Selected quad for the lemma: peace_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
peace_n	bring_v	good_a	tiding_n	2,863	5	11.4428	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A08014	The terrors of the night or, A discourse of apparitions. Tho: Nashe	Nash, Thomas, 1567-1601.	1594 (1594)	STC 18379; ESTC S110111	29,458	60

are nothing but texts to condemne vs. The rest we take in our beds is such another kinde of rest as the wearie traueller taketh in the coole soft grasse in summer who thinking there to lye at ease and refresh his tyred limmes layeth his fainting head vnawares on a loathsome neast of snakes Well haue the Poets tearmd night the nurse of cares the mother of despaire the daughter of hell Some Diuines haue had this conceipt that God would haue made all day and no night if it had not been to put vs in minde there is a Hell as well as a Heauen Such is the peace of the subiects as is the peace of the Prince vnder whom they are gouerned As God is intitled the Father of light so is the diuell surnamed the Prince of darknesse which is the night The only peace of minde that the diuell hath is dispaire wherefore wee that liue in his nightly kingdome of darknes must needs taste some disquiet The Rauen and the Doue that were sent out of Noes Arke to discouer the worlde after the generall Deluge may well be an allegorie of the day and the night The day is our good Angell the Doue that returneth to our eyes with an Oliue branch of peace in his mouth presenting quiet and securitie to our distracted soules and consciences the night is that ill angel the Rauen which neuer commeth back to bring anie good tidings of tranquilitie a continuall messenger hee is of dole and misfortune The greatest curse almost that in the scripture is threatened is that the rauens shal picke out their eies in the valley of death This cursed rauen the night pecks out mens eyes in the valley of death It hindreth them from looking to heauen for succor where their Redeemer dwelleth wherefore no doubt it is a time most fatall and vnhallowed This being proued that the diuell is a speciall predominant Planet of the night and that our creator for our punishment hath allotted it him as his peculiar segniorie and kingdome from his inueterate enuie I will amplifie the vgly terrours of the night The names importing his mallice which the scripture is plentiful of I wil here omit least some men shuld think I went about to coniure Sufficeth vs to haue this heedfull knowledge of him that hee is an auncient male content and seeketh to make anie one desperat like himselfe Like a cunning fowler to this end he spreadeth his nets of temptation in the darke that men might not see to auoyd them As the Poet saith Quae nimis apparent retia vitat auis Too open nets euen simple birds doo shun Therfore in another place which it cannot be but the diuell hath read he counsaileth thus Noctem peccatis fraudibus obiice nubom By night time sinne and cloake thy fraud with clouds When hath the diuell commonly first appeared vnto anie man but in the night In the time of infidelitie when spirits were so familiar with men that they cald them Du Penates their houshold Gods or their Lares they neuer sacrificed vnto them till Sunne-setting Their Robbin-good-fellowes Elfes Fairies Hobgoblins of our latter age which idolatrous former daies and the fantasticall world of Greece ycleaped Fawnes Satyres Dryades Hamadryades did most of their merry prankes in the Night Then ground they malt and had hempen shirts for their labours daunst in rounds in greene meadowes pincht maids in their sleep that swept not their houses cleane and led poore Trauellers out of their way notoriously It is not to be gain-said but the diuell can transforme himselfe into an angell of light appeare in the day aswell as in the night but not in this subtil world of Christianity so vsuall as before If he doo it is when mens mindes are extraordinarily throwne downe with discontent or inly terrified with some horrible concealed murder or other hainous crime close smothered in secret In the day he may smoothly in some mild shape insinuat but in the night he takes vpon him like a tyrant There is no theese that is halfe so hardie in the day as in the night no more is the diuell A generall principle it is hee that doth ill hateth the light This Macheuillian tricke hath hee in him worth the noting that those whom he dare not vnited or together encounter disioined and diuided hee will one by one assaile in their sleepe And euen as Ruptures and crampes doo then most torment a man when the bodie with any other disease is distemperd so the Diuell when with any other sickenes or malladie the faculties of our reason are enfeebled and distemperd will be most busie to disturbe vs and torment vs. In the quiet silence of the night he will be fare to surprize vs when he vnfallibly knowes we shall be vnarmed to resist and that there will be full auditorie granted him to vndermine or perswade what he lists All that euer he can scare vs with are but Seleucus ayrie Castles terrible bug-beare brags and nought els which with the least thought of faith are quite vanished and put to flight Neither in his owne nature dare he come nere vs but in the name of sin and as Gods executioner Those that catch birdes imitate their voyces so will hee imitate the voyces of Gods vengeance to bring vs like birds into the net of eternall damnation Children fooles sicke-men or mad-men hee is most familiar with for he still delights to worke vpon the aduantage and to them he boldly reuealeth the whole astonishing treasurie of his wonders It will bee demaunded why in the likenes of ones father or mother or kinsfolks he oftentimes presents himselfe vnto vs No other reason can bee giuen of it but this that in those shapes which hee supposeth most familliar vnto vs and that wee are inclined to with a naturall kind of loue we will sooner harken to him than otherwise Should he not disguise himselfe in such sub til formes of affection we would flie from him as a serpent and eschew him with that hatred he ought to be eschewd If anie aske why he is more conuersant busie in churchyards and places where men are buried than in anie other places It is to make vs beleeue that the bodies soules of the departed rest entirely in his possession and the peculiar power of death is resigned to his disposition A rich man delights in nothing so much as to be vncessantly raking in his treasurie to bee turning ouer hys his rustie gold euerie houre the boanes of the dead the diuell counts his chiefe treasurie and therfore is he continually raking amongst them and the rather he doth it that the lining which heare it should bee more vnwilling to die insomuch as after death their boanes should take no rest It was said of Catiline Vultum gestauit in manibus with the turning of a hand he could turne and alter his countenance Farre more nimble and sodaine is the Diuell in shifting his habit his sorme he can change