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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	good_a	lord_n	see_v	4,192	5	3.2926	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A03792	The troubled mans medicine verye profitable to be redde of al men wherein they may learne pacyently to suffer all kyndes of aduersitie made [and] wrytten by wyllyam Hughe to a frende of his.	Hugh, William, d. 1549.	1546 (1546)	STC 13910; ESTC S109482	59,726	236

bene safe yf they hadde be diligentlye obserued Or whan we fall into diseases whereof we myghte haue bene cleare if that vnholesome meates and diet infected places or persons had ben auoided Or when we be robbed or suffer other losses by neglygēce of our seruaūtes or euil wil of our neighbours Or wher we se that we myghte haue ben in good case yf this chaunce o that chaunce had be escaped yf this thinge or that thynge had not ben done Fynally whan we se oure selues by suche or lyke chaunces as I haue spoken of comme to myserye we thinke it rather to be imputed to euyll fortune then to the hand of god by the same meane sekynge or workynge oure wealth Truelye who soeuer is of this opynyon in my iudgemente semeth to be ignoraunte that God is prouidente and carefull for men Also to lacke the knoweledge of his mooste holy and holesome scryptures Math. 10. writeth that a sparowe which is a byrde of small estimacion can not fall to the grounde withoute oure heauenly father neyther a heere of a mans heade And shall we whiche be the shepe of his pasture his people and his sōnes whom he regardeth a thowsand tymes more then the sparowes thinke that the losse of those thinges whiche we haue enioyed be it riches helth or any other worldlye thinge eyther the misse of them whiche we haue desyred can chaunce withoute his wyll and godlye prouydence Who is so folysh to thinke that god regarding the heere 's of our heades which be neither greatly profitable nor necessary wyll contemne and neglecte thinges which pertayne to the susteining and necessitie of the whole bodies Who knoweth not that Iobs substāce decaied by diuerse chaūces as by tempestes thonders by theues robbers his frendes destroyed by the fallynge of an house which thinges to the infidele shulde haue semed bare chaunce and not inflicted by any godly power yet in dede as it is manifest in the history these were nothing els but meanes or instrumentes which the lorde vsed to the perfourmaunce of his wyll The holy Iob of all christen men muche to be folowed after that he hadde lost all and brought in maner to extreme miserye dyd not accuse his carpenters for buyldyng of a ruynous house neyther he cryed oute of fortune as the vnfaithful do nor yet founde faute at his herdemen in that they droue not his cattell diligentlye into the safe stables but considering the true cause of his calamitie and wretchidnes sayd these wordes Naked I came frome my mothers wombe and naked I shall go hence The lorde dydde gyue me welth and the lord hath taken it awaye As it pleased the lorde so it is done his name be blessed The blindnes of the elder Toby happening by swalowes donge that fell into his eyes as he laye slepinge and the pouertie which dyd succede semed to be ascribed onelye to chaunce But the aungel declared at the last that god dyd make hym both blynde and beggerly and that for a purpose Dauyd in his Psalmes doth euidently shew that our calamities come none otherwise but by the wyll and permission of god whiche tryeth vs as the golde is tryed in the fyry fornace beynge neuer the worse therfore but better purer Thou sayth he O lorde hast proued vs and as siluer is wont with fier hast examined vs thou hast brought vs into snares and layde tribulations vpon our backes Thou hast made men our enemies and set them in our neckes we haue passed by fyer and water Hieremye in the. 3. of his lamentations confirmeth this pronouncynge suche wordes Who sayth that it shulde be done the lorde not commaundynge Do not good and euill procede from the mouth of the highest The gentyles as blynde as they were of this thinge were not al together ignoraunte The Greake poete Hesiode in the begynnynge of his worke asketh what is the cause that some mē be vyle some noble some ryche other some poore he maketh aunswere hym selfe and sayth The wyll of the ●nyghty god The which sayeng I worde wisshe to be so well be●eued of Christen men as it was truely spoken of a blynde ethnyke Seyng therfore that misfortunes lacke or losse of ryches health and such other come not rashly but by the prouydence of our Celestrall father why shuld we not