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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
enemy_n	david_n	life_n	saul_n	1,175	5	9.4858	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A63822	Meditations divine & morall by H.T. ...	Tubbe, Henry, 1617 or 18-1655.	1659 (1659)	Wing T3208; ESTC R3392	40,998	194

It is not enough to say our prayers to go to Church to hear a Sermon to receive the Sacrament to gives alms but all this must be performed with hearty devotion Though the Ark be brought to his place of Rest yet God is not well pleased to have it drawn with Oxen in a Cart The widows two mites were more acceptable then all the others wealth she gave all she had with all her heart whereas they perhaps out of pride or ostentation cast in their superfluities into the common treasure A cup of cold water freely given shall not want a reward Our best services are nothing worth if not seasoned with truth and discretion Therefore God once made a breach upon his people because they sought him not after the due order Our duties are undutiful if not duly marshalled and fitly ranked Service without a method is worse then ill manners No action can be well done without a good meaning none well meant without a comely and decent behaviour Every circumstance must bear the sense of sound wisdome and cleare justice XVI Beauty is a grace that proceeds from the proportion agreement and harmony of things it is then most seemly in the body of man when it follows nature alone without any blemish or defect How far we may use the help of Art and disguise a deformity to appeare more comely then we are by our Creation a sober Christian may easily resolve As God is not pleased if we mangle and ma●erate our bodies with cruel tortures so he cannot but be offended when we over-garnish them with gaudy colours and lay on the varnish of a deep complexion It is to be feared that they can hardly speak from their heart that cannot blush from their own blood When the face can dissemble so well the tongue may be suspected too A painted feature is the emblem of vice which would seem to be adorned with the blushing colours of vertue when she intends nothing but temptation We are not to disfigure our faces when we fast in our greatest sorrow nor reform them too much when we feast in our highest mirth we must not mar Gods work we must not mend it so as if it should need no additions of glory hereafter XVII Wicked men judge of other mens afflictions by their own The Amalekite was very well pleased with the death of Saul and therefore thought the news would be welcome to David for which instead of a reward he lost his life It sounds very ill in Davids ear that his enemy was destroyed though he stood betwixt him and a Crown He desires not to rise in his Throne by the fall of another He finds no matter of joy in a Kingdome got by blood Thus different are the thoughts of a good soul from the vaine conceits and imaginations of a worldly minde Therefore they deceive themselves that measure the disposition of others by their own standard The giddy drunkard thinkes the world runs round as well as his braines The vitious man accounts vertue an impossibility and will not be perswaded that there is any such thing indeed as conscience or Religion till at last woful experience constraine him to confess the truth with too late Repentance XVIII The prosperity of wicked men may breed in weak mindes some doubt of Gods providence They live as if they had a security for everlasting happiness Whereas vertue lies unregarded and contemned assaulted with continual stormes of misery The bold sinner never misses of preferment but modest innocence may starve without compassion How seldome do we see any preferred for his deserving qualities Villany is so much in fashion that 't is absurd to be vertuous 'T is true Vice is the gallant of this world and the only favourite of fortune but our observation may yet inform us that shame is the consequent of sin There are few exorbitant crimes but have their attended torments though not alwayes apprehended Both punishments and blessings have their season of maturity The Judgements of God never faile though they may be protracted Some corrections are in secret All offences are not branded with a publick mark If there were no other torment but the guilt it selfe it were enough to express the misery of a sinful life XIX The soul in respect of the body may be compared to an excellent Workman who cannot labour in his occupation without some necessary instruments and those well wrought and prepared to his hand The most skilful Musician cannot raise any harmony from an instrument of musick out of tune We are therefore to be very careful of these external parts since the spirit which moves in them can naturally produce no actions of worth if this instrumental frame be out of order Hence it is that those men who abuse their bodies by the violence of intemperate sinnes are sometimes over-taken either with a sleepy dulnesse or a wilde distraction Their souls are not able to produce any worthy Act after a defect contracted upon their Organs or else are unwilling to be restrained and confined to a bad lodging or a loathsome dungeon A good servant is a credit to his Master a fine case is an Ornament to the jewel a sound body is an honour to his immortal mistris and is most fit to be a partner with her in everlasting glory Whereas we may justly fear that they who bury themselves alive in rottennesse shall inherit nothing but that which is worse then corruption a generation of perpetual torments XX It is strange to see what alterations time will make Those works which were built to perpetuate the memory of our Ancestors are now laid level with the dust how miserable were man if all his happinesse consisted in the remnant of a glorious Name and yet this was all the immortality which some expected after death The strongest Bulwarks of Renown cannot resist the breath of all-devouring age Change and decay are the elements of every state and condition The most ancient monuments and bones of the dead have been defaced with sacrilegious hands There is so little certainty in what we enjoy that we cannot hope to bequeath an infallible substance to our posterity We may sometimes observe more changes in a few years then in all probability of expectation many ages could produce The world is like a Lottery where a man may be made or undone in a moment The same person is Craesus to day and Irus tomorrow There is no confidence or assurance in any worldly thing we can neither recal what is past command what is present nor prevent what is to come XXI Amongst all those varieties of instruments made for the service and use of man we cannot but admire the great nobility and worth of speech with which he is endued above other creatures By this we can convey our counsels and thoughts to one another without this there would be but little benefit of the sense and understanding which God hath bestowed upon us Beasts have a