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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
world_n	live_v	present_a	ungodliness_n	2,099	5	11.1926	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A14678	Alæ seraphicæ The seraphins vvings to raise us unto heauen. Deliuered in six sermons, partly at Saint Peters in Westminster, partly at S. Aldates in Oxford. 1623. By Iohn Wall Doctor in Diuinity, of Christ-Church in Oxford.	Wall, John, 1588-1666.	1627 (1627)	STC 24985; ESTC S119339	77,171	152

text is spent in that double contemplation of the Physicks the one Motus the other Quies Yee that haue followed mee shewes there is a Motus Shall sit vpon twelue thrones shewes there is a Quies I wish that which deuides my text may deuide both speaker and auditor on your part quiet silence and religious deuotion whilst I begin with the diuine Motus and spirituall consectation in these words Yee that haue followed me Carefull imitation is a sure note of constant aspectation we euer loue those we desire most to follow Pride and Enuie step before Loue and Humilitie waite behind as Mary at the feete of Christ when shee made a bath of her teares and a towell of her locks Many suffer as Christ that shall neuer reigne with him many beare his crosse that shall neuer partake of his glorie Many drinke of the brooke that shall neuer lift vp the head Many grieue and mourne and sorrow and are afflicted that shall neuer be comforted and all this Quia sectari negligunt saith elegant Bernard because they are exalted in their minds and despise to come after Christ in the humilitie of their spirits For this cause will the Lord be followed and that with as much alacritie as the Scribe pretends Sir I will follow thee wheresoeuer thou goest Who so great with the Lord as Moses of a friend hee became a familiar of man a God so that hee is termed Deus Pharonis the very God of Pharoh Yet was he content to looke on the backe parts of his Creator and what Christ said to Mathew belongs to vs Veni sequere come and follow me Non passibus sed affectibus as Saint Austin hath distinguished not with the pases of our bodie but in the graces of our spirit in the loue of his truth and the practise of his vertues that came as a Bridegroome forth of his chamber and gloried as a Giant to runne his course That neither words or deeds thoughts or designes swerue or decline from the rule of his iustice for he is the way and the truth and the life The way that leades vs to the truth the truth that doth promise the inheritance of life the life that doth giue vs the fruition of himselfe not to follow the way is to bee lost not to follow the truth is to bee deceiued not to follow life is to perish and therefore we may say of his actiue obedience as the Apostle writes of his passiue obedience 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Hee suffered many things leauing vs an example Nay he did many things leauing vs an example and hee spake many things leauing vs an example that wee might tread and walke in the footsteps of his righteousnesse Wee reade of a noble Generall victorious ouer the Turks and famous among Christians that hee neuer commanded his souldiers any thing but that he would do himselfe we see the like in Christ they are no strange aduentures or new exploits which he layes vpon vs if we can but follow our leader or do that which he doth but act before vs tast of his cup or drink of the Baptisme wherein he is Baptized it is as much as can be looked for But who is able to find the way of a serpent on a stone or the path of an Eagle in the aire Is not the name of Christ wonderfull and are not his perfections inimitable Doth he not ride vpon a Cherub and make darknesse his pauilion Or if discernable and to be seene doth not hee sit vpon the hill of Sion and inhabit light which is vnapprochable Honour'd and beloued wee haue said it yet may wee follow as Peter did a farre off at least cry with the daughters of Ierusalem Trahe nos Draw vs and we shall runne after thee For that of Austin is most true Quod lex imperat fides impetrat Faith obtaining what the Law enioynes and prayer makes that easie which is most hard to the corruption of our nature Indeed there be some things in our Sauiour we cannot imitate wee may not emulate the glorie of his wisedome the magnificence of his power but his goodnesse is exemplarie and calls for obseruation 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 saith the Apostle it is manifest and hath appeared teaching vs to deny vngodlinesse and to liue righteously and soberly and godly in this present world Obsecro fratres I beseech you brethren do not loose an example so rare and pretious but fashion your selues vnto it and bee changed in the renewing of your minds remembring alwayes that of Nyssen 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The profession of a Christian stands in the imitation of his Maker Seuerall qualities are gathered to my hand imitable and spectable in our Sauiour imitable with men spectable with the Angels First the contempt of outward vanitie for when they sought to make him a King he refused their honour and fled into a mountaine Secondly the meeknesse of inward patience for when they brought him as a Lambe to the slaughter he kept silence and opened not his mouth Last of all the temper and sweetnesse of a charitable disposition for when they would haue crucified the Lord of glorie hee prayed for his enemies and excused their malice with a nesciunt Quid faciunt they know not what they do these are the things wee ought to seeke and to follow to keepe and to practise with all dilligence and carefulnesse But that euery man is drawne away as Saint Iames speakes with his owne lust Et in iecore aegro Nascuntur Domini Our will is our master and wee haue as many lords ouer vs as we haue affections in vs. Alius libidini alius auaritiae saith that learned heathen one is a seruant vnto pleasure another to couetousnesse a third to vanitie all to feare that wee come short of our expectations and I would to God it were onely so but the Church hath euer beene pestred with sects and heresies strifes and diuisions scarce greater distraction among the Corinthians when they cryed I am of Paul and I am of Apollos I am of the world and I am of Christ then now is in many places of these kingdomes What phantasticall spirits so idle and ridiculous that hath not many disciples What schismaticall leader so new fangled and pernicious that hath not many sectaries What iugling imposter so despicable and infamous that hath not many followers What Atheisticall ruffler so execrable and nefarious that hath not many obseruers Quis Monachus Daemoniacus as S. Bernard speakes what Ignatian viper or diuellish Iesuite that worketh mischiefe by the Prince of diuels and seckes destruction of soule and bodie so prodigiously wicked and proditoriously audacious that hath not too many fauourites and adherents These are the men that draw legions after them to hell and may bee compared to him that was termed legion in the Gospell Ettam Diogenes habet suos parassitos the Cynicke is not without his attendants but hath a man or a mouse to be his

