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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
grace_n	death_n	jesu_n	remember_v	16,159	5	15.2946	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A16730	Auspicante Iehoua Maries exercise.	Breton, Nicholas, 1545?-1626?	1597 (1597)	STC 3632; ESTC S109669	16,897	64

satisfied with any thing till I be filled with thy loue let mee weepe at thy graue that I may ioy in thy grace so mourne for thy absence that I may reioice in thy presence let mee not depart with thy disciples but abide with thine angells till in the pitie of my sorrow thou wilt shew me thy self when hearing from thee but Mary I may aunswere but master wherin my soule rauished with thy loue may deuote the seruice of my life but oh Lord how should I most wofull wretched wicked creature liueing in this vale of sorrow misery come to the comfortable hope to clime the hil of thi mercy a polluted vessell of the earth to behold the pure and bright Glory of the heauens but oh LORD doe I aske thee how haue thy holy word so cleere a lanthorne to my loue forgiue my sweet Christ my forgetfulnes of thy care and giue me grace to remember the rules of my comfort wherein I finde after storms faire weather is sweetest after troubles peace is most comfortable after death life is most ioy full sweet Iesu therefore that hast mortified mee with the stormes of this world comfort mee with the Sunne shine of thy Grace after the troublesome temptations of euill spirits giue mee peace in thy holy spirit and after the death of this my carnall Absence giue my soule life in the beeholding of thy presence giue mee patience to seeke thee in thy passion that I may reioyce to see thy Resurrection and that in the Merit of thy mercy receiuing the Comfort of my saluation I may with the tears of my hart witnesse the loue of my soule not desiring to liue but to Glorify thy holy name Amen A prayer vpon Magnificate not applying the history The fruict therof The ioy of the soule that is rauished with the loue of CHRIST ESscence of eternity in y e holy Maiesty of the Trinall vnity in the heauenly DEITY light of the Heauens day of the world beawty of vertue Glory of wisdome sweet IESV the true and only beegotten and beeloued sonne of the true and only incomprehensible euerliuing and euerlouing GOD my Creator in thy power my Redeemer in thy merite my Sanctifier in thy loue and my Sauiour in thy mercy how shall I clodde of claye slime of the earth dust and Ashes wretched worme wicked creature presume to the happinesse to haue a thought of such holinesse as to aspire so high a blessing as to touch the smallest tittle of the due title of thy glory yet sweet IESV seeing that y e dead Earth in hir Fruictes dooth praise thee shall my soule liue and in no seruice honor thee and since the liuing doe adore thee shall I dye and not praise thee God forbid but alas shall darcknesse speake of light Error of truth basenesse of Glory or a sinner of God when the Earth quakes the Sea Roares the Heauens shake and the Aungells tremble at thy presence and yet I see the Elements giue theyr natures The Sunne his heate the water hir coolenesse the Aire hir moisture and the Earth hir drinesse The trees theyr fruicts the flowers their sweets the Sea hir fishes the Earth hir gemmes the Ayre hir comfort the Fyre hir light the world hir welth in the seruice of hir Creatures in obedience to thy holy will to Glorify thy holy name and shall I of all the world most bound to thee in the whole world that haue tasted so much of thy goodnesse so much forget thy Greatnesse as in no work of thy Grace to humble my soule to thy Glory God forbid no my sweet God I humbly beeseech thee giue mee the patience of thy saincts the faith of thy Martiers the ioy of thine Angells and the wisedome of thy holy Spirit that I may suffer all things for thy loue I may die in thy seruice and so sing of thy goodnesse that in ringing out thy praises the heuens may reioyce to heere thy glory in the world oh my sweet CHRIST help mee to honour thee Inspire my heart with thy Loue tell mee what to thincke of thee teach mee what I shall say of thee learne mee how I shall praie vnto thee that in my Soule I may neuer cease to prayse thee O glory in the highest heauens highest glory of the heauens onely glory beefore the heauens bee thou glorified aboue the heuens oh that my hrat could dissolue into teares to wash the feete of thy fauour or that my soule in sighes could ascend a Sacrifice to thy mercy that in Soule and body I might shew some seruice of my loue which am worse then nothing till I bee something in thee but thou hast made mee as it hath pleased thee and canst make mee what it pleaseth thee let it therefore please thee I beeseech thee to make mee onely to please thee I am a creature of thy will worke mee onely to thy will draw mee to thee by thy holy spirit hold mee to thee by thy holy Loue and inspire mee with thy holy wisedome that loathing the worlde with the vanities thereof in thy onely mercy I may see the paradise of my soule that hauing with patience passed my purgatory in this life in the merit of thy mercy receiuing the comfort of my Saluation where the Angells of thy loue doe sing in Glory of thy grace my poore humble Soule may sing Amen to their Musique Gloria in excelcis Deo LONDON ¶ Printed by Thomas Este dwelling in Aldersgate streete 1597.

