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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
world_n	darkness_n	light_n	shine_v	11,650	5	9.6082	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A89933	A new anatomie, or character of a Christian, or Round-head. Expressing his description, excellencie, happiness, and innocencie. Wherein may appear how far this blind world is mistaken in their unjust censures of him.		1645 (1645)	Wing N536; Thomason E1182_4; ESTC R204932	5,297	15

A New ANATOMIE OR Character of a Christian or Round-head Expressing His Description Excellencie Happiness and Innocencie Wherein may appear how far this blind World is mistaken in their unjust Censures of Him Virtus in arduis Proverbs 12.26 The righteous is more excellent then his Neighbour Iude 10. But these speak evill of those things which they know not and in those things which they know like brute beasts they defile themselves Imprimatur John Downame LONDON Printed for Robert Leybourne and are to be sold at the Star under Peters Church in Corn-hill 1645. A New character of a Christian or Round-head HE is a creature new molded out of the frame and stock of the old Adam into that of the new and second and is compounded of light and darknesse which somtimes makes him to shine and somtimes obscureth him as either of both are predominant in him In the former part of his life after conuersion you shall have him all in raptures new joys and strange expressions being as it were in a new world but after that in dumps and malancholie fits now and then like a storme-beaten-man complaining of crosse windes stormes and tempests A creature who at his entrance into Christianity finding such changes and various entertainment looks not for his portion in this life and therefore expects no great matters in the house of bondage he now labours in He is not much troubled for his present condition because he is heire of all things and what he wants in possession he is assured of in reversion knowing that his Father will see him furnished in the fittest season and therefore in his wants he fues the promises Gods bonds yet leaves to Gods pleasure when to make them good cares not though others are lifted up upon dunghils to overlook him Though he be in shew miserable yet he envies not the present felicity of any who have but a sun-shine day towards their execution He dares not adventure upon the lest of evils for attaining of the greatest good of two evils he always chooseth the least though hee acknowledges that there is no evill of sin to be chosen at any time and therfore uses this world and all things therein as though hee used them not He can cast his bread upon the waters and yet after many dayes expect increase from thence in all things he sympathises with the sufferings of others and helping them in their miseries what he may In all his actions the Word he makes his Rule in all things and dares not without a warrant from thence undertake any matters of consequence the rules and precepts wherof being multifarious therefore his readier practice hath summed up into one to doe to others as he would be done to by of them and because at the giving of the Law all the Mountain was railed round he therefore puts this rule about all his words ways and actions To abstain from all appearance of evill Christ he makes his chiefest joyes his sins his greatest sorrow next unto which an hypocrite vexeth him most because he undertakes to act his part but yet so bunglingly that he always shames himselfe in the end heaven he prises above all things and so little values the earth as he thinks all this world not worthy of a sigh He out of singularity affects not precisenesse but that his warie walking is still atended with that aspersion he is temperate in all things being to try great masteries over himselfe and others not caring for the jollities and rejoyceings of others lest too much of that temper should enforce that he had received his consolation He knows that he walks in the midst of dangers and therefore he walkes some turns every day in heaven and hell the one to cheere him in his journey the other to afflict him from sinning He espies sees the snares which are rapt up in all the creatures to intrap him and therefore as one treading amongst snares he walkes the more warily and circumspectly in all things and can admire high hills but bide within the plains Yea in all his journies he by faith sees all this world on fire as holy Jerome though he always heard the last Trumpet sounding in his eares Arise ye dead and come to judgement and therefore sutes all his actions affections and meditations according unto that matchlesse admiration He throughly hates all sin willingly hugs and harbours none and mourns most that he cannot leave all In his deviations when he sins he goes not purposely astray but onely unwares slips and misses his way and rather is enforced then led willingly out of the good way when being out he is restlesse untill he come in his way again whose falls and failings are not fallings away rather diseases and wants in the feare of God then want thereof being the remembrancers of his frailties helps unto his abasement subject of his humiliation mater of his mortification and wings unto his vivification to make him flourish in selfe-deniall All Superiours and Magistrates he obeyes and reverences not onely out of duty but also for conscience sake and that not onely unto the good but also unto the bad unlesse it be when they command things unlawfull in which case onely he hath learned to refuse obedience and suffer rather choosing with Saint Paul to obey God than man Hee refuseth no good instructions comming from Moses chair but willingly receiveth all which is good whosoever the messenger be and for matter of ceremonies he doth not refuse the shadow for the substance the kirnell for the shell Saint Pauls Bishop he honours with double honour but for a Lord Bishop he professeth not to understand that mystery which our blessed Saviour rejected He can heare the word preached in season and out of season in Churches out of Churches though he prefer the hearing thereof in Churches as the more decent and of better report then the other He thinks better of all others then of himselfe because he knows most evill by himselfe and therefore dares not entertain or receive evill reports of others because hee knows all men are lyars but rather usually underfoots them least they should passe further and when he ventures upon admonition or reproofe it is upon urgent known cause with much compassion fear and observation of Time Place person and manner and with abundance of discretion and love both foregoing it and following after the same nor doth he venture to judge rashly after the hearing of the eare nor after the seeing of the eye of any being jealous of his mistakes that so in this kinde he may suite himselfe unto a divine temper like unto Christ who refused to judge the woman without her accusers as knowing that conviction should always goe hand in hand with accusation least we wrong others He cares for nothing that God will not give him accounting his will best whatsoever and seeing the end of all the promises hang in heaven whence they come he expects the full

