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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
day_n	hour_n	long_a	minute_n	15,987	5	12.6107	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02087	Meditations and disquisitions upon the Lords prayer. By Sr. Richard Baker, Knight	Baker, Richard, Sir, 1568-1645.	1636 (1636)	STC 1223; ESTC S100533	121,730	220

as for bread for the day why take we not as much care for our eyes as for our stomackes Is it not because this followes necessarily upon that For when God in the day gives us our daily bread he gives us in the night our naturall rest but when men have bread in the day not given them of God there when night comes they are keept waking with cares and the unquietnesse of their minds lets not their bodies take rest Or is it not a worse matter that when God gives us our daily bread he gives us withall the light of his countenance but where there is bread not given of God there men may revell it out and runne ryot for a time but when the night comes they are left without light and their portion is to bee cast into utter darknesse Or is it that as bread feeds us in the day so sleepe feedes us in the night and then if sleepe bee bread for the night in praying for bread for the day we pray as well for sleepe for the night for the evening and the morning make but one day But what is this day for which we aske bread Is it the naturall day of foure and twenty houres or is it the day of our naturall life For if it be that day a little bread will serve but if it be this day it requires good store But be not deceived lesse bread may serve for this then for that for in that day we are sure of so many houres but in this day wee are not sure of one minute of an houre But why doe wee aske bread but for a day would it not be lesse trouble to God and more providence for our selves to aske it for a longer time Indeed if it could be had but there is no having it for more then a day our barnes may have it for a longer time but our bodies cannot for as it is out of the very necessity of nature that we aske for bread so it is to the full extent of Nature that wee aske it for a day For let us eate never so much let us fill our bellies never so full too day yet it will serve but for a day too morrow wee shall neede it againe as much as wee did before unlesse wee should thinke of praying for miracles and to doe as Elias did goe forty daies together in the strength of one meales meate which we have small reason to thinke of seeing Christ denyed miracle to Iames and Iohn as well as hee loved them and though they asked him for it in his owne behalfe And may it not be another sence of the word Too day that though it bee expressed onely in this petition yet it is to bee understood also in the petitions following For the three former are common to us with the Saints in Heaven but the three latter are proper onely to us and no way communicable to any of them the three former are without limitation of time but these three latter are bounded with time they must bee obtained eyther now or never in this life or not hereafter they prepare us indeed for another life but when another life is once come both the prayers and the things prayed for shall all cease for after the day of this life there shall be no more eating of bread against the Millenaries No more forgiving of trespasses against the Origenists No more deliverance from evill against the Purgatorians David prayed God to teach him to number his daies as though they were so many that hee could not number them without a teacher yet they made all but threescore and ten yeeres which a meane Arithmetician would easily cast up We have here but a day to reckon and yet wee shall never reckon it aright unlesse God teach us though wee cannot properly say to number it yet to measure it which is all one for we shall have as much benefit by measuring our day as David found by numbring his daies and we shall finde it as hard a matter to measure our day truly as David did to number his daies rightly and as it is difficult to measure it true so it is dangerous to measure it false for if wee take the measure too long it may prolong our repentance and make us surprised with stulte hac nocte and if wee take it too short it may shorten our providence and make us a laughing-stocke to the Ant we must therefore have a composition made of these two of Providence and Repentance and this will be the best Elixir to keepe our life alive and the truest rule to measure our day but this wee shall never bee able to doe unlesse we pray as David did that God will teach us to measure our day We may know our daies to bee very miserable seeing we are beholding to bread that wee live a day and we may know our building to be very unstable seeing it hath no Foundation but is faine to stand upon proppes for what are foode and rayment but the proppes of our life And will any man that is wise in seeking to uphold his ruinous house choose rather to use fine proppes that bee weake then course ones that bee strong Dainty fare and costly apparrell are indeed the finer proppes but course fare and plaine cloathes are the stronger are we so unwise to keepe so much a doe for getting the finer and are not contented when we have the stronger Is it not strange that having but a day to live we should make such provision for many yeeres and yet are not sure to live out this short day neyther Ere it be long there will come a long day for which all the provision wee can make will be little enough Are we so unwise to make so much provision for this short day and for that long day to make so little for indeed to have bread against that day will bee worth the having and if it were not for the day we hope to live then the day we live now were not worth the living There is nothing more deere to us then this day of ours yet we are ever finding fault with it eyther it is too short or it is teadious or it is uncertaine It seldome contents us never satisfies I cannot therefore blame thee O my soule if thou often fall into these wishing kinde of thoughts O when shall the time bee that time shall no more bee and when will the day come after which shall come no night but now and hereafter shall bee one season too day and for ever of one continuance For we shall then finde no more fault eyther with the shortnesse which never shall have ending or with the teadiousnesse which ever shall have pleasure or with the uncertainenesse which shall bee more fixt then the poles of Heaven But are wee so tied to asking bread for the day that wee must not bee carefull to provide against too morrow must wee be so carelesse