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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	earl_n	lady_n	marry_v	19,709	5	10.5900	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A56118	Instructions to a nobleman's daughter concerning religion at first designed for one, now directed to all of that rank, and useful to young persons of quality, and others of that sex : with sacramental and other suitable devotions / by John Provoste.	Provoste, John.	1700 (1700)	Wing P3877; ESTC R35367	45,590	134

and pierce deeper into your Affections because this will Crown and Finish and give a lively Influence to all my other Counsel without this it cannot be performed or cannot be effectual You will not then so remember your worldly Advantages as to forget your self or rather to remember and think of your self too much but the good-natured Saying will have its force upon you Ecclus 3.18 The greater thou art the mote humble thy self and thou shalt find favour before the Lord. If any part of my Advice seem less easie be pleased to chuse and begin with that which seems very easie and that will carry you by gentle Steps to the other upon the practice of the easier part the other will not seem any longer difficult As sometimes by a scarce sensible rising we go up to the top of the Hill and without great Toyl only by going on we reach it when it appears at a distance very high and the Ascent very troublesome You are ready I know to meet Religion in every way in which it is coming towards you and you give it all the joyful Embraces at the Meeting and you are ready to take all Good Advice at the same time you so little want it and are fit to give it Every thing which wears the Badg or comes in the Name of Religion has more than a Cup of cold Water something warm and vigorous and hearty from you and surely you shall not loose your reward To Proposals of Religion you always give an easie and liberal Entertainment and you are not therefore to be opprest as Persons easie in Access and bountiful in Entertainment sometimes are by troublesome and imposing Guests My Instructions should be useful but not severe like a well modell'd Poem they should have Profit and Pleasure too they should be Healthful as Exercise and good Diet not unpleasant as Physick especially where little of Disease is to be removed and a softer Method will prevent When the Mind is of so untainted a Constitution the Physitian may be as much a Courtier as he pleases there can only be need of something to prevent and not to Cure If any part of my Counsels seem less suitable to your present Age that has a Design beyond it to become a standing Rule for all your Life and why should not good things as well as some ill things and Poisons have a lasting force and work at the distance of many Years I would thus lay up for you a Treasure of Instructions which may hereafter make you Rich in good Works and I would in this Sense lay up for you a good Foundation against the time to come a Foundation as strong as good that you may be built up in your most holy Faith and may never be liable to any Fall or Ruine My Designs cannot be narrow and short when your Welfare is in view and in pursuit and how charming is the Thought of my having done any thing to advance it in every part of your Life So you may be that to me which an old Christian Writer calls a Prince of his Time in an Epistle to him The glorious Ornament of all my Labours if I may pretend to Labours and may deserve such an Ornament A Secretary to four Popes Writ a Book of Advice upon Studies and Learning Dedicated it to an Illustrious Lady and he intended it for her Service A Grammar was Written for the Use of Queen Mary when very young and Presented to her Mother Catherine Queen of England I profess not here to send you Learned but Religious Instructions and not to teach you Words but Things the best and the greatest Things and no other Language but of the better Country that is the Heavenly I present only such Instructions as upon the Command of King James the First Dr. Williams afterwards Bishop and Lord Keeper writ for the use of the Lady Catherine Manners Daughter to the then Earl of Rutland and Married to the then Marquess of Buckingham When the Author sent those Instructions to the Marquess he declared thus in his Letter which attended them Praying is most necessary for the obtaining Principles for the Augmenting Resolution for Vie defending a true Faith and Profession The young Marchioness was then not only to be Instructed in the Doctrin of the Church of England but to be Converted from another of the Church of Rome That every thing now proposed may so much more prevail for your sake and for mine be pleased to Pray in that prevailing Language of the Church Lord of all Power and Might who art the Author and Giver of all good Things graft in my Heart the Love of thy Name encrease in me true Religion Nourish me with all Goodness and of thy great Mercy keep me in the same through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen And now whatsoever things are pure whatsoever things are lovely whatsoever things are of good report if there be any Virtue if there be any Praise think on these things May you observe all these Rules and whatsoever Rules may be added to these that you may have an Addition too of Blessings and a far more exceeding Weight of Glory a Weight which shall not be Uneasie or Oppress but the heavier it is shall be still more easie May the holy Practice you began so very early end very late may it never end but O let it be continued in the Heavenly in the endless State not only continued but as high as the Heaven is in comparison of the Earth so much more heighten'd too May you always be possest with a Desire a steady and refined Desire of Heaven as a Place not only of everlasting and unchangable Happiness but also of everlasting and unchangable Holiness May you be happy now in a Religious Practice and happy hereafter in the Reward thereof In the mean time the view of both of your Practice and your Reward makes another happy the unworthy Writer and Madam Your Lady ships most Vnworthy And most humble Servant J. P. A Prayer before the receiving of the Sacrament with regard to its being Commanded by God and desired by us O Most gracious God the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ and in him the Father of Mercies too and the God of all Comfort let thy Mercies and thy Comfort I most humbly I most earnestly beseech thee be always present to me and particularly at this time and at such times as this Thou hast appointed a Sacrament for the Health and the Strength of my Soul O make me to rejoyce in that Appointment now as I am to live by the right use of it hereafter Thou hast given me a Command O my God to receive it and thou hast given me the priviledge of receiving it O let this Command at least be performed by me that the Breaches of all thy other Commands may be forgiven to me O let not this Priviledge be despised that all the other Priviledges and Benefits may not be forfeited Thy dying Son has