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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	conscience_n	good_a	life_n	4,272	5	4.6749	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A37147	An essay for advancement of husbandry-learning, or, Propositions for the er recting [sic] colledge of husbandry and in order thereunto for the taking in of pupills or apprentices, and also friends or fellowes of the same colledge or society.	Hartlib, Samuel, d. 1662.; Dymock, Cressy.	1651 (1651)	Wing D2970A; ESTC R26090	9,653	24

childe first as they say which also is most lawful and appointed that the Ox that treadeth out the fodder shall not be muzled Which of all those almost infinite wayes or means by which man hath been made Instrumental to the increase of his own well-being was not in one age or other as new as this Invention of mine doth seem to be in this Certainly it is not the Newnesse but the Vanity or Invalidity of any Invention that layes it open to the dislike of the more wise and Noble persons Or if the Newnesse of an Invention can any way render it fit to be suspected it is onely in such as being altogether New seem also to disagree with Natural reason and treade quite beside the path of Experience Of this kinde it would be if a man should pretend to make bread of stones but to say that I can make more or better bread of the same Wheate will appear impossible to none but inconsiderate persons And the thing which I hold forth is nothing else but to screw the most profound Mystery of good Husbandry a note or two higher but to do the same thing by a better way and to more advantage To the the third and last before I answer I will so farre digresse as to enquire what is or can be here meant by Security If it be required in the most high and strict sence 't is vaine and impossible to be had in humane affaires and is not to be had or hoped for in this world where the Moth and rust do corrupt and where thieves break through and steal this is only to be had in Heaven and can be no way procured on Earth but by laying up the Treasures of GOOD WORKES Therefore he that will put forth his money upon good Security indeed must vent it in the wayes of Charity and Piety as relating to Gods glory and his soules Eternal happinesse at least in a way of bounty and noblenesse for the Publique good of his Neighbour and Native Countrey as relating to his good fame after death But if by security be meant something more moderate and ingenuous onely a providential care to defend a mans selfe from being abused so farre as such prosecutions are just and agreeable to good reason and the Nature of the thing in question I allow and approve of it altogether but not when it rather proceeds from frowardnesse base and groundlesse suspition and a naturall aversnesse and enmity to all good Thus when a man lends to another politically as a meer man he requires bills bonds morgages or the like But if he gives he doth not so neither if he lend to the Poor or to persons so just that he esteems their word sufficient I suppose there are very many in London that do frequently take up great sums without giving any formal security nay that would take it for a great afront to have such a thing required of them and yet surely it is no absolute miracle to see such a one break why then are men so easie in that and so difficult in this or is it for the mutual Advance of Trade why that very argument serves here too unlesse they be resolved to advance no trade but their own And even that also comes in here for what trade can more advance the Engagers Private then that which is faithfully driven on for the Prosperity of him and his Posterity Or what can more magnify a great and populous City then to stand in the midst of a fertile soile that affords her plenty and abundance of all good things which is already the happinesse of London and this happinesse shall by this meanes by Gods blessing given unto and upon this means be continually encreased Again it is rationall when men lend money for little or no advantage to themselves but onely to do their friend a courtesie it is but reasonable that they should by all good meanes secure the repayment of their principall But when men put forth their moneys in hope of great Advantage they must and do usually forbear to stand upon such precise Security rightly considering that Gods providence is as the best Inheritance so also the best Security that can be named and will not faile to returne with a blessing any thing that shall be thereto intrusted faithfully Thus what other Security more then rational Probabilities hath the Souldier that ventures his life limbs liberty and all and this without any other Security then a good conscience or a good confidence at least in life or death resting in that successe the Lord of hoasts shal please to appoint Thus the Merchant puts if not alwayes himselfe yet his Estate into a weak wooden vessel and commits it to the mercy of the winds and waves having set up his rest in the goodnesse of that God that parted the Red-Sea by his power Thus the Mineralist layes out much money in sincking his pits and quarries onely in hope to finde that richer veine he conceives to be there Thus the Patient commits his life health and ease under God into the physitians hands as relying on his care and skill I say that all these and many more even all men in almost all humane actions runne some kind of hazard and more or lesse do and must depend upon Gods mercy and mans integrity without any other outward formal Security Thus also do I propound and that upon Probabilities as certain and rational if not more as any of these that we may agree engage and sowe in hope that that God that never suffers hope rightly placed to be frustrate may make us return and bear our sheafes with us may make our valleys stand so thick with Corne hat they shall laugh and sing Which that it may be thus shall alwayes be the faithfull desire and earnest prayer of Sir Your most obliged faithfull and humbly thankfull friend and Servant SIr by what is above said and by many other very evident reasons it is or may be proved that in such a case as this it is not much rational to demand any other Security then the Propounders own obligation for performance of Covenants Yet that all men may know that my Intentions are fair and just and my Aimes not simply at my own private profit but that I also much more desire the Prosperity of my Nation and of all persons that shall joyne with me I OFFER am content that if the Subscribers and consequently Engagers shall think fit to meet and amongst themselves chuse three such as I shall also like of I will endeavour to give them in the behalf and as the Trustees of and for all the rest some more plain and satisfactory Security which is impossible to be done to every particular person that shall perhaps underwrite and engage onely 25. pound or some such sum FINIS