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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	think_v	5,509	5	4.3139	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A16730	Auspicante Iehoua Maries exercise.	Breton, Nicholas, 1545?-1626?	1597 (1597)	STC 3632; ESTC S109669	16,897	64

Auspicante Iehoua MARIES Exercise AT LONDON Printed by Thomas Este. 1597. TO THE RIGHT Honorable and vertuous Lady the Lady MARY Countesse of Penbrooke Health Happinesse and Heauen RIght Honorable my bounden Seruice in all duety remembred I haue often red and heard which I verelye beeleeue that in the Nature of Man there is no greater blot of disgrace then the vile note of ingratitude with which wicked humor fearing my long forgetfullnesse of your fauoure may make my heart in some suspition vnhappily to bee touched I haue presumed humbly to present vnto the faire eye of your discreete vertue a little fruite of my late and best labours VVherein your Ladyship may vouchsafe to see that although I cannot as I would finde meanes to discharge the care of my duty yet in my best thoughts I haue not forgotten you when in my daiely praiers vnto God I doe remember you and as I daiely and hourelye doe hartely pray vnto his holy Maiesty for his blessings to light vpon you so haue I set downe a few historicall prayers for you VVhich I hope you will so finde applyed to your comfort as shall giue you no discontentment in the presumption of my paines and so though I haue soncke my fortune in the worlde hauing only the light of vertue to leade my hope vnto Heauen with humble thancks for your as yet vndeserued fauour in continuall prayers to the God of all comfort for his prosperous preseruation of my good L. your Ladyship all yours with increase of honour on earth and eternall happinesse in Heauen I humbly take my leaue in bounden duty Your La sometime vnworthy Poet and now and euer poore Beadman Nich. Breton TO THE LADIES and Gentlewomen Reeders LAdies and Gentlewomen so it is that hauing passed some partes of the world beholding the stately pallaces of diuers princes after my returne into my natiue country finding the contemplatiue life the most neere vnto Angelicall nature and no contemplatiō so comfortable as the mercies of god the first fruicts whereof and the neuer ending Glory of the same are no where so apparant as in the historie of the holy scriptures where looking into the court of heauen I finde the world but a base corner when the King of Kinges with the brightnesse of his glorie doth rauish the soules of his beeloued and reading in this diuine historie of the excellencie of Gods loue and emong many of his elected of some women in his especiall fauour I could not but acquaint your good mindes with the memory of their names such matter touching them as you may and will I hope applie to your comfort I finde them blessed for their faith and beeloued for their humility two Iewels of the soule not cōmon to our humaine nature but as it is incorporated to christ but I will leaue the imperfect to Gods amendment the faithfull to his blessing and the elected to his loue beeseeching him so to blesse you with his grace in the feeling of his loue that in praier to his mercy yee may all liue to his glory that hauing Christ for your loue ye may liue in ioy for euer and so wishing you happinesse on earth heauen hereafter I rest in praier for yee all faithfull in Christ Iesu as I finde cause Your poore friend or seruant N. B. Maries Exercise A praier vpon the historie of Christ his comming vnto the house of Mary and Martha to raise Lazerus frō death Iohn 11. The fruict thereof The life of the dead the glorie of God MOst mercifull Lord my louing king euerliuing god sweet Iesu Christ my heauenly maister redeemer and Sauiour vouchsafe mee leaue poore and vnworthy vessell of thy mercy on the knees of my soule in the humilitie of my hart to trouble thy patience with the lowly petition of my afflicted spirit Lord whē to make knowen thy glory to the world y ● camest to Bethania vnto the house of Mary Martha to raise vp thy beloued lazarus frō death what was the speech of the poore women thy poore creatures vnto thy gratious holy Glorious maiestie but onely this Lord if thou hadst ben heere my brother Lazarus had not ben dead but now whatsoeuer thou askest of God he will giue it thee so my deere Lord let mee I besech thee saie vnto thee now that by the gratious mercifull comfortable operation of thy holy Spirit I feele see thee comming to the vnworthie house of my wounded soule LORD if thou hadst beene heere not my brother but my self had not so long beene dead dead I say in my sinnes though onely liue in thy mercy but oh Lord thy father hath giuen all power into thy hands therefore if it please thee thou canst raise me from this sorrowfull death of iniquity vnto the ioyfull life of thy grace but as Martha saide by hir brother Lazarus he had ben dead foure daies therefore did so stinck that he was vnfit to bee taken vp so Lord let mee saie of my selfe I haue beene dead not foure daies but many yeeres yea all the daies of my life and therefore feele my self so vnsauory and vnfit to presume beefore thy presence that I can rather say with Peter come not neere mee Lord for I am a polluted creature then thincke that euer thou didst loue mee and therefore art come to raise mee from this death yet sweet lord when I remember withall thy blessed aunswere and kinde chiding of the vnbeleeuing soule in these wordes said I not vnto thee if thou didst beleeue thou shouldst see the glorie of God it giueth me comfort in my feare to come humbly to thy mercy beseching thee so to strengthen my faith in thy incōprehencible power that I may rather reioice in feeling thy goodnes and seeing thy glorie then distrust in thy power or dispaire in thy mercie that by the vertue of thy power from the death of sinne being reuiued vnto grace in the true fruicts of repentaunce I may glorifie thy holy name Amen An other praier vpon the same historie Chapter and place the fruict therof Christ his cōmendation of the hearers of his word ALmightie God and most mercifull Lord my best maister and onely sweet Sauiour Iesus Christ when it pleased thee of thy mercy to enter into the house of Martha and Mary thy beloued vnworthy seruāts whiles Mary by the blessed inspiration of thy holy spirit was happely called and wholy enclined to the attentiue hearing ioyfull receiuing of thy comfortable preaching MARTHA not so filled in hart or rather rauished in soule with the vnspeakable sweetnes of thy holy spitit rather troubling hir head with an earnest care of worldly busines then bending hir hart with any zealous desire to the inward seeking of thy heauenly treasure complained to thee of hir sisters mistakē mistermed idlenes that sitting still at thy feete she had no more care to helpe her in hir work to prouide for thy welcom nor to attend