Selected quad for the lemma: virtue_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
virtue_n	brotherly_a	grace_n	kindness_n	1,104	5	9.7077	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A19036	Mundanum speculum, or, The worldlings looking glasse Wherein hee may clearly see what a woefull bargaine he makes if he lose his soule for the game of the vvorld. A worke needfull and necessarie for this carelesse age, wherein many neglect the meanes of their saluation. Preached and now published by Edmund Cobbes, master of the Word of God.	Cobbes, Edmund, b. 1592 or 3.	1630 (1630)	STC 5453; ESTC S117518	113,560	456

musing how they may be braue and trying what fashion will become them best by which meanes it comes to passe that they haue little leasure to adorne their soules with sauing grace as knowledge faith and repentance wherupon it is that our gallants are so ignorant in spirituall matters 3. This excesse in apparell causeth many men and women to runne in debt which is the very bane of a quiet minde and so become seruile slaues and are forced to put vp many harsh wordes at the hands of the Pro 22. 7. lender 4. As they torment and discrutiate their mindes and bring desolation vpon their temporal estates so also they wrap themselues vnder the iudgement of Isay 2. 11. God for their brauery Vse Be exhorted then you that feare GOD to weane your hearts from this sinfull vanity and labour to decke them with the sauing graces of Gods spirit the wedding garment of faith and labour to be couered with the long white Robe of Christs innocency so that thy Reu. 3. 18. filthy nakednesse may not appeare that so thou being clothed with the righteousnesse of Christ thou mayest at the Rom. 13. 14. day of refreshing follow the LAMBE wheresoeuer hee Reu. 7. 13. 14. goeth Q. Oh but may some say how shall I weane my heart from this sinfull vanitie Answ Euery mischiefe is best auoided by opposing against him his contrary so the best way to preuent pride is to arme our selues with humilitie and stop this filthy disease in the beginning and therefore the Poets counsell in this case is very good Obsta principijs sero medicina p●ratur Ouid. Cum mala per longas conualuere moras And another very fitly seconds him saying Stop the beginnings and you shall be sure All dangerous diseases to helpe and cure Pride sinketh to hell but humilitie lifteth to heauen Pride is the first step to Apostasie and being opposed to God is the greatest sinne in man for all other vices are to be taken heed of in sinnes but this in good doing lest those things which be laudibly done be lost in the desire of praise follow Christ who is humble and meeke Ecce habes humilitatis exemplum superbiae medicamentum in whom thou hast an example of humilitie and a medicine against pride Call to minde thy base metall from what thou camest what now thou art and whither thou must goe at length What is man an vnprofitable Telluris inutile pondus Gen. 3. Iob. 10. 9. lumpe of earth Man was earth he is earth and to earth he shall returne againe What is man his matter is base Slime and Clay his nature weak and feeble his birth paine and sorrow his life vaine and miserable his state slipperie and vncertaine his sinnes horrible and filthy and his end grieuous and loathsome Why swellest thou O man thou filthy matter why art thou inflamed Thy Prince is humble and art thou proud Oh earth earth earth cast downe thy Peacocks feathers looke downe whither thou must and bee ashamed consider how GOD hath seuerely punished pride in all ages and hath rewarded humilitie Let the consideration hereof make vs all labour for humilitie There remaines another kinde of pride and that is of a mans gifts of nature or grace but I intend to speake of that when I come to handle the vanity of men in hunting after vaine glorie and popular applause vnto which place I refer the discreet Reader And to put a period to this point of pride in apparell let all those which are so curious in decking their bodies with quaint attire take heed they doe not forget to deck their soules with the pearles of sobriety and humility and therefore follow not the foolish fashion of the world and if any new fangled fashion come vp be thou the first to pul it downe so shalt thou shew thy selfe a patterne for modest matrons to imitate And thus we haue done with pride in apparell Doe we take delight in beautie what is beautie if it bee separated from grace but pleasing vanitie Beautie according Pro. 31. 30. to Saint Augustines definition Is a proportionall agreement of all Pulchritudo corporis est congruentia partium cum quadam coloris suaeuitate Aug. ●d Nebr. the parts of the body ioyned with a certaine sweetnesse of colour and countenance Which in its owne nature is good as being the gift of GOD which hee hath bestowed vpon many of his children as vpon Sarah Rebecca Rachel Naomi Abigail Esther the daughters of Iob but wee shall Iob 42. 15. haue little neede to perswade any to the loue of this seeing all men by instinct of nature doe reuerence and respect it The Poet long agoe could say Forma corporis Dei munus Ouid. that Beauty is the gift of God yet through the corruption of nature this blessing is much abused and made a snare to intangle many and therefore wee are to account it among those common blessings which hee bestowes vpon the wicked as wel as vpon his owne children as vpon Saul Adoniah Absol●n 1 Sam. 9. 2 1 Kin. 1. 6. Pulcritudo corporis bonum Dei donum est sed propteria id largitur etiam malis ne m●gnum bonum videatur bonis Aug de Ciuit. Dei lib. 15. cap. 22. Pro. 31. 30. 2 Sam. 14. 25. Beautie indeed is the gift of God but hee hath bestowed it on the euill also lest it might seeme to the godly to be of any value yea hee hath bestowed it on the dumbe creatures as the Peacocke Swan yea the Lillies exceed Salomon in al his royalty therefore we are not to doate vpon it for the Wise man saith It is vaine and deceitfull and experience shewes that sicknesse care griefe or the scrach of a pin wil deface it and the Sunne quickly alter it If it were an absolute blessing the Sunne that glorious creature would not so soone deface it Therefore Chrysostom saith to the vertuous in his time I doe not saith Nolo pulcritudinem c●rpo●oris honestatem mentis requiro in Psal 50. Hom. 1. he so much require the beautie of the bodie as the honesty of the minde But seeing it is so esteemed and ouer-valued let it bee the wisedome of the godly to turne the edge of their loue from this deceitfull vanitie which is better many times to those which see it then those which haue it to that perfect and vndeceiuable beautie of Pulchrius est pulch●ū fieri quam nasci illud enim casus hoc studij est Petrar the minde adorned with the sāctifying grace of Gods Spirit as lowlinesse of minde brotherly kindnesse and the bowels of compassion to the poore these are perpetuall and durable sicknesse and disgrace cannot blemish vertue But alas this carnall beauty is so farre from profiting vs or helping vs in the way of godlinesse as that many times through the corruption of nature it proues the bane of the Rara est