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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	life_n	live_v	way_n	4,654	5	5.6415	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A13745	Esoptron basilikon. Or A kenning-glasse for a Christian king Taken out of the 19. chapter of the gospell of Saint Iohn, the 5. verse, in the words 3 Behold the man. And treated on by William Thorne, Deane of Chichester, and his Maiesties Hebrew reader in the Vniuersity of Oxford.	Thorne, William, 1568 or 9-1630.	1603 (1603)	STC 24041; ESTC S113932	29,555	84

loue with themselues Actes 36.37 Origen in his first booke against Celsus Ioseph 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 20.2 Euseb 2.14 Theudas amongst the Iews Iudas amōgst the Galilaeans Dositheus amongst the Samarians each of them professing himselfe 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 some miraculous man at least and the last perswading himselfe to be Christ such was Demetrius the sonne of Demetrius 1. Mach. 10 72. go aske saide he to Ionathas and learne who I am 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Quam pulchrū est digito monstrari dicier hic est such a one I suppose he was strouting vp and downe gazing on himselfe Is not this great Babel Dan. 4.27 that I haue built for the house of my kingdome and for the honour of my maiestie such and such like men are as those glasses of womē Isaiah 3.23 by which the daughters of Sion decked themselues fraile fickle Would God our Ladies of England after the example of those auncient matrons of Israell could be content to correct their Glasses by Christ our Glasse and to consecrate them to the making of the Lauer of Gods Tabernacle Exod 38.8 Onkelus Kimchi Matthias Illyricus Some others make others Glasses to them selues they commit as I saide Idolatrie with men such a wicked Idolatresse was that wretched woman of Samaria Iohn 4.12 saying vnto Christ art thou greater then our father Iacob Such were the Iewes Iohn 8.53 art thou greater then our father Abraham whom makest thou thy selfe Such were some of the Pharisies be thou his disciple Iohn 9.28 the disciple of Christ if thou wilt as for vs we are Moses disciples And I am of Paule 1. Corinth 1 12. I am of Apollos I am of Cephas I am of the rule of S. Francis I am of the order of S. Dominick the Canons of their liues must be the rules for mine O i. mitatores stultum pecus Good Christ what is it not thou that hast the wordes of aeternall life abiding with thee Iohn 6.68 then whither doe wee runne from thee Is it not thou that art the way Iohn 14.6 Then why do we not walke in thee Is it not thou that art the trueth then why do we not beleeue in thee Is it not thou that art the life Ambr then why do we not liue in thee Omnia habemus in Christo saith Ambrose and Christ is all in all vnto vs. If thou feare death he is life if thou flie darkenesse he is light if thou affect heauen he is the way he is the way inuiolable the truth infallible the life euerlasting And neyther yet doe I condemne here any due aestimation or Imitation of Saints Nay I commend it rather and charge you to a The imatation of Saints Hebr. 13.7 Chrysost Ludolph de vita Christi part 1. c. 66 Imitamini fidem ducum vestrorū Imitate the Saints of God Speculum est spirituale So many Saints saith Chrysostome so many Seeing-Glasses hath a Christian c Isaiah 51.2 consider Abraham your father and Sarah that bare you d Rom. 4.12 walke in the steps of their faith e Iames. 5.10 Take my brethren the Prophets for an ensample f 1. Mach 2.51 Call to remembrance my sonnes what actes our Fathers did in their times so shall yee receiue great honor and an euerlasting name you haue read the g Iames 5.11 long patience of Iob and haue heard what end the Lord made The way some say to prouoke Elephants to fight 1. Math 6.34 is to shew them the bloud of Grapes and Mulberies The blood of so many Saints of Patriarches Prophets Apostles Martyrs cōfessors Virgins Men Women childrē what recreant would it not whet vnto battaile 1. Corinth 4.9 Ecce factisumus spectaculum saith one of the Apostles in the name of all we are made as so many spectacles and gazing stockes vnto the world and to the Angels and to men Th a Cāpis de exemplis Sanctorum patrum Terent in Adelph Intuere sanctorum and so foorth See saith another the examples of the Saints Denique inspicere tanquam in speculum vitas hominum iubeo And this to what end or why were these things then related of them Rom. 4.23 c. Rom. 15.4 or why doe I now repeate thē to you Surely not for them but for vs that we also through patience Chrysost Greg Collect Saint Michael all Angels all Saints day and consolation of the Scriptures might haue hope and so directing our liues according to their good ensamples may finally attaine also those Palmes and crownes of life for which they combatted vnto death Imitate then on Gods name the Saints of God but this must thou do A limitation of the Imitation of Saints Th Aquinas on the 15. of the Romanes 1. Cor. 11 1 August in ps 39. Hieron not at all times nor in all things imitate me saith Saint Paule as I imitate Christ so far no farther For doth he not imitate Christ he ers himselfe Iste in eclesia ordo est this saith Saint Augustine is the institution of the Church virtutes imitamur non vitia To particularize a while Thou maiest imitate now the obedience of Abraham thou maiest not his sacrifice that was then commendable in him that were now damnable in thee Thou maiest imitate the profoundnesse of Moses the eloquence of Aaron thou maiest not their incredulitie thou maiest imitate the ardent faith and zeale of Dauid thou maiest not his adulterie and murther thou maiest the profession of Peter thou maiest not his deniall with an oath Thou maist the patience of Paul thou maiest not his persecution thou mayest the amiable qualities of the other Apostles thou mayest not their ambition In short the Saints of God are Seeing-Glasses I say and men may see some thing in them but it is but in part and vncertainely 1. Cor. 13.12 as through a Glasse obscurely there are in their seuerall legends and liues certaine beauties I grant and splendors of life but they are but here and there and there are spots too But this Kenning-Glasse of a Christian that I commend the one Analysis alone of Christ his life In splendoribus Sanctorum ante Luciferum c. ps 110.3 vvisd 7.26 Hebr 1 3. Coloss 1.15 is absolutely perfect in it selfe pure cleare spotlesse the splendour of Saints the lustre of the euerlasting light the vndefiled mirrour of the maiestie of God the influence of the Almightie and Image of his goodnesse Good Saint Bernard compares this Mirrour of Man-kinde vnto that fascicle or flower of Myrrhe amiddest the breasts of the spouse Cant. 1.12 Bern in Cant. Serm. 43. Serm 47. and intertexeth his comparison thus Here is a flower and a Glasse Flos virginitas flos martyrium flos actio bona A Flower of the Chamber A Flower of the Garden A Flower of the Field Hee is a Flower of the Chamber Speculum et