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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
friend_n	worth_n	worthy_a	write_v	29	3	4.7944	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A89032	Good company being a collection of various, serious, pious meditations; Christian experiences, sayings, sentences; useful for instruction, consolation and confirmation. / By John Melvin, M.A. preacher of the word at Udimer in Sussex.	Melvin, John, M.A.	1659 (1659)	Wing M1656; Thomason E2124_1; ESTC R210169	44,421	139

sheets are but Collections out of other mens Works well Sumpsi non surripui and as Varro speaks of Bees de re rust lib. 6. Minime maleficae nullius opus vellicantes faciunt deterius what wrong have I done Si apparet unde sumptum sit aliud tamen quam unde sumptum sit apparet And as nature doth with the aliment of our bodies so do I concoquere quod hausi dispose of what I take Thou findst fault with Barbarisme Tautologie Dialect Method being without Art Invention or Judgement I will confess thou canst not think worse of me then I do of my self Nasutus fis usque licet fis denique nasus Non potes in nugas dicere plura meas Ipse ego quam dixi Yet let me tell thee Primus vestrum non sum nec imus I must abide the censure for Pro captu lectoris ha bent sua fata libelli Opinion alters so in humane race She makes the fancie various as the face Some come as Bees to suck honey others as Spiders are for poison And as the Dutch-host saith in a surly manner Aliud tibi quaeras diversorium betake thy self to some other Book if this please not And to conclude I humbly submit my self to the truly judicious and thorowly learned appealing to their candor intreating them to lay aside the persons of Judges for that of friends this being but a Pamphlet whether the bulk or worth be considered And though in this learned and knowing age wherein so many things are written by those with whom lam not worthy to be named and that I might have spared my pains the world already being under such a glut of Books I am encouraged by a saying of Saint Austins That it is good and profitable to the Church of Christ that the same things be written of by diverse men in diverse books because those books which come to the view of some will not come to the sight of others and by this means the truths of Christ will bee the sooner and easier spread and propagated And therefore to testifie my love to the truth that the sun of righteousness may not go down in our daies I shall exhort all to stick close to the interest of Christ For Christians have agood Master and God's work is such as will improve and crown it self From my Cottage inVdimer near Rye in Sussex 1658. Macte Good Company BEING A Collection of various serious pious Meditations useful for instruction consolation and confirmation Assistente Deo Mart. 18. 1657. CENTURY I. 1. BAd times amongst Christians should have a Christian construction that the changes of the time make us not Changelings 2. It 's a glory to behold amongst men of several opinions one heart and one spirit of grace and heavenliness in them all 3. Bodily misery is to make us sensible of soul-misery God pulling the rope without to make the bell speak within 4. He that lifts his soul out of sin by halfs lifts and lets fall again sinking the soul lower and so the Divel a little stirred and not cast out takes stronger hold 5. So long as we are sinful we must be sorrowful and to be entertained at David's Ordinary is no dishonor his tears were his meat day and night 6 As salt water upon sweet wax extingusiheth the tapour So brackish tears upon the broken heart puts out the blaze of sin 7. Grief without cause is madness and without moderation is hopelesse 8. God is upon the giving hand when he gives a new heart 9. The tear which floweth from the soul of a faithful man out of the sense of evil purifieth the conscience and makes it quiet 10. Since mans fall it hath been his sin not to weep yet too much weeping may be turn'd into sin For tears as they are the effects of sin so they may be the actors of sin 11. Christ alone who wept in the Garden can plead our atonement and by the power of his Passion restore us to comfort 12. Sin brings in sorrow but let not sorrow bring in more sin by causing us to murmure or charge God foolishly 13. God never delivered any man for his repentance and yet never any in mercy without repentance either giving repentance before or with the deliverance 14. Better troubles then sin continue to have peace return and hearts unturned is worse then war 15. Better know five words of Scripture by our own experience then five thousand by anothers Exposition 16. Such is Gods Sovereignty over us that he may use us as he pleaseth and wee must be quiet under his hand 17. There 's no trusting to any creature comforts they be so uncertain 18. No man is without sin yet the afflictions of many are not for their fins 19. True faith is often assaulted but never finally overthrown 20. God's judgments are often secret but never unjust 21. It 's not safe judging of our spiritual estate by God's dealing in our outward estate 22. No condition so low but Gods hand can reach us and save us 23. A choice blessings to have a healthful mind in a healthful body and of the two it 's better that the body be sick then the soul 24. From one sin there 's but a short and easie passage to another 25. Men who are too greedy to know others are too carelesse to know themselvs 26. True reformation is in abhorring not absteining loathing not leaving of sin 27. A good trial of a sincere heart when there 's sweet proportion and godly harmony betwixt our actions justifying one another 28. That is a man's God and treasure wherewith his heart is most affected 29 And as affection shews the heart so affliction discovers both corruption and grace 30. In sin man's deceitful heart abstracts the pain from the pleasure and in godlinesse it severs the crown of glory from the crown of thorns 31. That any thing is coeternal with the Creator is repugnant both to Religion and Reason 32. God from all eternity had the same power of Creation which in the beginning he put in execution 33. No man hath cause to brag of himself his beginning was of nothing 34. Man was created to do the will of the Lord not his own 35. God's gradual proceeding in the creation should occasion man's deliberate meditation 36. The creature was onely made had by sin and proves bad to sinners 37. Man hath no cause to be proud being made of that element on which every creature may set his foot and lay his dung 38. Man's rebellion against the Creator is often punished with the creatures rebellion against himself 39. God is so far from allowing man to live lawlesse in any estate that he put him under law in the state of innocency 40. The fruit we reap of the tree of knowledge is not too much to desire forbidden knowledg 41. It 's the sign of a base mind to think he can win more credit by his garments then his graces for a sanctified soul is