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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
son_n	daughter_n	husband_n	sister_n	63,589	5	12.8150	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A03717	Sermons preached at Pauls Crosse and else-where, by Iohn Hoskins, sometimes fellow of New-Colledge in Oxford, minister and Doctor of Law	Hoskins, John, 1579-1631.	1615 (1615)	STC 13841; ESTC S104239	117,511	248

Augustine his meditation who Soliloque 16. saith Tentator defuit c. The tempter was away time and place was wanting thy doing it was that the tempter was away the tempter came in time and place conuenient but thou with-heldest me from consenting when I had wil I wanted ability whē I had ability I wanted opportunity Blessed be the Lord as for his furtherance in good so for his hinderance in euil Others apprehend a Woe too but either for the punishment not at all for the sinne or at least not so much for the sinne as for the punishment when that woe which in nature yet remaineth as long as your sins remaine was made more sensible and manifest by Gods destroying Angell in your streets within doores I presume the voice was Mine head mine head my feete my feete my belly my belly my sinne or my soule was none of your complaints was sinne all that while no sicknesse or were not your soules rather senseles the lamentation abroad was I take it My father my father ah my brother and ah my sister alas my daughter helpe helpe I am a widdow my husband is dead O my Sonne Absolon my sonne my sonne Absolon would God I had died for thee Not a word of the cause and what is our peeuish lamentation of small effects when sinne the maine cause of all encreaseth but the curing little clefts of skin at the root of our nailes when the head and heart grow more and more infected When one told Honorius that Rome was lost he cried out Alas supposing it had bin an Hen so called which he loued more tenderly then you would thinke an Emperor should loue so meane acreature but vpon notice that it was his Emperiall City Rome surprized and sacked by Alaricus the Goth his spirits were reuiued againe that his losse was no greater Condemne this you may most iustly for an vnreasonable passion proceeding from a nice childish disposition but beware you wrap not your selues withall in the same condemnation For if you lament the departure of a friend into blisse but not the departure of Christ from your owne soules if you can bee more heartily troubled with the tooth-ach then with the shipwracke of a good conscience if you think your wealth as you name it your substance attending thereupon your selves like base circumstances and seruile accessories if none of Gods woes can out of this place reach home to your hearts and yet euerytrifling inconuenience of your owne debt or others disappointment haue a certaine tyranny to torment and afflict your soules as though you must needs breake straitwaies be gone and vndone worse by much then nothing maruell you no longer at Honorius for though it were a weake part in him to grieue for the lesser damage more then for the greater yet had it been like lost labour in any man to grieue at all for either With vs the case standeth farre otherwise vaine are sighes indeed and groanes for worldly losses for want of wine and oyle we howle I call it as God accounts it Ose 7. I say We howle on our beds all in vaine whereas true teares and vntaught sobs for sinne are neither forcelesse nor fruitlesse A medicine saith Chrysostome ad Pop. Antioch hom 5. which cureth the eyes and nothing else we may wel say was made for the eyes and nothing else A man loseth his wealth and is sorry for it sorrow wil not recouer it he burieth his child and is sorry for it sorrow will not raise him from the dead he suffereth a wrong and is sorry for it sorrow will not right him himselfe is sicke and is sorry for it sorrow will not heale rather it will hurt him sorrow was not made then for these things But he sinneth and is sorry for it sorrow taketh away sinne sinne then is the sicknes for which sorrow is the remedy And now that you haue seene in a smal word a double referēce mercy from him that threatneth in them that are threatned miserie put both together and consider the multitude of Prophets on the one side which trauel hither from most corners of the land with a woe the multitude here and confluence hither of offenders on the other side which by their inuincible hardnesse of heart iustly deserue a woe and tell me whether woe be not the burthen of the Lord vnto this City I must needs take it for granted Let vs al then most miserable offenders as long as Gods threatnings are but threatnings while we haue light and life whilst it is called to day and we are yet in the way take aduantage of this accepted time make much of this day of Saluation and husband aright this blessed opportunity the only certaine houre of our visitation Should we like Pages at Court who hauing allowed them a candle to goe to bed withal spend it at Cards and go to bed darkling consume the short remainder of our liues in folly and send our hoary heads to the graue in ignorāce The sudden conuersion of any man like the thiefe on the Crosse at the last cast was neuer intended in Gods purpose for our temptation We haue bin often certified frō S. Aug. that though there were one so saued that no man might despaire yet there was but one that no man might presume If euery man should trudge along in sin vntil hee met mercy because one in sin obtained mercy euery man might spurre his beast vntill hee spake because Balaams beast once did speake were wee sure that God would call vs then as wee haue no assurance what sacrifice can it bee when Satan hath deuoured the finest of the flower and sweetest of the wine the best of our time to reserue and present the bran and the dregges of our dotage to the Lord If wee repent when wee cannot sinne gramercy sinnes they leaue vs this commeth from feare all is necessary no thanke to vs wee leaue not them nothing here is voluntary And what equity doe we call it to lay the heauiest burthen on the weakest beast to force old age so feeble that it cannot beare it selfe to beare the burthen of our repentance forsooth when our enemy the strong man is growne stronger by prescription when our rotten tabernacle is ready to fall about our eares when custome hath turned infirmities into nature when sin is soked into substance and our bones are full of the vices of our youth then belike we would repent we would if we could but be sure that as he who neuer went to Schoole will hardly reade his neck-verse so hee that neuer learned what repentance was in his life shall in his death find it exceeding hard if not impossible To conclude since heauen as some say is like Ahashuerus his Court no mourners enter thither all there haue wedding garments since it is mourne in earth or mourne in hell woe vnto vs if wee defer our repentance woe vnto vs if we repent not our deferring woe vnto vs if wee