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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
life_n	bread_n	eat_v	manna_n	4,436	5	12.4770	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A00414	A methode vnto mortification: called heretofore, the contempt of the world, and the vanitie thereof Written at the first in the Spanish, afterward translated into the Italian, English, and Latine tongues: now last of all perused at the request of some of his godly friends, and as may bee most for the benefite of this Church, reformed and published by Thomas Rogers. Allowed by authoritie.; Vanidad del mundo. English	Estella, Diego de, 1524-1578.; Rogers, Thomas, d. 1616.	1608 (1608)	STC 10543; ESTC S114515	174,792	500

is good and will yeelde fruit but if it be drie it affordeth none at all If the though bee good it ministreth good matter vnto the will to take holde of which beeing maintained and holpen forwarde with vnderstanding doth bring forth good desires from which good workes doth proceede Thou must not continue in euell thoughts which the Lord cannot abide as appeareth by the prophet Ieremiah How long shall thy wicked thoughtes remaine within thee So long as the Gentiles were mixed and remained with the people of Israell so long was God absent from them and would not speake vnto them at all So God hee will forsake thee if thou allow any place for euill cogitations in thine heart When a litle sparke of an euill thought doth catch hold in thy mind thou must not blow on it to kindle it thereby least afterward it grow into a fire vnquenchable to consume thee withall The silke wormes bee at the first but little graines like vnto Mustarde-seede but by the carrying of them about in womens bosomes they doe gather an heate whereby they come vnto life and so proue wormes Pewa●e that thou sow not the seedes of sensuality in thy corrupted imagination least by the heate of naturall concupiscence they proue wormes to gnaw thy conscience into peeces Nourish not thine euill thoughtes with the heate of worldly loue neither let thy consent yeeld vnto them least thou be deceiued and perish with au euil death CHAP. 26. Idlenesse is the enimie vnto godlinesse IDlenesse bringeth much euell saith the wise man Aboue all thinges shunne thou idlenesse as the mother of vices the stepdame of vertue Idlenesse it is nought else but the death and graue of a liuing man If God would not that man at the first beeing created in originall righteousnesse and endued with so many excellent graces should lead his life in idlenesse thinkest thou that thou art Idlely to passe-away thy time beeing enuironed with so many enemies The Lord tooke Adam and put him into the Garden of Eden that hee might dresse it and keepe it But Adam euen in that estate of his was foyled through the malice and subtiltie of Satan and thinkest thou a weake and wicked man liuing idlely in pleasures to be safe Man is borne vnto trauell as the sparkes fly vpward as Iob saith c As God hath giuen the birde two winges to flie with-all so hath ●●e giuen thee two handes to worke withall The birder will not shoot at a bird while shee flieth but when she si●t●th still The Diuell then seeketh to oppugne and ouerthrow thee not when thou art occupied but when thou art idle Bee alwaies there fore doing of some good least when thou art idle thou bee ouertaken The vessell that is employed to some vse and full already it can receiue no more into it and the minde that is full fraught already with good thinges hath no roome in the same for idle wicked cogitations Vnlesse it be empty either wholy or in part the enimie of mankind Satan can put nothing thereunto The running water it bringeth forth the best fishes but the standing water as marrishes lakes and such like they engeder froggs and serpentes and the fish that is within them is vnsauory and daungerous to bee eaten So long as thou art idles what bringest thou forth but idle or dishonest and euil cogitations Shunne thou idlenesse as thou wouldest the plague vnlesse thou wouldest be taken prisoner by a number of sinnes So long as Dauid was kept occupied by the persecutions of Saule hee committed none adultery but when hee sate qu●etly and idlely in his pallace he then defiled himselfe with the wife of another man Solomon also so long as hee emploied his time in building of the temple hee abstained from many thinges but beeing idle from great affaires hee fell and was foiled with outragious wickednesse The Children of Dan they destroyed the citie Laish with fire and smote the people with the edge of the sworde while they sate quietly gaue themseleus vnto idlenesse Idlenesse it is the nourisher of carnall vices Shunne thou idlenesse and thou shalt easely destroy many a dishonest motion in the minde in cutting of all entrance of idle thoughts by godly businesse When the righteous Iaakob fled because of his brothers wrath wisedome she led him the right waie shewed him the kingdome of God gaue him knowlede of holy thinges made him rich in his labors and made her pains profitable saide the wise man The way vnto heauen is ful of trauaile and continuall occupations of holinesse and vertuous exercises If thou hadest in remembrance that one day thou shalt giue a straight account of all the time thou now mis-spendest thou wouldest endeuour with might and maine to loose no time at all The spirit of God sheweth it selfe to all men where that is there if none idlenesse Solomon praiseth a good 〈◊〉 wife among other thinges because she eateth not the bread of idlenesse By idlenesse time is lost which is a most precious thing Gather the Manna in the week daies that thou maiest rest when the Sabaoth day doth come take paines and trauaile while thou art in this life that thou maiest rest and take thine ease while the great day of of that eternall Saboath shall appeare The slothfull will not plowe because of winter wherefore shall he begge in s●mmer but haue nothing If thou passe thy time heere in idlenesse looke to famin for foode and be the meate of Satan in the infernall pit Idle persons that stood still and did not worke bee reproued in the Gospell The land that lieth idle and is not tilled husbanded it bringeth forth thistles and thornes as by experience wee doe see Beware of idlenesse if thou doe not thou wilt bring forth no goodnesse but much euell to t●● dishonour of God and hurt of 〈◊〉 I wil thou shouldest affirme that they which haue beleeued in God might bee careful to shew forth good workes saith the Apostle And I must worke the workes of him that sent me while it is day saith our Sauiour Christ Employ therefore the ground o● thine heart vnto holy and good exercises that in the ende thou mayest reape the worthy fruite of thy labours CHAP. 27. Good words are not onely to be done but they must also zealouslie be done BE not slouthfull to doe seruice be feruent in Spirite seruing the Lorde saith the Apostle God requireth feruencie in good workes More account doth God make of one houre spent in godly zeale than of a thousand coldly consumed in his seruice For GOD regardeth more the zeale than the time in working whereby thou maiest perceaue that in a little time thou maiest gaine much The theefe which did hang on the crosse by our Sauiour Christ if you consider time serued God but a moment as it were and yet in that short time he came into the euerlasting fauor of

