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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	know_v	life_n	love_v	8,582	5	6.6638	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02021	The anatomie of humors: vvritten by Simion Grahame	Grahame, Simion, ca. 1570-1614.	1609 (1609)	STC 12168; ESTC S103384	78,629	158

when he with chaines of loue keepes his owne fast to him he sayes As many as I loue I rebuke and chasten be zealous therefore and amend Now againe at last he concludes with fervent compassion Behold I stand at the dore and knock if any man heare my voice and open the dore I will come in vnto him and I will sup with him and hee with mee What more comfortable speeches would the heart of mankinde craue or what greater consolation can wee Caitiue and distressed sinners desire who would refuse to open the dore of his heart to entertaine such a worthie guest of infinite loue and mercie even Christ Jesus the onely sonne of God omnipotent he gaue his life to ransone the soules of sinners he left the glorious heavens for our cause and cloathed him selfe with our wilde and filthy nature Many yeeres did he preach he suffered cold hunger and reproach he was tempted and fasted forty dayes in the wildernes in the agony of his Prayers he sweat bloud he was tortured sold and imprisoned his head was crowned with sharpe thornes his body torne with scourges he was mocked buffeted and spet in the face his body hung on the Crosse betwixt two theeues and his armes out-stretched his hands and feete peirced with nailes of iron and his side and heart wounded to death neither was we bought with siluer gold or pretious stones but with the infinite price of the bloud and life of our Sauiour Iesus Christ the onely sonne of our ever-living God O it was our sinnes and wickednes put him to death and laid all his cruell torments on him it was our wickednes made him fast forty dayes when he was tempted in the wildernes we crowned his Imperiall head with sharpe thornes we bound his delicate armes with cords wee mocked him wee stripped him naked and scourged his blessed bodie we buffeted and spat in his most glorious face we laid the Crosse on his patient shoulders we cast lots for his vpper garments we crucified him betwixt theeues and nailed his innocent hands and feet to the Crosse it was for vs he sweat bloud and water in his prayers and it was we even onely we who peirced and wounded his heart and it was wee who made him in his cruell paines of death cry out in his last passion My God my God why hast thou forsaken me All this and much more hath our wickednes done to the incomprehensible Majestie of almighty God Heare with what great admiration the Prophet Isay cries out speaking of the Passion of Jesus Christ long before his comming Who will sayes he beleeue our report and to whom is the arme of the Lord reuealed Then he begins and tells of his sufferings torments for our sinnes saying Surely he hath borne our infirmities and caried our sorrowee yet we did judge esteeme him plagued and smitten of God and humbled but hee was wounded for our trasgressions it was for our iniquities he was punished The burthen of our sinnes was laide on his backe like a simple sheepe so was he led to the slaughter in patient silence suffered he all sorts of paines neither was wickednes with him fraud nor deceit was never found in his mouth this Innocent was put to death amongst theeues and malefactors for the sinnes of the world The Evangelist S. Iohn sayes For God so loued the world that he hath giuen his onely begotten sonne Iesus Christ that whosoeuer beleeueth in him should not perish but haue life euerlasting And what shall this life everlasting be the Apostle tells thee That eye hath not seene nor care hath not heard nor yet the heart of man can not imagine what happinesse and glory is prepared for them that shall be saued Now deere and loving Reader consider with what little paines thou may in this little moment of thy life prevent the everlasting paines of hell and make conquest of the eternall glory of heaven to see and behold the vnspeakable Majestie of God set on his triumphant Throne evironed compast with the glorified Saints the innumerable Martirs who hath suffered for the faith of his sonne Iesus Christ when the woman in travaile and bitter paines of hir birth is releeved of her naturall burthen how will the pleasure of her child expell the paines and giue her comfort Even so after the weariednesse of this world the paines and anguish then comes the joyfull pleasure of heavens which expells all our vexations comforts our soules and wipes all the teares from our eyes what persecution what crosse or worldly temptation should hold or keepe vs backe from such an infinite treasure from such an endlesse joy Let vs say with that constant and blessed servant of Jesus Christ Who shal separate vs from the loue of Christ shall tribulation or anguish or persecution or famine or nakednes or perrill or sword as it is written for thy sake are wee killed all the day long wee are counted as sheepe for the slaughter neuerthelesse in all these things we are more then Conquerours through him that loued vs for I am perswaded that neither death nor life nor angels nor principalities nor powers nor things present nor things to come nor height nor depth nor any other creature shall be able to seperate vs from the loue of God which is in Christ Iesus our Lord. And a little before this happy and godly Apostle sayes in this same Chapter For I count the afflictions of this present life are not worthy of the glory which shall be showne to vs in the life to come And for this respect When hee considered of the joy of heauen hee esteemed all the ritches all the glorie and all the honour of this world but vayled filth and stinking dirt How carefull then should wee be of this word Eternall and that in this moment wee should be good provisors Our Saviour desires vs saying Negotiamini dum venio Be diligent and lay much treasure to thee fore against I come and seeke for a reckoning of thee For behold sayes he I come quickly and my rewardis with mee to giue euery man according to his workes And what shall this reward be if thou be vpright constant and continue firme and faithfull to the end Be thou faithfull vnto the death and I will giue thee the crowne of life In hope of this glorious Crowne how gallantly should thou fight against all the wofull miseries of this world and still contemne all their earthly temptations In the word of GOD the wise man forwarnes the saying My sonne when thou art to come to the seruice of GOD stand fast in Iustice and in feare and prepare thy minde for temptation Heere thou art forwarned in what estate thou shalt be in time of battell and howe to lye at thy guard against thy three ghostlle enemies The Deuill the World and the Flesh Stand therefore and your loynes girde about with viritie hauing on the

