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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	good_a	5,850	5	3.6926	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A62015	To the nobility and gentry lawyers and physicians, sea-men & trades-men, magistrates subordinate and supreme, &c. By Tho. Swadlin D.D.	Swadlin, Thomas, 1600-1670.	1658 (1658)	Wing S6229A; ESTC R220646	17,046	127

the whole world thus From pestilence famine and war from earth-quakes inundations and great fires from the plagues of immoderate rains and droughts from corrupting winds and blastings from thunder lightning and tempests from epidemicall and sharp diseases and from suddain death Deliver the whole world good Lord From private interpretations of Scriptures from innovations in holy things from strange doctrines from doating about questions from heresies schisms and scandals publick and private Deliver thy whole Church good Lord From the Priesthood of Micah and Jeroboam from the combination of Judas Iscariot and Simon Magus from the doctrins of the unstable and the unlearned from the pride of novices and from people that strive with the Priest Deliver this Church good Lord From forain invasion and civil insurrection from displacing good Magistrates and exalting bad from the massacre of Athaliah and from the bloodinesse of Herod Deliver this nation good Lord From the Anarchy of Corah and Dathan from the tyranny of Ashur and Achab from the dangerous counsil of Achitopel and the foolish counsil of Zoan from the Statutes of Omri and the Judgements of Jesabel from the floods of Belial and from the plagues of Peor Deliver the state of this Nation good Lord From the pride of the Amorite from the envy of the Hittite from the anger of the Perizzite from the gluttony of the Gergashite from the wantonnesse of the Hivite from the worldlinesse of the Cananite and lukewarmnesse of the Jebusite Deliver this City good Lord for Jesus Christ his sake Amen In whose blessed name and words c. To the condemned to dye YOur time is short therefore my discourse to you shall not be long not many dayes betwixt you and death and therefore not many words lest I keep you from the thought of death I dare not be so unchristian as to think you prepare not your selves for the last fatal stroak and therefore one onely prayer for you from me if you have not a better from others for your selves O God! most powerfull yet most pitifull by thy Power preserve them that are appointed to dye and redeem them from the sentence of death which is past upon them if it may stand with thy Goodnesse But if thy Providence hath appointed this time for their period and this way for their dissolution yet by thy pity save their souls from eternal death and grant them all those graces which are necessary for their salvation Remember not their ignorances Forget the sins of their youth and Forgive the sins of their age Give them a sight of all their sins Give them a sense of all their sins and true repentance to bewail them Give them a sight of all thy Promises Give them a sense of all thy Promises and true faith to apply them Suffer not their Ghostly enemies to assault them to any present desperation for their former presumptions against thy Justice Send thy holy Angels to take their souls as they did the soul of Lazarus and carry them into Abrahams bosome and let thy everlasting Gates be open to receive them for his sake who by overcoming the sharpnesse hath opened the Kingdom of Heaven to all Beleevers Make keep their senses intire their understandings right their penitence unfeigned their hope well grounded their faith firm and their charity perfect Give them ô give them a quiet and joyfull departure by carrying their eyes back unto Jesus who died for them and forward to those Joyes which are purchased for them by the life and death of Jesus Christ Amen In whose most blessed Name and words I further call upon thee as he hath taught me saying Our Father which art in Heaven c. Or if any sin lies heavy upon thy soul and thou canst not have those assistances thou desirest then confess thy sins and comfort thy soul in this or such a kind of Devotion as this Behold ô God! I was conceived in sin Psal 51. and brought forth in iniquity and therefore I pray God be mercifull to me a sinner And mercy I hope to have Because my Saviour was conceived by the Holy Ghost Luc. 1. and born in innocency not for himself but me for which My soul doth magnifie thee ô Lord But I have discoursed with the Devil Gen. 3. and at his temptations have tasted the forbidden fruit and therefore I pray God be mercifull to me a sinner And mercy I hope to have Because my Saviour wrestled with and overcame the Devil for me Mat. 4. for which My soul doth magnifie thee O Lord But I have committed all sin and kept the poyson of Asps under my lips Psal and therefore I pray God be mercifull to me a sinner And mercy I hope to have Because my Saviour did no sin 1 Petr. neither was any guile found in his lips for which My soul doth magnifie thee ô Lord But I have fulfilled the will of the flesh too Psal and done no good and therefore I pray God be mercifull to me a sinner And mercy I hope to have Because my Saviour fulfilled thy will Joh. and did all good for me for which My soul doth magnifie thee ô Lord But I have defiled my body Gen. as Onan by Pollution if not as Judah by Fornication Gen. if not as David by Adultery 1 Sam. 11. if not as Ammon by Incest if not as the Sodomites by Bestiality and therefore I pray God be mercifull to me a sinner And mercy yet I hope to have Because my Saviour offered his Body to the knife of Luc. 2. Circumcision to the water of Baptisme Mat. 3. to the Curse of the Tree to the Death of the Crosse and all this to expiate the sins of my body for which Philip 2. My soul doth magnifie thee ô Lord But mine hands have been lifted up against Heaven and therefore I pray God be mercifull to me a sinner And mercy yet I hope to have Because my Saviours hands in Heaven are as upon the Crosse they were stretched out to embrace me for which My soul doth magnifie thee O Lord But my feet my very feet have been swift to shed the blood of Revenge and therefore I pray God be mercifull to me a sinner And mercy yet I hope to have Because my Saviours feet were nail'd to shed the blood of Attonement for me for which My soul doth magnifie thee ô Lord But my heart my inmost and remotest heart hath been filled with evil imaginations and that continually and therefore I dare not but continue to pray God be mercifull to me a sinner And mercy yet I hope to have Because my Saviours Heart was pierced to offer up the blood of satisfaction for the sins of my heart for which My soul doth magnifie thee ô Lord But my soul my once most precious soul I have defaced by all manner of ungodlinesse and therefore I pray God he mercifull to me a sinner And mercy I yet

