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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
soul_n	according_a	body_n	nature_n	5,052	5	5.5744	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A15015	The redemption of time, or a sermon containing very good remedies for them that haue mis-spent their time shewing how they should redeeme it comfortably. By M.W. Master in Arts.	Whately, William, 1583-1639.	1606 (1606)	STC 25318; ESTC S102139	30,092	81

laughter giue place to his betters otherwise comming into a continued custome and should ring out more needefull communication that takes the name and nature of iesting and is a thing much vnbeseeming the staidnesse of a Christian Thus the tongue may bee bound from dealing falsely with the heart and cousening the soule of good houres and occasions Now followes the third deuourer of time that is immoderate sleeping or sluggishnesse The wise king Salomon bare a great hatred to this theefe and giues many warnings caueats whereby men might learne to take heed of it The bed is as a very cunning and slye cousenour that vseth a pleasing tricke to deceiue a man and robs him vnder shew of friendship Now Salomon hath made a most fit descriptiō of a sluggard caught by the wiles of sleep and sloth setting him out to the life Prou. 6.9.10.11 Where hee brings him in roming himselfe and rubbing his eyes with an vnwilling hand vttering broken and sleepy sentences as one not halfe awake First he cals him vp as it were saying How long wilt thou sleepe when wilt thou rise out of thy sleepe As if he had said Ho sir it is time to get vp what not out of your bed yet at this time of the day Then mark the drowsie slumbring and sencelesse answere A little sleepes a little slumbers For the originall hath the words in the plurall number well befitting a sluggard a little folding of the hands to sleep See how speaking of sleep all is in the littles And though he names sleepes yet it is but a little in his conceit Hee tels not when he will rise but he cannot rise yet and when he hath had enough too much already then he must haue a little more begging for sleepe as one would begge for bread He askes a little because hee would not bee denied First hee must haue sleepes and hauing slept he must haue slumbers and hauing slumbred he must fold his hands and rome and tumble himselfe Behold a sleeper in his colours And mark what answere Salomon giues hee spends no more time to call him vp but tels him his doome as he lyes in his bed Therefore thy pouertie comes as a trauailer and thy necessity as an armed man As if he had said well be it so if you will needs sleepe on take your bellie-full of sleep but know that sith you shew such skill in begging sleepe you must euen become a begger for it sith you will haue your fill of sleepe you shall haue little enough of any wealth pouertie will pursue you and ouertake you it will follow you and surprise you it will make hast and strike home you cannot runne from it nor resist it it comes with speede and with force it will take you in bed where you cannot flee away from it nor driue it from you And what hee saith of outward pouertie is most certaine of inward penurie A sluggard hath so much the lesse grace by how much hee hath the more sleepes and slumbers So the same wise king hath set out a sluggard in an other place saying That a sluggard tumbles himselfe on his bed as the dore on the hinges That is hee is still there and there must be such adoe before hee can bee remoued from off his cowch as if one were to lift a dore off the hookes a man must come with leauers to heaue him off Call him waken him bid him rise c. All is little enough to reare him This sluggish humour you see is condemned long agoe for a mispender of time And surely it is not alone very dangerous in regard of the quantitie and muchnesse of the time which it filcheth but also in regard of the qualitie and goodnesse For it ordinarily feedes gluttonously on the very fat of time it eates the very floure of the day and consumes the first fruits of our houres euen the morning season After sleepe hath made strong what labour hath weakned after that nature hath beene well refreshed the reuiued spirits come with a fresh supply of strength and nimblenesse to serue the body and the minde then for want of exercise all growes dull againe as a band of Souldiers that grow effeminate by lying in garrison without labour all the summer Thus it robs one of the principall and most seasonable time when the minde and body were both in the greatest fitnes to read pray meditate or to dispatch and cast any matter of ones calling it is a theefe that robs one not of his baggage stuffe but euen of his Gold Iewels For some time is better then other as much as some mettall is better then others and this alwayes for the most part takes away the most precious yea it hath one trick as much more dangerous then the former If a man giue himselfe to sluggishnesse it will often follow him to Church and close vp his eyes and eares both of body and minde from hearing marking those most wholesome exhortations comforts reproofes and instructions which like so many pearles Gods messenger with a liberall hand according to the pleasure of his Lord doth scatter amongst men that who so will may take them vp The time of preaching and expounding the word with applying it is the time of haruest it is Gods market day nay it is his dole or princely congie when hee giues gifts freely and those of great worth too vnto those that will take them Now can it choose but be a great hinderance to a mans estate to sleepe in haruest and to bee in bed at such a time when so much wealth is bestowing Therefore this sleepe you see is a most craftie and pernicious deceiuer and doth with much cunning ouer reach a man taking from him for the most part the morning time and the time of hearing two the most profitable seasons and the most worthy to bee redeemed of all others Now against the deceit of this false companion a man may defend himself by following these two rules First it is not lawfull for any man vppon pretence of leasure from businesse to take more sleep then is required for the strengthning and refreshing of his nature The measure of ones sleepe or lying in bed must not be according to ones businesse but so much as his nature requires for the better enabling of it to performe the duties of his calling and of religion In deed a man may and ought to breake his sleepe and mynte himselfe in this regard when important businesse eyther for the soule or body doe presse vpon him but no man must take more sleepe then is requisite for the sufficient refreshing of nature vpon vacation of necessary affaires The reason of this is plaine It is a sin to straine and stretch naturall things for the seruing of lust beyond that end for which they were created and ordained Now sleepe and lying in bed was ordained for the strengthning of nature and for the repairing of