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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
reason_n	rule_v	will_n	work_v	2,411	5	11.0478	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A00002	The brides ornaments viz. fiue meditations, morall and diuine. 1. Knowledge, 2. zeale, 3. temperance, 4. bountie, 5. ioy.	Aylett, Robert, 1583-1655?	1625 (1625)	STC 1000.5; ESTC S115415	64,217	134

And will not let his vnderstanding flye To see what goodly clusters there doe grow In heau'nly Canaan where Milke and Hony flow We hardly here of things below discerne And with great paines what is before vs find Ah how shall we than able be to learne Thy Wisdome which no limits haue confin'd Thy Spirit onely can into our mind These hidden mysteries in Christ reueale In which the Princes of the world were blind For from man naturall thou dost conceale This Wisdome spirituall which thou to thine do'st deale For as none know's the Spirit of a man But that same Spirit that within doth dwell So nothing apprehend this Wisdome can But that wise Spirit that all Truth doth tell Oh Sacred Spirit of Truth my heart compell This holy Sapience to entertaine Thou only giu'st to drinke of Wisdom's Well Mans wisdom's wickednesse his thoughts are vaine His knowledge is but errour and his pleasure paine Thou didst create eu'n all things by thy Word And by thy heau'nly Wisdome didst ordaine Man of thy handy workes to be the Lord That he in Truth and Equitie might raigne And with an vpright heart the right maintaine Oh therefore downe thine heau'nly wisdome send Me in all Truth and vprightnesse to traine She shall my Words and Works to thee commend And bring my small beginnings to a perfect end And here with Praise and Prayer I will end Oh who aright can know or vnderstand Except thou Wisdome from thy Throne do'st send To giue vnto him what thou dost command Then grant me Wisdome alway's to withstand Hells subtill Plots and Worlds base Blandiments Let sacred Prudence euer be at hand Still to direct my words acts and intents To yeeld Obedience to thy Commandements MEDITAT II. Of OBEDIENCE WHen first th' Almighty by his only Word Had fashion'd all within the Firmament He made Man last to be their King and Lord That he to him might be obedient But Man not with this Monarchy content Diuide his homage to omnipotence And hauing but one small Commandement Transgressed it by Disobedience The easier the Command the greater the Offence This all the Sonnes of Adam doe deriue From him and call it guilt Originall Which by th' Eternall Law did vs depriue Of all Gods Benefits and did enthrall To endlesse Bondage till Christ for this Fall The price of his most precious bloud did pay Which vs recouers from Sins actuall And by obeying Gods whole Law doth stay His wrath And merits Heau'n for all that him obay For as by first mans Disobedience On all men commeth Death and Condemnation So by the seconds true Obedience We haue eternall Life and sure Saluation Thus Disobedience by deriuation From Adam bringeth endlesse wretchednesse And true Obedience by imputation Conuay's from Christ eternall Happinesse So by the first comes sin by second Righteousnesse The glorious robe of perfect Righteousnesse Which they that are obedient onely weare To couer that foule shame and wickednesse Which Adams Disobedience layed bare Ah! let a Disobedient Sinner dare The aid of the Obedient Lamb desire My Will and Actions Tongue and Heart to square In due proportion to his heau'nly squire Whil'st I of true Obedience prayses doe enquire Deuoutest Lady Handmaid to the Queene Of heau'nly Loue And so in duty bound That shee 's alway's prest and ready seene To doe what thing soeuer she propound Her heart words will and deeds all one are found Seruing for Loue and not for Feare or Gaine No Subiect merits better to be crown'd For who can best obay he best can raigne And she is shortly sure eternall Crownes to gaine If I may square Her by the Rules of Art I her define to be our Wills subiection To Him that ought to rule both will and heart And by his will disposeth our best affection The rule of Reason may be our direction How our superiours Statutes we obay But when the Lord commands there 's no election Nor doubting what we ought to doe or say Gods will 's the rule of Right which none may disobey Here in two Branches I might her diuide Obedience first to God and secondly To our Superiours that on earth abide But all is but to one Authority For there 's no Power or precedency But that which highest Power doth ordaine Who therefore doth resist mans Soueraignty Gods ordinance resisteth and againe Who duly it obay's Gods Statutes