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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	see_v	sin_n	soul_n	6,896	5	5.1461	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A66465	Poetical piety, or, Poetry made pious by rendering into its method observations arising from various divine subjects, useful for these prophane and enormous times : to which is added, a brief alphabetical expositor, explaining the most intricate words made use of in this book, to the conception of a mean reader, and may serve as a remembrancer to the imperfect memory / by William Williams ...	Williams, William, of Cardigan.	1677 (1677)	Wing W2785; ESTC R8078	64,141	220

most too blame Then shun we pride because a shamefull evil That hath its derivation from the Devil So base a thing is pride wise men it know T' have brought the proud to want from want to wo. A Spiritual Hymn to the praise of God who is Omnipotent Omniscient and Omnipresent Lord frame my tongue To sing a Song O Could I sing To Sions King A Song that would him please No doubt but he Would pity me And my griev'd heart soon ease Teach Lord my King My tongue to sing To God alone Besides him none I 'le make my moan that he May mercy take For his Sons sake On such a wretch as me I would thee praise My God alwayes I am defil'd Sin me beguil'd So wretched is my case Since Adams fall That I and all Gods Image did deface May I begin Lord to hate Sin God did Create Man in a state Of blessedness at first In Edens land Plac'd him to stand Where he became accurst O Lord do thee From sin me free In Paradice Did Satan tice Man to transgress Gods Laws Forbidden fruit There like a Brute Accepts his sin 's the cause Lord from the Devil Sprang all evil Man did rebell Deserved Hell But God to help mans need Procur'd a Friend Should man defend Of Adams womans seed Gods love descends Christ makes amends O! here is news Let none refuse The message that is sent Mans Saviour's found May praise redound To God Omnipotent God from above Shew'd men his love Messiah blest Gave man kind rest By restless agonies Man to restore Gods wrath Christ bore And on a Cross he dies Christ on the Cross Repair'd our loss Joy to all men Abounded when Their Saviour Christ was born The Angels prais'd Their God that rais'd A King whose Crown was thorn An Angels voice Made th' Earth rejoyce Glory above And on Earth love This Song did Angels sing With one accord Unto the Lord And Christ their new born King Glad tidings came With Christ his name Christ dy'd for those That were his foes This was exceeding love Which far excells All paralells Men in compassion move For 's foes Christ dy'd None so beside God him commends That loves his friends And with his friends his foes Though such as he may chance to be Not many are of those Man will deny For 's Friend to die Man for some end Affects his friend This I have seen most plain His love is set In hopes to get Some benefit or gain Save God above Few have true love Love is a cheat Or meer deceat As now a dayes 't is us'd This but in part 's lodg'd in the hear Which makes it thus confus'd Love oft-times skips From heart to lips Gods seeing eye 's ubiquity And his omiscience can know by his might And present sight The Inward thoughts of man God mans intent Knows and how bent Thrice blessed then Be God of men O Praised be his name For evermore Let 's him adore That sees and knows our frame Amen say I Eternally Divine Ejaculations or Pious breathings O Lord prepare my Soul to seek Thy self and make my Spirit meek O Thou preserver of mankind May through thy grace my heart Will Conscience Spirit Soul and mind From what 's impure depart Lord cleanse my heart and make it thine Then without doubt thou wilt be mine O rectifie each faculty That to my Soul pertains And every member bodily Redress from sinful stains O shew some token Lord on me That I am wash'd from sin by the. That in thy sight as Innocent And sinless I appear Possessing mercy to prevent The Judgement drawing near My Soul being freed from sin I say Will make me joy at Judgement day Because that then all works of men To Triall shall be brought As acted how and where and when Both good and bad they wrought All works I did Dooms-day shall try Lord pardon my iniquity There to receive their recompence And stipend of reward According as with Reverence To God they had regard If my good works out-poise my bad O this will make my conscience glad They that obediently did serve The Lord in Heaven shall dwell That disobediently did