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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	david_n	king_n	saul_n	12,106	5	9.9774	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A63788	The country-man's companion, or, A new method of ordering horses & sheep so as to preserve them both from diseases and causalties [sic], or, to recover them if fallen ill and also to render them much more serviceable and useful to their owners, than has yet been discovered, known or practised : and particularly to preserve sheep from that monsterous, mortifying distemper, the rot / by Philotheos Physiologus, the author of The way to health, long life and happiness, &c.	Tryon, Thomas, 1634-1703.	1684 (1684)	Wing T3176; ESTC R23567	76,055	190

the Lord and believed in him and when as it s said the Word of the Lord came unto him That is when he became enlightned by the divine Principle of Gods eternal Love and waxed Obedient unto the holy Voice of Wisdom Then the Lord said thy Name shall no more be called A-bram but A-bra-ham which is as much as to say The Father of the Faithful whereas A-bram his first Name signified a great Lord or Father in Nature but A-bra-ham denoted not only a Father in the outward Nature but a faithful Father in whom the Love and Light of God did govern The same is to be understood of Iacob when he wrestled with God and overcame then and not till then the Angel said unto him As a Prince hast thou Power with God and with Man and hast prevailed therefore thy Name shall no more be called Jacob but Israel Which latter Name does comprehend and truly signifie both the Divine and Humane Nature in which all Mysteries lie hidden This Mystical Language some of the Holy and Wise in all Ages understood even to the time of the Manifestation of the Son of God in the Flesh who himself said to Simon his disciple Thy Name shall be called Cephas which does signifie a Stone or Rock after he had made that sound Confession Thou art Christ the Son of the living God On the Belief of which as on a Rock the Doctrine of Christianity is founded and the Gates of Hell cannot prevail against it So Panl was first called Saul a Name of the sierce Wrath and lordly Spirit as appears by King Saul who disobeyed the Voice of the Lord and persecuted David without cause and so also did this Saul the Servants of God with all Violence and a mad zeal Imagining that therein he had done God good Service But when once the Lord h●…d met with him and struck him blind in order to giving him true sight and had altered his Nature and Spirit then the Lord tells hi●… ●…e shall no more be called Saul but Paul a Name of Humility and sounding forth the Principle of divine Love So ●…congruous and Absurd was it thought to continue those Names which were not suitable to the Natures of those that bear them Yet nothing is more frequent amongst us nay many in these latter days do chuse Names for their Children not only unsit and unsuitable but even such as does signifie the holy Vertues even of very Divinity it self as Faith Hope Charity Grace Emmanuel c. Which Names do truly signifie the Goodness and holy Vertues of God which rarely have any simile with the predominant Qualities in the People so named Therefore every time such People are named those that call them are not only guilty of a Lye and Breach of that Command Thou shalt not call Evil Good nor Good Evil but also do take the Name of the Lord in vain by expressing the holy Virtues without due regard and blasphemously attributing them to such as live in the contrary Principle viz. of ●…ierceness Uncleanness and Wrath. What a Mistake not what an Impiety is it to call a Vile Wicked Man Emmanuel which is the true Name of the blessed and adorable Saviour of the World viz. our Lord Iesus Christ. But the Reason of the difference between the Practice of this Age and that of the wise Antients is this When the holy men of old named their Children or gave Names to any other thing they applyed themselves to the Oracle of God to that divine and natural Wisdom that taught both Adam and others apt and proper Names whereby to express the Nature and Virtue of each thing But this Mysterious Knowledge hath now scarce any being or at least is not regarded by the Sons of Men Ignorance and Conceitedness having gotten the Dominion and captivated the divine Understanding and Gift of God in mans Soul which ought to be the Directer in all things a man undertakes to do for all true natural and divine Knowledge of Nature and Himself do hence proceed even that Essential Word that made all things and is the true Life and Power that preserves them all To which most Noble yet most Benigne Courtcous and Familiar Master I commend all my Fellow-Shepherds earnestly advising them to apply