doth maintaine Thus must our hearts eares hands be all attent His Word and Will in all things to obey Who ouer vs hath lawfull Regiment Which is one God eternall blest for ay Whose seruants all we are And therefore may Not chuse a Lord or Master whom we will Nor serue two masters least we disobay The one when we the others mind fulfill For that which pleaseth one doth crosse the others will Thus our obedience is only due To him that all did for his seruice make And 't is a firme position sound and true God only for himselfe But for his sake All that from him Authoritie doe take We truly and sincerely ought obey Or else our bounden dutie we forsake As those which doe their Princes disobey When they their lawfull Officers commands gainsay For this whole world is like a family In all things well and iustly ordered Where God hath the supreame authority And Rulers theirs from him deliuered By which they doe command as in his stead Who then to them are disobedient They may be said to disobey the Head For whil'st they rightly vse their gouernment We ought them to obey in things indifferent Indeed all ought regard the Supreme Will As first commanding cause and end of all Which all that Being haue ought to fulfill From which as all things rise so all must fall Here therefore first we into mind will call To whom that will commands vs to obay For in obeying their commands we shall Obey that Supreme Will This is the way To make Gods Will the Cause of all we doe or say To Him we must be subiect first of all To whom all Power in Heau'n and Earth is lent The Sonne of God begotten naturall Next to his Ministers which he hath sent Apostles Pastors Doctors here are meant Which by his Word doe teach their Masters Will And rule his Church by godly Gouernment And those which heare these his commands fulfill And those which them despise despise his heau'nly Will As Kings which with great Honour doe conuay Princes Ambassadours it doe intend Vnto their Lords So we our Lord obay When we obey the Legates he doth send The second Power is that which God doth lend To Kings and Princes for to delegate Iudges to punish those which doe offend And to maintaine the Life Peace and estate Of eu'ry member that maintaines the Bodies state To this all Subiects owe Obedience The third obedience is which wife doth owe Vnto her Head who due Beneuolence For Dutie ought vnto his wife to shew For as the Church so ought the Wife to know

faire a Generation But in some limits that I may her bound I her define to be a moderation Of such desires as are within vs found In Diet Actions Words and Affectation For with these fow'r I bound my Meditation In Diet shee requires Sobrietie In Actions true vnfain'd humiliation Her Words she graceth aye with Modesty And her affections charmes with Meeknesse Chastity See in her Diet first Sobrietie In words and actions true humiliation Accompany'd with precious Modesty Last Continence from Lust and angry Passion The cause of all is prudent Moderation The aged Palmer Spencer Guyons trustie guide That stands against all stubborne perturbation By whose sage helpe secure and safe we slide By whirle-pooles and deepe gulfes which gape for vs so wide For all through this worlds boistrous Sea must passe Before we at our quiet Hav'n arriue The Boate our Body is as brittle glasse Our Steeres-man Temperance it right doth driue Besides the Rocks that threat this Boat to riue Are many Gulphes and Whirle-pooles of decay Which wait th' Affections and the Senses fiue By force and sweet Allurements to assay Some fall by rage and diet some by lustfull play But in that Body where doth reason sway And Sense and Passion be obedient There the affections all behold you may In happy peace and goodly gouernment There Temperance adornes her glorious Tent With vertues all to make it shine most bright The mirrour of Gods workes most excellent And to them all such bounteous banquets dight As may be best for Health Praise Profit and Delight Most glorious frame of nature which shee built The whole world in one point t'epitomize Iust pure and perfect till intemprate guilt Her Makers Hests by Pride did foule misprise Since that shee learned to belowly wise And not obey intemperate desire Thus shee her glorious house reedifies And most of all doth lowly Cells admire The loftiest is no place for temperate retire Shee therefore neuer comes in company Of such as swim in pride and bathe in blisse Wasting their dayes in ease and luxury For in such ease men easily doe amisse But hee whose mind in studie watchfull is Whose limbs are toyl'd with labour mind with paine Shee these as her sweet darlings deare doth