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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	zeal_n	46	3	7.7940	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A54710	The spiritual year, or, Devout contemplations digested into distinct arguments for every month in the year and for every week in that month.; Año espiritual. English	Palafox y Mendoza, Juan de, 1600-1659.	1693 (1693)	Wing P203; ESTC R601	235,823	496

manner More just 't is true replys that partial Judge but not more easie for they are many and he is but one The correcting of them could not be effected without difficulty but to chastise the Innocent is very easie I forsake Justice to follow that which is safe and easie and so let Innocence pay for the fault of my Sloth and Remisness And how succeeded the Omission of so faint-hearted a Judge with this cruel Expedient of saving our Saviour by scourging and crowning him with Thorns Much worse than if without any pity or remorse he had given him out to be crucified For the People being hard and obstinate were not softned with the Pains of the Holy Jesus but rather they became more obdurate in their sin seeing that their Passion and Wickedness was more couragious than the heart of the Judge and therefore not doubting to get the Victory over him they cried out more fiercely with loud Voices Let him be crucified Let him be crucified Then the Judge being of himself cowardly and fearful was the more afraid hearing such furious Cries and finding that the matter grew harder upon him was conquered by them and being slothful timorous and unactive resolved to condemn him because he had not the courage diligence and industry which were necessary to save him But Pilate if thou meanedst to condemn him after he was scourged buffeted and crowned with Thorns and after thou hadst shewn him to the People as a Mock-King affronted and abused had it not been a less Evil to have condemned him before and to have prevented all those Pains and Reproaches It would have been a less Evil says he I confess but my faint-hearted lukewarmness used them as means to save his I●nocence and the discourses of a slothful person tend always to his own conveniency and the injury of another Observe what a kind of pity that of the slothful man is and thou wilt find it more cruel then Cruelty it self If Pilate had condemned our Saviour at once how unjust how severe how cruel soever yet he had spar'd him five thousand Lashes and an infinite number of other Reproaches whereas by being pardoned and defended with such sloth his Pains and sufferings were infinitely aggravated Besides the lightness wherewith this infamous Judge pass'd over such terrible wickednesses was in a manner worse then all the rest for with but washing his Hands in a little Water the President declar'd himself and all the People Innocent and the Innocent Guilty He declared the Innocent Guilty because though he knew and confessed his Innocence yet he suffered him to be Crucified as a Criminal and he Absolved the guilty People because he forbore to Chastise them though he knew their Malice The reason of this is that amongst all the other great Evils of the Sloth Omission and Negligence of Judges this is one that it is very short-sighted and forgetful of all the Mischiefs that it does for it looks with very little or no light at all upon those Evils which either it committeth or permitteth Pilate condemns our Saviour and delivers him into the hands of his Enemies he delivers up that blessed Lamb to those ravenou● Wolves he gives them a greater liberty than they had before and not only whips and imprisons him but condemns him also to be Crucified and with a little Water not only washes himself from all these Wickednesses but commends himself and expects to be thought a just an holy and an innocent Judge A City shall be enflam'd with heinous Crimes a Commonwealth shall burn in all manner of loosness and debauchery and a lazy slothful Governour shall in the mean while sleep carelesly whole nights and days and although all those Enormous Crimes are committed because his remisness forbears to correct them yet because he does not act those things himself he thinks he is holy justified and guiltless No do not so do thou strive in thy Person and in thy Employment to act with attention diligence and vigilance abhorring Sloth and Remisness Do not make the sins of others become thine own Crimes through Omission Take not upon thee the Office of a Judg Magistrate or Superiour unless thou hast Vigilance Diligence Zeal and Courage to correct Offences It is not I that tell thee this but the Word of God in the Proverbs as who should say If thou art a Governour and allowest those that are under thy Charge to commit Wickedness thou makest their Faults to become thine own Measure therefore thy strength before thou undertakest such an Employment and having entred into it a Judge take heed thou come not out of it a Criminal Sloth and Negligence are as we have seen hurtful in all Persons but in Prelates Magistrates and Superiours it is the Pest of the Publick for under the coldness and indifferency of Omission there is no Mischief that will not be ventur'd upon all bold daring Crimes being the Consequences of it and it is better to live where nothing than where every thing is counted lawful But in the Spiritual Life Diligence is that which promotes it securing our inward Advancement and our going forward in the way of Vertue for every step that Diligence takes adds Glory to the Crown of our Reward The time of our Race passeth swift away that of our Life flies very fast and which is most dangerous Death hastens and then we shall neither have time to run to work to make satisfaction nor to recover the opportunities we have lost and therefore it is necessary to make use of this present Moment before it pass for it is impossible to be recalled Work while you have light says the Saviour of Souls Work before my Time come in which I shall call you to account and judge you for your Time On the other side while you have light walk and work before the Day-light of Life pass away least having spent your time viciously or idly which is all one the darkness of the Night of Death seize upon you at unawares Can any Evil be greater or equal to that of loitering all the day in idleness and vice expecting the darkness of Night and of Death the punishment of idle vicious and slothful Persons The Life of our Saviour in this World was all working suffering taking pains walking watching teaching putting Men in mind of the account they were to give of the Universal Judgment of Hell and of Glory His Zeal his Diligence and his Goodness not suffering his Charity to be one moment idle Why stand ye here all the day idle said he in the Parable to those that were found in the Market-Place as who should say Can you spend all the Day in sloth and idleness while Night the Sword of the slothful hangs over your Head and will certainly fall upon you If you will not work in the Day how will it be possible for you to work in the Night If you refuse him the Day which is the time of working rightly and with