take them well in worth and after the example of Iob blessynge his name gyue hym thankes for them specialy consideringe that aduersities chaunsynge to them whiche loue the lord be not tokens of his yre neither argumentes that he casteth vs of but of a fatherly loue rather frendly care Thou shalte perceiue if thou reade diligētly the holy histories that the more parte of them whom god hath chosen to be of his lytle flocke haue ben wretchyd in the respecte of the worlde and myserable tos●e and tormoyled with manyfolde mysfortunes distracte and vnquieted with continuall sorowes Let Hely the prophet be for an example whome God loued so well that he wolde vouchsafe to communicate his counsel and misteries vnto him What quietnes I praye you or welth what riches or surety had he for al the frendeshyp that was betwyxte God and hym Trulye so much welth that he had neuer a house to put his head in Such plenty of meate and drynke that if the rauen and the aungell had not fedde hym he hadde perysshed ●w hunger Such quietnes that he coulde not tell whiche waye to turne him nor whyther to flee from the persecution of Achab Baales preistes and cruel Iesa bell Suche Ioye in this world that he desired oft to dye before he dyed What shuld I speake of Helise Hieremy and Hieu to be short of the greatest part of gods prophets which were euer wrapped in wo and deadly anguishe the worlde seldome or neuer ministringe any cause of gladnes comforte or solace I wyll not speake of the Apostels which be sides that they were poore and beggerlye all the dayes of their lyfe for gods worde were troubled threatned mocked scourged and at the laste to the syght of men myserablye dyed Oure mayster Christ the sonne of god wolde be an abiecte amonge the people and subiecte to afflictions innumerable shewyng the● by that his kyngdome neyther the kyngedome of them whiche be of his houshould is in this worlde He saith to his apostels Bycause ye be not of the worlde the world doth hate you Ihon. 15. which douteles loueth cheifly fauoureth them that be hyr naturall chyldren and chyldren of darknes regardinge more this temporal lyfe then the lyfe whiche is promysed to them whiche cieue wholy to the lord our god Scripture not dyssemblynge with vs but tellynge playnlye whereto we shal sticke teacheth that they whiche be of god shall as in the stead of a recognisaūce suffer afflictions aduersities troubles All they that wyll line vertuouslye in Christ shall be afflicted 2. Timoth. 3. Hieremye speakyng in the person of god Hieremy 25. sayeth In the citie wherein my name is inuocate I

God and dye Therefore he beynge merueilouse glad toke the chylde in his armes and blessynge god cried out and sayde Now dimisse thy seruaunt o lord accordyng to thy worde in peace For myne eyes haue sene thy sauynge healthe Dere dyd Symeon proue and testify that than free tranquillite true peace and sprme securytye do happen to the seruauntes of god whan they be drawen from this troublesome worlde and brought to the porte of the euerlastinge man●ion Peraduenture you wyll say vnto me Syr as tor Simeon I ●an not blame hym thoughe he was well content to dye for as ●moche as he was a man of a greate age and as they saye communelye euen at the pyttes banke I am but a yonge mau I myghte haue lyued yet manye yeares wyth no small comforte of my friudes by the com●nune curse my tyme was not yet come I graunte in dede you be a man of no great age but what ●ay I pray you can we apoynte for any mans deathe Euery day maye be a bodies last daye yf it ●tande wyth the pleasure of god We se that some dye in the●● mothers bellies some in their cr●● delles some in the floure of theyr age some in their olde age some whan they be riche other some whan they be poore so that we may playnlye vuderstande that god doth gyue to euery man his lyfe of that condition that he surrender it againe whan so euer it shall please him to repete it But among all other saith the great poete Menander Most happy be they and best belouid of god that dye whan they be yong The whiche sayeng as it is very wytty so it is very true And that a man may easely perceue yf he haue 〈◊〉 specte to the spirituall euyls and temporall incommodities that occupie this lyfet for they communly departe not yet infected with so muche malyce entangled with so moche vice corrupted with so much wyckednes as theyr elders be Not yet so surre seperate from god by the reson of syn and made members vtterlye and lyms of the dcuyll It chaunseth for the moost that men after they come to a rype and complete age be cleane drawne from god frome