Auspicante Iehoua MARIES Exercise AT LONDON Printed by Thomas Este. 1597. TO THE RIGHT Honorable and vertuous Lady the Lady MARY Countesse of Penbrooke Health Happinesse and Heauen RIght Honorable my bounden Seruice in all duety remembred I haue often red and heard which I verelye beeleeue that in the Nature of Man there is no greater blot of disgrace then the vile note of ingratitude with which wicked humor fearing my long forgetfullnesse of your fauoure may make my heart in some suspition vnhappily to bee touched I haue presumed humbly to present vnto the faire eye of your discreete vertue a little fruite of my late and best labours VVherein your Ladyship may vouchsafe to see that although I cannot as I would finde meanes to discharge the care of my duty yet in my best thoughts I haue not forgotten you when in my daiely praiers vnto God I doe remember you and as I daiely and hourelye doe hartely pray vnto his holy Maiesty for his blessings to light vpon you so haue I set downe a few historicall prayers for you VVhich I hope you will so finde applyed to your comfort as shall giue you no discontentment in the presumption of my paines and so though I haue soncke my fortune in the worlde hauing only the light of vertue to leade my hope vnto Heauen with humble thancks for your as yet vndeserued fauour in continuall prayers to the God of all comfort for his prosperous preseruation of my good L. your Ladyship all yours with increase of honour on earth and eternall happinesse in Heauen I humbly take my leaue in bounden duty Your La sometime vnworthy Poet and now and euer poore Beadman Nich. Breton TO THE LADIES and Gentlewomen Reeders LAdies and Gentlewomen so it is that hauing passed some partes of the world beholding the stately pallaces of diuers princes after my returne into my natiue country finding the contemplatiue life the most neere vnto Angelicall nature and no contemplatiō so comfortable as the mercies of god the first fruicts whereof and the neuer ending Glory of the same are no where so apparant as in the historie of the holy scriptures where looking into the court of heauen I finde the world but a base corner when the King of Kinges with the brightnesse of his glorie doth rauish the soules of his beeloued and reading in this diuine historie of the excellencie of Gods loue and emong many of his elected of some women in his especiall fauour I could not but acquaint your good mindes with the memory of their names such matter touching them as you may and will I hope applie to your comfort I finde them blessed for their faith and beeloued for their humility two Iewels of the soule not cōmon to our humaine nature but as it is incorporated to christ but I will leaue the imperfect to Gods amendment the faithfull to his blessing and the elected to his loue beeseeching him so to blesse you with his grace in the feeling of his loue that in praier to his mercy yee may all liue to his glory that hauing Christ for your loue ye may liue in ioy for euer and so wishing you happinesse on earth heauen hereafter I rest in praier for yee all faithfull in Christ Iesu as I finde cause Your poore friend or seruant N. B. Maries Exercise A praier vpon the historie of Christ his comming vnto the house of Mary and Martha to raise Lazerus frō death Iohn 11. The fruict thereof The life of the dead the glorie of God MOst mercifull Lord my louing king euerliuing god sweet Iesu Christ my heauenly maister redeemer and Sauiour vouchsafe mee leaue poore and vnworthy vessell of thy mercy on the knees of my soule in the humilitie of my hart to trouble thy patience with the lowly petition of my afflicted spirit Lord whē to make knowen thy glory to the world y ● camest to Bethania vnto the house of Mary Martha to raise vp thy beloued lazarus frō death what was the speech of the poore women thy poore creatures vnto thy gratious holy Glorious maiestie but onely this Lord if thou hadst ben heere my brother Lazarus had not ben dead but now whatsoeuer thou askest of God he will giue it thee so my deere Lord let mee I besech thee saie vnto thee now that by the gratious mercifull comfortable operation of thy holy Spirit I feele see thee comming to the vnworthie house of my wounded soule LORD if thou hadst beene heere not my brother but my self had not so long beene dead dead I say in my sinnes though onely liue in thy mercy but oh Lord thy father hath giuen all power into thy hands therefore if it please thee thou canst raise me from this sorrowfull death of iniquity vnto the ioyfull life of thy grace but as Martha saide by hir brother Lazarus he had ben dead foure daies therefore did so stinck that he was vnfit to bee taken vp so Lord let mee saie of my selfe I haue beene dead not foure daies but many yeeres yea all the daies of my life and therefore feele my self so vnsauory and vnfit to presume beefore thy presence that I can rather say with Peter come not neere mee Lord for I am a polluted creature then thincke that euer thou didst loue mee and therefore art come to raise mee from this death yet sweet lord when I remember withall thy blessed aunswere and kinde chiding of the vnbeleeuing soule in these wordes said I not vnto thee if thou didst beleeue thou shouldst see the glorie of God it giueth me comfort in my feare to come humbly to thy mercy beseching thee so to strengthen my faith in thy incōprehencible power that I may rather reioice in feeling thy goodnes and seeing thy glorie then distrust in thy power or dispaire in thy mercie that by the vertue of thy power from the death of sinne being reuiued vnto grace in the true fruicts of repentaunce I may glorifie thy holy name Amen An other praier vpon the same historie Chapter and place the fruict therof Christ his cōmendation of the hearers of his word ALmightie God and most mercifull Lord my best maister and onely sweet Sauiour Iesus Christ when it pleased thee of thy mercy to enter into the house of Martha and Mary thy beloued vnworthy seruāts whiles Mary by the blessed inspiration of thy holy spirit was happely called and wholy enclined to the attentiue hearing ioyfull receiuing of thy comfortable preaching MARTHA not so filled in hart or rather rauished in soule with the vnspeakable sweetnes of thy holy spitit rather troubling hir head with an earnest care of worldly busines then bending hir hart with any zealous desire to the inward seeking of thy heauenly treasure complained to thee of hir sisters mistakē mistermed idlenes that sitting still at thy feete she had no more care to helpe her in hir work to prouide for thy welcom nor to attend