you holsome Iourdan waters of Naaman flow with a copious channel into my hart that no locks or sluce at any tyme may hinder your course But your O you heauenly Ministers of God and mans saluation diue and plunge in this fountaine placed in the midst of the house of God those Ethiops our minds I say so vgly and deformed with the wretched colour of vices that by your meanes being rised and cleansed once they may issue forth like doues Amen Pater Ave. IESVS RVLES AND REIGNES IN THE louing deuout hart THE HYMNE OMightie Souer aigne if you please To deigne a looke view our seas Where harts like ships with wind tide Are sayling some at anker ride Some with waues and boystrous windes Tost to fro ' mongst them you find My floating hart with euery blast Of greife or of affliction past As ' t were immersed with in the maine But yet Greate Monarch if you deigne To be my Neptune or to guide The sterne of my poore hart beside The surges flying ore my decks Reigne in my hart let Hel play reks THE INCENTIVE 1. VVhen IESVS sits in the hart as in a Throne there commands the hart is a Paradise our cogitations affects desires are euen as Angels Cherubins yea Seraphins so here doe al things burne with diuine loue 2. God raignes nor rules not Sinne therefore swayes and beares the rule most tyrant-like and strikes and wounds the miserable hart already stretched on the cruel rack and torture with terrours scruples horrid spectres bestial appetits no hart but euen a Hel. 3. Little King great God tame my rebellious hart subdue it to thy heasts and eternally commaund it Surely I wil doe what I can to dedicate and consecrate it to thee doe thou defend the place wherein thou likest wel to be shut vp THE PREAMBLE to the Meditation THe pacifical Salomon in those dayes of old had built him a Throne of iuory six degrees or steps in height on both sides whereof watched a Lyon very exquisitly wrought the truest symbol of regal Maiesty and likewise for the people beneath in the midst of the Temple he erected a very eminent and stately Chapel And so to thee Immortal God the heauen is a Throne the earth a foot-stoole For thou sit'st as sacred scriptures tel vpon the wings of Cherubins whence thou giuest Oracles prescribest lawes to the world and euen with the only looke maiesty and state becomst most terrible to the haughtiest mids Hence thou exactst iust punishments from the damned hence thou inebriatst the blessed Citizens of Heauen with the nectaral honey of thy goodnes lastly hence thou carrousest cups mingled with the gal of iustice and honey of pure goodnes to the earth suspended betweene heauen and hel Besides in the triumphant Church the celestial spirits whom we cal Thrones are thy royal seat and in the militant the sacred Altar is thy lodging chamber where thou sweetly takest thy rest But nothing is thine owne so much or due vnto thee with a better title then the hart of man which with a low abasement of thy self and a singular obedience to thy father thou hast lawfully recouered and bought with the price of immense labour and paynes yea redeemed with thy bloud a shameful death on the Crosse. Here o pacifical Salomon thou rulest there thou commaunds with a beck in this soyle or seat as in thine owne dominion thou swayst in that manner as there is none so bold or of so impudent a face that dares vnbidden step in a foot or not touched with the point of thy golden scepter looke in a-doores Here thou hearest the humble suits and petitions of thy subiets here thou stiflest