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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
fire_n	earth_n	heaven_n	water_n	7,702	5	6.4487	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B02404	A song for this sad times; composed by one of the now many wanderers, when much separated from the society of men, and somewhat incommodat for other works to divert him from vain ravings, and for to humble and recreat his own spirit. / By Mr. Jo. Castairs, Minister of the Gospel at Glasgow, when under imprisonment.	Carstairs, John, fl. 1646-1660.	1691 (1691)	Wing C647; ESTC R170904	13,168	34

GOD to have departed so 49. And that His Fear before mine eyes as it should not have been Before me now both grief and wounds and most sad things are seen 50. About my neck wreath'd by His Hands Is my transgressions yoke So hard that strange it would not be though it my breath should choak 51. He bitter things against me writs and me possess doth make Of Youth and older age the sins for which my heart doth aike 52. In the light of His Countenance my secret sins sets he And with the fruit of mine own wayes fills heart backsliding me 53. My feet He putteth in the stocks and marketh narrowly My footsteps all and on my heels a vive print setteth He. 54. He also now alace hath made heavy on me my chain O! that his reconcilled Face might through these dark clouds shine 55. Prosperity I have forgot my soul 's from peace remov'd I tempted am to doubt sometimes if ever He me Lov'd 56. That sin by all this one World think is now much mortifi'd And that I am not to the World a little crucifi'd 57. But troubles great gone through may be and sin as dead still ly Which yet may after make the Man oh sin hath slain me cry 58. The thorniest cross not blest but proves like pricking of a pin Which will nor peirce let be his heart this Leviathan skin 59. Sharp pointed things in troubles mire spread under it may be And yet it not so much as groan or move it self you 'l see 60. At sling-stones darts spears of the cross it laughs and counts them stuble Unto this day it slain 〈◊〉 hurt was never by meer trouble 61. Nay it 's courag'd sometimes and grows more fierce when these it prick And were it in the LORDS own hand to spit it would not stike 62. As in our bodies humors that highly Malignant be All Cures not soveraign to reject and rage the more we see 63. For instance if we do call of this thruch grave and sad Within without long since and now too many may be had 64. The LORD may smile and hide His Face yea very angry be And yet we in our own hearts way go on most frowardly 65. No way there is with their mad hearts and desperat to deal Yet having seen our wayes that He may gloriously them heal 66. GODS People in the desart He many strange ways did kill Yet notwithstanding of all this they sinned ever still 67. Nay some there were GOD surely strook yet they transgress'd the more And sin is now as loath to die as then or long before 68. Sin may with Men to troubles great to Prison Bonds Exile Yea't may be to a scaffold go and yet live all the while 69. When I through fire and water both nay were I drag'd through hell Yet that sin liv'd in strength I could from sad experience tell 70. What are not souls of damned men tormented in extream Yet sins so high that now their work is GOD still to blasphem 71. Nothing in HEAVEN Earth or Hell will make sin cease to live But grace alone which still hath this for its prerogative 72. Since devils then find in HEAVEN and they with men in hell do so That nought but grace can sin subdue it 's high time we should know 73. For since I walkt without the Sun companion to Owls My troubles of that kind that it some friends affections cools 74. Most near Relations now from me He hath removed farr Former acquaintance also do at my affliction scare 75. When GOD on 's Peoples sins himself begins once to avenge Amongst their other tryalls then the world grows very strange 76. Their Cross tho' Christ for substance may by them also nicknam'd By friends which will them strangely tempt of it to be a sham'd 77. Though by Mens judgement to be judg'd for us its a small thing Since GOD or long all blacks and whites forth to the light will bring 78. But here to stoup I am constrain'd in midst of this complaint To tell that he 's both good and kind which makes my grief relent 79. Some times he makes me hope that all my sins He will forgive And though that I be thrust at sore yet shall not die but live 80. And were it known what I have done what I have also been It would be wondered at that I should ever be forgiven 81. But what 's in our eyes marvellous is nothing so in his Who in the pardoning of sin a GOD most matchless is 82. This art of favour and of grace shew'd me were it proclaim'd From misbeleif all humbled souls forever might be sham'd 83. He sometime also visits me and asks me how I doe Come faithfull friends he doth provide that looks me well unto 84. It s taught not talk'd of love that works most kindly simpathy That man so taught's the brother sure born for adversity 85. This friend at all times loves and is more kind then any other Yea he 's the very friend that sticks more close then any brother 86. For sin I am made to possess moneths of vanity And nights that be right wearisome appointed are for me 87. In bed with tossing I am fil'd till dawning of the day And then he mustereth up in view my sins in battell ray 88. Deaths terrours sometime me inclose his archers me surround And me my persecutors all Between the straits have found 89. He in his sore displeasure hath sad things unto me shew'd And sometimes against me are alace his witnesses renew'd 90. But righteousness to him belong and justly I 'm thus serv'd Yea punish'd far beneath truely what my sins have deserv'd 91 And that I 'm yet a living man out of the pit should I Complain of punishment tho great for mine iniquity 92 If I at last be sav'd and get my soul given for a prey Tho I through seas of trouble sweem I 'm well come too I say 93 Yet O He is a jealous GOD and on his children will For their inventions vengeance take though pardon them yet still 94. For instance here we may pitch one Moses the Man of GOD Who for 's escapes at Meribah with his foot might not trod 95. In Caanans Land yea though to see it he pray'd most earnestly Yet be content saith GOD and speak no more of this to me 96. By him as the choise instrument even at the toutch of 's rod Most dreadful signes and wonders wrought the great and mighty GOD. 97. For Israels sins full fourty dayes the LORD he did intreat Most earnestly even all the while did nether drink not eat 98. A Mediator typicall 'twixt them to deill did he On Sinai and so represent Christ the true one clearlie 99. The meekest man he was on earth my divine testimony In 's own concerns though in the LORDS even to hoofs peremptory 100. He faithfull was in all GODS house and in his sight found grace To be his none such favorite and speak