kisse The idle life cannot to her attaine Before her Gate high God employment did ordaine Excesse doth make the minde of beastly man Forget his first created excellence That pure estate in which his Life began And as a Beast that wants intelligence 'Twixt sense and reason put no difference But like a Brute of base and swinish kind Delights in filth and foule incontinence For Lust and Wine so far transforme the minde Affections beare the sway and royall reason binde Thus Bacchus Fountain's turn'd to puddle lake Wherein like filthy beasts base men lie drown'd And Swines of Gods faire Images doe make This vice hath now with vs such footing found As Drunkennesse with glory doth abound Pure Liber wont to be the Muses friend All musing Wit and Learning doth confound The Flemings this did first to vs commend But herein we them and all Nations now transcend No better stratageme doth Satan know I alwayes must except base drunkennesse Then gaming all our youth to ouerthrow The fruict Intemperate of Idlenesse Oh horrible infernall wickednesse To heare a wretch his Makers name blaspheme When Dice or Carding crosse his good successe And eu'n his Soule which Christ's bloud did redeeme With his estate to hazard to a dyes esteeme Intemprate drinking Play smoake in excesse Is now our gallants onely occupation The poisoning fruits of their loose Idlenesse Base Gourmandizing filthy Fornication Is turn'd from foule reproach to commendation Now vse of Armes and manly exercise Are held a toile and not a recreation Who so is moderate chast valiant wise Him as precise and cynicall they doe despise Oh foolish Man learne Temperance of thy Dog Thine Horse and Hawke wherein thou tak'st delight Which when they should shew sport thou dost not clog And fill with food their greedie appetite Thou them dost diet that they may be light And keepst from Lust their courage to prolong One dulls the Body th' other kills the Sprite But Abstinence doth make both swift and strong The temperate mans dayes are happy healthfull long And may vnto Pauls Pilote be compar'd Whose vessell with exceeding tempest tost Vnlades and lightens hauing most regard To saue his Life though all his goods be lost Eu'n so the temperate man in this world crost With baits of appetite lust anger pride Makes vse of those that for his vse are most But needlesse things wherewith his vessels cloid With his owne hands doth to the hungry fish diuide When I behold the stately Firmament Adorn'd with glorious Lamps of heau'nly fire The Stars with their appointed roomes content And neither other to supplant desire Their Temperance in Heau'n I doe admire But then I view the anbitious sparkes below Who to possesse the whole Earth doe aspire And all poore Cottages to ouerthrow That stopt their prospect great alone on earth to grow Nature with small no plentie Lust can bound Vnlimited desires here satisfie No Gold nor Siluer can though they abound Like stones amongst the wise Kings vanitie Though Iesses Sonne haue such varietie Of Wiues and Maids yet comes the stranger Lust Vrias onely Lamb for him must dye No home-bred fare can satisfie base dust But strange rare cates from forraine nations haue we must The temprate man I to a Brooke compare Contented with sweet Fountaines of her owne Which runs most pleasant pure delightfull cleere But if with flouds her channels once be flowne Then streight her troubled waters foule are growne So whil'st we Temperance with vs retaine And no excesse of Diet 's in vs knowne Our heart from ire our bed is free from staine But cease from Temperance and all is foule againe And as pure Streames continue sweet and cleere Whil'st they within their Channells swiftly flow Refreshing all the plants and flowers neere But if they idlely stand or run but slow Then thicke and foule like idle lake they grow Ev'n so the man that doth his minde aduance His Makers heau'nly will to doe and know To honour shall be rais'd aboue all chance But he that idle grow's falls to Intemperance Shee is a short but a most pleasant way Wherein small labour is but much delight The Empresse that doth our affections sway The Genus of all other vertues hight Piller of Fortitude The Helmet bright Against Lasciuiousnesse The eyes best guide Bond of goodwill of cogitations light Restraint The Enemy of Lust and Pride The Soules chast counsellour her vow ' and prayers to guide Of Prudence and true Wisdome the foundation To him that hath her can no ill befall No greater wealth can be then Contentation Who hath her hath that who lacks that wants all Who nothing need eu'n Gods the Heathen call Fortune may bring vs wealth and royall fare But Temperance must