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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
love_n	affection_n	heart_n	know_v	3,560	5	3.6423	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A58916	A sermon preach'd in the chappel of His Excellency the Spanish embassador on the second Sunday of Advent, December 4. 1687. On which was solemniz'd the Feast of St. Francis Xaverius, of the Society of Jesus, apostle of the Indies and Kingdom of Japan. By the R.F. Lewis Sabran of the same Society. Permissu superiorum.	Sabran, Lewis, 1652-1732.	1687 (1687)	Wing S221A; ESTC R219047	32,337	38

possessing and guiding our Hearts said therefore by Christ to be c Regnum Dei intra nos est within us d Regnum Dei vim patitur violenti rapiunt illud suffers violence and those only attain to it who use such force that who loves his Soul will lose it and who hates his Soul seemingly by a severe and hard usage will preserve it to Eternal Life and esteemed those happy with S. Augustin e Si male amantris tunc odisti si bene oderis tunc amasti felices qui custodiunt odiendo perdant amanda Aug. Tract 51. in Joan. who support by that holy hatred what by an indulging love they had destroyed he knew that such Mortifications serve to stop those violent Inclinations which bear away our Souls from all attention to our Spiritual and Eternal Concerns riveting them as it were in Temporal and Sensual ones that such Affections being by those exterior checks driven back into our Hearts increase mightily the strength of a Soul moving with united Forces towards God. Therefore in imitation of Gods holy Servants with a S. Paul f Perimat amittar usum ejus scilicet perversum quo inclinatur temporalibus ut aeterna non quaerat De Doct. Chr. l. 3. c. 16. he chastized his Body with frequent bloody Disciplines with St. Benedict he tore his Flesh with Brambles and Thorny Rods g Per cutis vulnera eduxit à corpore vulnus mentis quia voluptatem traxit in dolorem G. G. l. Dial. c. 2. by those wounds of his Body applying a Salve to those of his Mind and driving away dangerous Pleasures by Pains With holy Judith and vertuous Anna he covered himself with a rude Hair Shirt and passed his Life in long continued Watching and Praying with Gregory Nazianzen he lay on the bare Ground or Cables or when most at ease on a Matt. 'T was by the same Principle he acted when aplying his Mouth to the purulent Ulcers of the Sick he attended he sucked the filthy Matter out of them Led away by the same he refused passing near the Castle of Xavier to see his loving Mother before he begun his Mission to a new World. And our Blessed Lord confirmed by a continued Miracle how acceptable the Sufferings and Toils of Xaverius were for a large Crucifix to be yet seen in the said Castle the Side Arms and Feet remaining yet covered with a Crust of Blood did from those Wounds yield abundance of it whenever Xaverius was in imminent Dangers or extraordinary Toils in the Indies That Year the Saint died it issued every Friday to that which fell on the Second of December An. 1552. the Forty sixth of his the last Day of his Life on Earth and the first of his Happiness in Heaven But if Xaverius during the Course of his Missions to the end of that of his Life was ever attended by those singular Graces from Heaven which authorised so many different Nations to give him the Title of Apostle God by a singular Providence equally glorifying himself in this Saint after his Death hath added such an unquestionable Proof of his Mission that no false Prophet nor Impostor was ever followed beyond Life by any shadow of it Both Worlds know the frequent Miracles wrought the innumerable Blessings obtained through his Intercession from Heaven His Body left on Earth entire after it had been buried near three Months in quick Lime and after at Malaca above five more in dampish Earth bleeding afresh several Years after when hurt in the Foot ever yielding a sweet Perfume is a sufficient Instance how glorious in the sight of God his Soul is in Heaven If Elizaeus's his Bones were said in holy Writ to Prophetize after Death by reason of the Miracle wrought at their touching a dead Corps to which Life was restored may I not say that in Boubours To. 2. V. X. Xaverius's dead Body still dwells an Apostle so great Prodigies having ever waited on it A raging Plague ceased suddenly at Malaca when it was received there Rocks split and divided themselves to make way for the Ship it was conveyed in All the Sick who saw it when brought to Goa received their Health at that instant And ever since this Apostle hath favored with miraculous Graces obtained by his Intercession all Nations in the old and his new World which have brought even Mahometans Jews and Infidels to his Sepulchre to view that miraculous Body of a more miraculous Soul which must force all that shall stand to that most impartial Trial which our most Blessed Lord recommends to us By their Fruits you shall know them to own Ex fructibus eorum cognoscetis eos Xaverius an Apostle most highly favored by Almighty God with most unquestionable Miracles and equally prodigious Virtues You are then still great Saint you are to this Age to our Kingdom an Apostle the Miracles you wrought when on Earth and obtained since still Preach the truth of that Catholic Religion which you Planted in so many Kingdoms We are all forced to use those words to you which Nicodemus spoke to our Blessed Lord when he owned him as yet but a Prophet Scimus Rabbi scimus quia à Deo venisti Magister Joan. 3. We know God sent you to Preach and Teach for no one can do those Wonders which you work if God be not with him Obtain great Saint obtain for this Nation a due Acknowledgment of this Truth a pious Assent to it This Kingdom hath a particular Title to your Protection since the Alms which your holy Father St. Ignatius gathered here enabled him to win himself into your Acquaintance and Favor and so to work under God your total Conversion to a pious Life One Favor more then a Neighboring Kingdom that obtained the like through your Intercession minds me to crave through your Merits by the joynt Prayers of this pious Assembly Marguerit of Austria after twenty years Barrenness obtained from Heaven a Son who sits now on the Throne of France and she ever owned that you were the Saint by whose Intercession she sought chiefly that great Blessing for her and her Kingdom These three Kingdoms expect a like Happiness from our Most Gracious and Pious Queen Permit not great Saint that your devout Clients be disappointed in their Expectation of a Prince May we owe to your Intercession so great a Blessing a Prince who may equal in Learning the great Alfred in Piety St. Edward in Prowess the Third and First of that Name in Victories Henry the Fifth the Seventh in Wisdom that is in a word who may inherit soon his Royal Father's Virtues and late his Throne Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam FINIS