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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	word_n	world_n	wretched_a	70	3	8.4241	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A57730	The gentlemans companion, or, A character of true nobility and gentility in the way of essay / by a person of quality ...	Ramesey, William, 1627-1675 or 6.	1672 (1672)	Wing R206; ESTC R21320	94,433	290

offend God if he be conformable to the World or else he must live in contempt disgrace and misery all his Life What difference between words and deeds the Tongue and Heart How common is it for a Scholar to crouch to an illiterate Pesant for a meals meat A Scrivener better payed for a Bond or Bill then a Student A Lawyer get more in a day then a Philosopher in a year Better rewarded for an hour then a Scholar for a twelve moneths study If we have any bodily Disease we send for the Physitian but of the diseases of the mind we take no notice Lusts torment us on one side Envy Anger Ambition c. on the other we are torn in pieces by our Passions one in disposition the other in Habit. But the misery is we seek for no Cure Every man thinks with himself I am well I am wise laughs at others when indeed all fools But now adayes we have Women Polititians Children Metaphysitians Every silly fellow can square a Circle make perpetual motions find out the Philosophers Stone interpret the Revelation make new Theoricks new Logick new Philosophy a new Body of Physick a new System of the World For one Virtue notwithstanding you shall find ten Vices in any individual Person on Earth A wise man is a great wonder Our Life is but a span or hand-breadth as David declares We are but of yesterday and know nothing because our days upon Earth are as a shadow Swifter than a Post they flye away and see no good Few Man that 's born of a Woman is of few dayes and full of trouble he cometh up like a flower and is cut down he fleeth also as a shadow and continueth not * St. August Confess Lib. 10. Cap. 28. Catena est vita nostra perpetuorum malorum tentatio super terram quis potest molestias Difficultates pati All his dayes are sorrows and his Travel grief Hath he not an appointed time upon Earth Are not his dayes all like the dayes of an Hireling Nay his dayes are as grass and as a flower of the Field Surely the People are grass At the best estate man is but Vanity and that every man The King as well as the Pesant The Philosopher as well as the Dunce The Noble as well as the base The Earth is curst for his sake and in sorrow shall he eat of it all his dayes it shall bring him out nothing but Thorns and Thistles and in the sweat of his Face shall he eat bread till he return unto the ground out of which he was taken into which again he must be transmuted and while he remains in the Land of the Living he shall be fraught with all manner of miseries and calamities Man is full of miseries miseries of Soul of Body while he sleeps wakes whatever he doth or wherever he turns as St. Bernard well notes Great travel is Created for all men and an heavy yoak on the Sons of Adam from the day that they came out of their Mothers Womb unto that day they return unto the Mother of all things namely their thoughts and fear of their hearts and their Imagination of things they wait for and the day of Death from him that sitteth on the glorious Throne to him that sitteth beneath on the Earth from him that 's cloathed in blew silk and weareth a Crown to him that 's cloathed in simple Linnen wrath envy trouble and unquietness and fear of Death and rigour and strife and such things come to both man and Beast but seven-fold to the ungodly If the World smile on us we are thereby ensnared puffed up Dat vitam animamque Pecunia And Prout res nobis fluit ita et animus se habet we thereupon forget our selves and others If we are poor and dejected we rave take on lament repine and covet wealth Or if we can carry our selves even between these two yet to Riches we shall find cares fears anxieties and troubles annexed To Poverty disgrace slights derision and affronts c. And no condition we shall find without Inconveniencies To Idleness is Poverty annexed To Wisdom Knowledge Learning much labour pain and trouble To Honour and Glory Envy To increase of Children care and sollicitude To Voluptuousness and Riot Diseases and Infirmities As if as the Platonists hold man were born into the World to be punisht for such sins as he had * Maintaining very idly the Pre-existency of the Soul and that it is sent into the Body upon Earth to play as it were an after-game A preposterous way of Reformation to put the Soul into such fatal prophasities of sinning as it must be here in this World This must needs be the direct course to Ruine it and cast it on a fatal necessity of perishing especially if cast on such times and places as are over-run with Barbarism and Vice If our conditions of Recovery be so near impossibility our State is as bad as the Devils and if the non-performance of these conditions be punisht with greater penalties 't is worse Better be abandoned to eternal Despair then have hopes to be Rescued by such means only as 't is ten thousand to one but will exceedingly increase our torment and misery formerly committed All this befalls man in this Life and perhaps eternal trouble in the Life to come Whence Pliny on the consideration of the many miseries man brings with him into the World said It were good for a Man not to be Born at all or else so soon as he is Born to dye Which made the Scythians mourn at their Births and rejoyce at the Funeral of their Children and Friends They cease from their Labours c. Job also cursed the day of his Birth Why dyed I not from the Womb Why did I not give up the Ghost when I came out of the Belly Why did the Knees prevent me or the Breasts that I should suck For now should I have been still and been quiet I should have slept then had I been at Rest And farther in this manner he exclaims Wherefore hast thou brought me then forth out of the Womb Oh that I had given up the Ghost and no eye had seen me And Solomon the wise concludes the day of Death to be better then the day of ones Birth In a word 't is a misery to be born into this wretched World a pain to live and a trouble to dye For the Lives of the best men you see are stuff'd with vexation mischief and trouble To particularize all is as great a task as to perfect the motion of Mars and Mercury which so puzzles our Astronomers or to Rectifie the Gregorian Calendar or Rectifie those Chronological Errours in the African Monarchy find out the Quadrature of a Circle The Creeks and Sounds of the North-East and North-West passages I shall therefore content my self with this hint only of the Vanity of the World and therein of our Lives that we may endeavour to amend