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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	good_a	life_n	time_n	10,018	5	3.6095	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A07087	A second sound, or vvarning of the trumpet vnto judgement Wherein is proued, that all the tokens of the latter day, are not onelie come, but welneere finished. With an earnest exhortation, to be in continuall readinesse. By Anthonie Marten sewer of her Maiesties most honorable chamber.	Marten, Anthony, d. 1597.	1589 (1589)	STC 17491; ESTC S107009	43,965	86

not trust in the vncertaintie of riches Psal 112. but in the true and liuing God That he which disperseth his goods and giueth to the poore his righteousnesse shall remaine for euer That blessed are the rich which be found without blemish and haue not put any trust in monie and riches And a thousand such other profitable warnings and promises hath he giuen you But ye haue hardned your hearts and thinke that ye shall neuer come to an account how ye haue bestowed them Werefore the Canker and rust of them yea the vayne and friuolous bestowing of thē without profite to your neighbour or benefite to the Church or Common weale shall be a witnes against you at the day of Iudgement Yea the supreme Iudge himselfe all the holie Angells elect of God shall testifie against you nay your owne conscience shall accuse you when you see before your eyes those whom ye despised and oppressed And the Lord himselfe in that daie shall saie vnto you you are they vpon whom I bestowed so many benefites whē as I might haue giuen them vnto others farre more worthie then you I made you stewards of my treasures to dispose them as might bee most agreeable to mine owne honor for the reliefe of your poore brethren which are members of my bodie whome ye sometime derided and iested at and thought their life to be but madnes Wis 5. and their end to be without honor But now ye see that I haue chosen them before you and made them heires of my saluation You in this life had aboundance of all good things but because ye vsed not those things as I had commaunded you but abused them to your owne lustes I testifie against you that the poore which before time indured al the penurie and miserie of this life shall now possesse the inheritance of my kingdome and ye shall bee turned out They in stead of the cold hunger nakednesse and trouble which they suffered vpon the earth shall now inioy all honor glorie pleasure and felicitie for euermore But ye which exalted your selues in the pride of your riches and dreamed of no other happines but temporall honors and treasures of the earth ye shall now from henceforth feele nothing but euerlasting paines and griefes in hell and bee tormented with the deuill and his Angels Ye see the poore continuallie before you in the streates the maymed and miserable go from doore to doore the impotent Lazars lye at your gates the poore farherlesse children and widdowes in continuall want They desire but the scraps that fall from your table you shut you cares against them and in the distresse of their soule they crie vnto God and shall not God deliuer them in the time of their trouble and call you to an account for them in the day of Iudgement O vnkinde and vngratefull nature of man beyond all the creatures that God hath made The birdes of the aire that be lame or olde or not able to seeke foode are fed by the labour of other birds The wilde beasts that be sicke and impotent to take anie pray of themselues are fedde by the pray of others But shal men so degenerate from their own nature and from the kind and nature of al other beasts of the fielde that hauing ouer and aboue that which should susteine themselues and their familie they wil not feede the hungrie nor cloath the naked nor helpe the maymed and impotent Wherefore those beasts and foules of the aire shal rise in the day of iudgement against them nay al the creatures of God that are obedient vnto man serue for his life and sustenaunce shal be a witnesse against them in that woful dreadfull day of the Lord. Neither shall those rich whether they bee men or women escape the iudgement of God which gathering to themselues abundance of treasure deferre all their good deeds til the time of their death determine then to dispose all things after a good and charitable manner seeing for the most part either their life is so dainlie taken from them before they haue set all in order Or while they liue they are spoyled of that they haue Or else some other mischaunce commeth after their death that things cannot be disposed according to their will But especiallie since in the meane time they haue suffred manie Christian soules to perish for lacke of their helpe Againe what thanke is it to them to be liberal then when they must of necessitie leaue their riches vnto others and cannot vse the same anie more themselues Neither wil the Iudge in that day so straightlie inquire how they bestowed the riches which they had at their death as he will examine whether they did the workes of charitie in their life Namelie Whether they had pitie on the fatherles children widowes when they cried vnto them Whether they helped the lame and blinde and impotent that were not able to shifte for themselues Whether they gaue fuel and clothes to them that were cold and naked Whether they releeued poore prisoners when the yron entered into their soules Whether they gaue Phisicke to the sicke and surgerie the wounded Whether they lent their monie freelie without hope of gaine Whether they eased the common burden of the poore in time of famine Whether they helped their Countrie and Common weale in time of necessitie Whether they ministred vnto the Saintes in their aduersitie Whether they put their helping hand to the vpholding of Religion And finallie Whether they did all these things with a single eye and faithfull heart not to be seene of men but for pure loue to Christ his members And then if they haue anie thing lefte at their death to be spared from their owne familie let them bestow the same in such wise as may most tend to the glorie of God to the edifieng of the Church and benefite of the Common weale And God shall restore them a thousand folde in the life to come But if they sawe all those necessities of their brethren and did shut vp their compassion from them and thought all too little for themselues while they liued all the good deedes at their death shall not be imputed one iot vnto them but they shal haue their po●tiō with hipocrites where shal be weeping and gnashing of teeth For they that haue shewed no mercie vnto others shall haue iudgement without mercie to them selues Generallie there is no estate nor degree of person whatsoeuer in this life that shal escape frō this iudgement but all shall appeare before the seate of GOD and they that haue not walked with an vpright and sincere heart before him nor haue beleeued effectuallie nor liued fruitefullie in Iesus Christ wherby their sinnes might not be imputed to them shall aunswere before him not onelie for all the actuall sinnes that they haue cōmitted against God against their neighbor and against their owne soules but they shall also yeelde an account for euerie idle and