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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	work_v	world_n	year_n	100	3	4.3404	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A12614	The ransome of time being captive Wherein is declared how precious a thing is time, how much he looseth that looseth it, & how it may be redeemed. Written in Spanish, by the R. Father Andreas de Soto, confessor to the most excellent Infanta Clara Eugenia. Translated into English by J.H.	Soto, Andrés de, 1553?-1625.; Hawkins, John, fl. 1635.	1634 (1634)	STC 22937; ESTC S101240	58,513	218

his misdemeanour God Almighty subtracting his assistāce from him he became a great robber for vvhich he vvas hanged in the same Tovvne vvhere he vvas bred and being their hung on a gibet and dead and in the presēce of all the people there assēbled vvas●●eene his beard to grovv and that in like manner the haire of his head grevv that there hee vvas seene to haue a vvrinckled face also his head vvas all ouer gray and in semblance in countenance he vvas not vnlike to be of the age of fourescore and tēne yeares vvhich made them all admire yea and affrighted them the Bishop of the Diocesse being informed hereof commanded that all the people should poure forth their feruent prayers he in like manner doeing the same desiring of God Almighty if it vvere his divine vvill and pleasure to reveale this mystery A vvhile after he craving silence and audience and speaking vvith a loud voice deliuered thus much Novv yee see my sonnes that this youth died at eighitene yeares old and here he seemeth in his countenance to be fourescore and tenne yeares old Hence vnderstād that which God Almighty is pleased to teach vs vvhich is that really according to the course of nature he had to liue to the yeares of fourescore tēne and so many had he runne had he been obedient to his parents but in regard of his sinnes and disobediēce God Almighty hath permitted him to dye a violent death cutting of so much time of his life as is betvveene eighteene years and fourescoure and tenne and that all the vvorld might hereof take expresse notice it vvas his diuine vvill to vvorke this miracle Sainct Hierome that rare diuine vseth these vvordes that the shortnes of life is a chastisemēt and iudgement of sinnes and hence is it that our Lord hath abreuiated and cut of short the life and yeares of men from the beginning of the world to this day God decreed that the life of king Ezechias should be lessened fifeteene yeares of vvhat he vvas to haue liued according to the course of nature and yet againe he gratiously granted him them through his teares and hearts sorrow And to this purport saith Haimon expounding the wordes of the Prophet Isaias our Lord hath heard thy prayers and thy teares obserued indulgētly is pleased fo adde fifeteene yeares to thy life that euen as he spake to Adam conditionally that he should be immortall if so that he obeyed his diuine commands euen so in God his predestination vvere giuen these yeares to king Ezechias so that liuing vvithout sinne he vvere not svvollen and puft vp vvith pride and euen those vvho were foretaken vvith pride vvere mercifully restored through their humility Viri sanguinum dolo●i non dimidiabunt dies suos saith the Prophet Dauid Bloody men and men vvho deceiue shall not runne out their race shall not liue halfe their dayes vvhich is as much as to say more cleerly they shall not liue the moity the halfe of their age vvhich they should runne out if so that they had spent their time vvell Sinners thall not obtaine and enjoy as they designe and think for euen as o●r Lord said to the Iewes Auferetur à vobis regnum Dei c. The Kingdome of heauen is to be transferred from yee and it will be bestowed on an other people who may make vse thereof and yeild fruite and may better know and value it Euen so God will abridge sinners of time for that they produce no fruite therein they doe no good and he will bestow it on them to whom it may deseruedly be giuen and who know to make right good vse thereof Those words of Dauid the Prophet in his hundred and one Psalme Ne reuoces me in dimidio dierum meorum in which he petitioned our Lord that he might not be taken of that he might not dye in the midst of his dayes rather according to the exposition of some it is as if he should say My God cut not the thred of my life let not me dye in the middest of my daies for this time and age is the dangerousest time euen the gulph of life full of idle cares phantasies and many vaine and misvnderstood courses and farre more dangerous is it to dye in these yeares then in an age compleatly runne in it is not the same security nor in it the same confidence alas the same trust Other deliuer the self-same according to what vve discourse in other vvordes I feare my Lord I feare my Lord that for my demerits my sinnes and for that I haue so ill spent my tyme that thou vvilst shorten my life vvhich punishment thou didst therefore inflict on some and hence is it that I humbly craue of thee that thou take me not avvay inseasonably in the middest of my yeares and daies but that I may runne them out accomplish them vvhich thou determinedst of had I been correspondent to my duety The holy and most patient Iob sayeth in like manner of a sinner Antequam dies impleatur peribit c. Before that his time shall be run he shall dye and his hand is to become arid dry to fade to perish euen as a branch of a vine in his first blooming shall be withered which is as much as to say that in greene yeares before a full age run he shall dye and that his life shall be shortened and shall be cut of in the midst of his dayes as the dayes of an vnworthy and vniust possessor And besides that it is a great punishement here in the world to come it will be greiueous and of great torment to the condemned the remembrance of the time they had and let slippe without makeing vse thereof and to see that they failed thereof which was to be well employed as for a better time It is read in the booke of the seauen guifts that a Mōke of Claraual deuoute and of a good and tender conscience on a time persisting a lōger time in his prayers then was his custome heard a dolorous sad yea and most lamentable voice as euen of one who miserably plained sighed and breathed forth grones and the religious earnestly beseeching God Almighty with feruent teares that the meaning thereof might be declared vnto him the voice which he heard answered him I am the soule of such an one a sinner calling himselfe by his owne name and I lamēt my misfortune ād condemnation and among all the torments I poore wretch in this my miserable estate suffer which doth not torment me alone but also the rest of my company most extremely and mooueth bitter greifes woefull weeping and lamentations is the remembrāce of the grace and mercy which our Lord the Sauiour of the world hath offered of which we haue made no account no reckoning at all as also the memory of time which we haue lost yea and to too ill employed alas being made capable to gaine in so short a space so