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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
saint_n	altar_n	angel_n	golden_a	2,087	5	10.8116	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A08035	A most learned and pious treatise full of diuine and humane philosophy, framing a ladder, wherby our mindes may ascend to God, by the steps of his creatures. Written in Latine by the illustrous and learned Cardinall Bellarmine, of the society of Iesus. 1615. Translated into English, by T.B. gent.; De ascensione mentis in Deum per scalas rerum creatorum opusculum. English	Bellarmino, Roberto Francesco Romolo, Saint, 1542-1621.; Young, Francis.	1616 (1616)	STC 1840; ESTC S115760	134,272	612

Christ suffered for vs 1 Pet. 2 leauing vs an example that we may follow his stepps saith St. Peter the Apostle And what are his Stepps Who saith he did no sinne neither was guile found in his mouth Who when how●s reuyled did not reuyle when he suffered be threatned not There are two Stepps of Christ which if thou tread not tho● shalt loose thy way to heauen First doe not but suffer euil Secondly Doe good and here expect no good Or which is the summe of all Loue thy neighbour for Gods sake not for reward of man and for friendship not for lust Let vs now come to the dignitie of Angells according to Grace Cap. 5 Truely in this also Man is lessened more then a little lesse then Angels For God so created Angels in the beginning that at the same instant he made their Nature and infused in them grace as St. De Cin lib 12 c 9 Augustine witnesseth in his bookes of the Cittie of God And then so soone as by the first conuersion of their mindes to God they adhered to him by loue the reprobate Angels falling they were crowned with beatitude and glory Therefore their Pilgrimage was very short but their Mansion in heauen eternall If yet that short space which passed betweene their creation and beatitude may be called a Pilgrimage But we in our creation receaued grace with our nature in our first parent and not in our selues therefore by his fall we al fell In whom as the Apostle speaketh Rom. 5. all sinned For although by the Mediator of God and men Christ Iesus we are reconciled to God yet we are condemned to continual banishment and whiles we are in body we are Pilgrims from our Lord For we walke by saith and not by sight 2 Cor 5 And it much afflicteth pious men and such as sighafter heauen that we are heere conuersant among our cruell ene●●ies where there is danger lest being circumuented and taken by them we be at leugth excluded from the poss●ssion of our most sweete country Hence proceeded these wordes Psal 119 Woe is me that my soiourning is prole ged I haue dwelt with the inhabitants of Cedar my soule hath beene long a so●ourner But although ●n this we are lesse then Angels yet Gods mercy doth greatly comfort vs for that it hath pleased him of our kinde to exalt Christ aboue all the Angels of heauen as also his Blessed Mother Many men likewise being inferior to An●els in the guists of Nature haue surmounted some of them in the guiftes of grace and equalled the Highest Truely St. Iohn Chrysistome expounding the Epistle to the Romans Hom 32 doubteth not to place the chiefe Apostles Peter and Paul whereas the Seraphins doe flye and gloryfie God Which also is pious to beleeue of St. Iohn baptist and others Adde moreouer that as the good Angels after their first merit entred into glory so the euill Angels after their first sinne were condemned to perpetuall punishment Men ought not therefore to complaine of a longer space since they may therein often ●mend and by repentance ●rocure pardon for their offence It now remaineth that we speake somewhat of the offices of Angels Cap. 6 Angels haue fiue Offices The first is alwayes with Hymnes and songes to prayse their maker And that we may vnderstand how much God esteemeth this ministerie we must consider that the highest Angels are appointed for this Office who being as it were the first singers in that Quire all the other Orders of Angels follow with incredible exultation Heare what the Prophet Isay saith Isay 6 I s●we our Lord sitting vpor a high thr●ne e●uated those things that were vnder h●m filled the Temple Seraphins stood vpon the same six wings to one six winges to the other with two they couered his face and with two they couered his feete and with two they fl●we A●d they cryed one to in other and said Holy h●ly holy the Lord God of hostes all the earth is full of his glory Heere thou hearest the name Seraphin which are the Chiefe of the Heighest Order Thou seest them couer his face and feete in signe of reuerence as if they durst not behold his face or touch his bare feete ●hou seest they flye continually whiles they sing which signifieth their desire to approach still nearer vnto God which two things are needfull for those who desire to please God that while they sing his prayses they loue him with reuerence and reuerence him with loue This the Prophet Dauid declareth saying Psal 2 Serue our Lord in feare and reioyce to him with trembling From hence thou mayst learne my soule with what veneration God is to be serued since the chiefe Angels in heauen which alwayes beholde his face dare not notwithstanding their highe estate and long familiaritie but reuerently feare him whiles they prayse him And what wilt thou Dust and Ashes answere at the day of iudgement when thou shalt be reprehended for thy drowsinesse and distractions in a worke so diuine that thou wast not worthy to be imployed therein Learne therfore from henceforth being taught by such a President to prayse thy God with feare reuerence atention vigilancye and loue An other Office of Angels is to offer vp the prayers of men to God And to commend them also by their suffrage For so speaketh the Angel Raphael in the booke of Tobyas When thou didst pray with teares Tob 12 and didst bury the dead and left thy dinner I offered thy prayer to our Lord. And in the Apocalips Iohn sawe an Angel standing before the Altar with a golden Censer Apoc 8 And there were saith he giuen to him many incenses that he should giue of the prayers of all saintes vpon the Altar of golde which is before the throne of God And in this truely the great mercy of God doth also appeare For he was not content first by his Prophets and after by his sonne and his Apostles to exhort vs to pray but also promised to giue whatsoeuer we should aske Aske saith he and it shall be giuen you Luk. 11 And in an other place Ioh 15 Yf you shall aske my Father any thing in my name he will giue it you And beside this promise he also added A reward to those that aske Math. 9 But thou saith he when thou shalt pray enter into thy Chamber and hauing shut the dore pray to thy Father in secret ●and thy father which seeth thee in secret will repay thee to wit areward beside the thinges which thou didst aske For so our Lord speaketh in that place of prayer and A●mesdeedes saying Thy Father which seeth in secret will repay thee Neither is God content with this demonstration of fahterly loue But hath appointed the Angels as masters of Requestes to take charge of the prayers and petitions of the poore and to present and reade them in his sight that no one of their Petitions