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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	bring_v	good_a	king_n	1,792	5	3.4864	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A45033	Jacobs ladder, or, The devout souls ascention to Heaven, in prayers, thanksgivings, and praises in four parts ... : with graces and thanksgivings : illustrated with sculptures / by Jo. Hall.	Hall, John, d. 1707.	1676 (1676)	Wing H351; ESTC R21612	67,888	258

hast said As surely as I live I desire not the death of a sinner but rather that he should Convert and Amend and Live Who hast also said Call upon me in the day of trouble and I will deliver thee have mercy upon me for Jesus Christ his sake whom thou wouldest should be a peace-maker to the end that thou mightest shew thine exceeding great Wrath against sin and thine inestimable mercy towards Mankind sanctifie and illuminate my heart with thy holy Spirit O God the guide of my life forsake me not turn from me the filthiness of desire Turne mine Eyes away from beholding vanity strengthen me in thy wayes and grant that mine offences in this world overcome me not and I beseech thee O Lord with a most ardent affection that this day and ever thou wilt keep me and all mine and that thou wilt be unto me a Mighty Protector a firmament of strength a covering against heat a shadow at noon-tide a defence from falling an assister from offending a comforter of my soul an enlightner of my mind a giver of health and happiness in Christ Jesus my Lord and Saviour To whom be all glory honour and power for ever Amen Our Father c. A Prayer for Tuesday-Evening MOst mighty and most merciful Lord God by whose goodness I was created by whose Justice I am punished and by whose mercy I am saved I cast my self down before thee and lift up my hands unto thee at this present as my Evening-sacrifice but alas my conscience accuseth me the secret cogitations of my heart reprove me my fear checketh me the infinite number of my sins oppress me yea my miscarriages this day witness against me and exceedingly condemn me O Lord what am I that thou shouldest yet favour me and shew thy self so loving and bountiful a Father unto me why should'st thou so nourish me who am so unworthy a wretch with thy mercy and loving-kindness I know that it is for His sake in whom there is no guile and in whom there was found no evil that thou regardest me and imbracest me Pardon I beseech thee through Jesus Christ all my sins faults vices and offences and indue me with all holy vertues make me to live a godly life and to continue to the end in good works Take away all darkness from my mind that I may see thee by understanding thee and love thee by knowing thee And grant O Lord that I may so keep and govern and end my life that I may sleep in peace and rest in thee and so into thy hands I commend my self both soul and body this night and for ever Hide me I beseech thee under the shaddow of thy Wings that I may rest quietly void of all fear spiritual darkness danger and despair comfort me in all those things wherein I have been any way discouraged this day Preserve me to the end that sleep with rest and rest with quietness and quietness with everlastingness may receive me that having run the race of this life I may be made partaker of a better that so I may live and reign with thee for ever through Jesus Christ my Lord and only Saviour Amen Our Father c. A Prayer for Wednesday-Morning HOly Lord God the glorious face of the Sun which sheweth it self and casteth its beams over the whole World I take it for an argument and earnest of thy good will toward thy Children in the number of whom I account my self though the chief of Sinners and not worthy to loose the latchet of thy shooe for if we enjoy such benefits in this strange country together with thine Enemies then what joy and glory what excellent goodness shall we be made partakers of when we come to our heavenly country the blessed land of Canaan where we shall not see this earthly Sun but thou O Lord who art the Son of Righteousness will be continually before us And now O Lord I Praise thy blessed name for preserving me from the many dangers of the Night past and for bringing me safe to the beginning of this day As thou hast now wakened my Body from sleep so I beseech thee awaken my Soul from sin and carnal Security and as thou hast caused the Light of the day to shine in my bodily Eyes so good Lord cause the light of thy word and holy Spirit to illuminate my heart and give me grace as a Child of Light to walk in all holy obedience before thy face this day and grant me to endeavour to keep a good Conscience towards thee toward all men in all my thoughts words and dealings and to this end I commend my self and all my ways and actions together with all that do belong to me unto thy gracious direction and protection beseeching thee to keep both them and me from all evil and to give a blessing to my honest Labours and endeavours this day following and for evermore Amen Our Father c. A Prayer for Wednesday Evening O Most Mighty Lord God and most mercifull and loving Father in thy Son Jesus Christ I sinful Creature am bold to return unto thee all possible Praise and thanks for all thy great and manifold favours which thou in thy mercy hast from time to time vouchsafed unto me a sinful wretch who am full of sin and iniquity I beseech thee favourably to hear my imperfect prayers and to grant my requests and needful suits which I make unto thee at this time Forgive me I intreat thee good Father all the sins that I have committed from day to day against thy divine Majesty and suffer me not O Lord to offend thee any more hereafter that neither sin nor Satan nor any unruly passions may have dominion nor reign any longer in my mortal body for I confess I have herein done wickedly and have broken all thy commandments for which thou mightest in thy severe Justice punish me both in Soul and Body to eternal Death besides those sins which I have this day committed Forgive me O Lord all my sins past and blessed be thy name that thou hast kept me this day in my going out and in my returning home O Lord watch over me this night and be thou my defence and protection from all dangers casualties and troubles grant that I be not overcome with any fantasies and dreams or other Temptations but that I may fully set my mind upon thee love thee fear thee and rest in thee and thou O Lord waken me again in due time that I may behold the light of the next day to my comfort still preparing my heart and mind to thy service every day and my whole life time in truth and sincerity that when I have run the short race of this mortal life thou mayest be pleased to call me to be partaker of a better and so I may live and die and ever remain with thee in thy Heavenly Kingdom through Jesus Christ our only Lord and Saviour in whose name I beg all these

