Selected quad for the lemma: virtue_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
virtue_n	death_n	know_v	resurrection_n	1,580	5	9.6777	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A69161	The Iesuites gospel: by W. Crashawe, B. of Diuinity and preacher at the Temple	Crashaw, William, 1572-1626.; Scribanius, Carolus, 1561-1629.	1610 (1610)	STC 6016; ESTC S113949	57,198	110

him come to my mother or to me to drinke and surely if her milke be thus equall in value price and merrit to his blood then we do no longer maruell that they teach how the Virgin Mary did rise from the dead and was assumed into heauen corporally that as Christ rose ascended to apply make good the merit of his death so did she also to make effectual the merit of her milk But then good Paul how farre art thou to blame that esteemd all things in the world doug and drosse only that thou maist know the vertue of his resurrection for then it seemes thou wilt giue little or nothing to know the vertue of her assumption Nay it may be thou art halfe an hereticke and beleeuest not any such assumption but if thou couldest be taken within the reach of the holy inquisitiō thou shouldest pay wel for such thy hereticall incredulity If now thou wert aliue thy better and more holy bretheren the Iesuits could reproue thee for many indiscreet passages and teach thee better diuinity then thou seemest to know for whereas thou durst say thou esteemdst to know nothing but Iesus Christ and him crucified they can tell thee thou art farre short in thy duty and but cold in zeale in respect of them for they stand in doubt whether to esteeme more the blood of his wounds or the milke of her paps and whereas thou wilt giue all to knowe the vertue of his resurrection they can but wonder at thy ignorance who carest not to know the vertue of her resurrection ascention also Be thou content to know the one they for their parts will know both and if thou be so precise for thy Maister that thou canst not be cōtent to say that he purgeth our sins but must exclude al other and say that he by himselfe purgeth our sinnes know thou that they dare be so bold as to put out that word by himselfe out of the text and when they read thy Epistles they are halfe ashamed to see what a bloody man thou art for thou art all in blood blood insomuch as twenty times at least thou art stil vpon blood as though there were no saluation but by blood and as though blessed Maries milke had no merit at all It seemes that as thou wert a persecutor and delighted in blood afore thy conuersion so thou beares stil a bloody minde but now behold these meek milde and merciful men the Iesuits a generation that loues no cruelty nor seekes to shed no blood as most nations of the world can wel beare witnesse * Witnesse in England the Powder treason In France the last Kings death the present warres in Sweden and broyles in Poland c. these sweet and gratious fathers being possessed with a better spirit are weary of blood and do rather choose and desire milke to quench the spiriuall thirst of their soules If they would vtter what their prophane hearts thinke or discouer openly what they mutter amongst themselues we should heare them publish euen such diuinity as this is a taste whereof besides the present poems you shall read anon But now for his conclusion this blaspheming Iesuit dare proceed and turne his speech to God and not fearing the commaundement that forbids him to take Gods name in vaine vnder paine of standing guilty at the barre of Gods iustice he dare offer to abuse the name of God with such a prayer as this O Lord thou must pardon me though I cry aloud for it is not blood wil serue my soule I long for milke and am so a thirst that I may not keepe silence and why Lord shouldest thou so long keepe me a Petitioner in this case I am better then the nayles yet they had blood inough I am not so vilde as cloutes yet they wanted neither milke nor blood Wat kinde of men are these Iesuits or what a God is their God to whome they dare present such a prayer as this surely they thinke as basely of him as they doe highly of thēselues or else they neuer durst thus insult ouer him thus abuse him as after he hath told him plainely that his blood is drinke indeede and commaunded them that are athirst to come and drinke of that well of water of life to come and tell him to his face that their soules thirst for milke and they must haue it belike these crawling frogs thinke that they haue such a God as they may leape and play vpon at their pleasure But O thou that dwellest in heauen laugh thē to scorne haue them and their wickednes in derision and either work them to repentance and visible conuersion or bring them to vengeance and iust confusion The Iesuit concludes with a comparison of himself to the nailes and launce that pierced Christs blessed body and the cloathes that toucht him in his infancy and death indeed the first comparison is not much vnequall for the Iesuits are most like to nailes launces in Christs body for seeing the holy Ghost tells vs that wicked men by their sinnes did and do pierce Christ then the Iesuits who by their Atheismes cruelties periuries equiuocations treasons haue beene sharper nailes and launces in Christs body and greater dishonourers of his religion then any other sort of men if the voyce of all Christendome the testimony of their owne bretheren be true then the Iesuits I say are not vnfitly resembled to nayles and launces and indeed they that are thornes in the eyes and pricks in the side of all princes and states where they come lesse maruell though they be like the nailes and speare in Christs body therefore let the Iesuit please himselfe in this comparison as long as he will we enuy it not But for the second that he is better then the clothes that were about those two blessed bodies I say but this that either the Iesuits are farre more holy then the Prophet Esay or els he farre more humble in his owne eyes then they for he professeth in his own the churches name that they were no better thē the filthiest cloute that euer was euen a menstruous cloth But saith the Iesuit I am better then the best cloth that euer was for though we holde that God hath giuen lasting vertue to his word and sacraments but none that we know to rags or clouts yet we acknowledge that as farre as clothes may one excell another those that touched the bodies of our Lord his mother are the most pretious and if we could be sure we had them we would esteeme them aboue cloth of gold we therefore wonder how a man comming before the Lord his God dare in his prayer make himself better then those clothes especially hearing the Prophet cry before him O Lord al our righteousnes is like a menstruouse clout If our best be so filthy what is our nature what is our sin if he answer that this is but a cauill for he meanes that being a man