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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	age_n	year_n	youth_n	286	3	8.0905	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A89733	Abel being dead yet speaketh; or, The life & death of that deservedly famous man of God, Mr John Cotton, late teacher of the church of Christ, at Boston in New-England. By John Norton, teacher of the same church.	Norton, John, 1606-1663.	1658 (1658)	Wing N1313; Thomason E937_6; ESTC R207763	38,553	57

me Though thou refuse thy scholar now I 'll be 'T is not Youth but Licentiousness in Youth that unfits for an Academical state such as Philostratus long since complained of who stain an Athenian life with wicked manners The Prince of the Peripateticks describing his Hearers distinguisheth between Youths in years and Youths in manners Such who are Old in days yet Youths in disposition he rejects Such who are Youths in age but Seniors in spirit and behaviour he admits into his Auditory Junius telleth us that his Grandfather was wont to write to his father Dionysius when a Student in the Universities of France with this Dionysio dilecto filio misso ad studendum In vita Junii sait superscription Dionysio dilecto filio misso ad studendum To Dionysius my beloved son sent to study Idleness in youth is scarcely healed without a scar in age Life is but short and our lesson is longer then admits the loss of so great an opportunity without a sensible defect afterward shewing it self Bees gather in the Spring that which they are to live upon in the Winter Therefore Fox Bishop of Winchester willed the Students of that Colledge whereof he was a Benefactor to be as so many Bees Seneca admonisheth his Lucilius that those things are to be gotten whilst we are young which we must Juveni parandum seni utenduan est make use of when we are old Accordingly God who had set apart our Student to be a Junius not a Dionysius inclined his heart unto such attractive diligence and effectual improving of opportunities whence his profiting in the Arts and Languages above his Equals so far commended him unto the Master and Fellows as that he had undoubtedly been chosen Fellow of that Colledge had not the extraordinary expence about the building of their great Hall at that time put by or at least deferred their Election until some longer time From Trinity he was removed to Emanuel that happy He removeth from Trinity to Emanuel Seminary both of Piety and Learning The occasion I cannot now learn howsoever it may call to minde that Maxim of the Herbalists Plantae translatio est plantae perfectio The transplantation of a plant is the perfection of a plant In that Society the Lord gave him favor so that in due time he was honored with a Fellowship amongst them after a diligent and strict Examen according to the Statutes of that House Wherein this is not unworthy the taking notice of That when the Poser came to examine him in the Hebrew tongue the place that he took trial of him by was that Isaiah 3. against the excessive bravery of the haughty daughters of Sion which hath more hard words in it then any place of the Bible within so short a compass and therefore though a present construction and resolution thereof might have put a good Hebrician to a stand yet such was his dexterity as made those difficult words facil and rendred him a prompt Respondent This providence is here remarkable concerning him That whereas his Father whose Calling was towards the Law had not many Clients that made use of his Advice in Law-matters before it pleased God after his Son 's going to Cambridge to bless him with great Practice so that he was very able to keep him there and to allow him liberal maintenance Insomuch that this blessed man hath been heard to say God kept me in the University He is now in the place of improvement amongst his 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 beset with Examples as so many objects of Better Emulation If he slacken his pace his Compeers will leave him behind and though he quicken it there are still those which are before Notwithstanding Themistocles excelleth yet the Trophies of Miltiades suffer him not to sleep Cato that Helus that Devourer of Books is at Athens Ability and Opportunity are now met together unto both which Industry actuated with a desire to know being joined bespeaks a person of high expectation The unwearied pains of ambitious and unquiet Wits are amongst the amazements of Ages Asia and Egypt can hold the Seven Wonders but the Books Works and Motions of Ambitious mindes the whole World cannot contain It was an illicit aspiring after Knowledge which helped to put forth Eve's hand unto the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Arist Eth. l. 10. c. 7. forbidden fruit The less marvel if irregenerate and elevated Wits have placed their Summum bonum in Knowledge indefatigably pursuing it as a kind of Deity as a thing Numinous yea as a kind of Mortal-Immortality Diogenes Democritus and other Philosophers accounting large Estates to be an impediment to their Proficiencie in Knowledge dispossessed themselves of rich inheritances that they might be the fitter Students preferring an opportunity of Study before a large Patrimony Junius yet ignorant of Christ can want his Country necessaries and many comforts but he must excell Through desire a man having separated himself seeketh and intermedleth with all wisdom Prov. 18. 1. The elder Plinius lost his life in venturing too neer to search the cause of the irruption of the hill Vetruvius 'T is true Knowledge excelleth other created excellencies as much as light excelleth darkness yet it agreeth with them in this that neither can exempt the subject thereof from eternal misery Whilst we seek Knowledge with a selfish interest we serve the Decree and self being destroyed according to the Decree we hence become more able to serve the Command The treasure which man Irregenerate travelleth for as intending it for themselves man Regenerate expends for God As he was a lover of labor so he was communicative a diligent Tutor and full of Students committed to his care He was a Didactical man both able and apt to teach Ability to instruct youth argueth a Wise-man To guide man Nazianzen accounted the Art of Arts. To be willing to 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 teach argueth a good man good is communitative Such was his Academical dexterity that he could impart as Scaliger speaks the felicities of wit to his hearers so accomodating and insinuating the matter in hand as his Pupils might both perceive their profiting and taste the sweetness of that wherein they profited Thus by schoole-stratagems he won the hearts of his scholars both to himself and to a desire of Mellific Historic par 1. in Historia Alcibidis learning They were as Soerates and Alcibiades or rather as the Prophets and the sons of the Prophets his pupils were honores and lovers of him He was a Tutor friend and Father unto them The manner of his Conversion take in his own words as neer as can be remembred thus During his residence in The manner of his Conversion the University God began to work upon him under the ministery of Mr Perkins of blessed memory But the motions and stirrings of his heart which then were he suppressed thinking that if he should trouble himself with matters of Religion according