Selected quad for the lemma: truth_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	new_a	old_a	testament_n	6,607	5	8.4174	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A04384	Certaine selected epistles of S. Hierome as also the liues of Saint Paul the first hermite, of Saint Hilarion the first monke of Syria, and of S. Malchus: vvritten by the same Saint. Translated into English; Selections. English	Jerome, Saint, d. 419 or 20.; Hawkins, Henry, 1571?-1646.	1630 (1630)	STC 14502; ESTC S107704	168,063	216

of Christ in which age the Iewes conceiue Adam was created and when we read that our Lord and Sauiour rose againe besides many other proofes which I brought out of both Testamēts wherewith to strāgle the hereticke And from that time Paula did so beginne to detest the man and all them who were of his doctrine that she proclamed them with a loud voice to be the enemyes of our Lord Now these thinges I haue mentioned not that I would briefly confute the heresy which is to be answered in many volumes but to the end I might shew the faith of so great a woman as she was who chose rather to vndergo the continuall emnities of men then to prouoke the wrath of God by entertayning such friendships as were faulty I will therefore say as I began there was nothing more docile then her wit She was slow to speake swift to heare as being mindefull of this precept Hearken O Israel and hold thy peace She had the holy Scriptures without booke And though she loued the historicall part thereof and said that it was the foundation and the ground of truth yet she did much more affect the spirituall meaning of it and by that high sence she secured the edificatiō of her soule In fine she compelled me that together with her daughter she might read ouer both the old Testament and the new whilest I expounded it Which I denying at the first for modesties sake yet at last in regard of her frequent desires I was content to teach that which I had learnt of my selfe that is to say I learnt it not of presumptiō which is the worst Master of all others but of the most illustrious men of the Church If at any time I were at a stand did ingenuously confesse myne owne ignorance she would neuer leaue me in peace but by a perpetuall kind of demaund compel me to declare out of many various opinions which seemed the most probable to me I will also speake of another particular which in the eye of enuious persons will seem to haue somewhat of the incredible She had a mind to learne the Hebrew tongue which I had gotten in some measure with much labour and sweat from my very youth and euen yet I do not forsake the study with a kind of indefatigable meditation thereof least I should grow to be forsaken by it And she also hath so obtayned this tongue as that she can read the psalmes in Hebrew and pronounce the language without any accent of the Latin tongue which we also see euen to this day in her holy daughter Eustochium who euer so adhered to her mother and so liued vnder her comādments that she neuer lodged nor fed nor went without her nor had one penny in her power but did reioyce to see that little fortune which was left of her Fathers and Mothers patrimony to be bestowed by her Mother vpon poore folkes and she esteemed the duty she ought her parent to be her greatest inheritance and riches I must not passe ouer in silence with how great ioy she did euē exult when she heard that her grādchild the young Paula who was begotten and borne of Leta and Toxotius yea conceiued with a desire and promise from them both of future chastity did sing forth Allelluia with her stammering tongue in her cradle in the middest of other childish toyes did breake forth the names of her grandmother and her aunt by halfe words In this alone she had still a desire concerning her coūtry to know that her sonne her daughter in law her grandchild had renounced the world and serued Christ our Lord which in part she hath obtayned for her grand-child is reserued to weare the vayle of Christ. Her daughter in law deliuered her selfe ouer to eternall chastity her sonne in law followes on in faith almes and other good workes and endeauoureth to expresse that at Rome which she hath accomplished at Ierusalem But what do we O my soule why fearest thou to come so farre as her end Already the booke is growne big whilest we feare to come to this last cast as if whilest we conceale it employ our selues vpon her praises we were able to put off her death Hitherto we haue sayled with a fore-wind our sliding ship hath plowed vp the crisping waues of the Sea at ease But now my discourse is falling vpon rockes and I am in such daūger of present ship wracke as makes me say Saue vs Master for we perish And againe Rise vp O Lord why doest thou sleep For who can with dry eyes speake of Paula dying She fel into extreame indispositiō or rather she found what she sought in leauing vs and in being more fully ioyned to our Lord. In which sicknesse the approued dear affection of the daughter Eustochium to her mother was more confirmed in the eyes of al She would be sitting vpon the beds side she would hold the fanne to moue the ayre she would beare vp her head apply the pillow rubbe her feet cherish her stomacke with her hand compose her bed warme water for her bring the bason and preuent all the maydes in those seruices and whatsoeuer any other had done to hold that she her selfe had lost so much of her own reward With what kind of prayers with what kind of ●…tations and groanes would she be shooting her selfe swiftly vp and downe between that caue where our Lord had bene layd her mother lying in her bed that she might not be depriued of such an inestimable conuersation that she might not liue an houre after her that the same Bier might deliuer them both vp to one buriall But O frayle and caduke nature of mortall men for vnlesse the faith of Christ raised vp to heauen and that the eternity of the soule were promised our bodies would be subiect to as meane condition as beasts they of the basest kind The same death seises vpon the iust and wicked man vpon the good and bad the cleane and the vncleane him who sacrifices and him who sacrifices not as the good man so him who sins as him who sweares so him who feares to sweare an oath Both men beasts are dissolued into dust and ashes after the same manner Why do I make any further pause and encrease my sorrow by prolonging it This most wise of woemen found that death was at hand and that some part of her body and of her limmes being already cold there was onely a little warmth of life which weakely breathed in her holy brest yet neuertheles as if she had bene but going to visit her friends take her leaue of strangers ●…he would be whispering out those verses O Lord I haue loued the 〈◊〉 order of thy house the place of the habitation of thy glory And How belou●…d are thy tabernacles O God of power my soule hath euen saynted with an amorous kind of desire of entring into the Court of thy house