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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
grace_n	mortal_a	sin_n	venial_a	2,997	5	13.1458	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A28388	Seven exercises or meditations by which a man may be, in a short time, established in the fear of God, and a good and holy life / by Lewis Blosius ...	Blois, Louis de, 1506-1566.	1686 (1686)	Wing B3204; ESTC R33231	23,898	150

hast done Him an infinite affront and after a certain manner hast Crucified CHRIST again Who notwithstanding has alwayes most bountifully done thee good and preserved thee Pondering well this thy pride perversness and ingratitude humble cast down and put thy self beneath all the men in the world yea beneath all Creatures esteeming thy self the vilest of all and unworthy whom the earth should sustain but worthy whom hell should swallow up unless the Mercy of God hindered 5. Ponder how much God detests and punishes Sins so that by His terrible and just Judgment He has damned eternally very many for one single Mortal Sin as is manifest in Lucifer and in the Angels who consented to him It is manifest also how much God was offended by one only Transgression which our First Parents Adam and Eve committed Now What ought to have been done with thee who hast so often offended the most holy King of Glory Deeply considering these things accuse and judge thy self lest afterwards thou be judged by our Lord. Admire greatly that all the Elements and all Creatures have not risen up against thee to revenge upon thee the Injury of their Maker Be astonished that the Earth has not opened it self to swallow thee up alive and has not transmitted thee into Hell how the holy Angels also have been able to endure thy iniquities 6. Finally grieving with thy very Soul or desiring to have Grief and eyeing attentively JESUS crucified and His bloody Wounds cry out from thy heart and say these or such like words Alas O most pittiful Lord Jesus Christ my Creator Redeemer and Benefactor I most unhappy have so and so offended Thee and contemned Thee those and those Iniquities I have so often repeated I have been so disobedient and ungrateful unto thee But pardon me I beseech thee for thy immense Goodness and Charity with which thou didst sustain for me thy most bitter Passion When thou shalt with humility have said these or such like words by no means despair but resuming a full and amorous Confidence in God purpose firmly by his Grace to mend thy self and to avoid as much as shall be in thy power all Sins not only Mortal but also Venial and the least Meditation II. Of Death Division 1. TO think on Death before-hand and diligently to prepare ones self for it is true wisdom And thou shalt be happy if alwayes and every where expecting the Hour of Death thou shalt so watch as thou permittest nothing to reside in thy Conscience which might cause thee anxiously to fear although thou wert just now to dye It shall be well with thee if considering how vile thy Flesh shall be thou art not proud nor dost not follow Carnal delights For How miserable I pray thee is thy Flesh in this Life How frail how full of Filthes which continually flow with an intollerable stench through all the passages although outwardly it appear fair and neat So that thy Body at present may rightly be called a sack of dung and all kind of filth but shortly it shall be an abject corrupted and putrid Carcass and Worms meat 2. Think therefore that thou must shortly dye yea perhaps to day and must go hence into another unknown region and must leave here riches glory honours pomps pleasures friends vanities and all other transitory and perishable things which thou inordinatly lovest or in which thou art now delighted And indeed every day every hour and every moment thou approaches near thy death and the last hour of thy life Therefore compose thy self as if thou wert now to dy Think thy countenance to wax pale thy mouth to be contracted thy sight to be darkned thy breath to fail and the sweat of death to be now present which testifies nature to be overcome 3. Think I pray thee how great a trembling and horror will then seize thee and how much thou wilt grieve if thou shalt be unprovided because thou hast not vigorously mended thy self O how short will the time of thy life seem to thee For it will appear like a dream and a shadow when thou shalt reflect that eternity is at hand which shall never end Perhaps thou wilt desire one little hour to correct thy self but it is uncertain whether thou shalt obtain it What will thy pride profit thee what will it profit thee if thou shalt now have followed thy own will and the vitious passions of thy mind O how sad wilt thou be when thou shalt have lost thy precious time or spent it unprofitably How wilt thou be vexed that thou hast lived so wickedly negligently remissly That thou wast so greedy to see hear and talk vain things That thou hast not more manfully contemned the Allurements of thy Flesh and Senses that thou hast been so slack to the mortification of thy self and to follow true humility and charity and to gather together all spiritual good things Now therefore whilst thou hast yet Time amend thy self and study to live better and more holily 4. Think when thy Soul galled with the sharp prickings of death shall cease to see the light of this world and shall begin with its inward eyes to behold the state of the other Life and those things which before it would not believe Cruel Beasts and horrible troops of Devils will present themselves by divers means endeavouring to ensnare thy same Soul and exspecting it to make a prey of it if it shall have departed here without true Repentance It is therefore good and healthful to Salvation now to provide for ones self to cut off bad and unprofitable desires to leave vain and worldly things and to convert ones self wholly to love and seek after Celestial and Eternal Goods 5. Consider how that thy Soul being gone out of thy Body it shall immediately be presented before the Tribunal of a Terrible Judge who cannot judge thee otherwise than thy works deserve seeing that He is the Supreme and immutable Justice In this particular Judgment thou must render a most exact Account of thy whole Life of all thy Time spent unprofitably of all thy Bad Works of all the Good thou hast omitted of all thy Idle Words and of all thy Thoughts and inordinate Affections The Devils shall propose all thy sins and all thy negligences which have not been blotted out by Repentance Finally a Sentence shall be pronounced by the Just Judge concerning thy Soul which shall never be recalled for all eternity For where the Tree shall fall whether towards the South or towards the North there it shall for ever remain and shall belong either to eternal Salvation or Damnation 6. It is profitable for thee often to think on these things that thou may'st with diligence Correct thy Life and make thy Peace with God before that thou shalt be called hence This thou wilt do if thou be'est wise For our Lord God is very merciful and receives most courteously all those who timely return unto Him by true Repentance Because He

