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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
master_n	disciple_n	lord_n	servant_n	4,835	5	7.3594	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A15674	The state of the godly both in this life, and in the life to come deliuered in a sermon at Chudleigh in Devon: at the funeralls of the right worshipfull, the Ladie Elizabeth Courtney, the 11. of Nouember, 1605. And published for the instruction, and consolation of the faithfull. By R.W. minister. Whereunto is annexed the christian life and godly death of the sayd worshipfull Lady Elizabeth Courtney.	Wolcomb, Robert, b. 1567 or 8.	1606 (1606)	STC 25942; ESTC S106614	39,608	94

Dauid of the Prophets of the Apostles who where the true and deare seruants of God and yet were tried in the fornace of affliction Christ himselfe was assaulted of Sathan had trappes layed in his waye by his enemies was hated of sinfull men and did flee from their fury felt hunger werisomnes of body was mocked scorned railed vpon despitefully entreated spit vpon and crowned with thorns beaten with whips and at last led to the crosse and to execution tyll hee dyed and gaue vp the ghost so that the onely example of CHRIST himselfe whose whole life was nothing but a passion and tribulation may suffice to teache vs That the disciple is not aboue his Master nor the seruante aboue his Lord It is enough for the disciple to bee as his Master and the seruant as his Lorde If they haue called the Master of the howse Beelzebub Matth 10.2 how much more them of his househould f. For if we suppose that we shall feele no tribulations we must not imagin that we can be true Christians Assoon as we begin to liue godly in christ sayth saint Augustine Cum c●peri● piè in Christo● viuere ingre●es torcular p●parate ad pr●suram Aug Psal 57. we enter into the winepresse and we ought to prepare our selues for wringing and pressing and we must take heede that we bee not found so drye grapes that we yeeld out noe good licour when we are pressed An heathen Philosopher cold say that the man is most vnhapy vnto whom no aduersity betideth it is an argument that he is contemned of god as a weake sluggish person A sword-player acounts it reproch to fight with a man of no valour for hee knowes that there is noe glory to vanquishe him that is vanquished without daūger Euen so worketh gods prouidēce He setteth vpon euery one endued with most courage ●ihil eo infoeli ●us cui nihil e ●enit aduersi ●rgumentū est ●deo illum con●mni vt im●ellem ig●uum ●en in lib. de ●ouid Dei trieth his power against him He tried by the fier Mutius by pouerty Fabritius by banishment Rutilius by torments Regulus by poyson Socrates by death Cato Thus sayd an Ethnick of those that sought but glory among men had but vain glory for their reward but how much more truly may it be sayd that god tryed Iob by botches Tobit by blindnes and Stephen by stones the Baptist by bands and prisonment and the martyrs by infinit tortures For whosoeuer desire to retourne into Paradise must passe through the fire and water of affliction whether it be Peter the Apostle to whom the keys of the Kingdome of heauen were giuen ●mnes qui ●d Paradisum ●dire defide●nt oportet ●nsire per ig●em et a●uam ●e fuerit Pe●us c. Aug. sermone ad ●ppium or whether it be Paule the Lords chosen vessell or whether it be Iohn to whome heauenly misteries were reuealed They must needs all say that without tribulation and affliction we cannot come to God Neyther doe the faithfull alone suffer tribulation in this life but misery affliction is commonly incident to all man kind as holy Iob sayth man that is born of a woman is of shorte continuance and full of trouble i H●●ayeth not Iob. 14.1 that man and this man are battered with trouble but he vseth the indefinite word man that euery one might remember his own lot So that the sonne of Sirach seemes to comment on Iob when he writes that great trauell is created for all men and an heauy yoke vpon the sonnes of Adam from the day that they goe out of their mothers wombe till the day that they retourn to the mother of all thinges Thoughts and feare of the hearte and imaginatiō of things waited for wrath enuy troble and vnquietnes rigor strife fear of death and the day and death these are vsuall from him that sitteth vppon the glorious throne vnto him that is beneath in the earth ashes frō him that is clothed in blew silke and weareth a crowne euen vnto him that is cloathed in simple linnē k Ecclus 40. ● 2.3.4.5 Euery mās life is like a rock in the Sea beaten vppon of the floods on euery side like a tree on an high and open hill blowne on by the winds from euery quarter and like a burning candle which may be put out by sundry meanes but if yt be not putt out yet in continuance it burnes out it selfe and like a butt or marke vnto which sorrow shootes and danger shootes and misaduenture shootes and at last death that most sure archer shootes and strikes it dead What our substance is namely dust and earth and what our estate is namely painefull laborious and combersome is euident by that speach of god to Adam after his fall in the sweate of thy face saith god shalt thou eat bread til thou retourn to the earth for out of it wast thou taken becaus thou art dust Gen. 3.19 and to dust shalt thou retourne And therfore the Psalmist affirms our brittle substance and our wreched life to be motiues whie God hath compassion on them that feare him as a father hath cōpassion on his children For saith he he knoweth whereof wee are made he remembreth that wee are but dust Psa 103.13.14 1 Chro. 29.15 This sweete singer of Israell calles himselfe and euery man besides but a stranger and so iourner like as all our fathers were A straunger and traueller hath litle or no contentation til he come to the end of his iourney either he complaines of the raine or of the wind or of the heate of the sunne or of his lodging or of his vnfitting dyet or of the yrksomnes of his iourney so man hath still occasion to complain of his troubles in this life and can neuer enioy perfect security while hee remayneth heere And vpon good reasō might the same prophet breake foorth and say Lord what is man that thou regardest him or the sonne of man that thou thinkest vppon him Hee stayes not heere but declares the cause of his admiration man sayeth hee is like to vanitie Psalm 144 3 his dayes are like a shaddowe that vanisheth As if he had sayde though wee feed our body neuer so deliciously though we cloath our flesh neuer so sumptuously though we prouide for our life neuer so couetouslye yet our dayes tary not but departe as vanitye Thou that flowest with wealthe and gloriest in reputation wilte thou knowe thy weight thou art ligher then vanity then nothing wilt thou know the length of thy dayes they are a spanne wilt thou know how and in what sorte thou fadest as a slender picture and image For when Dauid had desired the lord that he might know his end the measure of his dayes what it was and how long he had to lyue he presently giues himselfe this answere beholde thou hast made