blacknesse of our nature the sacred Vnion and Sacramentall coalition of God and man Christ his Church in the cords of loue and the bands of mercie for there is no similitude able to reach the depth hereof shee will euer be in his sight he will euer be in her thoughts shee will be engrauened in the palmes of his hands he will be placed as the signet of her arme Shall I tell you the claime of this interest it is Loue for that was strong as death and cruell as the graue he spared not his life vnto death but gaue it as a ransome for the sinnes of many and sealed it with his bloud crying to her as Galba to his souldiers Ego vester vos mihi I am wholly deuoted vnto you you are wholly deuoted vnto me therefore will hee bee as a seale on her heart and as a signet on her arme 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Put me as a seale on thy heart and as a signet on thy arme The words of the Text are as a sacred armorie where you haue a shield for the hand and a couer for the heart or as an heauenly wardrobe where me thinkes I see the cloake and the ring which Iudah left with Tamar the ratification and assurance of spirituall grace and euerlasting holinesse they hold some Analogie with the offices of state the seale and the signet here is a seale a broad seale for the largenesse of our hearts Put me as a seale on thy heart here is a signet a little signet for the roundnesse of our armes As a signet on thine arme Pauca at salutaria expedita at sancta as we reade in Saluianus short and holy few and wholesome breefe in words and precept but in sence durable and permanent That which I shall punctually distinguish vnto you is first the habit and ornament of the Church that is Christ and his righteousnesse implyed in the affixe of my Text 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Put me or set me Secondly the Part and the Subiect to be adorned that is the heart and the arme Put me on thy heart and on thine arme Thirdly the figure and semblance that is a seale or a signet Put me as a seale on thy heart and as a signet on thy arme Last of all the superinduction with a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in the Originall which is vpon or the circumposition with a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in the Septuagint which is about Put me as a seale on thy heart and a signet about thine arme All this is gathered and recapitulated in that of Paul to the Romans Put ye on Christ Iesus and take no care for the flesh to satisfie the lusts thereof But more perfectly in the same Apostle to his Corinthians Ye are bought with a price therefore glorifie God in your bodies and in your soules for they are his He will be on thy heart by Faith and Truth and inward sanctification he will be on thy arme by loue and holinesse and outward manifestation He will be here and he will be there as a seale or a signet that bearing the markes of Christ Iesus in our bodies wee may be like those thousands of Israel who were sealed in their fore-heads sealed and selected vnto the Lord against the day of our redemption Put him on thy heart for he is the wisedome of God Put him on thy arme for he is the power of God Put him on thy heart for he is the life of thy soule Put him on thy arme for he is the strength of thy flesh Put him on thy heart for he is the onely begotten Sonne of God who liueth in the bosome of his Father Put him on thy arme for he is the mighty Redeemer of the world that sitteth on the right hand of God in the glorie of the Father Put him on thy arme that he may direct thine actions Put him on thy heart that he may settle thy affections Put him as a seale and signet on both that he may know thee for his owne and bind thee to himselfe with an euerlasting couenant Quid enim prodest si Deum gestamus in fronte vitia in animo recondamus as Saint Augustine hath obserued What auailes it to haue God in the fore-head so we treasure vp wickednesse in the conscience If he be on thy heart by studie and meditation he will learne thee knowledge and make thee vnderstand the mysteries of his crosse and the righteousnesse of his kingdome If he be on thine arme for practice and imitation he will order thy goings and make thee delight in the way of truth and the custodie of his precepts If he be as a seale on the doore of thy heart and the posts of thy arme thou shalt not onely escape the punishment of the destroying Angell but exalt thy horne and triumph with the Lord and reioyce exceedingly in the power and glorie of his saluation Thus doth God call vpon vs but it is for our good and comfort There is much pleasure in that we loue though sometime absent but then is our ioy full and there is life in it when that we loue is at hand and present Therefore will he be in oculis in osculis as the signet of our arme for sight and presence as the seale of our hearts for delight and remembrance Put me as a seale on thy heart and as a signet on thine arme Hitherto wee haue lookt vpon the words of the Text as so many coynes of gold siluer I shall now put them in the ballance of the Sanctuarie and take their seuerall value that so I may proceed to my first obseruation Christ and his righteousnesse implyed in the affixe of my Text 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Put me or set me Some play the Criticks and would haue the Church to speake vnto Christ not Christ to the Church because the affixe is not masculine but of the seminine gender indeed if points and vowels had bene equall with the Originall and not inuented after by the Iewish Rabbins they might deserue hearing but since it is otherwise our safest course is to run with the Fathers I meane Theodoret and the rest who make Christ the spokesman and that for himselfe 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Put me and set me Great and wonderfull is the beautie of the creature such as might bewitch the heart of man with the inchanting cup of deceitfull vanitie but whether yee looke vpon the brightnesse of the starres whether ye behold the glorie of the Angels whether ye consider the treasures of the deepe whether ye admire the power of the elements from the center of the earth to the circle of the heauens there is nothing ought to be as a crowne to vs saue that gracious light which shined to Moses in the bush and sate in the Tabernacle amidst the golden Cherubins It is the word of Christ must be as the iewell of our eares it is the yoke of Christ must be as the chaine of our necks