Selected quad for the lemma: life_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
life_n	body_n	soul_n	unite_v	6,137	5	9.8589	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A55504	The sovles life exercising it selfe in the sweet fields of divine meditations and prayers. Collected for the comfort of all those who willingly adventure their lives for the defence of the Gospel, in these blood-thirsty times of war.	Portman, Richard.	1645 (1645)	Wing P3001B; ESTC R220485	26,310	146

and spoyled with armies our woods cut downe as if it were intended no more should grow in our Land How are our Cattle driven in flockes and heardes from place to place and devoured by the enemy so that a famine must needes ensue How are the poore people driven from their habitations for the preservation of their lives being bereft of house goods and land as if they had no right to those possessions their Ancestors left them How are whole Townes burned without either pity or mercy How many thousands suffer for want of their means which heeretofore they received at pleasure O God! make us to prize that blessing of peace heereafter at a higher rate and give us thankefull hearts for all our enjoyments Cleanse the Land from sinne and turne away thy wrath from us Helpe us O God of our salvation for the glory of thy name O deliver us and be mercifull unto our sinnes for thy names sake so wee that are thy people and sheepe of thy pasture will give thee thankes for ever and ever MEDITAT VII A Prayer upon the same subject O Most glorious Lord God! creator both of Heaven and Earth and of all things contayned therein Father of our Lord Jesus Christ and Judge of all the World We miserable sinners acknowledge that we are a sinfull people laden with sinnes and iniquities we have deserved thy wrath and indignation and these heavy judgements which are now inflicted upon us are deservedly befallen us there is no goodnes in us but we are filled with filthy corruption and sinne there is no whole part in us from the crown of the head to the sole of the foot all are corrupted sinfull and abominable we have walked in the vanity of our owne desires and evill concupiscence wee have not hearkened to thy will and commandements but have gone astray after our owne wayes and sinfull lusts we confesse O Lord that we have broken all thy commandements and have offended thee continually both in thought word and deed Our desires and thoughts have beene more bent to the world then to heaven heavenly things O God! we cannot but admire thy patience and long suffering for it had been just with thee to have cut us off long agoe and that wee should have perished in that lake which burneth with fire and brimstone for ever What shall wee render to thee O Lord for thy unspeakable mercies Wee will take the cup of salvation and call upon the Name of the Lord. O Lord we beseech thee to make our wayes so direct for the time to come that we may keep thy commandements bridle our wills tame our unruly affections and suffer them not to stray so farre from thee Fasten and imprint thy Laws in our hearts that we may feare thee love thee and obey thee in all things and that our study may be to serve thee as thou hast appointed take away our stony hearts and give us hearts of flesh Lord give us faith hope and charity for without these graces we shall never see thy face Purge away all evill from us and give us to serve thee in holinesse and righteousnesse all the dayes of our life Give us peace in our time O Lord but especially the peace of conscience O Lord unite the hearts of King and People together that righteousnes and peace may kisse each other and we beseech thee O God out of thy bowels of compassion to suffer no more bloud to bee shed in our land and that wee may heare the voice of joy and gladnesse in our dwellings Grant this O Lord and all other things needefull for us even for thy deare Sons sake JESUS CHRIST our Lord and blessed Saviour Amen MEDITAT VIII Meditations of Gods great love and mercy to his servant O God how am I bound to thee for thy unspeakable mercies towards mee wretched sinner how can I forget thy exceeding love to me that hast given mee my limbs my eye sight and my senses when many others want all these who deserve as well as I. Doe I not see as I passe in the street one poore man want armes another legges one wanting eye sight another being dumbe some bowed together others distracted wanting all maner of sense some their bodies festred and ready to perish for want of succour Thou O God couldst have done the like to me sure I am I deserved no lesse punishment then they Lord let me live no longer then I shall praise thee for giving me al things these poore soules want and stand in need of O let me extoll thy name for ever and let mee not forget to shew forth thy praise let me be telling of thy kindnesse to them that feare thee and let my soule rejoyce in thee that hast done such great things for me For what am I O Lord that thou shouldest esteeme me more then they perhaps I have deserved greater punishments and yet thou sparest me and afflictest them sure I am my sinnes have deserved as great punishments as thou hast layd upon them Lord I feare that thou hast greater punishments in store for me unlesse I repent and become a new creature Lord give mee grace that I may timely repent lest thou afflict my body heere in this valley of teares and utterly confound my soule in Hell for ever Make me O Lord to watch over my wayes and to walke in that way thou hast appointed let me meditate upon thy Lawes and commandements o let me not goe wrong for feare of thy Judgements let me love thee feare thee and obey thee in all things so shall I be happy and enjoy that happinesse which thou hast prepared for all those that love thee MEDITAT IX Meditations of the judgements and afflictions that attend people in this world for sin WHen I consider with my selfe the wants accidents and afflictions which attend people in this world it amazes me when I see great men with their stately Palaces flowing and abounding in great riches and possessions both for profit and pleasure and on a sudden they fall and come to nothing nay many times are they constrayned to bee beholding to inferiour men for releefe Surely these sudden chastisements come from thee O God surely thou didst it to bring them home to thee thou afflictest the body to save the soule I have seene many of all sorts live in great prosperity dreaming that time would last ever and yet have I seene them come to want being in a most miserable condition I my selfe have had a share of these sufferings but not according to my deservings for Lord if thou shouldst mark what were done amisse who were able to abide it Therefore I acknowledge O Lord thou hast been very favourable unto me for in judgement thou hast remembred mercy therefore will I prayse thy Name and render thee thanks even for ever and ever O LORD what need I care how or what my body suffereth so thou save my soule these meats drinkes clothing riches and

