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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	die_v	good_a	life_n	16,696	5	4.8534	4	true

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A12614	The ransome of time being captive Wherein is declared how precious a thing is time, how much he looseth that looseth it, & how it may be redeemed. Written in Spanish, by the R. Father Andreas de Soto, confessor to the most excellent Infanta Clara Eugenia. Translated into English by J.H.	Soto, Andrés de, 1553?-1625.; Hawkins, John, fl. 1635.	1634 (1634)	STC 22937; ESTC S101240	58,513	218

last period the vttermost day of their lives And that the Angell published the Edict with so many and such like circumstances and ceremonyes that time should haue its end once for ever and ever and when this is to take effect it is for that we be informed and begiven fully to vnderstand of what price value and great esteeme it is and what greate benefit God imparteth to vs bestovveth on vs to make vs Lords thereof the whole course of our dayes of our life and contrary wise what a great punishment it is that he subtract it from any one as being altogether vnworthy of it it being ill employed And to know how precious time is it would suffice to conteÌ„plate that in an instant the infinite eternity of Glory may therein be acquired since that man may gaine it in so litle a space And hence is it that the Holy Ghost adviseth vs to conserue time as gold carefully wrapped vp as the apple of our eye and that we carefully eschewe vice yea and with perseverance successiuely continually which is as if he should say that we spend it in good workes and that thereof we loose not ought no not one sole moment Againe by the selfe same Ecclesiasticus he counsaileth vs saying Consume not cast not away a good day not without profit let passe the one onely particle of a good guift One text readeth Particula bonae diei and the other which is the vulgar translatioÌ„ Bonidoni whether the one or other be hâ—s wordes his true meaning is his realle scope is to advertise vs to give vs counsaile and to exhort vs earnestly to account of time to vse time well oh yea carefully solicitously and most tenderly not onely of a day but also of each day for he who well vnderstaÌ„deth and well disposeth of one day may take patterne there by to square proportioÌ„ and well dispose of well order his whole life and he coÌ„pleatly is maister thereof as also maketh thereof right vse vvho vvorketh his owne proper good and that of his Neighbours to his full povver employing himselfe and his time in workes of piety and mercy King David feared a litle parcell of time of much and so much desired he to speÌ„d it all well that he was even agonized in contention in strugling with the Sunne who should rise soonest to giue laudes to God to honor and praise God at length the King overcame got the victory according to those wordes by which it is testified praeueneruÌ„t oculi mei ad te diluculo vtmeditarer eloquia tua My eyes gott ground of the sunne fore raÌ„ne it to coÌ„tÌ„eplate to meditate on thy wordes for before it att all appeared I was all eÌ„tertained seriously atteÌ„tive and earnestly busied thereoÌ„ which according to the exposition of S. Ambrose is as if he should speake more plainly and more at large oh thou who art a Christian rise before the Sunne is vp before the Sunne appeareth at all For I cannot but hold it for a great lazines and a meerly most indefensible and most strangely careles negligence marvailously blamable and aboue all discretion that the beames of the Sunne rising should finde thee idle thee I say sluggish and drowsing in thy soft couch Art thou peradventure so ignoraÌ„t so stupid as that thou apprehendest not that thou oughtest to offer and freely give to God each day the first fruits of thy tongue and heart Behold observe well the guifts bestowed on thee thou possessest dayly harvest and hence each day is fruite And in an other Psalme Prophet saith Anticipauerunt vigilias oculi mei My eyes haue anticipated prevented and raised themselfes vp before the sentinells and Citty watch which importeth according to S. Hierome before any was awake any had opened their eyes euen then I was with watchfull eyes at Midnight when each one sweetly slept and profoundly then risse I not onely then but in the morning and at midday also at evening in a word seaven times a day I giue laud and praise to God and his praise vvas alwaies in my mouth and at all howers It was he who knew well to conserue time he exactly and most prudeÌ„tly observed vnderstood what it was and of what value it was and how to avail himselfe to make true vse of so precious a gemme vvithout the losse of any one the least either of the good day or good guift A precious hazard is tyme Theophrastus said and Seneca in his first Epistle which he wrote to Lucilius his friend delivereth his minde in this follovving manner vvhat man will you bring forth can you produce who can rightly value time who knovveth the price of one onely day well coÌ„sidering that wee daylie incline to our end our death and that we euer dye Herein we extremely deceive our