away that Death hastens and that thou thy self art the Theatre of thine own Tragedy I will not tell thee that Death is coming 't is already come with it thou livest with it thou eatest with it thou walkest and labourest and with it thou sleepest Now since thou sleepest with it Why doest not thou awake with it also An indisposition of thy Stomach the aking of thy Head a pain in any part of thy Body briefly all such like accidents are so many knocks that Death gives at thy Door to rouze thee to the Remembrance of it Lend but thine Ear to hearken and thou shalt hear it call upon thee in the beginning of thy sickness it begins to finish what it has been about ever since thou were born and Death makes an end of thee even in the time of thy very Life It is a powerful Enemy that allows no means to fly to make resistance or to capitulate A terrible Enemy that will neither pardon nor be perswaded nor suffer it self to be entreated nor conquered nor convinced 2. Ah yield thy self to Death before it force thee to yield and to wait upon its triumph Receive it by Meditation before it come to execution accustom thy self to the Thought of Death and that will take away the Fear of Death It is a great Morsel and will not be got down the Throat at once thou had'st need to divide it into parts by frequent consideration that thou mayest be able to swallow it the more easily The Saints by often thinking of it made their Death more tolerable and their Life more religious Their end was always present to them and by that means they made both the beginning and the middle of all their Actions holy To forget Death is a great Mischief and an evident Destruction The unwary and unprovided Soldier is already foil'd and conquer'd 3. Why are so many ruined in their Life Because they bear not in mind the Remembrance of Death Why are so many condemned after Death Because it was never present to their thoughts in the time of their Life They live as if they never were to die they die as if they were never to be judged and yet in one instant they are dead judged and condemn'd 4. Do all the Actions of thy Life as having still an eye to thy Death this will lessen the Fear of thy Account and of the Sentence which condemns to eternal death Woe be to thee if thou stayest till death to begin to live Woe be to thee if thou stayest till thy end to begin to work Woe be to thee if thou deceivest thy self with to Morrow to Morrow to Morrow and art so foolish as to think thy self sure of to Morrow No let thy delays be applied to sin and the present time to repentance to day to day to day nay instantly this very moment bewail thy offences and resolve upon amendment and say to morrow to morrow or rather never never when thou art tempted to commit a wilful Sin 5. Oh how many are now burning in Hell for being such fools as to believe that they should find a to Morrow to repent in and who neither found Repentance nor to Morrow Oh how many are now burning in Hell because they would not repent when they might and afterwards could not when they would Oh how many are there now burning in Hell who delay'd to work out their Salvation while the Light of their Day lasted and afterwards had neither light nor time being seized upon suddenly by the dark Night of Death Fools ridiculous Fools that left the Matter of greatest Importance to be done in the time of greatest Confusion Fools ridiculous Fools to give the worst of their time to the saving of their Souls which is the only Matter of Concernment and the present which is the best and the most acceptable to the damning of them To imploy their Health their Youth and their Strength in sinful Pleasures and to put off their Contrition and Amendment till they are sick and old and feeble In offending the Just the Holy and Omnipotent God they spend all the Years of their Life and to obtain Pardon can afford nothing but the Moment of their death To offend him they give all their Senses Powers and Faculties while they are quick and lively and think them good enough for repentance when they are dull sleepy and stupified They lay the heavy load of Repentance upon decrepid old Age which is not able to bear it self and waste their most active and vigorous Days in vain delights and trifles Finally they lie dead in Sins all the Years of their Life and presume they shall be able to rise to Repentance that is to lead a godly Life in the Hour of their Death 6. Suppose a tender hearted Father pitying the Ruine of a Son justly disinherited and brought to slavery by his many Rebellions should send Messengers on purpose to fetch him home from Captivity to his Favour and to his Fortune provided he return before a certain Day prefixt Suppose they inform him the Road is very dangerous especially near his Journey 's end and that the Evening will probably be very dark and tempestuous What wouldst thou think of him if instead of hastening to his Father's embraces and the plenty of his House he should be so ungrateful to his Father's kindness so forgetful of his past misery and so regardless of his future happiness as to turn into the first pleasant Meadow he spies by the way and if notwithstanding the many earnest Calls of those that were sent to bring him who tell him how the day wasts and that they cannot stay for him he should lie down and loiter out the time picking up Flowers and catching Butterflies till Night force him in the midst of stormy Winds Rains and Thunder-claps to grope for his way alone in the Dark through Bryars Bogs and Precipices where it is in a manner impossible to escape Destruction It is hard to think that any Man can possibly be so stupid and wretched or so wilfully foolish yet thou thy self art much more stupid wretched and foolish than He if deluded by the Pleasure of Sin thou delayest thy Repentance till the Night of Death for He knew the certain number of Hours in his Day but thou knowest not how few there may be in thine nor how suddenly thy Sun may set and leave thee perhaps before thy Noon exposed to a darker and a more tempestuous Passage Again He lies in the cool Shade of a pleasant Meadow but thou probably liest wallowing like a Swine in the Mire of Sensuality or basking in the Heat of Lust in spite of the Perswasions of thy Spiritual Guides that would bring thee into the Ways that are truly pleasant and into the Paths of Peace In short He by the delay of his Journey ventures but the loss of an earthly Inheritance or at the worst of a temporal Life but thou by that of thy repentance wilt loose an