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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	life_n	sin_n	spirit_n	19,754	5	5.4357	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A09114	The good mans grace. Or His stay in all distresse. By Ric. Bernard	Bernard, Richard, 1568-1641.	1621 (1621)	STC 1942; ESTC S115314	12,107	60

able to glorifie thy Name by well-doing but as thou thy selfe shalt inable vs therevnto for it is thou O Father and Author of all goodnesse that workest in vs both the will and the deed Let therefore Thy Kingdome come send forth thy Word to teach vs thy Spirit to conuert vs more more subdue the kingdome of sin Satan do thou take the rule and gouernment ouer vs into thy owne hands and by thy power so defend vs and by thy especiall grace make vs such faithfull such loyall subiects to thee alwayes and in all things in this Kingdome of Grace that at the length of thy Fatherly mercy we might attaine to the Kingdome of Glory And because our hearts be deceitfull through too much ignorance self-loue and hidden hypocrisie that we may be thereby easily deceiued in liuing onely in an outward bare profession of thy Name and onely in an outward formall worship and seruice to thy Maiesty giue grace O heauenly Father that by vs thy Will may be done in earth as it is in Heauen Make vs in this our pilgrimage while we here liue from home mingled among Aliens and strangers from the life of God so faithfull in belieuing so conscionable in liuing so patient in suffering for wel-doing as hereby our hearts by thy Spirit may ascertaine vs that wee be truely the children of regeneration and grace Worke in vs this good worke that wee may wholy renounce our owne wills dye to our selues and to the world submit to thee and to thy will in euery condition and say It is the Lord let him doe what seemeth him good What thou commandest that put into our harts to practise and whom we see to be examples of wel-doing before vs giue vs grace to follow them and to striue euen to imitate the holy Angels of heauen in doing thy will readily without lingering cheerefully without murmuring faithfully without adding or diminishing sincerely without sinister respect and constantly without wauering and neuer bee weary of weldoing What though we haue crosses and many discontentments yet let it neuer repent vs that wee haue repented denyed our selues and renounced the world to follow thee euen in the straight way which leadeth to life and immortality in the end And now O Lord for that we liue in these decaying Tabernacles in these bodies of clay needing dayly sustentation wee beseech thee giue vs this day our dayly bread of thy goodnesse put forth thy liberall hand towards vs in granting vs what is necessary for life and conuenient for our present estate and calling in which wee liue Afford vs health and peace if it be thy will and such abilities of body and minde as may inable vs to walke painfully in our vocations Blesse the diligent labour of our hands and so guide vs that our gettings may be in iustice and honesty our keeping in commendable frugality and our expending in wisedome and charity If we haue but little let it content vs if much make vs thankfull and mercifull And whatsoeuer we possesse of these outward things Lord grant that with a good conscience we may enioy them and make a good vse of them that they may be blessed to vs and ours And if it please thee to trie vs in any losse let not our inward peace be troubled nor our hearts fret or be any way disquieted there with but say contentedly The Lord giueth and the Lord taketh away blessed bee his Name for euer We know ô Almighty Lord God that thy hand is not shortned thy goodnes is not lessened nor the fountaine of thy mercies drawne dry but that thou canst giue vs all these things and whatsoeuer wee stand in need of in a most plentifull manner but alasse alasse we looking vpon our vnworthinesse and our wretchednesse doe acknowledge that wee haue many wayes sinned against thee of ignorance of knowledge of infirmity and sometimes wilfully we are borne in sin we haue broken forth into trespasses against thee Oh how do we dayly commit one euill or another in thought word deed against thee and against our brethren Oh how vsuall a thing is it with vs to omit our duties to thee and our neighbours and neuer to be grieued at it What other thing therefore may wee looke for at thy hands than thy deserued wrath But O our Father the God of mercy that art infinite in goodnesse and takest no pleasure in the death of a sinner we humbly beseech thee to be mercifull vnto vs to forgiue vs our trespasses as we forgiue them that trespasse against vs. Wee that be by corruption of nature mercilesse through thy loue powred into our hearts do freely forgiue our brethren their offences and iniuries done vnto vs we therefore trust that thou being our Father a mercifull God yea mercy it selfe wilt freely remit our sins and neuer lay them vnto our charge in this life nor in the life to come Wee beg this forgiuenes at thy hands for Iesus sake our Sauiour in whom thou art well pleased He is our atonement accept him for vs by his death hee hath payd our debt thy iustice therefore is satisfied of thy mercy be reconciled vnto vs. And here of good Father perswade vs by thy good Spirit that wee may be comforted against despaire and that the dread of thy wrath doe not interrupt our prayers nor breake off our dayly accesse vnto the throne of Grace Be fauourable and not fearefull vnto vs thy children and seruants for wee are sorry for our offences the remembrance of them is greeuous vnto vs we doe desire more carefully hereafter to please thee and euer to walke before thee as it becommeth thy Saints But ô Lord our God thou that beholdest al things dost know the we are very weak of our selues and are compassed about with enemies our nature is corrupted and playeth the Traytor the whole world lyeth polluted in wickednes Satan seeketh restlesly whom he may deuoure we cannot preuent temptations wee cannot free ourselues from the euils thereof And therefore Holy Father tender vs in mercy haue compassion vpon vs and lead vs not into temptation but deliuer vs from euill Hold vs vp by diuine inspiration against Satans suggestion by inward sanctification against natures corruption and by a holy conuersation against the worlds pollution that although we be tempted we may not be ouercome and though through infirmity we fall yet helpe thou to raise vs vp againe O thou God of strength and power goe before vs we pray thee and enter into this spirituall battell with vs in danger leaue vs not and doe not withdraw thy good grace from vs. And if in the multitude of thy mercies thou wilt be pleased to pardon what is past to watch ouer vs for the time present and to preuent vs by thy grace for the time to come we will acknowledge as thy due praises from most thankfull harts that thine is Kingdome power and glory for euer Amen Let thy Almighty hand