swerve From God shall go to Hell If that my evil works out-weigh My good I am undone for aye The significations of the word World in Scripture A formed world deform'd reform'd again I find a truth Scriptural proofs maintain Form'd first of God deform'd through Satan next Reform'd through Christ this tenet proves the text Form'd free from blame deform'd through shame sin Reform'd from faults as if they 'd never bin On the words Exploration Deploration Imploration Explore Deplore Implore these words contain Three certain grounds which proves the Christians gain First Exploration to search out his crimes Next deploration these bewail betimes Then Imploration to invoke or call On God for absolution from them all On the words Easeless Endless and Remediless Easeless and Endless and Remediless Are Hells amazing Torments to possess Easeless because no respite of the grief Endless in that no period for relief Remediless ' cause sinners would not turn From sin for which they chose for aye to burn On Faith Hope and Charity Faith Hope and Charity three Virtues are So transcendental none with these compare Faith flies to Heaven by Caelestial wings Hope waits till Faith from thence some comfort brings But Charity both Faith and Hope excels Man's Heav'n on Earth is love wherein God dwels On God the King and the Church God and the King to rule the Church agree Though th' King bear rule God rules the King she First God inclines the King to rectifie The Church-deformers with Conformity The Church enjoyes her union by this thing From that Communion of God and the King On the Personality of God to wit Father Son and Holy Ghost The Father Son and Holy Ghost all three To make man in Gods Image did agree The Father did command the Son Create The Holy Ghost this Image animate Thus man was made next Angels in degree By God that 's Three in One and One in Three Though God afflicts man for evil yet Gods afflictions to man are not evil The evils of chastisements truly are No evils nor with Evil things compare For from the chiefest good even God they flow Lead to the chiefest good this God to know And in the chiefest good likewise are found Even Jesus Christ abundantly t' abound Sometimes God will not hear nor regard the Prayers of his own Servants The Lord will not bow down his sacred Ear Nor will the Prayers of his own Servants hear When they ask either things in nature bad Not good for them nor by them to be had Or things right good for some malignant ends Such gifts as these bestow God ne're intends The Scriptures say according to his will Soshould we pray if God our prayers fulfill On Matthew 6.33 But seek ye first the Kingdom of God and his righteousness and

and flat Can please all fancies there 's no who nor what Who reads the Ancient Proverb truly finds So many men so many various minds Let the Censorious then these Lines deride And let the Captious them abase through pride And let the Libertine have them in scorn Shall disregard from these my hopes forlorn No of a truth I hope they pleasure can The Wise Religious and the sober man It matters not with these nor should with those If good what stile is us'd or Verse or Prose But at this time I purpose to rehearse What I deriv'd from Prose in Modest Verse Which has decay'd and daily does decline In Subject matters serious and Divine Divinity did once adorn the Verse And pious Meeter's now become perverse What did refine the Tongue and Charm the Eare Lyes in Oblivion like what 's out of wear Divinity is but withdrawn not dead Drolls clear the Stage Divinity is fled Tho 't is remote yet still it does remain In the usurping room os these to Reign I see those times how Sions Rhims decay Drolls Prologues Epilogues these bear the sway With other things that Eccho in the Streets As Ballads Garlands and Licentious Sheets Some so delight in these this present Age They 'd shun the Sanctuary for the Stage And if I 'me not mistaken some these dayes Would rather part with Preaching than with Playes Which is absurd to think can such be free From Sin in the Superlative degree I dare not judge I do but this suppose And wish we were not to our selves such foes Approving of Repentance to prevent Those dreadful Judgments which are Imminent May this a Caution be to us alwayes To seek Gods Praises more then Songs and Playes Playes profit not but Praises will afford Both Grace to man and Glory to the Lord Playes and prophanness let us therefore scorn Since for Gods Praises all mankind were born May this suffice unless to verifie