themselves unto him who is always most ready and willing to teach and instruct every one that cometh unto him being weary of false Opinion Tradition and the Ways of the Multitude This Divine Master is near unto every one he is no Respecter of Persons plain Russet is as acceptable in his sight as Cloth of Gold and Tissue and the Shepherd as welcome as the Prince for he maketh no difference between any that are humble and not too wise in their own Conceit nor will he puzzle the Heads or torture the Brains of his Scholars with the reading of Multitudes of Books Three Volums compleat his Library two of his Works viz. the Internal and the external or the Microcosm and the Megacosm the little World or a mans own self and the great World or that vast expanded Folio of created Beeings Vegetable Annimal and Mineral Coelestial and Terrestrial and the the third is the holy Book of divine Scriptures Here are all the Authors taught in this School and yet containing infinitely more Wisdom than Ptolomy's vast Library at Alexandria or all the Book-Trash of the Vatican Nor shall you here be encumbred with that Lip-Learning of various Tongues and Languages which spends most part of a mans Life whilst he vainly endeavours to get a Blessing from the Confusion of a Curse and when he has done is as ignorant of himself and of Nature and of●… every thing worthy to be known as in the beginning and many times more too Presumption and Op●…nion of Science being now added to his natural Ignorance But this most excellent Tutor opening the Eyes of the Mind and fixing them inward lays open to him all the Treasures and Mysteries contained in himself where lie finds the true Vertue Power and Nature of all Elements and thereby is fit to look abroad and thence-forth capable to judge of the Nature the Vertues or Vices hidden Properties and Manifestations of all things he meets with in the great World and joyns in this mystical Language of Nature with every Creature whose Voice or Tone proceeds from Equality ●…hereby making a joynt Consort of Praises to the glorious Creator and Fountain of Intellectual Harmony Of the Excellency of a Shepherds Life and that it is no less Innocent and Honourable than Antient. OF all sorts of Husband-men Shepherds have the Advantage of Imployment 1st For that they have one of the most Innocent kinds of Annimals to converse with 2dly Because the same is easie and most part of the year pleasant 3dly Since they have the most spare Time for Contemplation which if well imployed will furnish them with many Excellencies both in Divine and Humane Gifts Time is a precious thing and there are none but

Sots and idle Drones that dare spend it in waste Now of this choice Commodity Shepherds having so great a stock they will be more than others to blame if they do not improve it to the enriching of their Mind with excellent Notions 4thly In former Ages no Imployment was counted so Noble Pleasant and Honourable Princes have envyed the jocund Shepherds Happiness and some crowned Heads abandoned the Toilsom Gayeties of Empire and voluntarily exchanged their Scepters for the Innocent Pastoral Crook But what spake we of Kings and Princes most of the Eminent Prophets and holy Wise Men that were born and liv'd up to a far greater Dignity than that of a perishing Crown were not ashamed to be Shepherds As Abel the first good man after the Fall and Iacob that eminent Patriarch who brought up his whole Jury of Sons not excepting Levi himself to the same Occupation That illuminate Prophet Moses who slighted the Delights of Pharoah's Court chose the Life of a Shepherd tho' but as a Servant to another on the Plains of Midian And Royal David spent his Younger years in no other Imployment All these and many other holy Personages and Prophets husbanded their time so well whilst they were tending their Flocks that the Lord endued them with many divine and natural Endowments so that they were all well acquainted with the most hidden Mysteries of Nature and had the Knowledge of the Astral Sciences as well as of the Inferiour Operations When the blessed Iesus descended from the ever-blissful Regions of Glory to become Man that he might enable man to be re-united with God the most Illustrious Appearance of his Coelestial Attendants the holy Angels was first to the Innocent Shepherds in the Fields of Bethlehem Have not the Priests and Ministers of God both in the first and second Testament gone under the Denomination of Shepherds A Title our Saviour himself vouchsafes to take upon him and calls his Disciples and chosen Ones His Flock whom he saith hear his Voice and follow him where-ever he goeth A Metaph●…r drawn from the Nature of this Annimal and true in the History and Figure as well as in the Mystery For