Selected quad for the lemma: virtue_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
virtue_n	love_n	patience_n	temperance_n	1,797	5	11.2015	5	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A80530	Experience, historie, and divinitie Divided into five books. Written by Richard Carpenter, vicar of Poling, a small and obscure village by the sea-side, neere to Arundel in Sussex. Who being, first a scholar of Eaton Colledge, and afterwards, a student in Cambridge, forsooke the Vniversity, and immediatly travelled, in his raw, green, and ignorant yeares, beyond the seas; ... and is now at last, by the speciall favour of God, reconciled to the faire Church of Christ in England? Printed by order from the House of Commons.	Carpenter, Richard, d. 1670?	1641 (1641)	Wing C620B; ESTC R229510	263,238	607

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ray_n of_o the_o naz_n s._n greg._n naz_n divinity_n the_o other_o a_o vile_a thing_n extract_v from_o a_o dunghill_n nor_o be_v there_o any_o show_n of_o semblance_n or_o proportion_n betwixt_o they_o and_o therefore_o to_o make_v these_o two_o end_n meet_v be_v a_o work_n which_o require_v the_o hand_n and_o the_o only_a hand_n of_o the_o master_n workman_n the_o divine_n give_v three_o special_a reason_n why_o god_n join_v a_o body_n to_o a_o soul_n first_o move_v by_o his_o infinite_a goodness_n because_o he_o desire_v to_o admit_v a_o body_n as_o well_o as_o a_o spirit_n to_o the_o participation_n of_o himself_o and_o all_o creature_n be_v spiritual_a or_o corporal_a a_o body_n can_v never_o have_v be_v partaker_n of_o blessedness_n have_v it_o not_o be_v join_v to_o a_o spirit_n second_o for_o the_o more_o general_a exercise_n of_o virtue_n in_o the_o service_n of_o god_n for_o a_o soul_n can_v not_o have_v act_v many_o virtue_n without_o the_o aid_n of_o a_o body_n as_o the_o virtue_n of_o temperance_n and_o chastity_n for_o the_o devil_n be_v not_o delight_v with_o the_o sin_n contrary_a to_o these_o virtue_n but_o for_o our_o guilt_n three_o the_o perfection_n of_o the_o universe_n for_o as_o there_o be_v creature_n only_a spirit_n as_o angel_n and_o creature_n only_o bodily_a as_o beast_n and_o tree_n so_o it_o be_v a_o great_a perfection_n that_o there_o shall_v also_o be_v creature_n both_o spirit_n and_o body_n by_o which_o it_o be_v evident_a that_o god_n place_v man_n in_o a_o middle_a condition_n betwixt_o angel_n and_o beast_n to_o the_o end_n he_o may_v rise_v even_o in_o this_o life_n with_o elias_n to_o the_o sublime_a and_o superior_a state_n of_o