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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
knowledge_n	faith_n	grace_n	temperance_n	1,784	5	11.4380	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A65357	The godly mans delight or A family guide to pietie containing directions to a holy life with certain Christian dialogues also prayers & meditations upon severall occasions.	T. W.	1679 (1679)	Wing W121; ESTC R219275	84,760	225

Righteous that we may die the Death of the Righteous Deliver us from a vain and darkned Understanding and from working Uncleanness with greediness Enable us to put off as touching our Conversation the Old man and put on the New Man being renewed in the spirit of our Minds that we may be created after the Image of God in Righteousness and true Holiness Prepare us for another Life and let not one day pass over our heads without some serious meditations of Eternity how soon it may be we cannot tell ere we may launch into its Ocean that bankless Sea and then woe unto us if our Ship be unsound Let these thoughts make us careful about our Souls Help us to use the things of this transitory World but as journey necessaries to a permanent and lasting World but let us be truly desirous of the permanent Riches with an insatiable desire Make us wise Merchants for that durable riches that none can rob us of Now Lord pardon our sins and accept our services in Chrst to whom with thee and thy Eternal Spirit be praises Amen A Prayer for Wednesday Evening GLorious and most Righteous Lord for ever to be admired of all thy Saints thy ways are ways of love and mercy thy daily care to thy people do attest it we are wonderfully engaged to offer thee praise both with hearts and voices Accept of our thanks and praises as well as prayers for an Evening Sacrifice and take charge of us we beseech thee Let us not be disappointed of our hopes Let not Sin nor Sathan molest us in the comforts of this night Let not the sins of the day past provoke thee or prevent us in thy favours to us-ward Let us rest in the assurance of thy favour sealed by thy good Spirit upon our hearts that we be not left comfortless and grant that though our Bodily Eyes be closed with sleep yet let our Spiritual Eyes to wit the Eyes of Faith continually watch Let thy work of Grace begun in us be daily strengthened Let the power of sin decay but the power of Grace revive Enable us to rise with Christ and to seek those things that are above that we may glorifie thee here by finishing the race that is set before us Keep us from abusing or slighting thy Mercies and Judgemnts and watch over us for good Let not our self-flattery prove to us soul-mockery Make us faithful rather than formal in all our duties towards thee Deliver us from worldly mindedness the great enemy to real holiness Give us the grace of humiliation for sin and the spirit of reformation from sin O suffer us not to sin against Mercy lest we lose our best friend O let the service of God which is perfect freedom free us from the service of sin Now unto him that is able to keep us be Glory for ever Amen A Prayer for Thursday Morning HOly and Eternal Glorious Lord God infinite are thy Mercies to us ward thy patience and long suffering are exceeding great in regard of our continued provocations even in our thoughts which are only evil and that continually our words also have been stout against thee nothing but infinite mercy could forbear such wretches blessed be our God that hath laid help yea our help upon one that is mighty to save all those that come unto God by him O whither should such sinners go but to him that hath the Keys of Heli and Death that calls to the weary and heavy laden to come to him and accept of ease and rest O Lord draw us that we may run after thee that we may run the way everlasting the way of thy commands and be followers of that which is good hating the Garments spotted by the Flesh building up our selves in the most holy faith Enable us O our God with all diligence to make our Calling and Election sure adding to our Faith Vertue and to Vertue Knowledge and to Knowledge Temperance and to Temperance Patience and to Patience Godliness and to Godliness Brotherly Kindness and to Brotherly Kindness Charity O let these Graces shine and abound in us that we may neither be barren nor unfruitful Give us precious faith in our Lord Jesus who hath washed and quickned us Make us the compleat Workman-ship of Christ Jesus created unto good works Sanctifie us through thy Truth thy Word is Truth and give us that Spirit that may guid us into all Truth Lead us this day and all the rest of our lives by thy Grace and at last bring us to Glory through Christ Jesus our Lord. Amen A Prayer for Thursday Evening MOst gracious Lord thou art the great preserver of those that trust in thy Promises and observe thy Precepts Blessed be thy holy Name for this day past that thou hast kept us from the dangers of this day incident to us Blessed be thou Lord for all thy Providence and Provision for Health and Strength Food and Rayment for the present Comforts of this Life and the hopes of a future Let all our sins be pardoned for the sake of our Lord who only is worthy O vouchsafe to continue thy goodness this night that we may receive that refreshment that is for tryed ones Watch over us for good and let a quiet and peaceable rest fit us for our Calling according to thy will Help us to live by Faith and to walk by Faith that we may have that Peace that none can take away Let us die daily to sin and be strengthened daily with all might in the inward man Help us to consider the effects of sin is shame and the wages of sin is death Give us the comforts of our being in Christ that we may beassured that we are freed from condemnation by our christian conversation who walk not after the Flesh but after the Spirit O let thy Spirit so lead us that it may be our testimony that we are thine Let all that we suffer here be an evidence of that Glory to be revealed in us Let all things work together for the best Let neither tribulation or distress or persecution or famine or nakedness or peril or sword be able to prevail against us so as to seperate us from the love of God which is in Christ for whom we bless thee and to whom be praises for ever Amen A Prayer for Fryday Morning MOst Holy and most gracious Lord thou art near unto all that call upon thee in truth and fulfillest the desires of those that fear thee Thou art good and dost good thy mercies are over all thy works Blessed be the Lord for his refreshing mercies of the last night Day unto day and night unto night shew forth thy tenderness over us by thy providences and provision O deliver us from all sins and evil for thine is the Kingdom the Power and the Glory Help us to live blameless with those with whom we have to deal O give us wisdom to remember our later end Let us remember the approaching of

