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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	day_n	good_a	let_v	10,395	5	4.3193	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A07627	1607 Lamentable newes out of Monmouthshire in VVales Contayning, the wonderfull and most fearefull accidents of the great ouerflowing of waters in the saide countye, drowning infinite numbers of cattell of all kinds, as sheepe, oxen, kine and horses, with others: together with the losse of many men, women and children, and the subuersion of xxvi parishes in Ianuary last 1607.		1607 (1607)	STC 18021; ESTC S110019	8,041	28

world to come Into the which Death is our Ferriman and consequently our aduantage as the Scripture tearmeth him Neuerthelesse séeing life is precious as Natures blessing left with vs by the Lord in trust and to be redemanded by him and obediently yéelded vp by vs at his pleasure for his glory how happy woulde those that endured the foresaide losses haue thought themselues if so bee that they had but escaped away with their liues But poore wretches the most of them were drowned by the foresaid invndation not as though I did iudge them all miserable who did die therein For as Koper saith touching the flood which did surprise the olde worlde in the first iudgement wherein the transgressing Angels were to be censured and in the last day of Assizes generall onely the reprobate haue beene and shal be condemned the elect saued But in iudgements that fal out betwéene neyther the elect alone are preserued nor the reprobate onely are destroyed And yet no doubt many of them yea the most were prophane as the residue of all our Countrey is in respect of the multitude for pride gluttony drunkennesse the very Metropolitane City of all the Prouince of vices fornication and all sortes of vncleanenesse the which the Lord threatneth to punish where he findeth them in a feareful manner doe euen walke vp and downe like Rulers in all places And what shall I say concerning the contempt of the Ministerie of the word and the manifold wrongs continually offered euen vnto the most reuerend and faithful Ministers of the same Is the couetousnesse of our yron hard hearted age vnknowne to any man doeth it not destroy and corrupt daily more and more both Church and Common weale among vs hath it not stollen almost into euery corner and crept wei neare into euery heart maring all where it commeth But hee is blinde who noteth not the seuerall kindes of oppression euery where practised and the lying and dissimulation euery where vsed In a word iolenesse one of those sinnes which caused Sodome to bee destroyed is most palpably to bee noted in all states and conditions of men among vs both in Church and common-weale while the Cleargie doth nothing but looke for liuings and leaue the labours of their function and the Gentry estéeme more of their Hawkes Howndes and other their vainer pleasures then the godly discharging of their offices wherein the Lord hath set them And shal wee then imagine that they were onely good that are gone in this calamity of waters Certainely as I make no question but God hath had his faithful seruants among them so I doubt not but that the greatest part of them were euen as the rest of our Nation is at this daye lewde and prophane wretches whom the Lord hath thus plagued for to recall vs if it be possible from our filthy practises lest at once hee be prouoked to poure downe the ful vialls of his wrath vpon vs. And therefore if wee be wise let other mens harmes make vs warie lest custom in vice make it grow euen another nature to vs. Wherefore aboue all things let vs take héed that long escape of punishment or the vaine hope of long life do not delude vs make vs run on stil into our sins like the hard horse into the battel for our life is but like the Gourd of Ionas or the pilgrimage of Iacob the daies whereof 〈◊〉 as few as euil yea it is like unto the viston of Esdras goodly too looke vpon but vanished in a moment And therefore there is nothing more perillons to be entertained by vs then the Mot of Epicures o thanatos vden pos death belongs not to vs séeing we are therby brought to be carelesse of our actions But to return vnto our foresaid narration The foresaid waters hauing gotten ouer their wonted limittes are affirmed to haue runne at their first entrance with aswiftnesse so incredible as that no Gray-hounde coulde haue escaped by running before them And they yet couer twenty foure miles in length and foure and more in breadth which it the water were quite gone againe be not to be recouered within the space of fiue or sixe yeares to bee so seruiceable ground as formerly they haue béene yea and there is no