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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	day_n	life_n	see_v	9,818	5	3.5124	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A22823	Godly meditations made in the forme of prayers by S. Augustine; De meditatione. English.	Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo.	1570 (1570)	STC 933; ESTC S119229	32,187	250

both God and man man and god Neuerthelesse although by thy marueilous will the word was made flesh yet neither of both the natures was chainged into others substance In the misterie of the Trinitie there is not a fourth person added for y substance of the word of God and of man was vnited and knitte together but not confused and mixed that that thing which was taken of vs should be turned into God and that whiche neuer had bene before that time that his flesh manhoode should be the same that had bene euer without any beginning that is his Godhead Oh marueilous mistery Oh vnspekable felowship Oh marueilous meeknes of thy heauēly mercifulnes which is euer worthy marueiling and euer to be loued we were but vile seruantes and beholde we are made the sonnes of God yea and heyres of God together with Christ From whence came this goodnes who brought vs vnto this state But I require thee O most mercifull father by thine inestimable pitie goodnes and charity to make vs worthy of these many and great promises of the same thy sonne our Lord Jesu Christ Send forth thy strength O God establish the thing that thou hast wrought in vs Make perfect that which thou hast begun that we may be able to come vnto the fulnesse perfectnes of thy pitie Make vs through y holy ghost to vnderstand and through thy Sonne to deserue with due honor alway to worship this great misterie of thy pitic whiche is manifest in our fleshe iustified in the spirite did appeare vnto Angels was preached vnto nations was beleeued to be in the world was taken vp into heauen Amen ¶ Of the thankes which man ought to geue vnto God for the benefite of his redemption LOoke how much O Lord our God we ar in debt vnto thee euen for so great a price were we redeemed with such a great gift were we saued and with so great a benefite helped Howe much ought we wretehes to loue dread bles praise honour and glorifie thee which hast so loued vs after such fashion saued vs after such a sort sanctified vs to set vs on hie To thee truly do we owe and are bound as much as we are able euen our life and all our study and endeuour But who hath any thing that is not thine But do thou O Lorde our God from whom al goodnes procedeth euen for thy holy names sake geue vs of thy goodnes that we may serue thee of thine owne goodes and giftes and that we may please thee in truth and repay vnto thee daily due prayses for so great benifites of thy mercie For by none other meanes rā we serue the but by thine owne giftes that thou hast lent vs while we be in this world For euery good gift and euery perfect gift is from aboue commeth down from the father of light with whome there is none alteration or variablenes neyther yet is hee chainged vnto darcknes O Lorde our God and a pitifull god a good God and almighty God an vnspeakable God and incomprēsible of such a nature that can not be contayned as in a place O God which art the beginner of all thinges and the father of our Lord Jesu Christ which diddest send the same thy beloued sonne our Lord foorth of thy bosome to our common profite to take vpon him our life to the entent he might geue vs his life and that hee might be perfect and very God of thee his father and very perfect man of his mother a whole and a perfect God a whole and perfect man and yet but onely Christ both euerlasting and enduring but for a space both immortal and mortall both a creator and a creature strong and weake an ouercommer and one ouercommed a nurse and one that was nursed him selfe a shepheard and a sheepe dead for a time and liuing with the euerlasting promising to thē that loued him the freedome of life who sayd to his disciples what thing soeuer ye aske the Father in my name he will geue it vnto you For that hie priestes sake which was also a Bishop indeede a good shephearde that offred himselfe in a sacrifice to thee putting his life in ieoperdie for his flock for his sake I say I besech thee which sitteth on thy right hand maketh intercession for vs being our redeemer and our aduocate that thou wouldest graunte vnto me that together with thy Sonne and the holy Ghost I may in all thinges blesse glorifie thee with much contrition of hart and a fountaine of teares with much reuerence and feare For the gift of them that be all of one substance is all one But because a bodie that is corrupted doth aggranate burden the soule stir vp and awake I beseech thee my sluggishnes with thy prickes and prouokinges and make me boldly to perseuer continue in thy cōmanndements and lawes day and night Graunt mee that my harte may waxe warme within me and that many meditation prayer I may be feruent And for as much as thy onely sonne sayd No mā can come to me excepte my Father that sente me shall draw him again No man commeth to the Father but by me I ●●quire and humbly besech thee drawe me alwayes vnto him that he at the length may bring me to thee thether I meane whereas he is sitting on thy right hand whereas is euerlasting life continuall blessednes wheras is perfect loue without all kinde of feare wheras is one day euerlasting and one spirite of al men whereas is most sure securitie safety sure quiet●es and quiet plesantnes pleasant felicitie and happines happy eternitie continuall and eternall seeing praising of thee without end wheras thou with him and he with thee in the communion and vnity of the holy Ghost euerlastingly continuallye liuest and raignest throughout all worldes of worldes Amen ¶ A deuout prayer vnto Christ O Christ God which art my hope and the true and gentle louer of mankinde the light the way the life the health the honour and worship of them that be thine I besech thee call to thy remembraunce all thinges that thou willingly didst suffer for thē both bands crosse woundes death and sepulcher which after three dayes death being ouercommed diddest rise wast seene of thy disciples reforming theyr hartes and establishing them that were almost declining from thee the fortie day after didst ascend vp to heauen which liuest euerlastinly now and raignest throughout worldes Thou art my God both louing true my father and my God both holy and pitiful my mighty king my good shepheard mine onely maister my best helper one whome I am most bound to loue my liuing bread mine euerlasting priest my guide vnto my coutry my true light my holy sweetnes my right and straight way mine excellent wisedome my sure and vnfayned simplicitie my peaceable cōcord my safe garison my good portion mine euer lasting health my great mercy my strongest

