Selected quad for the lemma: virtue_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
virtue_n	fortitude_n	justice_n	temperance_n	2,097	5	10.3230	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A18976	Iacobs wel, and Abbots conduit paralleled, preached, and applied (in the cathedrall and metropoliticall Church of Christ in Canterbury) to the vse of that citie; now to make glad the citie of God. By Iames Cleland, Doctor of Diuinitie.	Cleland, James, d. 1627.; Pass, Simon van de, 1595?-1647, engraver.	1626 (1626)	STC 5395; ESTC S121241	34,126	64

am deceiued if any other thing or course could haue beene vsed more likely and sitly to preuaile IN VSVM CIVITATIS Cantuariae to the Vse and Benefit of this Citie then these Images For herein the grosse conceit is led on with pleasure and informed while it feeles nothing but delight And if l Signa propter imperitum vulgus formata refert ex Paganorum sententia Arnob. lib. 6. Dicebant n. illi Imagines esse veluti Libros Plebeculae Porphyrius praesertim apud Euseb lib. 3 de praepar ad Euangel Segnius irritant animos demissa per aures Quàm quae sunt●t coulis subiecta fidelibus Horat. vbi supra Pictures haue beene accounted the Bookes of Idiots behold here the benefit of an Image without offence It is no shame for vs to learne wit of Heathens neither is it materiall in whose Schoole wee take out a good Lesson yea it is more shame not to follow their good then not to leade them better Proue m Longum iter est per praecepta breue essicax per exampla Senec epist 6. your selues then Wise men Iust Strong and Sober conforme to these foure Figures or Cardinall Vertues Prudence Iustice Fortitude Temperance thus placed in order Next to them abide n Fides appellata est abeo quod fit duae syllabae quarum prima est à facto secunda à Deo Dicis quod crodis fac ergo quod dicis fides est Augustin serm 22. Faith o Idem de Spiritu Litera Magis videtur Dei fil us qui nouit à quo speret quod nondum habet quâm qui sibi tribuit quod habet Hope and p Charitas dicitur à Graeco 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 quod est gratia lepos amicitia cù● enim cognatio i●ter bomines vna sit vitaque species nihil magis decens est hac hominum mutua Charitate Charitas Via Dei ad homines est via hominis ad Deum Augustin ibid. de Spiritu Litera Charitie but the greatest of these three is Charitie When the three Goddesses say the Poets stroue for the golden Ball Paris adiudged it to the Queene of Loue. Loe here are three celestiall Graces in an holy emulation if I may so say striuing for the chiefdome S. Paul giues it to Loue The greatest of these is Charitie And me thinks these Three Theologicall Vertues may fitly be compared to the three great Feasts of the yeere Easter Whitsontide and Christmas Faith like Easter beleeues Christ dead for our sinnes and risen againe for our Iustification Hope like Pentecost waites for the comming of the Holy Ghost to bring vs to Heauen And Charitie lookes like Christmas full of Loue to our Neighbours full of Hospitalitie to Strangers and full of Charitie to the Poore To this end and purpose there is a little Bell hung vp in a Tower aboue all these seuen Vertues thereby to ring into our eares on euery market day this aduertisement Remember the Poore or bee charitable In this sense that Bell Anagogically may bee called ſ Exod. 28.34 Aarons Bell thus ioyning t Dictis factae praecedunt imo sine factis dicta nihil prosunt Nam ideo Dominus fieri voluit sic doceri ne sine bono opere verborum inutilis esset superstitiosa iactatio Ambros serm 76. Qui dicica● non faciūt sunt Aera sonantia cymbala tinnientia 1. Corin. 13.1 good words to good workes or faire speeches to vertuous actions and so a Golden Bell and a Pomegranate a Pomegranate and a Golden Bell that as the delight and pleasure of the one serue to the sight so the sound of the other should pierce into the eare u Mat. 5.19 Whosoeuer shall doe and say these things saith our Lord the same shall bee called great in the Kingdome of Heauen And as Saint x 1. Pet. 5.4 10 11. Peter said in his first Epistle the fift Chapter and fourth Verse Yee shall receiue a y Pulchra Amaranti Coronae in Coelis reposita illi qui se rectë gesserit Clem. Alex. l. 2. paedag 214. alludens ad hanc Petri immarcessibilem gloriae Coronam 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 siquidem herbam immarcessibilem significat de hac fusius Dioscorid Plin. lib. 21. cap. 8. Crowne of glory that fadeth not away as in token thereof heere a Gilded Crowne in the top of this Conduit Therefore z Denique vt Tertull. ad Martyr c. 3. Bonum Agonem subituri est●●●● quo Ago●ethetes Deus vnus est Xystarches Spiritus Sanctus Corona Aeternitatis brauium Angelicae substantiae Politia in Coelis gloria in sacula saeculorum finally to conclude the God of all grace who hath called vs into his eternall glory by Christ Iesus after that yee haue suffered awhile make you perfect stablish strengthen settle you To him be glory and dominion for euer and euer AMEN FINIS