Selected quad for the lemma: virtue_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
virtue_n	faith_n	hope_n	theological_a	1,178	5	12.4996	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A04154	Ecclesiastes The worthy church-man, or the faithfull minister of Iesvs Christ. Described by polishing the twelve stones in the high-priests pectorall, as they were first glossed and scholyed on in a Synod-sermon; and after enlarged by way of discourse, to his two brethren. By Iohn Iackson parson of Marske in Richmond-shire.	Jackson, John, 1600-1648.	1628 (1628)	STC 14297; ESTC S101346	42,726	74

marrow study and paines will exhaust his spirits and consume him as the f●●me doth the oyle in his lampe Notwithstanding how many will make themselves our taske-masters speaking to us as to bricke-makers Ye are too idle these it may be would even tell Tostatus as much for all his 14 Volumes in folio which a Scholler knowes could neuer have beene done but by an Edmund Iron-side nor scarce written but with a penne of iron Reading is the least part of study and yet much reading is a wearinesse to the flesh it is well that so wise a man as Solomon hath said it and in that booke too where he styles himselfe The Peacher else hee would soone have beene impleaded Preaching is but one part of ministeriall paines which is something if it were no more then declamare ad clepsydram to cry aloud and lift up a mans voice like a Trumpet for an houre together which Perkins found who after his preaching used to spit up his lungs But it is the soule that preacheth the understanding is busied to conceive the memory to recount the affections to expresse c. therefore the Hebrew word and Greeke too is of the feminine gender q. d. a shee Preacher meaning the Soule But if a mans bones were of brasse and his strength the strength of stones and yet he be so much wasted as like S. Iohn at Ephesus he must be carried to his Pulpit in a chaire his infirmities may be his comfort if he be divinis consumptus laboribus as was said of B. Iewel The Colour THe colour is just the same with the nayle of a mans hand whence by reason of the similitude it hath the name of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 therefore they that parallell these 12 stones with the 12 Patriarchs write Iosephs name upon this understanding by the flesh-coloured whitenesse Candorem virtutis that candidnesse and whitenesse of vertue which was in Ioseph For Onyx colour like Roses spred on Lawne is ad unguem 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 vertues tincture and dye Palenesse in the face is rather the colour of vice for we are wont pallescere culpâ besides that it is the colour of death sins proper stipend Behold a pale horse and death sitting on him Pallida mors c. Red is the colour of guiltinesse anger and choller but that inimitable mixture of both which is in the nayle wherewith every finger of the hand is so artificially tipped as it were with pearle-shell is the proper livery of a pious and vertuous disposition It is a shred of an Italian Letany From a blacke German and a pale Spaniard and a red Italian libera nos Domine The application is this that we take to us that sweetnesse of manners and amiablenesse of cariage which may win men to our Ministery and endeare us to them with whom we converse that we joyne to those Theologicall vertues of faith hope and charity without which we cannot s●ve our selves those Morall vertues of candor gentlenesse affability curtesie and meeknesse without which we shall hardly ever save others Learning and grace like Galba's wit may dwell ill to wit in a morose and crabbed nature but we should doe our endeavor that Those who will not give eare unto the Word may without the Word bee wonne by our blamelesse and candide conversation SECTION XII The Iasper THis is the first stone in the foundation though the last here in the Pectorall so proper is it here The last shall be first Yea there it is not onely one of the twelve but the structure of the wall also is of Iasper and before it is put to represent the glory and Majesty of God the Father We need not feare to be mistaken in the stone for nomen tri-lingue sounds the same both in Latine Greeke and Hebrew and the Arabicke word Montanus saith is Iasp. The Vertue THe vertue of it is to confirme and comfort the stomach for which the use of it is approved in Physicke Galen affirmes this to be true if they be hung against the mouth of the stomach and professeth himselfe to have made the tryall Wee need no greater witnesse We must 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 it is not the least part of Ministeriall wisedome to proportion spirituall food to the strength of the receivers stomach there are both lambes and sheepe to be fed there are both babes and adulti that must have meat there are fathers young-men and little children to be written unto in the primative Church there were Catechumenoi as well as there were knowing and instructed Christians So also is there both milke and strong meat shallow waths which may bee foorded by a Lambe and abisse whirlepooles where Leviathan may swimme and take his pastime there are Hosanna's fitted for the mouths of babes and sucklings and Hallelujahs sung by celestiall quires there are 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the very elements and first principles of the word of God which the simplest may learne as there are 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 abstruse and profound mysteries which doe 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 seale and shut up the mouthes of the subtillest Sermons are as riddles and clerums to uncatechized soules He is not like to be a sound Divine who reades Lombard or Aquinas before he be grounded by some orthodoxe institutions neither are those like to prove stable Christians who have not for the basis of their faith some 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to be the touch-stone of those doctrines which are propounded to them to receive Looke into the writings of the Fathers both of the Greek and Latine Church and you shall finde that Clemens Alexandrinus had his Pedagogue Cyril of Hierusalem his Catechisme Origen that famous Catechist his bookes 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Theodoret his Epitome 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Lactantius his Institutions Augustine his Enchiridion c. wee should first lay the foundation in the milk of catechisticall points and then build thereon the gold of positive or polemicall Divinity So Hooker truly observes that two things procured Calvin all his deserved honor through the Christian world the one was his exceeding paines in composing the Institutions of Religion the other his no lesse industrious travels for exposition of holy Scripture according to the same Institutions wherein he gained the advantage of prejudice against them which gain-sayd him and of glory above them which assented to him It was Iacobs care of his flocke to drive softly according to the pace of the cattell Wee must both in our dogmaticall decisions and rhetoricall enforcements rather stoope to the capacity of the weake then raise our matter words and method to the ability of one or two intellectualists The Colour THe colour is a translucent greennesse Greene signifieth Hope a necessary vertue for the ebbing estate of man in this life