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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
master_n	foot_n	lord_n	wash_v	4,431	5	10.4086	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A10878	A treatise of humilitie composed by the Reuerend Father F. Alfonso Rodriguez of the Societie of Iesus. Translated into English; Ejercicio de perfección y virtudes cristianas. Part 2. Treatise 3. English	Rodríguez, Alfonso, 1526-1616.; Matthew, Tobie, Sir, 1577-1655.	1631 (1631)	STC 21145; ESTC S116063	158,233	412

yet to this purpose S. Augustine doth particularly ponder the example which he gaue vs by washing the feete of his disciples vpon that Thursday of the last Supper vhen he was euen vpon the very brīme of his passion and death Christ our Lord saith S. Augustine was not content with hauing giuen vs the exāples of his whole life past nor yet with them alsoe which he was shortly to giue in his passion the same being then soe close at hand wherein he was to appeare according to the Prophett Isay the very last or lowest of men and as the royall Prophet Dauid saith the very reproach and scorne of men yea the very out cast of the world But sciens Iesus quia venit hora eius vt transcat ex hoc mundo ad patrem cum dilexisset suos qui erant in mundo in finem dilexit eos Our Lord Iesus knowing that his hower was now at hād wherein he was to passe out of this world to his Father hi carryed a great loue to his disciples was resolued that he vould expresse it now towards the end of his life And supper being ended he rises from the table he putts off his vpper garment he girds a towell to himselfe he putts water into a basen he prostrates himselfe at the feete of his disciples yea and of Iudas too hee washes them with those diuine hands of his and he wipes them with the towell whereby hee was girt O vnspekable mistery What is this O lord which thou art doeing Domine tu mihi lauas pedes saith the Apostle Saint Peter Thou O Lord to wash my feete The disciples vnderstood not then what he did Quod ego facio tu nescis modo scies autem postea sayth our Lord you vnderstand not now what I am doeing but eare long I will declare it to you Hee returnes to the table and declares the mistery thus at large Vos vocatis me Magister Domine bene dicitis sum etenim si ergo ego lauipedes vestros Dominus Magister vos debetis alter alterius lauare pedes You call me Master and Lord and you say well for soe I am If then I being your Master and your Lord haue humbled my selfe and haue washed your feete you are alsoe to doe the like to one another Exemplum enim dedi vobis vt quemadmodum ego feci vobis ita vos faciatis I haue giuen you an example to the end that you may learne of me and doe as I haue done This is the mistery that you learne to humble your selues as I haue humbled my selfe The importance of this vertue of Humilitie is on the one side soe greate and soe is the difficulty alsoe on the other that our Lord was not content with soe many examples as he had already giuen vs and had then soe neere at hand to giue but that as one who well knewe our Weakenes and who perfectly vnderstood the malignity of that peccant humour whereof our nature was sicke he would needes giue vs this stronge Phisicke against it and put it amongst the cheife legacies of his last will and Testament that so it might remaine the more deepely imprinted in all our harts Vpon those words of Christ our Lord Learne of mee for I am meeke and humble of hart Saint Augustine exclaymes thus O doctrinam s●lutarem O Magistrum dominumque mortalium quibus mors poculo superbiae propinata atque tran●fusa est quid vt ducamus à te venimus ad te O Soueraigne doctrine O Master and Lord of all men into whome death entred by meanes of pride what is it O lord which thou wilt haue vs come and learne of thee That I am meeke and humble of harte This is that which you are to learne of me Huccine redacti sunt omnes thesauri s●pientiae scientiae absconditi in te vt pro magno discamus à te quoniam mitis sum humilis corde In this are the treasures of the wisedome and knowledge of the Father summed vp which haue beene hidden in thee that thou tell vs for the highest pointe that wee must come and learne of thee that Thou art meeke and humble of hart Ita me magnum est esse paruum vt nisi a te qui tam magnus es ficret disci omnino non posset It is so high and great a thinge for a man to make himselfe little that vnlesse thou who art so greate hadst made thy selfe little no man could haue learnt it of thee Yea saith Saint Augustine So great and so hard a thing it is for a man to humble himselfe and make himselfe little that if Gof himselfe had not humbled himselfe and become little men would neuer haue bene brought to humble themselues For there is nothing soe deepely conueyed into their very bowells and soe incorporated as it were into their harts as this desire of being honored and esteemed and therefore was all this necessary to the end that we might grow to be humble for such Phisicke did the infirmitie of our pride require and such a wound such a cure But if such a receipt as this for God to haue made himselfe man and to haue humbled himselfe soe much for our sakes will not recouer vs and cure our pride I know not saith S. Augustine what will euer be able to doe it Haec medicina si superbiam non curat quid eam curet nescio If to see the Maiestie of our Lord soe abased and humbled will not suffice to make vs ashamed of desiring to be honored and esteemed and that heere vpon wee yet will not growe to a thirst of being despised and a based with him and for the loue of him I know not what will euer serue the turne And Guericu● the Abbott being amased and conuinced by the great example of our Lords Humilitie exclaimes and expresses that which it is reason that we should alsoe say and drawe from hence Vicisti Domine vicisti superbiam meam ecce do manus in vinculatua accipe seruum sempiternum Thou hast ouercome O Lord thou hast ouercome my pride th●ne example hath bounde me hand and foote behould I render and deliuer vp my selfe into thy hands for an euerlasting slaue It is alsoe an admirable conceipt which the glorious S. Bernard brings to this purpose The sonne of God saith he saw two creatures and bo●h were generous n●ble and capable of tha● blessed state to which they had been created by Almightie God and they both lost themselues because they would needes be like him God created the Angells and instantly Lucifer had a minde to be like Almightie God In coelum conscendā super astra dei exalta●o solium meum sede●o in monte testamenti in lateribus Aquilonis ascendam super altitudinem nubium similis ero altissimo And then he carried others after him and God cast them instantly downe to Hell and soe of Angells they became deuills Verumtamen ad infernum