perpetual Blaspheming there the Damned for the sharpness of their Pains bite their Tongues and Curse the King of Heaven 2. Consider that there is such Fire and Heat and such Cold as all fire and heat and all cold of this world in comparison of that Heat and Cold is nothing There they are forced to pass from intolerable Heat to intolerable Cold. There they are most cruelly boyled and roasted They feel most bitter Torments in every Sense and in every Member Their Sight continually beholds dreadful horrid Faces of Devils Their Hearing continually perceives the Lamentations sad Cryes of those who continually cry out Wo wo wo Why were we created and made Cursed be God who made us This is the sad Song which is there continually sung Imagin there to be Vessels full of all filthiness to wit Toads Snakes putrid Flesh of dead Carcasses and the filth and dung of Jaques's mix'd together And the Wicked to be drowned over head and ears in those Vessels and against their will to smell touch eat and drink that stinking Mixture Thou canst imagin nothing so abominable and grievous but there are there things more abominable grievous There every one is punished most in those Members by which he has most sinned 3. There the Devils insult over those whom they torment and whom they have and shall for ever have for their companions saying Where are now your Riches where your Honour where your Glory where your Pleasure where your Delights where your Vanities Who is so hard and mad as not to conceive a profitable Fear from the consideration of these things And as not to amend his wicked and negligent Life Assuredly whatsoever can torment whatsoever can cause horror and abomination shall for ever be seen heard and felt in Hell 4. Consider moreover the inward punishment of the damned for they shall be for all eternity deprived of the sight of God They shall never see that blessed City the celestial Jerusalem God has cast them away and they are delivered to everlasting oblivion nor will He ever have mercy on them Rom. 1. For they are vessels of wrath in which the rigor and the severity of the Divine Justice is manifested The Worm of their Conscience shall never dye but shall without ceasing gnaw and accuse them for that for so short a joy and so momentary a pleasure they have lost eternal Happiness and found everlasting Punishments O Ponder ponder diligently this Eternity of Pains After a thousand thousands of Years their End shall be no nearer because they shall never end but in Hell there shall be a perpetual presence of all Evils and a perpetual absence of all Comfort 5. Lo such a Calamity is the Reward of those who fear not God and continue in their Sins without true Repentance until their Departure out of this Life For there being in Mortal Sin an infinite enormity by reason of the contempt of the immense God Such a Sin if it be not blotted out by Repentance shall be punished with endless Pain But thou who art yet in the time of Grace leaving thy Vices and Vanities without delay return to the Lord thy God and He will receive thee cleanse and heal thee Fear Him serve Him love Him with all thy heart For so thou shalt escape those Torments which never are ended never Intermitted never diminished 6. If thou art entred into Religion thou must with all thy might tend to perfection thou must lead an humble pure and signally Holy Life But if thou hast a secular Heart and Religion and livest negligently and shall end thy life in such negligence thou shalt be thrust down into Hell or certainly shalt endure such sharp horrid and long pains in Purgatory as if thou couldest now foresee them thou wouldest dye for fear and horror of them Wherefore now if thou beest wise thou wilt take diligent care for the salvation of thy Soul Meditation V. Of the Life and Passion of Christ Division 1. THe sin of the world could not have been taken away unless the Creator of the world assuming human flesh had abolished it with his own blood Ponder therefore how our Lord Jesus the Son of the living God the most high God for the excessive love with which he loved us would be conceived by the holy Ghost and be made man in the womb of the B. Virgin Mary that thou loaded with thine Iniquities mightest not descend down into Hell Thy God was made thy Brother He was born a tender little Infant in a poor Stable He was wrapped in vile clouts He was laid in the Crib of Beasts He lay upon hay and straw He was suckled by the breasts of a very poor Mother He was Circumcised the eighth day from his Nativity and shed his Blood Then he fled into Aegypt And so in his sacred Infancy and Childhood he sustained very many necessities and grievances with Mary and Joseph 2. The sweet Jesus when he was about thirty years old humbly received Baptism from his servant John He fasted was tempted watched preached was wearied with journeys and labours He endured with a most meek heart three and thirty years hunger thirst cold heat and innumerable grievances and innumerable persecutions and at length went to Hierusalem there to dy for thee 3. The sweet Jesus when upon his knees he had humbly washed the feet of his Disciples and had wiped them with a Towell and had instituted the Venerable Sacrament of the Eucharist he went unto Mount Olivet O how grievous how unworthy how sharp things did he suffer for thee For he the Lord of highest Majesty would tremble and be sad even unto death He would be bathed in a sweat of blood by reason of the vehemency of the anguishes with which he was oppressed He resused not to be kis't by the Traytor Judas and as a Theif by wicked men to be ignominiously apprehended bound led away dragged pushed smitten 4. The sweet Jesus the Lord of Lords vouchsafed to receive a cruel buffet from a servant of the high-Priest He vouchsafed to be unjustly condemned to be defiled with spittle to be beaten with blows and buffets to be reproachfully blinded mocked and scoffed The most meek Lamb did not in the mean while complain nor turn away his face from those who spat on him but teaching us patience and exhibiting himself a pattern of patience he was dumb and opened not his mouth Isa 53. He endured with silence revilings contumelies disgraces and many injuries 5. Behold sweet Jesus the Holy of Holies bespatred with spittle and bound is lead to Pilate and before him falsely accused but he humbly holds his peace He is sent by Pilate to Herod and is despised by Herod and clothed in a white and ridiculous coat as a fool and so is sent back to Pilate He is stripped in the Pretors Hall and inhumanely tyed to a Pillar and most cruelly torn with whipps His Virginal and delicate flesh was all deformed with bruises