subscribing with their blood Lord grant we nere may sin away The mercies of this Gospel day The Persecution in the time of Q. Mary and the carriage of the Papists in it is thus described by the excellent Bp. Jewel YOu have saith he imprisoned your brethren you have stript them naked you have scourged them with rods you have burnt their hands and arms with flaming torches you have famished them you have drowned them you have summon'd them being dead to appear before you out of their graves you have ript up their buried carkases burnt them and thrown them out upon dunghils you took a poor babe falling from its mothers womb and in a most cruel and inhumane manner threw it into the fire By all which several ways and means the Martyrs in all parts of the Kingdom in the 5 years reign of Q. Mary amounted to the number of 277. persons of all sorts and ages for there perished by these flames 5 Bishops 21 Divines 8 Gentlemen 84 Artificers 100 Husbandmen servants and labourers 26 Wives 20 Widdows 9 Virgins 2 boys and 2 infants one springing out of his mothers womb as she was burning at the stake and most unmercifully flung it into the fire at the very birth 64 more in those furious times were persecuted in their faith whereof 7 were whipt 16 perish'd in prison 12 buried in dunghils and many more lay in captivity condemned who were happily delivered by the glorious entrance of Queen Elizabeth A Thanksgiving for the return of the Gospel and our deliverance from Popish Superstition and Tyranny O Most glorious most merciful and gracius Lord God we cannot but remember thy mercies to us and to our Fathers of old when thou wast pleased to deliver this Nation from the spiritual Aegyptian bondage which we were under in the Mari●n days when our Fathers were in the condition of those Worthies of old who were tortured not accepting deliverance that they might obtain a better resurrection who wandred about in sheep-skins and goat-skins being destitute afflicted tormented in desarts in mountains in dens and caves of the Earth and the sound of the Turtle was not heard in the land This O Lord was our miserable condition under that Romish Tyranny under which we groaned but thou our most merciful Father in the midst of judgment didst remember mercy and didst bring back our captivity as the rivers in the South thou broughtest thy servant Queen Elizabeth from prison to reign and with her did the glorious Sun of thy Gospel arise upon these late dark lands and the word of the Lord went throughout the Nation thou quenchest those flames that destroyed so many of thy blessed Saints and servants and didst at once restore to us religion peace plenty and Victory over all our and thine enemies O what shall we render unto the Lord for all these his great benefits to us a most unworthy wicked and sinful people let us render unto him the sacrifice of praise and thanksgiving and let our lives and conversations so shew forth his praise that we may never provoke the Lord to remove his candlestick from us and once more to scourge us with the thorns and bryars of Popish Tyranny from which his grace and goodness hath so wonderfully delivered us and all this we ask through the merits and mercies of thy blessed Son our blessed Saviour Jesus Christ. Amen The prayer of King Edward the sixth called Englands Josiah against Popery LOrd God deliver me out of this miserable and wretched life and take me among thy chosen howbeit not my will but thy will be done Lord I commit my spirit to thee O Lord thou knowest how happy it were for me to be with thee yet for thy Chosens sake send me life and health that I may truly serve th●e O my God bless thy people and save thine Inheritance O Lord God save thy chosen people of England O my Lord God defend this Realm from Papist●y and maintain thy true Religion that I and my people may praise thy holy name Vpon the Spanish Invasion in that remarkable year 1588. intended to reduce this Nation to Popery and slavery by the so called invincible Armada Poor Englands ruin is design'd The Pope and Spain have both combind Both have infallibly decreed In Eighty Eight England must bleed A vast Armada Spain prepares The cost and toyl of many years An hundred fifty Sail and more Come thundring from the Spanish shoar The Pope to make up the bravado Stiles it the invincible Armado Whose vast and numerous Hulls contain The Treasure and the strenght of Spain Full twenty thousand Souldiers And to encrease our woes and fears Fetters and chains they did prepare The marks of slavery we must wear Religion Laws and Liberties All were designed a Sacrifice To Romish Tyranny and we Most wretched slaves design'd to be Our Queen with watchful eyes surveys Th' approaching storm and soon doth raise Two Royal Armies to withstand The bold Invaders of our Land A Royal Fleet too she provides But God himself the cause decides The Lord of Hosts soon made them see There 's none Invincible but He. He with a breath of wind doth blast Designs so mighty and so vast That all might see that none but He An Vniversal King can be In the year of our Lord 1588. and in the one and thirtieth year of the most glorious reign of Q. Elizabeth Philip the second King of Spain set forth this mighty fleet the Spaniards themselves being so amazed at the vastness of it that they named it the Invincible Armada it being the best furnished with men amunition and all manner of provision of any that ever the Ocean saw consisting of a hundred and fifty tall ships in which were twenty thousand Souldiers and the D. of Parma was designed to bring out of Flanders fifty thousand more to join with them it had also eight thousand six hundred mariners two thousand and eighty gally-slaves two thousand six hundred and thirty great Ordnance besides boats and tenders of all sorts with provisions the Pope also contributed a million of gold to this design All these were to be landed at the Thames mouth that by seizing on the head they might the more easily command the body of the Kingdom The Queen had prepared a double guard one for the land and another for the sea that by land was divided into two Armies the one consisting of two and twenty thousand foot and a thousand horse commanded by the Earl of Leicester whose camp was at ●●lbury where the Queen with a masculine spirit came and took a view of her Army and riding about through the ranks of armed men drawn up on both sides her with a Leaders trunche on in her hand sometimes with a martial pace another while 〈◊〉 li●e a woman it is incredible how m●ch 〈…〉 rag●d the heart of h● Capta●ns and Souldiers by her presence and peech to them The guard by sea consisted of one hundred and forty