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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
hand_n	place_n	right_a	sit_v	9,908	5	7.8184	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A62015	To the nobility and gentry lawyers and physicians, sea-men & trades-men, magistrates subordinate and supreme, &c. By Tho. Swadlin D.D.	Swadlin, Thomas, 1600-1670.	1658 (1658)	Wing S6229A; ESTC R220646	17,046	127

whose blessed name and words I further call upon thee c. At thy Return O most mercifull God! That many have miscarried in their travails I hear and know some in their purses some in their lives that I am returned safe in both and injured in neither I feel and know and know no cause of it but thy providence and therefore know my self bound to acknowledge the duty of my thankfulnesse to that providence of thine which I doe and ever will blesse not onely for this but for all the preservations of my whole life and consecrate the remainder of my whole life to thy service wherein I beseech thee so to blesse me in my whole race upon earth that I may blesse thee in the long race of eternity in heaven for his sake who took his journey from heaven to earth and returned again from earth to heaven to prepare a place for me and now sits at thy right hand to intercede for me Jesus Christ my Saviour Amen In whose blessed name and words c. The Travailers Character HE is an honest and a wise man h● never goes on foot but when he wants an horse nor doth he ever ride but when he hath businesse he spends like himself little or much nor doth he make much account of his expences for he laies up that before he finds or is forc'd occasions to use it if he travails with safety and returns without danger his first salutation is Gratias De● The Soldier SOme Phanaticks in the world have questioned the lawfulness of my calling But I have Gods word for my warrant and Gods servants for my pattern Gods word sayes when thou goest out with thin● Host Deut. 23 or when thou goest to war and that very word when doth suppose it and sure I am Gods word doth not suppose any thing which is unlawful As Gods word so his servants too warrant it yea and his choicest servants Abraham Joshua Debora Sampson Gideon David they were all warriers they waged war some of them offensive some of them defensive and therefore I need not doubt of the lawfulness of my Calling all the doubt is in resolving these Cases of Conscience Whether I am lawfully called to this lawful Calling How I may be assured that I am lawfully called and may with a safe conscience take up and make use of these weapons And that being done I thus addresse my self to Jehovah the Lord of Hosts O Almighty God! who hast styled thy self a man of war and hast now called me to be a man of war I beseech thee teach my Hands to War and my Fingers to Fight give unto me and to every one of my Fellow Soldiers the strength of Sampson the courage of David and the wisedome of Solomon that we may undermine all the attempts and overthrow all the plots and overcome all the Gyants that fight against thy Truth yet even in the heat of Fury give us pity that we may rather spare than spoile and while we gird our selves with Armour to resist these Enemies of ours doe thou put upon us thy whole armour that we may resist that enemy of mankind and quench all the fiery darts of the Devil goe thou forth with us against them that are come without thee against us animate our and abate their courage confound their devices but convert their souls and because death is before our eyes give us grace to be mindful of it and prepared for it that while we fight against them we may also fight the good fight against all our ghostly enemies and receive a Crown of righteousnesse Take our Bodies into thy protection and defend us take out souls into thy tuition and sanctifie us that though we return not home we may be received into heaven through Jesus Christ Amen In whose most blessed name c. The Soldiers Character HE is the Father of Peace and Mother of Patience his subtilty begets peace his magnanimity nurses patiences in both he is the founder and supporter of Kingdomes If he be conquered he sowes patience if he conquer he reaps peace in That he founds in This he supports the Kingdome if he be able to second the peace of victory with the grace of humility he is the breeder of all virtue and the bane of all vice for then good lawes are put in execution and bad men in the house of correction so necessary he is in peace that else we lose it so necessary in war that else we have no hope of it so necessary in both that no Kingdome can subsist long without him if you chance to see him you see a head quick of wit a tongue full of eloquence an eye of vigilance a face of curtesie a hand of bounty and an heart of valour and for his good parts say God blesse him so that he remember and practise his lesson Neminem concutit eneque calumniamini The Trades-mans Devotion THis Calling is of a large extent For the extent of Trades is very large so many several Trades as there are so many several callings to those Trades there are too The best marke whereby to know the lawfulness of a Trade is To find a ground for it in Scripture or if humane Inventions have found out some Trades that the Scipture gives no ground for yet if the Scripture forbids it not the Trade is lawfull and a man may lawfully make use of it v.g. There is no mention made of a Chimney-sweeper in the word of God yet though there were nothing conducing to this Trade This Trade notwithstanding is lawfull because it is not forbidden whereas on the other side The Trades of Usury and Pawn taking are directly forbidden in the word of God especially the latter The taking of such things to pawn as are necessary for livelyhood and subsistence But I thank God my Profession is not forbidden for I am a Merchant I am a Mercer I am a Taylor I am a Carpenter c. and therefore I may safely use it and that I may use it honestly I pray O God! who for the sin of Adam hast appointed that every man shall earn his living by the sweat of his brows and shall eate his bread in the sweat of his face and hast also forbidden that man to eate who will not work and to this end hast ordained several Callings to some whereof every particular man should apply himself whereby with thy blessing he should provide for his family and posterity and amongst all hast called me to this Trade and course of life _____ and herein hast promised to bless my honest labours and endeavors I beseech thee that I may comfortably and contentedly undergoe it without grudging thereat as at some uneasie burthen driving not onely at mine own private gain but also at the publique good not seeking Riches by wronging of others by false weights short measures or deceitfull work Be such thoughts and things ô God! ever far from me but onely seeking a competency and honest