selues that our phantasie and our eyes make not death our obiect Much of time tending to our end is already passed the rest of our aâ—e and life that thou canst expect aftervvards is vvhat death doth chalâ—enge to it self for one foote is then accounted to be in the graue Therefore my good friend Lucilius be thou even answerably to that vvhich thou writest in thy letter to me thou art as one who vvell knoweth the price of time Entertaine make accouÌ„t value all howers and each teÌ„derly so shall lesse depeÌ„d on the howers of to morrow of the next day taking strict account and carefull esteeme of the preseÌ„t day not slightly and caresly letting it passe of for life though never so much prolonged yet in this his course passeth not withstandnig although at length yea and swiftly flyeth And we caÌ„not account ought our proper owne but time for that all other thinges are strangers to vs divers not agreeing with vs alas not in our iurisdictioÌ„ uÌ„der our power our coÌ„maÌ„d nature hath impatronized vs here with we are possessed though of what is nimble vvhic ruÌ„neth flyeth and passeth beyond expressioÌ„ swiftly froÌ„ vs. And is humaÌ„ kinde so vnwise so indiscreete that it is appassionated and looketh after meanes thinges almost matters of nothing and likewise recoverable which lost they miserably lament for There is not any bodie to be found who will acknowledg that he is indebted ought for being made Lord of time although vndoubtedly true it is that time is of a nature so pretious that be one never so thankfull yet is he never able to pay answerably to the greatnes of the due debt the price thereof hath so large extent no not the debt of one dayes time And in his booke of the brevity the litle extent of life he pursueth further There is not any bodie living who desireth to consume and cast away his patrimony his meanes his goods of fortune nor to vtterly despoile himself farre rather to conserve it carefully yea and more to make encrease thereof time and life is easily rendred giuen over and coÌ„sumed in many and divers waies Worldlings are couetous are

his misdemeanour God Almighty subtracting his assistaÌ„ce from him he became a great robber for vvhich he vvas hanged in the same Tovvne vvhere he vvas bred and being their hung on a gibet and dead and in the preseÌ„ce of all the people there asseÌ„bled vvasâ—â—eene his beard to grovv and that in like manner the haire of his head grevv that there hee vvas seene to haue a vvrinckled face also his head vvas all ouer gray and in semblance in countenance he vvas not vnlike to be of the age of fourescore and teÌ„ne yeares vvhich made them all admire yea and affrighted them the Bishop of the Diocesse being informed hereof commanded that all the people should poure forth their feruent prayers he in like manner doeing the same desiring of God Almighty if it vvere his divine vvill and pleasure to reveale this mystery A vvhile after he craving silence and audience and speaking vvith a loud voice deliuered thus much Novv yee see my sonnes that this youth died at eighitene yeares old and here he seemeth in his countenance to be fourescore and tenne yeares old Hence vnderstaÌ„d that which God Almighty is pleased to teach vs vvhich is that really according to the course of nature he had to liue to the yeares of fourescore teÌ„ne and so many had he runne had he been obedient to his parents but in regard of his sinnes and disobedieÌ„ce God Almighty hath permitted him to dye a violent death cutting of so much time of his life as is betvveene eighteene years and fourescoure and tenne and that all the vvorld might hereof take expresse notice it vvas his diuine vvill to vvorke this miracle Sainct Hierome that rare diuine vseth these vvordes that the shortnes of life is a chastisemeÌ„t and iudgement of sinnes and hence is it that our Lord hath abreuiated and cut of short the life and yeares of men from the beginning of the world to this day God decreed that the life of king Ezechias should be lessened fifeteene yeares of vvhat he vvas to haue liued according to the course of nature and yet againe he gratiously granted him them through his teares and hearts sorrow And to this purport saith Haimon expounding the wordes of the Prophet Isaias our Lord hath heard thy prayers and thy teares obserued indulgeÌ„tly is pleased fo adde fifeteene yeares to thy life that euen as he spake to Adam conditionally that he should be immortall if so that he obeyed his diuine commands euen so in God his predestination vvere giuen these yeares to king Ezechias so that liuing vvithout sinne he vvere not svvollen and puft vp vvith pride and euen those vvho were foretaken vvith pride vvere mercifully restored through their humility Viri sanguinum doloâ—i non dimidiabunt dies suos saith the Prophet Dauid Bloody men and men vvho deceiue shall not runne out their race shall not liue halfe their dayes vvhich is as much as to say more cleerly they shall not liue the moity the halfe of their age vvhich they should runne out if so that they had spent their time vvell Sinners thall not obtaine and enjoy as they designe and think for euen as oâ—r Lord said to the