Selected quad for the lemma: virtue_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
virtue_n	godly_a	remember_v	wicked_a	881	5	9.8041	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A22823	Godly meditations made in the forme of prayers by S. Augustine; De meditatione. English.	Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo.	1570 (1570)	STC 933; ESTC S119229	32,187	250

¶ Godly Meditations made in the forme of prayers by S. Augustine ¶ A prayer wherein through commemoration of Christes passion we desire pardon of our sinnes and continuance in vertue godlines BEholde O pitifull father thy most pitifull son which suffered for mee beyng so wicked Beholde O most mercifull kyng who suffreth and remember as thou art louyng and kynde for whome he suffred Is not this O my Lorde innocent whō although he were thy sonne thou didst deliuer to redeeme and raunsom a seruant Is not this the author and beginner of lyfe which beyng ledde as a sheepe to be killed and beyng made obedient to thee euen vnto death was not afrayde to take vpon him the most cruel sharpe kynde of death Call to remēbraunce O thou distributour of all health that this is he whome although thou didst begette him by thy power yet notwythstanding thou wouldest haue to be made partaker of myne infirmitie and weakenesse Truely thys same is thy Godhead which did take vppon hym my nature which was hanged vppon the gibbet of torment or crosse which in the fleshe which he had taken vpon him did suffer sorrowful punishment Turne the eyes of thy maiestie O lord my God toward the worke of thine vnspeakable pitie Loke vpon thy deare sonne whose whole bodye is stretched forth Marke the harmeles pure handes which do drop distill downe innocent bloud And I beseeche thee be pacified pardon the wicked dedes which my handes haue committed Cōsider his bare and naked side being thrust thorow cruelly with a speare and renue wash me with thy holy fountayne or well which I beleue did flow from thence Marke the vnspotted feete which haue not stand in the way of sinners but alway haue walked in thy law how they ar persed thorow with sharp nailes and make perfecte my steppes in thy pathes and make me of thy louing kindnes to hate all the wayes of iniquitie Remoue frō me the way of iniquitie make me of thy mercye to chuse the way of truth I besech thee O king of holy men by this holy one of all holy ones and by thys my redemer to make me runne the way of thy cōmaundements that I may be vnited knit vnto him in spirit which did not disdayue to be clad in my fleshe Doest thou not looke vpon and marke O pitifull father the head of thy most dearely beloued soune a yong man how it leaned vpon hys shoulder when he was past the most precious death Beholde O my most gentle creator the humanitie gentlenes of thy beloued sonne haue compassion vpon the febleues of me thy weake and feble handy worke Behold O most glorious parent the torne and rent members of thy most kynde and louing chylde and remember gently what substaunce I am of Beholde the paines of God and man and release and loose man which is thy creature out of misery and bondage of sinne Beholde the punishment of hym that did redeme and pardon the offence of them that be redemed This is he O Lord whome thou didst strike for the sinnes of thy people although he be thy welbeloued in whome was founde no guile and yet neuertheles was he reckoned amongst them that were full of iniquitie ¶ A prayer wherein man confesseth himselfe to be the cause of Christes passion WHat hast thou committed O Lorde that thou shouldest be so iudged what hast thou offeded that thou shouldest be so cruelly handled and ordered what was thy faulte what was thyne offēce what was the cause of thy death what was the occasion of thy condemnation I Lord I am the cause of thy sorrow the faulte is in me that thou was killed for I haue deserued thy death I committed the offences that were auenged vpon thee Oh merueilous kinde of iudgemēt and vnspeakable disposition or ordering of misteries The vninst man offendeth and the righteous is punished The giltie doth euill and the innocent is beaten The euill doth trespasse and the good is condemned That which the euill man deserueth the same doth the iust suffer That which the seruaunt doth amisse the maister makes amendes That which man trespasseth God suffereth it O thou which art the sonne of God how low did thine humilitie descend How greatly did thy charitie euen as it were waxe hotte burne towarde vs How farre did thy pitie proceede whither did thy benignitie and gentlenes grow and extend how farre did thy loue stretch how farre came thy compassion for I did wrongfully and thou wast punished I cōmitted the mischieuous deedes and they were auenged vppon thee I did the fault thou submittedst thy self to the tormentes I was proude and thou wast humble meeke I was swelled puft vp thou wast extenuated and appaired I was disobedient neuertheles thou being obedient barest the paines punishmentes of disobedience I obeyed and was as it were a seruaunt to all excesse and gluttony and thou wast punished wyth scar●itie and lacke of foode The tr●e did draw me violētly vnto vnlawfull concupiscence and desires but perfect charitie led thee vnto punishmēt I presumed beyng forbidden but thou didst smart therefore I tooke my pleasure wyth delicatenesse thou wast vexed with the crosse I aboūd and haue plentye of all pleasures thou art all to torne with nayles I do cast the pleasaunt sweetnes of the apple ehou the bitternesse of Baull Behold o king of glory mine iniquitie vngodduies ▪ and thy pietie and goodnes is manifest Be hold mine vnrighteousnes thy iustice is plainly declared What thing O my king and my God shall I render vnto thee for all those thinges which thou hast bestowed vpō me for nothyng can be found in that hart of man that may worthely recompence such rewards Can mās wit excogitate or imagine any thing that is worthy to be cōpared vnto thy diuine mercy Neither is it that office of a creature to goe about to recōpēce fully iustly that aide helpe of a Creator There is truly O sonne of God in this thy merueilous dispēsation and apointmentes somwhat in which my frailenes may helpe a little if so be that my minde once pricked and stirred by thy visitation do punishe the fleshe with the vices also and euill concupiscences thereof and thys thyng if thou wilt graunt and geue me grace to doe then shal it beginne as it were to suffer sustaine sorrowes griefes because that thou also didst vouchesafe to die for my sinne And so by the victory of the inward man it shal be armed thou beyng a Captaine for the externall and outwarde victorye forasmuche as the spirituall persecution once ouercom it shal not bee afrayde for thy sake to be obedient vnto the materiall sword and crosse of this world And so the slendernes of my state and condition if it please thy goodnes shal be able accordyng to the little power thereof to aunswer vnto the greatnes and excellency of my creator And this is the