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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
religion_n	baptism_n	full_a	great_a	37	3	2.0925	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A03058	The temple Sacred poems and private ejaculations. By Mr. George Herbert.	Herbert, George, 1593-1633.; Ferrar, Nicholas, 1592-1637.	1633 (1633)	STC 13183; ESTC S122349	79,051	208

Man is out of order hurl'd Parcel'd out to all the world Lord thy broken consort raise And the musick shall be praise ¶ Judgement ALmightie Judge how shall poore wretches brook Thy dreadfull look Able a heart of iron to appall When thou shalt call For ev'ry mans peculiar book What others mean to do I know not well Yet I heare tell That some will turn thee to some leaves therein So void of sinne That they in merit shall excell But I resolve when thou shalt call for mine That to decline And thrust a Testament into thy hand Let that be scann'd There thou shalt finde my faults are thine ¶ Heaven O Who will show me those delights on high Echo I. Thou Echo thou art mortall all men know Echo No. Wert thou not born among the trees and leaves Echo Leaves And are there any leaves that still abide Echo Bide What leaves are they impart the matter wholly Echo Holy Are holy leaves the Echo then of blisse Echo Yes Then tell me what is that supreme delight Echo Light Light to the minde what shall the will enjoy Echo Ioy. But are there eares and businesse with the pleasure Echo Leisure Light joy and leisure but shall they persever Echo Ever ¶ Love LOve bade me welcome yet my soul drew back Guiltie of dust and sinne But quick-ey'd Love observing me grow slack From my first entrance in Drew nearer to me sweetly questioning If I lack'd any thing A guest I answer'd worthy to be here Love said you shall be he I the unkinde ungratefull Ah my deare I cannot look on thee Love took my hand and smiling did reply Who made the eyes but I Truth Lord but I have marr'd them let my shame Go where it doth deserve And know you not sayes Love who bore the blame My deare then I will serve You must sit down sayes Love and taste my meat So I did sit and eat FINIS Glorie be to God on high and on earth peace good will towards men ¶ The Church Militant ALmightie Lord who from thy glorious throne Seest and rulest all things ev'n as one The smallest ant or atome knows thy power Known also to each minute of an houre Much more do Common-weals acknowledge thee And wrap their policies in thy decree Complying with thy counsels doing nought Which doth not meet with an eternall thought But above all thy Church and Spouse doth prove Not the decrees of power but bands of love Early didst thou arise to plant this vine Which might the more indeare it to be thine Spices come from the East so did thy Spouse Trimme as the light sweet as the laden boughs Of Noahs shadie vine chaste as the dove Prepar'd and fitted to receive thy love The course was westward that the sunne might ligh● As well our understanding as our sight Where th' Ark did rest there Abraham began To bring the other Ark from Canaan Moses pursu'd this but King Solomon Finish'd and fixt the old religion When it grew loose the Jews did hope in vain By nailing Christ to fasten it again But to the Gentiles he bore crosse and all Rending with earthquakes the partition-wall Onely whereas the Ark in glorie shone Now with the crosse as with a staffe alone Religion like a pilgrime westward bent Knocking at all doores ever as she went Yet as the sunne though forward be his flight Listens behinde him and allows some light Till all depart so went the Church her way Letting while one foot stept the other stay Among the eastern nations for a time Till both removed to the western clime To Egypt first she came where they did prove Wonders of anger once but now of love The ten Commandments there did flourish more Then the ten bitter plagues had done before Holy Macarius and great Anthonie Made Pharaoh Moses changing th' historie G●shen was darknesse Egypt full of lights Nilus for monsters brought forth Israelites Such power hath mightie Baptisme to produce For things misshapen things of highest use How deare to me O God thy counsels are Who may with thee compare Religion thence fled into Greece where arts Gave her the highest place in all mens hearts Learning was pos'd Philosophie was set Sophisters taken in a fishers net Plato and Aristotle were at a losse And wheel'd about again to spell Christ-Crosse Prayers chas'd syllogismes into their den And Ergo was trasform'd into Amen Though Greece took horse as soon as Egypt did And Rome as both yet Egypt faster rid And spent her period and prefixed time Before the other Greece being past her prime Religion went to Rome subduing those Who that they might subdue made all their foes The Warrier his deere skarres no more resounds But seems to yeeld Christ hath the greater wounds Wounds willingly endur'd to work his blisse Who by an ambush lost his Paradise The great heart stoops and taketh from the dust A sad repentance not the spoils of lust Quitting his spear lest it should pierce again Him in his members who for him was slain The Shepherds hook grew to a scepter here Giving new names and numbers to the yeare But th' Empire dwelt in Greece to comfort them Who were cut short in Alexanders stemme In both of these Prowesse and Arts did tame And tune mens hearts against the Gospel came Which using and not fearing skill in th' one Or strenght in th' other did erect her throne Many a rent and struggling th' Empire knew As dying things are wont untill it flew At length to Germanie still westward bending And there the Churches festivall attending That as before Empire and Arts made way For no lesse Harbingers would serve then they So they might still and point us out the place Where first the Church should raise her down-cast face Strength levels grounds Arts makes a garden there Then showres Religion and makes all to bear Spain in the Empire shar'd with Germanie But England in the higher victorie Giving the Church a crown to keep her state And not go lesse then she had done of late Constantines British line m●ant this of old And did this mysterie wrap up and fold Within a sheet of paper which was rent From times great Chronicle and hither sent Thus both the Church and Sunne together ran Unto the farthest old meridian How deare to me O God thy counsels are Who may with thee compare Much about one and the same time and place Both where and when the Church began her race Sinne did set out of Eastern Babylon And travell'd westward also journeying on He chid the Church away where e're he came Breaking her peace and tainting her good name At first he got to Egypt and did sow Gardens of gods which ev'ry yeare did grow Fresh and fine deities They were at great cost Who for a god clearely a sallet lost Ah what a thing is man devoid of grace Adoring garlick with an humble face Begging his food of that which he may ear Starving the while he worshippeth his