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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
nature_n	person_n	union_n	unite_v	7,818	5	10.2973	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A06430	The flowers of Lodowicke of Granado. The first part. In which is handled the conuersion of a sinner. Translated out of Latine into English, by T.L. doctor of phisicke; Flores. Part 1. English	Luis, de Granada, 1504-1588.; Lodge, Thomas, 1558?-1625.	1601 (1601)	STC 16901; ESTC S103989	101,394	286

amongst ancient Writers of a famous Painter that depainting the funeralls of a certaine Kinges daughter shaddowed about the circuite of the heirse many of her kinsmen al●ies standing with sad and afflicted lookes next them her mother more pensiue then the rest but when he came to delineate the Father he couered his face with an artificial kind of shadow expres●ing thereby th●t Art was deficient in this place by which new e inuention hee expessed the greatnes of the dolor After the same manner all our vnderstanding art eloquence are defectiue in declaring this vnspeakable benefite of our redemption For which cause perhaps wee might haue done farre better if wee had worshipped the same with silence that in some maner by this deuice wee might expresse the greatnes thereof The benefit of our creation is vnspeakable but of our Redemption more admirable for God created all things with the onely beck of his will b●● for mans redemption hee trauailed thirty and three yeeres he shed h●s blood neyther had he either member or any sence which was not excruciate with a perticuler greefe It seemeth therefore that an iniurie should be done to so glorious a mistery if any man shoulde imagine that he could expresse the same with humane tongue What therefore sh●ll I doe shall I speake or holde my peace I must not be sil●nt and I cannot speake Howe may it bee that I should conceale so immesurable mercy and howe may I expresse a mistery so sublime adorable It is ingratitude to conceale it and to speake thereof it seemeth rashnes presumption For which cause I ●es●ech thee ô my God that whilst I am to speak according to my rude vnderstanding of this thy immesurable glory thy holie Spirit may moue and moderate my tongue like the penne of a ready writer After that man was created setled in the Paradise of del●ghts in high dignity and glor● yea by so much was boūd to God by straight bonds by how much he had receaued more greater benefites at his hands he becam vndutiful rebellious of those things from which he ought to haue takē greater cause of loue towards his Creator of the same he tooke greatest occasions to betray him For that cause was hee thrust out of Paradise thrust in exile yea allotted to infernal paines to the end that hee that had been● made companion with the deuill in sinne should be also associate with him in punishment Helizeus the prophet said to his seruaunt Giezi Thou hast taken siluer rayments from Naaman therefore Naamans leprosie shall cleaue vnto thee and thy seede for euer Such was the iudgement of GOD against man who whē he had affected the goods and riches of Lucifer namelie his pride and ambition it was iust and requisite that he should be infected with the leprosie of the same Lucifer which was the punishment of his pride Behold therefore man made like vnto the deuill Nowe the diuine iustice might haue left man by al right in this miserable estate euen as he left the deuil without any contradiction expostulation yet would hee not doe so but rather did the contrary chaning his wrath into mercy by how much the more iniury he had receiued by so much the more grace would he shew his loue to mankind And whereas also he might haue repaired this ruine by an Angell o● Archangel he would com himselfe But how in what form cam he howe redeemed hee vs What humaine tongue wil expresse this vnto vs Whē as he might haue com in maiesty glory he would not but he came in great humility pouertie Christ established such friendship betwixt God vs that not only god forgaue man all his sin receiued him into his fauour made him one and the same with him by a straight cōnexion of loue but that which exceedeth all greatnes he made such a similitude correspondence betwixt himselfe mans nature that amongst all thinges created there might no such cōformity be found as are the Deitie and humanitie for they are not one the same only in loue grace but also in person Who durst euer but haue hoped that that so wide wound shold haue been closed after this manner who might euer haue imagined that these two things betwixt which there was so much difference of nature offence should so closely bee vnited not in one house not at one table not in one grace but in one and the same person What two things may be thought more contrary thē God and a sinner and what is more neerly annexed or more commixt then God and man There is noth●●g more high then God saith S. B●●nard the●e is nothing more ●ile abiect th●n du●t of which man is fo●●ed Notwithstanding God descended vppon the earth with such humilitie ascended with so much sublimitie frō the earth to God that what soeuer God did the same the earth is sayd to haue done whatsoeuer the earth suffered that likewise God suffered Who wold haue said to a man when hee was naked assertained that he had incurd the displeasure of our Lord when hee sought retyring places in Paradise wherin he might hide himselfe who I say woulde then haue said to him that the time should one day com wherein this so vild substance shold be vnited with God in one and the same person This vnion is so neere and faithfull that at such time as h●s humanity was to be dissolued which was at the howre of his passion 〈◊〉 was rather strengthned then weakened Truly death might seperate the soule from the body which was the vnion of nature but neither could he separate God from the soule or draw him from the body for such was the vnion of the diuine person that what is apprehended once with so firme an vnion it neuer will forsake And all these th●nges GOD would so doe that by this benefite he might inflame vs with more loue towards him and by this example more straightly oblige vs vnto him Now therfore if thou art so much indebted to thy Redeemer for that in his own proper person he would come to redeeme thee how much owest thou for the means it selfe by which hee redeemed thee vvhich meanes most assuredly was mixed with mighty griefes tribulations Truly it is a great benefite if anie King shoulde forgiue a thiefe that punishment which he ought to suffer for his offence But that the king himselfe shoulde suffer himselfe to be tyed to the post and receiue the stroakes vppon his owne shoulders that shold be an vnspeakable benefi●e a bounty beyond cōparison Ah my Lord for the loue of mee thou wert borne in a stable l●●d in a harde manger for mee wer● thou circumcized the eight day for me flying into Egipt thou wert banished seauen whole yeares and for me thou sustainedst diuers persecuons and wert prouoked by diuers mockings and infinite iniuries For my sake thou