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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
A62994	Atheismus vapulans, or, A treatise against atheism, rationally confuting the atheists of these times by Will. Towers ... Polytheismus vapulans, or, There is but one God.	Towers, William, 1617?-1666.; Towers, William, 1617?-1666. Polytheismus vapulans.	1654 (1654)	Wing T1959; ESTC R23437	141,181	385

Virgil. Aenaeid l. 6. patet Atri Janua Ditis Sed Revocar● Gradum Superasque Evadere ad Auras Hic Labor hoc Opus est And that a Labour like the washing of a Moor which is Proverbially call'd the Labour in Vain a VVork like that of Sisiphus to Role a Stone up Hill that it may Role down it self Does Christ say Broad is the Way that Leadeth unto Destruction Mat. 7.13 14. and strait is the Gate that Leadeth unto Life and Few there are that find it Ibid. Virgil saies so too Facilis Descensus Averni and Pauci Laeta Arva tenemus Mat. 8.12 Ps 49.19 Is the Un-Christian Christian's Hell a Place of Utter Darkness in which he shall Never see Light the Un-Christian Heathen's Hell is so too Scelerata Jacet Sedes in Nocte profundâ Abdita Tibull l. 1. El. 3. quam Circum Flumina Nigra sonant Tum Niger in Portâ Serpens and bury'd and hid from its very self in an Everlasting Darkness which hath no Communion at all with any Light Queis nunquam Candente Dies Apparuit Ortu Id. lib. 4. Paneg. ad Messal Sive supra Terras Phoebus sive Curreret Infra Does Moses tell us Gen. 3. that the Devil tempts Man to Sin Does Peter expound Moses 1 Pet. 5.8 and the Saint declare to us the Devil's Design in his Temptation that by yielding to his Suggestions we may Obey our Selves into his Jaws and he Devour us that we our selves may be that Dust which Moses tels us Gen. 3.14 In Piman Dial. 1. the Serpent shall eat and does not Trismegistus tell us the same Daemon ad Patranda Scelera Armat Hominem ut Turpioris Culpae Reus Aeriori Supplicio sit Obnoxius 49. And since by their own Confessions every Sin does Attest a God whom That Sin offends and a Devil whom God imploys to Chastise that Sin and a Hell in which to Chastise it * Dux Erebi Populos poscebat Crimina Vita Nil Hominum miserans ' Iratusque omnibus Vmbris Impartially and without Respect of Persons Have they not therefore rightly charg'd upon us the Practice of those Attoning Virtues contrary to those Provoking Sins One of them in that One Verse which Scaliger commends to be the very best of all Virgil's Poetry Discite Justitiam Moniti Aeneid l. 6. non temnere Dives And not onely Justice and Virtue in Genere but Specifically 1 Cor. 13.13 S. Pauls three Theological Virtues Faith Hope and Charity and do they not plentifully tell us that we have all these and all the other Good we do from God Cicero l. 1. De Naturâ Deorum Si inest in Hominum genere Mens Fides Virtus Concordia unde haec in Terram nisi à Superis defluere potuerunt They in whom these Graces shine like the Moon at Full have attain'd to the Perfection of Virtue and yet when they have done that a very Pindarus will tell them who they are to thank for it Ad summitatem Virtutis pervenerunt cum Dei autem Favore and not onely these Choycest Graces of Gold and of Silver 2 Tim. 2.20 but every more Feeble Virtue of Wood also and of Earth are Fashion'd in us by a Hand from above by him whom Isaiah cals our Potter 64.8 None at all of them come from our selves either by Nature Arist Eth. l. 2. c. 1. Nulla fit Virtus Morum in nobis Natura or by Art Non fit ab Arte Maximus Tyrius Serm. 22. quòd Evadimus Bon● but All of them by the Gift and Grace of God Sed potius Beneficio Jovis Aristainet Ep. 13. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 50. And yet these Virtues how eagerly soever pursu'd and in some intense degree practis'd since by the Frailty of Man they cannot be entirely practis'd or if they were so could merit nothing at that God's hands who gave the Virtues therefore he who is the bright Morning-Star and the very Sun amongst the Heathens when he had done all he could would expect his Reward onely by Grace and Mercy and had he done more than he could he would yet have done One thing more that which our God and Christ commands us to do Luk. 17.10 When we have done all those things which are Commanded us confest that he was an Unprofitable servant one of these He confesses throughout a whole Book of His for the Title of it is De Clementiâ and almost in the very entry of that Book Lib. 1. c. 1. Non est Quisquam cui tam valdè innocentia sua placeat ut non stare in Conspectu Clementiam paratam humanis erroribus gaudeat and theother in His B. De Ira Lib. 2. c. 17. Quis est islequi se profitetur Omnibus Legibus innocentem ut hoc it a sit quàm Angusta Innocentia est ad Legem Bonum esse to which purpose is it excellently said by Ausonius who though he be wholly Christian in one Copy is extremely Heathen in † Vbi Castissimum Maronem lasciviis inquinat non suis Another and very little Christian in any else so that I may well suspect that one Copy to be Illegitimate thrust into his Book by the Charity of another man and not thrust out of his Head as the Poet's * Minerva E●yss 2● Goddesse out of Jupiters by his own Devotion Deliquisse Nihil nunquam laudem esse putavi 51. And as they acknowledg God Jam. 1.17 Plato in Eutryphone c. 47. to be wrathfull against sin and from whom every Good gift does come Nihil nobis est Bonum quin Dii Praebeant the same Dii whom Homer Stilo Jacobino calls 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 whom Jamblicus does singularize into Largitor Bonorum Omnium so do they not in some manner too acknowledge the Trinity of Persons the Father is in every Mouth of them Aristot l. de Mundo Deus sine dubio servator omnium est Parens eorum quae in Mundo Conficiuntur and not only the Father of all in this World Below but of all in That Above too the Father which is Himself in Heaven and the Father of all them which are There with Him Virgil. Ae●aid l. 10. O Pater O Hominum Divumque aeterna Potestas The Son is upon the Tongue of severall of them Aenaid l. 1. Nate meae Vires mea magna Potentia solus the Godhead of That Son Ad te Confugio supplex Tua Numina posco His Birth of a Virgin Eclog. 4. Jam Redit Virgo redeunt Saturnia Regna Aenaeid 10. His Cruell Death and the Salvation of Man by That Tua haec Genitor per Vulnera Servor Morte Tuâ Vivo nay almost the very Sacrament of His Body and Blood too which is the Seal to Our Faith and to His Promises Miraris Hominem ad Deos Ire dos any wonder that Man goes up to God Seneca will