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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	soul_n	2,575	5	4.9117	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A54283	Pensez-y bien, or, Thinke well on it containing the short, facile, and assvred meanes to salvation / dedicated to those who desire to enjoy the happy eternity ; and translated into English by Francis Chamberleyne Esq.	Chamberleyn, Francis.	1665 (1665)	Wing P1432; ESTC R27157	41,920	132

to smell them never the lesse as favorably as may be this being sayed the damned opened his cloke with which he seemed to be covered from whence issued so horrible stinke that all the Religious were constrained to leave the Monastery without ever being able to inhabite there againe if one damne soul caused so great infection what shall J pray thee so many millions of Souls and bodies burning in Hell cause Thinke well on it ADde unto all these evils the comble and chiefe of all these miseries which is that all these cruell torments shal never have an end my deare Friēd at this word Never thy Heart though never so couragious doth it not faile thee yes never the miserable damned shal shal have an end of their paine after an hundred yeares torment a thousand of yeares begin and they being ended an hundred thousand are beginning and after them succeeds as many millions as there are drops of water in the Sea and Athomes in the aire and after all this ther will remaine an eternity intire O eternity thou art exceeding O eternity thou art most horrible O eternity thou art badly considered Eternity Eternity O the weighty word Eternity If one were for tenn yeares to lye on a soft bed and strewed with roses what a great torment this would be if one were constrained for twenty yeares to have his eyes fixed on the most agreable object of the world what anguish and wearisomnes vvould it cause if thy eares during fifty yeares vvere inforced to heare the most ravishing musick on earth vvould it not be insupportable Alas O my God what will be the eternall paine which with out any mitigation or solace will continue for ever to be couched for ever on most ardent coales to swallow alwaycs most bitter gall and wormwood mingled with the foame of Serpents to see for ever the hideous and inexplicable shapes of the divels to heare alwayes the enraged musick of horrid blasphemies which the damned shall utter against God to smell the stinkes and the intollerable infections of Hell for all eternity For ever Alas my God! alas how long is this for ever that shall never have an end nor rest it is exceeding long to suffer for ever it is a miserie without a second if it were for a thousand yeares one might hope that it would have an end but for ever my soul likes it not O! For ever a great for ever which never can be comprehended this eternall ever frights my Soul considering this ever what Heart doth not fayle and tremble Heaven THe consideration of Heaven must-needes be a very efficacious meanes for to withdraw us from vice and to leade us unto virtue seeing that the Prince of the Apostles made use of it for to excite Prelats to justly performe their duty firmely believe yee sayes he unto them that in recompense of your fidelity and labours which yee have taken in the government of souls yee shall receceave a Crowne of Glorie which shall shine on your heads all eternity St. Paul imployed no other reason for to persuade the Collossians to cast off the old man which carryes with him many infirmities and to revest themselves with the new man who hath for his portion the greatest virtues if yee do this sayes he the celestiall inheritance shall be the high prize and avantageous reward of your paynes Jesus Christ himself after having declared unto his Disciples the many wayes which leades unto Heaven found nothing more efficacious for to incourage them thē to say unto them my Friends among the difficulties with which yee shall incounter in these separated wayes from the commun and publike way Confide couragiously on the assurances which I give yee that they will conduct yee unto infinite rewards The greatest Saints made use of this consideration for to practice the highest virtues Heare David who speakes for all O my Soverign Lord I confesse that I had an exceedingly proud Heart and very hard to yeeld unto thy favorable inspirations but by the consideration of thy infinit recompences I have humbled it and made it to performe all thy pleasures and commands Deare Friend tell me art not thou able to do the same Thinke well on it BEcause the true recompance which God gives unto his good servants is found in Heaven it is necessary to know what this Heaven is St. John Apoc 21. affirmes that it is a great City of which the walls are of precious stones raised on a fundation of pure gold with twelve gates most magnificent which serves but for shew for they are never shutt for the light which produceth there a continuall faire day banisheth all darknes and night St. Matthew sayes it is a great Kingdome St. Luke addes that it is eternal St. Peter calls it divine divine indeed since that God is ther King the Virgin Mother is ther Queene the Angels are the Courtiers and all the Saints are there Inhabitatants A Kingdome where all the discourse is of Ioy and contentment All griefe vexation anger and disquiet being banished thence wher is not to be seen any Plebeyan or mean Person all there being most Noble wher all that is good is found in aboundance without any want the Divines teache that it is an Estate composed of all the good imaginable and yet more then can be imagined and exempt from all evils Dispute no more of it sayes St. Paul for I who have ben there can not declare the things I have seen ther so great and admirable they are No truly addes St. Augustine for though all the tongues of men yea of all the Angels should be imployed in it they could not declare them J will not omit notwithstanding to say a word or two of this place of the company and of the glorie of this beautifull Heaven whilst I shall speake Think thou well on it THe place wher Heaven is seated is very high infinite in its extension most pure and most fertile and full of all goodnes the Philosophers and reason teach us that the place ought to answer the qualitie of him that ther is lodged even so we see the Palaces of Princes do surpasse and excell in beautie and richesse the Cottages of Peasantes and clownes I will leave thee to think what must be the mansion and habitation of a God and of all his Favorits compared with all the Howses of this world One must be ignorant that the Firmament so admirable in beauty so shining with stars is but the pavement of this divine Howse for not to conclude evidently that with in there are other rarietyes farr beyond our imagination O Lord God of Power sayes David how charming is the place of thy habitation my Soul can not think on a more agreable and delectable thing because thinking on it presently it is ravished Great King thou hast greater occasion to do this then the Queene of Saba had considering the wonders of the Palace of thy Sonn Salomon Jt is this that caused St.

