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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
land_n	fee_n	simple_a	tail_n	1,656	5	9.7489	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A18016	Remember Lots wife Two godly and fruitfull sermons verie conuenient for this our time: lately preached on a Sunday in the Cathedral Church of S. Peters, in Excester: the one, in the forenoone: the other, in the afternoone the same day. By Iohn C.	Carpenter, John, d. 1621.	1588 (1588)	STC 4665; ESTC S116841	50,873	124

her wise lesson to her yong Lemuel Rom. 12. Prou. 31. And Tobiah to his sonne S. Paul chargeth the Romaines and others to giue chéerefully to the poore 2 Cor. 9.7 to do good and forget not to distribute to remember the prisoners and the poore Saints Heb. 13. Gal. 2.9 1. Cor. 16.1 Ro. 15.26 Act. 10. and for such he himselfe caused diuers collections to be made and thereto laboured with his hands He commended them much of Macedonia and Achaia for the same thing The noble Nehemiah mindfull of his poore bréethren did neither craue that wages he should haue exacted nor suffered any man else to oppresse them But alas there is a commō cry of the poore in euery place whose faces be grinded with the extortions of the wealthie and this pitie haue they found Am I sayeth Cayne the keeper of my brother is his ouersight or protection committed to me am I bound to reléeue him These persons be not of the mind of Christ which saith Weepe not Widowe but of the mind that Diues that rich man was who could rather permit poore Lazarus to cry and dye at his gate without compassion But heare that terrible sentence against such vnpitifull people Math. 25. When I was hungrie yee fed mee not when I was thirsty ye gaue me no drinke therefore depart from me ye cursed Vnto this dutie belongeth that not to forget to deliuer the oppressed frō the hand of his oppressor And that also to be gratefull thankefull to our bréethren that haue both laboured for vs and comforted vs with their charities whether they be poore or rich This thing not onely the verie Heathens haue taught by painting foorth their three 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or Graces but also the verie brute beasts birds as the Elephant the Storke yea the earth insensible which yéeldeth to her tiller a double reward But alas among vs that be Christians we oftentimes find this verified No man remembreth the poore man Eccles. 5.14.15 that by his wis●dome deliuereth the Citie from the great King Pharaohs Butler hath quite forgotten Ioseph though he earnestly requested him to remember him to the King Gen. 40. verse 14. yea the vnthankefull Sichemites haue not onely quite forgotten the goodnes of Gedeon towards them Iudg. 9.18 but are likewise consent together with Abimelech to rise vp against him and his house Thus Ioas remembred the goodnes of Iehoida the Priest which had bin his only stay and preseruation in rising vp against Zacharias his sonne and killing him 2. Chr. 24.20.21.22 It is great vnkindnes not to requite a benefite receiued so it is to forget or not to acknowledge it but oh most horrible is that vnkindnes which recounteth good things with euill things from this kind of obliuion the Lord deliuer vs and a true mindfulnes of our bréethren we beséech him to giue vs and heerevnto may we be the better induced by the remembrance of our owne selues This is the third thing which we are willed héere to remember Remember our selues To know our selues is a profitable perswasion to the knowledge of God imitating of Christ in our duties Heere might we be put in mind of our estate and condition in this land which to remember is most profitable that being admonished by others examples we may after Pauls caueat take heed we fall not although we thinke we stand 1. Cor. 10. And let it be remembred that as the fiue talents gained fiue other so is it expected that our great aboundance of Gods blessings should yéeld semblable thankefulnes the want whereof bringeth dread and fearefulnes by the consideration of the vnprofitable seruant the disobedient sonne the barraine fig trée and vnfruitefull Vine and I pray God that in this our time of peace we do remember not only of whome we receiue it but also what belongeth to the same I ayme only to that which I should with many more words expresse But more particularly let euery man looke into his owne estate and condition as deriued from the common condition of all men as fold and subdued to sinne and thereby to infirmities miseries and death To this point the Apostle bringeth all mē when he saith All men haue sinned and héereof tooke that generall calamitie his originall Thou art dust sayth God to Adam after his transgression and into dust thou shalt returne againe This is particular to euerie man and this is generall to all men Heereof is man called mortall flesh grasse vani●●e a vapour a lyer a corrupt feede the child of inconstancie and dust Let men remember this what man is that they may not waxe proude A man doth seldom remember himselfe being but dust and ashes But alas this is so hard a thing for them as nothing is harder to perswade them selues what they be what their life is And therefore whiles they note the condition of their tenures whether they hold their land in fee simple fee tayle terme of life or yéeres and accompt when their leases may expire they neuer remember the condition of their owne liues how good or euill they bee they note not how they drawe to ende and thinke not of death which lingreth not This was that notable and wise saying which Symonides Simonides who as Cicero reporteth first found out the arte of Memorie vttered before Pausanias the Lacedemonian King at his banquet being willed by the King to speake something excellent and of importance Remember thou art a man saith he The King hearing it tooke it scornefully at the first But afterward being shut vp in prison and in miserie where also he dyed with famine he called to minde that word of Symonides with great sorrowe saying The words were in deede of great importance but I through mad pride esteemed them nothing The like in a maner read we of rich Croesus who in prosperitie forgat himselfe and what Solon had taught him till time that Cyrus brought him to recognize his estate and miserie with imminent execution of death But Philippe of Macedonia did more wisely prouide for his memorie when a boy cryed to him euery day Philippe Remember thou art but a man And this is common to euery one he is a man then mortall then subiect to miseries then of short life and continuance This is the effect of Iobs description of man He hath but a short time to liue Iob Man is a Pilgrim yet replete with many miseries he commeth vp as a flower from the earth he florisheth a little while vpon the earth he is cut downe and withereth in the earth Which also Isaiah in his 40. Chapter Isa 40. ● Ia. 1.11 1. P. 1 1● S. Iames in his first Chapter and Sainct Peter in the first Chapter of his former Epistle do effectuallie applie Man commeth from a sinfull wombe liueth in a wretched place goeth to a ghastfull gulfe Remember this Olde father Iacob was most mindfull of this which