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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
book_n	world_n	write_v	writing_n	381	4	8.5306	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A05259	The mothers blessing. Or The godly counsaile of a gentle-woman not long since deceased, left behind her for her children containing many good exhortations, and godly admonitions, profitable for all parents to leaue as a legacy to their children, but especially for those, who by reason of their young yeeres stand most in need of instruction. By Mris. Dorothy Leigh.	Leigh, Dorothy.	1616 (1616)	STC 15402; ESTC S113606	65,870	296

way to heauen to himselfe And what promises hee hath made to vs to intise and draw vs to come vnto him and what threatnings and warnings hee hath giuen vs to shun hell it is impossible for mee and all the Writers in the world to write Saint Iohn saith If all things which Christ did were written the world would not containe the Bookes But I am sure if all the Writers in the world had written what Christ hath done for vs they could not sufficiently declare it If all the sea were inke and all the iron in the world were pennes and all the creatures writers they could neuer declare the great benefits the great blessings and the great mercies giuen vnto vs in Christ Iesus our Lord Sauiour What is man without Christ more then a firebrand of hell and what an excellent creature a man is in Christ can hardly bee expressed and yet there are many that are angry because there are so many bookes Reading good bookes worketh a mans heart to godlines for euen as the fire warmeth the wax and maketh it fit to receiue a good fashion euen so good bookes written of the mercies of God in Christ are the way to Christ and teach vs how to shun the way that leads from Christ. But because I would haue you writers of the mercies of God in Christ I will tell you what good writing of bookes doth It maketh the the way to Christ easie to those that desire to goe in it And I will tell you who are they that are angry with writing of bookes they are such as are ignorant and the more ignorant they are the more angry they are those that loue the world so well that they cannot finde leasure to read bookes Saint Iohn saith Loue not the world nor the things that are in the world for the loue of the world is an enmity to God And here you see that they are enemies to God for they loue not to haue him so much written of And they that loue not many bookes loue not many Sermons neyther doe they care so much to know what Christ hath done for them and how they should follow Christ they are stalled with it they loue the earth they can talke of it yeere after yeere and they are neuer weary In truth it would weary a heauenly minded Christian to heare an earthly-minded man how continually hee will talke of the earth and earthly things the very time that hee is in the Church hee can hardly hold his peace from talking of some earthly thing or other and the whole Sabbath which God sanctified and rested himselfe and in mercie to him commanded him to rest that will neuer rest from these earthly and transitorie things for heauenly rest hee neuer respecteth Truely I thinke he meaneth to make himselfe sure of hell heereafter for Christ saith Hee that loueth the world is an enemy to GOD And he that is an enemy to God can neuer come to bee an inheritour of the kingdome of heauen except hee returne and reconcile himself to God through Christ and hee cannot bee thus reconciled except he leaue his earthly affections and attend vpon Christ for God loueth none but those whom he seeth waiting and attending vpon his Sonne then the Almightie God accepteth him as his sonne and bids him call him Father and whatsoeuer hee needs he is ready to furnish and relieue him withall but if hee be obstinate and will not attend vpon Christ but attends his owne businesse and worldly affaires GOD neuer respecteth him how many friends soeuer hee hath in the world nor how mightie soeuer they are and then are his riches and his friends nothing worth neither can they doe him the least good as can be thought of Now hee that loues not writing of bookes nor hearing of Sermons hee hath little leasure and lesse desire to pray this I assure you is true and his owne conscience will tell him so much let him examine it when he will for Sermons and reading good bookes are the only means to bring a man to praier and praier is the only meanes to helpe vs to the mercies of God in Christ for if we heare Sermons and do not pray earnestly to GOD for Iesus Christs sake to send the holy Ghost to inlighten our vnderstanding and to sanctifie our hearts and follow that which wee heare we are neuer the better for many heare and vnderstand not and many vnderstand and follow it not but there is none that praieth faithfully to vnderstand and for grace to follow it that obtaineth not if hee continue in true praier The holy Ghost saith Pray alwaies and in all things be thankefull and the promise is made Aske and ye shal haue that is whatsoeuer you goe about pray to God to blesse it and thanke God in prosperitie and aduersitie or howsoeuer it pleaseth God to deale with you for it commeth by his prouidence therefore bee thankefull to God what crosse soeuer it pleaseth him to lay vpon thee Doe not as they which rage and sweare at the losse of a few earthly things but thanke God againe and againe that it is no worse If it bee but for the losse of some earthly thing it cannot bee ill for the childe of God for Iob neuer honoured God so much nor did so much good in the Church of God while hee was rich as when hee was poore for when hee was rich the diuell himselfe told God that Iob serued him not for nothing As if hee should say Thou hast giuen him many blessings if he should not bee thankefull it were a maruell CHAP. 24. The vnthankefulnesse of rich men a great sinne OH this will bee a witnesse against many rich men which receiue many great blessings and yet they bee vnthankefull for the diuell thought that he which receiued gifts and blessings could not chuse but bee thankefull and yet when Iob was rich he neuer did God so much honour nor seruice in his Church as when his goods were gone for before hee was a rich man and liued well and gaue somthing to the poor what should hee haue done w th his goods else so did many more besides him But when all his goods were taken away hee did not as worldly men do he did not say I am bewitched or it is the negligence of my seruants but he said The Lord giueth and the Lord taketh and as it pleaseth the Lord so it commeth to passe blessed be the name of the Lord And thus hee became thankefull for his losses This is a thing that euery one cannot doe and hee was so patient and thankefull what crosses soeuer it pleased God to lay vpon him that he glorified God in his obedience and shewed that he loued God and that his loue was not set on this worldly wealth So he might haue God without the world he cared not hee was none of those that must needes haue God and the world together or