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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
soul_n	body_n	death_n	dissolution_n	4,857	5	11.3460	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A13926	A pithie and short treatise by vvay of dialogue, whereby a godly Christian is directed how to make his last will and testament to dispose well and wisely of his temporall goods; and how to prepare himselfe to the Lord, to depart this world peaceably and comfortably, committing himselfe in soule and body, into the hands of God, his faithfull Creatour.; Pithie and short treatise by way of dialogue, whereby a godly Christian is directed how to make his last will and testament.	Jones, William, b. 1581 or 2, attributed name.	1612 (1612)	STC 24229.5; ESTC S119355	9,151	34

A PITHIE AND SHORT TREATISE BY VVAY of Dialogue whereby a godly Christian is directed how to make his last Will and testament to dispose well and wisely of his temporall goods and how to prepare himselfe to the Lord to depart this world peaceably and comfortably committing himselfe in soule and body into the hands of God his faithfull Creatour ESAY 38. Put thine house in order for thou must die LONDON Imprinted for WILLIAM IONES 1612. To the Reader THE holy Patriarch Iacob being demanded by Pharaoh how old he was answered his daies were few and euill and yet the time of his pilgrimage had bene an hundred and thirty yeares welnigh double mans ordinary race in this latter age Holy Iob also out of his owne sense experience witnesseth in these words Man that is borne of a woman is of short continuance and full of trouble Our daies are few and euill and full of trouble to weane vs from setting o●● affection and loue vpon this life which is subiect to so much vanity and molestation and to teach vs to employ and vse well and wisely the short and vncertaine time that is lent vs being so deare and precious as being once past cannot at any rate be recouered and got againe and therefore while we haue time so to bestow it as not onely our selues may be benefited our soules comforted our calling and election assured but also God himselfe glorified and our brethren and neighbours by our good example prouoked and by our good instruction allured to religious and holy duties And this duty of drawing others to God and godlinesse as it concerneth the Ministers and teachers of Gods word publickly so parents and maisters of families priuately The father saith the Prophet Esay shall declare thy truth to his children and so likewise the maister who is the father of the family is to performe the like dutie to his seruants Oh that all whom it concerneth would be carefull in this case and shake off that carelesnesse security and forgetfulnesse of this duty which too too much preuaileth in these daies Then would they bestow more time than they do in instructing gouerning and bettering themselues their charges and their families in the knowledge seruice and obedience of God and so should they rightly answer their name of Paterfamilias be true fathers of their families Great wil be the anguish sorrow griefe perplexitie and distresse that the neglect and omission of this duty may hereafter procure vs vpon our death-beds by a gnawing and griping of consciēce for our failing herein on the other side great is the comfort ioy peace solace quiet of conscience and tranquility of mind that the godly and conscionable performance hereof will bring vs in that day when we shall lie vpon our bed of sorow as Dauid calleth it Psal. 41.3 in the greatest extremities paines and pangs of death As it comforted Iob in his most grieuous calamity that he had not cōcealed or denied the words of the Holy one A full certaine assurance hereof to the conscience at that day will be more worth then all treasures of gold and siluer This might be confirmed by many places of Scripture and illustrated by many examples but we a●● in a preface and not in a treatise and therefore vnfit to be long and tedious and the rather because the treatise it selfe is so short and cōpendious Yet as short as it is you shall finde therein the performance of this duety laid forth in very excellent manner which many serue both for prouocation to moue vs vnto it and for direction to enforme vs in it It is quickly read being so short not hard to be practised if God giue grace The God of grace from whom cometh euery good and perfect gift enlighten our vnderstandings that we may know quicken and stir vp our affections that we may desire direct our actions that we may do those things that are pleasing in his sight that after his short and miserable life is ended we may liue in heauen where in his presence is all fulnes of ioy and pleasures for euermore Amen Christian Instructions giuen by a faithfull Pastor to one of his flocke concerning making his Will Minister I Am come to see how you do good neighbour hearing of your extreme sicknesse that if it please God to take you out of this life I may set you right in the way to heauen as I haue endeuored to do hitherto since I came to be your Pastor How do you man how feele you your selfe Christian. I thanke you good Sir for this your great loue and kindenes and also for all the cōforts I haue had by you since your first coming hither I thanke God I am wel in soule through the washing and purging by the bloud of my sauiour Iesus Christ which through Gods superabundant mercie cleanseth me from all my sinne but sicke in body I am so sicke as that I suppose my death dissolution is neere to the finishing of this life of misery and the entring and establishing of me in the blessed life of glory which Lord I beseech thee to hasten for thy Christs sake Amen And now I am most glad that you are come now to helpe me and direct me to the right end of my iourney desiring your assistance by Gods word in euery duty yet to be performed by me both to God and man And then with ioy I will bid the world farewell for I feele death aproach I beseech you therefore to be as briefe as you may and by Gods word direct me first for the disposing of my worldly goods lands and other things for that it is vndone Minister I am glad to see you so strong in the Lord deare brother and most willingly I will do that you request but I must tell you by the way that you haue done full euill in not making your will in the time of your health seeing your old age so to approach that by the course of nature your daies could not be long and if God should haue taken you away sodainely as he doth in mercy some of his deare seruants then should you thereby haue bene perhaps the Author of bitter strife and contention amongst your children which is one of the things so abhominable hateful in Gods sight namely to raise contentions among brethren And how you can auoide that yet though God in mercy do giue you time in this your sicknesse to make your will I know not except your children be the better disposed and louing one to another and you distribute so equally vnto them that none of them haue cause to finde fault But if in the time of your health you had disposed of your goods and lands then should you haue seene perchance whether any would haue bene discontent with your equall distribution and they that had without iust cause bene offended might by you haue bene depriued of that which otherwise they