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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
B00175	Fire from heauen. Burning the body of one Iohn Hittchell of Holne-hurst, within the parish of Christ-church, in the county of South-hampton the 26. of Iune last 1613. who by the same was consumed to ashes, and no fire seene, lying therein smoaking and smothering three dayes and three nights, not to bequenched [sic] by water, nor the help of mans hand. VVith the lamentable burning of his house and one childe, and the grieuous scorching of his wife: with the birth of a monster, and many other strange things hapning about the same time: the like was neuer seene nor heard of. / Written by Iohn Hilliard Preacher of the word of life in Sopley. Reade and tremble. With the fearefull burning of the towne of Dorchester vpon friday the 6 of August last 1613.	Hilliard, John	1613 (1613)	STC 13507.3; ESTC S116587	14,244	56

his kennell without any thought either of God or Diuell Full little dost thou know what may happen to thee before it be day It may be with thee as with the first borne of Egypt with the fiue Kings with the Citty Ai with this poore though now rich man and his Child thy selfe may be dead as he is thy house on fier as his was thy goods spoyled and Children destroyed as his were and as many wofull miseries vpon thy wife and friends as there are vpon his Wherefore goe to bed with prayer awake with prayer and rise with prayer Let God and grace be in thy first thoughts and not malyce and wrath not Shéepe and Oxen not mony and mucke which all perish with thée when God is angrie We see what hath happened before our eyes God giue vs all grace to bée warned What shal we now be vnmindefull of these things vnthankefull to God and vnfaithfull to our owne soules shall we continue in lyes lusts oathes aspiring proiects or malitious trappes No we will make and obserue this vow We will not suffer our eyes to sleepe nor our eielids to slumber we will neither continue our tongue to betray our brother nor our bodies to betray our soules we will endeuour to leade a iust and holy and sober life this we desire for this we hunger and thirst this we vowe for this we pray the Lord heare and graunt vs this petition Eze. 9.4 O then let vs mourne and weepe for our offences and for all the abhominations so shall we be marked in the foreheads to be preserued from the euill to come nay so shall wee be blessed for so the mouth of truth hath pronounced we shal be comforted Mat. 7. Our sinnes are the vnfruitfull thornes that choake the good seede of vertue and grace the corrupters of Iudgement the seducers of will the betrayers of vertue the flatterers of vice the vnderminers of courage slaues to weakenes infection of youth madnes of age the curse of life and the reproach of death the least of our bosome-sinnes is fier in the hand and a Serpent in the heart a Cancer a Spider ●sa 3. an euill Spirit and the fruite thereof is death O ye then that with those Mincing dames in Ierusalem are loath that the soles of your feete should treade vpon the earth ye may be hurryed betweene Heauen and Earth but neuer will be carried as Elias vnlesse in a fiery-Chariot Ye that set more by Agar then Sara more esteeme your bodies then your soules feare and tremble at the Lords Iudgements O that blindenes of mans minde and that madde doubting of Gods diuine promises of eternall life O that hardened and flynty heart of ours which is not moued no not with these horrible threats of Gods heauie displeasure but continuing securely in all impiety neuer asketh pardon for his willfull offending and amendeth euen as though the Scripture were but lyes and the diuine Oracles prophane fables For by those things which haue come to passe and by true demonstration of Gods holy spirit it is apparant that nothing is more certaine then that the end of all thinges hangeth on our shoulders Truly great is the force of sinne and maruelous is the rage of Sathan in these latter dayes who endeuoreth by all meanes that possibly he can to bring the whole world into a desperate security of li●e that so he may haue many partakers of his torments in Hell from whence there is no redemption But how much better had it bene for vs we had either neuer béene borne or at the least beene voide of reason with beast and Serpents or béene dispatched so soone as we were horne if either we ●●i● not that place for which we were created or come not to the celestiall Paradice and to the marriage of our spouse our Lord and Sauiour Iesus Christ where shall be the full abundance of all delights and perfection of all pleasure Wherefore let vs cast from vs our careles security and mistrust of the promises of God Let vs renounce the deuill and all the workes of the flesh which are not sufferable by the word of God and let vs listen to the freindly admonition of our Sauiour Christ warning vs to be watchfull at all times Luke 21. Mat. 25. because we know not the hower when our Lord will come praying that we may escape al these things which are to come and may stand before the sonne of man For if the comming of Theiues and stealers of our earthlie goods be to be feared with how great diligence and watchefulnes should we seeke to escape those enemies which would spoile vs of our eternall riches and kingdome of Heauen Here we vse great heed and wisedome to preserue our mortall bodies from hurt and danger but to saue our soules which are immortall from eternall paines in Hell we are altogether carelesse and nothing circumspect And yet more would it beseeme the children of light to be more carefull in séeking and kéeping those things which are Celestiall then the worldlings are painefull in enriching themselues with such thinge as they are neither sure to enioy while they are aliue nor can assure them of any ioy when they are dead Yea let vs think and perswade our selues that in the sight of God it is not shamefull but abhominable that the elect or chosen people of God which should be wise and circumspect shall in this care be surpassed of wicked worldlings and the more highly we displease our God by how much the things which we so little estéeme are more excellent then that which they so hunt after betweene which so surpassing is the treasure prepared for the godlie there is no comparison This erhortation though it pertaine to all men at all times yet now speciallie in these dangerous daies in which we sée so many by sodaine and strange death to be taken out of the world and because euery man shall die though the certaine time none knoweth and shall either woefullie be sent among the Diuels to Hell or ioyfullie to be receaued into the fellowship of the faithfull in Heauen And to come a little nearer vnto our selues hath not the Lord shaken once more néere our Towne his rod of Correction sithence this lamentable accident namely by the burning of one Edward Burtons house and all his substance whilest they were in their beds it is an old saying that when our neighbours house is on fier it is high time to looke to our owne Gods Iudgements we see haue lighted on both sides of vs alreadie and shall wee be still carelesse Moreouer it is not vnworthie the noting that as on both sides of the Towne these fearefull iudgements haue happened so likewise vpon the first day of May last within the Towne was borne a Monster which may well teach vs that although these things haue hapned without the Towne yet the Monsters for whose vglie sinnes sake these iudgements haue come to passe may seeme