probabilitie that that part of the Countrey wil euer be so inhabited againe in our age as it was before this floud howsoeuer it hath heretofore bene reputed the richest and the fruitfullest place in all that Countrey Moreouer the land ouerflowed with the Seuerne sea is valued at aboue fortie thousand pounds by the yeare only in the said Country of Monmouth which is yet vnder the waters and to hee recouered againe from them at the Lords good pleasure Further among other matters these things are related as certaine truths As that a certaine man and a woman heuing taken a trée for their succour and espying nothing but death before their eyes at last among other things which were carried along in the streame perceyued a certaine Tubbe of great largenesse to come néerer and néerer vnto them vntill it rested vppon that Tree wherein they were Juto which as sent vnto them by GODS prouidence committing themselues they were carryed safe vntill they were cast vppe vppon the drie shoare Againe of a maide ceilde not passing the age of foure yeares it is reported that the mother thereof perceiuing the waters to breake so fast into her house and not being able to escape with it and hauing no clothes on it set it vpon a beame in the house to saue it from being drowned And the maters rushing in a pace a little Chicken as it séemeth flew vp vnto it it being found in the bosome of it when ●s helpe came to take it downe and by the heate thereof as it is thought preserued the childes life in the middest of so colde a tempest An other little childe is affirmed to haue bene cast vpon land in a Cradls in which was nothing but a Catte the which was discerned as it came floating to the shore to leape still from one side of the Cradle vnto the other euen as if she had bene appointed steresman to preserue the small barke from the waues furie Moreouer one Mistresse Van a gentlewoman of good sorte whose liuing was an hundred pound and better by the yeare is auouched before she could get vppe into the higher roomes of her house hauing marked the approach of the waters to haue bene surprised by them and destroyed howsoeuer her house being distant aboue foure miles in breadth from the sea Besides these thinges in Monmouth-shiere alreadie specified One Mistresse Mattheus of Landaffe in Glamorgin Shiere dwelling some foure miles in breadth frō the Sea is said to haue lost foure hundreth English Ewes Much corn is likewise there destroyed in that Countrey many houses ruinated and many other kindes of Cattell perished The number of men that are drowned are as yet not knowne to exeéede abaoue twentie hundred A multitude more then did had perished for want of foode and extremitie of colde had not the right Honourable the Lord Herbert sonne and heire to the Carle of Worcester and sir Waltar Mountague Knight brother vnto the Recorder of London who dwell neare vnto the foresaid places sent out boates fetched tenne miles compasse vpon Waines to reléeue the distressed The Lord Herbert himselfe as the relation is going himselfe vnto such houses as he could that were in extremitie to minister vnto them prouision of meate and other necessaries And these are the things touching these foresaid places which haue béen deliuered as truthes vnto vs of vndoubted veritie And there we leaue them As for our selues séeing we are all of vs subiect vnto the like sinnes that others are and that these when wée dayly fall into them doe like the bloud of Abell sollicite the wrath and vengeance of the Lord to be powred downe vpon vs. Let vs thinke vpon the iudgementes which God hath inflicted vpon others for their vices that so wée may be the more auerted from the like offences Thus did Dauid doe And the Prophet Hab doth witnesse that the grieuous plagues which euen in a vision hée did sée should came vpon the Chaldeans did make him to quake and tremble what would he haue done it so be that hée had seene the very actuall execution of them would not hée haue applied them vnto his owne person remembring that his miserie by nature was as great as any others But no man-careth to knowe himselfe and his owne deseruings euerie one dalighteth to marke his brethren and their infirmities being therein like vnto those Lamiae or Faicies concerning which Plutarch speaketh who when they went abroad filled their heads with eyes but when they came home againe plucked them out and put them vp in boxes As for his owne breath each one thinketh it to be swéet enough as the Prouerbe speaketh The Lorde of his mercie graunt that we may learne in time to be wise vnto our owne health and saluation least that these water-flouds in particular prooue but forerunners vnto some scarefull calamities more generall FINIS