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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	eternal_a	sin_n	wage_n	12,499	5	11.2125	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A09387	Deaths knell: or, The sicke mans passing-bell summoning all sicke consciences to pr[e]pare themselues for the comming of the grea[t] day of doome, lest mercies gate be shut against them: fit for all those that desire to arriue at the heauenly Ierusalem. Whereunto are added prayers fit for housholders. The ninth edition. Written by W. Perkins.	Perkins, William, 1558-1602.	1628 (1628)	STC 19684; ESTC S119984	9,405	26

Deaths Knell or The sicke mans Passing-Bell Summoning all sicke Consciences to pr●●pare themselues for the comming of the grea● Day of Doome lest mercies Gate be shut against them Fit for all those that desire to arriue at the heauenly Ierusalem Whereunto are added Prayers fit for Housholders The ninth Edition Written by W. Perkins Printed at London for M. Trundle and are to be at her Shop in Smith-field 1628. Deaths Knell LEt the memory of Death good Christian be euer the Looking-glasse of thy life thy continuall Companion and inseparable Spouse let thy solace be y e sighes of a sorrowfull soule and those the more bitter the better whilest Worme-like thou crawlest heere below fasten all thy faculties vpon the Commandements of thy Creator for those in thy finall passage must be the Pylot to steere thee into the Hauen of Heauen Thinke euery moment thou art in the waning that the date of thy Pilgrimage is wel-nigh expired and that the lampe of thy life lyeth twinckling vpon the snuffe and that now it stands thée vpon to looke toward thy Celestiall home thy forces are enfeebled thy sences impaired and on euery side the tottering and ruinous Cottage of thy faint flesh threatneth fall And méeting so many Harbengers of death how cāst thou but prepare for so gastly a guest The young man may dye quickely but the old cannot liue long the young mans life by casualty may be cut off but the aged by Physicke cannot be preserued Gréene yéeres must resolue to grow to the graue and the meditations of old age must dwell in the same be mindfull of things past carefull of things present and prouident for things to come Use the blessings of nature to the benefit of thy soule be wise in well-doing and watchfull for thy end Serue not the world for that can possesse thee of nothing but pride enuy lust anger malice and infinite follies for it defileth a man with sin disquieteth with troubles oppresseth with labours vexeth with temptations vanquisheth with vaine delights and miserably wrappeth him vp in wofull calamities The world it is an Ambassadour of the euill a scourge of the good a tyrant of the truth a breaker of peace a worker of warre a sweet of vices a gall of vertues a friend of lyes an inuenter of nouelties a trauell to the ignorant a table of Gluttons a furnace of concupiscence a sepulcher of the dead a prison of the liuing a pitfall to the rich a burthen to the poore a Palace of Pilgrims a Den of Deceiuers a slanderer of the good a commender of the wicked and a deluder of all Thou hast no reason to dote vpon the world for at first it affords thee but a wrangling welcome and at last turnes thee off with a fearefull farewell moreouer it doth torment thée abuse thée consume thee and at length expell thee whereas on the contrary Heauen doth comfort thee conserue thée and exalt thée On Earth thou sowest but in a field of Flint which bringeth foorth nothing but a Crop of care and languishing for thy labour it is time therefore to leaue so vnthriuing a husbandry and to sowe in Gods ground the seed of repentant sorrow and water it with the teares of humble contrition so shalt thou reape a plentifull haruest and gather the fruits of euerlasting consolation Imagine thou thy Spring to be spent thy Summer ouer-past and that thou art arriued at the Fall of the Leafe and though thy louing Lord doe long forbeare offenders yet at last he will scourge them and that his patience lends vs but respit to repent not leysure to sinne Hee that is tossed with sturdie stormes and cannot come to his desired Port rids little way but is much turmeiled so hee that passeth many yeeres and purchaseth but small profit to his soule hath had a long being but a short life for life is to be measured by vertuous actions not by number of dayes Some men by many dayes purchase many deaths and others in a short space attaine to life euerlasting What is the body without the soule but a corrupted Carkeise and what is the soule without God but a Sepulcher of sinne Man was made and sent hither to no other purpose but onely to serue God in this life and to enioy Heauen in that life heereafter If our end be the Kingdome of Heauen why are we so much enamoured on the Earth If the end of our Creation be eternall saluation why hunt we after the vanities of this vaine life If our inheritance be to raigne as Kings why liue we like seruile slaues in danger to be diuided from God from Christ our Sauiour from the Angels from the Communion of Saints and from the hope of our celestiall portion If God be the way the truth and the life then he that walketh without him wandreth that is not instructed by him erreth and that liueth without him dyeth to reuolt from him is falling to returne to him is rising to stay vpon him is sure standing Hee it is from whom to depart is to dye to whom to repaire is to reuiue in whom to trust is truly to liue O be not thou like those that beginne not to liue vntill they be ready to dye and then when they deserue an enemies reward come to craue of God a friends entertainement Some thinke to snatch Heauen in a moment which the best can scarce attaine in many yeeres and when they haue glutted themselues with worldly delights would iumpe from the Dyet of Diues to the ioyes of Lazarus from the seruice of Satan to the solace of a Saint But be sure that God is not so penurious to make his Kingdome saleable for the refuse and reuersion of their liues who haue sacrificed the principall and prime thereof to his enemies and their owne brutish appetites then onely ceasing to sinne when the ability of offending is taken from them What thanke is it to pardon our enemies when wee can not hurt them to giue away our goods when we can kéepe them no longer to shake hands with our pleasures when wee can vse them no more to forsake sinne when sinne leaueth vs God may be mercifull at the last gaspe but most miserable is that man who casteth the Anchor of his eternall weale or woe on so vncertaine and sandy a point The thiefe may be saued on the Crosse and mercy found at the last yet it is not likely that hee should finde fauour at his death whose life earned the wages of wrath or that his penitence should be accepted who more for feare of hell and his owne selfe-loue then for the loue of God or lothsomelesse of sinne cryeth out for mercy Put not off repentance therefore to the last point take Dauids early in the morning stay not till to morrow though thou sufferedst the Bud to be blasted the Flowres to fade the Fruit to perish the Leaues to wither the Boughes to dry vp and the body of the Tree to decay yet

