Selected quad for the lemma: death_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	bodily_a	body_n	soul_n	4,910	5	5.6043	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A00381	A lytle treatise of the maner and forme of confession, made by the most excellent and famous clerke, M. Eras. of Roterdame; Exomologesis. English	Erasmus, Desiderius, d. 1536.	1535 (1535)	STC 10498; ESTC S109931	61,733	228

and holden with some greuous and sore disease and dothe not rather beinge very sad and sorowful in his herte make hast to get hym remedy And yf men haue so greatte desyre and delyte towardes libertie let them also haue lyke desyre delite toward innocencye That man whiche kepeth mainteineth his heith vpon hym the phisicion or leche hath no power and auctoritie at all And yf thrughe thyne owne defaulte thou arte fallen in to spirituall syckenes disease thou muste fyrste of all labour gyue diligēce that thou mayst be free afore god Finally lykewyse as in the disease and syckenes of the body thou doiste chose the phisicion or surgeon whiche shall not vpbrayde the with thy disease but whiche shall remedye heale it do euyn the same lykewy●e in chosynge of the preeste whiche shall be thy ghostly leache The whiche do alledge the .iiij. discōmodie or yuell what thyng do they elles but onely shewe Remedye agaynst the fourthe di●cōmodite that there are certeyne yuell and noughtye preestes wolde god we myghte denie that to be true But phisicke or leache crafte is not therfore taken away bicause there are foūde certeyn yuel and noughtye phisiciōs surgeons But so moche the more diligēt ꝓuision is to be made that there may be good phisicions surgeons So moche the more circunspecte thou oughtest to be in chosyng hym to whom thou wylte betake thy sele for ●o be cured holpen Finally it is the office and duetie of the bysshops so to hādle suche preestes whiche do abuse the sacramētes vnto fylthynes and synne that all other shulde take example to beware by them Remedye for the .v. discōmoditie As touchyng the fyfthe discommoditie what other thynge shal I say than that seldome chaunces are nowe to be taken in to an example wherupon to gyue general sentence For howe many men haue we knowen whiche by the reason of a feuer or of a franesy hath vttered and disclosed secrete priuities And who agayne is so madde as to gyue credence to a frantyke persone Besydes that euyn here also it shal be a good helpe and remedy the chosynge out of an able and mete ghostely father wherof I haue so often tymes spoken heretofore Last of all yf the cryme be suche that the discoueryng of it myghte put the in ieopardie of thy ●yte and yf thou doste also mystrust thyn owne curate and the pestes nere home thou mayst go somwhere from home wher thou mayste make thy confession to hym that knoweth the not nor thou hym eyther chaūgyng thy clothes or elles in the darke● Finally thou oughtest more to loue and set by the helth and saue garde of thy soule than of thy body To haue thy body cured and made whole thou dost other whyles shewe vnto the bodelye leache thy disease whiche came of some haynous offence myscheuous dede worthye deathe and art thou affrayd here where thy soule is to be cured Let this be an answere to hym that maketh confession Nowe as concernyng the preestes that do here confession I do graunt and confesse it to be a greatte and a ●oore thynge with euident ieopardie of their lyues to visite them that are sycke of the pestilence or of suche like disease but thou oughtest to remēbre that they haue taken an hygh office and a sore charge vpon them selues And yf they wyll be good pastours or herdesmen Iohn̄ .10 they oughte for the hel●he and saluation of theyr flocke to put euyn theyr lyues also in ieopardie namely whan the soules of theyr flocke are in peryll and ieopardie It is a very excellent great worke that they do but they do it for an excellent high rewarde And they maye also in the meane season arme and fence them selues before with remedies agaynst the contagiousnes or infection For they are not constrayned and compelled to tempt god Deutero 6. And yf it be so that the preest is necessarye and nedefull to the people and dothe cōmitte or betake hym selfe with full truste to god he shall not dye before his day but god shal fulfyll this his owne ꝓmyse Marc. 16. And yf they shall haue dronke any deadely thyng it shall not hurte them Uery many of them dare go vnto hym that lyeth sycke of the pestilence for a thyng that is bequest to them and be they affrayde to come nere hym whan his soule is in ieopardie and peryll And this thynge shall be a poynte of ciuilite and good maner also in the people to make the place in to whiche the preest shal be receyued very cleane and with fyre and fumigations to make it as lytle ieopardous contagious as may be ●yse coun●ayle There is also another kynde of remedye yf at all suche tymes as the pestilēce doth reigne soore euery man whyles he is in helthe do ones in a weke confesse hym selfe be houseled In the olde tyme they were house led wekely whiche thyng in the olde tyme the moste parte of men dyd euyn in holsome tyme whan no cōtagious sickenes dyd reigne at all and after cōfession made do with greatte study and diligence take hede and beware that they do not fall agayne in to deadly synnes whiche is no verye harde thing to do with the helpe of the grace of Christ. By this meanes shal it come to passe that neither the preeste shal be put in ieopardye of his lyfe and yet the other partie shall be safe and out of daūger yf eyther sodeyn deathe or elles any suche dissease whiche for the contagiousnes of it is to be auoyded and shonned shall fortune to take hym Agayne euyn this thynge also shall be very profitable herunto Chefe hope of saluatiō is to be put in charite in the mercy of god yf we do put the chiefe and principall truste of helthe and saluation in charite and in the mercy of god rather than in the rehersynge or reckenynge vppe of our synnes namely whan deathe is nere at hande Nowe to say somwhat concernyng the syxte yuell who soeuer by the rehersyng of their synnes Remedy agaynste the syxte yuell do lerne to be bolde and to forget shamefastnes those persons are not yet verely truely penitente and sorye for theyr offences and synnes To suche the preeste oughte to declare and lay before them what he is whome they haue offended and how great is the filthynes ouglynes of syn that the oftener they do fall again in to syn so moche more more they maye be ashamed of them selues And they ar also to be admonished and tolde that confession without contrition of herte auayleth nothyng whiche contrition yf it haue ones possessed the mynde it shall bothe brynge shamfastnes and also put away shamfastnes it shal bryng shamfastnes causyng hym to be ashamed of the filthynes of his synnes in the syght of God it shal put away shamfastnes that he shal not through shamefastnes hyde and kepe in that thing