whose blessed name and words I further call upon thee c. At thy Return O most mercifull God! That many have miscarried in their travails I hear and know some in their purses some in their lives that I am returned safe in both and injured in neither I feel and know and know no cause of it but thy providence and therefore know my self bound to acknowledge the duty of my thankfulnesse to that providence of thine which I doe and ever will blesse not onely for this but for all the preservations of my whole life and consecrate the remainder of my whole life to thy service wherein I beseech thee so to blesse me in my whole race upon earth that I may blesse thee in the long race of eternity in heaven for his sake who took his journey from heaven to earth and returned again from earth to heaven to prepare a place for me and now sits at thy right hand to intercede for me Jesus Christ my Saviour Amen In whose blessed name and words c. The Travailers Character HE is an honest and a wise man h● never goes on foot but when he wants an horse nor doth he ever ride but when he hath businesse he spends like himself little or much nor doth he make much account of his expences for he laies up that before he finds or is forc'd occasions to use it if he travails with safety and returns without danger his first salutation is Gratias De● The Soldier SOme Phanaticks in the world have questioned the lawfulness of my calling But I have Gods word for my warrant and Gods servants for my pattern Gods word sayes when thou goest out with thin● Host Deut. 23 or when thou goest to war and that very word when doth suppose it and sure I am Gods word doth not suppose any thing which is unlawful As Gods word so his servants too warrant it yea and his choicest servants Abraham Joshua Debora Sampson Gideon David they were all warriers they waged war some of them offensive some of them defensive and therefore I need not doubt of the lawfulness of my Calling all the doubt is in resolving these Cases of Conscience Whether I am lawfully called to this lawful Calling How I may be assured that I am lawfully called and may with a safe conscience take up and make use of these weapons And that being done I thus addresse my self to Jehovah the Lord of Hosts O Almighty God! who hast styled thy self a man of war and hast now called me to be a man of war I beseech thee teach my Hands to War and my Fingers to Fight give unto me and to every one of my Fellow Soldiers the strength of Sampson the courage of David and the wisedome of Solomon that we may undermine all the attempts and overthrow all the plots and overcome all the Gyants that fight against thy Truth yet even in the heat of Fury give us pity that we may rather spare than spoile and while we gird our selves with Armour to resist these Enemies of ours doe thou put upon us thy whole armour that we may resist that enemy of mankind and quench all the fiery darts of the Devil goe thou forth with us against them that are come without thee against us animate our and abate their courage confound their devices but convert their souls and because death is before our eyes give us grace to be mindful of it and prepared for it that while we fight against them we may also fight the good fight against all our ghostly enemies and receive a Crown of righteousnesse Take our Bodies into thy protection and defend us take out souls into thy tuition and sanctifie us that though we return not home we may be received into heaven through Jesus Christ Amen In whose most blessed name c. The Soldiers Character HE is the Father of Peace and Mother of Patience his subtilty begets peace his magnanimity nurses patiences in both he is the founder and supporter of Kingdomes If he be conquered he sowes patience if he conquer he reaps peace in That he founds in This he supports the Kingdome if he be able to second the peace of victory with the grace of humility he is the breeder of all virtue and the bane of all vice for then good lawes are put in execution and bad men in the house of correction so necessary he is in peace that else we lose it so necessary in war that else we have no hope of it so necessary in both that no Kingdome can subsist long without him if you chance to see him you see a head quick of wit a tongue full of eloquence an eye of vigilance a face of curtesie a hand of bounty and an heart of valour and for his good parts say God blesse him so that he remember and practise his lesson Neminem concutit eneque calumniamini The Trades-mans Devotion THis Calling is of a large extent For the extent of Trades is very large so many several Trades as there are so many several callings to those Trades there are too The best marke whereby to know the lawfulness of a Trade is To find a ground for it in Scripture or if humane Inventions have found out some Trades that the Scipture gives no ground for yet if the Scripture forbids it not the Trade is lawfull and a man may lawfully make use of it v.g. There is no mention made of a Chimney-sweeper in the word of God yet though there were nothing conducing to this Trade This Trade notwithstanding is lawfull because it is not forbidden whereas on the other side The Trades of Usury and Pawn taking are directly forbidden in the word of God especially the latter The taking of such things to pawn as are necessary for livelyhood and subsistence But I thank God my Profession is not forbidden for I am a Merchant I am a Mercer I am a Taylor I am a Carpenter c. and therefore I may safely use it and that I may use it honestly I pray O God! who for the sin of Adam hast appointed that every man shall earn his living by the sweat of his brows and shall eate his bread in the sweat of his face and hast also forbidden that man to eate who will not work and to this end hast ordained several Callings to some whereof every particular man should apply himself whereby with thy blessing he should provide for his family and posterity and amongst all hast called me to this Trade and course of life _____ and herein hast promised to bless my honest labours and endeavors I beseech thee that I may comfortably and contentedly undergoe it without grudging thereat as at some uneasie burthen driving not onely at mine own private gain but also at the publique good not seeking Riches by wronging of others by false weights short measures or deceitfull work Be such thoughts and things ô God! ever far from me but onely seeking a competency and honest