Selected quad for the lemma: truth_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	work_n	workman_n	world_n	37	3	4.4549	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A08566	The fiue bookes of the famous, learned, and eloquent man, Hieronimus Osorius, contayninge a discourse of ciuill, and Christian nobilitie A worke no lesse pleasaunt then profitable for all, but especiallye the noble gentlemen of England, to vievv their liues, their estates, and conditions in. Translated out of Latine into Englishe by VVilliam Blandie late of the Vniuersitie of Oxeford, and novv fellovv of the middle Temple in London.; De nobilitate civili et christiana. English	Osório, Jerónimo, 1506-1580.; Blandie, William.	1576 (1576)	STC 18886; ESTC S113632	145,792	234

free from all felowship and coniunction of the body desire nothing els but to behold their maker neither cā they reape any cōmoditie or conceiue any pleasure of things beneath in these lowe parts And to thinck this substanciall workmanship was made cheiefly for vnreasonable creatures or for the vse of trees plantes it were a thinge to absurde For were it not a thing farre vnsitting wyth the maiesty of God to haue framed so great and wonderfull a worke for brute beastes and creatures voyd of reason and vnderstanding and therefore ioyned vnto him by no kinde of affinitie and likelines God hath not therfore deuised this so goodly a frame for himselfe for Angels for the fruites of the earth for liuinge creatures voyde of reason but for man made of body reasonable soule consistinge of both those natures cōioyned that he might both with his outward sences vew the excellent workemanship of the worlde and also conceiue in minde deepely the exceding glory greatnes of the workeman Wherefore all the world with the beauty pleasure therof was ordeyned for the profite and vtility of man Firste and principally that hee mighte haue a dwellīg place wherin not onely the body should be nourished comforted wyth diuers sondry fruits of the earth which it aboūdantly bringeth forth for the maintenaūce sustentacion of all lyuing creatures but also that the minde obseruing through vnderstanding iudgemēt the works of Nature with the varietie pleasure and delectacion thereof might by a proper peculiar foode which chiefly consisteth in the manifeste seinge of the truth be fedde and receyue his solace and contentation That when the order settled rule and constant gouernment of so greate a woorke should stirre vp exceedingly the minde of man it mought also induce him to the cōtemplacion of the chiefe and principall workeman So that the goodly proportiō and frame of the worlde mighte be a schole and a certayne way and trade of learning wherby man might be taught to honour and worship his lord maker And thus it is cleare apparant that the most high mighty God hath for mans sake made and created fruites and cōmodityes which the earth wyth wonderfull plenty yeldeth sensible creatures all maner of soyles whatsoeuer the seas ouerwhelmed wyth a grosse and foggie aier the heauens the firmament the sterres by whose gentle mouinges much good happeneth to all lyuing creatures Man was not as yet created when God had prepared for him so beautifull so rich so bountefull a kingdome At length when the world it selfe was fully finished he made man his body of earth and be breathed thereinto a soule finely fashioned accordinge to his owne Image and similitude Here may you see manifestly the originall and beginning of the most excellent noble soule of man which being deriued and taken oute from no other thinge then the spyrite of God and being inclosed in the body as in a worthy vessel retayneth a deuine forme pure and deuoyde of all filthye corruptiō Then the body was not infected wyth any vice whereby reason mought be disturbed or the minde it selfe with darcknes ouerwhelmed The first mā therfore knew all sciēces vnderstoode the causes of all things was sufficiētly learned in the rule and discipline of life beinge instructed by no other teacher then God himselfe the giuer of all knowledge wisedome And he did not onely excel all other creatures in the comely shape feature of his bodye but he was farre beyond them all in the amiable and the most excellent and deuine shape forme of the minde For both parts thereof were wyth so singuler passing clerenes enlightened also vnited with such concord agreement the scarcely any surer concord or any more decent and seemely maner of comlines could be imagined There was in the mind no errour no motion in the sence wherby the rule of reason might be disordered whereas reason it selfe as it were in a perfect flourishing cōmonwealth so in a peaceable quiet estate coulde very easlie restraine all raging affections The minde therfore had no kinde of let and impediment wherby it might be hindered from daily contemplacion But the vnderstandinge capacitie of mā being flourishing quick bent to the search of highe matters when it had found out and discussed the nature of all thinges that were contayned and as it were hidden in the ayre the sea earth beneath it was not satisfyed with those things which were vnder the circle sphere of the Mone and with those things which mighte be seene but woulde needes pearce the clouds and search the nature of heauen it selfe And being thus made of so excellent a dispositiō and nature was also indued with those vertues which excede the common state of man by the exercise and fruition whereof he might be the more assured alwayes of the loue and grace of his lord maker For the charecter figure of true perfect iustice which prepareth the minde to all holines is the most surest bulwarke and defence therof was deepely imprinted in him There was therein a firme and assured constancie of vertue the exceedinge perfecte shape comlines of honestie it self Againe he had his wit tyed to no kinde of necessity neither parcially inclined to any cause nor intermedled with any kind of affectiō or perturbation To be briefe God hauing shewed himselfe so liberall bountefull towards man he made him presidēt chiefe ruler of the earth appointed him a Princely place for his habitaciō The Grekes call it Paradise a gardeine flowing with most pleasaunt springs most delectable and decked with great store varietie of sweete smellinge flowers most fit to liue in in all felicitie pleasure In this most pleasaunt seate mā was placed that by that place which they say was high and mounted alofte he mought learne not onely like a ruler and gouernour wysely to guide the sterne thereof but also thereby be admonished with discrete gouernment free liberty to take vppon him the charge and rule ouer all other lyuinge creatures In the ordering of which kingdome he folowed not a written law but the law of nature that is a most perfecte order agreeable to the deuine nature of God which they terme the chiefest and most soueraigne law of all other Furthermore there was a promise made a reward appointed that if he did administer the gouernment assigned vnto him godly righteously he should enter into that heauenly kingdome and euerlastinge blisse the which in this life he would so much desire This was the first estate allotted and appointed to mā this was the first beginning foundatiō of that Nobility whereunto man aspired in which no man can note any thīg but that which is right honourable worthy of high estimacion Whereby it is euidently to be perceiued what a miserable miste of darcknes auerwhelmed the mīds of them which hauing theyr soule created by the prouidēce