Selected quad for the lemma: soul_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
soul_n	affection_n	heart_n	love_n	6,065	5	5.2645	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A10045	David his oath of allegeance to Ierusalem The sermon preached on Act Sunday last in the morning, in St. Maries in Oxford. By Daniel Price Doctor in Divinity.	Price, Daniel, 1581-1631.	1613 (1613)	STC 20291; ESTC S115204	24,054	46

DAVID HIS OATH OF ALLEGEANCE TO IERVSALEM THE SERMON PREACHED ON ACT SVNDAY LAST IN THE MORNING IN St. MARIES IN OXFORD BY DANIEL PRICE Doctor in Divinity PSAL. 137.6 Let my tongue cleaue to the roofe of my mouth if I preferre not Ierusalem aboue my chiefe ioie AC OX AT OXFORD Printed by Joseph Barnes 1613. TO THE HIGH AND MIGHTIE PRINCE PRINCE CHARLES DVKE OF CORNWAILE AND YORKE THE GREAT BLESSING OF GREAT BRITTAINE ILlustrious Prince your Gracious favour and Princely bountie shining this Act vpon two of vs the late Servants of your blessed Brother hath giuen life and motion to this which I presume to present vnto you It is a Princes vow made to Ierusalem the virgin of the East and beautie of the earth it is harty for the manner holy for the matter fit for these times wherin because in Ierusalem Church and Court some doe vow to Babylon Court Country may obserue what our Prophet sitting by the waters of Babylon did vow to Ierusalem Religion is our Ierusalem be you her Prince wee haue sate lately and lamentably at the waters of Babel mourning and mourning and would not bee comforted because HEE was not who was as truely Gods servant as his servants earthly God Your Highnesse is now the Phoenix the dawning the morning the day starre the sunshine light and life of the newly cleered firmament O then grace her who will bring you to further glory RELIGION Bee her Patrone that shee weep not bee her Champion that shee bleed not Let no Popish Philistin come neere the chaire much lesse the eare of your greatnesse to disgrace truth or wrong faith and at all times preferre Ierusalem in your song So shall all eyes hearts hopes be fixed vpon you here and all glory ioy happinesse be fastned vpon you hence For which purpose ever shall bee offered ●p the humble devotions of Your Highnesse servant DANIEL PRICE Exeter Coll. Iuly 27. PSAL. 137.5 If I forget thee O Ierusalem let my right hand forget her cunning THe lamentations of David were as dolefull as plentifull for Ionathan and Absolon for his friend and for his sonne yet more for his friende then for his sonne because Absolon his sonne was his foe but Ionathan his foes sonne was his friend But neither for friend or sonne is he so passionate as for Ierusalem all the floudgates cataracts of affections empt themselues vpon this subiect His passions those internall acts and operations of the soule linked in that inviolable league of loue with the ioy of the earth Ierusalem vrged him so farre that foreseeing the storme though he lived in a sunneshine affection enflamed his heart and his heart resolved into incessant teares he smarteth though vntouched Lyr. Carth Ahulensi● almost all the Fathers that interpret the Psalmes iudge this to be Davids and being vnhurt lamenteth not his owne case but Ierusalem Calamity And in three Psalmes as Lyra and Carth●sian teach he deploreth the threefold sacking ransacking of Ierusalem which was to be performed by those Nymrods of the earth that which he foresaw last he lamenteth first destruction by the Romans whervpon his 74. Psal O God why art thou absent frō vs so long O think vpō thy congregation thinke vpon the tribe of thine inheritance deliver not the soule of thy turtle doue to the multitude of the enimies as also that former desolation by that plague of men Scourge of heavē Antiochus which occasioned the 79. Psalme O God the heathen are come into thy possessiō thy holy temple haue they defiled made Ierusalē a heape of stones and before either of those the captivity of Babylon by Nabuchadonosor that thistle which burned vp the Cedars of Libanus which occasioned this sorrowfull Psalme the embleme of their sighes and summe of the sorrow of that desolation The first miracle done in the old Testament is in the 1. of Genesis the 2. Gen. 1. Spiritus Domini ferebatur super aquas The first miracle in the new Testament is the same Spiritus Domini ferebatur super aquas The spirit of God moved on the waters Ioh. 2. when our Saviour turned the water into wine I say not that there is a miracle here but sure I am Spiritus Domini ferebatur super aquas the spirit of God by the spirit of Prophecie was with the Prophet when he sate by these waters of Babylon describing deploring Edoms cruelty Israels misery Ezechiel received his prophecie by the river of Cobar Daniel by the river Tigris Iohn Baptist by the river Iordane but by the waters of Babylon rivers of confusion and desolation our Prophet seateth himselfe and these rivers be rather of oile thē water they increase the flame of his affectiō rather nourish then diminish his griefe his eies are as those in the Canticles like the eies of Doues on the rivers of waters his eies like the eies of Doues and his voice like the voice of a Doue Turtur nō canit sed gemit saith Isidor the Doue was sent out by Noah was a messēger of Comfort in returning in those waters the Doue came down vpō our Saviour was a messenger of ioy in descēding into those waters but the waters of Babylon haue no Doue neere thē but David and my text is the voice of that Turtle heard in that lād If I forget thee O Ierusalem then let my right hande forget her cunning Votum est saith Calvin certé votivum quiddam est Calv. in Ps 13. saith Carthusian they be words or if you will vowes or rather more then words or vowes they receiue fire frō the altar of his heart and the fire of his loue liues yet in them neither the distance of the place nor continuance of the time since they were vttered can quench them but that their sound is gone out into all nations the sighes of the Prophets soule and the billowes of Babylons water yeeld no other wofull warbling murmur but the Eccho of this Text If I forget thee O Ierusalem then let my right hand forget her cunning If I forget Memory is more chāgeable thē the moone it is a glasse placed behinde in the head mans fall brake this glasse since it is crazed dashed dazeled of all the faculties soonest decaieth at the best it is but sorrowes store house sins table booke it recordeth our woes representeth our wants it is a roome hung with the maps of all themiseries we endured But our Prophet by a devoted confirmed sanctified memory doth possesse himselfe with the representation of the place of Religion The motions and resolutions of all the the terrestriall spheres cannot disturbe much lesse destroy his meditations vpon Ierusalem This as a swift winged Seraphin is fled vp to heaven and there recorded If I forget thee O Ierusalem the ioy of the earth Queene of the nations City of God beauty of the whole world thee O Ierusalem seate or the Temple Princesse of the Provinces