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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
heart_n	action_n	bring_v	good_a	2,497	5	4.1633	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A93737	Divine arithmetick illustrated in the right and exact numbering of our days, or, A discourse of the near and continued approaches of death unto every one whatsoever with the same inference and application which the apostle in I Cor. 15 makes from and alike subject, that the knowledge and consideration of these things should exhort people to be stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord / by Richard Stafford.	Stafford, Richard, 1663-1703.	1697 (1697)	Wing S5117; ESTC R42707	17,947	18

through Knowledge and distinct Apprehension of what all these things mean they think of them because they are forced to think of them sometimes but they do not set and apply their Hearts unto them And so it is the very same concerning the Numbring their Days their latter End and Death Who is there even amongst the Ignorant and Ungodly Multitude yea amongst those who are most Despisers and backward in Nature towards the Ministry of the Word that doth not know in the General how Old they are how that time and their Days do pass away and how that they must Dye at last No Body whatever can be Ignorant of or not know this because it is Sensible and Evident But it is too certain again that they do not for all this Apply their Hearts unto the true Wisdom That is To set about it in good Earnest for they do not Understand what it is nor Labour after it But they are Careless and Negligent as pertaining thereto Whereas Contrariwise the Righteous and Godly do so apply their Heart as to Mind nothing in Comparison thereto but they bring all things in Subordination to it Nothing remains in a Man but what he doth in the Service of God and for the Good of his own Soul All his other Acts and Actions perish in the using and if they do not come under that End they had much better be not done at all for whatever is of Sin or Evil that tends to sad Account or Loss at the last Day And that is Wisdom indeed and nothing else is so which procures Good unto a Man●s self and avoids Evil Which nothing doth so certainly effect according to his own Ordering and Establishment of things taking in things to come all one as things present as the Service of God and the keeping of his Commandments For if there was nothing else therein as there is Ten Thousand times more it appears much better and more excellent on this Respect That whereas all other things perish and pass away and so doth all the Glory of Man pass away as the Flower of the Grass But he that doth the Will of God abideth for ever Religion our Duty to God is not only throughout the Book of Proverbs but in several other places of Scripture called Wisdom as particularly in that saying of our Lord Jesus Christ Wisdom is Justified of her Children But also it may be Proved Evidenced and Demonstrated to be the only Real and true Wisdom and all Despising Neglect and Variation from it to be the greatest Folly To shew or treat of this particularly and at large would be somewhat besides the present intended Subject But as certain of the Ancients defined the sum and whole of Wisdom to be a Meditation of Death and that upon this or the like Reason because it would Influence a Man's whole Life and Conversation unto Wise and Good things it being Reasonable to do those things whilst Living which one shall wish he had done when he comes to Die And also nothing is so much worthy the Concern and Regard of a Wise Man as Death is It is every ones Prudence to keep off and provide against all Evils whatsoever and if the World calls them Wise who are so much busied about the getting of Riches or Honour about the attaining of every little seeming Good and avoiding every little Evil that may befal them much more will he who is Wise unto Salvation be so as to the greatest and most enduring things which are to come and will quickly be Manifested before us with open Face If every one is Concerned how it goes with him now much more should a Rational and Understanding Man look about him both take thought and also take care what shall become of him after this vain short and uncertain Life is Ended Truly this was my manner of doing from my tender Years and from my Youth up As it is written That Isaac went out to Meditate in the Field at Even-tide So I can Remember that when I was but a School-Boy and so when I went first to the University whereas others of my Fellows and Cotemporaries were all for Play and Company I would rather choose to Walk all alone by my self and in some Solitary place Meditate partly upon the Works of God's Creation All which being then new and fresh to my Mind did Seem to me in the Phrase of the same Isaac To be as the Smell of a Field which the Lord bath Blessed For I did then perceive Sweetness Beauty and Delight in them though I do now confess that having beheld them so very often I have since lost that just Wonder and Astonishment which I had formerly in beholding them For it hath Diminished and I have in a manner Ceased to be Affected therewith There is so much in Custom and Repetition even of the most Marvellons things that by continual seeing them they cease to be Marvellous not but that they are so nevertheless in themselves But as the Edge grows dull by often cutting so through Humane Infirmity and Weakness we become dull of Hearing and dull of Seeing and dull of Understanding when it is continually upon the same Object But as the same Isaac could say Behold now I am Old I know not the Day of my Death Gen. ●7 2. So when I was but very Young this was the Subject that I did most Think and Meditate on though I was then Young Yet I did not know the Day of my Death for so much was Sensible and Evident to me and I had so much Understanding as then to Apprehend that Young Boys were Liable unto Death and several of them did Die all one as People of Riper or Declining Years or in Old Age. I then knew well enough of the suddenness of Death and that we always carry the Root of the matter about us even those Seeds of Mortality and Corruption we being but like brittle Glass which can be dashed or broken in a Moment Yea when I was a Child I Spake as a Child I Understood as a Child I Thought as a Child I could even then Discern that the longest Day would have a Night that though this Life which is as a Vapour and continueth not should be extended up to Youth Manhood I am now passing this Second Stage of Life Declining Years or Old Age yet at last an end would come the end is come Ezek. 7. 4. And now I can Reason this as a Man that nothing is long which hath an End But now I call to Remembrance my Thought and Searching of Heart which was in the Days of Old the Years of Ancient Times when I was but a Stripling I did then commune with mine own Heart and my Spirit made diligent Search What will become of me after that this Body which now I carry about me is laid in the Earth For I did find even then that my Spirit would Abide and Liv● elsewhere as truly God hath shewn this unto me even