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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
love_n	affection_n	lord_n	love_v	5,446	5	6.1547	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01085	Eirenopolis: = the citie of peace Surueyed and commended to all Christians. By Tho. Adams.	Adams, Thomas, fl. 1612-1653.	1622 (1622)	STC 112; ESTC S115261	32,650	192

sends vs in her fruites the Sea her merchandise Wee are neere enough the benefits and farre enough from the dangers of the Ocean Nothing is wanting to the consummation of our happinesse to keepe vs in our owne Countrey in our owne Citie in our owne Houses but that which keepes men in their wits Temperance and Thankfulnesse But doe wee not requite this Riuer of Prosperitie with vngrateful impietie and vse the Ocean of Gods bountie as wee doe the Thames It brings vs in all manner of prouision Clothes to couer vs Fuell to warme vs Food to nourish vs Wine to cheare vs Gold to enrich vs and we in recompense foile it with our rubbish filth common sewers such excretions It yeeldes vs all manner of good things and we requite it with all plentie of bad things It comes flowing in with our commodities we send it loaden backe with our iniuries Such toward God is the impious ingratitude of this famous Citie which else had no Paralell vnder the Sunne Shee may not vnfitly bee compared to certaine Pictures that represent to diuers beholders at diuers stations diuers formes Looking one way you see a beautifull Virgine another way some deformed monster Cast an eye vpon her Profession shee is a well grac'd creature turne it vpon her conuersation shee is a mishapen stigmaticke View her Peace shee is fayrer then the daughters of men viewe her Pride the children of the Hittites and Amorites are beautious to her Think of her good works then Blessed art thou of the Lord number her sinnes then How is that faithfull Citie become an harlot 〈…〉 To tell of her Charitie and how many hundreds she feedes in a yeare you will say with Paul In this I praise her To tell of her oppressions and how many thousands shee vndoes in a yeare you will say with him againe In this I praise her not Behold her like a Nourse drawing her Brests and giuing milke to Orphans you wish her Cup to runne ouer with fulnesse Behold her like a Horse leech sucking the blood of the Church to feede her owne sacrilegious auarice you will say her Cup is too full When wee thinke of her prosperitie wee wonder at her impietie when we thinke of her impietie wee wonder at her prosperitie O that her Citizens would learne to mannage their liberall fortunes and to entertaine the Riuer of Peace that makes glad the Citie of God with Humilitie and Sobrietie That when Death shall disfranchise them heere they may be made free aboue in that tryumphant Citie whose glory hath neither measure nor end The Life of the Citizens Is Loue for without the loue of men there can be no peace of God and there is no loue of God in them that desire not peace with men He that loues not the members was neuer a friend to the Head To say we loue Christ and hate a Christian is as if a man while hee was saluting or protesting loue to his freind should tread on his toes I know indeed that euery creature is to bee loued but in ordine ad Deum Religion doth not forbid but rectifie our affections Our Parents spouses children allies countrymen neighbors friends haue all their due places in our loue and it were a brutifh doctrine to dispossesse vs of these humane relations Onely they must know their orders and stations and by no meanes vsurpe vpon God they must not be mistresses but handmaides to the loue of Christ. But let vs loue them because they loue God as reflections of our sight which glaunce from the Lord vpon his Image if God haue their hearts let them haue our hearts It is poore to loue a man for that is about him hee must bee loued for that is within him If wee should account of men as we doe of bagges prize them best that weigh heauiest and measure out our loue by the Subsidie-booke honouring a man because he is well cloathed I see then no reason but wee should doe greater reuerence to the Bason and Euer on the stall then to the Goldsmith in the Shop and most humbly salute Sattin Veluet in whole pieces because their virgin-glory was neuer yet rauished and abused into fashion No but especially let vs loue others because they feare God and serue Iesus Christ. For as the braine is to the sinewes the liuer to the veines and the heart to the arteries so is Gods loue to humane societies as the very soule by which they liue and the forme that giues them being Otherwise our companies are conspiracies when we fall in one with another to fall out with God Let vs beginne our loues aboue deriuing this holy fire from the Altar of Heauen let our faith inkindle it at the heart of Christ and then like the Cherubins wee shall looke graciously one vpon another while all faithfully looke vp to the Mercy-seate of God The generall State of this Citie This is the Corollary of all euery particular being cast vp heere is the summe her vniuersall felicitie For the illustration whereof it will not bee vnusefull to borrow an instance and wee need not trauell farre to seeke out such an image or resemblance Looke wee vpon our owne Nation the happy Module of this Citie of peace It was sayd that in Rome a man might see all Countries and the Romans vsed to solace themselues It is good looking on a Map of the World vbi nihil in orbe videmus alienum when wee find nothing in the world which is not our owne What doth the whole earth produce which is not yeelded to our enioying What was once sayd of Ormus is true of this Citie Turne the world into a Ring and this is the Diamond of it Like to Gideons Fleece it hath been wet with the dewe of heauen when drought was on the whole earth besides Or like Nylus which keeps within the Bankes when other Riuers ouerflow their continents Some Nations haue peace but without the Truth other haue the Trueth but without Peace wee haue both Truth and Peace Our neighbours haue beene exercised with troubles whirled about with hostile tumults their eares affrighted with the thunder of those murdering pieces their eyes agashed with their Temples and Tabernacles flaming about their heads Infants bleeding vpon the stones and their amazed mothers rauished ere they can bee permitted to die The shrikes of the dying and slauery of the liuing vnder the mercilesse hands of a killing or insulting aduersary these haue beene their distracting obiects none of them come neere vs. There is no rifling of houses no flying to refuges no rotting in Dungeons no ruinating of Monuments no swelling the chanels with blood no fiering of Cities no Rapes of Virgines no dashing of Babes against the stones nor casting them as they droppe from their mothers wombes into their mothers flames But in stead of these the truth of the Gospell is preached pietie professed the practise of it encouraged Grace promising and Peace performing blessed

