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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	body_n	great_a	see_v	2,173	5	3.3316	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A20051	The blacke rod, and the vvhite rod (justice and mercie,) striking, and sparing, [brace] London.	Dekker, Thomas, ca. 1572-1632.	1630 (1630)	STC 6492.5; ESTC S326	10,452	22

lay our heads when we rise It makes vs ready waytes when we goe forth followes vs all day and is more seruile more fawning more flattering then a slaue And neuer goes in mourning till he sees vs going to our Graues The Soule is the Mistresse the Body the Chamber-maid that rules that Mistresse if the Soule sayes I will rise and doe good to day O sayes the Chambermaid you are young enough lye longer take your ease be merry and care for nothing Twenty yeeres hence you may doe these pious deeds and by this wicked Councell of the Mayd the Mistresse pulls backe her hand Thus from time to time we deferre doing well and thus from houre to houre we headlong run vpon our owne miseries This being perceiued by him whose eye measures all mens Actions Now againe this yeare hath he opened his Quiuer and is still shooting the blacke and dismall Arrowes of the Pestilence both at Country and City In many places of the Country these darts of Contagion sticke vp to the very feathers some harts haue beene strucke quite through here in the City yet nothing to that Army which fell in the last Plague This began in March last and then from the eleuenth day of March to the eighteenth it rise to foure The totall of all that dyed that weeke being 153. And of the Christenings 187. So that 34. came into the World more then went out of it Then the Sicknesse fell and at the beginning of Aprill was but one againe Another Weeke dyed 2. then 7. then 3. the highest it hath since mounted to in any one Weeke and that was now in August being 75. So that in 8. of the greatest Weekes of sicknesse this Summer omitting the rest there haue dyed of all Diseases within London being 97. Parishes within the Walles and the nine out-Parishes and the Pest-house 1593. Of the Plague in those 8. Weekes 165. to which adde 54. of the sicknesse last Weeke and 67. this Bartholmew weeke it maketh 286. Of Children in that short time 402. of Consumptions some 300. And to repaire these losses and ruines amongst vs obserue the numbers of Children christened which in those few weeks amount to 1434. out of which deduct 402. buried there remaines 1032. aliue Then take that Number from the former 1594. of all diseases there haue for these 8. Weekes but 561. departed out of the World more than are come into it Westminster being not reckoned in this Accompt The Burials there being very few Neither is the greatest number of dead Bodies formerly set downe so terrible as so to hurt spartle and afflict so mighty and populous a City as we see it does but that Country Townes round about are infected and for that cause onely are Faires and Concurses of People forbidden for feare the Contagion by Throngs meeting together mingled with some infected Persons should increase In the former passages of this yeares sicknesse Note the great Mercy of God extended to Infants in calling such a number of them to Heauen because he would haue that place glorified with some white pure and vnspotted Soules snatched from the Societie of the wicked Oh happy Fathers and Mothers that are sure you haue so many Saints entertained aboue before they could haue time to offend their Maker You weepe for them when you follow them to their Graues but you should rather call it a Tryumph for they then are going to a Coelestiall Coronation If you but looke vpon your Childrens cloathes you call them to mind and then beat your breasts and teare your hayre but remember they are cloathed in the roabes of immortality When you but talke of your little darlings you tell how beautifull they were how well-fauoured how forward but now where they are all the beauty of the world is vglinesse to that sweetnesse which they possesse They haue faces and formes Angelicall and are Play-fellowes and Companions with none but blessed Creatures Be glad therefore that they are ridde from the miseries of the World that Time neuer layd foule hands on them they are free from want hunger thirst diseases cold heat weeping and wayling and all other Calamities which euen rocke vs in our Cradles they are well and happy we left behind them miserable As therefore here you are counselled to beare the absence