Selected quad for the lemma: virtue_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
virtue_n	apostle_n	knowledge_n	temperance_n	1,095	5	11.5538	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B02276	The spouses hidden glory, and faithfull leaning upon her wellbeloved. Wherein is laid down the soules glory in Christ, and the way by which the soule comes to Christ. Delivered in two lecture sermons in St. Andrewes church in Norwich. / By Iohn Collings Master of Arts, and preacher of Gods word in Saviours parish in Norwich.	Collinges, John, 1623-1690.	1646 (1646)	Wing C5340A; ESTC R174086	70,368	91

of a garden like the smell of a field which the Lord hath blest like the perfume of Paradise 3. As she is admirable for her clothing so for her vertues also Vertues shall I say Vertue is too cheap a garment for this glorious Bride Graces are inward ornaments and indeed this is but her clothing of wrought gold I have spoke something to this before the best nature is but the thred of her garment the Gold of grace is wrought upon it the warp of nature and the woof of Grace she is cloathed with grace as a garment Vertue is the cheapest cloth she wears though that bee more pretious then a cloth of silver or gold The vertues of her Bridegroome are in her Nature refined beyond nature The Quintessence of ingenuous nature seven times refined clarified spiritualized Vertues say they are chained together This spouse is not adorned with collars of pearle the most precious pearle is too cheap for her Ornaments but her cheeks are comely with rowes of jewels and her neck with chains of gold Cant. 1.16 What chains but the chains of her vertues and graces and this chain of grace ravisheth the heart of Iesus Cant. 4.9 Thou hast ravished my heart my sister my spouse thou hast ravished my heart with one of thy eyes with one of the chains of thy neck this pretious Chain the Apostle perswades the Saints to put on 2 Pet. 1.5 Adde to your faith vertue and to vertue knowledge and to knowledge temperance and to temperance patience and to patience godlinesse and to godlinesse brotherly kindnesse and to brotherly kindnesse charity Oh pretious chaine of intermixed pearle Surely this will make the spouse admirable that whosoever hears of her or sees her will must say Quae est illa who is this commeth up 4. Lastly She is admirable for her Attendants this makes all that see her or know her or hear of her stand and admire her and say who is this c. Psal 45.9 Kings daughters were among thine Honourable women upon thy right hand did stand the Queen in gold of Ophyr None more glorious Attendants then Kings and Queenes Isay 49.23 And kings shall be thy nursing fathers and Queens thy nursing mothers they shall bow downe to thee with their faces towards the earth and lick up the dust of thy feet What more honourable Attendants then the glorious Angels Those houshold servants of the King of glory even these are this Brides waiting servants Are they not all ministring spirits sent forth to minister for them who shall bee heirs of salvation Heb. 1.14 Shall I goe yet higher The King of glory himself is the Attendant of the Kings daughter he took upon him the forme of a servant he came in person to attend her he comes still and bears her company yea Iesus Christ is the beleevers servant in heaven for hee stands at the right hand of her father to make intercession for her to make her prayers and her welcome into the chambers of his Fathers glory the Mansion house of the King of heaven Shee is admirable for her Attendants first for the multitude of them The Creation is all her servant the Creatures below are as the groomes of her kitchin the Angels are the Gentlemen of her Bed-chamber Queens are her maids of Honour Iesus Christ her Bridegroome is her servant though her Lord all his imployment is to do her service Secondly for the gloriousnesse of her Attendants the Queen that stands at her right hand is clad with gold of Ophyr the Angels that are her ministring spirits are clothed with eternity None so glorious a retinue as this Spouses they that look upon her Traine as she commeth must needs say Quae est illa Who is this that commeth up and thus I have shewed how this beloved soule is admirable but the words are as well formula inquirendi as admirandi a form of inquiring as a form of admiring It argues they did not know her therefore they say Who is this that commeth up The beleever is a bride that is unknown to the world an unknown creature To whom and what are they unknown and how far known what of her must be known and what in her is hidden First She is unknown to the wayes and carriage of the world Secondly She is unknowne to the men of the world First She is unknown to the wayes of the world she hates the garment spotted with the flesh Iude v. 23. shee is none of those that dare revell in mixed dances she is not seene at every fair she proclaimes not her beauty at every crosse she dresseth not her selfe like a puppet of pride that forgets shee is dust and ashes shee is indeed all glorious but it is within there her clothing is of wrought gold she paints not her borrowed face she knowes not how to looke God in the face another day with a face that is not of his adorning she hath beauty enough she needs not borrow any she knowes that paint will consume in hell fire The painted puppets of earthly pride that fare deliciously every day wonder at her native beauty though maintained with pulse and when they see her face out-shine theirs and her making conscience of what they make no scruple they shall wonder and say Who is this Secondly She is unknowne to the men of the world an hidden creature 1 Ioh. 3.1 The world knowes us not They are called Gods hidden ones 83. Psal 3. Sometimes compared to Iewels In that day when I make up my Iew●ls I will spare them Iewells are not seene to every one the Spouses excellency is not known to all The men of the world do not know them What are they spirits doe not they live in the lower region How so hidden then Answ First They doe not know them Scientiâ perfectâ with a perfect and full knowledge they look upon a gracious man as one only of a refined nature a pure moralist that doth no one wrong for they have only the carnall eye of sence and the spirituality of a Christian is spiritually discerned These diamonds are no better to them then pebles a Iewell to them is but worth a barly corne Secondly They doe not know them Scientiâ Scientificâ with a distinguishing knowledge the Bristow stone is as precious to them as the Diamond nor can they distinguish them and indeed no one hath infallible marks of them but hee that searcheth the hearts and trieth the reins An hypocrite may paint her self with such seeming graces that the world may say of her Surely this is the Lords annointed or as in the text who is this that cometh up But can the Saint be hidden It is hard saies that pious man to hide a great fire or to cast a covering upon sweet odours that they smell not Christs name by which she is called is as a sweet ointment poured out as a mountain of spices and he is the strong favour of heaven and of the highest Paradise you