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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	womb_n	world_n	young_a	38	3	5.4543	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A66967	Motives to holy living, or, Heads for meditation divided into consideratins, counsels, duties : together with some forms of devotion in litanies, collects, doxologies, &c.	R. H., 1609-1678.	1688 (1688)	Wing W3449; ESTC R10046	220,774	378

first of these Leaving the World Consider The strange alteration that will then be in your Judgment and opinion concerning all the things of this world and the extream vanity and folly of them we then speaking like those Wisd 5.7 8. c. and fruitlesly wishing a few hours of that now eternally irrevocable time mispent in such vanities wherein to fast pray and reform our life past 4. The extream shortness and swift passage that will then seem of your life past and of all the worldly contents received therein for which consider that part of your life already past how short and how nothing worth it now seems unto you without any present or remaining fruit of them And that all the pains of virtuous living then also would have been past and seemed as short to your comfort and an eternal harvest of bliss for them to follow 5. The sudden parting at once that then must be without taking the least thing with you 1. Tim. 6.7 Psal 49.17 from all things even the most dearly affected by you in this life And every thing at that time with so much more grief forsaken by how much it was here more affected and more lively to resent this imagine the destraction and horror that would be to you in a present exile from your Country into some desolate Island 6. The great uncertainty or unworthiness of the inheritors of your goods and fortunes That great affliction of the wisest of men See Eccl. 2.18 19. Psal 49. Ps 39.6 And upon these well weighed consider the reasonableness of the Apostles deduction and proposal 1. Tim. 6.8 7. The leaving also behind of your own Body and beholding your self even before death stript first of all your beauty strength abilities perfections thereof and many times also of your reason and judgment And consider as the decays of it in sickness so the filthiness and loath someness thereof after death 8. Upon these consider the fruitfulness and loss in that day of all your labour spent on your body or on your worldly estates and fortunes except only what was done in relation to God's service This in order to the first you leaving the world 2. 9. In order to the second your going to a place of bliss or torment which so ever God's justice shall assign you Consider The eyes of the Soul opened by death as Stephen's were Act. 7.57 or the young mans 2. Kings 6.17 And all things appearing new unto it as the world or the Sun did to the man that was born blind Jo. 9. Or to one could he well observe it that is newly come forth of the womb and much contrary to what was formerly imagined so as things do to one awakned out of a long dream 10. A doom or Judgment upon the Soul immediate after death as appears by Luk. 16.22 23. comp 28. 1. Pet. 3. 19. 2. Cor. 5.8 Phil. 1.23 though not such as shall be after the day of judgment God's final judgment upon the Devil himself being deferred till that day Jude 6. much more of the damned men But yet supposing the Soul as senseless after death as the Body till the general day of doom yet that judgment also as if it were immediate because no interval of time is perceived by what is utterly sensless 11. The great uncertainty and doubt your Soul shall then be in what shall become of it because of your former not assuredly sufficient repentance reformation c. and perhaps opinion also that that repentance which you can then perform is too late Your hope being then mingled with much fear unless perhaps your life hath been singularly and extraordinarily holy 12. The eternally unchangable condition after that moment without any benefit of despairing repentance and everlasting tears 13. The attendance of good or evil Angels according to our life past by our bed-side to execute God's vengeance upon the ejected Soul See Luk. 12.20 they shall require 16.22 16.9 Matt. 24.31.40 14. That as Bodies at the resurrection so Souls of Saints are treated at their death since their Souls at death go to be with Christ Phil. 1.23 as Bodies at the Resurrection Therefore as their Bodies then shall be caught up in the Clouds into the air to meet the Lord c. 1. Thes 4.17 so are the Souls of Saints at death caught up