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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
love_n	heart_n	love_v	sin_n	9,337	5	4.8347	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A07227	A handful of essaies. Or Imperfect offers: by W: Mason Master of Arts	Mason, William, M.A.	1621 (1621)	STC 17624; ESTC S112442	21,733	138

The world is a faire table wherein God hath drawn and imprinted himselfe in so many Charrecters and legible letters as the simplest man liuing may read and vnderstand the same and by the greatnesse of the beauty of the creature may the Creator thereof bee seene and knowne Those who in old time were accounted Atheists some of them rather iested at the falsehood number of their owne Idols then denied the being of one true God Socrates who was pronounced by the Oracle of Apollo to bee the wisest man of all was put to death for iesting at the number and multitude of Gods amongst the Heathens Though there be some such fooles which suffer their hearts to bee diuorced from the know selfe is vnfruitfull and like the Vine vnprooued runnes foorth into many superfluous stemmes and branches nothing on mans part but a holy and vertuous education can make it fruictifie goodnesse although it may be repaired in our selues yet it cannot bee propagated vnto ours very seldome doe men see the sonnes of excellent men excellent vice is propagated not vertue Euen the clearest graine sends forth that chaffe from which it was fanned before the sowing Yet many Parents take more care to leaue their Children rich in goods then in goodnesse by reason whereof their riches make them retchlesse For comming to their Inheritance too young their heads being as full of folly as their purses of money They like the Prodigall Son consume all in riotous liuing so giuing their Parents iust cause to complain as Tiberius once did of his Sonne Caligula that he had brought him vp to bee the ruine of his House This mischiefe good and Religious education will helpe to preuent Socrates confesseth that with the study of Philosophy he had made dull and blunt his dishonest inclinations those infectious and venemous qualities which are in the springs of youth the falt of good education will helpe to cure for want of this Parents who haue named their Sons Caine a Possession in the end find them to be Abell Losse and Vanity 5. Of the Commons POpulari vento nihil inconstantius for the Commons as vnstable as quicksiluer fawning on a man will make him a King to day and a Begger to morrow Seianus in the forenoone was so fauoured and followed by the people that they would haue made him their Caesar yet hated him so much in the afternoone that they sent him as a malefactor vnto prison The same Antiochus was at one time saluted both 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a glorious Prince and a furious Tirant Homer as blind as hee was sawe as much hee compares the disposition of the common people to the standing corne there comes a puffe of wind blowes it all on the one side there comes another blast and swayes it as much on the other side It is a fit comparison made by that Kingly Prophet It is the Lord that stilleth the rage of the Sea the noise of the waues and the madnesse of the people Psal 65. Agreeing therein with the Prophet Esay Chap 17. 12. Where the nature of the people is compared to the billowes of the working-sea that cannot rest so easily set agog so delighted with nouelties so full of alteration chang are the affections of the common people The Mariner may aswell wrap vp the winde in his saile-cloth and keepe it for another voyage as the Prince can mannage the vntamed multitude those mouthes which cryed Hosanna at the first cryed out ere long Crucifige 6. Of bribing THe best Gouernours are not all-seeing Gods for Gehezi wil haue a bribe though he serue a most reuerend Master of him none can expect a blessing vntill with Isaack hee hath felt your hands all his sences being turned into feeling He speakes to poore suitors as that olde strumpet in Plautus did to a worne-out Customer of hers who asked dayes of payment for his pleasure oculatae nostrae sunt manus credunt quod vident people of our trade haue eyes in their hands they beleeue nothing but what they see Petty Officers diue deepe into poore suitors purses for spinning out a short subiect into a long matter they doe bring in a large reckoning for much needelesse writing And yet as time-sellers the Clarke causeth the poore Clyent to pay for expedition too when the suite hath depended seauen yeares before This often causeth both an ebbe and a flood both in an hower the emptying of the Clyents purse being the full filling of the Clarkes who like Gehezi when he receiueth a bribe belieues hee receiueth a blessing but as there lay a curse vnder Gehezi his hoping for blessing as he felt to his own cost when the Leprosie of Naaman cleaued vnto him So there is a curse vnder their blessing For fire as Iob speaketh shall deuoure the houses of bribes Iob. 15. 34. It was a worthy answere made by the Heathenish Prince Tiberius to a polling Customer of his that thoght to haue highly pleased him with racking his subiects and exacting great summes Meum tondèri pecus volo non deglubi It is the property of these vnder-hand dealers to pretend great husbandry for their Maisters and double diligence in their seruice Vnder which colour they practise their iniquity without check or controulement I referre such to that threatning of the Lord in the Prophet I will visit all those that stand vpon the threshold so proudly which fill their Maisters houses by cruelty and deceit Zephan 1. 9. The Throne of King Salomon had Lyons carued about it to declare a kinde of Maiesty and grauity in the steppes of it not Rauens not Wolues Birds and Beasts of prey So should great mens seruants and Officers of Iustice bee Lyons in shewe for grauity yet harmeles as those Images about Salomons Seate rather terrible to them that stand aloofe then hurtful to any who haue occasion to come neare 7. Of Vsury THis sinne of vnlawfull getting vnlawful gaine is as the forbidden Tree for men hauing many honest Trades to get their liuing by Gods ordinance yet they vse indirect meanes turning the Princes tolleration into an imparatiue law like them Math 19. Who saide vnto our Sauiour Moses commanded when of force hee was faine to suffer diuorcements to auoide further inconneniences This sinne is like Salomons louing of strang women 1. Reg both estrange men and turne their hearts from the loue of God and enrich their bodies with the sinne of their soules for Faenus pecuniae funus animae This is hee who maketh something of nothing mauger the head of naturall Philosophy for hee maketh that breede and encrease which by nature is barren and vnapt to encrease Basil tearmes Vsury a beast of a strange and monsterous nature because in bringing foorth it differs from other Creatures which hee sheweth because other creatures haue a time to bring forth perfect young but the vsurers money is borne to day to day begins to bring foorth They say hat