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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	day_n	deliver_v	lord_n	4,080	5	4.2950	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01286	A booke of christian ethicks or moral philosophie containing, the true difference and opposition, of the two incompatible qualities, vertue, and voluptuousnesse. Made by William Fulbecke, maister of Artes, and student of the lawes of England.	Fulbeck, William, 1560-1603?	1587 (1587)	STC 11409; ESTC S105667	32,626	90

in building and battering in turning square into round and triangles into quadrangles is such an infinite labour and a world of busines that he which waigheth in a ballance bothe the care and the commoditie shall find an ounce of commoditye for a pounde of care and hee that putteth these thinges in practise shall lyke a peruerse Al●umist distill a pennie out of a portague Therefore let him that mindeth to be a true Christian despise these transitory corruptible and contemptible things for which the worldly myzer giueth no truste to his eyes hath the byrdes of the ayre in suspition feareth least his owne behauiour doo bewray his base and barbarous affections Let him erecte and life vp his mind to the celestiall and diuine solaces which neither eye hath séene nor eare hath heard nor the hart of man is able to imagine to the pursuing of which the mindes of worldly Mammonistes are slowe footed drooping and continually dreaming of the eternitie of their barnes when the very Weasels before their eyes doo deuoure theyr corne and euen against theyr wylles they are drawne of God to heauenly and spirituall things vpon which they looke as Cerberus looked vpon the sunne when he was drawne out of hell verie straungly vn●●thly and in déede theyr blea●ed eyes cannot long behold the brightnes of the diuine Maiestie Nowe if the worldly felicitie could be attained without labour as it were in a traunce as if we should let it in at a windowe or if Fortune would throw into our nets our selues sléeping as shee is fayned to haue dealt with her loue Polycrates then there might be a kinde of reason framed by our fancye and it might perhappes bee beléeued with an vncircumcised credulity that it were a great deale better to serue the world then God but if there be more wearines in walking as a worldling thē labouring as a Christian if to be choaked and strangled with the cares of this world be an infinite torment if to sée the conscience besieged with an hundred hels and to feele the racking and renting thereof as it were with a thousande fleshhookes be an intollerable griefe then happie and thrise happy is the mortified Christian that is satisfied with the swéete content of a meane estate and the moderate portion that God hath allotted him If we be no where lesse troubled then in the wayes of God and no where more wearied then in the way of sinners as that voice of damned persons beareth witnes Lassati sumus in via iniquitatis we were wearied in the way of wickednes is it not an extreame madnes rather to bestow our labours landes and life vppon those thinges from which wee must very shortly depart not into a newe Paradise but into an eternall dungeon where there is continuall g●ashing of teeth and the worme neuer dieth then to consecrate our liues and liuinges vnto the Lorde and for his sake to abide the vttermost brunt of tribulatiō whē for our paines wee shall haue a surpassing reward for the honour that wee héere loste an vnchaungeable honour for the pleasure that héere we forsake an inestimable felicitie besides all this what a singuler peace and what a delicate banquet is a good conscience not wexing pale with villanous cogitations which is better then all the Epicures delights then all transitory pleasures then all curious exquisite inticements wherwith the iugling worlde doth sophistically delude vs. What pleasure can there bee in the riches of this worlde which before they are purchased doo weary vs when they are possessed doo infatuate vs and when they are loste doo excruciate vs. Without question the soules of the wicked are tossed hether and thether with perpetual cares with moste intricate perplexities and griefes innumerable Thys the Lorde hath affirmed who as he cannot deceiue so he cānot be deceiued Cor impii quasi mare feruens the hart of a wicked man is like a raging Sea that can take no rest Nothing is quiet vnto them nothing peaceable the trenchers wheron t●ey cutte theyr meate with trembling handes can beare witnesse the meate y t stayeth in●theyr chaps whilst they are thinking mischiefe can beare witnes their slow imperfit digestion may beare witnes the leanes palenes and wannes of their chéekes may beare witnes They are affraid of all things suspect all things and euerye thing is a messenger of death vnto them Who would therefore aemulate them or immitate theyr manners Who hauing forgotten theyr dignitie their heroycal nature and theyr heauenly Monarche béeing made frée men are become bondslaues to the worlde lyuing miserably dying more miserably and most miserably like to be afflicted wyth eternall flames There is none but he seeth these things as cleerely as hee beholdeth the Meridian Sunne but there is not one amongst a thousande that doth these thinges which he knoweth are to be practised but we cleaue as yet to the durt wallow in the myre and though the loathsome satietie of pleasures doo breede a surfeit vnto vs yet cure we the poyson of pleasures with the hemlocke of obstinacie and though our myndes doo sometime reclayme vs from such vanities or rather impieties yet such cogitations are soone extinet We assigne the regiment of our mindes to a foolish Phaeton namely to the secure sensualitye of an appetite charmed with pleasures Let a Christian man consider what a daungerous thing it is to liue amongst them day and night whose life is not onely an inticement to sin a wicked May-game and a moste pernitious example but doth wyth al endeuour bende it selfe to the ouerthrowe of vertue vnder the Emperour Beliall vnder the standerde of death and vnder the stipende of hel wageing battail against heauē against the Lord and against his annoynted These are they whom God hath deliuered into passions of ignominie into a reprobate sence to doo those thinges which are vndecent ful of all iniquitie full of enuy hatred deceite malignity poysenfull blasphemers of God contumelious proude disdainfull inuentors of mischiefe vnwise dissolute disorderly without affection without mercye who though they sée the iustice of God yet wyll not acknowledge it beeing so far from excuse that they which seeke to cloake and colour theyr impuritie are the seauenfolde sonnes of the deuill are worthy to be racked wyth wilde horses till they confesse y e truth And therefore let them which are zealous in the Lordes wayes seperate themselues from the company of such to whom the name of God is odious vertue vnpleasant Religion a base profession godlines a symple gyft honestie a straunge monster and charitie a foolish affection Let a certayne holie ambytion possesse our myndes and let vs disdayne to take precepts of them which therefore offende because they lacke the vse of godly precepts It were better farre that they taking example of the godlie by lyuing wel may learn to be Christians then that the godly omitting theyr good purpose shoulde by lyuing as they doo bee transformed to