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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
friend_n	affection_n	good_a	great_a	824	5	2.2463	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B12393	Certaine godly and verie comfortable letters, full of christian consolation. Written by M. Ed Dering vnto sondry of his friends. And nowe published, for the proffite of the Church of God	Dering, Edward, 1540?-1576.	1590 (1590)	STC 6682.5; ESTC S116582	40,526	65

CERTAINE GODLY AND VERIE comfortable Letters full of christian consolation Written by M. Ed Dering vnto sondry of his friends And nowe published for the proffite of the Church of God 2. THES 1.15 Stande fast keepe the instructions which ye haue bine taught either by worde or by our Epistles NEWLY IMPRINTED NON VI SED VIRTUTE Mr Derings wordes spoken on his death-bed at Tokye The 26. of Iune 1576. GOd forgeue me my negligence that I haue not vsed the pretious giftes of God laid vp within me more to his glory in my time Yet I thanke God that I haue not vsed them in vaine glorie or to please the vaine affections of men After my death my enimies will become my friendes except some that knowe me not and those which haue no feelinge of the trueth For I haue faithfully serued the Lorde and my Prince in a good conscience A Preacher saying vnto him It is for thee a great blessing that thou shal depart in peace and goe from many troubles that our brethren shall beare and see He answered I shall goe from many troubles and leaue many behinde me If the Lord hath appointed that his saintes shall suppe togither why goe I not to them but if there bee any doubting or staggering our Lord reueale the trueth Hearing one say He hoped that in his silence his minde was neuertheles exercised in godly meditation He answered As a poore frayle man and the least of all the elect saints yet beleeuing and lookinge on Christ my saluation We shall all meete togither with the sweet harmony of the Lord of hostes What a cloude of witnesses is heere yet a little while and we shall see our hope We haue ouertaken the endes of the worlde which is come vppon vs and we shall quicklie receyue the ende of our hope which we have waited for Afflictions sicknes and payne are but the worlds portions from the Lord. It is not to begin for a moment but to continewe in the feare of God all our dayes for in the twinckling of an eye we shal be taken away Dallie not with the worde of God make not light of it Blessed are they that vse their tongues well when they haue it E. D. An Epistle of M. Ed. Deringe before his 24 Lecture on the Hebrues which he preached the 6. of December 1572. And gaue for a newe yeres gifte to the godlie in London elsewhere To his verie louing friend Maister M. F. THe outward afflictions and manyfold troubles of a great nomber of gods childrie whose trauel labour frō day to day J had stil in experience and the inward feelling of many woūded spirits whose wofull sighes and bitter mournings J beheld in other and had tried in my selfe it made me very desirous to seeke for remedies to stoppe the complaints of so grieuous cryings and to prepare our heartes in a strong defence that the fierie dartes of the Diuell might not wound vs. Vpon this occasion when J had to expound that place of the Apostle full of notable comfort That Christe in the dayes of his fleshe offered vp prayers and supplications to him that was able to saue him from death with strong cryings and teares and was deliuered from the thinges hee feared J taried the longer in that matter declared more at large what boldnes and assurance of hope was offered heere vnto all that should obey the worde Which whē I had done as God gaue me vtterance the poore in spirit to whom J applyed my selfe one or two required mee to sette it downe in writinge that it might be profitable to manie which was comfortable to them I durst not reiect such a good request but though sometime I deferred it yee I neuer forgot it till I had written all as I was required Which when J had done I purposed then with my selfe to make it yet more common and set it abroad in print knowing assuredly where God would giue it increase it should bring forth the fruite of consolation that we might stande vpright in the day of euill Thus hauing performed both the request of others myne owne desire and the time fallinge out with the beginning of a newe yeare I thought it not amisse to offer my labour to you who I knowe would well accept of it as a newe yeares gift though of no great price yet of great good will and though easilie obteyned yet not little to bee esteemed Therefore my deare brother whom J loue in Christ and reuerence in the worlde as many wayes J haue cause so I offer it vnto you The Lorde for his mercies sake worke his owne good pleasure that J may haue of you the fruite that J desire and you the grace that ye stande in neede of that as God hath greatly blessed you and made you abound in many graces to the glorie of his name the comforte of your friends and the benefite of his people so your ioye that it might be made perfect you might also abounde in this to haue a strong faith against the daye of triall which God of his mercie will surelie graunte vnto you and finishe the good worke that hee hath begunne Though J loue not to speake faire for flatterie and deceytful prayses I see what mischief they breed yet J feare not to beare you witnes of your well doing the spirit of God hath planted humilitie more deepe in your breast then that pride and arrogancie can pull it out And in deede the better you are the more effectuall you doe see your owne vnworthinesse that all your righteousnes is as a defiled clothe and the more you approche vnto God the more you abhorre your selfe knowe that in our fleshe there dwelleth no goodnesse Abraham our father Job Esaie and many other men of excellent vertue in the sight of God they haue beene all astonished to see howe their righteousnes hath bene scattered away as the cloudes of the heauens Paule cryeth out O wretched man that I am who shall deliuer me from this body of death But because wee haue an enimie that spareth not to displaye all our corruptions before our eyes to the ende he might make vs dispaire therefore we may be bold to the strengthning of our hope to set before vs againe the spirituall graces that worke within vs to assure our selues that we bee borne of God So our Sauiour Christ praysed manie that beleeued on him so did the Apostles so may we and our heauenly Father will ratifie and confirme our wordes when we speake the trueth accordinge to the measure of faith that euery one hath receyued So Saint Iohn biddeth vs all be bolde and not bee deceyued He that doeth the things that are righteous him selfe is righteous and like vnto Christ in whom hee is sanctified So may J say vnto you the grace of GOD hath wrought happily in you in these yeres conditiō of life that so vnfainedly you haue sought the Lorde It can not be of your selfe who are