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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	adam_n	cause_n	sin_n	5,393	5	5.7654	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A35262	Youths divine pastime containing forty remarkable scripture histories turned into common English verse : with forty curious pictures proper to each story : very delightful for the virtuous imploying the vacant hours of young persons, and preventing vain and vicious divertisements : together with several scripture hymns upon divers occasions.	R. B., 1632?-1725?	1691 (1691)	Wing C7363; ESTC R36058	20,499	97

Youths Divine Pastime CONTAINING Forty Remarkable Scripture Histories turned into common English Verse With Forty Curious Pictures proper to each Story Very Delightful for the Virtuous imploying the Vacant Hours of Young Persons and preventing vain and vicious Divertisements Together with several Scripture Hymns upon divers occasions He certainly doth hit the White Who mingles Profit with Delight Of Death and Judgment Heaven and Hell Who often thinks must needs live well The Third Edition LONDON Printed for Nath. Crouch at the Bell in the Poultrey near Cheapside 1691. LICENSED And ENTRED Dear Youth True Wisdoms Precepts learn And hearken to her Words She to all that obey her Voice A glorious Crown affords THE Epistle to Youth SWeet Children Wisdom you invites To hearken to her voice She offers to you rare Delights Most worthy of your choice Eternal Blessings in her ways You shall be sure to find O therefore in your youthful days Your Great Creator mind Upon a World vain toilsom foul A Journey now you enter The welfare of your Living Soul You dangerously adventure The Joys that other pleasure brings With Vanities abound Nay when in Streights they take their wings Vexations they are found Then humbly strive without delay Grace in God's sight to find And gladly now and all your days Your Great Creator mind R. B. I. Adam and Eve driven out of Paradice Gen. 2. ADam and Eve were form'd of dust That was their Pedigree Yet had a grant never to die Would they obedient be And to add to their happiness In uprightness were made And into Eden they were put Under God's blessed Shade They wanted nothing but had leave This Garden to possess And there to eat and recreate Themselves in Blessedness They only were prohibited The Tree of Good and Evil Lest eating it should them betray To Sin Death and the Devil But they were quickly drawn aside By Satans subtilty By whose advice they took and eat What caus'd their misery They God's Command forget and what He unto them had said The Serpent's Craft o're them prevails Whereby they are betray'd Being thus faln they next contrive Excuses how to frame To cover their Iniquity And to conceal their Shame Adam doth Eve accuse and she All on the Serpent lays But still their guilt the more appears Their Crime it more displays For which th' Almighty did them cast Out of his Paradice To make them know that Death and Woe Doth follow Sin and Vice II. Vpon Cain and Abel Gen. 4. CAin seem'd a Zealous Worshiper Yet did he come behind His Brother Abel is preferr'd ' Cause he was best inclin'd Cain saw no further than the Law But Abel walkt by Faith Which made his Offering acceptable To God as Scripture saith Abel lookt through his Sacrifice To Jesus yet to come Cain his own works o're-valued And a Curse carried home When God in Judging did receive Abel and Cain reject Cain murmurs and complains and grieves ' Cause he had no respect And being proud did much disdain The Youth should him out-do Yet finds no way repute to gain But what adds to his Woe He takes his opportunity And doth his Brother kill ' Cause he his God did glorifie And rightly do his Will This done God asks Where 's Abel Cain He says I cannot tell And yet he had poor Abel slain Oh the deceits of Hell But Cain a very dreadful sound I from the Earth do hear Thy Brother's Blood spilt on the ground Doth sadly pierce mine Ear. Thou Wretch Thou hast my Abel slain His Blood revenge I will Depart see not my Face again Upon my Holy Hill III. Vpon Noah 's Flood Gen. 6.7 WHen Men by Sin and Violence Did stain the Earth with Blood God did resolve to wash them thence By Waters of a Flood Yet did he warn before he struck Noah was sent to tell They by their Sins would God provoke To cast them down to Hell He also set an hundred years Betwixt the threat and blow If haply they by Prayers and Tears Might yet prevent their Woe He likewise caus'd Noah to make An Ark thereby to save His House while those who did forsake Him might their Judgment have Thus patience was with threatning mixt But all did them no good Their minds on mischief they had fixt And so God sent the Flood Then some unto the Mountains flee And others climb the Trees Here one cries out Ah! Woe is me He Death and Judgment sees But now alas it is too late Treasures of Wrath break out Their dismal yea Eternal Fate Doth compass them about Now Mercy doth to Judgment turn Now sinful pleasures sting The thoughts of years mis-spent return Terrors in every thing But where is Noah In the Ark Alive in health and well Though at his Building they did mock He has escap'd their Hell IV. Vpon the Burning of Sodom and Gomorrah Gen. 19. IN Canaan's Land did Sodom stand Amidst a pleasant Plain Like Eden 't was nor want nor loss They seemed to sustain They eat and drank had all things full Whate're they could require God liberally provides for them They have their Hearts desire They bought and sold Silver and Gold They in abundance had They decked were with Jewels fair And with fine Silk were clad Their Fertile Fields much Corn did yield Their Water-Springs ran clear Their Sheep and Kine Fig-trees and Vine Brought Plenty every year They wanted not a Righteous Lot To teach them how to please So good a Lord who did afford Them Riches Health and Ease But Ah behold how vile and bold These Men of Sodom were To wantonness and all excess They all addicted are The Poor they sleight in Lust delight And live in Sodomy Yea in their Pride at Lot deride And mock his Ministry For which th' Almighty with a Rod Of Brimstone set on Fire Drives from the Earth to dismal Death These objects of his Ire To Ashes turns their Cities Burns Their Fields and all the Plain Makes them a Sign of Wrath Divine By a most Fiery Rain V. Vpon Abraham 's Offering Isaac Gen. 22. OUR Father Abraham was he Whom God the Promise made That in his Seed we blest should be And thence should come our Aid Isaac his Son he did beget From whom that Seed should spring Who on the Throne of God should sit As Prophet Priest and King But now since God his Promise kept By giving him a Son And since that Abraham did avouch God for the Holy One. He tempted him and bid him go Unto his Holy Hill And there by Sacrifice undo What he meant to fulfil Without delay then Abraham went With Fire with Wood and Knife And with a resolute intent To take his Isaac's life Being come he there an Altar makes The Wood in order lay And then the bloody Knife he takes God's Counsel to obey Nor did he unadvisedly In this his bold Attempt If God will have his Isaac die Abraham won't him exempt Accounting had he slain his Son And