honour they are but transitory things for when the breath of man is gone all these things vanish away but it is the immortall soule that I esteeme and preferre before all things of this world Lord though my body want bread feede thou my soule with the bread of life if my body want cloathing cloath thou my soule with thy righteousnesse if all the riches profits and pleasures of this world fayle me let mee enjoy thee and I shall want nothing let me have thee and I have all things if I want thee I want all things Thou O God art my life my health my riches my pleasure my food my rayment my delight the joy of my heart and the fountayn of all happines Thou O God takest care of sparrowes and feedest yong ravens that call upon thee how much more for us Christians who are made in the image of thee O God Lord I beseech thee give me neither poverty nor riches feed mee with food convenient for me lest I be full and deny thee and say who is the Lord or lest I be poore and steale and take the Name of my God in vaine Prov. 30. Give me what thou wilt doe with me as thou wilt and in all things dispose of me according to thy good pleasure Lord I submit my selfe to thee humbly desiring thee to take me into thy gracious protection not only for this day but for ever MEDITAT X. Meditations of the misery of Man from his Infancy to his old Age. O God I cannot but consider how miserable Man is from his infancy to his grave What a poor silly creature it is being newly sprung from the wombe of the mother what danger was there in his very entrance into the world when oftentimes it costs the life of the mother the child or both be it so that hee live it is not able to help it selfe either to food or cloathing wanting both witte and strength being in a farre worse condition then the beasts of the field for they bring their clothing with them into the world and naturally can and doe apply themselves to the Tett that yeeldes them nourishment How is this poor infant nursed and brought up with much ●endernes care trouble and charge to the Parents and let them doe all they can now when they have done their uttermost no sooner is it able to goe but it is attended with many hard accidents Sometimes it falls into the fire some times into the water as if poore thing it were possest with the spirit of mischāce Sometimes it falls downe the staires to the ground and then againe into a pit below the ground and many such like accidents it is obnoxious to Now mee thinks it is a wonder that it lives and comes to speake and when it hath gotten the tongue how perversly doth it prattle how hardly is it brought to schoole to learn to know it selfe leave it but to its owne bent and it will neither bee serviceable to God nor man Now when it is got up to what wee call man how wild and like an untamed beast is he though all are not such wee must confes that many are what dangers and troubles doe they fall into and t is almost a miracle they come to old age for some are drowned in the sea or land waters some are kill'd in duels some in the warres some are put to death for heino us crimes some by their lewd courses come to meere beggery and are in a manner lost And if it happen a man comes to old age his miseries are intolerable having little or no joy of himselfe How are the eyes dim'd which deprives him of the comfort of all holy Books How doe his senses fayle him rendring him uncapable of knowing or doing any thing as formerly how feeble are his limbes being not able to goe without the helpe of a staffe or man what a multitude of diseases attend him as the stone gowt palsey and many other so that being bereft of his senses he hath small comfort but what he enjoys in his soule Now O miserable man what encouragement hast thou to live in this world or to set thy heart upon it thou seest thy whole age is nothing but labour and sorrow thy comforts are few thy sorrowes many and grievous therefore looke to it thou yong man and remember thy Creator in the dayes of thy youth whil'st thou hast strength and use of thy senses for in age it may be too late serve thy God alwaies and pray to him for grace and then thou needest not feare old age nor any thing that doeth accompany it thou needst not feare death nor Hell but shalt be happy heere on earth and shalt receive thy reward heereafter in the kingdome of Heaven MEDITAT XI Meditations on the ill life and actions of man NOw good God! how circumspect ought we to bee of our actions in this life knowing that we must one day give an account for all the sinnes that ever wee committed And if men would lay these things to heart surely there would not bee so much wickednesse in the world But O the blindnesse of this world how many live and spend their time as if there were neyther a heaven to enjoy nor a hell to suffer what bloodsheds are committed for a trifle nay even for a rash word men are ready to murder one another How oft doe men robbe on the high way and break houses for a small gaine oftentimes ventring both soule and body in these unhumane actions yea many times doing these wicked actions for their meere recreation and thus sport away their souls How many are there that commit whoredome adultery and many such like crimes even with greedinesse How doth this Land flow with excesse of drunkennesse and glutony vaine swearing covetousnesse despising the holy Scripture and prophaning the Lords day What perjuries lying cousening backbiting and slandering one another What revenge what envy hatred malice and all manner of uncharitablenesse is there amongst us committing all sinnes that can be imagined How doe men set their hearts upon the world and worldly things which profit nothing and neglect the weighty matters that concerne salvation How willingly are they led away to serve the world the flesh and the Divell making vain pleasures and profits of this world their sole delight O God how foolish and besotted is vaine man to neglect thee thy service and his soules good Consider O man if thy soule were in hel what wouldest thou not give or doe to be redeemed out of those scorching flames where the worme dieth not neither is the fire quenched and where thy torment shall be everlasting Wouldest thou not give a world nay a thousand worlds to be eased of those paines wouldest thou not cast off all those sinnes before mentioned and strive to serve thy God with all thy heart yes surely thou wouldest but then it will be too late for what can buy thee from thence when thou hast lost