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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
order_n	apostle_n	church_n	rule_n	2,377	5	7.0363	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B00272	A poore mans mite. A letter of a religious man of the Order of Saint Benedict, vnto a sister of his, concerning the rosarie or psalter of our blessed Ladie, commonly called the Beades.	Batt, Antonie.	1639 (1639)	STC 1589.5; ESTC S90417	14,190	74

and night that so they may seeme to pray alwayes or without intermission as aforesaid But because it were hard and ouer burdensome to pray euery naturall houre of the day and night which are in number twentie foure Shee hath put three naturall houres into one houre (a) Psal 54. vers 18. calling it a Canonicall or Ecclesiasticall houre and of these there are but eight in a day and night For euery of which eight houres Shee hath ordayned a seuerall Seruice or Office of prayer and praysing of God At mid-night Shee hath ordained that to bee said which we call the Matins At three a clocke after midnight the Laudes At sixe a clocke in the moning the Prime At nine a clocke the Third At twelue the Ninth At six the Euen-song At nine the Compline so that by this meanes they seeme to pray alwayes or without intermission according to the exhortation of the holy Scripture as aforesaid Thus doe Religious Ecclesiasticall persons serue God night and day and doe by their profession binde themselues thereunto and this is the publike or common Seruice and prayer of the whole Church dispersed thorowout the world whereof all such as are members of the Church are partakers wheresoeuer they are though not present thereat but more especially and effectually if they bee corporally present And that is the reason why denout people resort to Churches vpon Sundayes and Holy dayes and many weeke dayes also not onely to heare Masse but also Matins and Euen-song Lay people are not bound to anie such forme of continuall prayer or seruice but because it is a godly and deuout exercise to imitate Religious and Ecclesiasticall persons herein and maketh them so much the more effectually partakers thereof it being the publike Prayer or Seruice of the Church by how much the more deuoutly they imitate the same Therefore the Church hath also ordained a certaine short but verie sweet Office or Seruice for them to say also after the same method or order called the Office of our blessed Lady or the Primmer consisting of those seuerall eight houres aforesaid to wit Matins Laudes Prime Third Sixt Ninth Euensong Compline Such a booke deare sister I haue sent you whereby you may serue our Lord Iesus Christ and his blessed Mother the glorious Virgin Mary euery our of the day and night as aforesaid and so purchase the daily and hourely blessings of God Not that I would haue you say these seuerall Seruices in their proper seuerall houtes but to say them all at two times in the day in the Morning and Euening for your Matins and Euen-song as the custome is Or if you cannot conueniently say them at those times then at such times as you can And if you cannot conueniently say thē at all make no scruple to omit thē for none are boūd but such as binde themselues Moreouer besides the saying of these houres to the imitation of Religious persons that so you may seeme to pray alwayes or without intermission as aforesaid you may make another singular benefit by way of Meditation according to the Pictures set downe and prefixed at the beginning of euery houre to which end they are set there At your Matins you may meditate of the Annunciation or Salutation of our blessed Ladie by the Archangell Gabriel At Laudes of our blessed Ladies visitation of her cousin Saint Elizabeth At Prime of the Natiuitie or birth of Christ At Third of the Circumcision of Christ and of his blessed Name Iesus At Sixt of the Purification of our blessed Ladie and Presentation of Christ in the Temple At Ninth of the Adoration of the three Kings and their gifts At Euen-song of the flight of our blessed Ladie and Saint Ioseph into Egypt with little Iesus At Compline of our blessed Ladies glorious Assumption body and soule into Heauen These with the seuerall circumstances thereof are most sweet Meditations fit to be vsed euery day and would be very comfortable vnto you if you knew them perfectly and were well instructed therein And in these exercises you shew your selfe as it were one of our blessed Ladies especiall Hand-maides or Wayting-women attending vpon her daily and hourely in this Office or Seruice of hers for such Shee hath and must haue as appeareth in the first Psalme of the second Nocturne at Matins vers 15.16 and 17. and it is the fourth Psalme in your Primmer Another Letter to his Sister concerning the Order of Saint Benedict together with a little Office of Saint BENEDICT According to the houres of the Primmer as aforesaid VVHen our blessed Father Saint Benedict departed this life the very same time two religious men saw him ascend into heauen in a rich Robe with bright Lamps shining round about him a Man of a bright and venerable aspect standing ouer him who said vnto them while they were gazing on him This is the way which the beloued of our Lord Benedict ascendeth into Heauen By this way mystically is vnderstood his religious Rule or course of life which he instituted and began and prescribed vnto his Disciples In this way not onely Saint Benedict himselfe but also all his Disciples and Followers haue walked and doe still walke as in a most readie and beaten way to heauen In this way haue walked fortie sixe Popes for so many haue theree beene of this holy Order or Rule Emperors foure Empresses twentie two Archbishops one thousand sixe hundred Kings fortie Queens fiftie one Children of Kings one hundred fortie sixe Abbots being Doctors fifteene thousand seuen hundred Dukes Marquesses and Earles two hundred fortie fiue Apostles or Cōuerters of Kingdomes and Countries thirtie whereof our England was one Saint Gregorie the Great Pope and one of the foure principall Doctors of the Church sending thirtie Religious Monkes of the Order of Saint Benedict who conuerted it and established Catholike Religion therein in that perfection that it was called the Garden of Christendome and Dowrie of our blessed Lady the most glorious Virgin Mary Saint Gregorie being of the same Order himselfe and the glorie not onely of his owne Order but of the vniuersall Church and for that cause was surnamed the Great and of venerable Bede called the Apostle of the English Nation Of this holy Order of Saint Benedict were also of militarie Orders of Knights for the defence of the Gospell by the sword sixe Of Religious Orders twelue principall besides diuers other lesser all branches of the holy Order of Saint Benedict whereof there were in the world of Monasteries of Men thirtie thousand of Women one thousand and fiue hundred who illuminated filled all the westerne Church with learning and vertue it being the onely Religious Order that was extant in the westerne Church the first fixe hundred yeeres after their beginning which was about eleuen or twelue hundred yeeres agoe Vnto this Religious Order the Dominicans Franciscans and Iesuites three famous Orders of Religion are in some part to attribute their beginnings Saint