Selected quad for the lemma: water_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
water_n	air_n	earth_n	element_n	15,514	5	10.0914	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A14322	The right way to heauen and the true testimonie of a faithfull and loyall subiect. Compiled by Richard Vennard of Lincolnes Inne.	R. V. (Richard Vennard), d. 1615?	1601 (1601)	STC 24637; ESTC S120185	25,162	65

glory euery one a marke wherein thy hand of Mercy is beheld That doth such comfort to each creature yeeld Is not the Fire a figure of thy wrath That soone consumes the proude assault of sinne The aire the pacience that thy mercie hath When true contrition doth remission winne The water teares that thou for sinne hast shed The Earth thy death for to redeeme the dead Since then aboue and in the Elements Sunne Moone Stars Skie Fire water Earth and Aier And what may be beneath the Firmament Beasts Birds Fish worme scale fether hide nor haier Nor Tree nor Flower nor Herbe nor Grasse doth grow But someway doth thy glorious mercie show Shall wreched Man whom God did onely make To his owne Image in his Mercies loue So far himselfe and all his good forsake As to forget so sweet a Turtle Doue As his deere God that so of nothing wrought him And his deere Sonne that hath so deerely bought him Shall Man I say that onely speciall Creature VVhom God hath made to serue his Maiestie In lacke of Grace reueale so vile a Nature As not to seeke his Name to glorifie No heauens forbid though sinne be neuer such In Man should liue ingratitude so much No hee whom God hath made to monarch so Aboue all Creatures that doe grow or breath And by his wisedome makes his will to know The good aboue and euill from beneath And how hee helps the spirit in distresse His glorious goodnesse cannot but confesse And when hee sees with those inseeing eies That in the soule doe giue the spirit light In what the height of heauenly glory lies To whom all glory doth beelong of right His hart will write in his worths worthy storie To him alone bee giuen all onely Glory Oh hee that sits aboue the starry Skie In holy seate of heauenly residence And at the twinckling of his glorious eie Commaunds the world to his obedience Leaue that fowle soule in sorrow euer friendlesse That doth not sound thy name in glory endlesse All grace all goodnesse wisedome power and peace All truth true life all bountie mercy loue These all together sing and neuer cease Vnto the glory of this God aboue And can it bee that Man who sees all this Will not giue glory to this God of his No heauens forbid that hell should haue the power To spit hir poison vpon Man so much To make him liue to that vnhappie hower wherein to shew his wicked Nature such As to forget Gods gratious goodnesse so As not some way his glorious Mercie shew Then set my hart among that world of soules That seele his blessings euery day and hower While truth records in hir eternall rowles The gracious goodnesse of his glorious power Sing in my Soule and neuer cease to sing An Halleluiah to my heauenly King Laus Gloria Deo The high way to Heauen Cap. I. He that in Heauen will tast the fruits of Diuinitie must first learne to know himselfe in the schole of Humilitie HVmilitie is a vertue springing from the feare of GOD the mother of meekenesse and sister of Deuotion without which no man can attaine to the knowledge and feeling of his owne miserie in Adam felicitie in Christ A Bird except hir wings be moued downwards cannot flye vp to the top of an hill nor man except the affectiōs of his heart be humbled downwards mount vp to the Tower of diuine vnderstanding And therefore that godly father Saint Augustine compareth Heauen to a faire stately Pal lace with a little dore wherat no man can enter except he stoupe very low As who should saye God reiecteth the proud but giueth grace to the humble and lowly The true wisdome of a Christian consisteth especially In his booke against the Pelag. in the knowledge of his owne imperfectiōs Then are we said to be righteous saith saint Ierome when we acknowledge our selues to be wicked transgressors He hath much profited in this life saith Saint Augustine that hath learned August how far he is from perfection of righteousnesse For the lesse opinion a man hath of himselfe the more trust he hath in God the more he meditateth on the horrour of Hell the neerer is he to the ioyes of Heauen None more neere then the Psal 51. 17 humble penitent whose heart is most deepely wounded with the grieuousnesse of sinnes nor none so farre from true Religion as he who thinketh himselfe most perfect and very religius The ioyes of Heauen are prepared not for Luke 18. proude presumptuous Pharases which seeme in their owne eyes to bee most iust pure and perfect but for poore humble Publicans that iustly condemne themselues as most vyle miserable wretched The sonne of man came not to call the righteous but sinners to repentance to seeke none but those that acknowledge themselues to bee lost to comfort and raise vp none with his Gospell but those that are discomforted and cast downe by the law nor to annoint or heale any with his oile of gladnesse but such broken contrite hearts as for griefe of sinnes are sick and mourne in Syon Cap. II. Of our lothsome deformetie through Adams fall A Naturall man consisteth of three parts the Spirit or immortall Soule indued with reason will and deuine vnderstanding 1. Thes 5. 23. 1. Co. 2. 11 the naturall affections or powres of the Soule as indifferent spurs to Ro. 8. 5. 17 7. 13. 1. Pc. 2. 11 prouoke stirre vp and pricke forward vnto vertue or vice and the terrestriall Body wherein Sathan by tempting of Adam hath Gal. 5. 1 5 written the law of Sinne. All which parts of Man at the first were in such perfect order and concord framed together as neither the immortall Spirit did conceaue any thing the natural powers of the soule desire any thing nor the terrestiall body execute any thing contrary to the will of God All creatures vnder Heauen beeing obedient to the body of man as the subiect to the Prince the naturall body obedient to the reasonable soule as the seruant to the Maister the reasonable soule with his affections obedient to God the creator as the childe to the father till that cutsed Serpent our mortall enemy found meanes to set them at variance discord Since which time the nature of Man became so frayle and weake the occasions vnto euill so many and the illusion of Sathan so prompt ready that except Gods especiall grace preuent him he is apt prone vpon euery light occasion to yeeld vnto sin and wickednesse being more easely brought to conceaue an errour by one little word then the truth by a long tale sooner seduced to consent vnto vice by one small example then conuerted vnto vertue by many vehement perswasions Cap. III. Of the miserie of Adams posteritie and vanitie of the world FOr-asmuch as of all other vices that old rooted infection of Pride Vaineglory and Presumption is most vniuersally grafted in man there