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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	death_n	die_v	life_n	17,942	5	5.0592	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A56724	The third part of the soul's delight collected and composed out of the works of the glorious virgin, St. Teresa of Iesus (author of the reformation of the Holy Order of the B.V. Mary of the Mount Carmell,) by the R.F. Paul of St. Vbald, religious of the same order, for the comfort of those that are more spirituall, and haue supernaurall prayer.; Jesus Maria Joseph Teresia. The soul's delight.	Teresa, of Avila, Saint, 1515-1582.; Paul, of St. Ubald, Brother.	1654 (1654)	Wing P876B; ESTC R218976	49,433	122

rest in thee 8. Of the soul also in this spirituall drunknesse it is said in the canticles he brought me into the winecellar and ordered Cant. 2. v. 4. in me charity there she was ouercome with the strength of those diuine liquours she became wholy drunke with loue she could goe no further nor part the place but fell into the armes and sweet embracements of her beloued who placed his left hand vnder her head and embraced her with his right by the left vnderstand his mercy keeping her from sinne least she should fall and by the right his loue couering her ouer with many graces blessings and fauours 9. O Blessed drunknes o happy foollishnes o diuine frensy o celestiall loue who can tell your worth O true louer of our soules Christ Iesu how forcibly with the odours of thy sweet oyntments do'st thou draw young Virgins to witt pious soules after thee if the loue of mortall creatures be so forcible as to depriue people of their witt and the vse of reason and euen to cause them run naked and sensles about the streetes what shall we say then of this diuine loue 10. These pious soules O Lord are in loue with thy infinit goodnesse they are rauisht with thy rare beauty they are ouer delighted with thy sweetnesse they are not themselues they are vnquiet and haue no rest without thee they feele inwardly a burning fire which doth consume them and what is it but that fire of charity which thou ha'st ordered in them they are by it strongly in loue yea drunke with loue and quite besyde themselues they doe loue and know not what but what they loue is that which thou art faine they would enioy thee entyrely and not by partes being their only good this they desyre this they inquire after but know not how it may be had which maketh them wholy restlesse vntill they rest in thee for whether sickly or healthy ill or well liuing or dead in heauen or hell they regard not so they may be with thee for they are wholy thyne 11. This diuine loue doth leaue them no other force or ability then to leaue themselues wholy to God and giue consent that he may dispose all and doe with them what he please and as he thinkes fitting in so much that then they cannot though they would apply them selues to any other thing but to adheare to God alone neither can they diuert themselues neuer so litle without great paine 12. Heere they cannot but be attentiue heare see and know his sweet whisper pleasant voyce and Holy will with great content heere they may say with Samuell the Prophet speake o Lord for 1. king 3. v. 10 thy seruant doth heare that is to say is attentiue to heare and know what thy will and pleasure is to obey and fullfill it and with Holy Dauid say I will heare Ps 84. v. 9. that is attend to what my Lord shall speake in me for he doth speake peace vnto his people as if he said I will giue care attentiuely to the words of my God for they are of that Maiesty and vertue that though my soul were in darknesse tempted and troubled the only sound of his voyce disperseth all on a sudden leaueth a light and inward peace to all my powers and senses with so great ioy and satisfaction that they are wholy recollected and setled and in a manner totally drowned in delight 13. VVonderfull are the effects that God worketh in the soul that is in this degree farre surpassing those of quiet prayer for besyde that she doth possesse his diuine Maiesty more entirely then in that and that her ioy and delight are greater her loue increaseth to a great height and her vertues are more solid and her inward change is noted by her outward behauiour which she cannot couer nor hyde for all her actions are more stayd and graue then formerly and she would not liue longer in this life if she could and her desyre is so great to be with him in endlesse rest that it were sufficient to end her if it were not that she doth think to doe him some seruice in suffering the miseryes and persecutions of this world for loue of him esteeming that as yet she did very litle or nothing in his seruice who is goodnesse it selfe and to whom she is so much obliged 14. Her intention to please and honour him is pure without any selfe interest she feare 's no trubles nor any thing of this world but to displease him in the very least imperfection she doth proceede with all fidelity and sincerity her conuersation is only and wholy in heauen with and for God she doth not affect her owne content or gust though neuer so spirituall so much as the honour of God and to doe his will in all things 15. O loue great is thy worth and greater thy worke they that doe possesse thee cannot but worke they aspire to great matters beyond theyr ability thinking all things possible to loue therefore S. Paul sayd I can doe all things in him Philip. 4. v. 13 who doth strengthen me Christ they are neuer better feasted neuer more ioyed and delighted neuer more sweetly comforted and contented then when they suffer troubles disgraces persecutions torments and euen death it selfe for their beloued therefore our Holy Mother S. Teresa was wont to say to In her life chap. 40. God with whose loue she was inflamed graunt me o Lord eyther to suffer or to dye for nothing but suffering for his sake could preserue her lyfe for in this she had some content and her compagnion in her troubles the venerable Father John a cruce allwayes desyred either to suffer or be contemned and thus God is truly wonderfull in his saints for what can be more admirable then to see one desyre and thirst after those things which are contrary yea destructiue to nature as to suffer torments and death it selfe but this is the priuiledg and efficacy of diuine loue which can haue no ●est but in the nest where it was bred and whence it came so God loued the world that he gaue them his only son who suffered death with loue of them 16. But you must obserue that though commonly in this degree the vnderstanding and memory are so well employed that they haue no ability or power to apply themselues to any other thing then beholding and enioying what our Lord is pleased to represent vnto them Yet some tymes his Maiesty whose captiues they are is pleased to set them free and at liberty and though the will doth remaine strongly vnited they may employ themselues in outward workes of vertue as to frequent the quire sing write read and other workes of charity according to their state of life which in deede is a great benefit for then Martha and Mary the actiue and contemplatiue life like two louing sisters doe walke hand in hand together for the will as Mary remayning in his sweet