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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
fire_n	die_v	hell_n	worm_n	3,808	5	10.0013	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B00023	A looking glasse of mortalitie. Not verie pleasant at the first view to many men, but yet most necessarie, profitable and commodious for all sorts of people, of what estate dignity, or calling soeuer they be. : With an Exhortation to good life annexed: wherein are treated all such things as appertaine vnto a Christian to do, from the beginning of his conuersion, vntill the end of his perfection. / Made by I.B..	I. B.	1599 (1599)	STC 1041.3; ESTC S124171	41,847	174

vomite it vp againe The way that is al plaine they say wearieth more then anie other because alwayes the varietie yea euen in punishments is a kind of comfort Tell me then of good fellowship if things that be pleasant and sauorie when they be alwayes after one maner are an occasion of lothsomnesse and paine what kind of lothsomnesse will that be which shall be caused by those most horrible paines torments in hell which do continue euerlastingly after one like sort what will the damned and cursed creatures thinke when they shall there see themselues so vtterly abhorred and forsaken of Almighty God that he will not so much as with the remission of one small sin mitigate somewhat their torment so great shall the furie and rage be which they shal there conceiue against him that they shall neuer cease continually to curse and blaspheme his holy name Vnto all these paines there is also added the paine of that euerlasting consumer Section 4. The worme of cōscience Esay 66. verse 24. which is the worme of conscience whereof the holy Scripture makes oftentimes mention saying Their worme shall neuer die and their fire shall neuer be quenched This worme is a furious raging despight a bitter repentance without any fruit which the wicked shall haue alwayes in hell by calling to their remembrance the oportunitie and time they had whiles they were in this world to escape these most grieuous and horrible torments how they would not vse the benefit therof therfore whē the naiserable sinner seeth himself thus tormented and vexed on euery side and calleth to mind how manie dayes and years he hath spent idlely in vanities in pastime and pleasures and how oftentimes he was aduertised of this perill and how litle regard he toke thereof What shall he thinke what anguish sorrow shall there be in his he art hast thou not read in the Gospell Luke 13 that there shall be weeping and wayling and gnashing of teeth Now these others the like shall be the causes of this so great excessiue griefe For the better vnderstāding hereof being a matter of so great importāce I will giue thee a like exāple let vs cal to mind the history of Ioseph that great famin that cotinued for the space of seuen yeares in Egypt G●● 41. before which famine as the holy Scripture faith the abundance of corne in the other seuen yeares before was so great that it might be compared with the sands of the sea and exceeded all measure but after that these seuen yeares were ended there followed other seuen yeares of so great barrennesse and dearth that euen in the first yeare of thē all the people of Egypt came before king Pharao crying out and saying Giue vs somewhat to eate The king sent them to Ioseph who required of them all the mony they had gaue them for the same corne sufficient for that yeare when that was consumed and spent they returned the yeare following vnto Ioseph saying Giue vs to eate what wilt thou suffer vs to die for hunger in thy preseuce because wee haue no more money to giue thee to whom he aunswered deliuer vnto me al your heards of cattell and for the same I will giue you corne in exchange since you haue no more money left After that they had deliuered vnto him all their cattell and that their prouision was also spent they came againe to him the next yeare saying now thou knowest my Lord that we haue no money nor cattell to giue thee and there remaineth nothing else but onely our bodies and lands how canst thou suffer vs to die here for hunger in thy sight our persons and lands which are only left of all our substance are thine buy vs as slaues for the king giue vs if it be thy pleasure corn to sow the lād that ● lie not vntilled desolate wh● they are al dead that shold til inhabit it By this meane came Ioseph to buy al the land in Egypt for euery one sould his possessiōs by reason of the great famine which they suffred thi● is the history Now let vs take that out of it that serueth to out purpose tell me then I beseech thee what a griefe was it vnto these miserable mē when the● remēbred thēselues of those vi● plentifull yeres past saw we with how little money they might haue prouided corne afore hād yea and haue layd v● also wherby to inrich thēselue during their liues how iustly might they lament reprou● thēselues saying ô how vnfo● tunate are we ● might so easi● haue prouided for this dearth and would not if we had not ●in admonished of this before ●and then perhaps our neg●gence might haue had some excuse but being thereof ●duertised so long time before seeing with al what speed ●iligence the kings purueyours made to gather together lay vp all the corne they could get the which was sufficiēt to giue vs to vnderstād what we ought to haue done in that behalfe yet for all this to be so slothfull careles as we were what ex●use cā we haue O how much worth wold that be to vs at this present which thē we despised contēned what riches might ●ee now get with the same ●orne which we did thē wilful●y cast away But my good ●rethren all this is but as a shadow dow compared with the truth That famine in Egypt endure only for seuen yeares but thi● in hel shal indure euerlastingly that found a remedy though with great difficulty charge but for this there shall neuer ●ny remedy be foūd that might be redeemed with money an● cattell but this can neuer be redeemed with any maner of exchange this punishment cannot be pardoned this paine canot be exchanged this senten● cannot be reuoked to conclude those men of Egypt after that the seuen yeares we●ended began to lift vp their heads and to come out of their miserie but in hell whosoeur● once entreth to be punished shall neuer know againe what rest and ease meaneth Now if they then notwithstanding al● this were during that time so much afflicted and vexed in how much worse case shall he be that shall see himselfe in hell fire so horribly tormented and vexed and that without all hope of remedie O if thou knewest and wouldest consider how euery one of them shall there stand tormenting renting himselfe weeping and wayling and saying ô miserable and vnfortunate wretch that I am what times what oportunities haue I suffered to passe in vaine a time there was when with one sup of cold water I might haue purchased vnto my selfe a Crowne of glory wherefore did I not looke before me how was I blinded with things present how did I let passe those fruitfull yeares of such abundance and did not enrich my selfe yea if I ha● bene brought vp among in sidels and pagans and had be lecued that there had bene nothing