and carried by Angels into heaven which are thought to be signified by those clouds and a throng of them to have had the appearance of a white or shining cloud See Act. 1.9 Matt. 17.5 Luk. 16.22 And if the Souls of Saints at death by good Angels are carried upwards in the like manner doubtless are the Souls of the wicked by evil Angels thrust down into the Eternal prison 15. The strict judgment that will then be made by God of our whole life even to every word and thought and that not only on Heathen or on Christians for enormous crimes who are judged already as it were Jo. 3.18 but on Believers for omitting deeds of Charity and mercy or the duties of their profession for the not right imploying of any Gifts or goods spiritual or temporal bestowed upon them Consider Matt. 12.36.37 Jude 14 15. Rom. 14.11 12. Phil. 12. comp 11. 1. Cor. 4.4 5. 1. Cor. 3.13 c. Job 31.14 Matt. 25.42 25.30 16. The fresh review that will be on your death-bed upon the approach of this account or if it be not then much more desperate our condition and immediately after our dissolution it will be so much more of all our sins especially those more considerable the suggestions of evil spirits helping the accusations of conscience when repentance is too late for the producing of despair Psal 50.21 Prov. 20.27 or which is worse hiding our sins from us or falsly securing the conscience when impenitent upon our Saviour's merits to the begetting of a vain presumption 17. The bitter remembrance that will then be of former pleasures not innocent and so much the more detestation and cursing of every thing now loved as we here took in it more delight 18. The impossibility of exercising in that time of sickness any reformation or acts of virtue contrary to our former sins except perhaps some deeds of Charity which yet is then less acceptable when we give what we longer cannot retain at the least unto our selves 19. The miserable condition of wicked men at that time beyond that of a beast that wholly perisheth And here imagine the terrors of Corah c. when they saw the earth ready to swallow them up 20. The pious resolutions of a better life if God would reprieve us that we would then make and the hearty wishes that all our time here had been spent otherwise 21. The exceeding great and comfortable remembrance of any one past good deed 22. After these things well weighed which will then certainly happen consider 1 The great uncertainty of the time and that death commonly comes very secretly as our Saviour hath very carefully

Poverty Patience and with all other Graces wherein He excell'd that whatsoever I want and what do I not want may be thro these supplied And since I am unable to return fit thanks for the Favours conferred upon me I bring thee all the Praises which He offer'd whilst he converst here visibly amongst men and which he now tenders thee in glory But whereas I can never satisfy for the Guilts nor discharge the Debts contracted by me in lieu thereof I present thee all his labours fastings watchings weariness devotions and every thing in fine He hath done or suffer'd from the minute of his Conception in the Womb to that of his expiring on the Cross the distresses dolors and torments of his Passion the Blood spilt the Wounds received and the Death endured for me Lo This is the Treasure most compassionate Father wherein I repose my whole hope and heart These are the Riches that must compound for what I owe thee O pious Father regard the face of thy Christ and seeing thy beloved Son in whom thou hast been always well pleased is now intimately mine I humbly entreat thee to respect me too with the eyes of your mercy I approach you under his protection and defence under the shadow of his merits do I address unto you that you reflecting chiefly on him may behold me his slave and properly with a benign and clement aspect Permit not I beseech you the Soul to perish which so often hath in it self entertain'd your Son sent into the world to seek and save what had been lost Grant me this thro your infinite mercy Amen LITANIES of the Life and Death of our Saviour Jesus Christ O God the Father of heaven Have mercy on us O God the Son Redeemer of the world Have c. O God the Holy Ghost Have mercy on us Jesu the desired of all nations who when thou wast equal with God emptiedst thy self taking upon Thee the form of Man and descendedst from heaven not to do thy own will but the will of thy Father Have mercy on us Jesu that tookest upon thee the form of a Servant despised and rejected of men