life of man is a lie it is an image an image is but a figure of the t●ueth And this life is not the true life but a figure of life and the shadowe of death It is not that which it seemeth to be but a shadow of truth it is an apparance of life which runneth in such hast that it is vnpossible to be restrained or reteined backe Besides as the life runneth towarde the ende so together with life both the riches honors and pleasures of this worlde doe passe awaie The sinfull pleasure which was taken in them then taketh an end but the torments which they haue purchased doe then begin but they shall neuer end The pleasure was but short but the paines will be euerlasting I would faine vnderstande what thinge is of continuance in this worlde It may bee some will saie riches and some the glorie of the world but how soone are they gone but Iob he saith My daies haue bin more swift than aposte they haue fled haue seen no good thing They are passed as with the most swift shippe and as the Eagle that flyeth to the praie In a word our life passeth awaie euen in the twincklinge of an eie so doth our youth passe awaie and with that our bewtie the floure of this life it passeth away and all thinges most speedily come to an end CHAP. 36. God hath made this life so short to the end his seruantes may the sooner come to those ioyes which they so desire MAN is borne vnto trauaile saith Iob Wee come into the world with teares wee liue in the world with labour we go out of the world with paine In the sweate of thy face shalt thou eate thy bread said God vnto Adam Now forasmuch as the life of man is a continuall trauaile vpon earth of his infinite goodnesse God woulde needes shorten our life to the ende that the more cherefully wee might beare the paine God of meere pittie will not that thou shouldest labor any long time neither dooth hee consent that our trauaile in this world should last for euer Hee hath determined our banishment to be but short And seeing he hath created vs to be glorified with him and our glory is in heauen his care is speedily to take vs to himselfe because hee loueth vs. It is for our great good that our life is so short euen that contemning this present life wee should learne to loue that life which is both eternall blessed Iob he said vnto God Spare mee for my dayes are vanity Now because Iob did see that his daies were short he determined to aske mercy of God and to repent Howbeit many so liue as though they should neuer die occupying themselues in the vanities of this life whereas life is giuen them to the end they should endeuour to attaine that glorious and blessed life in the heauens But hee is worthy of sharpe correction which regardeth any thing more than that eternall and aye continuing life in the celestiall paradise Doe thou well consider the shortnesse of this life and withall beholde that durable and eternall state and it cannot bee but thou wilt loue that which is to come and easily contemn the life which is present At such time as he saw the wickednes of men exceedingly to encrease God purposed to cut the same short because they should not grow bold in sinning vpon hope of their long life So the same God that we may not still mispēd the time giuen vnto vs to amend our wicked manners he hath shortened the same that wee may not adde sinne still vnto sinne When that men liued more innocently in the beginning of the world God gaue them long liues but as he saw sinne to encrease and time to be abused so hee made the life of man shorter and shorter The Psalmist saith Thou hast set our iniquities before thee our secret sinnes in the light of thy countenance For alour dais are past in thine anger wee haue spent our yeeres as a thought The time of our life is threescore yeeres ten if they be of strength fourescore yeers The prophet here implieth that for our sins our life is shortened As the fine and delicate web which the spider cunningly hath woauen is with a small blast of wind broken and dissolued so the life of man which so much labour sustaineth euen by a little blaste of sicknesse or aduersity it is consumed and taken from vs. Therefore loue it not being so short and vncertaine This is not the heauenly but the terrestriall life the place where wee liue it is not our natiue Country but the place of banishment this life it hath an ende but that country where God inhabiteth together with his elect it shall haue none end He that taketh paine and laboureth hard here in this present life is very foolish if hee desire not to be at quiet rest for euer with Christ in that most happy place of heauen What bondman but desireth his natiue country What prisoner endungened but would see the light Surely this world is not our owne country but a Babylonish prison If thou desire a long life thou desirest a long imprisonment if thou desirest an olde age thou desirest a long sicknesse Where there is now hope of life desire death Death serueth for comfort vnto vs to asswage the pains arising from our labours which be neuer finished but after death He which is to goe a iourney were better goe betime then too late Happy is he that liueth with patience and desireth death Happy is that soule which God speedily will bring vnto euerlasting rest in the heauens God which in al his works is good to deserue well at thine hands would therefore haue thy life to bee short euen that thou shouldest loue him and so attaine vnto that life which is euerlasting CHAP. 37 Many are the daungers which the life of man is subiect vnto THE dayes of man are as grasse as a flower of the field so flourisheth he saieth the prophet speaking of mans life To many dangers is the flower of the field open The sunne burneth the winde drieth man treadeth the beast eateth the water drowneth the water consumeth the same In like sort who is able with tongues to vtter the daungers which the life of man is subiect vnto Sorrow will kill ficknesse will consume the sea will drowne him and many other wayes his life may be taken from him when little he thinks of death Iob saith My dayes are passed at the most swift shippes againe They haue beene more swift then a Post. He saide truely that they passed away more swiftly than a Poste For the Poste though he runne much yet sometime hee must rest to refresh his body But the dayes of man they are alwaies going and without intermission they runne towardes death Whether thou sleepe or whether thou wake all thy life long euery houre yea euery moment thou runnest with all