buildings lassivous dansing mirry companions quick-witted-discourses and many more pleasures all must end all must be changed Heare this Proclamation The voice of God said Cry and the Prophet said O Lord what shall I cry Cry out that all flesh is grasse and all the glory thereof is like the flower on the field the grasse widreth and the flower faideth The Prophet Dauid saieth Vniversa vanitas omnis homo vivens And what said great king Salomon in the top of his glory All was but vanitie of vanities And S. Iames calleth our life noght else but a vapor How swiftlie are we gone some by one meanes some by other man against man beast against beast every one becomes a prey to other all must pay that doubtlesse debt of Death no creature can escape there is nothing more certaine there is nothing more vncertaine we knowe not when nor where because statutum est omnibus semel mori it is ordained that we shall all once dye Then in our greatest mirth let vs ever say to our selues Memento homo quod pulvis es in pulverim reverteris O man remember that thou art but dust and in dust thou shalt returne againe It is said of the ambitious wretch Mendicant semper avari THe mal-content hunts Fortune here and there His euer-tortring-thoughts disturbs his braine Till all his hopes be drown'd in deepe despare Then Time tels him his travels are in vaine O earthly-wretch what glory canst thou gaine When fruteles-labor thy short life hath spent A restles minde with stil-tormenting paine Even whom a world of worlds could not content Frō such base thoghts heavens make my heart aspire And with a sweete contentment crowne desire Let vs beholde and we shall see how in one day yea even in one instant time some making riatous bankets some triumphing in all pleasures some going to the scaffold to be executed some women travelling with childe with great paines bringing their children to the world some lying in sore sicknesse exspecting death the prisoner in bonds looking when he should bid his last fair-well to the world some carying their children with honour to receaue the Sacrament of Baptisme the bryd-grome going with his bryde to solemnesse Matrimony And againe at that same instant we shall see murnfull companies celebrating the funeralles of the death carying the dead carcatches both of age and youth to the graue It may truely be said of our inconstant estate Laeta sit ista dies nescitur origo secundi An labor an requies sic transit gloria Mundi Sometimes are we merry and sometimes are we sad Nunquam in eodem statu We are not perticepant of the secrets of GOD It is onely his providence derects vs we knowe not what suddaine change may come such a swift course hath Time and in this meane-time the glory of this world goeth away the most part of our life is spent in sleep and how many in their mid-age is taken away scarce are we come in the world when we returne againe to the graue very few comes to the period of Nature O when we truely thinke on Death and calleth to minde that perellous passage how fearfull is it and what a strange horror brings it to the heart of mankinde and cheefly to the vnresolved who lives in all liberty of pleasure environed with all worldly contentment O mors quam amara est memoria tua homini pacem habenti in substantiis suis O Death how bitter is thy memory to that man who hes hurded vp ritches how loath wil he be to leaue his beutiful buildings his faire allurements and his many pleasurs What a greefe is it to his heart that he must departe and leaue them all behinde and he needs must goe and compeir before that great and terrible Judge to giue a sharpe reckoning how he conquest all that ritches O man thinke on thy end and thou shalt neuer sinne Remember that thy glasse shall once be runne and that thy Sonne shall set and the horror of Death shall over-shadow thee and that there shall no pleading be heard after sentence is once given Quia ex inferno nulla est redemptio Thy paines shall haue no end thy torments shal haue no diminishing Therefore to you J cal to you that careles lives and premeditats vpon mischief and how to execute the damnable exploits of the ever-laboring minde To you who are the ritch-gluttons of this world and to you who feeles not with what sence I speik Consider from whence you came where you are for the present and where you shall goe You are here on Earth Vbi spectaculum facti est is Deo angelis hominibus where you are in sight of GOD of Angels and of Men. Now when ye are going looke well to your journey your passage is all straude over with thornes it is a perelous way full of Ominus-threatnings planted with an hedge of many Prodegyous Objects Non est vitae momentum sine motu ad mortem There is no moveing of lyfe without a motion to Death Liue well that you may dye well For looke in what estate you dye so GOD will finde you and as he findeth you so he Censureth you and as he censureth you so he liueth you for ever and ever His decreit shall never be controlled nor his sentence shall never be recalled As a growing tree when it is cut downe falleth to that side where it did extend the branches when it was in growth Even so if thou desirest to fall right learne in thy grouth to extend such frutefull btanches as may sway thee to the right side and make thee fall well Sweete saieth Saint Chrisostome is the end of the laborers when he shall rest from his labors The wearied traveller longeth for his nights lodging and the storme-beattenship seeketh vp for shore the hyreling oft questioneth when his yeares will finishe and come out the woman great with childe will often muse and studie vpon her deliverie And he that perfitelie knoweth that his life is but a way to death wil with the poore prisoner sit on the doore threshold and expect when the Jaylor shal open the doore every small motion maketh him apprehend that the commander with the serjants are comming to take him from such a loath some prison He looketh for death without feare he desireth it without delight and he excepeth it with great devotion he acteth the last and tragicall parte of his life on a dulefull stage before the eyes of the world his gesture thirls the beholders heart with sad compassion his words of woe seasoned with sighes doth bathe the cheeks of the hearers with still distilling teares with a generall relation of his former wickednes he giues a loude confession of his secret sinnes with weeping eyes he calls for help of prayer and like a hunger-starued begger he howles and cries to that honourable housholder saying O good God open the gates of thy mercies to the greatnes of my