prophaned and turned into a Den of Deuils His Paradise displanted and made a Wildernesse of Serpents His Spouse deflowred and become an Adultresse to his Enemies Durst we commit such outrage against our earthly Princes Would not the terrour of the Law and popular shame curbe vs from it and shall not the glorious Maiestie of Iehouah and the vnrebated kéennesse of his flaming double-edged Sword deterre vs from offering the like to his dearest Spouse Will he that keepes Register of euery singuler haire suffer himselfe to be wronged and ouer-passe it vnpunished Remember that it is a thing full of horrour to fall into the hands of God who is able to crush the proudest spirit and to make his face his Foot-stoole O wrastle not against the cares and cryes of thine owne Conscience but so keepe and conserue it as that at the last it may gladly goe with thee and be ioyfully prepared before the Throne of God to answer for thee There was a man had three friends two whereof hee loued entirely the third hee made no great reckoning of This man being conuented before the King vpon the accusation of some committed crime solemnly came vnto his best friend and intreated him to goe with him but hee would not yet went hee with him some part of his way Bethinking himselfe better he returned to his second friend and desired him to goe with him but he made him this flat answer that by reasō of his more important affaires he could not go with him yet gaue him a token of his remembrance Being driuen to this hard exigent hee trudged to his third friend of whom hee made slight account and hee at the first word went with him to the King and there stucke to him in all his dangers So fares it with a man being sent for by death comes to his Wife Children or Friends and intreats them to go along with him but they slip their necks 〈◊〉 of the C●l●ar and will not onely beare hi● company to his graue then he perswades 〈◊〉 goods and gold to goe along with him but 〈◊〉 cannot and so turnes him off with a 〈◊〉 simple sheete lapt about him then when all these shrinke backe and faile him at the last point his bosome-friend his Conscience will not forsake him but goe along and make an answer for him Labour then to keepe a good Conscience for in the vtmost of extremities That will neuer faile thee There was a countrey where the Commons vsed to elect their King and againe to banish him at their pleasure into a far Countrey almost naked But one more prouident than the rest so soone as he was chosen King he dayly sent before-hand some prouision into that far Countrey so that when the people banished him from them hee was hauing made a prouident preparation of wealth before most royally there entertained So must euery cantelous Christian prouide vpon Earth as he may be ioyfully receiued into Heauen Prayers for priuate Households at all times O Lord prepare our hearts to pray O Most mighty and eternall God who art the Creator Guider Gouernour and Preseruer of all things both in Heauen and Earth vouchsafe we humbly beseech thee to looke downe with the eye of pittie and compassion vpon vs miserable and wretched sinners who at this time are prostrate heere before thee to offer vp this our Sacrifice of Prayer and Thanks-giuing vnto thee And although we be vnworthy by reason of our manifold transgressions to present our selues before thee yet we humbly beseech thee for thy Sonne Christ Iesus our blessed Lord and Sauiours sake to accept of vs and to grant these our prayers and petitions which we doe make vnto thee O mercifull Lord and louing Father remember the infirmities of thy fraile seruants ●ssisting our weake soules with thy grace ●hat in all things we may loue honour and o●ey thy heauenly will and Maiesty waking ●nd walking in the paths of righteousnesse to ●he scope of perfect Holinesse contemning this witching world with all her foolish illusions for the true glorifying of thy Name through Christ Iesus our Lord Amen Another Prayer O Mercifull Lord and louing Father that of the incomprehensible riches of thy mercy toward the disobedient and lost children of Adam who seruing Satan after the blinde and vnbridled lusts of the vile flesh were carried away through sinne and ignorance to damnation hast reconciled vs to thy fauour through grace and adoption in Christ Iesus the righteous by faith and holy conuersation in whom we are deliuered from eternall death and destruction Haue mercy vpon vs yea Lord haue mercy vpon vs and for loue of thy sweet Sonne our Redeemer defend vs against the power of the Destroyer and with thy mighty hand lift vs vp out of the puddle and deathfull corruptions of this abominable world purifying our hearts with thy grace that wee being wholly inclined to thy heauenly desires may grow perfect in holinesse and abounding in the good works which thou hast prepared for thy Saints to walke in for the glorifying of thy Name we may grow an acceptable Temple for thy continuall dwelling in vs O Lord to the vnspeakable peace and comfort and to the euerlasting blisse and saluation of our soules through Christ our Sauiour Amen LOrd let not the darknesse of ignorance comprehend vs. Leade vs by the continuall light of thy grace to worke r●ghteousnesse Let vs not sleepe in sinne O God Quicken our weake soules against earthly sluggishnesse Giue vs the heauenly rest of thy vnspeakable peace O Lord And nourish vs with thy grace to saluation Lord comfort the needy the sicke the prisoned the tormented the distressed and helplesse with the presence of thy grace and haue mercy vpon them and vs. Pittifully heare our complaints O deare Father and grant our requests for thy sweet Sonnes sake our Sauiour FINIS