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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
knowledge_n	darkness_n	heart_n	shine_v	3,010	5	9.0570	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01020	Deuout contemplations expressed in two and fortie sermons vpon all ye quadragesimall Gospells written in Spanish by Fr. Ch. de Fonseca Englished by. I. M. of Magdalen Colledge in Oxford; Discursos para todos los Evangelios de la Quaresma. English	Fonseca, Cristóbal de, 1550?-1621.; Cecil, Thomas, fl. 1630, engraver.; Mabbe, James, 1572-1642?	1629 (1629)	STC 11126; ESTC S121333	902,514	708

our humane eyes did see in Christ our Sauiour onely the course cassocke of our basenesse and the scorne and contempt of his owne person as Esay paints it forth Who will beleeue the gold of his Diuinitie Saint Augustine in his bookes De Ciuitate Deipunc saith That all the transformations of those gods which the Gentiles did celebrate in Birds Bulls Stones Trees Fountaines Fires and graines of Gold were directed to this end that the World should beleeue that vnder the forme of mortall men this our own proper matter lay hid some power supernaturall Who would beleeue that Christ was God if he had not giuen some glimpse of his Riches Who would haue relied vpon his protection Without some particular reuelation who would haue dreamt of his omnipotencie In a subiect so weake who would surmise it Imagine an Angell in the shape and figure of an Ant none will beleeue that this was an Angell vnlesse hee should at some time or other discouer some part of his brightnesse It was also fitting that Christ should discouer vnto vs some of those his hidden treasures to the end that those that were his might be persuaded that they might safely sleepe vnder the shadow of his wings Moses beeing employed in that businesse of Aegypt O Lord saith he whom shall I say hath sent me Ego sum qu● sum I am that I am And anon after Ego sum Deus Abraham Deus Isaac Deus Iacob I am the God of Abraham the God of Isaac and the God of Iacob Tel Pharaoh that I am that I am He that cannot not be That I am he that haue prospered protected Abraham Isaac Iacob Which was not only a making of himselfe known what he was but were likewise pledges to his people that they should lay their confidence libertie liues their persons vpon him I am that I am by my essence I am he that alwayes was and euer shall be it is I that haue power ouer euerie thing and beg nothing of any man The Princes of the earth because they are to day tomorrow and are no more they cannot giue vs any assurance of our hopes and because they haue no pledges of their own but what they borrow from others their fauours cannot be secured vnto vs For as Saint Augustine saith Remota jactantia quid sunt homines nisi homines When Princes will shew themselues in their pompe and state they borrow here and they borrow there they are no bodie vnlesse they bee accompanied with the great Lords of the Kingdome vnlesse they be attended on by a Gard of Halberdiers vnlesse they be rich and gloriously apparelled and brauely mounted In a word these are externall transfigurations and of such things as are more others than our owne but that of our Sauiour Christ was of his owne proper goods without beeing beholding to any Et resplenduit facies eius sicut Sol. And his face did shine like the Sunne In the beginning of the world God did handsell his Word with the Light for before darkenesse had ouerspread the face of this confused Chaos Tenebrae erant super faciem c. And as hee that diueth into the bottome of the sea for Pearle as he goes spurtling the oyle out of his mouth goes as it were thereby ingendering light so God by venting this word out of his mouth fiat Lux created the Light discouering thereby the essence and nature of things Some haue not stickt to say that the Light gaue the red colour to the Rubie the Greene to the Emerald and the Skie colour to the Iacinth c. And though this be not so yet so it is that without this Light these colours could not haue beene distinguished nor could we haue enioyed that humane beautie and beautifull splendor which now we doe In the Spheare of the Spirit God made another Light which was Christ our Sauiour Ego sum Lux mundi this Light doth as farre exceed the former as the Spirit doth the Body Dauid makes mention of these two Lights in that Psalme of his Coeli enarrant c. The Heauens declare thy c. Of that of the Sunne he saith Tanquam Sponsus procedens de thalamo suo This is the Bridegroome of Nature and comes forth of his Chamber cloathed all in Gold Bur that Spirituall Light is more fayre and more beautifull by farre Lex Domini immaculata id est immaculatior c. The Law of the Lord is pure that is purer c. The beames of the Sunne neuer yet had the power to pierce so far as to inlighten the Soule but those of the Sun of Righteousnesse doth both inlighten it conuert it He that tooke the day from the night and the light from darkenesse made light to breake forth from out the darkenesse of our hearts to the end that Gods fauourable countenance shining vpon vs through his Sonne we may come to the fuller knowledge of him For this Light did on t only eclipse and darken that of the Sun as that of many Torches doth a poore sorrie Candle nor onely inrich the aire with the beames of his brightnesse nor onely made a Heauen of this Mountaine by gilding the stemmes the barke the boughes and leaues of the trees as also the stones thereof with it's glorious rayes but it did likewise illumine the soules of the Disciples who from that verie instant by the euidence of such diuine demonstrations remained conuinced and euer after acknowledged him to be both God Man For albeit God cannot be seene by the eyes of the Flesh yet such signes and tokens may be seen of God that we may verie wel say that God himself is seen Physiognomie is a Science which by the signes and markes of the face doth prognosticate the inclination and propension of the Soule One that was skilled in that Art looking steadily on the face of Socrates told his Schollers That hee had the markes of a man that was ill giuen Whereunto he answered That hee said true in regard of the Starres but withall that Sapiens dominabitur Astris Looke vpon Christ our Sauiour and you shall see first of all that he hath a great inclination to our good and that hee made especiall manifestation thereof in Mount Tabor for as the angrie looke of a King is the Messenger of Death so the cheerefulnesse of his countenance declareth clemencie and life The roaring of a Lyon makes the Beasts of the Forrest affraid and the indignation of a King maketh his Vassalls to quake and tremble but his fauour is like the dew vpon the grasse Saint Ambrose saith That our Sauiour Christs appearing here like Sunne and Snow were true pledges of the great desire that he hath of our good for there is not any thing that doth make the earth so fruitfull as the Sun with his heat and the Snow with it's moysture Saint Hierome in that Epistle of his to Palmachius against the errors of Iohannes