Iewes Auferetur Ã vobis regnum Dei c. The Kingdome of heauen is to be transferred from yee and it will be bestowed on an other people who may make vse thereof and yeild fruite and may better know and value it Euen so God will abridge sinners of time for that they produce no fruite therein they doe no good and he will bestow it on them to whom it may deseruedly be giuen and who know to make right good vse thereof Those words of Dauid the Prophet in his hundred and one Psalme Ne reuoces me in dimidio dierum meorum in which he petitioned our Lord that he might not be taken of that he might not dye in the midst of his dayes rather according to the exposition of some it is as if he should say My God cut not the thred of my life let not me dye in the middest of my daies for this time and age is the dangerousest time euen the gulph of life full of idle cares phantasies and many vaine and misvnderstood courses and farre more dangerous is it to dye in these yeares then in an age compleatly runne in it is not the same security nor in it the same confidence alas the same trust Other deliuer the self-same according to what vve discourse in other vvordes I feare my Lord I feare my Lord that for my demerits my sinnes and for that I haue so ill spent my tyme that thou vvilst shorten my life vvhich punishment thou didst therefore inflict on some and hence is it that I humbly craue of thee that thou take me not avvay inseasonably in the middest of my yeares and daies but that I may runne them out accomplish them vvhich thou determinedst of had I been correspondent to my duety The holy and most patient Iob sayeth in like manner of a sinner Antequam dies impleatur peribit c. Before that his time shall be run he shall dye and his hand is to become arid dry to fade to perish euen as a branch of a vine in his first blooming shall be withered which is as much as to say that in greene yeares before a full age run he shall dye and that his life shall be shortened and shall be cut of in the midst of his dayes as the dayes of an vnworthy and vniust possessor And besides that it is a great punishement here in the world to come it will be greiueous and of great torment to the condemned the remembrance of the time they had and let slippe without makeing vse thereof and to see that they failed thereof which was to be well employed as for a better time It is read in the booke of the seauen guifts that a MoÌ„ke of Claraual deuoute and of a good and tender conscience on a time persisting a loÌ„ger time in his prayers then was his custome heard a dolorous sad yea and most lamentable voice as euen of one who miserably plained sighed and breathed forth grones and the religious earnestly beseeching God Almighty with feruent teares that the meaning thereof might be declared vnto him the voice which he heard answered him I am the soule of such an one a sinner calling himselfe by his owne name and I lameÌ„t my misfortune aÌ„d condemnation and among all the torments I poore wretch in this my miserable estate suffer which doth not torment me alone but also the rest of my company most extremely and mooueth bitter greifes woefull weeping and lamentations is the remembraÌ„ce of the grace and mercy which our Lord the Sauiour of the world hath offered of which we haue made no account no reckoning at all as also the memory of time which we haue lost yea and to too ill employed alas being made capable to gaine in so short a space so

marvailous greedy of wealth and strangely solicitous thereoÌ„ and oftentimes immeasurably profuse wonderfully prodigall although such is the condition of thinges that coueteousnes the earnest desire of having possessing and compleatly enioying of time is that vvhich is truely iust and really laudable vvorthy to be esteemed and honored vvith praise for truely as immediately after in the same booke he delivereth time is the most pretious ievvell of all others to bee farre preferred before any vvhat soever is or can bee conceived yet notvvithstanding it of all other things is least valued yea and indeed to say more despised for it ã€ˆâ—Šã€‰ reckoned as a thing of nothing of no vvorth at all There is not any vvho esteemeth it vvhen hee hath it if so it occurre that any one be sicke nay their â—ingers but even ake you shall see them croutch cringe yea even bovv their knees before the Physition and be it that he feare the prognostick the senteÌ„ce the doome of death he vvill give the physition his vvaight in gold for his recovery for ransome of his life The blessed S. Laurence Iustinian coÌ„sidering vvhat time is and of vvhat value breaketh forth into these vvords Ah! vvho is there vvho is capable vvho is he vvho can vvith full extent of spirit and vnderstanding apprehend of vvhat price of vvhat vvorth is time Oh! vvhat grace of delivery vvhat eloquence what sweetly-spun or flowing speech of man can declare it lively and sprightly expresse it they who want time and haue it not at all know it Then would they trucke all the possessions of the world honors dignities prelacyes pompes of the age corporall delights and all that is vnder the Sunne wherewith they are taken entertained and