a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief Have mercy on us Jesu conceived by the Holy Ghost and born of the Virgin Mary Have mercy on us Jesu that wast laid in a Manger because there was no room for thee in the Inn manifested there to the Shepherds watching their flocks and worshiped by the Wisemen Have mercy on us Jesu sought for by Herod to slay thee and who an Infant and in great danger of thy life didst fly out of thine own Country and wast carried into Aegypt Have mercy c. Jesu the Wisdome of God subject to thy Parents who when twelve years old wast found in the Temple disputing with the Doctors and intent about thy Fathers business Have mercy on us Jesu who that thou mightest fulfil all Justice wast circumcised and afterward baptized by John Have mercy on us Jesu who livedst forty days in the Wilderness in Fasting and Prayer who wast there tempted of the Devil and thrice overcamest the Enemy of Mankind and after the temptation ministred unto by Angels Have mercy c. Jesu who chusedst for thy Disciples mean and poor men who wentest thro Cities and Towns preaching the Kingdome of God who passedst on doing good and healing all by whose bounty the blind saw the lame walked the lepers were cleansed the dead raised and the poor received the Gospel Have mercy on us Jesu who travelledst on foot thro heat and cold hungry and thirsty and hadst not where to lay thy head Have mercy on us Jesu who rising very early wentest into a desert place to pray who wentest out into the mountain and there continuedst all night in Prayer Have mercy on us Jesu meek and humble in heart patient and obedient benign and merciful chast and holy who knewest no sin nor was guile found in thy mouth who when thou wast reviled reviledst not again and when thou sufferedst threatenedst not Have mercy on us Jesu who out of compassion weptst over Jerusalem most meek King just and a Saviour poor and riding upon an Ass Have mercy on us Jesu whom the zeal of thy Fathers house had eaten up who dravest the buyers and sellers out of the Temple Have mercy on us Jesu who to give us an Example didst stoop down and wash thy Disciples feet Have mercy on us Jesu who gavest us thy Body for food and thy Blood for drink Have mercy on us Jesu who layedst prostrate at thy Prayer in the garden and in thine Agony wast covered all over with a bloody sweat and wast comforted by an Angel Have mercy c. Jesu who wast betrayed with a Kiss by thy Disciple Judas and sold for thirty pieces of Silver Have mercy c. Jesu who healedst Malchus's Ear and forbadest Peter the use of the Sword and when thine enemies fell back upon the ground raisedst them up and yieldest thy self freely to be bound Have mercy on us Jesu who wast forsaken by all thy Disciples and denied thrice by Peter the chief of them Have mercy c. Jesu who wast falsly accused before Annas and Caiphas and struck on the face before the Judge and who sufferedst such contradiction of sinners against thee Have mercy c. Jesu who wast blind-folded bound spit upon and buffeted hated without a cause who gavest thy back to the smiters and thy cheeks to them that plucked off the hair and hidst not thy face from shame and spitting Have mercy on us Jesu who wast bound by thine own people the Jews delivered unto Pilate despised and mocked by Herod and given up by Pilate to the will of the Jews Have mercy on us Jesu who wast whipped at the Pillar crowned with Thorns strucken with a Reed Have mercy on us Jesu condemned to a most shameful death and led as a sheep to the slaughter dumb and not opening thy mouth Have mercy on us Jesu who faintedst under the burthen of thy Cross and in thy great thirst hadst wine mingled with myrrhe and gall and vinegar given thee to drink Have mercy on us Jesu who wast stripped of thy cloaths and with nails fastened naked on the Cross Have mercy on us Jesu who wast reckoned with trangressors and crucified betwixt two Thieves made the scorn of men and blasphemed by those that passed by derided by the Jews mocked by the Souldiers and reviled by the Malefactors Have mercy on us Jesu who prayedst to thy Father for thine enemies and freely promisedst Paradise to the penitent Thief Have mercy on us Jesu who offeredst up prayers and supplications to God the Father with strong crys and tears saying My God my God why hast thou forsaken me Have mercy on us Jesu who dying commendest thy Spirit into the hands of thy Father who wast obedient to death even the death of the Cross Have mercy on us Jesu out of whose side pierced with