performance of them what he wants here in heaven he naturally loves braverie ostentation riches gentlenesse as well as worldlinesse but that he dares not venture Eternity of Glory for their purchase as some doe He acknowledgeth the beauty of holinesse to be the onely beauty and therefore neither esteems himselfe nor any other to be more happy or wise then they are accounted therewith He knows no man now after the flesh neither regards he any meerly for fleshly but for spirituall excellencie and therefore knowing by himselfe partly what is in man he dares commit himselfe unto no man without triall of him first his passions and affections sometimes would fly out like a tempest but that he hath rules in readinesse how to check and restrain them from being inordinate and in performance of holy duties when perturbances interrupt those Sacrifices of ravenous birds live unto Abraham he drives and scares them away he hath learned in all estates therewith to be contented and grudges not at any crosse which maketh him more holy and teacheth him either more experience wisdome or patience He knows that he is a pilgrime upon earth and like one in a strange Countrey here and therefore whilst hee is upon his journey homewards is not much troubled what his entertainment in strange places shall be or is in which case though the dogs barke and the servants frown yet he cares not so long as he rests assured at length to be welcome unto the master of the house In which case though by the way he be whipt lasht somtimes with the scourge of tongues yet is he contented to beare all knowing that it were woe with him if all men should speake well of him yea that it were but a kinde of infamie to be praised of evill doers Like good Jehosophat you may have him sometime forget himfelfe to be enticed into some Ahabs company but yet even there he is not himselfe but checks himselfe for that adventure and looks out for some further and better direction to have some better warrant for what he is about His actions are all so framed as may further his latter end neither looks he or cares he so much what they are as whether they carry him in all which he hath a designe and plot upon eternitie of heavenly glory hee admits loves and cherishes goodnesse in whomsoever and amongst them the most excellent in whom his chiefe delight is His devotions are constant both in ordinary and extraordinary wherein what he misseth at one time he makes up at another And as for Gods goodnesse and manifold favours and blessings upon him at any time conferred they are so far from lifting him up that they make him the more thankfull end humble the more he seeth God in them acknowledging himselfe to be lesse then the least of all his mercies Hee is most censorious of himselfe and least of others whose faults he loves rather to conceale extenuate cover then farther to display Mercifull loving compassionate and kinde he is unto all but especially unto those whom Religion Nature Kinred or Affinity most strictly hath tyed him unto and is as well moved to help at the sight as at the voice of misery sory that he is not able to relieve and help all Hee is also wonderfull ambitious but it is how best he may come to be partaker of the Divine Nature to be filled with all diffusive goodnesse whereby to help and overcome all others therein In all extreams hee keeps the middle way and lays out for the golden Mean He is contented that God be his purs-keeper who can keep it best lay it out to the most advantage and neither suffer him either to want or be a bankrout Hee knows that all Gods works are beautifull in time and therefore he patiently waits for the issues of Providence Compared with Heaven he undervalues all earthly things and being clothed with this Sun can tread upon the Moone and as Oile swims above all waters so hath he principles in him which make him above and to conquer all crosses In his afflictions crosses and sufferings hee looks more at the hand of God than at the malice of men knowing that if he can but appease the one giving the Messenger his errand that hee shall quickly be rid of the other In all companies hee either does good or takes good at least labours to leave no ill savour by bad example though justification be but once done on Gods part yet he makes it an every days work to renew the same and engrosse further assurance thereof He is thankfull in all things and in all estates because the worst estate hee can be in out of Hell is more then his deserving to further which temper hee looks as well at those under him as at those above him Hee shuns all offences as neer as he can either to give or to take any and as for Revenge hee dares not so much as think of that for fear hee intrude into Gods Office and he makes himself all things unto all that hee may winne some knowing that hee lives not here so much for himself as for others hee is left amongst his slanderers and persecutors to keep off wrath from them whilst they sinning as with cart-ropes pull it upon themselves he knows no happiness but in holiness and therefore accounts this onely worth the looking after to study Maries part most labouring in sum-like unto Christ to do all things well and improve his talent unto the most advantage hee is always best when he is alone though then an Hypocrite be at the worst and never wants work when hee hath time to examine and call to question himself for all his words ways and actions in which course every evening hee cleeres his ●core and makes an even reckoning with the Almighty for all his offences To conclude view him well and we shall finde that there is no creature like him who hath joyes which others cannot intermeddle with Meat which they see not drink which they cannot taste of impenitrable armour which they know not defence and protection wherein they are naked and wanting Apparell more costly than Salomons in all his royaltie with directions from heaven and earth within him and behind him for his safe passage unto glory Being like the Kings daughter all glorious within though hee weare his worst side outmost yet he is more excellent then his neighbour and of all others the most overcomming creature whose eyes are said to overcome Christ himselfe Turne away thine eyes from me for they overcome me hee being the onely true modell of the new creature whose heart is still good and the same whatsoever his actions be A matchless person saved by his God kept by his power unto salvation held in his hand who is the shield of his helpe and the sword of his excellencie The eternall God being his refuge from above and beneath clasping him in the everlasting arms at whose feet Saint-like hee sits down to receive of his words Hee hath a heaven in his heart his thoughts are most of heaven his conversation is in heaven hee sits in his head there in heavenly places and had he wings to flie we should not have him long from thence And the true cause why the world loves him not Is because they know him not and are so blind as they cannot discerne into his excellencies they being veiled in this world as Christs sometimes were But let us lend him but a lease of three things wherein when he fails he is usually deficient heavenly wisdom knowledge and discretion to mingle with his zeal and temper it being thus qualified he is Heavens Darling Earths Paragon the Worlds onely wonder who whilst his Graces are conflicting wrastling and shining as he mounts Heaven-wards out of the wildernesse of this World is justly said to be the wonder of God himself Thus a right Puritan or Round-head is in his most noble right temper or should be qualified and let my Round-head be thus beautified and let mee live his life whatsoever his death be and I dare venter my Eternity with his FINIS