if Sheep be on a Bridge or dangerous Precipiece if one that is their Leader be forced into the Water or the like all the other will usually of their own accord leap in after though it be to their apparent Destruction such a natural Simpathy there is between them and one with another But now in these degenerate days and Dregs of Time and the very Rust of an Iron-Age all these things are forgotten and neglected not only by others but even by Shepherds themselves and they grow Careless and consequently uncapable of their own Happiness O! what Excellency of Parts and Wisdom might they attain unto would they but lay out their spare Minutes in retired Thoughts and serious Meditations which might not only render them able to preserve their Flocks in perfect Health and Splendor but furnish their own Minds with an understanding of the holy Secrets both Divine and Natural to know the operation of the Coelestial Bodies and Elements the use of Herbs Seeds and Grains and the Virtues therein contained with the degrees of Temperance requisit in the use of them all especially having the Advantages of Silence and Solitariness those two grand Hand-Maids to Wisdom Their Imployment consisting of one simple thing not pestered with many Visitors nor the Impertinent Chat of a Multitude of Customers nor the Trouble of Bills of Exchange nor undermining Flatteries of Courtiers nor litigious Plagues of Mercinary Tongues or tedious Attendants on Quirking Lawyers and the like mischievous En●…umbrances which render most Peoples Lives burdensome and divert their Thoughts from all things truly great and Noble whereas the whole course of their Life is or may and ought to be a quiet and delightful study for which purpose they have always presented before their Eyes the harmonious Motions of the Coelostial Bodies and the Ravishing Beauties of the Vegetable Kingdom the Glorious Stars of the bespangled Firmament with their wonderful Courses Risings Settings and Operations as also the Resplendent Treasures of the Teeming Earth in innumerable Herbs and Flowers breathing out Cordial and Reviving Exhalations as in Gratitude repaying by such Aromatick Scents and Oblations the kindness of those Sun-Beams and sweet Influences of the Air which have contributed to their Birth Add to this that their Ears are always filled with the delicious Consorts and charming Harmonies of the Wood and Field-Mulitians whilst their Eyes are delighted in beholding their Innocent Sheep and Lambs seeding and playing round about them all which cannot but afford an incredible Delight Pleasure to their Minds if they are but Intelligible And as there is no Occupation more Antient Honourable or Beneficial so neither is their any so Innocent and Harmless A Merchant is rarely saith the Wise man without sin It s Naught it s Naught saith the Buyer but when he is gone away he boas●…eth will be true in all Ages as well as Solomon's The Criticism of Trade as 't is now mannag'd is little more than one mans Circumventing another And how much vain expence of Words to say no worse is become almost necessary in Retailing is obvious to every man that ever bought but a pair of Shoes and every Woman that has laid out so much as a Penny in Threed or an half Penny in Needles By what Craft Lawyers Physitians and other Gown-men generally heap up Mouldering Estates need not be mention'd But the Honest Shepherd is freed even from all these Temptations His Charge gives their Guide no evil Example Malice Ambition Revenge Treachery are their altogether Strangers No Quarrels for Right of Dominion No Insurrections No private Repinings No PLOTS No Treasons No Murders No Love-Intrigues are there to be heard they feed quietly together are still and Patient contented with that innocent Food and simple Drink which bounteous Nature hath prepared for them In a word Sheep are the Emblems and lively Patterns of all Virtue Innocency Disdain not therefore O ye Shepherds to learn those Qualities of them since you know the Wisest Solomon sent some men to School to learn of the Ant or Pismire But be you Sober and Temperate endeavour to know your selves and the degrees of your own Nature which will enable you to understand all other things aright Improve your Time let no Moment which is never to be recall'd pass without doing or being imployed in some good Work Read good Books especially that Book of Books The Bible Turn your Eyes inward think What you are Whence you came And how What you are composed of To what end you are made and endued with so many Sences and such a degree of Understanding How you now live What helps and what hinders the Functions of your Life What must be your End And whither you tend And what are the proper and only means to make you happy here and hereafter