strength is enfeebled therefore do mine inordinate affections oft-times overcharge me If I turn me to pray I cannot for the hardness of mine heart the contrite spirit the melting heart the mourning eye is gone from me If I seek comfort in thy Word I find it not I am troubled also with doubtings armies of fears and sorrows are against me and all through weakness of my faith partly for want of that light that should inform me my infidelity abuseth me to think that thy visitations come from thine anger and causeth me to answer the Reproofs of my conscience as if they were just occasions and partly for want of that apprehending and applying Vertue that is in Faith I am spoiled of the comfort that thy Word hath offered unto me Therefore O Lord have pity on the desolate state of my Soul Christ Let not my beloved the considerations of thy wants defects and imperfections discourage thee Remember that the measure of Grace which I have given to my Saints upon Earth I have called it an Earnest-penny and First-fruits of the Spirit to tell them that whatever grace they have gotten it is nothing in comparison of that which they will get Seek not that therefore in the Earth which I have resolved to give thee no wayes till thou come to Heaven thy Blessedness in this Life stands not in a satiety and full enjoying of that which thou would'st have but in an hungring and thirsting for it If I had pronounced them Blessed that are now satisfied with Righteousness then thy wants might most justly discourage thee But I called them Blessed that hunger If therefore thou dost follow after Sanctification and art weary with the servitude of thy sin if thou dost seek comfort in my Word and can find none of these at the first as thou wouldest yet remember I have promised to fulfil the desires of them that feer me If it greive thee that thou canst not pray at all times alike remember that my Children are oftentimes evil judges of themselves and that their Estate is not alwayes to be measured according to their feeling for many Prayers may be made in them to me by my Spirit with sighs and sobs which they themselves are not able to express yet are known to me and are like loud crying Voices which I cannot but answer Soul O my Soul content thee with the Lords dispensations and doubt not but all thy wants and holy desires shall all be satisfied Remember how careful thy Saviour was of those People that followed him I have Compassion saith he on this People because they have continued with me already three dayes and have nothing to eat I will not let them depart fasting lest they faint in the way O most sweet and comfortable Speeches they seek not from him and he is careful to give them if he was so careful to satisfie their Bodily necessities will he neglect the Spiritual necessities of his own They followed him three dayes and he counted it a long time they are to go from him and he feared lest they should faint O my distrustful Soul wilt thou once learn to trust in the Mercy of thy God assuredly Will he not satiate thee who seeks him Wil he not answer thee who prays unto him Will he not care for thee who hast waited upon him not three dayes but many years And will he let thee faint in following him who would not let them faint who were to go from him O sweet Saviour happy are they that trust in thee Lord therefore increase my Faith in thee that nothing be able ever to separate me from thee Christ As for the weakness of thy faith which I see is the ground of all thy trouble it proceedeth either from the want of knowledge or else from the want of Application 'T is indeed a special benefit to have the mind enlightned with true light seek therefore my light to shine unto thee by continual Prayer and seeking into the Scriptures that thou be not troubled with the error of conscience as if it were a just accusation I have indeed set conscience to be a warner unto thee but then shalt thou take heed to her warnings when they are warranted by my Word If the error of thy conscience terrifie thee in any thing and make thee think that thy Crosses and Visitations do come from mine anger go and inform conscience better by the Word Remember whom I chastise I love and when I chastise thee I am not seeking satisfaction to my justice What wonder such thoughts disquiet many Consider I pray thee that notable promise of mine made to my Servant David and in him to all the rest of my Saints If they break my Statutes I will visit their Transgressions with my Rods yet my loving kindness will I not take from them nor alter my Covenant Soul O Word full of comfort my Soul forget it never that even when his Rods are laid on thee and though thy Transgressions be many yet will he not alter his Covenant with thee Remember it I say that in thy trouble thou give no more place to those mis-conceptions of Gods working with thee as godly Job though in his trouble that the Lord was pursuing him for his sins and making him to possess the iniquity of his Youth which as yet appears by the course of that History was not the Lords intention So have I thought many times that the heavy hand of the Lord laid on me had proceeded from his wrath as if he had shut up his tender Mercy from me in displeasure for ever But Lord let thy Light abide with me that I sin no more with such distrustful motions against thee and now Lord speak on yet further to thy Servant for thy comforts have rejoyced my Soul Christ Now concerning the weakness of thy faith in the apprehension and aplication of my Promises Remember that I am he that will not break the bruised Reed nor quench the Smoaking Flax. What smaller thing is there than a Grain of Mustard-seed albeit the measure of thy faith were no more yet have I not excluded it from the participations of my promise A loving Father will delight to be holden by the hand of his tender Child and knowest thou not that as a Father spareth his Son so will the Lord spare him that fears him Hast thou not read that although the faith of my Servant Jacob was very weak as thou mayest perceive by the great fear he conceived of Esau yet his weak faith was able to hold me till I Blessed him be not therefore discouraged for albeit thou canst not lay hold with the hand of strong faith if thou canst but touch the Hem of my Garment with thy Finger thou shalt draw vertue out of me Consider also with thy self that the faith of my Children is never greater than when their feeling is weakest and least perceived 'T is easie for every one to believe in the mid'st of glorious feelings and