Selected quad for the lemma: virtue_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
virtue_n	draw_v	iron_n	loadstone_n	1,525	5	13.0457	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B12254	Phōsphoros or A most heauenly and fruitfull sermon, preached the sixt of August. 1615 At the translation of the right Reuerend Father in God, the Archbishop of St. Andrewes to the sea thereof. By Mr. William Covvper B. of Galloway.	Cowper, William, 1568-1619.	1616 (1616)	STC 5932; ESTC S114580	30,693	94

place vntill the day dawne and the Day-star arise in our harts For where men reiect the word of the Lord and wil not make it the rule of their religion as Ieremy sayth What wisedome can bee Ieremy in them there is no fable so false no error so grosse which their foolish hearts shall not embrace for a truth Integrity with doctrine As Two ornaments of whol some doctrine 1. Integrity 2. Grauity the Apostle generally before it requires good workes so now more specially he requires these three notable graces integritie grauity sinceritie In the iudgement of the learned Beza the third seemes to redound ex margine in textum irrepsisse truth it is both the words 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in strength of signification are one and both of them come from one and the selfe same Theme 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 neither is it vnaccustomed to the Apostle to expresse one thing vnder more names then one and therefore shall it content vs to speake of them both vnder one 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Integrity is a grace Integrity an excellent vertue which containes a man constant in vprightnesse not diuertible from it and whereby he abides in himselfe one and the same for so the word imports one that is free from corruption qui nec minis nec muneribus flectitur and cannot be bowed neither with boastes nor with buddes This vertue is properly resembled by the Adamant a precious pearle meeter for the forehead then the finger of a Preacher such a forehead God gaue his seruant Ezechiel As an Adamant harder thē flint haue I made Ezech. 3. 9. thy forhead Scaliger recordeth that the load-stone Magnes hath a vertue to draw iron vnto it vnlesse the Adamant be present for then the Load-stone restraines the vertue thereof but the Adamant neuer loses the vertue nor changes the nature for the presence of any called therefore 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 quasi 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 qui domari It preserueth a man inflexible in tentation non potest that cannot be daunted Nothing mollifies the Adamant but the bloud of the Goat and the vpright man indued with the grace of integrity is onely subdued and made flexible by the vertue of the Lambe his bloud hee giueth place to none but in Christ Iesus and for him Hee is not moued with the multitude of examples put him in what company ye please his integrity preserues him vncorrupted either with the euill speeches or euill manners of others Nazianzene in his Monody writing Nazian vita Basi the life of Basil makes mention of the riuer Alpheus which runneth from Arcadia of Peloponnesus And maks him like riuer Alpheus which in salt water keepes a fresh taste through the salt sea vnto Arethusa a fountaine in Sicilia and yet looseth not its owne sweetnes and freshnes A wonderful thing indeed and that might seeme almost incredible if it were not reported by one so worthy of credite and he brings it in to expresse how Basil and he liued in Athens not corrupted neither with the dissolute manners nor fond superstitions of such as were their cōpanions in learning and indeed it properly resembles the grace of integrity which in most corrupt times places preserues him that hath it vncorrupt and makes him like the water of Alpheus which remaines fresh in the midst of the salt Sea There are three men in holy Examples of rare integrity Scripture greatly cōmended Noah Iob Daniel Noah liued in a time when all flesh had corrupted their waye then God gaue him this testimony Thee only haue I found righteous in this generation Iob of Abrahams posteritie liuing among Gentiles and Daniel of Israels seede liuing among the prophane Persians by their integrity were kept from the common corruptions of others And this same is the Prayer of the Angel of Pergamus I know where Reu. 2. 13 thou dwellest euen where Satan hath his throne and thou hast kept my name and hast not denyed my faith euen in those dayes when Antipas my faithfull Martyr was slaine among you And as this grace of integrity Integrity makes a man to be feared euē of such as persecute him preserueth a man vpright and inflexible by tentation making him this way gracious and acceptable to his God so doth it make him fearefull and terrible to his enemies Among many examples I might bring for this purpose I content with one when Modestus the deputy of Valens an Arrian Emperor caused to bring Nazian vita Basil Basilius before him of minde to tempt him to embrace the Arrian heresie which his Master Valens and almost all the Bishops of the East had done before him he first allured him with faire promises by which when he sawe hee could not A notable example hereof ●n Basilius preuaile he fell to him with threatnings Ac exilium tormenta mortem denique ipsam minitatur but as a rock in the sea is not moued with the turbulent waues which the stormy wind raises against it no more was Basile with these words of Modestus his integrity vpheld him as ye may perceiue by his answeres I care for none of those things Whose integrity made him strong to despise banishment torments and death threatned by Modestus saith he that thou hast spoken boast mee not with banishment I feare it not Vnam hominum cognoscens esse patriam Paradisum omnē autem terram commune aspicimus naturae exilium for I know no home but heauen no natiue place but Paradise the whole earth I behold a cōmon banishment of mankinde And as for your torments I defie them quid enim haec in me poterunt cum corpus prope nullum ossa sine carnibus sint inuentura for what can they do to mee whose body is so worne that there is nothing but bones without flesh for rhem to work vpon Death in like manner I regard not Mortem quomodo formidabo quae me meo redditura sit Creatori Why shall I feare it which can doe nothing to me but restore me to my Maker Modestus astonished with these Wherewith Modestus was not only astonished words said vnto him No man hitherto hath dealt with me with such boldnesse and liberty as now you haue done to whō the man of God answered Quod forte in Episcopum non incidisti alioqui sic ille pro pietate certans tecum disseruisset It may very well be because ye haue not hapned on a Bishop which if you had done he would haue answered you in the same manner For in all other things we are more hūble then any other men But where the question is of faith and godlinesse wee dare not be fearefull nor base-minded so should wee be iniurious to God if wee would derogate any thing from his dignity for the pleasure of man In a word sayth hee do with me what you please and after your maner vse