Selected quad for the lemma: love_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
love_n	good_a	hate_v	hatred_n	2,544	5	9.6222	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A05367	Hygiasticon: Or, The right course of preserving life and health unto extream old age together with soundnesse and integritie of the senses, judgement, and memorie. Written in Latine by Leonardus Lessius, and now done into English.; Hygiasticon. English	Lessius, Leonardus, 1554-1623.; Cornaro, Luigi, 1475-1566. Discorsi della vita sobria. English.; Herbert, George, 1593-1633.; Ferrar, Nicholas, 1592-1637, attributed name.; Sheppard, Thomas, attributed name.; Landi, Ortensio, ca. 1512-ca. 1553. Esser miglior la vita parca della splendida & sontuosa. English.	1634 (1634)	STC 15520; ESTC S113348	68,762	319

and footstep And by this means it sometimes happens that a man almost quite loseth his memorie and forgetteth all his learning As when abundance of cold Phlegme stops up the narrow passages of the Brain and makes the spirits become sluggish and doth overmuch moisten and cool the substance of the Brain 50. Now all this evil is wonderfully prevented or cured by a sober and convenient course of Diet to wit by abstaining from hot drinks and such as fume except it be in small quantities For albeit wine is hot neverthelesse being drunk often and in abundance it breeds cold diseases to wit Distillations Coughs Runnings at the nose Apoplexies Palsies c. And the reason is because it fills the head with vapours which being there refrigerated are congealed into that cold Phlegme which is the cause of all these evils Nor must a man in this case abstain from hot and fuming drinks onely but also from all abundance of moist things and asmuch as may be hold himself to a drie kinde of diet For so it will come to passe that the superfluous humiditie will either not be bred or being bred will be consumed and consequently that the obstructions caused by means there of will be removed and the passages of the spirits made free and the spirits themselves rarified and brought to their right qualitie and the brain it self reduced to its naturall temper become together with the spirits fit and apt to the service of the Fancie and the Memorie CHAP. XI That it helps the Wit and Understanding 51. The fourth Commoditie is the vigour of the Wit in excogitating reasoning finding out and judging of things and the aptitude and fitnesse that it hath for the receiving of divine Illuminations And hence it comes to passe that men given to Abstinence are watchfull circumspect provident of good forecast able to give counsel and of sound judgement and for matters of learning they do easily grow to excellencie in those things whereunto they apply themselves As for Prayer Meditation and Contemplation they do perform them with great facilitie pleasure spirituall delight The Ancient Fathers and those that lived in the deserts prove this by their example who being most abstinent were alwayes fresh in their mindes and spent whole nights in prayer in search and studie of divine matters with so great solace of minde that they deemed themselves to be in Paradise as it were and perceived not the passage of the time And by this means they came to that great measure of holinesse and familiaritie with God and were adorned with the gifts of prophesie and miracles and became admirable to all the world For having their mindes alwayes lifted up and set on God his Majestie vouchsafed to descend down to them illuminating them wonderfully according as it is in the 34 Psalme They had an eye unto him and were lightened making them partakers of his secrets and instruments of his miraculous works that so the world might know how acceptable their kinde of life was with God and be provoked to the honour imitation of them 52. There are very many also now adayes who tend unto the highest pitches of wisdome and vertue by the self same way of Abstinence whereof some are very admirable in all mens eyes through the abundance of their writings and their ●urpassing learning But no man without the assistance of Sobrietie can perform any such matter and if he obstinately attempt it he shall kill himself long before his time No man is able without the help of this vertue to refrain his passions to keep his minde in quiet to perform the services of the minde about divine mysteries with ease and pleasure or to come to any eminent degree of holinesse For Sobrietie is as it were the ground and Basis of all these things as Cassian teacheth in his 5 Book which is de Gastrimargia chap. 14. 17. So that all the Saints who have gone about the building up of the high Tower of Evangelicall Perfection have made their beginning from this vertue as from the foundation of their spirituall fabrick 52. Nor is it any thing contrarie to this which we have said that Faith ought to be held the foundation of all vertues and consequently the ground-work of all this spirituall building Inasmuch as Faith is the internall and primarie foundation into which all other vertues are set and whereupon they are reared but Abstinence is an outward secondarie and ministeriall foundation inasmuch as it removes those things which breed impediment to the exercises of Faith and to the functions of the Intellectuall facultie or make them full of difficultie unpleasant and tedious And together herewith it affords many helps whereby the functions of the Intellectuall power become more cleare easie to be performed and delightfull For all spirituall progresse doth depend upon the use of the Understanding and of Faith which resides in the Understanding For we cannot love any good thing or profit in the love thereof nor hate any evil thing or grow in the hatred thereof except it be proposed by the Understanding so as it may move the Affections Whereupon he that is so disposed by heavenly Grace as that heavenly matters are alwayes in his minde as it was in the Apostles and in other Apostolicall men will easily contemne all earthly things and so by degrees from a great measure of holinesse attained here below mount up to the enjoyment of a glorious Crown of everlasting blisse in heaven For the Will doth easily conform it self to the judgement of the Understanding when matters are propounded by the Understanding not by starts as it were but constantly and seriously From these grounds it is evident That those things which hinder the functions of the Minde or obscure them or make them to become difficult and irksome are the things which in very truth debarre us from attaining to any great measure of perfection either in Learning or in exercises of Religion or in sanctitie of Life And on the contrarie those things which make the functions of the Minde to become more easie expedite cleare and delightfull are those things which fit a man to intend spirituall affairs with ease and pleasure and do leade on to the readie attainment of excellent wisdome and holinesse 54. Since Sobrietre the hath this vertue that it takes away those things which hinder the consideration of the Minde or make it to become difficult and unpleasant and doth make supply of those things whereby it becomes ea●ie pleasant It deserves ●ustly to be called the secondarie Foundation of wisdome and spirituall progres●e Now 〈◊〉 this is brought to passe is manifest by that which hath been said formerly For the things that hinder speculation and make it irk●ome are these Too much moisture of the brain abundance of vapours and sootie exhalations obstructions of the passages of the brain too much store of bloud heating of the spirits arising from bloud or Choler the flying