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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
nature_n	death_n	sin_n	sin_v	3,797	5	9.4651	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A63950	The golden grove, or, A manuall of daily prayers and letanies, fitted to the dayes of the week containing a short summary of what is to be believed, practised, desired : also festival hymns, according to the manner of the ancient church, composed for the use of the devout, especially of younger persons / by the author of The great exemplar.	Taylor, Jeremy, 1613-1667.	1655 (1655)	Wing T336; ESTC R17298	60,024	193

all pardon and holiness and life eternal through Jesus Christ Amen The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the communication of the Holy Spirit be with us all for ever Amen A SHORT PRAYER To be said every Morning O Almighty God Father of our Lord Jesus Christ the God of mercy and comfort with reverence and fear with humble confidence and strong desires I approach to the Throne of Grace begging of thee mercy and protection pardon and salvation O my God I am a sinner but sorrowful and repenting Thou art justly offended at me but yet thou art my Lord and my Father merciful and gracious Be pleased to blot all my sins out of thy remembrance and heal my soul that I may never any more sin against thee Lord open my eyes that I may see my own infirmities and watch against them and my own follies that I may amend them and be pleased to give me perfect understanding in the way of godliness that I may walk in it all the dayes of my pilgrimage Give me a spirit diligent in the works of my Calling chearful and zea●…us in Religion fervent and frequent in ●…y Prayers charitable and useful in my ●…onversation Give me a healthful and a ●…aste body a pure and a holy soul a ●…nctified and an humble spirit and let ●…y body and soul and spirit be preserved ●…nblameable to the coming of the Lord ●…esus Amen II. BLessed be thy Name O God and blessed be thy Mercies who hast preserved ●…e this night from sin and sorrow from ●…ad chances and a violent death from the ●…alice of the Devil and the evil effects of ●…y own corrupted nature and infirmity The out-goings of the Morning and Evening shall praise thee and thy servants ●…hall rejoyce in giving thee praise for the operation of thy hands Let thy providence and care watch over me this day and all my whole life that I may never sin against thee by idleness or folly by evil company or private sins by word or deed by thought or desire and let the imployment of my day leave no sorrow or the remembrance of an evil conscience at night but let it be holy and profitable blessed and alwayes innocent that when the dayes of my short abode are done and the shadow is departed I may die in thy fear and favour and rest in a holy hope and at last return to the joyes of a blessed Resurrection through Jesus Christ In whose Name and in whose words in behalf of my self and all my friends and all thy servants I humbly and heartily pray Our Faether c. A Prayer for the Evening ETernall God Almighty Father of Men and Angels by whose care and providence I am preserved and blessed comforted and assisted I humbly beg of thee to pardon the sins and follies of this day the weaknesses of my services and the strength of my passions the rashness of my words and the vanity and evil of my actions O just and dear God how long shall I confess my sins and pray against them and yet fall under them O let it be so no more let me never return to the follies of which I am ashamed which bring sorrow and death and thy displeasure worse then death Give me 〈◊〉 command over my evil inclinations and 〈◊〉 ●…erfect hatred of sin and a love to thee ●…ove all the desires of this world Be ●…leased to bless and preserve me this night ●…rom all sin and all violence of Chance ●…nd the malice of the Spirits of darkness ●…atch over me in my sleep and whether sleep or wake let me be thy servant ●…e thou first and last in all my thoughts ●…nd the guide and continual assistance of ●…ll my actions Preserve my body pardon ●…he sin of my soul and sanctifie my ●…oul let me alwayes live holily and justly ●…nd soberly and when I die receive my ●…oul into thy hands O holy and ever●…lessed Jesus that I may lie in thy bo●…ome and long for thy coming and hear ●…hy blessed Sentence at Doomsday and ●…hold thy face and live in thy King●…lome singing praises to God for ever and ●…ver Amen Our Father c. For SUNDAY A Prayer against Pride I. O Eternal God merciful and glorious thou art exalted far above all heavens thy Throne O God is glory and thy Scepter is righteousness thy Will is holiness and thy Wisdome the great foundation of Empire and Government I adore thy Majesty and rejoyce in thy Mercy and revere thy Power an●… confess all glory and dignity and honour to be thine alone and theirs to whom thou shalt impart any ray of thy Majesty or reflexion of thy honour but as fo●… me I am a worm and no man vile dust and ashes the son of corruption and the heir of rottenness seized upon by folly a lump of ignorance and sin and shame and death What art thou O Lord the great God of Heaven and Earth the fountain of Holiness and Perfection in●…te But what am I so ignorant that ●…now not what so poor that I have no●…ng of my own so miserable that I am ●…e heir of sorrow and death and so sin●… that I am encompassed with shame ●…d grief II. ANd yet O my God I am proud proud of my shame glorying in my 〈◊〉 boasting my infirmities for this is all ●…t I have of my own save onely that I ●…ve multiplied my miseries by vile acti●…s every day dishonouring the work of ●…y hands my understanding is too con●…ent my affections rebellious my will ●…ractory and disobedient and yet I ●…ow thou resistest the proud and didst ●…t the Morning Stars the Angels from ●…aven into chains of darkness when they ●…w giddy and proud walking upon the ●…tlements of heaven beholding the glo●…us Regions that were above them III. THou O God who givest grace to the 〈◊〉 humble do something also for the ●…oud man make me humble and obedient Take from me the spirit of prid●… and haughtiness ambition and self-fla●…tery confidence and gayety teach met●… think well and to expound all things fai●…ly of my brother to love his worthiness to delight in his praises to excuse his er●…rors to give thee thanks for his grac●… to rejoyce in all the good that he receive●… and ever to believe and speak better thing●… of him then of my self IV. O Teach me to love to be conceale●… and little esteemed let me be tru●… humbled and heartily ashamed of m●… sin and folly teach me to bear reproach●… evenly for I have deserved them to r●…fuse all honours done unto me because have not deserved them to return all t●… thee for it is thine alone to suffer r●… proof thankfully to amend all my fau●… speedily and do thou invest my so●… with the humble robe of my meek Mast●… and Saviour Jesus and when I have hun●… patiently charitably and diligent●… served thee change this robe into t●… shining garment of immortality my co●… into glory my folly to