as Paul loued his malefactors Hee would doe any thing to saue them that would do any thing to kill him Others offences to vs are but small valued with ours against God who is infinite If he forgiue the pounds let not vs sticke at the farthing tokens The next Gate Is Beneficence Doing good is the fortification of peace This may be called Ald-gate not only because there is the picture of Charitie at the gate I doe not say as neere going out but at the gate to keepe goodnesse in But because that is called the Old-gate and Charitie was a vertue of olde times not so much now in fashion The heathen Moralist said wee must vse men thus Benevelle omnibus benefacere amicis wish well to all and doe good onely to our friends But the cleere light of nature which is the Gospell chargeth vs while wee haue opportunitie to doe good to all men albeit with some preferment of the best especially to the houshold of Faith All men may bee ranked vnder one of these combinations Rich and poore home-borne and strangers friends enemies First for the rich and poore the Pharisee wil stand on good terms with the rich inuite them for a re-inuitation as men at Tennisse tosse the ball to another that hee may tosse it to them againe but who helpes the poore Wealth maketh many friends but the poore is separated from his neighbours If hee doe well he is not regarded if ill hee is destroyed The poore man by his wisdome deliuered the citie from the force of a puissant enemy yet whē all was done no man remembred that poore man But if hee stumble they will helpe to ouerthrowe him How contemptibly doth a rich epicure look vpon a poore beggar yet the rich and the poore meete together and the Lord is the maker of them all In all our graund Feasts the guestes that Christ spoke for are left out For Domestickes and strangers many haue so much religion as to prouide for their owne yea so much irreligion as to do it with the preiudice of the publicke good and hazard of their own soules but who prouides for strangers Entertaine strangers for thereby some haue entertained Angels vnawares but for all this possible happinesse few will put it to the venture and were they indeed Angels without angels in their purses to pay for it they should find cold entertainment Friends and enemies for friends many will be at peace with them till they bee put to the triall by some expressiue action And then they will rather hazard the losse of a friend then the lest losse by a friend But suppose we answere our friendes in some slight courtesie hoping for a greater who will doe good to his enemies If thine enemie hunger feed him so thou shalt heape soales of fire on his head Do it not with an intent to make his reckoning more but thy owne reckoning lesse Loue your enemies blesse them that curse you doe good to them that hate you and pray for them that despitefully vse you Doe vnto them deeds of amitie deeds of charitie deeds of pietie Of amitie Loue them that hate you of Charitie Doe good to them that hurt you of Pietie Pray for thē that persecute you There is the Diligite of the Heart Loue your enemies The Benedicite of the Tongu Blesse them that curse you The Benefacite of the Hand Doe good to them that hate you The Beneuelle of all Pray for thē that persecute you Loue your enemies there is Affectus cordis Doe them good there is Effectus operis Pray for them there is Perfectio charitatis But the wiseman counsels Doe well to him that is lowly but giue not to the vngodly And Giue vnto the good not to the sinner Though not Qua impius and quia impiu● yet qua homo and quia homo wee must releeue him Cherish himselfe not his sinne Wee must loue him non quoad culpam sed quoad naturam They are Gods children licet insani although they be sick and our brethren licet infirmi although they bee weake Therefore for the conformitie of nature because we are the same workmanship for our owne benefite for hee that doth good to his enemy euen in that doth better to himselfe and for the imitation of Him wee worship let vs vphold Peace by Charitie His Sunne rises and raine falls both on the iust and vniust Noli negare quod Deus nulli negat Thus looking vp with pietie to the Lords perfection and downe with pitie vpon mans imperfection let vs doe good to all Through the gate of Beneficence doth the charitable man enter into the Citie of Peace Hee that is couetous must needs be mutinous He that is greedy of gaine troubleth his owne house Salomon cals him a trouble-house and wee doe find him a trouble-citie as Demetrius did all Ephesus But Charitie makes peace Diuitem voluit Deus vt pauperem adiuvaret Pauperem voluit vt diuitem probaret God makes some rich to helpe the poore and suffers some poore to try the rich The loaden would bee glad of ease now charitie lighteneth the rich man of his superfluous and vnweldy cariage When the poor find mercy they will be tractable when the rich find quiet they should bee charitable Would you haue your goods kept in Peace First lock them vp by your prayers then open them againe with your thankfull vse and trust them in the hands of Christ by your Charitie This Citie heares ill for oppression and is I feare too iustly suspected of Iniustice now the most noble confutation of iealousie is by deeds of charitie This is the East-gate to the Citie of Peace and I may from Saint Paul call it the principall and most excllent way Whosoeuer can shew you the way better yet certainly none can shew you a better way The fourth Gate Is Recompence or Satisfaction and this we may liken to Creeple-gate It is the lamest way to peace yet a way it is a halting gate but a gate It were far better comming into this Citie by any of the former gates yet better at this then none All come not in by Innocence nor all by Patience nor all by Beneficence but if they haue failed in these they must be admitted by recompence or not at all The first best is to do no iniury the next is Satisfaction to make amends for that wee haue done Hortensins sayd of his mother Ego nunquam cum ea inivi gratiam I neuer was reconciled to her because we two neuer fell out O that the Inhabitants of this citie could say so of their neighbours Wee neuer were made friends because wee neuer were foes But as our Sauiour saith It is necessary that offences doe come not that it should be so but that it will be so There is no necessity that compels a man to sinne except that the heart being euill will giue