The pleasantness of Divine Poetry It is a faculty whereby one may The same time with the Spirit Sing and Pray Converse with God and make known his Request Vnto Gods Spirit that dwells in his breast Which is a pleasant profitable thing That man Salvation to his Soul may Sing This Poetry the Poet make not poor But rich by Treasures lasting evermore This method does impoverish 't is said And some we find t' affect it are afraid Yet Divine Poetry shall gain consent It does enrich and not make Indigent He that all Idle Subjects will decline May make his Pen an unexhausted Mine And amongst Worthies in true Glory Shine Though this Poetick Science has the name Of making poor yet 't is the Poets shame Thus Poetry is charg'd when wilfulness Makes poor the Poet through his own Excess The Richest man that ever liv'd on Earth A Poet was and partly so by Birth His Father was a Poet so was he And both were Kings which now few Poets be To nominate the Father and the Son They were King David and King Solomon Those Princely Poets could Divinely Sing Sweet Psalmes and Hymnes to their Caelestial King These did exceed all others or I should Intreat their Muse if I durst be so bold But since I find her of too high a strain I 'le beg a meaner and will their refrain Thus then I crave would God but me infuse With Herberts Cowleys or with Quarles's Muse Then would I write in Meeter what was meet And should not care if all the World did see 't But as for me all Poets I prefer Before my self so apt am I to Erre Wherefore my Brethren think the best of me In many things we all offenders be And for my Deed accept of my good Will My Theme is good although my Verse be ill ERRATA Nemo sine Crimine vivit When no man living can from Faults be free Then many Errors may be found in me My Readers with your Pens please to correct Faults Literal or Faults through my defect PAge 1. line 4. read ought p. 3. l. 21. r know p 16. l. 1. r. finite p. 31. l. 4 r. Cause p 41. l. 15. r. divided p 43. l. 12. r. admits p. 47. l 9. r Stars p 49 l. 15. r. did l. 29. r jum p. 51. r. be in l. 15. before found in l. 16. p. 69. l. 14 r. a Witchcraft p. 74. l. 10. r. them p. 76. l. 8. r Lures p 92. l 6. r. brake p. 98. l. 9. r. time p. 104. l. 1. r. Christians p. 115 l. 21 r. Souls p. 122. l. 3. r. that they p 130. l. 5 r. is p. 137. l. 3. r. his p. 142. l. 15. r. most p. 145. l. 21. r. the p. 160. l. 7. r. tho Admire not Friends if Errors you do see Besides these in my Book when more in me I am the faulty let the faultless man Cast the first stone and hit me if he can POETICAL PIETY OR Poetry made Pious SUBJECT I. Of GOD and his Eternal Being God is a Spirit ' biding evermore Whom Man in Truth and Spirit should adore WHat shall I think how shall I thee define Indefinite thou art and so Divine Not apprehensive to this heart of mine Thee to describe so ample as I thought Exceeds the Finite means that I have sought This Rule I 'le take and by this Rule enquire What I can't apprehend that I 'll admire Thus dread to Dive in thy blest Deity By some inquisitive fond scrutiny Because a curious search may prove my shame And the Dishonour of thy Holy Name Not one retains thy Knowledge save in part Thou canst not be conceiv'd Lord by mans heart A God so pure and perfect as thou art Who search thy Essence Thee to know aright Do in effect but lose their Faith and Sight Absurd are those who seek this Depth to sound In Justice God their Judgments might confound Some have enquir'd as thinking it no crime What 's God! and where was he e're space of time Or doing what before He did Create The World are Questions strange and Intricate And whether God Decreed or fram'd a Hell Before a Heav'n Scripture will not tell Whereby we may percieve God takes it ill Of those that prie into His secret Will And aim to search His Councel by their skill Gods Will reveal'd sufficient is to Man The mind of God in needful things to scan And farther than he hath his Will reveal'd It is his pleasure it should be conceal'd All curious questions ought to be forgot Since their Solutions to be found are not What God keeps secret we must not desire To search into but rather it admire Thy Will reveal'd Lord's our Directory Wherein at large thou dost thy self descry to be a God Eternal and therefore Existing of thy self for evermore A Being of all Beings and from thee Sprang all Beginnings whatsoever Be I crave thy leave one higher step to clime And view a scantling of thee though sublime Not curiously to search into the same But to