marvailously pleased with for one one-sole houres-time if possibly they might regaine it acquire it possesse it For in this breife time in this most short space they might appease the diuine Iustice they might reioyce the Angells they might escape the terrible dreadfull most direfull doome of eternall losse euerlasting damnation and hence might they merit and without all doubt might winne euerliving life eternall blisse The carelesse vnhappy ah vnfortunate are those to whom the sunne of mercy is set And they are passed of without hope of any recovery they are descended to the Lake of misery vvhere is nothing but confusion and ever lasting horror And not without all reason pardon is denyed them for that they misseprised it when it was offered vnto them nay they did not once desire either to meditate to consider or know what time its worth was nor the much necessity thereof and the great want that they vvere to suffer thereby so living to please their palates and their appetites as if they vvere never to dy Oh! if they to keâ—t into consideration they should vvell apprehend they I sav vvho employ their time ill and liue carâ—lesly hovv they vvithout once reflecting thereoÌ„ miserably loose it for vvhat is there more precious then time vvhat is more excellent vvhat more deare vvhat of greater benefit oh vvhat is there more beautifull more to be beloved then time More is the pitty greater is the griefe that there is not any thing so vilified so despised so the least of leasts esteemed of nor so vnvvorthily possessed it being that through vvhich may be heaped treasures and eternall revvards vvonne in any one part thereof Hence is that they vvho well observe vvell knovve that vvhich is vvorth let not the least time passe be it never so short vvithout fruite vvithout returne of profit and vvhy for that they haue to render to God an exact and strict account And glorious S. Bernard saith that there is not any thing vvhich is more of value more pretious then is time but novv a daies is there fouÌ„d ought more despicable more contemptible The day of safety of vvell being doth like shadovves passe and there is not any body vvho according to reason doth lament the losse of that vvhich hath no regresse no returne But let men vnderstand that even as no haire of the head shall perish eveÌ„ so neither more nor lesse ã€ˆâ—Šã€‰ any least moment of time vnlesse there be thereof an account and reason None of you bretheren esteeme ought the time you cast avvay in idle and most vaine vvordes Wordes irrecouerable fly yea and time flyeth irremediably not to be repaired alas not to be helped and the sottish foole taketh no notice of vvhat he looseth It is not amisse nay rather I may vvell say that it is euen lavvfull vvill some one vrge to chatt to talke a vvhile and to continue familiar discourse betvveene man and man vntill one hower be runn out vvhat that hovver that God almighty freely and mercifully gave thee to doe pennaÌ„ce that hence thou mightest obtaine pardon hence to vvinne grace and merit glory oh vntill time glide away fully make his flight vntill the houre compleatly be runne Time oh that time thou hadst to labour to procure to vvinne divine mercyes propiriousnes favour indulgency and vvheÌ„ thou oughtest to haue made all hast vvith fulnes of diligence to come vnto the society of Angells to sigh and breath for the eternall inheritance to suscitate to avvakeÌ„ thy luke-vvarme thy sluggish vvill and to vveepe bitterly on thy forepassed life the iniquities thou hast transgressed in All these are S. Bernards wordes Oh! if this merchaÌ„dise sayth the blessed S. Bernardin of Siena of time could be saleable in hell there for one halfe hovver what vvould they proffer nay what would they give ah alas yes they vvould part with a thousand worldes if they were possessed of them their state coÌ„sidered they there knovving hovv it is with such miserably distressed although they vvere in being againe Time is of more value then is vvhat soever the vvorld hath for of such nature is it that thereby may be acquired gained merits through which one may arriue to the possession and enioying eternall be atitude God himself the infinite good and â—â—easure And if the deuill vvere but maister of a litle time in vvhich he might doe acts of repentance he vvould saue himselfe and gaine that which vvithout all redemption he hath vtterly lost The selfe same Saint further delivereth That thing is of great value very pretious of vvhich asmall quantity is as much vvorth as is a greater vvaight and quantity of an other And so it is vvith gold for that with litle there of is bought great waight of any other thinge or mettall what soever Then contemplate time vveigh it vvell for that there with in an instant if you were practized in trading you shall be enabled to get heaveÌ„ and life everlasting as did the good Theife Well knevv Arsenius the Abboâ— the price of time for when as he vvas in the hermitage of custome so vvell busied and vvas so earnestly coveteous of time that is vvas his wonted saying An houre of sleepe is enough for a Monke And vvhen once

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