vertue from symplicite and integrite of lyfe to syn wychednes vngodly lyuynge The riche by iniuriouse handlynge the poore by oppression ingurgitation and beastly incontinency The poore by pyckinge lyinge desperation and blasphemynge the name of God I speake of many but not of al The wytty by craft deceat and subtilte The learned oft by ●eresy ambition and deuylysshe ●octrines I wyll not speake of ●nuy malice rankor adulterye whiche at the type age encrease in growynge and as Scilla and Charibdis hurle the greateste part of men into the hoxrible sea of perdytion The holye ghoste teacheth by Salamon that they whyche please God best be quickely and rathe taken frome this world lest they shuld be polluted with the wyckednes of the same He was taken awaye sayeth he leste malice shulde chaunge his vnderstandynge for his soule dydde please god and he hath made haste to brynge hym from the myddes of miquitie Enoche dydde please God and he was not founde afterwarde for God hadde taken hym awaye Therefore to please God is to be counted worthye of hym to be delyuered from this worlde and to be broughte thyther as the de noute soule of the prophet couyted to come sayenge Howe derelye belouyd be thy habytations o God of vertues my soule desirethe and makethe hasie to thy hawles Those trees be not beste the be most durable but of whome ●oth spring most profitable fruit Netther be those songes most cōmendable that be longest but the most delite the eares of men Eue ●o the longest lift is not chefest but that which is moosle bertu●us and lest with vice defaced Further let vs ponder these temporal displeasures and incommo ●ities and than iudge whether ●●at death whan or in what age ● euer it chaunsethe be better ●●an lyfe accordynge to the wor●es of Ezechiell or no. Consider sf what calaniyties chaunces ●yseryes and perelles men be in daunger No man lyuynge is happy on euery part No man is vtterly content with his lote who ther that reason or chaunce as saith Horace hath of● ered it vnto hym wherfore no mā according to Solons wordes is happye in dede before he be buried For this cause Socrates with other of his secte desyred euer desirouslye to dye estemynge death not to be miserable but the ende of al miseries Not troublous Ezechi 30. but the ende of all troubles Better saith Ezech● ell is death than lyfe and eternal resie than continuall sorowes For euery part of this lyfe doutles is replenisshed with vnpleasantnes full of sorowe inquiet●● with cares troublescme and v● ed with diseases What trade ● lyfe so euer a man shall folo● sayth Crates he shal be suer ● fynde bytternes therein In the fildes be laboures at home cares In a straunge countre feare of a man haue ought In the sea feare with Ieopardies Inyouth foolyshaes in age feblenes in mariage vnquietues in lacking a myfe solitarines yf a man haue thyldren he hath care yf he haue none he is halfe mamed So that one of these two saith he is to be mysshed Eyther not to be borne or quicklye to dye The wretchednes of this worlde hath compelled euen the holye ●e men beyng weryed therewith to wysh for deathe Ionas in his trauell said that it was better for him to bye than to lyue Helyas in his ●yfe tyme often coueted and not ●naduisedly to yeld by the ghost Neither can I se any cause why ●hat all of vs which haue anye hope of an other lyfe to come shoulde not wysshe for the same thing seing that no man lyueth which laboure●h not of the indigēcy both of spirituall and temporall thinges nothing truelye though a ma haue neuer so much excellencye in honours aboundaunce is riches delite in pleasures can satisfie hym or brynge a flepe●●●s desires appetites and insatiable lu●●es no more than the doughters of Danaus can fyl their bottomles tubbes Is it not better therfore to chaūge this life to leue this straunge countre and god where is all excellencye of honoures aboundance of all good thinges where perpetuall plesures shal euer be in thy right hand euē to the ende Where thy diuinitie shal be sene loued reserued for euer Death of it selfe in dede is somewhat formidable and the way to death as saith the Philosopher paynful Yet if we consider the premisses and the deth is nothing elles but a gate wher by mē do enter into lyfe we shall see it amiable and moch to be embraced I maruayle what euil spi rite hath so blinded and ve witched the myndes of men and made thē madde so shamefullye dotinge Forasmuch as they can persmade them selfes to be best here to lyue still in these rotten tentes open to all sharpe wyndes and bytter stor mes In these ruinous houses in these stinkyng