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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	day_n	die_v	end_n	4,289	5	5.3574	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A33985	The weavers pocket-book, or, Weaving spiritualized in a discourse wherein men employed in that occupation are instructed how to raise heavenly meditations from the several parts of their work : to which also are added some few moral and spiritual observations relating both to that and other trades / by J.C.	Collinges, John, 1623-1690.	1695 (1695)	Wing C5351; ESTC R26037	76,699	180

make one thing New can he make the New Creature by his own Power that is not able to create the most minute Creature can he make himself a Rohe of Righteousness wherein to stand before GOD that cannot give a Being to a lock of wooll Surely as to a state of Righteousness or any habits of Grace he must also before he can work any thing which will be acceptable in GODS sight go to him who hath himself rang the Market-bell Isaiah 55.2 Come buy and Eat without Money and without Price Revelation 3.18 I counsel thee to buy of me white Rayment that thou mayest be Clothed and all this without Money and Price Sect. 3. How cheap is the Grace of GOD that bringeth Salvation without Money and without Price So runs the Proclamation It is the gift of the HOLY GHOST and the Apostle hath taught us that nothing of that Nature can be Bought with Simon-Magus his Money It were ill called a Gift if it must be purchased I cannot Buy a pack of Wooll nor a Bail of Silk nor a little Hemp or Flax or Hair without Money but I may buy CHRIST his Grace his Glory without Money and without Price There is no going to the Market without Money but I may go to CHRIST I may have Heaven without parting with any thing unless what is better parted with than kept I find by experience that my Materials for my Trade are bought too dear I work them out and lose by it I labour for nothing and spend my Money and my Strength in vain but did ever any say he had served GOD in vain and waited upon him for nothing CHRIST will exchange his Grace for my Lusts his Glory for my vile Affections Surely the dear price of my VVare should Inhance the study of Heaven and heavenly Things in my Soul If Wares in the Market be dear it is my Comfort I can have Heaven better cheap Sect. 4. But what need so many words to a Bargain In so much chaffering is there no sinning Solomon thought otherwise Proverbs 10.19 In a multitude of words there wanteth not sin but he that refraineth his lips is Wise 'T is true possibly here are no God-dam-mee's we are amongst Tradesmen no Swearing no Cursing but such a floold of words is not without a mixture of dirt Is there no lying no idle words of which we must give an account also What need the Buyer say It is nought it is nought and when he is gone away he boasteth Proverbs 20.14 Two words we say must go to a Bargain but what need more This is my Price beneath which I will not sell This I will give and no more were certainly words enough to dispatch the greatest Contract nothing but corruption hath brought in more Cannot you afford it cheaper Indeed I cannot I will have so much if I sell it c. are words so like those of Ananias and Sapphira Acts 5. that I cannot but tremble for that Tradesman that thinks himself necessitated to use them and presently at liberty to recede from them When the Wares are in their Hand are they not their own May they not sell and keep them as they please Are they obliged to tell their Customer what they Cost them What need is there of a Lie then but to make good that of Solomon That the getting of Riches by a lying Tongue is a vanity tossed to and fro by those that seek Death Pro. 21.6 Sect. 5. Ah! what need we have to pray for pardon of our sins of inadvertency and also to advert better upon our ways we can easily understand the sin of them who spend their precious time at Taverns and Alehouses but who thinks himself a sinner while he is busie with his Yarnman or other Chapman yet who liveth and thus sinneth not who asks himself at night have I saved or gained nothing this day by a lying tongue Have I spake no evil words in making my Bargains A Man may Trade as well as drink himself to Hell Lying will bring one into the Lake that burns with fire and brimstone as well as swearing and cursing Dam-mees challenge GOD a a little more boldly and will one day understand they have not challenged an Idol but a Just and Living GOD but the Lier merits sufficiently ill at GODS hand and if others have the preference to the Devil 's right hand these will not miss the Curse to be pronounced to those who shall be found at GODS left hand What need hath the Tradesman to say I will look to my ways that I I offend not with my Tongue Psalms 39.1 The Tongue of Man hath in it a World of Iniquity It is an unruly Evil full of Deadly Poyson James 3.6 8. Sect. 6. Our Tradesman at last after a great many words hath Bought his Bargain he brings it home but it is not yet ready for his Loom His Yarn is greasy and must be scowred his Wooll dirty and mixed and must be Kembed the threeds are too small and must be twisted The Colour it may be pleaseth not and it must be Dyed either in the Wooll Yarn or Piece It may be his Yarn is of several sorts and it must be sorted or his piece to be several Colours they must accordingly be mixed and disposed What a work is here what an exercise of his head and hands and all to get 5. 10. 20 s. possibly to get nothing yet he doth it patiently he scowrs he wrings it out he trudgeth with it to the Dier to the Twister he laboureth in the night and day yet the poor Racket he hath in his Eye exceeds not ordinarily what I have mentioned Quantum est in rebus inane I have read somewhere of a Noble person who coming to an untimely Death said If I had served my GOD with that Faithfulness with which I have served my Prince I had not come to this End May not many a Poor Weaver say when he comes to die If I had served God If I h●d lookt after the concern of my immortal Soul with half that Diligence I attended my Trade I had not been now incertain what shall become of it I had not laboured for the wind as I have done in my Trade many a Year Sect. 7. Whiles the Kember of Woo●l is Kembing and Weaver is scowring his Yarn methinks he should reflect upon his own best and most perfect Actions VVe are sometimes in Scripture compared to Sheep Our Fleeces are our good works our Yarn is the threed of our Actions some of which are all Naught but the best must be scowred VVe had need to wash them with the Tears of True Repentance and Godly Sorrow there is a Grease in the Best of all our Duties a Filthiness in our Cleanest Services We are all as an unclean Thing and all our Rightteousness is but a filthy Rag Isaiah 64.6 As there are some Sheep whose wooll is so Foul and Course th●t it is good for little and some Spinsters