of your little-ones with patience so comfort you others with this that both their Children and yours are gone to that high Starre-Chamber Office where their names are entred into the Booke of Life Now albeit in so many set Battailes of the Pestilence in yeares before and in the light skyrmislies of this Summer so many haue falne Yet blessed be Heauen wee are a populous Nation still we haue Peace and Plenty and all Blessings that Heauen and Earth can bestow vpon a people sing therefore Hymnes vnto the Almighty IEHOVAH send vp Sacrifices of Feare Loue and Obedience to him Cry to him as DAVID did when he numbred his people and euery one say I haue sinned exceedingly in that I haue done therefore now LORD I beseech thee take away the Trespasse of thy Seruant for I haue done very foolishly And then though there dye of the people from Dan euen to Beer-sheba seauenty thousand men in three dayes yet when the Angell is stretching out his hand vpon Ierusalem to Destroy it The LORD will repent him of the Euill and say to the Angell that destroyeth the people It is sufficient Hold now thine hand And then the blacke Warder shall be throwne downe to part Death and our Kingdome from falling into so terrible a Combat But art thou in feare of an Arrest now that Writs are gone out from the Kings-Bench Office of Heauen to Attach seuerall Mens Bodies Art thou in doubt to be laid vp In danger to be imprisoned in thy Graue Hath sicknesse knock'd at thy doore Does she sit on thy Beds side Hath Infection blowne vpon thee with her Contagious noysome and stinking breath Hath the Pestilence Now in this present drooping and sick-wing'd season Printed her nayles within thy Flesh and hast thou tokens sent thee to come away Fall on thy knees Call for Mercy to helpe thee Cry out vpon thy sinnes send for thy Heauenly Physitian to minister good things to thy Soule settle thy minde in peace shake off the world looke vp at Heauen Thither is thy Iourney prepare for no voyage else Art thou all-spotted ouer They are GODS rich Ermines to Inroabe thee like a King and to set a Crowne of Glory on thy Head Art thou mark'd with Tokens and hast thou thy Memory Make vse of that Memory and seeing those Markes are so set vp That thine eye may shoote at them and hit them now draw the last Arrow home and winne the game of thy euerlasting Saluation Remember why those Tokens are sent To make all the hast thou canst to set forward for away thou must Hug them therefore as thy Louer Kisse and bid them welcome th●nke that sweet Token-sender for his guift and hauing nothing which thou canst call thine to send backe to him leaue thy Body with some Friend in Trust and bid thy Soule goe cheerfully on her journey Cheerfully indeed and with all Alacrity for now thou art trauailing into a farre Country where all thy Friends are There thou shalt meet with thy old Parents thy old Father and Mother ADAM and EVE There shalt thou see that great Nauigator of the World NOAH who in one ship carried all the people in the world then liuing There wilt thou find ABRAHAM and his Sonne ISAAC Old IACOB and his twelue Sonnes the Patriarches MOSES and AARON will there receiue thee into GODS Sanctum Sanctorum In that glorious Pallace shalt thou behold all the Kings of ISRAEL all the Tribes of IVDA all the ancient Prophets all the Apostles all the Saints and glorious Army of Martyrs with branches of Palme-trees in their Hands and golden Starres sticking on their fore-heads Nay there thou shalt see thy Redeemer sitting at the right hand of this Father There face to face shalt thou see GOD himselfe attended on by Angels Archangels Principalities and Powers Cherubins and Seraphins And who would not reioyce to be setting forward on this blessed Iourney to the end he may at length come to be a fellow-Citizen in the Heauenly HIERVSALEM All the Kingdomes on the Earth are not worth the Seeling of that glorious Chamber of Presence which is in this Court This is a Kingdome where there are no changes of Kings No alterations of State No losse of Peeres No Warres No Reuenges No Citizens flying for feare of Infection None dying of Them that stay No Women-keepers to rob you of your Goods nor to hasten you to your End In this Coelestiall Kingdome there is true Majestie True Glory True Honour True Beauty True Peace True Liberty True Health There is all Life All Happinesse All Immortality To this-Kingdome the King of Heauen and Earth call vs when it is his Pleasure FINIS * From December 23. Anno 1602. to December 21. Anno 1603. 2. Sam. ●4