Selected quad for the lemma: nature_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
nature_n	heart_n	law_n	moral_a	3,742	5	9.7240	5	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A96739	Amygdala Britannica, almonds for parrets. A dish of stone-fruit, partly shel'd and partly unshel'd; which (if crack'd, pick'd and well digested) may be wholesome against those epidemick distempers of the brain, now predominant: and prevent some malignant diseases, likely to ensue. / Composed, heretofore, by a well-knowne moderne author; and, now published according to a copie, found written with his own hand.	Wither, George, 1588-1667.	1647 (1647)	Wing W3141; Thomason E516_2; ESTC R206145	11,362	15

first begun With honesty and thereby won Advantages shall act or plot Ill means to keep what you have got As if the GOD you seem'd to serve Could not as well to you preserue By reall virtue what was gain'd As give it by a virtue fain'd Then you shall thrive as did that King Who was or'ecome by conquering Because he serv'd false gods whose lands The true GOD gave into his hands And you shall then the difference know 'Twixt being just and seeming so When Justice cuts of Hydra's heads And sees arising in their steads More and more monstrous ones then they Whom Reformation par'd away When Tyranny beginns to varie The form and shape of Arbitrarie And willfull-rule when she inslaves By mean and despicable knaves When they who ' scape the Lions-pawes The teeth of Wolves and Harpies-clawes Shall look for safety and for ease And then be eat by Lice and Fleas Or be in pieces rent and torne By vermine once below their scorne Then then shall you begin to see Your masked Foes and who they bee That sought your weal and then in vain Shall wish for what you now disdaine Then some shall much perswade you to What none but such as they would do Who whet their knives and cut their throats To cure a chollick in their guts For then shall they who seek your harm Seek how to cut off your right-arm That of your chiefest guard bereft There may be no hand but the left To save your heads And then perchance You will perceive your ignorance For then new troubles will begin Whereby they who have blamed bin Shall suffer much But they shall beare Most burthens who most guilty were And many then who now despise These Lines will think them Prophecies Then shall they seek and crouch and bow Who are most proud and surely now Petition long without regard Make prayers which will not be heard And find as little mercy then As they have showne to other men They from the sword shall thither ' flie Where they for want of bread shall die Or hoping Famine to avoyd Be by the Pestilence destroy'd Or that they may one sorrow shun Into a hundred mischieves run And find no rest till they repent Their pride or meet due punishment Then shall the principles that lurk Within mens hearts begin to work Upon their humours and purge out Much poyson now dispers'd about Through eve'ry Member yet at first That shall seem best which would be worst And few men be so wise to know What they were best resolve to do For you shall in a Medium stand 'Twixt Aegyt and the Holy-Land As in suspense whether to make A progresse thither or turn backe To your old servitude or worse And that will seem the safest course Unlesse the Masters of your School Shall take the counsell of a Fool And be directed and advis'd To act the thing they have despis'd Which if they do your foes shall be Your friends and both be safe and free From what is fear'd and live together A mutuall strength to one another Whose factions if they long endure Will prove a plague without a cure But mark oh City mark this well Thou who dost all this Realm excell In sin and virtue That when thou Shalt see thy Trustees partiall grow In doing Justice with respect Of persons and with high neglect Of truth and judgement Then unlesse The mercy and the righteousnesse Which thou pretendest shall encrease To fortifie thee in that peace Thou yet enjoy'st and teach thine eyes To see wherein thy safety lyes Thou wilt but treasure up thy store To make thee miserably poore Grow by a new-Militia strong To ruine thine owne strength e're long Draw day by day occasions hither Of discords and of plagues together Till all the plagues through Britain spread In thee be gather'd to a head And break upon thee in conclusion To thy dishonour and confusion E're long the welfare of this Land Upon a ticklish point will stand And at that time if you perceive The Body representative Act by two Factions and admit Their Grandees to invassall it To their designs and captivate Their equalls you shall after that Find little comfort till you see Extracted a third Party bee From out of those to search into Their actions and with courage do As they finde cause But then you shall Perceive a turne will joy you all And to draw neerer to the But At which all these our shafts are shot When those two Diamonds of this Land Which are the basis whereon stand The publike-welfare polish shall Each other and quite rub off all The rotten pieces rags and flawes Which disesteem upon them drawes And perfect make in ev'ry thing Our ancient threefold Gimell-ring That 's lately broke Then you shall see A change that worth your praise will be And he that gives you stones to crack Which cause perhaps your hearts to ake Will when that blessed season comes Give you a dish of sugar-plumbs But know that while this Emperie Neglects her Triple-Trinitie To wit three Realms beneath one Throne Within each Realm three States in one And GODHEAD one in Persons three You shall not without troubles be Or possibly attaine to that Which your well-willer aimeth at Till you shall purely God adore And to the common use restore At least th' Essentials of that power Which makes your Earthly-saving-Tower Which much the stronger might be made And fairer too if you could add To strengthen and adorn the same Some parts of the Venetian Frame And know that when a Declaration As publike as a Proclamation Shall offer to consideration The many failings of this Nation If then you seek not preservation By prayer and humiliation And by a serious Recantation GOD threatens sudden desolation Now much good do 't you And yet stay Before I send you quite away Take these blanch'd Almonds without shels Whereto are added nothing els But some few kernells in ther stones For though they seem but bitter ones Yet if you taste them we believe They 'l prove a good preservative First chaw on this that you in vain Seek here a blessed peace to gain Till justice and till mercy more Advanced be then heretofore And till you shall have more regard To punishment and to reward Next know as vainely yoy presume Informed rightly to become In things of faith whilst you depart From what is written in the heart And act contrary to the natures And Lawes of reasonable creatures For how shall they who cannot learn Things morall things divine discern Next be inform'd ev'n you who had The righteoust cause that you have made Defaults enough to let all see The best had need forgiven bee And let that make your hearts inclin'd To pardon all in whom you find That penitence which doth intend Crimes past sincerely to amend Yea if ye mean in peace to live Let all strive who shall most forgive That by so doing all may move Each other to a mutuall-love