loved if thou should consider that in a moment after thy death all these Gallants will be fled and not one will remaine with thy Body thou wouldst not seeke so much to please them thou wouldst not yeeld unto so many remisse effeminate and unworthy condescendments which blemish the reputation and are cause of the damnation of many If thou wert the greatest foole and the most passionate of lovers for any humane beauty do but imagine thy beloved to be deade and putrified as she must be one day it will be impossible that the flame which burnes thee be not immediatly extinguished O how easie it is to subdue the flesh whilst it is alive and sound if one consider what it will be when it is dead Jf thou wert as hardened with malice as Pharao and for all the miracles of the world thou wouldst not bend unto the will of God no more then he did if death should enter into thy thought thou wouldst presently yeeld unto reason as he did as soone as it appeared in his Kingdome and in his owne house I know not whether it be true which some report of Panders that they make use of dead mē skulls as a remedie for all their diseases but I am most certayne that the memorie of death is a most powrfull and afficacious meanes to cure all spirituall evils and to restore the soul unto perfect health King David verefyes my assertion my lord sayes he I had great difficulty to pardon injuries and wrongs which my enemyes did me chastity seemed unto me very hard to keepe contempt was intollerable and in-deed J found all thy commandements al most impossible but when seriously I considered that all here are trāsitory and that I must die this narow way became of its self wide and large chastity appeared easie pardoning of enimies reasonable and all thy precepts light If the remembrance of Death destroyeth sinn the oblivion of it doth intertaine and nourish it for Esaias ca. 47. counting the sinns of Babilon and the punishments with which God would afflict them sayes that the cause of those evils was that they did not remember Death Jeremy seekeing the origine of the vices which reigned in the City of Hierusalem affirmes it to be no other then the little mindefulnes they had of their end SAtan having had a long experience of the soveraigne virtue of this remedie endeavors by all meanes to hender man from making use of it I can not better make thee comprehend his malicious inventions their by the catching or killing of woodculvers which are wilde Pigeons the bird catcher or Fowler having found the tree on which they settle and roost at night in troopes for they are birds that consort together inmultitudes chooseth an abscure and darke night and takes others with guns and drums being arrived at the place they begin to beat the drumme but softly for feare that the Birds should fliy a way and increasing the noyse by little and little they enure them so unto the sound that they at last beat the drummes with all their force with out ever fritghting the Pigeons in the meane while one creepes unto the foot of the tree where he holds up a candle which he had in a darke lanterne the woodculvers which are delighted with light descende unto the lower branches of the tree to enjoy the light then they shoot and at every shott they kill many the others which were higher thinking their companions fled not hearing the gunne by reason of the noise the drummes make takes their place and are also killed Behold the explication of this the tree represents the world the wood Culvers are the men the Fowler is the Divell who intices and allures them unto himself vvith pleasures honors and riches vvhich are like little fires or lights a bout vvhich men fly vvhiles death strikes them their companions never take notice of the blovv by reason of the greate noise vvhich the vvorld makes figured vvel by the drummes So that one hath no sooner quitted these smal splendors but an other courts and seekes them one hath no sooner left any benefice or office but an other flyes thether and so all passe all die and the gratest part are lost for not haveing sufficiently ben vvarned by the death of others that if any one hath reflected on it if any one hath ben moved these resentments as quickly passe as a flash of lightning and even as vve see hogs hie together in troupes grunt and are affrighted vvhen any one of them is killed but he is no sooner dead then every one returnes unto his former imployment this unto his wallowing in mire that unto his rooting with his nose the earth an other to fill him self in the trough even so when a man is dead the neighbowrs are astonished the domestikes weepe the kindred are aggrieved but as soone as he is buried every one return unto his affaires unto his former passions and vices But if all had a lively and couragious spirit and a profound judgment one word in a hundred yeares or to see one dead would be sufficient to convert all those who should see it and considere seriously that the same must infallibly happen unto them selves from whence then proceeds so smal profitt Thinke well on it Thou wilt finde that it proceeds either from the malice of the Divell who deprives thy soul of this profitable thought and diverts it otherwayes if great care be not taken or from the inconstancie of thy jmagination which is so wavering that it knowes not how to remaine long on the same thing if it be not constrained by often reflections therfore I deeme it most necessarie if thou desirest to profitt by this meanes that when thou beginest any busine thou considerest how thou wouldst have done it if presently thou were to die More that once a month thou retirest into a solitary place and dismissing all other thoughts prostrat at the feet of a Crucifixe either in thy chamber or in a Church thou seriously thinkest on these three or four points That the end of thy life will come very soone perhaps before the month be ended That thou must leave all thou hast in this world honors richers and pleasures carrying nothing with thee but the remorse of thy conscience and the sinns which thou hast committed That the Body having given up the Ghost after many paynes and conflicts shall be sowed in a poore sheete layed in the grave and reduced into ashes being forgotten of all the world That the soul shall be happy if at the houre of Death it be in good state but most miserable if it be in mortall sinne and into what part soever it be carried into Heaven or into Hell it shall remaine ther for ever and then imagining thy self to be at the last gaspe and holding the Crucifix in thy hand say with fervor O most mercifull Iesus my support and my strength in whom I beleeve in whom I hope whom I love