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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
prayer_n	meditation_n	night_n	thursday_n	2,853	5	15.4807	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A06430	The flowers of Lodowicke of Granado. The first part. In which is handled the conuersion of a sinner. Translated out of Latine into English, by T.L. doctor of phisicke; Flores. Part 1. English	Luis, de Granada, 1504-1588.; Lodge, Thomas, 1558?-1625.	1601 (1601)	STC 16901; ESTC S103989	101,394	286

against themselues eating their owne flesh renting theyr bowels with furious grones ●●aring one anothers flesh with their nailes and incessantly blaspheming the Iudge that condemned them vnto the punishments There each of thē shall curse his vnfortunate chaunce vnhappy natiuity repeating without intermission that doleful plaint and those desolate and lamentable songs of Iob Curst bee the day in which I was borne and the night in which it is said Hee is conceiued a man Let that day bee turned into darknes let not god require vpon it neither let it be illustrate with light Let darknes obscure it the shadow of death let a mist ouercloude it let it be wrapped in bitternes Let a dark storme possesse that night let it not be accounted amongst the dayes of the yeere nor numbred in the months Let that night be s●litary and vnworthy praise let them curse the same who curse the day who are ready to waken the Leuiathan Let the starres bee da●kned with the mist thereof let thē expect light and not see it neither the beginning of the rising morne Because it shut not vp the doore of the wombe that bare me neither tooke away the euils from mine eyes Why died I not in the wombe or is●uing from the same why perrished I not presently why was I receiued into the lap why sucked I at the teates This shal be the musick these the songs such the mattins which those vnhappy soules shall sing without end O vnlucky tongues which speake nothing but blasphemies ó vnfortunate eyes that see n●ught but calamities and miseries O miserable eares that heare nothing but plaints and gnashing of teeth ô vnlucky bodies which haue no other refreshings but burning flames Of what minde shall they be there who whilst they liued here deluded the howres in trifles and spent all their time in pleasures and delights ô how long a chaine of misery haue these so short delights forged O foolish and incensate what will the allurements of the flesh profit you nowe which then you cherrished whereas now you are deuoted to eternall plaints What is become of your ritches vvhere are your treasu●es where your delights where are your reioycings The 7. yeeres of plentie are past and the 7. yeeres of dearth are come which haue deuoured all their aboundance There is no memory left of them nor appearance Your glory is foredone your felicities drowned in the sea of sorrow your thirst is grown to that drith that there is not one ●rop of water granted by which the immesurable heate of thy throate which infinitlie tormenteth thee may bee assl●ked Your felicities which you inioyed in this world will not onelie not profit you but euen they will bee the causes to you of greater tormēt For thē shall be fulfilled that which is written in the booke of Iob. Let mercy forget him wormes are his sweetnesse Let him not bee in remembrance but cut downe like an vnfruitfull blocke But then the sweetnesse of the delight of euils is turned into the worme of greefe when as the remembrance of fore-passed pleasures according to the exposition of Saint Gregory shall beget a greater bitternes of pres●nt greefes bethinking themselues thē what they haue some-times beene and in what place they nowe be that for that which is so soone vanished they nowe suffer that which shall endure for euer Then at length but too late shall they acknowledge the fallacies of the deuill placed in the midst of errours shal begin but in vaine to speake the wordes of the Wiseman saying VVe haue wandered from the way of truth and the light of iustice hath not shined vpon vs the sunne of vnderstanding is not risen vnto vs wee are wearied in the way of iniquity perdition haue walked difficult wayes but the way of our Lord haue we not knowne What hath our pride profited vs or the boast of our riches what hath ●t furthered vs All those things are past away as a shadow or as it were a messenger running before or like a shippe that hath passed a troublesome water whereof when it is past ●here is no tract to be found neither the way of the keele thereof in the floods Such like wordes haue the sinners spoken in hell because the vngodly mans hope is like the light feather which is lifted vppe by the wind and like the light froth of the Sea which is dispersed by the sunne and as it were smoake scattered by the wind and like the memory of a one dayes guest passing by These shall be the complaints these the lamentations this the perpetuall penance which the damned shal there performe world without end where it shall profit them nothing because the time was ouer-past wherein they should shew fruites worthy of repentance Come therfore whilst then is time of repent come you that haue eares to heare and receaue that wholsom counsaile of our Lorde which he in time past gaue by the mouth of h●● Prophet saying Giue glory t● your Lorde God before it waxe● darke and before your feete stumble against the darksome hills Yo● shall exspect the l●ght and he sha●● put the same in the shadow of death and in darknes Watch I say the time let vs followe his counsaile who before he was our Iudge woul● be our aduocate No one knowe●● more exactly what will hinder o● profit in that day then he who sh●ll himselfe be Iudge of all causes He briefly teacheth vs what is needfull for vs to doe that in that day wee may be secure Take heed to your selues saith he by Saint Luke th●● your harts be not loaden with gluttony and drunkennes and the ca●e of this life and that this day doe not sodainly come vpon you For like a net or snare shal it surprize all those that sit vppon the face of the earth Watch therefore at all times praying that you may be ●ounted worthy to flie all these things which are to come and stand before the sonne of man Deerely beloued let vs consider all these things and at length let vs waken from our heauy sleepe before th●t darke night of death shall o●er whelme vs before that horri●l● day shall enfold vs of which the Prophet speaketh Behold the day is at hand and who may thinke the day of his comming and who shal stand to behold him He he may exspect the day of our Lorde who hath heere bound the hands of the Iudge and hath iudged himselfe in this world ¶ The Author purposely entreateth of the latter iudgement in his sirst booke of Prayer and Meditation and in his exercises in Thursday nights meditation Likewise in the guide of sinners cap. 8. lib. 1. The Argument ¶ They who haue loued God with all their harts shall receaue their remuneration in heauen namely the glory of eternall beatitude which in respect of the accidents in some it shall be greater in some other lesser yet is the essentiall