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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
reason_n	day_n	sabbath_n	week_n	4,942	5	10.5583	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A06800	The sicke-mans comfort against death and the deuill, the law and sinne, the wrath and iudgement of God. Translated out of Frenche into English, by I.E.; Consolation et instruction aux malades contre l'appréhension. English.	L'Espine, Jean de, ca. 1506-1597.; Eliot, John.	1590 (1590)	STC 17238; ESTC S119213	84,176	220

his disciples in the forme of praier that hée gaue vnto his disciples where he teacheth them to demaunde nothing but their dayly bread Condemning thereby all delicacies excesses licorousnes wantonnes sumptuousnesse riot and all other vaine superffuities of this world for the worlde as it is corrupted and excessiue in all things doth not thinke it selfe riche but in superfluous things only but the children of God must be contented with thinges néedfull for the bodie must thinke themselues rich when they haue but crustes of Barly bread or a few little fishes roasted as our sauiour Iesus Christ and his disciples had or a little cake baked in the cynders as Elias had or Locusts as Iohn Baptist had to nourish himselfe withall and to cloath himselfe with a rugge coate made of Cammelles haire In anie case they must possesse riches and must not suffer themselues to bée possessed by them They must rule ouer them and not be in subiection to them To conclude whether God giue them anie or whether he take them awaie they must be as ready to leaue them and to blesse and praise the name of God as well for the one as for the other as that good man Iob did The thirde concupiscence that is in the world and is the most dangerous of all is the concupiscence of the flesh which Salomon setteth downe at length in the booke of the Preacher to shew y ● it is most vsual and the verie spring from whence all other vanities doe flowe For there are few men in the world or none at all who séeke not the pleasure and contentment of the flesh Some delight in building sumptuous houses to continue their names for euer as the Prophet Dauid sayth They thinke their houses and habitations shall continue for euer euen from generation to generation and call their landes by theyr names But man shall not continue in honour hee is lyke the beastes that die Some take great pleasure in hauing goodly gardens orchards closes and fine smooth allies bordered rounde about with roses and swéete flowers to haue shadowe and freshe aire in the Summer Some in clothing themselues gorgeously others doe spende almost all the daie in combing and curling their haire in beholding theyr faces in glasses in setting theyr ruffes in perfuming themselues many delyght to haue their houses furnished with riche and sumptuous houshold-stuffe to adorne their halles and parlers with goodly hanginges of Tapistrie with faire painted Tables with costly séelings of beds with exquisite couertures with chaines of golde and the richest imbrodery that they may find with bedsteads of Iuorie and abundance of siluer and golde plate Others woulde haue their tables couered with the rarest most dainety dishes that might bee gotten for money and the finest robes that might be come by to dresse season their meate Some delight to passe their time in good companie to laugh and be merrie to dance to leape and to do the things which are not decent to bee written or named And what is all this but the markes monuments and trophees of the excesse dissolution and vanitie of Christians And we may saie of these as it was said of the golden image that Phryne a famous strumpet in Athens caused to bee erected in the midst of the Citie with this goodly superscription Heere are the triumphes and spoiles of the dissolute infamous and lasciuious Greekes That was done then but in one onely Citie of Gréece to taxe the licentious lyuing of the Citizens But at this present daie amongst vs Christians there is no house in the Cities no village in the Countrie where we may not beholde the armouries of the worlde and of this vncleane spirite who is Prince thereof set vp euen vpon the blessed Sabboth daie which God hath reserued to him selfe that in the same all the world shoulde thinke vpon nothing else but sanctifieng and blessing his holy name But GOD knowes of the seuen dayes in the wéeke there is none so much prophaned and blasphemed as the Sabboth daie which now séems to be made for to inuent pastime for the deuil for the lusts of our flesh dancing feasting and such other disportes as the flesh and the deuill desire Who can then with any reason be sory for these pleasures whē they take their leaue of vs the which bring nothing with them but shame and dishonour spoile and losse of goods thousands of diseases both to the soule and bodie ruines and desolation of whole famylies Countries and Kingdomes contempt of vertue and all honestie hatred of God all true religion both which these swines haue such in horror y ● by their good wil they woulde neuer heare anie talke of God or religion They doe not onely make vs dul blockish and effeminate but also make vs like to bruite beastes and bring vs oftentimes to our destruction Let vs then take héede not to bee seduced by theyr flatterie and faire face Their beautie that is apparant outwardly is alluring and deceiueth them who taketh not héede of the poyson that lyeth secretly hid vnderneath As the silly bird fish are caught with the hooke enticed vnto it and deceiued by a baite which couereth the same Let vs then take héede vnto them behinde and not before as Aristotle most wisely doth admonishe vs for as pleasures before séeme as fayre as Syrens but if you looke behinde them they drawe after them a long taile of an vgly serpent the verie sight wherof would make a man afeard Is anie man able to count the floudes of mischiefes and miseries that are arriued vnto vs by that little pleasure that our first parents had in eating the forbidden fruite What was the cause that God who is so patient and so slow to anger sent that great deluge of waters by the which he defaced euerie lyuing soule from the face of the earth reseruing aliue but onely Noe and his familie and the liuing things that hee tooke with him into the Arke Were not the filthie fornications that did raigne at that time among men who tooke all women maids which pleased thē to vse them neglecting the order and honestie which God had cōmanded in instituting the holy Sacramēt of maryage in the beginning of the world the occasion of that so horrible and fearfull iudgement of God What was the cause semblably of the subuersion and vtter ouerthrowe of Sodome and Gomorrha but their infamous abhominations and filthie pleasures that they tooke in banquetting and all kinde of excesse Wherefore was God so angrie with his people in the wildernesse where at once he made thrée and twentie thousand die and a great number beside but because of the filthie abhominations that they committed with the Mad●…anites And the Quailes that they had to satisfie their gluttish appetite wherof God would eternize the memorie commanding the place where they had liued so delicatly to be called The sepulchre of Concupiscence What fell out afterward in the house and