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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	know_v	lord_n	see_v	3,997	5	3.2299	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A19581	Londons lamentation for her sinnes and complaint to the Lord her God. Out of which may bee pickt a prayer for priuate families, for the time of this fearefull infection. And may serue for a helpe to holinesse and humiliation for such as keepe the fast in priuate: together with a souereigne receipt against the plague. By W.C. pastor at White chappell.	Crashaw, William, 1572-1626.	1625 (1625)	STC 6017.5; ESTC S118685	24,200	62

as though we were either wearie of our time or afraid of the ayre wee breath in we vainly wish the long desired Sommer would now flye fast away and turne vs ouer to the cold and carefull Winter And because wee poysoned all things by our sins now thou iustly makest vs feare poyson in our very meate drinke and apparell Nay but for thy speciall mercy we are not safe in our Pues Pulpits in our Church And because we delighted not to come to thy house now thou makest vs glad to flye from our owne houses And because we cared not to come to thy house for the food of our soules thou hast iustly brought it to this that we knowe not whither to goe nor to what house safely to send for the food of our bodies because we haue wickedly set our hearts vpon the miserable Mammon of this World thou hast now in Iustice made a great number at their wits and not knowing what to doe with it where to hide it with whom to leaue it nor whom to trust with it neither can they carrie it with them nor dare they tarrie with it themselues and because they would lend nothing in Charitie they haue now none left to lend vnto at all And now they that loue it best by thy wonderfull Iudgement are affraid to touch it least that which formerly poysoned their soules should now infect their bodies O Lord how wonderfull are thy workes and how iust are all thy Iudgements And now O Lord that wée sée our case and are sensible of thy hand that is vpon vs what shall wée say what shall wée thinke might bée the cause of this so fearefull a Plague and that so mercifull and pitifull a Father is now become so seuere and angry a Iudge Shall we be so Foolish as to thinke it comes because our King is not Crowned as though former experience hath not proclaimed the contrary Or so Prophane as to ascribe it to the Summer and Season of the yéere as though thou wert not God as well of the Winter as the Summer Or so Proud as to thinke that because we haue hitherto held vp thy Religion better then some other Nations and haue in some measure maintayned the Preaching of thy Word and haue béene a Sanctuary and Refuge For some distressed Christians of other Countries wée may therefore with the Hypocritical Iewes trust vnto our externall Prefession and cry The Temple of the Lord The Temple of the Lord as though thou hadst néed of any Nation to kéep vp the credit of thy cause Or so Presumptuous as to thinke that because thou hast taken vs to be thy Church and some of thy Children are amongst vs thou canst not therefore be angry with vs Or because we haue done some good wée may be therefore the bolder in Cuill Or because there bee some holy Lots amongst vs therefore our Sodome cannot be consumed O Lord all these be the broken staues of Egypt these cannot comfort vs in this our Calamity These will not vphold vs in this day of our distresse and this houre of temptation that thou hast brought vpon vs No Lord all these and all other like to these are eyther lyes or vanities And thy holy Prophet hath told vs and wée beléeue it that those who trust to lying vanities forsake their owne mercies Therefore O Lord wee renounce for those our Idle and Idoll conceits haue spoken vanitie our Deuiners haue séene a lye and haue told false Dreames O Lord they comfort vs in vaine For contrariwise thy Word hath taught vs thy Spirit informes vs and now our owne Consciences tell vs that our own wayes and doings haue procured this vpon vs and none but our selues and nothing but our sins haue pulled down this Plague and that we haue forsaken thée the Lord our God who didst lead vs the right way but with thy people Israel we haue committed two euils we haue forsaken thée the Fountains of Liuing Waters and haue hewes our selues broken Cisternes that can hold no water Thus haue wee requited thee the Lord our God being a foolish people and vnkind therefore now our owne wickednesse both correct vs and our back-slidings doe reprooue vs and haue made vs know and sée and féele how euill and bitter a thing it is that wée haue forsaken thée the Lord our God and that thy feare was not in vs. And now O Lord that wée sée our case and sée also the cause of it now what shall we doe for remedie where shall we séeke reliefe whither shall wee goe to whom shall we flie but euen from thée vnto thée euen from thy deserued anger to thy vndeserued mercy For destruction is from our selues but Saluation is of thée O Lord and thou art hee that canst both wound and heale both kill and make aliue None but thou couldst haue laid this vpon vs none but thou canst remooue it from vs To thée therefore doe wee lift vp our eyes O thou that dwellest in the Heauens and do beséech thée helpe vs in this distresse for vaine is the helpe of Man and though our sinnes plead against vs and make thée for a time kéepe backe thy comfort from vs pet our eyes shall waite vpon the Lord our God vntill hee haue mercie vpon vs For whateuer wée be thou art the Lord that changest not for else thy Children should bee all consumed We therefore take comfort and say one to another Come let vs returne vnto the Lord for he hath torne vs he will heale vs He hath smitten and hee will bind vs vp after two dayes he will reuiue vs in the third day he will ravse vs vp and we shall liue in his sight For art not thou he in whom our Fathers trusted and were deliuered Art not thou the God that brought thy people through the raging Sea and through the barren Wildernesse into the Land of Peace and Plentie Art not thou he that saued thy Seruants in the fiery Ouen in the Lions den in the Whales belly And is there not mercy with thee else there should not be left a man on the earth to feare thee And is not that mercy of thine euerlasting endures to al Generations And though we be cast into the last ends of the World and may fears that the Store-house of thy mercies is exhaust and spent yet hast not thou taught vs twenty times in one Psalme that thy mercy endures for euer And in that mercy hast thou not made a couenant of Peace Parson and Reconciliation with the Sonnes of men And hast thou not sealed that Couenant and made it firme in the bloud of thy blessed Sonne And hast thou not proclaymed thy selfe to be the God that kéepes Couenant and Mercy to thousand Generations Séeing then thou hast vouchsafed to take vs and make vs thy people and to receiue vs into thy holy Couenant and hast pleased to place thy holy Tabernacle among vs and