workes holy in mercies aboundant plentifull towarde offenders most patient toward the penitent and those that be sorye for their sinnes most gentle and louing alwayes the same euerlasting and continually continuing immortall incommutable impossible to be changed or altered whome neither the amplitude or largenes of places doth make bigger nor the shortnesse or litlenesse of places lesser nor any places or corners cā cōtem or pres together neither doth thy wil or entent vary or alter nor familiaritie or acquaintance corrupt thee nor sorowfull thinges trouble or amaze the nor glad thinges make thee pleasant or frolike as a man woulde say from thee cā forgetfulnes take norbing nor mindefulnes or remembrāce geue any thing neyther are thinges passed vnto vs passed also vnto thee nor thinges which to vs are come come toward thee for neyther beginning doth geue any beginning to thee nor time any encrease nor yet chaunce geueth thee any ende but before all worldes and in worldes by worlds into euerlasting thou doest liue and thou hast continuall prayse perpetuall glory most high power and singuler honour euerlasting kingdome and rule and imperie without ende thorow the infinite and vnweery and immortall world of worldes ¶ After what sort God the father vouchsafed to helpe mankinde of the incarnation of the word which is Christ and of the geuing of thanks HItherto O almighty God the beholder and sercher of mine hart haue I acknowledged the almightifulnes of thy maiestie and the maiestie of thine almightifulnes But now like as with hart I beleue which is counted righteousnes vnto me so with mouth do I coufes before thee which is to my saluation after what sorte and manner thou diddest vouchsafe in the ende of the worlde to succour ayd mankinde Thou indeede onely O God the father art not redy at any time or in any place to be sente But of thy Sonne the Apostle writeth when that the time was fulfilled God sent his Sonne In that he sayth he sent hee doth sufficiently declare that he being sente came into this world when as he being borne a very and perfect man of blessed Mary a pure virgin did appeare and shew himselfe in the flesh But what is that which he that is the chiefe of the euangelistes doth say He was in the worlde and the worlde was made by him Thether truly was he sent by his humanitie where he alway is and alway hath bene by his diuinitie The which sending or embassage I beleeue with all my hart confesse with my mouth to be the consent worke of al the whole Trinitie Oh holy and good Father how didst thou loue vs How great fauour didst thou beare toward vs most mercifull creator which hast not spared thine owne sonne but for vs wretched sinners hast deliuered him He was obediente vnto thee vntill death yea death vpon a crosse taking the obligation or handwriting of our sins which was his flesh and fastning it vnto the cros he crucified sinne and led death He alone is amongst the dead fre from death hauing power to lay downe his soule for vs and to take it againe for vs Therfore was he both a vanquisher and a sacrifice and therefore was he an ouercommer because he was a sacrifice for vs He was both the priest and sacrifice vnto thee and therefore was he a Priest because hee was a sacrifice Notw tout a cause haue I great hope in him for asmuch as thou wilt make whole all my diseases for his sake that sitteth on thy right hand and doth continually make intercession for vs for my diseases O Lord are great and many oh they are many in number and great for the prince of this worlde as I very well knowe and confesse hath many thinges in me But I besech thee deliuer me thorow our redemer which sitteth on thy right hand in whome the said prince of this world could finde none euill that was his of his owne commiting By him do thou iustifie me whome his selfe did not sinne neyther was there any deceit or guile found in his mouth By him which is our head in whome there is not one spot of euill deliuer me which am one of his mēbers though I be but a litle member and feeble and weake Deliuer me I beseech thee from my sinnes offences faultes and ignorances Fulfill mee with thy holy vertues and make me to shine in good manners make me I beseech thee for thy holy names sake to continue in holy workes vntill the ende according to thy will and pleasure ¶ Of the trust which a soule ought to haue in our Lord Jesu and in his passion I Might dispaire verely because of my manifold sinnes and negligences without number if it were not that thy word O God was made flesh and dwelt amongst vs But I can not now dispayre because that seeing when we were enemies we were reconciled by the death of thy sonne how much more are we now reconciled saued by him for all the hope and the certitude surenes of all my trust is in his precious bloud which was shed for vs for our saluation In him do I take hartening trusting in him I haue a desire to com vnto the. not hauing mine owne righteousnes but that whiche I haue throughe thy sonne our Lorde Jesu Christ for the whiche O most mercifull God and most gentle louer of mankinde we geue thee thankes which through Jesus Christ thy sonne our Lord when we were not didst mightely make vs and when we were lost through our sinnes most marueilously didst deliuer and recouer vs againe To thy goodnes I say do I geue thankes and manifold prayses do I shew forth vnto thee with all my hart mind which through the vnspeakable loue wherwith thou hast vouchsafed of thy maruuylous goodnes to loue vs wretches and vnworthy to be loued diddest sende that same thiue onely begotten sonne from thy bosome vnto our common weale to saue vs sinners which were at that time the children of perdition and damnation I render vnto thee thanks for his holy incarnation and natiuitie and for his blessed mother vpon whom he did vouchsafe to take fleshe for vs and for our saluation to the entent that like as he is very God of God so he might be very man of man I geue thee thankes for his passion and crosse for his death and resurrection for his ascension into heauen and his seate of his maiesty on thy right hād For he the forty day after his resurrection asceuding vp aboue al the heauens his disciples seing it sitting on thy right hande did poure out his holy spirite aboundantly according to his promise vpon them whom he had chosen to be his children I geue thee thanckes for that most sacred sheding foorth of his precious bloud wherwith we are redemed and also for the most holy and quickning sacrifice of his body and bloud which daily in thy churche wee feede of and